gettysburg, traveling the 80 miles to the national mall in washington, d.c. flying just 150 feet aboveground. at roughly 45 miles per hour. homeland security secretary jeh johnson admitting the pilot literally flew in under the radar and from the white house, serious concern. it may provide an opportunity for law enforcement agencies including the secret service to review their procedures. reporter: the postal worker made no secret of his brazen plans, shooting this video with his local newspaper. practicing his wobbly flight back home in florida. hughes himself said he put the authorities on notice before his stunt. i don t believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle. reporter: the secret service says no one warned them specifically. as for the pilot, he was released from jail on the condition that he operates nothing that flies and stays away from the capitol. jim avila, abc news, washington.
in the same usually quiet neighborhood. police believe the shootings are connected but aren t sure what prompted the violence. no arrests so far. one of the wounded victims is now in critical condition. all right. this is a story that got t.j. so fired up in the beginning. the mailman who flew a gyrocopter onto the lawn of the u.s. capitol has been allowed to return home to florida for now. he s leaving behind a string of questions about a dangerous gap in homeland security. here s abc s jim avila. still in his u.s. postal service jacket, the first glimpse of doug hughes, the pilot of that gyrocopter that landed right on the lawn of the capitol. this new video shows him flying through what should be a flow fly zone, zooming past the world war ii memorial, over the heads of tourists through the national mall and past the washington monument. this is not good people. now serious questions about hughes dodged the nation s radar and missile security systems. starting his journey in
a lot of unanswered questions still this morning. like how did he get that? you don t go to ikea and get that. the gyrocopter. flying bicycle is probably a better word for it. like from the movie from back to the future. did it remind you of the thing that doc maybe it s a ride at disney world. he had one like that i ve seen it somewhere. but another question. what happened to all those letters he was trying to deliver? oh, yeah. i guess there s part of evidence now. or he didn t put stamps on them and they didn t go anywhere. he has plenty of stamps. he didn t need them. he was hand delivering them. he was the mailman. well, another note about security in washington. changes are in the works at the white house prompted by a number of fence jumpers including one intruder who made it through the front door. steel spikes will soon be added to the tips of the white house perimeter fence to make it tougher to climb. it s a temporary solution till a totally redesigned fenc
the flight were chinese. no trace of that plane has been found. to a groping scandal at the tsa. two screeners under investigation and out of a job. a male agent is accused of inappropriately touching male travelers with the help of a female coworker. police say the male screener would signal to his co-worker when he found a man to be attractive. that passenger would be singled out for patdown, then groped. the tsa calls it a blatant violation of public trust. homeland security officials have acknowledged that the gyrocopter that landed on the lawn of the u.s. capitol literally flew under the radar. doug hughes has been charged with violate unrestricted airspace and operating an unregistered aircraft. he was on a mission to draw attention to campaign finance reform but instead put the spotlight on a huge gap in national security, experts saying the craft was too slow, too small, and too low to be detected. all this layer of defenses these sophisticated
this morning on world news now, homegrown terror. an american citizen from ohio accused of plotting an unthinkable attack on u.s. soil. i think we have to be concerned about americans doing this. emerging details about his alleged links to isis and his training overseas. facing a judge. the florida postal worker who flew a gyrocopter under the radar into washington s restricted air space. i don t believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle. new questions about security and what happens next to this fearless pilot. and later, star wars sneak peek. the new trailer is out and moviemakers reveal new hints about the long awaited next chapter. it s friday, april 17th.