coupled with relatively low pay and toughen trant standards. that chance that they could be hurt or killed. this is a hard sell. especially for women and minorities. but not for asia hardy. she wants to improve not just her community but how others view her and her brothers in blue. despite all of the backlash that law enforcement is getting, this is a personal choice of mine. this is my passion. so i m moving forward with it, despite everything that s happened right now. a number of the police departments we spoke with said it s not public perception affecting the applications. it s also the job market as well as the economy. they say these things are cyclical and hope that this is the bottom. kyung lah, cnn los angeles. what is left from a u.s. military blimp that broke free of its tethers in maryland has been recovered. the blimp flue over the northeastern u.s. for several hours on wednesday taking out power lines as it went. saturday, some people in
angeles. now on to the u.s. state of maryland where what was left of a u.s. military blimp that bloke free from its tethers has now been recovered. it flew over the northeastern u.s. for several hours on wednesday taking down power lines and eventually landing in pennsylvania. pentagon officials say they are still unsure how the aircraft broke free. the blimp was used to watch out for potential threats to u.s., such as missiles. you re watching cnn newsroom and coming up, two retired players help new zealand beat australia and made history at the rugby world cup. yes, we are twins. when i went on to ancestry, i just put in the name of my parents and my grandparents. i was getting all these leaves and i was going back generation after generation. you start to see documents and you see signatures of people that you ve never met. i mean, you don t know these people, but you feel like you do. you get connected to them. i wish that i could get into a time machine and go back 100 years,
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blimp, about a football field in length it s become untethered in the maryland area and is flying somewhere high above the skies of pennsylvania. 20,000 people are without power as a result of this situation. we know norad and the faa are working together to try to make sure no planes come anywhere near. likely this is an area in a no fly zone as they try to make sure this thing comes down safely. this is a military blimp. there is classified information on board. so we know state, local, federal authorities are all tracking this thing and want to make sure that if and when it does finally come down it doesn t injure anyone on the ground. want to make sure they get that classified, sensitive material as soon as possible. so i have with me still lieutenant general mark hertling who has pretty interesting expertise on these jlens aerostat blimps having been in iraq and afghanistan. general, you were telling me 17,
why i was asking what the blimp looked like. i wondered about the tethers. he said right around the tree line and that if there are outages being reported by barbara in terms of electricity, and the fact that it s decreasing in altitude, this thing eventually has to hit the ground. it does. and actually it s probably fortunate that it is down and going to hit the ground because those tethers aren t like ropes. they re heavy cables, designed to keep this aloft because this is part of the system that was designed to give the united states information about incoming air traffic, incoming missiles, et cetera. and it was down, remember the guy who tried to land on the capitol grounds last spring. sure do. it was down that day, a highly controversial program. hasn t worked well. but it s very sensitive and they ve got to recover the equipment. so if it did can get on the ground without harming anyone, it s very heavy because it s radar equipment. it s not like a balloon. it s got a lot