sparse and this information is fed to the hurricane center in miami, florida, and ultimately ingested into the forecast models in near real time. we a myriad of other research equipment on board the aircraft including a tail doppler radar which you see on the back of the aircraft and other sensors on board which help forecasters ultimately determine and sort of improve the way that we re doing hurricane forecasting. and ultimately that s all provided down to the local emergency managers for you, me and everyone else around here to decide when it s time to leave. we re looking on the left of your screen at video of a plane like yours and some of the video imagery that they ve got above the storm. can you make determinations by flying above the storm on your own or is that these things that you drop into the storm that collect that data and send them to the places that churn that information out? is there something you see by seeing the storm that you actually report in? not so much
schedule but again, we won t have that independent observer. additionally because of the protest, some of our colleagues in the pool have had some limitation in their movements in the streets of hamburg. so we may not hear directly back from them. we ve seen the video imagery which was made possible in part because of technology but the actual tape that they recorded and any additional information they are actually carrying it back the old fashioned way. kelly o donnell with that insight. we have just a couple of minutes left but i want to go back to what we talked about at the top of the hour, aambassador, we re still looking at the two most powerful military countries in the world. we have talked about the range of issues and consequences of what happens in this meeting. the stage that is set, if that s all that happens, that the stage is set for this relationship going forward, give us your take on how consequential the 30, 40, 50 minutes are? these first meetings do set
line, a cable line, all by remote control. watching over someone without them every knowing. they are far smaller and more discreet than the drones increasingly used by the cia and pentagon. earlier this year our exclusive look from that air force base in california as they operated the drone some 8,000 miles away over afghanistan. that s what you re watching? we met with the two-man team behind each drone. the obvious difference, they carry missiles but hummingbirds cannot. what that bird can do is fly right over an enemy s shoulder and the troops can carry those birds right in their pocket. the devices have a wingspan of 6.5 inches after testing some 300 wings. they weigh less than a aa battery, barely an ounce. at first flying just 20 seconds, now they re in the air for ten minutes. this is going to have a very short range, short endurance, but it s to get video imagery back from a target site. reporter: david muir, abc news. incredible.