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Correspondent renney marsh. what are you learning? they re in the sky by the hundreds. flying dangerously close to passenger planes. the number of close calls reported has more than doubled and tonight both the faa and pilots are expressing concern. tonight, the faa is sounding the alarm about a dramatic spike in the number of close calls between planes and drones. so far this year, pilots have reported more than 650 drone sightings. compared to 238 in all of 2014. yeah, we were on the final 31 right, 800, 900 feet, 100 feet below us was a drone. it absolutely is an unnecessary risk. especially during@provo phase, we re busy in the cockpit. one of the last things we re going to expect is a green encounter. reporter: despite faa rules that forbid flying above 400 feet near commercial planes or ....
the people that are flying drones professionally like law enforcement and this kind of thing, they go by the rules. the hobbyists, they don t care. the news comes after a close call on wednesday where a drone almost hit a medical helicopter carrying a patient in fresno, california. we almost got hit by a drone. it was probably about 15 feet from the actual aircraft. last sunday the pilots of four commercial airplanes reported seeing a drone during final approach at newark airport. the latest in a series of similar incidents at new york area airports. drone reported off to the right side. we ll watch for a drone. while firefighters battling this season s historic blazes in the west have had to ground operations several times because of unmanned aircraft. we re trying to get this ....
Now to a story that is sure to get the attention of those who like to fly drones as a hobby. wednesday afternoon a drone flew right in the path of an emergency helicopter 1,000 feet above the ground in fresno, california. the faa says the number of these incidents have dramatically increased in the last year and it wants to send out a clear message. operating drones around airplanes and helicopters is dangerous and illegal. nbc s willie geist has the story. reporter: according to the newly released faa report there have been 650 drone sightings be i pilots as of august 9th of this year. compared to a total of 238 sightings in all of 2014. this summer alone, there have been 138 sightings in june and 137 in july. the majority of the drones that are causing the problems ....
Over even if debris suspected to be from the missing plane offers new clues. just that still cannot help you to find the plane and it still cannot help you find the truth about what happened and why. reporter: steve wang hasn t spoken his mother s name since the day she and 238 others disappeared. wang keeps her photo private along with her last message asking him to bring her coat to the airport. do you still listen to the voice mail she left you? sometimes sometimes. reporter: when did you listen to it last? on wednesday. reporter: on wednesday when you heard about the debris. yeah. reporter: new evidence washing ashore on reunion island forces families to face a new wave of agony. i feel so sorry for my two grandsons. what have they done wrong asks this woman? china s one child policy allowed ....
An added factor the donald. john kasich tweeted about preparations. imagine a nascar driver meantly prepping for a race knowing one of drivers will be drunk. that s what this is like. trump said he d love to have sarah palin in his canbinet yesterday. but the billionaire koch brothers have no patience for him. no invitation to the gathering with bush, walker cruz, rubio and fiorina. now donald trump is under fire for a 2-year-old tweet in which he decried sexual violence in military and seems to fault the brass for evening thinking that the secs could live and serve peacefully side by side 26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military, only 238 convictions. what did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together ? trumps trashed most of his ....