lawn of the white house with more on this this incident was seems safe at the moment, but has certainly rattled otherwise quiet sunday afternoon. lucas question eric. it s not often hear sonic boom in the dc area, and that s exactly what people heard around 3 p.m. eastern time. the big boom is a sonic boom coming from an f 16 fighter jet as you mentioned launching the d, c national guard at andrews home, 100 and 13th win the reason they scrambled because there was an unknown cessna. we re told, flying a radically in the dc area ignore radio calls that have 16 was cleared for supersonic and but when the jets responded that cessna the faa says crashed outside of stanton, virginia, which is not too close to dc but certainly a strange twist, but certainly has a lot of people s attention here on a sunday afternoon in washington. there certainly is this especially at that says no 1, 72 or 1, 50, or skyline crashed. it s very odd. we don t know what may have brought that plane down.
former president s next legal headache could be also discreet deal. supreme court justice clarence thomas under renewed houdini after new reporting reveals a secret real estate sale to a republican billionaire. our supreme court is facing a crisis. justice thomas break the law and press your amounts. why not just take the step and resign. democrats divided over 89 year old senator dianne feinstein, resigning from senate never seen them go after a man who was in the senate and that way we ll talk to democratic senator amy klobuchar about that and more coming up on cnn prime time. good evening. i m caitlin collins. tonight one of america s most wanted suspects, allegedly ger of highly classified us intelligence is now under arrest. after a massive manhunt, the fbi taking 21 year old jack to share a into custody of massachusetts in a dramatic scene that unfolded with agents carrying rifles outside his home. the air national guardsman is accused of the unauthorized removal or ret
like a zipper, um, that large blue circle that s the sfr, a the special flight rules area. around washington, d c. it was instituted in the months and years after 9 11 any aircraft that s going to enter that blue zipper has to be in touch with with authorities on the ground , and you have to have a discreet code that you re squawking. now there s sort of an inner circle also outlined in blue around reagan airport. reagan airport is the solid blue dot in the center of this map. obviously that s very close to the capital, the pentagon, other sites that were attacked or potentially attacked on 9 11 so that that center circle you cannot fly in there under any circumstances, unless you have, you know, registered in advance, even if you re a pilot, given your fingerprints and you have to be on what s called an instrument flight rules plan, meaning that
national air guardsmen had access to so much sensitive information. what is stunning, and it s it points to a problem that s endemic. in our national security, uh, structure in washington, d c. it s partly just the dissemination of information within agencies. the idea that you know there s really a good reason to spread this thing out. everyone will job. you know, we ll do a better job if they re fully aware, and so it s too easy to get access to this stuff. and secondly, technology, as john was saying, plays a big role in this, the more that s put in systems and the more people you have involved in maintaining the systems. ah you know, the more you re spreading around the information, but hopefully this will be a wake up call. i mean, we ve had a number of wake up calls. you know, there was the chelsea manning case and so forth that involved volumes of documents, but, uh, this should really wake people up because this is very sensitive information its military