Hard for people smuggling contraband to hide. several drone operators have been prosecuted and are now serving time. we looked at shooting them down, but there s a lot of innate dangers there too. so we feel like our hands are tied. reporter: the drone assault is not likely to let up. drone sales expected to surge from 2.5 million in 2016 to 7 million by 2020. deborah feyrick, cnn, columbia, south carolina. wow. all righty. we are about 12 hours away from the most exciting two minutes in sports. so excited about the kentucky derby he pulled out his bow tie. good morning to you. good morning, victor and christi. roses, mint juleps, with everybody flashing fashion. it s the fastes two minutes in sports. the run for the roses, the kentucky derby day on this new day. i know the fun will be out. alison, please tell me the sun will be out. i hate to crush your dreams
Very reassuring. reporter: a jetblue flight crew says just after lunch time, they were coming in for a landing. they reported a drone one mile northeast of the airport and some 800 feet in the air. just one week ago, christmas day, nearly the same thing happened. air canada express crusade they saw a drone just after 1:00 p.m., roughly two miles from the runway. they say it, too, was about 800 feet up. those flights landed safely. the technology s moving faster than laws now. reporter: laws are in place but not everyone s following them. reminding everyone it s against federal regulation to fly a drone within five miles after an airport and over 400 feet high. red circles are no-fly zones around boston. and as of late december, drone users must register gadgets and get a registration number before ever taking off. put up our guard more. reporter: the faa estimated 1 million in drone sales would be made during christmas leaving
Already required to maintain certain flight restrictions, and the faa has tried to send a get-tough message to those who violate the rules. earlier the month, for example, a stiff $1.9 million fine against a chicago company which provides aerial video to clients. the faa said, quote: sky pan conducted 65 unauthorized operations in some of the most congested air space in heavily populated cities. sky pan has vigorously denied the accusation, but with drone sales going through the roof, the slow pace of the regulatory process has been hard-pressed to keep pace. the faa has missed a september deadline for more stringent uas regulations. not later than september 30th, 2015, that s the deadline we mutt in there. put in there. is that deadline going to be made? you certainly won t have full integration but the deadline is not going to be met? no.
Time for felony drug charges heading back to jail because officers fond a bb gun on him. a judge ruling it s a firearm meaning five more years in prison. dancer and drones. the skies would be filled with more drones by the new year. the government is pretty terrified about this. the faa reveals that drone sales will spike. the faa plans to send out representatives to educate salespeople on the dangers to pass long to the customers. the space shutting program ended in the 2011. thousands of jobs lost, real estate crashed on florida s space coast. now a new space race is launching and phil keating takes a look. this is rocket science in action. they re mixing a boeing s new star liner space capsule from scratch. in it, four astronauts will be able to taxi up to the space
Dropped off 64 grams of marijuana and 6.6 grams of marrow win mayo heroine in the ris on that yard at mansfield correctional institution. in south carolina, doyle oig sentenced to 15 years for trying to fly a drone into this maximum security prison. and this drone crashed in january, attempting to smuggle nearly 7 pounds of crystal meth across the u.s./mexico border. i think law enforcement at large is concerned drones will be used to deliver things that they shouldn t be delivering or they might be used by drug dealers and even a concern would be that at some point people might use these to drop explosives or things like that. reporter: about 700,000 drones are expected to be sold this year. and it s predicted drone sales will reach 1 million by 2018. in july, the department of homeland security warned law enforcement agencies around the country about the potential danger of growns in the hands of criminals. this is a no-brainer. we don t want unauthorized access to prisons by a