talking about norad we called norad and asked them hey, there are reports this thing has a deflate mechanism on there and their response was that s a very good question. we will find out the answer for you. now, if you go on to norad s website, there are points saying this thing is supposed to be able to withstand hurricane force wind and not leave the tethers. if it does get untethered they have a number of systems that are able to bring this thing down safely. clearly those systems have not been put to use so far. you have talked about that tether? we learned that is a kevlar wire, shep. it s about an inch thick. as you said it s more than a mile long dragging on the ground. what it s used for is to relay data. we talked about this thing being able to detect enemy aircraft. it has data and relays power going to it. if this thing is tethered, it s supposed to be able to stay up in the air for 30 days. which it s not tethered which now it s not, then
lost power. and so did many other businesses and government offices as well in that area. they re having big problems there but we re now getting this report that the blimp may, in fact, be down. but this report that it was doing touch and goes, that s accurate? well, it was doing that. it may still be doing that. again, we have this new report from a meteorologist in that region who says that he s hearing from norad that the blimp has actually now gone down. when we reached out to the local police department, they said they couldn t talk to us because they were dealing with their own crisis, which presumably is this blimp and trying to secure it. i ve been watching. the cars are passing you on the right. how do you explain this? well, i m not driving. who is driving? if i was driving we would be passing everyone. who is drive? paul. that figures. he s doing a fine job. paul, if the non-kevlar kef lan string grabs your vehicle and pulls you away, i m blaming
and we re now hearing from the chief meteorologist of whio that norad is saying the run away military blimp is down outside of bloomsburg, pennsylvania and that law enforcement is securing the scene. this is on twitter. we haven t been able to confirm it but we do know police in columbia county have been getting 911 calls about power outages and problems associated with this blimp and that tether that s been dragging along the ground as you ve been recording separate. we ve learned that tether is maid of vectran a super fiber, a manufactured fiber. very strong like kevlar. a high performance thermoplastic multifilament yarn spun from vectra liquid crystal poller or lcp, in case you were wondering. it s strong stuff. it s hitting power line, knocking down trees. knocked out a lot of power sorry, traffic lights. and also reported, columbia university blooms berg university closed because it