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the pierce county sheriff's office says it was not a terrorist incident. we want to make this very clear. this is not a terrorist incident. >> that is important to point out. he is a 29-year-old man who they say was suicidal. here's a closer look at what happened. >> there is a ground stop. no one is departing right now. they're working out an issue close to our air space. >> with those words to airline pilots all traffic was known at seattle tacoma airport known as sea-tac. an unauthorized takeoff of a turbo prop plane from horizon air owned by the alaska air group. the company coo said in a video statement that the aircraft was taken by a single horizon air m employees and no passengers were onboard. the man was a 29-year-old ground service agent. what happened next was a bizarre display in the skies above south puget sound. the agent was in touch with air traffic controllers and,

apparently, performed stunts. they tried to talk him down to a safe landing. >> congratulations, you did that. now, let's try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anybody on the ground. >> i don't know man, i don't know. i don't want to. i was kind of hoping that would be it, you know. >> reporter: thrt national guard jets were scrambled and fighter pilots flew alongside the aircraft and were ready to do whatever was needed to protect citizens, but, in the end, the man flying the stolen plane crashed. pictures from cnn affiliate komo showed flaming debris on nearby ketron island, the site of the crash. >> the plane literally at that moment was flying right over our deck and we had never seen a plane that low over our deck before. and shortly thereafter we saw a plume of black smoke out in the distance. >> we have more audio from inside the cockpit of that plane, as well, where that man,

who we understand was a ground service agent, talked about what he was trying to do. >> i'm going to try to do a barrel roll and if that goes good, i'm going to nose down and call it a night. >> joining us on the phone now is john waldron. john, thank you for being with us. it's a late night for you there on the west coast, early morning for us here on the east coast. we'll keep it short. you looked up and saw those fighter jets escorting the stolen plane. at any point up to that point, did you realize or recognize that something was wrong or was the presence of those jets the first sign for you? >> well, we have two large military paces within about ten miles from where this all happened. so, it's not uncommon to see, you know, fighter aircraft up in the air. but to see them in the manner they were flying and at that location where they were at was

a little bit bizarre. so, i started to tape the aircraft and then out of no where the guy that was flying this q-400 just pulled the stick back and put this thing into a complete loop and i honestly thought he was going to stall and hit the water. but, you know, i mean, it was just very shocking to see. so, i just kept taping and i was completely unaware of what happened at the airport. i had no idea the plane had been hijacked or what was going on. it appeared the two fighter jets were escorting him and they would trail behind him. and, you know, i don't know what they were trying to do at that time, obviously, because, like i said, i was unclear about what actually was going on. and then he headed down towards where he eventually crashed at. he actually pulled the nose back up, again, and i thought he was going to stall, again. and he made his way down and i

looked again and he was in a nose dive and i saw a brief flash of flame and a big plume of smoke and the sound of the explosion. i just had a bad feeling that it wasn't an exercise or anything. i just knew he had crashed at that point. >> you said earlier that everyone was literally frozen in place. what conversations were you having? what were you thinking? what were you all standing there, in that moment? >> i think we were all just completely in awe. first of all, over the type of flying this individual is doing because it just -- my first thought is either he doesn't have any flight experience in this aircraft and he's unfamiliar with the controls or perhaps he is a stunt pilot and he's showing off or something. but it's very uncommon to see two military aircraft like that trailing behind.

so, we're all kind of sitting there with our jaws on the ground. you know, like, what just happened? i think maybe a military exercise. but over that area would have been very uncommon because that's not, that's a civilian island little beach cabins on it. it's populated very sparsely. but it's just, it's very bizarre to that area. no air shows were scheduled or anything that i was aware of. so, to see this type of flying was just, it was way off what is normal. >> all right, john waldron. this amazing video that you shot helps us understand what happened in those minutes over south puget sound. thanks for staying up late for us. >> oh, you're welcome, sir. thank you, it's a pleasure. >> thank you, john. >> joining us now to talk more about this, cnn transportation analyst and lieutenant colonel rick francona cnn military

analyst. i'll start here, before we get into the psychology of this ground service agent and all the particulars, the big headline question is, how in post-9/11 america does a ground service agent get access to a plane and have the possibility of doing something like this? let me start with you, mary. >> well, this was a question that congress asked just last year. the house, homeland security committee and put out a report and they were calling on the tsa to do enhanced background checks, beef up this screening at airport workers. there are 900,000 airport workers at 450 u.s. passenger service airports and they, in some cases, don't receive the same screening passengers do. just last year, congress passed a bill to enhance the screening and the access controls for these employees didn't pass the senate. i think that will be the

question that goes to congress and reviving congress again next week. big question. >> so, rick, with that said, what vulnerabilities did this highlight, do you think? not just, is it the airport, the airline? i mean, who are they really going to be looking more closely at here? >> well, every airport is different. so, they're going to have to come up with specific guidelines for each airport. and the problem is, once somebody does this, he puts a lot of people at risk. one guy gets in one airplane and he takes off in a crowded metropolitan area and look what happens. not only deuz oes it tie up the traffic system but no one knew what his intentions were. he could have easily turned north and gone through downtown seattle. he could have caused countless deaths on the ground. this is a real vulnerability that they have to address. it's not, they say this is one guy, one plane. but the potential damage he could cause needs to be

addressed. >> let's go to some of the particulars about thissu situatn now. earlier they referred to him as a mechanic, that's the job title that we were learning in the early moments after the breaking news. we now know that he was a ground service agent. first to you, mary, most people know what a mechanic is. ground service agent, what would that description consisted of and would he typically have access to the cockpit to pull something like this off? >> no, to have access to the cockpit and taxi an aircraft. normally you're a mechanic and you to have to specific authority and you have to have taxi authority and be trained in the airport and have taxi authority and know the airport traffic patterns because lots of collisions happen right on the ground in the taxiways. i have worked air crashes where planes have crashed into each other while they're being taxied around. a couple years ago a mechanic taxied one off accidentally off

a taxiway in florida. so, it's very important. so, that's who is allowed to taxi an aircraft at the airports to and from maintenance and the ground service workers usually not an amp mechanic. which also means doesn't have a licensing and background check that a mechanic would have. >> so, rick, when we talk about the military jets from portland that followed this plane and we need to point out, again, these military jets as is being reported had nothing to do with this crash in terms of the consequences of what we're seeing, but you brought up a very good point about intention. help us understand what those military jets, how they may have been communicating and what may they have been hearing about as they try to follow this guy not having any idea of what his intentions are. >> you know, they were scrambled out of portland and they were going super sonic. they could close that distance in about nine minutes.

so, they were on the scene almost immediately and they took up positions behind and above this aircraft and then they made visual contact with the aircraft. but they were trying to establish voice contact, which i don't think they ever did. of course, they're getting information not only from seattle air traffic control and also from the western air defense sector which just happens to be located at that air force base in seattle. they were gettin a lot of information. you have to realize what these young pilots are facing because they don't know what this guy's intentions are. is he going to fly this into a city and fly it into a school or residential area? so, they go up there and they don't know what they're going to find. they're the first responders. they have to go up and assess the situation. fortunately, there was only one death and that was the person who stole the aircraft. it could have gotten much worse. if he was headed towards downtown seattle, they would

have had to increase their activity level. and at the end, we were not going to let that aircraft go into downtown seattle. >> that begs the question, at what point what was the protocol to shoot down the plane. stay with us, we'll have more questions including that one in just a few moments. but, first, one year since white nationalists and counterprotesters faced off on the streets of charlottesville. they plan to do it again, this time in the nation's capital. why they have not learned anything about race and hatred. a bank employee says his boss wanted a job in the white house and willing to approve a massive loan to paul manafort. week two wraps up.

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where launched riots and it resulted in the death of 32-year-old heather heyer. >> two virginia state troopers who were in a helicopter watching the protest were also killed in a crash. now, this morning the university of virginia will host a morning of reflection and renewal with breakfast and performances and then this afternoon charlottesville clergy members will lead to faith service for remembrance. and this evening a student rally at uva's campus. a cnn's correspondent is in charlottesville, joins us now for a look back at what happened a year ago. the lessons learned since then, as well. you spoke with the charlottesville police chief who says the nation has not had healing when it comes to issues of race. >> good morning, victor and christi. with so much of the negative energy this weekend focused in washington, d.c., the city of charlottesville is seeing this weekend as an opportunity to work to heal and reflect.

this city is trying to look forward, not look back. but this visual behind me. these barricades, secure perimeter downtown. these images are a sharp reminder of what happened in these streets a year ago. last summer, charlottesville became a battleground. >> this is cnn breaking news. clashes have erupted between white supremtists and protesters. >> terror in virginia. one person is dead. >> reporter: one year later a new team of officials are vowing not to let history repeat itself. >> we have to start owning that we did not live up to our training. we didn't live up to our oath, but we have the opportunity to recover and get it right. >> reporter: after a sharply critical report places blame on the charlottesville police department for its failure to contain the violence and protect the public. >> this is not a law enforcement event. this is a public safety endeavor. >> reporter: chief al thomas

retired. michelle took over two months ago. >> i walked into this position y did walk in in some ways with my eyes wide open but i didn't realize probably the extent and the breath and the width of what those responsibilities would be because i had not really had the opportunity to hear how hurt this community was and still hadn't healed. >> reporter: the first images of hate, america saw in charlottesville came from here. the night before the planned and permitted alt-right rally white nationalists marched on the campus with tiki torches. the visual was startling, but that isn't the worst we would see. the next morning, violence in this intersection as police looked on just outside the park where general robert e. lee statue stands. >> reporter: so-called alt-right activists carrying guns and confederate flags clashed with

anti-fascist protesters. and then the day turned deadly. this street with james alex fields jr. barrelled his car into a group of counterprotesters remains a memorial to heather heyer. heather was killed in the attack, 35 others injured, the driver will be tried for murder and federal hate crimes. there was anger and outrage and reaction to not only the violence, but the hateful rhetoric that was openly on display here. >> i have a message to all the whi, the message is plain and simple. go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. >> reporter: then -- >> very fine people on both sides. >> reporter: president trump's refusal to condemn the racial attack further inflamed the national conversation. when you think about the flash point that charlottesville was in this country. where the dialogue around race

relations. where do you think we are one year later? >> i don't know if we as a city or even as a nation have had that real honest dialogue about equities. in terms of really moving the needle forward. i'm not sure that we've actually instituted policies, procedures or even support that could help move the conversation beyond the conversation. >> reporter: so, the conversation continues this weekend. as the second unite the right rally organizes in the nation's capital. here in charlottesville, the focus is on continued healing and the city has an all- all-encompassing plan. there are no planned or permitted demonstrations allowed in downtown charlottesville. the entire area a secure perimeter. you see these concrete barriers like these behind me blocking any entrance of traffic into the streets of downtown charlottesville. that's among the lessons learned

from last year. the police wanting to keep pedestrians and vehicles separate. the only vehicles you see in this secured area are those from law enforcement. victor and christi. >> thank you so much. on this one-year anniversary after charlottesville, president trump is still being criticized. i mean, you heard it there for fueling the nation's divide after defending white nationalists, you heard him say fine people on both sides of the rally. berkeley heights near new jersey where the president is staying right now. any indicati any induction that we'll hear from him this year? >> good morning, christi. so far president trump hasn't spoken out about the one-year n anniversary of the charlottesville rally. considered one of the low points of his presidency so far. even his allies at the time were critical of him. trump on this working vacation has stayed active on twitter.

he has been tweeting about all his favorite subjects the nfl, nancy pelosi and even rapper kanye west who praised president trump thursday night on the jimmy kimmel show. president trump thanking kanye in a tweet writing, thank you to kanye west and the fact that he's willing to tell the truth. one new and great fact is that african-american unemployment is the lowest in our country. thank you for your support, it makes a big difference. in d.c. later this weekend, the white nationalist organization that staged the charlottesville rallies will hold another organization. the white house has yet to condemn that rally. even though president trump is here in new jersey while that rally takes place, it will happen in the shadow of the white house and we're waiting to see if president trump has learned from the mistakes of last summer and quicker to condemn this year's demonstration. christi?

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right now. thanks for being here. breaking news from washington state. an airline employee killed after crashing a plane that he stole from the tarmac at seattle-tacoma international airport. >> authorities have been slow to release details because really early in the investigation. what we know about this man is that he was 29 years old whose name given was rich. we also know that he was a ground service agent with horizon air. regional airline that is based out of sea-tac. now, audio between the man, again, the name he uses for himself is rich. we don't know if that is his name or what his full name is and air traffic controllers show they tried to help him safely land for nearly an hour before he crashed. >> oh, man. those guys would rough me up if i tried to land in there. i think i might mess something up there, too. i wouldn't want to do that. oh, they probably have

anti-aircraft. >> they don't have any of that stuff. we're just trying to find a place for you to land safely. >> let's bring back cnn transportation analyst and cnn military analyst lieutenant colonel rick francona. let me start with you and a question we left off at the top of the hour. we saw the fighting jets, the f-15s that were scrambled to follow and make sure this didn't head to a population area. what is the protocol? at what point would they have to take more aggressive action to protect people on the ground? >> they ramp up the level of engagement to meet whatever need it is. they want to do it with the least amount of violence, hopefully no violence possible. they were, the next thing they were going to do is they were going to drop flares. flares are normally used to deflect heat-seeking missiles. but they put off quite a show. punch off a bunch of these

flares and sends a real signal that we're serious and you need to start complying with air traffic control instructions. >> we heard, mary, from a witness who said they were trying to figure out on the ground as they watch this thing and that is his video that he took. trying to figure out if this is somebody who knew how to fly a plane and was trying to show off or if it was someone who did not know how to fly a plane. talk to us about this horizon q-400 as we understand it. is this a difficult plane to fly? >> it can be because it is a twin engine turbo prop. when you learn to fly, this fellow had a few hours of flying lessons under his belt. you learn to fly on a single engine. what was called single engine land, your landing gear dozen e retract and you have one engine. and he certainly knew how to retract the landing gear and he coordinated both engines and powered them up to get a coordinated takeoff. if you can't do that, you can't

do a coordinated takeoff and a couple of the turns it looks like what we call in basic flight training a coordinated turn, meaning that he used not only the steering wheel, but you also coordinate with the ruttdds and you do the turn so it maintains your attitude and altitude based on the sin trifical forces and even to know how to start a barrel roll which turned into a loop. but, yeah he knew how to fly. then we get another message. then the air traffic controller had to tell him how to set the, what they call the bugs. they're just little sort of little levers or little notches on your indicator for your heading and they had to tell him how to do that, which is kind of basic. had some knowledge, but clearly wasn't a commercial pilot. >> we have a file photograph of the type of plane that was

stolen. this is the horizon q-400. again, this is not the exact plane, but this is the same model. the type of plane that was stolen last night there at sea-tac. colonel, let me come to you from the national security perspective. i mean, obviously, some things that need to change. maybe just this airline or this airport or maybe broadly which a ground service agent can get into a cockpit and take a plane. >> and i think mary addressed that very well, you know, in the last segment. we have bipartisan looking at this, but a lot of these ground service personnel get less screening than we do as passengers. they need to do more background checks. a two-man rule. you can't get in a plane and taxi it by itself. something broke down at sea-tac. i'm sure they're going to review and fix those procedures. >> always appreciate both of you and your expertise.

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♪ ♪ ♪ olly. 45 minutes past the hour. charlottesville is marking one year since the deadly unite the right rally and the governor has declared a state of emergency, the same group holding a rally in washington now tomorrow. last year's rally called to protest the removal of a qu confederate statue ended with one woman killed, heather meyer. i spoke with one woman and here is what she had to say about groups. >> it's not mandatory that you think a certain way just because you live a certain way. you have the ability to still think for yourself. i often say don't drink the kool-aid. be aware of the fact that you

don't have to believe the way you were brought up to believe. >> former skinhea and former of harmony through hockey with us now. t frank, good to see you, again. i know we talked to you last year, as well. i saw you shaking your head or nodding your head when you listened to what susan had to say. what struck you there? >> you know, it's the old bait and switch, actually. for people to become white supremest there's an issue. when i would go and try to recruit people. i would go and pull the greatest ever in mankind. a guy who says i need to be proud of my heritage. you want to be proud of your heritage and you want to be proud of your heritage, come join my group. and the guy would come join my group. we never once talked about our heritage. we always talked about everyone else's heritage. look at their lives.

they're not living up to our standards. we didn't talk about our own heritage. so we just would have these conversations that would be getting more hateful and geared towards violence. i mean, that's what hate groups are formed. they're formed out of men with fear. men and fear. >> that's what i wanted to ask you about. let's listen to one of our reporters who spoke to a neo-nazi who said he's fighting a culture war. let's listen together to this exchange. >> rural america spoke up when they spoke up. rural america. we're staring down a barrel of a gun here. still 193, yes, the vast majority will be in the 60s and 70s and will be in the ground in the next 20, 30 years and minority in our own country. the possibility of a minority in our own country. >> it sounds like you're afraid of being me and being me is great. >> this is my country. >> this is also my country. >> you didn't win the culture war.

>> i saw your reaction watching that, as well. fear. i know we talked about it last time. it is, it is the underlying theme of everything that is white supremacy, you say. >> yes. guys who wake up and their whole thought, i would wake up in the morning and say, why do they have b.e.t. and i would think about it all day and it would drive me as a 16, 17-year-old boy and i would think why don't we have white entertainment television. i don't have the facts to say you can see almost all television but i would seriously would wake up and that would be my driving force in the morning. they're getting something over me and i wasn't born with a silver spoon. but when i go for a job application, i can hide that i came from the hood. people that are minorities can't hide that. that's why they have affirmative action and groups in place to help because i can hide that i grew up poor. >> virginia's governor said this

yesterday. he said those torches carried by white supremacists a year ago shone a light on an ugly truth. hatred has no home in this commonwealth. since we talked last, last year. frank, have you, do you feel like you've seen any change? >> not much. and i wish, i'm one of the people that i'd like to see the glass half full. you have a president who goes to twitter battles like he's a rapper and constantly going after people. he even is full of fear. again, when he's hate groups started forming it wasn't when trump got in, it was when obama got in. these groups got very big. he didn't do any of the stuff that they said he was going to do. when trump announced his candidacy, he said the words that almost every racist in america says and that is we make exceptions. i hate all black people except

john. john is cool. if you remember his speech they're all drug dealers, rapist, gang members all this stuff and he said i assume some are good people. he related to so many of those. >> he was talking about immigrants at that point when he was saying that. >> he was talking about human beings is what he was talking abou about. >> that was the group he was speaking to. we know david kessler and david duke will be at this rally tomorrow. if you could be in front of them, is there anything you want to say to them? anything that you believe could sway any of these people to think differently? >> well, first, we have to reintroduce empathy into -- people who are full of fear and hate, they lost empathy. they lost humanity for the world because they got acceptance to be part of this group that tells them they shouldn't have humanity and acceptance for other people. what i would say to them is,

look, i figured out the solution and the solution is life is just about the moment we have with people. it could be from a cashier at a store and you have moments and am i a guy that brings anger and hatred or a guy that can bring peace and resolution by not degrading other human beings or believing t-- what a lazy group. any supremacist group that goes by the color of their skin, you didn't achieve anything. you were just born that way. you didn't get a particular degree. it is very lazy. >> frank meeink, we appreciate your insight and talking to you one year later just about where we're going and hopefully maybe what we can do to make things better. i thank you so much. by the way, we'll have more of my interview with heather heyer's mother in the next hour. she had a lot to say. president trump has not said anything on twitter yet or

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him in a phone conversation about the national anthem protest, quote, this is a very winning, strong issue for me. tell everybody you can't win this one, this one lifts me. president trump tweeting twice about the subject friday. pneum president trump also said the nfl should suspend players who don't stand for the anthem without pay. two of those players jenkins and robert quinn explain why they will protest social justice. >> we stopped what we have been standing up for. that is just my personal decision to make sure that we keep these things at the

forefront. >> everybody brought up the word protest. not a protest, an awareness. you know, i think the awareness we're trying to raise. this country preaches freedom and unity and that's all i'm trying to do is preach freedom and unity. >> now, last night there were two nfl games and marshawn lynch was sitting on the bench during the national anthem. the nfl continues to have no policy on how to discipline players who don't stand for the anthem. they put a policy in place back in may but after outraged they announced they put it on hold. they are still in discussion with the players on how to deal with the issue. the second round of the pga championship was suspended due to heavy rain yesterday afternoon and tiger woods was surging when the horns went off. he had three birdies to get to 3 under. tiger likely going to have a very busy day and having to play

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