>> about gyrocopters?get a lot of letters calls, various types of threats or, or matters of direction. >> flying a gyrocopter on the capitol lawn. >> we don't get many about it on the lawn. >> that's the first time i've seen that e-mail in our packets. and it is specific enough to warrant some issues. as that went to the public information officer, correct? is that a generic account? or did that go to somebody that monitors that on a regular basis? >> no, it went to our lieutenant who is in charge of that office. and as i mentioned we got a call. >> has that lieutenant immediately -- did that lieutenant immediately turn that information around? >> she sent it within five or six or seven minutes to our investigators. >> but still, you mentioned in your testimony, you mentioned here today the questions that you didn't learn about this until it was happening? >> yes, sir. we did miss a little of the time line. has that pio been notified if you want to ask more quickly o such specific information? >> we've dis

mousse's gyrocopter. we understood he had taken off from a small airport in gettysburg, pennsylvania and we had an approximate approximate time. so we looked at unfiltered radar at that time at that. a trained radar analyst identified a slow moving image that traveled from gettysburg toward the capitol and vanished from radar about the time mr. hughes landed on the west lawn. we now believe that unidentified radar element was mr. hughes' gyrocopter, but the dot appeared only intermittently throughout that flight. when we got the call from the capitol police we immediately note tied our interagency partners on the domestic events network or den, a 24-hour, seven days a week uh-huh and huh-uh case line we operate to support a shared situational awareness among our agencies partners. we initiated the den more than a decade ago to quickly share information about activity in the airspace with multiple agencies. it now includes more than 130 federal and local agencies as well as major faa air traffic facilities

faces after he landed a gyrocopter on capitol hill. that is followed by "the communicators." then, commencement remarks from tim scott at south carolina state university, and robert mcdonald at the university of utah. host: you might member the scene when doug hughes who want to the capitol grounds. there he is in his gyrocopter. there he is landing on the capitol grounds. flying over by the washington monument -- here he comes. he gets arrested by the capitol police. yesterday, the florida man was back in washington. he was back in washington getting arraigned -- there he is as at the courthouse. mr. hughes, what was yesterday like for you? guest: it has been nonstop for the last month. the charges were pretty serious to read, but i am confident that i will come out ok in court. host: you were charged with two felonies and for misdemeanors? guest: that is correct. host: what happens next? guest: this morning, i will go back down to florida. they will work out my next court date and appearance. if we can hammer out a plea bargain, some

hughes, gyrocopter's. the question was simply would we be involved in civil does obedience displays by individuals. we said we would be, if it involves our protecting or one of our protected facilities. mr. walker: one of the opening remarks, and trying to remember who talked about this, talked about on the radar distinguishable versus on undistinguishable. can someone speak to that? >> and unfiltered radar feed picks up everything. it is cluttered with traffic on the streets, birds, anything that is moving around. for our purposes at the faa, we filter it for what our primary function is, which is to safely separate aircraft. that means we filter out small things you might be a distraction to a controller. what our forensic analysis showed was that the radar did indicate something after the fact that we were able to piece together is most likely the flights of the gyrocopter. mr. walker: would you agree that after the fact may not be a good scenario? mr. huerta: i agree. but the air traffic controller can

. >> shocking stunt pulled off by a man who flew his small gyrocopter to washington and then landed on west lawn of the u.s. capitol. >> the pilot was this man, dow jones hughes a postal worker from florida. >> apparently, literally flew in under the radar, literally. >> by the time he moves all the way into the real middle of it all here, he is one of the most protected pieces of air in this entire country. >> jon: what it's forget the gyrocopter. the real threat is cnn's giant tom forman. "give me a billion dollars or i will crush the city! rrrrrr!" so the key to this ( applause ) i like to swing my chair. the key to this harmless in no way interesting to actual terrorist security breach was to to fly a gyrocopter so low it was invisible to radar. fortunately, there was another kind of alarm system that was able to detect this threat. >> this is not good people. ( laughter ) ( applause ). >> jon: yes. we deployed our country's vaunted heydar as in, "hey! dar!" what's incredibly hard to believe it chipotle over here was able to plan all this without being discovered, a plot like this

. >>> the florida man who landed a gyrocopter on the capitol lawn last month is back in washington. doug hughes arrived shortly after his indictment by a grand jury for operating an aircraft without a license and flying it without registration. our mola lenghi is live on capital hull where -- capitol hill where we are hearing from hughes ahead of his court appearance tomorrow. >> reporter: it was about a month ago when the 61-year-old hughes landed his gyrocopter on the lawn of the u.s. capitol to raise awareness for an issue that he is passionate about. the stunt left him on house arrest. he's back in the district tonight for a court hearing he has tomorrow. doug hughes arrived at the nation's capital today like anyone else might, quietly in the back of a sedan, quite differently than the last time the 61-year-old u.s. postal worker visited d.c. like no one had before him in, a gyrocopter after flying through restricted airspace landing on the capitol lawn with a bag of mail. >> i delivered the mail. there was no property damage and no injuries. >> reporter: in the mailbag was a le

my second question then would be about the gyrocopter incident. again, you and i have talked about this. we've had a brief about it. we've talked about it at length. but as i continue to sort of contemplate what could have happened, what it meant, et cetera, what it could mean in the future, et cetera, i guess i do have a couple of questions. in regards to the officers that actually did respond -- as i said, in my opinion, from a layman -- i don't understand your business but it certainly looked as though the capitol police that responded did everything they were supposed to do flawlessly once the gyrocopter landed. so did you have -- i'm wondering how much advance notice that the capitol police had, again, understanding that the restricted airspace is not your responsibility. i'm not trying to throw some other agency under the bus. but i would like to know to the extent that you can enlighten us how much advance notice capitol police had that this gyrocopter was coming. if boots on the ground understood that it was coming or what exactly happened

. >>> the florida man who landed his gyrocopter on the west lawn of the u.s.itol is back in d.c. tonight. a federal grand jury indicted douglas hughes on six new charges today, including two felonies. he could face up to nine years in prison. hughes tells the associated press the penalties don't fit the crime and he plans to make a statement outside a federal court tomorrow afternoon. hughes says his stunt last month was meant touvuq0 attention toñs9s politics. >>> the u.s. capitol police chief was grilled on the hill today about that gyrocopter landing, and other security lapses. lawmakers wanted to know how hughes was able to fly right up to the capitol, even though police had been warned about that stunt. >> it's my understanding you did get that e-mail about a half hour before the gyrocopter landed, along1qá/h a website for a live stream that this guy was live streaming his flight. so maybe somebody else wants to follow up on that. but it would seem as though somebody would tune in. >> and we attempted to tune in. we had no luck immediately. >> as for thos

. >>> the florida man who landed his gyrocopter near the capitol last month pleaded not guilty. doug hughes is charged with violating restricted airspace, operating his gyrocopter without a certificate or proper registration and using the postal service logo without permission. >> if my flight exposed flaws in the safety nets, the security, they were procedural and have already been plugged. >> after today's court hearing a small group of supporters gave hughes their version of a commemorative stamp featuring him and his gyrocopter. hughes faces up to 9 1/2 years in prison. he said he has not ruled out a plea deal. he's due back in court next week. >>> murder suspect charles severance showed up at a pretrial hearing in fairfax county in a wheelchair. severance told the judge he'd been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment as alexandria deputies transferred him to fairfax county. he also told the judge he does not trust his defense attorney. at the hearing e denied a series of defense motions regarding evidence. severance is accused of killing three alexandria residents at th

remember doug hughes, the man who flew a gyrocopter here to the capitol lawn and landed it there?s back in d.c. for a court appearance this afternoon. doug hughes is a 61-yard mailman from florida who -- 61- year-old mailman from florida who said all he wanted to do was bring attention to campaign finance reform, an issue he's very passionate about. he flew the gyrocopter through highly restricted air space and landed on the lawn here at the u.s. capitol. he was immediately arrested and put on house arrest back in florida till today. he will be in court this afternoon after being indicted on six federal charges, including two felonies. this is what he had to say yesterday before arriving back here in d.c. >> congress is in it for the money. they're in it for themselves. they are doing what special interests tell them to do and we've been cut out of the political process. >> reporter: hughes could still strike a plea deal with prosecutors but if that doesn't happen and this goes to trial, he says that he doesn't think he'll be convicted by a jury of his peers on any felony counts.

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. >>> the florida mailman who landed his gyrocopter near the u.s. capitol last month pleaded not guilty to six federal charges. 61-year-old doug hughes is accused of operating that gyrocopter with no certificate or proper registration and violating airspace and using the postal service logo without permission. >> if my flight exposed flaws in the safety nets, the security, they were procedural and they've been plugged. >> after today's plea a small group of demonstrator gave hughes a large stamp featuring his portrait and a picture of the gyrocopter. hughes said thank you. meantime he faces up to 9 1/2 years in prison but says he has not ruled out a plea deal. he'll be back in court next week. >>> homes and businesses got a shock when rocks started falling out of the sky in sterling today. crews were doing routine blasting at a dulles rock quarry near old ox road and there was an explosion. rock flew about 1/2-mile into a busy intersection and strip mall. the napa auto parts store captured it on video. a school bus goes by and later on a rock flies

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>> about gyrocopters? >> about threats. >> not many gyrocopter e-mails -- >> you don't get specific e-mails like that -- >> we get a lot of letters, calls, various types of threats or matters of direction is what we call them. if they're not -- they all fall under the threat category. we get probably a couple thousand of those a year. >> a year? >> from all, you know -- of all types, shapes and sizes. >> but chief, you don't get a lot of specific ones like doug hughes is flying a gyrocopter today on the capitol lawn, right? >> we don't get many about gyrocopters landing on the capitol lawn, no, sir. >> that's the first time i've seen that e-mail in our packets and it is specific enough to i think warrant issues. that went to the public information officer? is that a generic account? does that go to somebody that monitors that on a regular basis? >> no, it went to our lieutenant who's in charge of that office, and then as i mentioned we got a call -- >> is that lieutenant -- did that lieutenant immediately

he put washington on high alert when he landed a gyrocopter on the cop to lawn last month. a grand jury indicted doug hughes on six charges. tomorrow he will face a judge on what he calls a political statement. first, hughes sat down with the senior political reporter scott thuman to exphy he thinks the act could change the way elections are run. >> do you regret any of it? >> no. scott: the stunt by 61-year-old florida mailman doug hughes is one he described from the capital hill home. he is barred from the building. he is under house arrest after scaring scores of tourists and nearly being shot out of the sky. >> you intentionally broke the law. was it i irresponsible? >> what congress is doing is irresponsible. scott: hughes said the alarm shouldn't be over his pop but over citizen united that allow corporation and groups to bank role political campaigns. >> it's bribery. it's legal. some of the recipient of the letter say they agree in part. >> he has a point. i have seen it get worse and worse. >> either way he raised concerns over safety. >> the gyrocopter man showed

hughes gyrocopter. the question was would we be involved in civil disobedience by individuals and we said we would be if it was a protectee or a facility. there was nothing specific. >> somebody talked about on the radar, distinguishable versus undistinguishable. can somebody speak to that as far as help me understand that. >> an unfiltered radar feed picks up everything. it is cluttered with addition to aircraft will include things such as traffic on the streets birds. anything that is moving around. and so for our purposes at the faa we filter it for our primary function which is to safely separate aircraft and filter out small things that might be a distraction to a controller. now, what our forensic analysis showed was that the radar did indicate something after the fact that we were able to piece together is most likely the flight of the gyrocopter. >> but would you agree that after the fact may not be a good scenario. >> no. i would agree with that. but the point being that a air traffic controlle

today the man who flew his gyrocopter across d.c. and landed at the u.s. capitol is due in court. douglas hughes is charged with violating restricted air space and operating a vehicle falsely labeled as a postal carrier. we expect him to address his supporters after the arraignment today. it left lawmakers livid about him crossing the three no fly zones. we'll have a closer look at the hearing today and break down what we know at that point. >>> also today, charles severance will make his first appearance in a courtroom. follow julie carey on twitter to find out first about his hearing today. severance is charged with tilling three -- killing three people in alexandria over the course of a decade. police moved the proceeding to fairfax. >>> you might want the avoid driving near the university of maryland today because it's graduation today. more than 8,100 students are a part of the graduating class. the processional starts at the xfinity center in college park at 9:20 this morning but the actual ceremony starts at 10:00 a.m. and should wrap up around noon. >>> plenty of people ar

capitol gyrocopter case we told you about. a federal grand jury indicted doug hughes for flying his gyrocopter on the u.s. capitol lawn last month. he was indicted on six charges including two felonies. hughes faces 9.5 years in prison if convicted. we will have more from the interview with hughes coming up at 6:00 tonight. leon: update for a story we brought you last week. a high school teacher in west virginia has been suspended for the rest of the school year after showing the movie "50 shades of grey" to her class. the students convinced her to show the r-rated movie as a reward for good work. an assistant principal shut down the movie after ten minutes. they told the school officials she didn't know what the movie was about. alison: really? leon: maybe she thought it was about coloring. i don't know. alison: well, a bizarre bust at a texas flea market shut down a sonogram business. an investigation by the sister station in san antonio found a woman selling $35 entertainment sonograms to expecting mothers. the woman had al

first, the gyrocopter, now this. the secret service in action. >>> breaking news, tom brady takes action of his own. the patriots speaking out tonight about their quarterback. and one key player now weighing in. >>> the major development. the punishment now for this principal after her racially charged comments at graduation. >>> and, oh baby. 12 boys, hoping for a girl. number 13 arrives, and it's a -- >> hi, david! >> we'll let mom tell you, right here tonight. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. and we begin with that headline breaking from philadelphia. federal investigators just moments ago revealing that sudden acceleration just before the amtrak train derailed. these images of the crash site from above. of course, three cars there on their side, another nearly flipped. one of those cars virtually incinerated. tonight, the death toll rising to eight. they believe the rest of the missing now accounted for. and tonight here, an abc news exclusive. the lawyer for the engi

he's facing 9 1/2 years in prison and the federal government wants to keep his gyrocopter gyrocopter. >> a lot of sweat and blood in that machine. i'd love to have it back. i never expected that i would get it back. we're going to have to see how the trial works out. >> reporter: it was a day best known as tax day, april 15th as tourists, hill staffers and others went about their business on the capitol grounds, above them the 61-year-old mailman from ruskin, florida, was completing a flight he had planned for years delivering 535 letters, one for each member of congress. the letters called for congress to reform campaign finance laws. they were in boxes strapped to the sides of his gyrocopter, which he l branded with the u.s. postal service logo. hughes made it through three different restricted airspaces without any interference from police or military. once he landed on the capitol grounds, he surrendered to police. yesterday a grand jury indicted hughes on six counts including flying without a license and violating restricted airspace. he's now facing more than nine years in priso

. >>> a not guilty plea from the florida mailman who landed that gyrocopter on the grounds of the federal capitol. doug hughes could be charged with two felonies. >> reporter: he could face up to 9 1/2 years in prison. >> nobody else could do what i did and get away without at best being forced down, at worst shot down and i highly recommend nobody try it. >> reporter: who could forget the florida mailman's unusual flight last month? doug hughes soared through restricted airspace landing on the capitol lawn. he carried letters for each member of congress to push for campaign finance reform. >> if my flight exposed flaws in the safety nets, the security, they were procedure recall and they've already been plugged. >> reporter: hughes faces felony charges of operating the gyrocopter without certificate or proper registration. he's charged with violating airspace and using the postal service logo without authorization. andrea mccarren, wusa9. >> moves was released until his next -- hughes was released until his next court appearance may 27th. he has been confined to home detention, but the j

. >>> doug hughes, the man who flew a gyrocopter and landed it on the lawn of the capitol is back in d.c. today. the 61-year-old florida mailman will be in court this afternoon facing six federal charges, four of them felonies that stems from the now infamous sky row copt ear incident when -- gyrocopter incident when hughes said he wanted to bring attention to financial reform. so he flew the comenter here, land -- copter here, landed on the lawn and was arrested n. is what he told a reporter yesterday during his road trip back here to washington. >> i engineered the stunt so that washington would get warning that already vetted me through seat chet service so they knew who he was and was nonviolent. >> he could still strike a plea deal. he faces up to nine and a half years in prison if convicted. he's expected in court at 1:45 this afternoon. wusa9 will be there as well. >>> another court appearance for today for accused serial killer charles severance. severance' attorney submitted a motion to suppress evidence in the case. a fairfax county judge denied that request. severance is a

there he is in his gyrocopter.here he is landing on the capitol grounds, flying over the capital by the washington -- capitol by the washington monument. yesterday, the man was back in washington. he is still here in washington getting arraigned. there he is outside the courthouse. mr. hughes, what was yesterday like for you? guest: well, it is -- it has been nonstop for the last month. and the charges were pretty serious and grim to read but i am confident overall that i'm going to come out ok in court. host: so you were charged with six counts, correct? two felonies and four misdemeanors? guest: yes. that is correct. host: so, what happens next for you? guest: well, this morning, i will be leaving to go back to tampa, florida. and they will work out my next court date and appearance. if we can't have a plea bargain, the net that point, they will set the trial date. host: we are going to put the numbers up, if you what to talk to doug hughes, we what to make sure you get a chance to. 202 is the area code. divided

from a pizza crust at the crime scene. >> a florida coastline who flew a gyrocopter into the lawn. he appeared in federal court and pleaded not guilty to six counts of violating aircraft operation laws and said he wanted to draw attention to the big issues. mr hughes joins us via skype. it's good to have you with us. in app interview before the flight you described yourself as a combination of circus show men and paul revere. the focus has been on the security of a nation's capital than the issue of money and politics. >> i didn't expect that congress was going to enter into a discussion about campaign finance reform and they went to security as a way of keeping the topic off of the prop. if there was an issue with security, it was procedural. the f.a.a. said they tracked my plane from gettysburg. if there was a hole in national security, that's been taken care of. i'd like to go to a topic that is more important, and that's campaign finance >>> is congress reacting that way because people don't care. officials spend more time fundraising than focussing on their constituents. when

the gyrocopter is an invention and that is something that is fantastic.ould not have known about that unless he came onto the white house lawn. and i want to thank him for that. i do agree with you about the campaign finance reform. host: why did the discovery for you of the gyrocopter -- why is that good news to you? caller: because when i am sitting in traffic, and i see that and i wish, i wish i could have something that can go right above the wires and fly over everything. when i saw that i was, like, oh, , my god. that is amended to -- that is an invention that is fantastic. that is what we need to be talking about. and i want one! host: doug hughes, have you heard about other people who wanted a gyrocopter. ? guest: i have been careful to point people to the website pra.org, which is the association for people who are curious about the planes and how to fly one. it is a fun flying machine. i am an advocate of recreational flying and ultralights. one of my concerns was that what i did might damage that. but by all means, it is a great thing to check

. >>> the 61-year-old florida mailman who landed that gyrocopter on the grounds of the u.s. capitol made his plea in court this afternoon. doug hughes faces six federal charges including two felonies. our andrea mccarren was in the courtroom and is live now from d.c. district court. what did you see? >> reporter: the world's most famous gyro scoper it pilot pleaded not guilty to all -- gyrocopter pilot pleaded not guilty to all charges. this time he came to d.c. by car. >> nobody else could do what i did and get away without at best being forced down, at worst being shot down and i liely recommend nobody try it. >> reporter: who -- highly recommend nobody try it. >> reporter: who could forget the florida mailman's flight last month? doug hughes flew through restricted airspace and landed lawn and carried letters for each member of congress to push for campaign finance reform. >> if my flight exposed flaws in the security, they were procedural and they've been plugged. >> reporter: the stunt ignited an unprecedented security scare. hughes faces felony charges for operating th

. >>> the florida mailman who landed his gyrocopter near the u.s. capitol building last month has pleaded not guilty to federal charges. doug hughes is charged with violating restricted air space, operating his gyrocopter without a certificate or proper registration and using the postal service logo without permission. >> if my flight exposed flaws in the safety nets, the security, they were procedural and they've already been plugged. >> after yesterday's court hearing, a small group of supporters gave hughes their version of a commemorative stamp, one featuring hughes and his gyrocopter. hughes faces up to nine and a half years in prison. he said he has not ruled out a plea deal. he's due back in court next week. >>> caught on camera, a driver in cleveland lucky to be alive this morning. his car slammed into an embankment before crashing into a bridge and catching on fire. here's the end result. the flames destroyed the car. somehow the man managed to escape thanks to two police officers. investigators are still trying to find the cause of the cra

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. >> i want to turn to the gyrocopter and your colleague. saying that gyrocopter pilot who flew into capital lawn, undetected by radar. and radar operators said, he was lucky to be alive. that he should have been blown out of the air it turns out we didn't know he of in the air. -- he was in the air. >> interesting thing is that, intelligence picked him up as a blip here and there. we knew more information from people like you lou and others in media who were alerting people within the federal agents that hey this guy is coming your way. and when you have to rely on media to report it, there is something systematically wrong we have to get to the bottom of that. not a matter of technology. we can put a man on the moon, somehow a guy in a. >> ia. >> iiojiezin -- with thecopter can make it to grounds without being detected. >> scaring people, he expect administration to go ahead with treaty with iran. and he said, he thinks that this deal will be done with tehran. it will be done as an executive order, not a damn thing that american people or

hugh's gyrocopter, but the dot appeared only intermittently throughout that flight. when we got the call we immediately notified our interagency partners on the domestic events network, a 24 hour, seven days a week communication line we operate to support a shared situational awareness. we initiated the den more than a decade ago to share information about activity in the airspace with multiple agencies. it now includes more than 130 federal and local agencies as well as major f.a.a. air traffic facilities around the country. it has played a critical role in disseminating important information to other agencies as quickly as possible. each agency has a responsibility to announce an incident as soon as they know about it. we are committed to our safety mission at the f.a.a. and we're dedicated to working closely with all of our air space security partners to support protection of our air space. we are assisting the department of homeland security in its job going interagency review and this is in addition to our own internal review to ensure that employees followed al

. >>> also in court today, the florida postal worker who landed a gyrocopter on the capitol lawn. a grand jury had indicated douglas hughes -- indicted, excuse me douglas hughes, on six charges that could land him in to jail for ten years and he could also face fines and be forced to give up the gyrocopter. he said the flight was to draw attention to the role big money plays in politics. >>> lights were burning a little late last night on capitol hill. kentucky senator and republican presidential candidate rand paul spoke on the senate floor for about ten hours, wrapped up just before midnight. he was doing this to protest renewal of the patriot act, which he says is unconstitutional. that act set to expire june 1st. >>> another major victory for isis capturing a syrian town that's home to one of the oldest and most historic sites. isis posted this video online showing smoke billowing over the ancient city of palmeiro. we've just learned overnight that isis forces are in full control of the treasured ruins. that's dating back to roman times. militants have destroyed similar ruins

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many have questions how the gyrocopter was actually able to fly all the way to the front lawn of the capitol. however, i will note this. actually protecting the restricted airspace over washington, d.c. is not the mission of the capitol police. that falls to other agencies. in fact, i can remember i think it was during president reagan's funeral whether a former governor of kentucky, his general aviation aircraft, a state aircraft, came in to the restricted airspace, a mistake. pilot error. but the air force actually scrambled their jets, i think, on that day. but i do remember the capitol police doing their duty to evacuate the capitol campus flawlessly. and again, in that instance the job of the capitol police was not to so much eliminate the air threat in the restricted airspace but to protect those who work here or are visiting the capitol campus. i would say this. i had a briefing after that. many of us did. i told the chief then that i thought the capitol police performed very well once the gyrocopter landed. almost flawlessly really. however, i would also say that there were s

head of the federal aviation committee joined the committee on a recent security breach of the gyrocopter that landed on the white house lawn. the witnesses ask how the aircraft was allowed to fly into restricted airspace. this is just over two hours. >> [indistinct chatter] chairman chaffetz: the hearing will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. i need to first express my thoughts and prayers to my colleague elijah cummings and what the people of baltimore are going through. our hearts, prayers and thoughts are with you and your neighbors and your friends, community, the

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we'll hear from the man who flew his gyrocopter through one of america's most restricted airspaces. why he says he has no regrets. >>> and the fight to improve safety on the rails >>> he's facing more than nine years in prison but the florida postal worker who landed his gyrocopter on the u.s. capitol lawn last month says it was all worth it to advance his political cause. doug hughes pleaded not guilty in federal court today. he says he flew the aircraft through restricted airspace to send a message to congress about the influence corporate money has on our government. after today's hearing, hughes told reporters he's ready to go to prison for his beliefs. >> i accepted the consequences of what i was doing because i believed it's critical that we return our democracy to the people and that can be done with the solutions that have already been defined. >> the judge will allow hughes to remain free until his next court date, but he's banned from going near the capitol and the white house. >>> improving safety on amtrak in the wake of last week's deadly derailment was a subject of deb

. >>> the man who landed a gyrocopter on the lawn of the u.s. capitol he was indicted on 6 charges yesterday. hughes says his stunt was meant to bring attention to the big money in politics. it exposed a security gap in the washington d.c. no-fly zone. >>> police are looking for a man who grabbed a female jocker it happened tuesday morning in newark. the jogger was alone when she went past the man. >> she instantly gets a creepy vibe. she passes. , she is not comfortable with her surroundings at this point. wants to get out of there. the only m only way back was to go back past the guy. he grabbed her by the waist but she broke free. he is around 30 years old with a bushy beard. there have been reports of men living in the woods in tenths. >>> a giant celebration of the year of the gorilla. that's all new t philadelphia zoo. rick williams has second nature junk rethunk. >> i'm trying to make him ma guest tick. >> reporter: -- me -- majestic. >> i've been hanging out there for almost two weeks. >> reporter: she is one of the dozen artists the zoo

the florida letter carrier who violated national air space by landing his gyrocopter on capitol hill could face years in prison. he was charged including two felonies and due to be arraigned in federal court a short time from now. he did it to bring attention to campaign finance reform. my colleague spoke to hews earlier. >> you've been indicted on six charges, two felonies. was it worth it? >> well absolutely it was worth it to change the situation that we've got in congress right now. i don't intend to spend nine and a half years in jail and don't think i'll have to. this is a civil disobedience no injuries and no property damage. i'm not sure i agree with the penalties that are being called for. >> but what you call civil disobedience they say is invading air space. have you made a plea deal? >> my public defender has been working on that. i can't predict how that will come out. obviously a plea bargain where the penalty fits the crime i'd be willing to accept that. i never expect had the i was going to walk away scot-free for what i did, but on the other hand, nine and a half yea

>>> the man may reach a settlement with the government the gyrocopter flier. he's waving his right to a speedy trial. hughes pled not guilty earlier this month, said he landed that gyrocopter as part of a political protest and wants it back. the capitol police are still holding it. >>> now to new question bz the shipment of live anthrax to labs in states across the u.s. including maryland and krirnlg virginia. defense officials tonight tell nbc news that the investigation is focused on the eradiation process that was intended to kill the live anthrax spores. nbc's pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski is joining us from the pentagon. jim, are defense officials still convinced there is no threat to the public? >> at this time, absolutely, jim. even though this lab, unnamed civilian lab, in maryland discovered that what they thought was inactive anthrax was actually live anthrax when they started working it just last week. but they point out that during that time the anthrax itself never left the system, was always under the control and the rules and regulatio

the headline is that the gyrocopter pilot basking in notoriety. doug hughes is the pilot of it. they announced a six count indictment and two felonies and indicted on invading air space and improperly putting the u.s. post office logo on his gyrocouldn'tter. he'll be our guest on the "washington journal" tomorrow morning. you can tune to see him at 8:00 a.m. eastern time here on the washington journal and he'll take your questions and comments. his protest over campaign finance and trying to draw attention to it. we'll talk to him while he's in washington. back to our phone calls with all of you. what do you think, harry in pittsburgh, pennsylvania a republican. give us your thoughts on khroeu mat change. caller: this is a joke. they put a book out with 3,000 scientists in it and questioned a few and only 56 of them would say it's a fact. but the books prove -- they're always using the 3,000. i went to lasalaska three years ago. greenland is now frozen over and they caught al gore they were trying to put a ponzi scheme together and they exposed all this have. and only 3% of the

it's the pilot of the gyrocopter in april who landed it on capitol hill to deliver letters protesting campaign finance and calling for campaign finance reform. he's facing six charges. he just pled not guilty in federal court in washington, d.c. he could face up to nine years in prison. he just spoke to the media. let's take a listen to what he said. >> i've always been concerned that i might spend time behind bars and i'm not eager for jail time. on the other hand i took responsibility for what i did. this is going to play out in the courts and it may finish up before a jury of my peers. but i accepted the consequences of what i was doing because i believed it's critical that we return our democracy to the people and that can be done with the solutions that have already been defined. >> again doug hughes there, who landed that gyrocopter on the capitol in april, trying to deliver those letters protesting campaign finance, calling for reform now. if he faces trial he could face up to nine years in prison. >>> moving on their goal is to create a caliphate, an islamic state that expands