he is live in aberdeen. tworter: here in aberdeen blimps were familiar sight in the sky. we know one got away and the other was pulled down yesterday. in pennsylvania the effort is focused on coiling up 6000 feet of tethers attached to the length. about one inch and the question everyone wants answered is what happened? managed to find fleeting freedom from its tether but he could not escape capture by dozens of cell phone cameras across central pennsylvania. >> i couldn't believe it when i seen it. reporter: the $182 million aero stat plopped down in a ravine. then the pennsylvania state police blast it full of holes with shotguns to let the helium escape. >> after we complete the deflation we will work on the next step which is removal. reporter: that could take days given the rough terrain. and now questions about the program which uses two football mps that usesli electronics to detect incoming missiles were drones. >> could sound like something was careless in securing the blimp. reporter: the military spokesman says nobody knows what went wrong. >> the investigation

the blimp that floated to aberdeen is on the ground. the norad blimp part of a missile defense system. again, we heard it is now on the ground. we'll get more information about exactly what happened here coming up at 4:30. jonathan: good news. former president jimmy carter is backing the eisenhower memorial project. he is the latest joining the advisory committee. both bushes and bill clinton are on the committee. the memorial project has won design approvals. but some in congress want to halt the project. in a statement, carter said eisenhower is possibly our last warrior president. the search for a stolen a.t.v. this isn't an ordinary vehicle. it belongs to military veterans assistance group. alison: that's right. maryland department natural resource police posted this flyer here online. kevin lewis has more on the search. kevin? kevin: police say the thief or thieves tried using the silver combo lock. when that didn't work they walked around the yellow maintenance shed. and smashed through the glass window to gain access inside. if y

this one was at aberdeen. what can you tell us?tually designed as a cruise missile defense system. part of a cruise missile defense system so you know the speed of cruise missiles to travel, that that has to have a very wide visual range. but we're told just moments ago by officials at norad the blimp is at 16,000 feet headed northward and currently over new wig ming on the, pennsylvania, which is just across the river essentially from wilmington, delaware. the officials insist the blimp two football fields long and trailing more than a mile of heavy cable, that cable and something disconnected from its moorings, and so, and they're talking to the faa. the faa and norad working closely together to keep any commercial or private flights out of the path of the blimp. so far, they sense no danger. everybody's actually acting pretty calmly about it. when's interesting and i was told just a few moments ago that the ground controllers at aberdeen actually have the ability to deflate the blimp by remote control. and slowly bring it back d

it somehow detached from its mooring at the army's aberdeen proving ground in maryland. it drifted north through pennsylvania for hours, trailed by two f-16s, while military minds tried to figure on the a way to bring it down. it finally deflated and landed in a wooded area in montour county, pennsylvania, in two parts, first the tail section then the rest of it. the blimp is massive, more than 230 feet long and flew with thousands of feet of its steel tether dangling below, dragging along the ground, knocking into power lines and cause tens of thousands of outages. it was rainy and wind in maryland today, but the tether, just over an inch thick, was designed to withstand hurricane- force winds. in february, soon after it was deployed, captain matt villa told us he had full confidence it wouldn't fail. >> no, no, there is absolutely no concern. i mean, we really do not worry about the tether. there's a one in a million chance of that tether breaking. >> reporter: but some who live near aberdeen, like tom neuberger, have long worried the blimp would get loose and crash in

northeast of baltimore, aberdeen proving ground is where it broke free. it went all the way up here to the area of muncy, east of williamsport, pennsylvania. that is where finally it hit the ground. we have video from the ground. here it is. this came to the newsroom an hour ago. it wound up landing in trees finally. this military blimp has a tether that is supposed to keep it tethered to the ground at the aberdeen proving ground. we don't know why but it broke. i was in the air four hours going 150 miles before it finally did come down this afternoon. at one point we are told it was 16,000 fe

northeast of baltimore, aberdeen proving ground is where it broke free. it went all the way up here to the area of muncy, east of williamsport, pennsylvania. that is where finally it hit the ground. we have video from the ground. here it is. this came to the newsroom an hour ago. it wound up landing in trees finally. this military blimp has a tether that is supposed to keep it tethered to the ground at the aberdeen proving ground. we don't know why but it broke. i was in the air four hours going 150 miles before it finally did come down this afternoon. at one point we are told it was 16,000 feet in the air. it came down and the tether started to rip power lines all over central pennsylvania leaving 27,000 customers without power. a woman talking about the excitement of the day. we will hear about an expert about how bad this is for ratheo in who made the military blimp. >> it came across my cousin's house, we were chasing it down to find it. probably just as we got, just before we got here is when we found here it had crashed here. >> how it broke free fr

. >> reporter: but some who live near aberdeen, like tom neuberger, have longorried the blimp would get loose and crashsh into their neighborhoods >> fly it into a hurricane but don't fly it over our heads. we have children, retire ease living there. we've got a college there, washington college. we-- you know, we have a community there. we want to be safe from this kind of military mismanagement.. >> reporter: you're look at a picture ofofhe blimp on the ground in muncie, pennsylvania, a military recovery tm on the way the from here in aberdeen, maryland. scott, the day began with two blimps in the sky over aberdeen, the second one has now been grounded while thigh try to figure out how the first one got away. >> pelley: down in the woods, chipeid thanks v vy much. tonight, the candidadas for the republican presidential nomination are debating for the third time, and for the first time, donald trump is not the front-runner. he was surgically removed from that spot by dr. taylor ben carson. makeis in boulder, colorado. reporter: ben carson arrived at the debate, the center of attention,

175-million dollar, top-secret military surveillance blimp, ripping free from a military base in aberdeen, maryland yesterday afternoon. .. nats - oh my god it's dragging a 66-hundred foot metal cable behind it, knocking out powerlines, wn kid down our power at school and it knocked columbia's power. the helium-filled blimp... crossing over neighborhoods.. we were just like holy cow! that thing is enormous. military officials- unable to stop it ganyard there's supposed to be a switch that somebody on the ground, in an emergency can flip, that will do an emergency deflation and bring it down. in this case, they tried that switch but it didn't work the blimp, equipped able to search an area the size missiles and nearly 3-billion dollar system to defend the nation's

many people who would try to reach hillary clinton would go through aberdeen.nd so, she has direct knowledge of what those days around the benghazi attack were like. we're told by republican sources who are in charge of this committee that they're going to confine their questioning to that time period, not talk about things like her work for the clinton foundation or other things. we won't know what exactly is said, because none of the transcripts of these types of interviews have been released. it's possible aberdeen will come to microphones, as others have. we'll just have to wait and see. tamron? >> we just got word that kmesman elijah cummings indicated he would be coming out and speaking to the pool camera after the hearing, or the interview, so we'll see what he says. thank you very much. >>> developing now, dramatic video of a traffic stop in michigan that ended with a 17-year-old boy dead after being shot by the officer who pulled him over. the boy's family has now filed a federal lawsuit. my colleague, ari melber, will join me with the update and we'll

is one of is -- blimp two launched at aberdeen, maryland to detect cruise missiles. tells abc seven they can detect missiles from 340 miles away. since being deployed two years ago no missiles have been spotted. in 400,000 hours of operation yesterday was the first mishap. how it happened is being investigated. >> it's really symbolic of a much deeper problem at the department of defense. reporter: the president of citizens against government waste was not surprised to see it floating away. . he says the defense department has a reputation for losing expensive equipment he points to one report that the pentagon recently lost $500 billion in military equipment in yemen. $586 millionsays was lost in afghanistan between 2012 and 2013. >> i doubt anyone will get fired. that is the problem. there are consequences to failing to manage our taxpayers money. reporter: raytheon designed and built the blimp. they declined to comment. toreen: count on abc 7 news pressure for inches in the investigation into the breakaway blimp. we have a complete report on wjla.com. leon: a staf

it was tethered to the ground, 6500 feed up in the air at the aberdeen proving ground. it broke loose and when all the way to a small town in pennsylvania. in new jersey, there were two fighter jets to or scrambled to watch it, but in the end it deflated on its own. , ithatever this thing is does not appear to be attached to anything. >> i cannot believe it when i seen it. tom: the bullet a remarkable journey over farmland. check out this amazing picture as an amish horse and buggy passes by the $175 million blimp. it began the day looking like this, tether to the ground that aberdeen proving ground, northeast of baltimore. the tether broke and it traveled all the way to the small town of muncie, work went to the ground. it wound up in at least two pieces. blimpther from the knocked out power and left 27,000 customers in the dark. >> somebody sent me a facebook message that we lost our power that this is what was going on. tom: the military uses the blimp to spot planes or missiles headed to our area. is very sophisticated military technology, very classified as to its

aberdeen will be questioned about attacks on u.s. facilities in benghazi, libya, on september 11th, 2012. >>> and the deadly attack at a hospital in afghanistan, the associated press is reporting that military analysts knew the target of a planned strike was a medical facility but it's not clear if that made it to military commanders, analysts believe it was being used to coordinate taliban activity. 22 people including staffers working with doctors without boarders were killed at the scene. >>> sea world says it will challenge a ruling that bans the company from breeding captive killer whales, the commission endorsed an expansion of the tanks that sea world uses to hold or orcas, attendance at the california park declined since the release of that popular documentary, called black fish released in 2013, saying that the captivity of orcas promotes violent behavior. >>> officials at ramapo state forest says they had to euthanize four bears, none of them seemed afraid of humans and that is not natural, they remind people not to feed th

the blimp came to rest 125-mile from aberdeen near muncie, pennsylvania. no one was hurt, but the cable took out power lines, knock out electricity to thousands of customers. >>> a south carolina sheriff's deputy seen on video slamming a student to the floor and dragging her out of a classroom has been fired. the richland county sheriff said while deputy ben fields has the right to take the student out, he went too far. >> he did not follow proper training or procedure when he threw the student across the room. >> the justice department is now investigating deputy fields' actions but the sheriff said it's important not to lose sight that the incident would not have happened if not for the disruptive actions of the student. >> the virginia department of transportation said they lynn spect the intersection where two men died after crashing into a residence in fairfax county. police said they were speeding in the stolen car when driver lost control on beacon hill road off route 1 and crashed into the house around 8:00 last night. the driver is 28-year-old ant

scott, the day began with two blimps in the sky over aberdeen. the second one has now been grounded while they try to figure out how the first one got away. >> down in the woods, chip reid. thanks very much. >>> republican presidential hopefuls gathered last night in boulder, colorado for their third debate of the campaign season. colorado is a purple state, just about equally divided among rpublicans, democrats, and unaffiliated voters. the ten top candidates were on stage, and for the first time since entering the race donald trump was not the front-runner. he now trails dr. ben carson in our new cbs news/"new york times" poll, 26% to 22%. here's some of what the candidates had to say. >> and make americans better off because your greatness would replace the stupidity and incompetence of others. >> that's right. >> let's be honest. is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign? >> no, it's not a comic book. and it's not a very nicely asked question the way you say that. larry kudlow is an example, who i have a lot of respect for, love

and last friday in aberdeen maryland hold up at bank of america. police say jenny carrier stole that car from this dealership where the manager says she worked for a couple of years until she called in sick one day in august never to be seen or heard from again. i spoke with aberdeen police sergeant will rymer on face time. clyde. i'm not going to speculate why they chose our location it's in >> reporter: joe carrier is the stick up man. ty a tip from the public helped them link all the robberies and they hope another tip will stop the next one. news. >>> tonight it looks like firefighters in new bedford have an arsonist on their hands two fires that broke out hours apart at the same home. the first time crews were called to the home on nelson flames to the third floor and everyone in the triple decker made it out okay. hours later crews were right another fire. >>> a lowell man accused of attacking police officers is under psychiatric watch. a man called police saying ocasio smashed his van. an officer tried to question him says the suspect threw

carrier, investigators following their money trail from ludlow, mass, two weeks later, palm coast, aberdeen, maryland in each case, he goes in, claiming to have a gun demanding money. then runs to a waiting car, and they are gone. >> there are different people that come and go from the house that i have seen. >> on quincey, some neighbors are glad the couple's half dozen yapping dogs are gone but they actually had little contact with the couple. >> you always see their cars parked in the front there. i haven't seen those cars either. i don't know what happened to them. >> general a few weeks ago jenni called in sick and didn't come back and then the dealer ship noticed one of their suvs was missing. when spotted in palm coast, florida, detectives were on the phone. >> he said we just had bank robbery, and come to find out we sent photos from our country bank to them and they identified them as the same suspect. >> the last confirmed siting was berdine, -- in aberdeen, maryland. >> a mask left behind by this bank robber is headed to quantico. he's accused of robbing a bank last week, grabbin

>> reporter: the unmanned aircraft attached at its mooring in aberdeen, maryland. f-16s, along with curious residents chased the run away blimp down to its final resting place over a hundred miles away. >> nothing like this happens around here. it's a rural area so it's pretty awesome. >> reporter: thousands were left in the dark here in muncy as the along the way. officials say they are not out of the woods yet. >> it's a dangerous vehicle. it's still powered. >> reporter: authorities have set up a perimeter to keep people away and secure the blimp's state-of-the-art radar system. still in a test phase, the aircraft was designed to detect a missile attack. its tether was supposed to withstand hurricane force winds. officials will now try to figure out how it failed on what was an ordinary rainy day. pentagon officials have grounded a second test blimp until they figure out just what went wrong. >> hena daniels in muncy, thank you. >>> millions in the east face another day of drenching rain. the system that brought heavy downpours will deliver more wet weather befo

the other blimp has now been first blimp went up, we visited aberdeen. it's on its way up. we asked@ captain villa then about the tether which is only abouan inch thick. >> we reallll do not worry about the tether. there's a one in a million chance of that tether breaking. >> reporter: we asked him again today. do you want to revise that? do you regret it? >> no, i mean, that reallyy is what the published chance was and when you say one in a million, there is one. >> reporter: the army has long insisted the blimps present no danger to the public but the heavy tether dragg along the ound for miles, taking out power lines and damaging the greenhouse business where megan church works. >> it ripped the plastic in a couple areas but it ripped the pipe off the front, destroyed was hurt. >> repororr: ken hunter's grand kids live just the street from where it landed. >> what if it comes down on their house? away? i would like some answers. >> reporter: so far, though, the army says they do not have an answer to the question of how that blimp got away. and, s#ott, as for getting the

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it becomes unhinged detaching from its station in aberdeen proving ground in maryland traveling north 16,000 feet in the air floating into pennsylvania. >> it's going to land right in the cornfield. >> reporter: the blimp floating over a high school in bloomsburg, pennsylvania. >> oh, my god, it's going down. >> reporter: dragging a long metal tether, a cable several thousand feet long wiping out power lines along the way. the top secret balloon cost $175 million. the program more than 2 billion. the balloon did equipped with high-tech radar and early warning system that can search an area the size of texas for incoming cruise missiles, un unfriendly aircraft, even tanks its filled with helium. 242 feet long, three-quarters of a football field. retired colonel stephen ganyard saying make no mistake, it was a lot of taxpayer money floating for. of the afternoon. >> this protects the region but is a sophisticated military technology. very classified. it's the best capability in the world. >> reporter: shortly before touching down the tail fell off a quarter mile away from the massive ba

. >> yeah, it was floating above aberdeen, the proving ground there in maryland when its tether broke. the blimp then drifted all the way to moreland township, pennsylvania. abc's linsey davis with the details. >> reporter: for hours a mystery. just where was the $175 million military blimp? >> it knocked down our power at school and it knocked down all of columbia's power. >> reporter: 12:20 p.m., the blimp comes unhinged, detaching from its station at aberdeen proving ground in maryland, traveling north, 16,000 feet in the air, floating into pennsylvania. >> it's going to land right in the corn field. >> reporter: the blimp floating over a high school in bloomsburg, pennsylvania. >> oh, my god, it's going down! >> reporter: dragging a long metal tether, a cable several thousand feet long, wiping out power lines along the way. >> lights out for us at fowlersville and 47. >> they lost power out there, also. >> route 11's dead. >> reporter: listen to this neighbor's recording from the ground. >> whatever this thing is doesn't appear to be attached to anything. there's a line dragging.

the blimp escaped from maryland's aberdeen proofing pennsylvania. hena daniels is in muncy. >> reporter: police have set up a perimeter as they try to keep people away from this billion dollar military blimp. this, as the pentagon begins their own investigation on how this unmanned air ship managed to break free and float away. federal and state officials are in northeast pennsylvania, guarding the remnants of a massive army surveillance blimp that broke free and crash-landed wednesday afternoon. matt lepke was at a gas station in the area as the drama unfolded. >> it was like the white blimp of death. it was right over top of me and it looked like you could reach out and touch the blimp. it's going down! >> reporter: the unmanned aircraft attached from its mooring in aberdeen, maryland. f-16s, along with curious residents, chased the run away blimp down to its final resting place over a hundred miles away. >> nothing like this happens around here. it's a rural area, so it's pretty awesome. >> reporter: thousands were left in the dark here in muncy

breaking away from the aberdeen proving grounds in maryland, floating across pennsylvania and coming down in motherland township. abc's lindsey davis on the scene tonight, and many asking, how in the first place? >> reporter: for hours today, a mystery. just where was the $175 million military blimp? >> it knocked down our power er er at school. >> reporter: 12:20 p.m., the blimp detached from its station at aberdeen proving ground many maryland. traveling north you 16,000 feet in the air, floating into pennsylvania. >> it's going to land right in the corn field. >> reporter: the blimp floating over a high school in bloomsburg, pennsylvania. >> it's going down! >> reporter: dragging a long metal tether, a cable several thousands feet long, wiping out power lines along the way. >> lights out for us at fowlersville and 47. >> they lost power out there, also. >> route 11's dead. >> reporter: listen to this neighbor's recording from the ground. >> whatever this thing is doesn't appear to be attached to anything. >> reporter: the top secret balloon cost $175 million. the program, more tha

it's a military blimp that broke free in aberdeen, maryland. the blimp caused all sorts of havoc before police corralled it in northern pennsylvania and randy gyllenhaal, and they arrived on the scene a short time ago and tweeted this video of the blimp on the ground. he has more now on the e for thes to recover that mrichl. >> randy gyllenhaal here on the ground in anthony township, montour county, pennsylvania. it's getting a little dark, but i can show you the giant white blob that is in the woods beyond this crime scene here and you can see the police officers that have set up securing this area. we have members of the local fire department as well as members of the national guard here that are on scene, securing this site. think, the blimp took off from aberdeen, maryland and they're waiting for military officials to get to the scene so they can go down to the blimp, where it crashed and assess it, but military officials on scene here are telling me that this blimp came apart in two pieces, the main section behind me and a tail piece that

and aberdeen asset management is now trading. up by 4.4%. the company has denied that it has put itself up for sale. according to "the financial times" the company is on the lookout for a potential buy jer. the firm's ceo martin gilbert has made several approaches to rival firms, however, aberdeen asset management has issued a statement to cnb saying, quote, in his 32 years running aberdeen, martin gilbert has never approached anyone formally or informally about big the business. but what the market is doing this morning, they're speculating on a buyout. >> yeah. there's a lot of pressure in that sector. let's get back to rich kelly. rich, do you think the asset management industry is an interesting bet in terms of valuations at the moment or do you think it's living on borrowed time? >> that's certainly an area where you can talk about consolidation. you can see what used to be a great global macro environment. you have to look at ways to consolidate the returns and find where's the excess return in the world? >> there isn't any excess retu

. >> it broke loose at the military's aberdeen proving ground in maryland and wound up hours later in moreland township, pennsylvania. abc's linsey davis is there. >> reporter: for hours a mystery, just where was the $175 million military blimp? >> it knocked down our power at school and knocked down all of columbia's power. >> 12:20 p.m. it becomes unhinged detaching from its station in aberdeen proving ground in maryland traveling north 16,000 feet in the air floating into pennsylvania. >> it's going to land right in the cornfield. >> reporter: the blimp floating over a high school in bloomsburg, pennsylvania. >> oh, my god, it's going down. >> reporter: dragging a long metal tether, a cable several thousand feet long wiping out power lines along the way. the top secret balloon cost $175 million. the program more than 2 billion. high-tech radar and early warning system that can search an area the size of texas for incoming cruise missiles, un unfriendly aircraft, even tanks on the ground. its filled with helium. 242 feet long, three-quarters of a football field. retired colonel step

two of these moored side by side at the proving grounds there in aberdeen, maryland. and this is going to be to put it mildly, a big pr problem for this product. >> absolutely. a big question, of course, is not how's it descending, how the heck did it break free of the tether in the first place? again, we are told by officials, military and at norad this is a first with this kind of a runaway balloon in the united states. so it's been fairly a relatively safe way to provide the kind of surveillance that the u.s. particularly the coastline needs but in this case i don't know if there's got to be an investigation already under way into how this kind of cable could have broken loose today. >> people have a lot of explaining to do. tom costello, are you still with us? >> i am. our affiliate in baltimore reporting a fire on the ground in pennsylvania as a result of the cable apparently hitting a power station or some sort of a power facility, if you will. a structure on the ground. we don't know the size of it. and there had been reports that as you heard from this gentlem

in february, after the first blimp went up, we visited aberdeen. we asked captain villa then about the tether, which is only about an inch thick. >> we do not worry about the tether. there's a 1 in a million chance of that breaking. >> reporter: we asked him again today. do you want to revise that, do you regret it? >> no, i mean, that really is what the published chance was. and when you say 1 in a million, there is one. >> reporter: the army has long presented that the blimps present no danger to the public, but the tether dragged along for miles taking out power lines and damaging this s eenhouse. >> it ripped the pipe off the front, destroyed benches. >> reporter: ken hunter's grandkids live just down the street from where it landed. >> what if it comes down on a it could have been serious. how does something like that get away? i would like some answers. >> reporter: so far, though, the answer to the question of how that blimp got away. and as for getting it out of that deep ravine, the only option migig be a heavy lift helicoptpt. >> chip rei