the air force is retiring its force structure and not buying aircraft. while planning to combat sequester related cuts what do you say to the air man who joined the air force to fly aircraft? is help on the way? >> you make a sound as if the navy and army are expanding and i don't think that's the case be there. and in a joined the air force joined it because, for lots of reasons initially. they find when they come in the door even if it wasn't the pride that attracted them, it looks them. they get very proud of who they are. they get very proud of what they do and how will they do. they get very proud of the people who stand beside. just like the folks in our other services. i the son services. i dissent was a brain infantry officer. is the same way. he could not be prouder to come to work everyday and work with the people he gets to work with every day. that's what our enemy and are looking for. they're looking for the opportunity to be good at what to do. that's the one thing that will cause them to walk away. one of the things we're trying to do in th

not just in the air force but in our government. we've got to start figuring out what does air superiority mean because it will still be required 30 years from now and the air force will still be responsible for performing the mission and providing it for our combatant commanders. if we don't start thinking about this at this point in time i think we're being irresponsible but i wouldn't try to characterize it or describe it. i have no idea yet what it is going to look like, what it even is, whether it flies or a combination of things. just don't know. >> drones are an increasing part of the air force's mission. yet they are very controversial. what would you say to critics who argue that drones depersonalize killing? >> first of all, remotely piloted aircraft we fly, i will get the party line in, jerry told me i had the opportunity to mention this we don't call them drones. we have awful lot of people behind these things. people that operate them are proud of what they do too. we don't have anything flying around deciding to fire we

the air force still keeps nearly all 450 of them on constant alert, ready to go.ought the missiles would be hidden away on some vast tract of federal land. my goodness, is this a farm right here? >> jones: it is. >> stahl: we were surprised the missiles were close to rural communities. we saw bales of hay and herds of grazing cattle. >> jones: it's a safe weapon. i mean, it's not going to... it's not going to do anything here on the ground. >> stahl: if by accident or a deliberate act, one of those missiles was launched, is there a way to disarm it or bring it back? >> jones: no, we can only launch with direction from the president of the united states. now, once that missile has gone, there's no way to recall it or disarm the warhead that's on the missile. once they're gone, they're gone. >> stahl: the missiles are spread out over a wide area surrounding three air force bases in five different states. a web of underground hardened and pressurized cables connect the missiles to buildings like this, where the missiles are monitored remotely miles away in capsules 7

"tony" riordan, deputy for the secretary of the air force. a command navigator from west palm beach, florida, with 1,700 -4-c, hours in the rf director of named strategy and resources integration for the deputy undersecretary of the air force international affairs. this recent promotion is no surprise to anyone who knows tony. throughout his life, he has displayed exceptional leadership and judgment. he graduated in 1977 from forest hill high school in west palm beach and then he was known for his intelligence, his loyalty and his integrity. he was a drummer in the marching band, a pitcher for the baseball and participant in the american legion boys state program which encourages people to grow and engage into responsible citizens. after graduating from florida state university in 1981, tony was selected to attend undergraduate navigator training in california. he quickly gathered -- he 12th guarded the tactical squadron at the air force base. he was needed in the front line during the cold war and was assigned in germany. following the end o

air force personnel.hear from two former drone operators, former air force pilot brandon bryant and michael haas. it begins with chris woods followed by ben emmerson. >> the majority of the secret drone strikes that have taken place, we've always understood, been carried out by the central intelligence agency. the most egregious of u.s. intelligence -- the most secretive of u.s. intelligence agencies, protecting huge layers of laws and anything that cia is involved in, we really are not supposed to know. crucial obstacle to transparency was the decision to handle a targeted killing by drone program into the hands of the intelligence agency, where accountability is impossible. but the united states is engaged migratetive program, to it away from the cia into the hands of the dod. within those lion troops. it is, it is always been the air force that has flown those missions. the cia might be the customer, but the air force has always flown it. the 17 squadron that flies, they are the can play what i'm doing

spacex is effectively suing the air force over this contract. the same time it is trying to convince the air force that the company has the knowledge and expertise to carry america's military satellites into space. it's always a gamble, when you see your potential customer. musk announced the legal challenge during a washington news conference today. while spacex has won contracts to carry cargo into space for nasa, it's competing to carry astronauts as well, it has yet to crack united launch lines's strangle hold on the military launch business. in december the air force arded 36 launches to the lockheed-boeing venture. musk says they're ready to compete. >> this is not spacex protesting and saying that these launches should be awarded to us. we're just protesting and saying these launches should be competed and if we compete and lose, that's fine. >> the satellite launch business could be worth as much as $70 billion through 2030. and musk says spacex could save taxpayers $1 billion a year on that business. he also points out that u.l.a. uses

so air force intelligence, air force intelligence said and leaked to joe alsop and the papers and various senators including john f. kennedy that the soviets had a couple hundred icbms, and we had none. remember sputnik? oh, my god, if the russians can put a satellite over our head in 1957 and we can't, it must mean that they have icbms, and they're going to be raining atom bombs on new york city next month. they were, they had a lot of -- they good some good german scientists who taught them how to do throw weight and get large objects in the sky. but they didn't have the scientists who taught them how to target and be with precise and put warheads. so by 1961 they had four icbms, they were liquid fueled, probably would have hit canada can, not the united states. i mean, still dangerous but not, there was no missile gap. at least the u2 once it finally got going was not finding any icbms, and that was stabilizing. things kind of calmed down there for a little bit, and we saved some money because instead of building all those atlas missiles that the air force wanted, ike said, no, we're n

air force.ly with several drone freight nurse our film and through our talks with them we realized that the program had been in the hands of the u.s. air force all along. and the drones have been operated by a regular u.s. air force squadron. and to us this changes radically questions of oversight of the program and the legality of the drone strikes. >> you know, i guess some folks who will be watching this and they'll ask the question, tell me why this is news? so the administration has been urging, we know that, you make the point here, the cia to turnover drone duties to the pentagon. so clearly based on your film that hasn't happened yet. again the argument for many will be why is this news? >> will, nobody has really answered the question or asked the questions of who really flies the drones. and having actually the actual squadron that flies the drone be a regular u.s. air force squad run could pose very important new legal questions. the cia operates under very different laws. >> sure, su

president to depart air force one.e understand if things stick to schedule, in about 20 minutes there will be a welcoming ceremony for the u.s. president at parliament square in kuala lumpur. let's bring in will ripley in kuala lumpur covering this part of the u.s. president's tour. will, the u.s. president, of course, arriving at a time when malaysia has been distracted, completely inundated with the search for the airline and lack of results. >> reporter: you're right. this is a very significant visit. especially for malaysia, considering president barack obama is the first sitting president of the united states to visit this country in 40 years, since lyndon johnson. he truly will be getting a rock star welcome, as soon as he gets off air force one, you'll go to the arrival ceremony where he'll be joined by the prime minister and many other dignitaries. in addition to the celebration, there is that cloud hanging over this event, and that is mh 370, yet unsolved and the crisis the goth has taken a considerable amount

we're learning something else, malaysia's air force apparently sent up search planes hours after the boeing plane's contact with air control. the search planes headed west and also looked at the scheduled path of flight 370, the north one supposed to be going to beijing. again, they went west. none of us knew anything about a trip to the west. phonily, for what it's worth, we now know the final recorded words from the missing plane's cockpit, good night malaysian 37 kilimanjaro were in fact spoken by captain shah. there were no voices that did not belong. up until now we thought it was the co-pilot speaking those words. cnn's nic robertson has dug up much of that information and live from kuala lumpur. it is unusual to be getting this much information, certainly different we had been hearing up until now. i'm not sure if it's as significant as it seems. why are we getting this tantalizing set of details now? >> ashleigh, the investigation has been going on, as we all know, over a month now. all the time we're digging and digging and asking questions and pushing people to tell us the d

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i did 22 years of dedicated service in the united states air force and what in the air force something called the core values. integrity first, excellence in all we do, and service [speaker not understood]. anybody that knows juliet knows that this is her hands absolute down. another thing i'd like to say is punishment is a learning tool within the air force and as we're going up through our child hoods. she's learned from her mistakes, she's paid for it. [speaker not understood]. let's just press on, move forward and i'm pretty sure y'all have something better to do at this moment than listen to everybody else along with everybody else tell you how great she is. because that is a true fact. i'm sure everybody heard this. those people that push on thing like that usually are trying to hide something. i might want to take that into account if i were use because it could be you on the chopping block eventually. maybe you won't all these people standing here on your side. her ethical integral moral standing were the highest accord. she always will and continue to fight for what is right.

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>> well, it does because he wants the air force to be a huge customer. he wants to do military satellite launches for the air force and by suing your biggest customer, you do take a risk. there is a chance they hold that against him down the line in the future, but it also shows you how much money is at stake here. they want to take on these entrenched interests of lockheed martin and boeing, the two giants of aerospace who have combined to form united launch alliance. they had a strangle hold on these contracts, on these military satellite launches for years. if he can get his foot in the door and prove to the air force that he can do it on a cheaper basis, he has the makings of a real business that could make money over time. cory mentioned the number, $70 billion through 2030, that's what they expect to spend on these satellite launches. he wants a piece of that pie. the news conference today was an effort to stick his foot in the door and get congress, he has already gotten some support from john mccain on this front to look if there is real competit

actually two hostels that the russian air force's were receiving new and upgraded versions of that crap for that little and were forming army aviation brigade that were unprecedented western president met with putin has warned kiev against using the army in the east he said it will be a serious crime would affect interstate relations. ukraine's foreign ministry has responded by giving russia forty eight hours to explain and give details of its military exercises. on the announcement came shortly after ukraine's acting president of weeks and could trek snob. contrast that to pull troops and that from the border. in a brief address to the nation he urged moscow to and its threats and blackmail. and to stop interfering in ukraine's internal affairs. it's not that he would continue taking measures to protect the lives of ukrainian citizens. what i have announced a will hold a new military exercises involving ground and air force is me and its border with the plane. it came after ukraine in operation to drive progress inactive this out of occupied buildings in the country's east was killed a

air force. engines are made by a company directly overseen by the deputy prime minister of the russian federal racing. james rosen is live with more. what do you know? >> plenty. the issue raised here by fox news' reporting boils down to this, whether the pentagon's reliance on russian hardware for space launches is undermining washington's use of sanctions. to deliver heavy payloads into space, satellites with classified missions, the u.s. air force employs the atlas v system. the contract was awarded to a joint venture between lockheed martin and boeing to purchase engines. but the engines that ula uses in the atlas v system are manufactured by a kremlin controlled entity called npo. the engines are rd-180. powered in part by liquid oxygen and fetch 15 to $20 million apiece, the russian space sector is overseen by the deputy prime minister of the russian federal racing and a long-time putin ally and one of the officials name in the sanctions announced on march 17th. >> there's an impetus for u

air force. right now, the air force only uses rockets made by lockheed martin and boeing. in a lawsuit filed today, they seek to reopen bidding for rocket engines that the air force agreed to buy last year. musk said the contract as written costs taxpayers millions of dollars that space x could save them. >>> toyota is expected to tell employers today it's moving -- or employees, rather, that it's moving the national headquarters out of california. the automaker is uprooting its offices in torrence in los angeles county, moving to texas. this according to the automotive news. the news reports the company told its executives friday it will inform the other employees today. southern california was once home to toyota, nissan and honda. nissan moved to tennessee in 2005. honda is in the process of moving its u.s. headquarters to ohio. >>> i don't care what kind of automobile moves you around, you may want to find one where you can pick the air conditioning. i was thinking convertible. >> how about both? you can drive with the top down and blowing on you. >> do they have such

air force? he moved right patterson ohio, and he lived there with his wife and seven children and worked for the air force for decades, and when he retired in the mid-70s. the department of defense gave him the distinguished civilian service award. that's the highest award a scientist can get, and i thought to myself, how on earth does one go from being the most important person of a most important scientist in the pentagon. i wanted to know. the way i report stories is to find the family members, and i sought out family members, and i find his grandson, very courageous fellow, and ending with this because i said to mim, you know, will you talk to me? he say, yes, and i said, why? he said, well, everyone in my family says, whatever you do, don't talk about what he did during the war. [laughter] he said, you know, in the age of google, it's not hard to find out what he did during the war. he said, i want to know. here's the thing, here's the rub. he said in my attic, i have a box of documents tha

>> yeah, including the royal new zealand air force air commadore who is joining us live.potential fifth ping, if you will, and they are trying to determine if it's the real thing. they are still looking for debris but we're going to go in depth to see what the latest is. plus, new information that nic roberts has been collecting in kuala lumpur. >> "the situation room" in 18 minutes. thanks so much, wolf blitzer. >>> coming up, she's one of the most powerful women in america who says there are not enough women in congress. so does sheryl sandberg want to run for congress herself? sfoo plus, we're looking at civil rights icon jfk. but did president kennedy practice what he preached? his actions behind closed doors tell a somewhat different story and that's ahead. i have low testosterone. there, i said it. how did i know? well, i didn't really. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive... but when i started losing energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the symptoms... then he gave me some blood

now air force one just touched down at tokyo's haneda airport. you're looking at live footage from the airport here in tokyo, where president obama has just landed. here you can see air force one at haneda airport. now japanese leaders haven't hosted a u.s. president as a state guest since bill clinton in 1996. obama will dine this evening with prime minister shinzo abe. on thursday, he'll attend a welcome ceremony at the imperial palace, where he'll meet with the emperor and empress. after that, obama and abe will hold their summit. they'll talk about a range of issues from trade to security to regional relations. now abe and obama are expected to issue a joint statement. a draft says the decades old u.s./japan security alliance will play an important role in maintaining regional peace and prosperity. their discussions will also touch on north korea's nuclear development, china's military expansion, as well as the situation in ukraine. now president obama and prime minister abe will hold a press conference after their meeting. you can watch it l

things at the same time abby to the iraqis to the force's as i mentioned even though with the iraqi air force are taking the part in the security of the moscow i mean the electoral process in the country. we see a ruckus duty forces is the big yes. the had the right. yes you read this before says the state to have actually act fast to their ballots under with a porch addition of more than a million dead iraqis could be personal but to be allowed out to be actually to be able to maintain the security during the election date via iv apply sufficient off such a high in number all the ruckus for the forces have actually helped to provide a safe office here and even to ensure the safety of the iraqi people and give a sense of safety for the what the iraqis that and encourage them to go to as their butts in a journey through the polling stations the husband actually deployed across the country according to the numbers that has been released. quite the independent telephone publisher nor i had more than fifty thousand iraqi. as polling stations have been deployed across the country to receive the vo

the malaysian government denied in a tweet that any malaysian air force aircraft were scrambled. >> i'm suspicious of the information that they've provided. i think the most likely scenario is that they detected them on military radar. they scrambled the jets. and either couldn't locate it or some other problem developed. >> reporter: our source says the air force did not inform the rest of the malaysian government until three days later, march 11st. a source involved in the investigation told cnn. joe johns, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >>> over the past month the weather in the many search areas has gone from treacherous and difficult to quite serene. let's brick in meteorologist samantha mohr on the weather continues now. >> this is the time of year we see plenty of cyclone activity across the indian ocean. a couple of close calls may have cluttered the search a bit. here's the current search area. as we take it further off here off of queensland, you see we have a very powerful cyclone making landfall right now. in fact, we'll be talking about it throughout the night and into tomorr

spacex has a deal, talking to the air force about it, but they need to clear certain hurdles before they can truly be considered -- and this is just a guess -- that that will be what you on musk is talking about shortly at this news conference. >> speculation has been rampant and extreme. cory johnson, i've seen ideas that maybe has figured out how to launch rockets on tesla batteries or had his first contact with aliens. with elon musk tummy you never know. isi think the alien thing definitely true. it would explain so much. i think this tells you a lot about the business model for spacex. we know a lot of the payload for the business -- the business waiting our military and security payloads. those are things that right now the go to his russian rockets. they don't want to do that right now. they want an alternative. d.c.,ss in washington, contracts ready to be had for elon musk and spacex. clearly, that is a big focus for these guys. otherition to the satellite business. one of the big drivers of the industry over the last five years has been through the tv. satellites were required t

chairman, i have the privilege of representing mcgill air force base in tampa, florida. dill is led by the sixth air mobility wing but has a host of very important tenants on the base, including united states central command, central operations command, the 927th air refueling wing, joint and communication support element. in fact at mcdill we have 39 mission support partners. it's a very busy base. i wanted to bring to everyone's attention a deficiency in our mission support facility. think about this big active base with all of these tenants, 13,000 military and civilian mcdill.l at add op to that 170,000 military retirees in the area. they come to this mission support facility to get credentialed and take care of the very -- most basic credentialing and security processes at the base. our mission support facility is far from the main gate, it's way too small, but most seriously it contains black mold. it is on the first floor along the wall, it's -- tampa is a very damp place and humid place, and if you don't take care and maintain these facilities, it causes very expe

personnel the film claims that this is all operating from a secure air force base just outside of las vegas now if it is indeed true what they mean about the level of collaboration and cooperation between the kenny and the military on this program. well sometimes his cooperation and sometimes fierce competition by all these different agencies carrying out from attacks yes on three hits and also upstate new york from syracuse. the air force the army has a program the c i has a program and other intelligence agencies the program so on. there has actually been in demand transparency the sheer number of programs should be now just as the first step the sheer number of jones and fired. i also carry a constant surveillance which means buying on countries around the world and constantly targeting whether these hellfire missiles are fired or not. this is a threat to every country in the world and its racing and wants to arrange on a world scale. sharon and wanted to share thoughts on one more thing we're just learning add that the navy is on unmanned aircraft the act for seven b has officiall

rebound is about to depart on air force one next to ft. hood where he is headed to tend a memorial for the soldiers killed last week on the base if a shooting. three were killed and 16 wounded. the gunman arm specialist took his own life and was not hit by military miss gunfire. 2 the people -- 2,000 people are invited to attend the memorial. we will carry the president's remarks at the memorial service live in a special report which should be happening around 12:30 our time. >>> turning things over to meteorologist, mike nicco, talking about a home opener under glorious sunshine. >> a great day. got a win. today? >> the warmth carried the home run bulls. >> usually happens, the warmer it is, the easier it is to hit. today we have evening games and when you head to at&t the weather will not disappoint. the clouds are hanging around but no precipitation. sfo shows clouds to the north. not over the airport so that is why right now we do not have flight arrival delays with slower sunshine and a cooler sea breeze today and clouds return to the

he was connected to as the remix trend operate into the us base at lunchtime lunchtime in the air force base. it is essential in the wrong ward prayer operations. was a riot was stationed in the united states has a total freight or until twenty eleven that he pocketed thousands of missions all connected by lunchtime. in total u s air force documents at the palms taken by the date of the costs of the distance the signal traveled from the us by einstein to the mission areas in pakistan and yemen. in the korean and took linked in. employees of a special unit said they also evaluate it like the image is from the friends while working in the sunshine wanted is gemini thrown into turmoil. jimmy's nsa investigation committee is now set to address this very question. the gemini government says that was an agreement with the us that comes to an operations would not speak a monday from gemini. it says it knew nothing of the day to drink sprite describes. always joined by now political correspondent john derek jones knows we could about this story time again. why is this committee and the now just

an australian air force p-3 orion.y're trying something new now as they try to get as many pings as possible before the batteries in those black boxes run out. so the plane flew out over the search area and dropped a bunch of sono buoys, it means sonar buoy. thee they're equipped with lisping devices and they listen for possible sounds. we know one of those buoys detected a sound. just within the last 20 minutes, we confirmed new information about it. the sound is not 37.5 kilohertz which is the standard signal for this particular type of device that was on 370. but we're told that it is in a range that makes investigators strongly believe that this is a manmade signal. so we know the data is actually being analyzed right now. the analysis will continue overnight. and if they have something to report, if they can confirm that they think this is also from a black box, we could learn that as early as tomorrow morning. perth time it would be late in the evening on the east coast where you are, john. >> so just to be clear

one of the arguments was that why couldn't the air force have just waited a few months when the air force had awarded this contract back in december? one of his answers was that he and spacex did not actually know it was a sole source contract until march, one day after he and michael gatsby appeared before the senate. since then he has made no progress in discussions. they had no choice but to bring this lawsuit foreword. it is a very big deal. elon musk suing the air force. he will not make any friend to help him. this seems to be a play date want to make to make themselves more competitive. one thing he did mention was good news. he confirmed that spacex did successfully launch and return the spacecraft. cory johnson joins me in studio. what are we to make of his comments? >> there is the business aspect and the discussion of the rocket itself. there is a lot of money out there to be made launching these government satellites. the government needs or demands are only to do this. there is a very big business k'sre that mus company is facing. the knee get to the cool stuff, trying to --

. >> they don't have much of an air force so they go to the trolling their skies. havemonth, the americans sent 10. >> it has a great responsibility across its entire spectrum of space. it is very important to any nation. our sovereign airspace is where it all begins. seend have you gotten to russian planes up close echo >> i can't comment on operational things. seen increasing military activity. at this base, they contract every out craft from norway and practically every week, russian warplanes are appear without warning. >> the air force has received more money. >> they are playing down talk of a new cold war. bbc news, lithuania. >> these are anxious times. around thether news world. the brigadier general was killed when a bomb and off near cairo university. the first two bombs went off within minutes of each other and a third coming about two hours later. egypt has witnessed several attacks. the new french prime minister has unveiled his new government, the former partner of president franÇois hollande. she will be the new environment minister. cabinet eight o

we have more work to do on the air force. i think you are aware that we have a ground attack aircraft that is coming in through a series of contractual issues. that aircraft is delayed. the intent was to use some of helicopters to up thatthose to be a gunship can take the place of that turboprop aircraft until it ultimately enters the air force. it is worth noting that right now the production of pilots in there aren't, enough pilots to fly every airplane. the process is to continue unabated. there are a lot of afghan pilots who are drying pay -- drawing pay. in the conversations i have had , holdingident karzai of the younger officers who are quite exceptionally well-qualified pilots to get them into uniform and get them into training and the cockpit, that process is going to take a while. we have a gap. we will do whatever we can at this point to advise as best we can. >> i am glad to hear the information from general allen. not having the air force in places of the biggest complaints of the people in afghanistan, particula

provide ontinue to emergingsupport to the afghan air force and we will have our own assets that will forces. our advisory your point about the medevac is point. important we never anticipated that the fghan air force would be organized or equipped to conduct the same kinds of medevacs that were used to every day. but we spent a great deal of work with g hard to the ministry of public health, he ministry of defense and interior to optimize all the resources across the country. the xample, rather than licopter medevac which away -- we became used to we built medevac most where a large number of armored vehicles were if someone is edevacked on the ground his afghanistan army buddy is trained in buddy care. wound being nt of he afghans have capacity to provide care on the spot and the medevac process begins by moving armor ed -- moving that to an awfuled vehicle where collection ove to a casualty point where we take advantage of the local clinics over time e improved through the ministry of public which or field hospitals were purchased specifically for the afghan national army to be depl

i was 18 when i joined the air force. way to visit my mother in new york city september 11th. i was supposed to have breakfast with my family in the windows of the world at the top of the towers. and we watched both towers drop into the harbor. my first phone call after calling my mother and father was to my recruiter. i wanted to represent the red, white and blue against the person who did this. >> when he told me that he was going into the air force, you say how proud you are. it's a neat thing. something i always wanted to do and i couldn't do because i couldn't read or write. >> the position i actually wanted was to be an aircraft mechanic. my job provided transportation for ground troops. october of 2008 i was told to take a mandatory flu shot. i worked 38 days straight without a day off, between 14 to 16 hours. i contracted a virus. i woke up in the morning, and when i put my legs on the floor, i stood up. the moment i tried to stand up, i collapsed. within 72 hours of being admitted, i was paralyzed from the neck d

also that objects were spotted by chinese air force planes.bers of the victims apparently are skeptical about this news today. >> cnn's pauline chu is in beijing with the families and we just got this in from jack song whose sister was on board flight 370. he said, there's no piece of debris so how can you find the black box? he does not believe that indeed this frequency that was picked up was, indeed, the ping. i think we've got the map showing where this was detected near the search areas today but not only the sound or the ping is also the photographs that were taken, we're told, according to xinhua, the chinese state news agencies, about the floating objects 12 hours ago. >> the news about the objects just came down to us within the last 10 or 20 minutes yes. >> we'll see how this continues to develop. you'll see it as well with fred as she's here with you now to walk you through the afternoon. hi, fred. >> hello to you. good to see you. lots of developments to follow up on. that's what we're going to do beginning right now. hello, everyo

air force documents show the path taken by the data. because of the distance the signal traveled from the u.s. to the mission areas in pakistan and yemen. in the korean network linkedin, they said they evaluated live images while working there. what is germany's role? the german government said there was an agreement with the u.s. that armed drone operations would not be commanded him germany -- from germany. they said they know nothing of the data links described. >> we have heard about this story time and again. why is this committee only now getting attacked? >> you mean the nsa story? a has been long-unfolding. this particular aspect of the drone warfare being conducted, with germany as a pivotal point, is also not new. it first emerged about a year ago, with reference to drone attacks in somalia, being coordinated through stuttgart, the u.s.-africa command. at the time, the german foreign minister took up the matter with his american counterpart, john kerry, who told him america was not doing anything illegal, but did not give any

cooper said that in 1955 edward's air force base in southern california, that aircraft observers hadeen an unidentified flying object. he's not the only experienced pilot to have seen something they couldn't explain. tom vacar brought us this report. >> reporter: neil daniels was a united airlines pilot for 35 years. one march night near sir kouz new york, daniels in command of a jumbo jet says he had an encounter with something. >> there was a white white brilliant light to the wing tip. it affected the controls. air traffic control said what are your intentions. it took off and disappeared to our rear at the 8:00 position. everything went on to normal. we went on and landed. >> reporter: and trying to avoid ridicule, the incident was not reported. pilots do see unknown things. lind loconell is part of the reporting system. it's where pilots can report complaints, close calls and other incidences without losing their licenses. >> we do get reports of sightings. it's very difficult from our position to untangle it because there's so many things you have to consider when you're lookin

at travis air force base, tiffany wilson abc 7 new news. >> great young man. story already received more than 3000 like on line and if you would like to we shall this also boy a happy birthday go to our facebook page or 7 news.com to find out how to accepted devin a card. that's great. >> yes. nice to see when kid is after something meaningful for their birthday. >> that's right good point. not always about stuff. >> right. >> a little sprinkle. dare we ask? >> tracking it on live doppler 7hd financially sprinkle comin coming. >> yes. we are going to see some drops around here. there is nothing wrong with asking for some. here's a lack from the time lapse camera. it turned out to be a nice day as we look toward the financial district. clouds started to roll in but we saw some peek of sun today. upper 50's upper 60's now we good to live doppler 7hd. the cold front is off the coast here. sought moisture is showing up just off the coast line here. few sprinkles. starting to move in and developing. not all of this is reaching the ground. some moisture up in the cl

again, the air force knew how to do that. they were working on missiles could be said now, it's got to be done in secret. i want the cia to do this. but i'll need your help so you support them. that was a side day, but allen dulles, head of the cia said we are not in the high-tech business. we don't build airplanes. we don't build satellites. eisenhower said you are in a big test now. and i can assure you they got in that business very quickly. it turns out that the lockheed corporation was given a contract to build the satellite and also the u2 aircraft. they had designed long before he was ready to go, but the air force had not won anything that could carry bombs and had no guns. but now they have a job and lockheed had the plane flying over the soviet union in less than nine. not sure we could do that nowadays, but that's how it was. the plan lasted four years and it came back with the answer to the bomber missile gap. there was no bomber missile gap. u2 was able with the airfields and so on in the u.s. now understood to h

. >> i'm joined on the phone by kevin mcevoy from the royal new zealand air force. good to talk to you again, commander. searchers have been desperately trying to analyze that ping, picked up by a sonar buoy all night and day. any idea when we're going to get the results and know what they have? >> no. the acoustic event that happened, you say the ping was picked up after a royal australian air force orion dropped some sonar buoys and they picked up that. and that data will be analyzed overnight. so we're anticipating with the search later on today, potentially, there will be some feedback and some refeignment of the area for the search. and more importantly, for the recovery. >> your planes obviously going airborne at this hour, going out again. where are you searching right now? >> so we're already airborne. we're over the first off the group today. we're searching in the area which is removed from the subsurface search. the area where the pings are going on that the ships are looking in will be different from the area that the majority of aircraft are looking for

cnn was on board a new zealand air force p3 owe ryan as it flew. >> none of the sea craft has -- >> reporterw, wolf, as for if they are the flight recorders or one of them, the air chief marshall, angus houston heading the search, says wreckage needs to be identified before they are certain this is the resting place of mh370. he did say, pings were sustained and consistent with a flight recorder, not some natural marine noise. he's not a man give tonight hyperbole or raising hopes. for him to say he's optimistic the aircraft wreckage will be found, it's quite something. >> the other day he was cautiously optimistic. now he's saying he's optimistic they are on to it. michael holmes, we'll check back with you. more on the search for flight 370. we'll get an update from the royal new zealand air force as they're planes are ready to take off. jim sciutto talks to chuck hagel. is he optimistic about the latest pings? full interview and more coming up. ♪ [ male announcer ] this man has an accomplished research and analytical group at his disposal. ♪ but even more impressive is how he puts it to wo

tomorrow, we will have clear skies tonight and a nice sunrise and 83 degrees eventually at travis air force base. temperatures middle to upper 70s for the most part. warmer with 81 at sonoma and 82 degrees at nap a. far north, very warm. 79, 85 degrees at cloverdale. the extended forecast, all week inland. peaking on tuesday as we get towards the weekend. low clouds returning to the shoreline. the numbers by then, buying back in the middle 70s inland. around the bay, upper 60s and at beach, the numbers will range from the 70 degree reading on monday down to the low 60s by the end of the week. looks like a nice one ahead. again, temperatures peak on tuesday. a great week ahead, enjoy it. >> if you take a look at dennis you have all of the vitamin d from the stphaoupb sun today. >> yes. great golf weather too. can michelle wei win her first major of her car rear? that is next ,, [doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. so you won't miss a minute of ncaa