and talented people serving at hanscom. i heard a lot of feedback how grateful you were both to take the time to come and visit and highlight the remarkable work that is being done there. and secretary, james, great to have you on board. i would like, congresswoman would like to come to hanscom when your schedule allows for it. be great to have you come see the great work being done there. but welcome. and so as we're, as you both have noted, these are such challenging times, marked by increasingly capable enemies in an era of very taught financial resources. and as a department of defense is adapting to these new realities, we in congress as we heard today, have to scrutinize the changes that you're proposing but we welcome your analysis. you're very welcome analysis of the tradeoffs you have made as you tried to find a way forward. i'd like to focus on the need to make continued investments in research and development efforts in order to maintain our technological edge, given the very dynamic security environment that we

the pilot of a charter plane was taking off from hanscom field at 7:00 last night when he reported thencident. listen to this recording of the air traffic controllers as they received the call. >> unauthorized laser illumination event three miles west, altitude unknown. >> and the faa is investigating several laser incidents across the northeast that occurred in just the past week. >>> and in another airplane incident, this time involving birds, the pilot of an american airlines flight bound for washington, d.c. from dallas had to make a quick return to dallas/ft. worth airport friday night. according to the faa, a flock of birds apparently hit the aircraft or vice versa during takeoff causing the pilot to declare an emergency. the plane landed safely with no reported injuries. >>> and we're getting now an inside look at just how the notorious mexican drug lord, joaquin "el chapo" guzman, managed to elude authorities for 13 years. mexican investigators searched seven homes that he owned, and in each one of them, he had a movable bathtub leading to escape tunnels. they also found securi