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Speaker 1: Out of the US Richard.

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Speaker 2: Arnold, Morning, Richard, Good morning, Heather.

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Speaker 1: Right, what's the latest with the drones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're at this again, right, We're a story of

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Speaker 2: the moment, the flurry of drones sightings over the northeast

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Speaker 2: here and the seeming inability of the government to throw

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Speaker 2: any light on what's going on. The Head of Homeland

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Speaker 2: Security Handro Mayorcus is out today saying the government is

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Speaker 2: looking into it. Beyond that, though, he's saying, well, very little.

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Speaker 3: If there is any reason for concern, If we identify

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Speaker 3: any foreign involvement or criminal activity, we will communicate with

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Speaker 3: the American public accordingly. Right now, we are not aware

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Speaker 3: of any.

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Speaker 2: That is not satisfying people. New York's Governor Kathy Hochel

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Speaker 2: says in a statement, this has gone on. It's become

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Speaker 2: such a concern now that Stuart Airport in upstate New

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Speaker 2: York was shut down for a brief period this week

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Speaker 2: in amid safety concerns. These drones seem to be flying

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Speaker 2: around in significant numbers. Is one witness.

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Speaker 4: They keep coming and I've seen I don't even know

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Speaker 4: how many I've seen.

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Speaker 2: Today, drones everywhere. One Democratic Senator Andy Kim went out

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Speaker 2: to do a drone survey, so he's serious about it.

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Speaker 1: We're counting oftentimes five sixths seven or more at any

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Speaker 1: given time.

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Speaker 2: Well, he later admitted that much of what he was

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Speaker 2: seeing actually was regular aircraft, so it's getting a little

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Speaker 2: bit crazy. National Security aid John Kirby saying we.

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Speaker 4: Have no evidence at this time that the reported drone

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Speaker 4: sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat,

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Speaker 4: or have a foreign nexus. It appears that many of

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Speaker 4: the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being

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Speaker 4: operated lawfully.

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Speaker 2: Is it a bird? Is the playing Well? However, some

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Speaker 2: local officials again are not convinced by the government assurances.

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Speaker 3: They're either lying or they're incompetent, or they're both.

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Speaker 2: And Senator Richard Blumenthal also is getting into the act

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Speaker 2: on this is what he says.

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Speaker 3: The lack of information is absolutely unacceptable.

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Speaker 2: Well, New York's governor now says that, in response to

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Speaker 2: her calls for further investigation, state of the art drone

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Speaker 2: detection systems of being deployed in her state. You know,

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Speaker 2: about a million drones are registered in the US. Amazon,

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Speaker 2: of course, has been testing ways to send stuff to

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Speaker 2: people that they buy online, so it lands in their

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Speaker 2: front yards via drone. Can you imagine if the skies

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Speaker 2: suddenly were just filled with drones carrying pizza?

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Speaker 1: Richard, listen, I see there's been a huge tornado in

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Speaker 1: northern California. Now that's that's unusual for that part of

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Speaker 1: the world, isn't.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't happen. You know, we hear all the time

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Speaker 2: how the weather is changing, and yeah, this is different.

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Speaker 2: San Francisco issued its first ever tornado warning. This is

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Speaker 2: part of the country where this is not supposed to be.

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Speaker 2: A twister has hit south of the Bay City, near

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Speaker 2: Santa Cruz is where this happened.

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Speaker 4: There it blows stop plates.

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Speaker 1: We saw that white car over there. Yeah, about fifteen days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, cars were flying. A couple of dozen were overturned.

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Speaker 2: This was an F one, so afar from the biggest tornadoes,

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Speaker 2: but enough to cause some injuries, is what they're reporting.

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Speaker 4: Now you have a couple of serious injuries.

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Speaker 1: One person was transported to the hospital and critical injuries.

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Speaker 2: You know, people in San Francisco are used to earthquakes,

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Speaker 2: but this has caused some uproar. Meantime, southern California is

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Speaker 2: experiencing warmer than usual temps while heavy snowstorms are battering

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Speaker 2: much of the US, including Lake Tahoe in the West

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Speaker 2: and big, big storms in the Midwest and Northeast right now.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Hey Richard, thanks for running us through to

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. That's Richard Arnold, our US correspondent.

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