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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Really, really real.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's like a room full of cats.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right from ABC News. It's alex Ran Reynolds Stone
is joining us. A. Uh not sure what that was.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That's that's the beginning of your show. I think No,
that was Eddie live playing a drill on a guitar.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh okay, was that the live version? Seriously?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, not joking, It's just that's theah when he played
it live. Sounds a little different live than it does
in the student. So how much Kevin's home alone grocery
hall would cost?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I always think these are fine. I've seen this before,
but Kevin was a to get the necessities.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
If we'll remember.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Half marshmallows if you remember too, oh, all the all
the sweets as he was sitting watching TV.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, but half gallon milk, white bread tied. Remember everything
was nineteen dollars and eighty three cents. So the ten
things that he would call that he would buy, and
what they would cost now in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Four six twelve dollars right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Let's see thirty four years ago. So based on prices
from the Schnucks grocery stores website. I don't know what
Schnucks I don't know just how much Kevin's grow.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Wily with a dumber name.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, schnucks, Schnucks, snooky Schnucks. Okay, I did not realize
that anyway, the total was and I was talking to
architect there, sorry, uh, where it is going? Oh my
god again, fifty seven fifty four is what.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It would cost now.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Tough for Kevin back then he didn't have that much money.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
By the way. That's after his dollar off coupon as well.
That's right, Otherwise it would have been fifty eight fifty.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I watched something the other n I forget it was
watching the gas was twenty nine cents a gallon, and
I was just I got mad right there, and just
a good show, fun show.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I didn't care. I was mad twenty nine cents a.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Gallon, just staring at that.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You can't think about it that point.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
All right, FAA banning drones and parts of New Jersey.
Deadly force possible now, But they ain't playing around anymore, Alex,
No they're not.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
But but here's what's a little weird is if you're
talking about drone with nobody on it, how is it
deadly force? If you're shooting at something without a human
on there, how is it deadly at that point? But
that is what they're warning now, that this is an
indication that the federal government believes, the FAA that a
lot of these are hobbyist drones that are out there,
and that if they put out this morning, that a
lot of them are going to come down. He was
quieter last night and quieter the night before, So it
(03:00):
seems that maybe those who were flying for whatever reason,
whether they thought it was funny or they were just
out flying, that they're kind of getting the message now.
But the FAA they're going to issue they are issuing
now this ban on all drone operations if you don't
have a special government permit for like a police department
or fire department in a bunch of New Jersey counties
and a lot of New Jersey until January seventeenth, and so,
(03:22):
drones are legal typically from ground level up to four
hundred feet. Above four hundred feet then they're illegal. So
this will take out the ground to four hundred feet.
They'll be illegal there as well in those areas of
New Jersey because these drones keep getting seen and they
got to figure out what are these things in Connecticut,
they've been seeing them. This sergeant is on the drone
(03:42):
detection team. He says they've responded to numerous sightings, some reel,
some have turned out to be nothing.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
If we find certain areas that seem to have more
frequent flights or more frequent sightings, then we can respond
with some of our portable detection equipment to go down
there and collect some data.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So the morning from the FAA in those counties where
the drones are being banned, the government will use deadly
force or may use deadly force against a drone if
there is an imminent security threat, and that they will
go after those who are flying them and arrest them.
And we've been saying for days. Many of these reported
drone sidings have been disproved and the videos that have
shown them they turned out of airplanes. Many of them
(04:20):
have ended up being United aircraft going into Newark, New Jersey,
because that is a huge United hubs, or just based
on numbers of what's in.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
The sky, they've ended up being United.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
People posting videos of flashing lights in the sky and
then recording it and putting it online and people going, oh,
look at that, and it's United that sergeant who is
an expert in drones, says there's a lot of that
going on where people don't know. They don't typically look
at the sky and record it. Difference between a plane
at night and an.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
A drone at four hundred feet may look the same
as a seven eighty seven at thirty thousand feet.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So that united at a higher out sude may look
to the naked eye, somebody doesn't knowice he's blinking lights
has a phone to record it like a drone. So
he says there is a lot of they've seen a
lot of misidentification going on and panic over it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Thanks to social media.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The drone pilots who fail to abide by this FAA ban,
they are warned they will be intercepted, detained, interviewed by
law enforcement, could be fined many thousands of dollars. So
there's a scare tactic here saying, look, if you're going
out and flying your drone, bring it down.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
If you're in those counties.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, there it is. Hopefully this will settle this whole
thing down. Man, that's obviously what.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I'm in may I mean, you notice last night it
was quieter. People weren't all over social media being like,
look at this and look at that, and so maybe
those who were flying them are going whoops.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I don't want to go to jail. I'm not going
to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Good stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Alec Stone, ABC News out of Los Angeles. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm off for a while, so we'll talk to you
in the new year.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Well, I was good. I don't know if we can
say that on the air. I was going to say
something to you, but Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All right, very good, Thanks man, appreciate you so much.
All Right, we'll see it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know the laser pointers too, people are starting to
use those.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
And I know you on the way home last night
when I was doing the Power Hour, did you listen
to the second when I was talking about the drone story.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I was home by then.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Okay, there is a.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
New Jersey mayor that I think it's you know what,
It's a viable It's not no crazier than anything else.
Especially when the government says there's nothing to see here,
there are no drones. It's not really happening. You're imagining
all this. By the way, we will shoot them down,
we will arrest you, will take you to jail and
take them down anyway. This mayor is named Michael Mellum.
He's from where Belleville, New Jersey, and he says that
(06:30):
he suggested at this point they're looking for a radioactive
pin which went missing in early December. Apparently it was
it was in freight. The freight was delivered, they opened
the crate and it was not in there.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What's a pin?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It's something some Yeah, just some piece of metal. Apparently
that's it's radioactive. I'm not even sure what it would
be used for. But his reasoning is just as viable
as anything else. He says, these R and D government
drones and they are out there at night using the cameras,
infrared or whatever you use radioactivity and searching for this pin,
(07:05):
thinking that perhaps it's been you know, discarded or something
like that around the Jersey Shore area. So that's just
as viable as any other thing as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, they would show up probably easier in the evening
at night when the skies are dark, especially if they're
looking for Yeah, you would think, I don't know, glow
might be too simple of a term, because it might
glow in addition to the type of filtering their using or.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
There's some sort of art interesting, probably easier to pick
up in the dark than it is in the sunlight.
But you know, we've had all these other crazy theories.
I think that's completely reasonable theory.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That sounds reasonable to me. Yeah, i'd like to know
where he where he received that info, but he can't
divulge that, I'm sure, but I would love to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I mean the story said.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
In recent weeks, a wave of droade activity, of course
in New York and New Jersey has created all the speculations,
federal officials offering various answers about the matter, or no
answers at all. And this mayor he just he got
frustrated because he knew about the pen and he said,
I'm sick of us either being lied to or ignored.
It's time for the government to step up and sell
us what's really happening. Here's what I think it is.
(08:21):
That's more of an answer than we've had from anybody else.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Let's say this is real. Okay, what you just what
you were just talking about? Yeah, this mayor, let's say
that's real. And they came out and they said, listen,
we are looking for a radioactive pin. Do you think
that that would be easier slash, safer, slash, whatever word
you want to use there that the public here's that
(08:44):
and do you think, ah, they'd start freaking out and going, oh,
we're all gonna start out, We're gonna have cancer.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
If this is true, why would they not tell us?
What's this pen used for? What can it be used for?
Is this possible? You know, something a terrorist could use
to create it? Dirty bomb or something like that. Okay,
that I can accept that you're trying to protect the
public because you don't want to say this out loud,
because you know some Al Qaeda, isis whatever operative in
(09:11):
this country may be out there searching for this thing too.
If they see where the drones are looking, then they
know where to look.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Again.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
You know, I can't say that it's true. I just
say that as it's as reasonable as any other theory
I've heard.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, man, you could be correct. It'll be interesting. I
don't know that we'll ever really know the truth if that,
in fact is the truth. I don't know that it'll
ever really come out.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, the truth is out there.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh absolutely. I just meant we'll see it or they'll
expose us to it,