>> you never rule out anything when it comes to mr. woods. you mentioned it earlier. this is like the watson shot at pebble beach on the 71st hole. nick: how does it look david? >> i did not look. it is just a stubby little practice swing again. nick: i don't think it is pretty.

straight down. it is very lush there. >> it is an uphill putt for yang. eight-footer up the hill. >> it is quick. he just has to stab it on to the edge of the green. that will have to help. he made that one on 14 yesterday. he is pray to get the contact he wants. jim: walking after it.

and he is maybe just inside of yang. you wondered if you would ever see the day that tiger woods would relinquish a 54-hole lead. you go back all the way to his first 54-hole lead in the fall of 1996 after he just turned pro. 36 straight times there until today he won when holding the lead going into the last round, including all 14 of his majors. >> this is a nice putt for him to have. this is a nice right to left putt. jim: this is it. this is to change the game all around the world. y.e. yang.

y.e. yang. yes! y.e. yang has won the pga championship. sometimes you just can't believe these stories and the way they unfold. nearly happened at turnberry, and then it happens here today. bogeyed the last two holes. final round 75. it will be a three-shot margin. yang matches the low round of

the day with his 70, and he has taken a major championship back home to south korea. the first ever to asia. look at this. raises the bag in victory. he ran around and high fived it with all of the gallery. jim remy, the president of the pga of america offering congratulations. the first to ever slay the mighty tiger in a major. his wife, they have three

children. they just moved two months ago outside of dallas, south lake, texas. he is going to go across the bridge and sign the card. the win will go across the pacific. you can imagine what it is like at 8:05 in the morning in places like seoul, south korea. >> seoul will be going crazy. this is going to be incredible for the game of golf in asia. honestly i didn't believe that it would happen. but with the strength of k.j. choi and the timing, it is unbelievable.

>> i don't know what was better. you had the eagle at the 14. the one really with the heat on , the final hole it led to only the third birdie of the day. nick: that is one of the greatest threes that we will probably ever see. jim: putt at 18 wouldn't be like the one we saw at 17. dead center. nick: i wonder how many pounds he could have lifted that split second. jim: probably a car.

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jim: we were hoping to speak to tiger, but he went straight from the scorer's tent to the clubhouse. here are your final standing it is at the pga championship. it belongs to y.e. yang, the winner by three over tiger woods. tiger with that four-shot lead at the halfway point. two coming into the final round. he is overtaken. those players that made the cut in all four majors, ross fisher ends up with the best total. stenson and then westwood. time for the presentation. let's go down to bill. take it away. >> ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the 91st pga championship, y.e. yang.

and with me here at the 18th the president of the pga of america, jim remy. the vice president of the pga of america, allen wronowski. from the legends of indiana golf club, the secretary of the pga of america, ted bishop. from lost tracks golf course in bend, oregon, brian whitcomb. and finally from pga of america adquarters in palm beach gardens, florida, the chief executive officer of the pga of america joe strenkna.

and to my left, once again the winner of the 2009 pga championship, y.e. yang. and to his left the low pga club professional this week. jim, i know you have a presentation to make. >> i know there are thousands and thousands of pga professionals who arvery proud of you today. congratulations on an outstanding performance this week and the low professional of 91st pga championship. congratulations.

>> jim tis time to ridiculous nies our champion. >> y.e., 90 times this trophy has been hoisted. this is the 9 st edition. you had an outstanding performance this week. on behalf of 28,000 pga members from all across this country, i want to concongratulate you on winning the 91st pga championship. congratulations. >> a victory that will resonate around the world. and that by the way is the heaviest trophy in sports, 27 pounds. i know you have been working out but that is pretty tough to lift. your english is not great so we are going to have ryan come over.

my first question for you is were you as calm on the inside awe you seemed on the outside dueling with tiger woods? >> it is good that i didn't look too nervous. i tried to master the art of controlling my emotions throughout the small wins i had in my career i tried to learn how to control it. i think it turned out quite well today. >> i would say so, yes. what do you think the reaction is back in seoul where you grew up in korea where you live now?

>> well, i would like to thank my korean fans as well as my american fans. i do think it will be a bit of a crazy party tonight for them especially for my friends. i thank them once again. >> y.e., thank you very much. the winner of the 91st pga championship. back up to jim nantz. jim: that was a masterful performance, wasn't it. nick, your thoughts on tiger not winning a major after five wins on the season and having

the lead all week long? nick: i have to feel that tiger will be gutted right now. for the first time he couldn't make something happen. this day he couldn't make it happen. jim: again, the lineup tonight on cbs, michael vick, the interview with james brown coming up next. big brother, there goes the neighborhood and cold case. a most unpredictable year has come to a mind-numbing close. y.e. yang overtakes tiger woods and has won the year's final major championship lifting a whole nation of golfers over his head and taking the wanamaker trophy back home to south korea. so long from hazeltine. yang is the winner here in minnesota.

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two years ago when police raided a farm vick owned in virginia and uncovered an illegal dog fighting operation. he eventually pled guilty to bankrolling the enterprise and participating in every aspect of it, including killing dogs that refused to fight. he was sentenced to two years in prison, and eventually declared bankruptcy. last month, he was released and conditionally reinstated into the nfl. friday, at a press conference in philadelphia, it was announced he'd be playing for the philadelphia eagles, after signing a two-year contract with the possibility of earning nearly $7 million. tonight, in his first interview since going to prison, michael vick explains what he did, why he did it, and how he says he's changed. >> michael vick: the first day, i walked into prison and he slammed that door, i knew, you know, the magnitude of the decisions that i made and the poor judgment, and what i, you know, allowed to happen to the animals.

and, you know, it's no way of, you know, explaining, you know, the hurt and the guilt that i felt. and that was the reason i cried so many nights. and that put it all into perspective. >> brown: you cried a number of nights. >> vick: yeah. >> brown: about? >> vick: what i did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. i let myself down, you know, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. that wasn't my life. that wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. and all because of the so-called culture that i thought was right, that i thought it was cool. and i thought it was, you know,& it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. it all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

>> brown: who do you blame for all of this? >> vick: i blame me. >> brown: michael vick was a human highlight reel, with a powerful arm, blazing speed, and an uncanny ability to elude tacklers. he's the only quarterback in nfl history to rush for over 1,000 yards in a season, though he was injured a lot and never lived up to the high expectations in atlanta. very few people knew what was happening in his life off the field. when police raided a farm he owned in rural virginia in 2007, they uncovered an interstate dog-fighting operation called bad newz kennels. they removed 66 dogs, and exhumed the bodies of eight more. they also found dog fighting paraphernalia and a pit where fights were held. the dogs that were saved, raised and trained to be vicious fighters, are now being rehabilitated, in hopes of being adopted-- all at the expense of

vick, who was ordered by a judge to pay nearly a million dollars for the effort. and the operation, michael, that you pleaded guilty to bankrolling, to being a part of, engaged in barbarous treatment of the animals-- beating them, shooting them, electrocuting them, drowning them. horrific things, michael. >> vick: it's wrong, man. i don't know how many times i got to tell... i got to say it. i mean, it was wrong. i feel, you know... i feel, you know, tremendous hurt behind what happened. and, you know, i should've took the initiative to stop it all, you know, and i didn't. and i feel so bad about that now. and i know, you know, that i didn't... i didn't step up. i wasn't a leader. >> brown: in any way, for those who may say it showed a lack of moral character because you didn't stop it, you agree or disagree?

>> vick: i agree. >> brown: for six years, vick ran bad newz kennels with his childhood friends, breeding, buying, selling and fighting pit bulls. was there an adrenaline rush? was it the sense of competition? what was it that gripped you about what you engaged in with the dog fighting? >> vick: regardless of what it was... don't even matter. >> brown: do you know what it was? >> vick: i know why. you know, i know why. and regardless of what it was and why i was driven, you know, by what... you know, what was going on, you know, whether it was because of the competition or, you know, whatever it may have been, it was wrong. >> brown: were any of those reasons, though? the competition? the adrenaline? >> vick: yeah. >> brown: do you understand why people are outraged? >> vick: i understand why. and i'm going to say it again. sickens me to my stomach. and it was, you know, the same thing that i'm feeling right

now. >> brown: and the feeling you're feeling right now is? >> vick: a feeling of disgust. pure disgust. >> brown: when did you arrive at that feeling of disgust, michael? when did the light go on? >> vick: when i was in prison. when i was in prison. i was disgusted, you know, because of what i let happen to those animals. i could've put a stop to it. i could've walked away from it. i could've shut the whole operation down. >> brown: but you didn't. why not? >> vick: but i didn't. >> brown: what was keeping you going? >> vick: not being able to say or tell, you know, certain people around me that, "look, we can't do this anymore. i'm concerned about my career. i'm concerned about my family." >> brown: so for the cynics who will say, "you know what? i don't know, michael vick might be more concerned about the fact that his career was hurt than dogs were hurt." >> vick: i don't... i mean, football don't even matter. you know, i mean, that's...

>> brown: losing a $135 million contract doesn't matter? >> vick: it don't matter. it don't matter. i deserve to lose that because of what i was doing. >> brown: you deserve to lose it? >> vick: yeah, i deserve to lose it. i deserve to lose the $130 million. why would a guy who was making a $130 million and, you know, on the flip side, you know, killing dogs or doing the wrong things, why would... you know, he don't... he don't deserve it. >> brown: we met michael vick in virginia; he wasn't allowed to cross state lines without permission from his probation officer. he was accompanied by two men: former nfl coach tony dungy, who has been asked by nfl commissioner roger goodell to mentor vick, and someone you might never expect-- wayne pacelle, president of the humane society of the united states. why would you put your reputation on the line in working with michael vick? >> tony dungy: i've visited a lot of prisons. that's something that i do. and i know that there are a lot of young men, especially african-american young men, who need a chance, who made a

mistake, who did something wrong, who had a problem, but are looking to bounce back. that's what i've always been concerned about. not just for michael vick, but for hundreds of guys that i've talked to. >> brown: pacelle's relationship with vick is even more unlikely. his organization provided evidence that helped put vick in prison. while pacelle says he remains skeptical, he nevertheless enlisted vick as an anti-dog- fighting ambassador. >> wayne pacelle: if we just punish mike indefinitely and don't pivot to this problem in the communities, where kids are victimizing these dogs and then going down a dead-end street themselves-- because there are no heroic dog fighters-- we will not be doing our job. and i felt we needed to get involved and we needed to do some creative things to reach these kids. so that's why we have our community based programs. and i am really hopeful that mike sticks with this and really reaches these kids, because he can turn some of them around. i really do believe that. a man who needs no introduction, michael vick.

>> brown: their first effort was in atlanta last weekend, where vick talked to children in neighborhoods like the one he grew up in. >> vick: i encourage you to love your animals, whatever animals you have, whether it's a dog, a cat, a reptile, if it's a horse. i encourage you to love that animal dearly and with all your heart. >> brown: it's a message vick says he never heard when he was a kid in newport news, virginia, where he was first exposed to dog fighting when he was eight years old. >> vick: i was introduced very young, so i didn't think it was wrong, because i'd seen older guys, you know, condoning it and then, you know, doing it. >> brown: you shared with me the story about even the police riding through the neighborhood and seeing what was happening. explain that situation. >> vick: when they got out the car and seen that, you know, it was two dogs fighting, they got back in the car and they roll... they left. so that right there kind of made me feel like, "okay, you know, this ain't... it... it is not as bad as it may seem." we didn't think it was bad at the time.

and, you know, that kind of put a stamp on it. >> pacelle: we knew it was a huge issue before michael vick was prosecuted, but the public didn't know. we estimate there are 40,000 professional dog fighters in the country, and perhaps 100,000 street fighters. we're talking about something that's occurring in every part of the country, rural and urban, white, black, latino. it is an industry. >> brown: what's the attraction? >> pacelle: people enjoy watching these animals compete and fight. they get excited by the bloodletting. they gamble on the outcomes. the fights may last ten minutes, they may last three hours. dogs die from shock, they die from blood loss. they suffer, if they survive the process, to maybe fight again. all for what? >> brown: when the allegations of dog fighting first arose, vick made another monumental mistake-- he lied about it to everybody: police, his family, his coaches, and to nfl

commissioner goodell. >> vick: i was scared. i knew my career was in jeopardy. i knew i had an endorsement with nike and... and i knew it was going to be a big letdown. i felt the guilt, and i knew i was guilty, and i knew what i had done. and, not knowing at the time that, you know, actually telling the truth may have been better than, you know, not being honest. and it backfired on me tremendously. >> arthur blank: this has been a difficult week. >> brown: he told us one of his biggest mistakes was lying to atlanta falcon's owner arthur blank, who bet the future of the franchise on the young quarterback, awarding him the largest contract in the history of the nfl at the time, $130 million, and stood by him as the charges piled up and vick fell from grace. fair to say that you broke his heart? >> vick: definitely. >> brown: how did that make you feel, given that he was still sticking with you when everybody else turned their backs on you?

>> vick: i can't, you know, describe the feeling. you know, the hurt deep inside, hurt that i never felt before, knowing that i disappointed him, knowing that he'd given me every opportunity to come to him and reach out whenever i needed him. and he cared about me and i took it all for granted. >> brown: he also took his own talent for granted. known for travelling with a large entourage of friends from virginia, going on wild spending sprees, not focusing on football. you know what your reputation was like when you were playing? >> vick: yeah. >> brown: what was it? >> vick: i was lazy. you know, i was the last guy in the building, first guy out. i know that. you know, i hear everything that people say. and that hurt me when i heard that, but i know it was true. >> brown: it was true? >> vick: it was true. >> dungy: i think everyone looked at it that way-- tremendous athlete, tremendous talent. very, very gifted guy, who

relies on his natural ability. he was exciting and probably didn't scratch the surface of his potential. and he and i talked about that for a long time in leavenworth. he talked about not working out, not training, not studying. you know, kind of taking things for granted, gifts that the lord had given him. just really living on that and not working at it. >> vick: i just reached the point in my career where i just totally lost touch with my lord and savior. and you know, i thought i could do it on my own. and i couldn't. so, i had to... i had to resurrect that back into my life. >> brown: now, you know, most people who get in trouble, all of a sudden, they find god. and you say? >> vick: it's the only way i made it through prison. it's the only way i could live life is having faith and believing in... in the higher power, believing in god. >> brown: vick has also put his faith in the hands of a powerful group of attorneys, agents and media advisors, who are trying to rehabilitate his image and

resuscitate his career, and help him through interviews like ours. michael, is this you talking, or the vick team of attorneys, image-shapers and the like? >> vick: this is mike vick. people will see my work out there, my work in the communities and my work with the humane society and how i really do care now, how i care about animals. and a lot of people will be watching. >> brown: the nfl commissioner's decision to permanently reinstate him is pending, and the humane society has high expectations. >> pacelle: you know, michael is somebody who needs to continue to demonstrate a commitment to this issue. i told him that we were not interested if this was going to be a flash-in-the-pan involvement. and if mike disappoints us, the public's going to see that. so it's not going to reflect badly on me or the humane society; it's going to reflect badly on him. >> brown: will you be committed to all that you said... that

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>> logan: every so often in the history of war, a new weapon comes along that fundamentally rewrites the rules of battle. this is a story about a revolution in unmanned aviation that's doing just that. most people know them as drones; the air force calls them unmanned aerial vehicles. and right now, there are dozens of them in the skies over iraq and afghanistan, hunting down insurgents every minute of every day. they've become one of the most important planes in the united states air force, and yet, the pilot is nowhere near the aircraft or the battlefield. they fly by remote control from thousands of miles away. as we first reported in may, many of the details of this weapons program are classified, but our "60 minutes" team was given secret clearance and unprecedented access to bring you this story.

this barren, mountainous landscape may look like afghanistan, but in fact, it's just 45 miles north of the las vegas strip on the edge of the mojave desert. this is creech air force base, home to the only wing in the air force where none of the pilots ever leave the ground. >> this is a new way to wage war. >> logan: colonel chris chambliss was one of the top f- 16 fighter pilots in the air force, a member of the legendary thunderbirds. now, the unit he commands has no jets, just these pilotless planes known as the reaper and the predator. this is the first base in air force history that exclusively flies unmanned aircraft. right now, sitting here at creech, we are about 7,500 miles away from the battlefield in iraq or afghanistan. how close, though, is this base to the fight that's going on there? >> colonel chris chambliss: i

don't think we're 7,500 miles away at all. i think if you walk out the hangar and you go into one of the ground control stations, you're in the fight. >> logan: the fight for the pilots is on a video screen. here, a truck full of insurgents in afghanistan is being tracked by the pilot. when the ground commander gives the order, he fires, hitting his target. the trigger is pulled in nevada, inside these cramped, single- wide trailers and small offices. 250 pilots work in shifts around the clock. alongside each one of them is a crew member who operates the plane's onboard camera, and a behind-the-scenes team of intelligence analysts. the planes aren't launched here at creech. they take off from locations in iraq and afghanistan, and crews here take control, by satellite, once the aircraft is several thousand feet in the air. all the screens that you see are secret; the air force declassified these pictures for our report. what you see here is the pilot's

real-time view of the battlefield from thousands of feet in the air being beamed back live from cameras mounted on the unmanned planes. it's what the soldiers on the ground call their "eyes in the sky." >> lt. colonel chris gough: i'm living the same fight as those guys, or at least i'm seeing the same fight. >> logan: lieutenant colonel chris gough flew f-16 combat missions over kosovo. now, he flies combat missions over afghanistan by remote control. >> gough: there are arguments that we aren't as engaged in the war. i've heard those arguments, and i can tell you that... and i'm happy to tell you that i've never been more engaged in a conflict in my life. >> logan: and he's never been safer. lieutenant colonel gough sits half a world away from the war zone. >> gough: physiologically, the stimulus and response, exactly the same. i'm not going 400 miles an hour, which means when i pull the stick, i don't get five gs on my body. i have much more ability to process and to comprehend what's

going on on the battlefield and the information just conveyed to me, and better relay that information to who needs it. >> logan: is it stressful? >> gough: terribly. >> reporter: and terribly in demand. soldiers on the ground have come to depend on it. i've heard the guys say, you know, they don't want to step out the door without eyes in the sky. >> gough: sure, i have a brother who's an army special forces and, honestly, i wouldn't want him stepping out the door without this thing over the top of him, either. >> logan: the air force now has 28 reapers; each one costs about $11 million. it can fly as high as 50,000 feet, sit over a target for 15 hours straight, and is as dangerous as a fighter jet. so, this is the reaper over here? >> gough: this is it. >> logan: it's the air force's newest and most lethal unmanned plane, and lieutenant colonel gough gave us a rare look. this is a 500-pound bomb? >> gough: correct, a 500-pound laser-guided bomb. >> logan: but the most important weapon is the aircraft's million

dollar camera. >> gough: i don't want them to know that i'm watching their every move. that unseen, unblinking eye is really the effect that i want to give the ground commander. the fact that they don't know that i'm watching them-- that's really the magic. >> logan: the air force also has 116 predators. it's smaller than the reaper, but it can stay up in the air even longer-- 24 hours at a time. it can be miles away from its target, flying undetected through the clouds while zooming in on an unsuspecting enemy. we saw that ourselves when the air force flew a predator over our heads, about two miles high in the sky. this is how good the image is from a predator at around 10,000 feet. what you're looking at is creech air force base and i'm on the ground. even though i know there is a predator directly overhead, i still can't hear a thing, pretty much like an insurgent on the ground in afghanistan or iraq. and if you look up to the exact

spot where we're being told the predator is flying right now, there's nothing but clouds and blue sky. the predator is still flying two miles above us, tracking our "60 minutes" team as we leave the flight line. it's this ability that makes it difficult for enemy fighters to escape. colonel chambliss showed us exactly how these aircraft do that. in this video declassified for "60 minutes," a group of insurgents in iraq had just ambushed a u.s. convoy.& they were trying to get away, but the predator was watching. >> chambliss: this is a hot gun. >> logan: what do you mean by "hot gun"? >> chambliss: well, it's literally... in this scene, white is hot, and that white spot that this guy is carrying is actually a hot gun. so it's been fired, and we already know it's been used. we've met positive identification criteria that these are bad guys, and so now we can go ahead and strike these targets. >> logan: do you believe that predators and reapers are changing the face of war? >> chambliss: when we can take

34 airplanes, and we can have them airborne all the time, and they can look at whatever we need them to look at, that's a huge capability. and so because of that, the enemy has to do things differently now. they have to hide more. they don't know when we're looking at them. they don't know where we are. >> logan: the pilot's aerial view of the battlefield often allows them to see the enemy before the soldiers on the ground can. lieutenant colonel gough gave us an example of how he once used this advantage to expose a suspected sniper. >> gough: we called down to the convoy and said, "hey, how about if you start your engines and just move ten meters for me?" >> logan: and what happened? >> gough: and... and as soon as they did that, this individual reached down and pulled a rifle out. >> logan: so you knew. >> gough: we were in short order able to engage that individual successfully. >> logan: with what? >> gough: with the hellfire strike. >> logan: what if you get it wrong? >> gough: we don't. >> logan: ever? >> gough: that's a tough

question. yeah. we have the resources to make sure we're right. in battle, in combat, in the fog and friction of war, there are always going to be times that... that your judgment isn't... with hindsight, you can see things with more clarity. >> logan: but you're not there in the fog and friction of war; you're sitting here in your cockpit in nevada. >> gough: and that's what makes us more powerful and have that clarity, because i'm able to distance myself from the fight and use resources that are otherwise unattainable to the combatants. >> logan: in spite of that clarity, unmanned planes and air force jets are criticized in afghanistan for killing innocent civilians. across the border in pakistan, where the c.i.a. operates, they're blamed for even more deaths. the c.i.a. wouldn't talk to us about their operations. but the air force argues that the ability of these planes to sit over a target for extended

periods makes them more precise than piloted planes. the crews spend hours studying suspected insurgents. they've just seen these men ambush u.s. troops. the pilot can take them out and still make it home in time for dinner. we joined lieutenant colonel gough one morning as he headed to work to ask him what that's like. >> gough: to go and work and do bad things to bad people is... and then when i go home and i go to church and try to be a productive member of society, those don't necessarily mesh well. >> logan: does it feel strange compared to being deployed? >> gough: yeah. when you drive past las vegas and look down to the strip, and turn the corner and head north to... to the base, you're leaving one world and you're going to the other. you know, we go from being parents and spouses to being warriors. >> logan: colonel chambliss and his wife, linda, have been juggling that lifestyle for two years. it's sort of like being in a

movie that you can... you know, you'll wake up at home and have breakfast with the wife... ( laughs ) ... and then head to war. >> linda chambliss: uh-huh. >> colonel chambliss: it is, a bit. once you pull the cockpit out of the airplane, then whether you are 50 miles away from the airplane or 5,000 miles away, it really doesn't matter anymore. >> logan: do you think that distance makes it... it's kind of like a video game and not like real life? >> colonel chambliss: no, no, not at all. because you know that there's no reset button. when you let a missile go and it's flying over the head of friendly forces and it's flying toward the enemy to kill somebody or to break something, you know that that's real life and there's no take back there. >> general norton schwartz: it has become central to the way we operate. >> logan: general norton schwartz is the chief of staff of the air force, its top military officer. as a system, do you see anything that has done more damage to al qaeda? >> schwartz: this is probably at the... at the head of the line. >> logan: in 2006, the predator played a crucial role in hunting down the most wanted al qaeda

leader in iraq, abu musab al- zarqawi. >> schwartz: here's the way it goes. you had 600 hours of predator time over... over a lengthy period. >> logan: following zarqawi. >> schwartz: following zarqawi, and then you had maybe six minutes of f-16 time to finish the target. it reflects, again, the power of the unmanned systems to produce the kind of intelligence that leads you to a guy like zarqawi who... who was very good at maintaining his anonymity. >> logan: colonel chambliss told us he thinks the power of these unmanned planes is just beginning to be tapped. >> chambliss: next year is going to be a watershed year. we'll actually buy more unmanned aircraft than we buy manned aircraft for the first time in the air force's history. >> logan: the air force has had to call on their national guard and reserve crews to meet the growing demand for these planes. and they're looking for a new generation of pilots who are

willing to give up flying at the speed of sound. >> chambliss: once you get over the fact that you're not climbing up the ladder and getting into a cockpit, this is so much more satisfying because, you know, every time you fly, every single day, you're having an impact on the ground. >> logan: so, you wouldn't go back to flying fighter jets. >> chambliss: i'll be honest with you-- i wouldn't. (announcer) claritin introduces claritin eye.

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