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Possible. can we just zoom out for a minute. this is the second time in, what, ten days now that an object has been discovered in u.s. airspace. the first one a chinese spy balloon shot down. still so many questions about this one. whats your reaction to the breaking news that we just learned minutes ago, and now just two hours ago this thing was shot down? >> well, victor, it tells me that they have changed their protocol. the fact that theyre going to notify the administration or put the messa...

0 prude obey witches on the border of canada and alaska on the northern side of the continent. thats all we know, we know that it was there for the better part of 24 hours and was shot down at 1:45 east coast time today. we will continue covering breaking news. i will see you back here on "fox news at >> can you speak to rumors that there is another chinese balloon above alaska or any other u.s. territory that the u.s. shot down? >> so i can confirm that the department of defense was tracking hi...

0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. >> john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. >> martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. im sandra smith. >> martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, "the story" with m...

And the fact this is happening right on the heels of this near collision on the runway at austin international airport on saturday, when two commercial airliners almost landed on top of each other. this is the issue that keeps coming up during this hearing. and whats so interesting we heard from ntsb chair jennifer h homeman, this could have been so close. yesterday, she is told me that the two planes came within 100 feet. but she just testified theres a similarity between this latest case and t...

>> how to the controllers not see that? >> thats going to be one of the main questions the ntsb is goin% to want to find out. >> reporter: just last month another near disaster averted when american airlines 777 taxied in front of a departing delta flight and new yorks kennedy airport. the adult of pilots slammed on the brakes to avoid a collision. >> faa data shows 14 runway incursions involving airliners over the last ten years were a serious collision was narrowly avoided. kris van cleave, cb...

>> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted air space that it put in place that says at the request of the department of defense, because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over the coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted air space twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted air space thats been in place post-9/11 over washington, d.c. what...

And this gives him more reinforcement in that direction. i think it further marginalizes -- i dont think it was a faction in either party at this point. a kind of substantial faction in either party that is looking to reverse course on china, and this is the kind of thing that will make that even reinforce that basic trajectory of our policy. >> yeah, great points as always. ron brownstein, always a pleasure. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. commercial airliners spend extra time on th...

That havent been seen in a long time. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted airspace it put in place because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over if coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted airspace, twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted airspace thats been in place over 9/11 since washington, dc, whats very telling about this...

Washington, d.c. what was very telling about this when this went into place about 1:30 p.m. on the east coast on saturday was that this was up to 60,000 feet. which the pentagon says was the altitude this balloon was floating at. thats very critical because the faa simply wanted to clear out the air space below and make it so there would not be a has satur hazard so airliners. they put in a ground stop as well because of that restricted air space at three airports, wilmington, charleston and myr...

The fact over the east coast charlotte, north carolina. we do not want to bring down a spy balloon that weighs as much as three school buses over a major american city. the faa closed the airspace. when in the systemic by the closing of the airspace. they wanted to make sure there were no commercial airliners in the area. the refueling plans tankers to refill the fighter jets pretty have a number of bases i just listed on the east coast of the u.s. you also have speaking of the navy, naval stati...