hello, everyone, tlahank yo for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. recovery efforts underway offer the south carolina coastline following the take down of a suspected chinese spy balloon on saturday. the u.s. military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifts over the atlantic near myrtle beach. president biden saying that he ordered the military on wednesday to take the balloon down as soon as possible. and now efforts are underway to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last few days. meanwhile china is accusing the u.s. of overreacing and expr expressing strong dissatisfaction and the balloons destruction. from all angles to the capital to the coast where the balloon was shot down. let s begin with dianne gallagher where she is live in surfside beach where recovery efforts is underway. what is being located and discovered? reporter: so, fred, we re in the surfside myrtle beach area
carolina. salvage efforts are underway after a u.s. fighter jet shot the balloon down yesterday. you watched it right here live on television. the downing of the balloon ended a week-long saga. as it maneuvered across the country, possibly gathering data. joining me now to talk more about this is my colleague fareed zakaria. he is the host of fareed zakaria gps. good to see you. so chinese is reprimanding, or trenting the u.s. after balloon takedown. so if relations were tenuous, what is it now? well, i think what it shows is that these kind of small crises can escalate out of control in a very dangerous way. if we step back and ask ourselves, what was this crisis, how unprecedented was it to have this event, was it some kind of an escalation? well, look, we know that there