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Jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. >> hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. were learning that theyre hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security c...

>> not knowing what is in our airspace, some of these balloons at a low enough altitude where it can interfere with our aircraft. a chinese surveillance balloon, that is a problem. i think it indicates there is going to have to be a much better means of determining what is floating over the united dates. i will say, those who would criticize the administration for shooting down what could be a hobbyist balloon and let it drift over the united states and it turned out to be a chinese surveillance...

Needed to be shot down because we were confident that it was used by china to spy on the american people. >> the president, of course has reached out to china saying he expects to talk to president xi. they have said today it was accidental, that were overreacting, that there cant be this kind of dialogue, or there shouldnt be this kind of dialogue. >> we will maintain the perspective that we have in terms of what should be the relationship between china and the united states. that is not going ...

Conversation with the intelligence and the military agencies that briefed us, where are we in terms of the technology to detect these things? what more needs to be done? i think those are among the more important questions. the advantage of a balloon as surveillance technology, even though it seems quite primitive, it can hover and persevere over a location where a satellite is crossing the sky in a pretty bold pattern, you can hide things on the ground from a satellite but you need may not be a...

Years before a gigantic white spy balloon from China captured America’s attention, a top Chinese aerospace scientist was ...

>> back to my age again. >> thank you very much. >> actually i have a follow up on the balloon incidents earlier this week. >> okay. >> have you seen the story in aviation week that an illinois hobby club feels like their balloon might have been a candidate? >> i have seen that. >> any response to that? because it is very particular location in the last set of data they got? >> we just cant please confirm those reports or what the remains of that balloon might end up being. we havent recovered i...

Clinic for residents to get evaluated and a team of medical personnel and toxicologyists are expecting to arrive as early as monday. whit? >> mona, thank you. next tonight, the search ended for part of the chinese spy balloon off the coast of the south carolina. they recovered the balloon and payload and sent it to the fbi to analyze. three other objects shot down. the search for one in lake huron has been suspended. and one official tells abc news they went down in areas so remote, its possib...

President biden followed the white house out and of an abundance of caution expressing no regrets if indeed it was simply a recreational $12 balloon being shot down with a $400,000 missile. one thing that is clear is that the u.s. is developing new protocols going forward. we will not see these types of balloons being shot down out of the sky with any kind of regularity and i am told that is one thing that the president wanted to be clear about in his remarks yesterday emphasizing what his natio...

The Pentagon is stonewalling inquiries as to whether one of the unidentified objects it shot down off the Alaskan coast was a $12 dollar hobby balloon.

Analysis of the debris so far reinforces conclusions that it was a Chinese spy balloon, U.S. officials said Friday.