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Just myself and leah have a quiet day ourselves. and every birthday, we always release a balloon for her, and we always remember her. what was she like? 0h...erm... tearfully: yeah, she was amazing. its november 2022 — three months since teddi received libmeldy. the last time we saw ally and her daughter, teddi, they were still in hospital in manchester. now theyre back home here in northumberland. so im looking forward to seeing how teddis getting on. hi, nollie, that was cute!

Vehicle that had a steering capacity, so might it have drifted because of prevailing winds? yes, but they also had the ability to maneuver it, and they either chose not to or maybe it malfunctioned and they were unable to, but this is not, you know, a balloon with no propulsion. this is something they have the ability to maneuver, and what we know is it came into the united states, and they didnt -- i mean, it was news when it was in montana. why didnt they maneuver it back north and take it out...

Satellites which are way out in outer space, but the ability of a balloon is to hang lower, stay longer and ultimately capture incredible information. i think we succeeded largely in avoiding that, but that doesnt leave the chinese off the hook. >> your republican colleague, senator josh hawley, says that the u.s. in response to this should be tougher on china and perhaps introduce new sanctions. would you support that, merit new sanctions against china? >> i think we have to have a tougher poli...

>> claire sebastian, thanks for that. two sources tell cnn that president biden could deliver remarks this week about the chinese spy balloon and three other unidentified objects shot down by u.s. fighter jets over the last couple of weeks. meanwhile just about 90 minutes from now, senators are expected to get a classified briefing on china. lawmakers from both parties are voicing quite a bit of frustration their questions have not been adequately answered. natasha bertrand joins us now with m...

Then being shot down of course off the coast of south carolina. so the u.s. still very adamant here that the balloon was being used to surveil potentially sensitive military sites. but now we are learning that this may in fact have been unintentional by the chinese and that is exactly what the u.s. intel community is trying to determine for sure. of course this could go a long way in easing tensions between washington and beijing. beijing has insisted from the beginning this was accidental. the ...

Some US balloons have flown over Xinjiang and Tibet without Beijing’s permission, foreign ministry says.

>> john: what a game, too. the white house pressed for answers over the airborne objects shot down. they identified they may have had a benign purpose different from the chinese spycraft that crisscrossed the country two weeks ago. members of congress have been briefed on all of this yesterday and again today. lets bring in north carolina republican senator tom tillis, he was briefed a little while ago. thank you for being with us. what questions did you go into the briefing with and were they a...

By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso Feb. 15, 2023 USA Today  Like many Americans, residents of my home state of Wyoming could not understand how a Chinese spy

Theres no question that that was a surveillance balloon and we are still assessing what its capabilities were. it was not a weather balloon. whether or not it was purposeful or was deviated by wind patterns is something the chinese are still responsible for once they send that balloon into space and ultimately even going over guam, its about sensitive information of the united states defense capabilities. so they are doing this, theyre doing this to latin america at different sites. so the chine...

Subaru. its easy to love a car you can trust. its easy to love a subaru. right now the u.s. is assessing the chinese spy balloon and whether it in fact went off course. >> lets get to natasha. take us through what intel officials are at least considering now. >> yeah, victor. so were learning that u.s. intel officials are closely scrutinizing the possibility that this balloon was in fact diverted off of its original course by the weather.