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United, focus, talking to people about their problems and needs. >> my, amicable, please stick around. weve got a lot more to breakdown of the break. coming up, george santos might be under investigation by the fbi but first richard louis is here with the headlines. hey. richard >> hayman, good to see you -- might do an issue an urgent evacuation warning that is living within a mile of a train derailment in case of an explosion there. 20 train cars were carrying hazardous materials, ten of which...

Technology that was blocking them from getting a lot of the intel they were maybe trying to get. again, as david said, once it was over the ocean, there was a team there. the coordination i know for a fact had to be huge. there was a team there to shoot it down and ready to grab it. we will now be able to get more intel than we would have had it landed on land. >> right. who knows into what. you dont know if you shoot it down -- >> yes. that would have been bidens fault had it hit -- im no fan o...

Claiming it had seriously deviated from its scheduled route and they had limited ability to control it. >> we do know that the balloon has violated u.s. air space and international law, which is unacceptable, and so we have conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. >> reporter: a senior u.s. official insisting the balloons path was purposeful, saying it flew over sensitive military sites, including nuclear missile facilities and command and control centers. the enormous balloon drift...

>> well, that is what theyre saying now, but i think the administration needs to come forward because this is not an ability to say this is a crisis that was handed them. this is a crisis that developed as a result of this president during his administration allowing china to do a similar act before, not responding, and then, clearly, in this one, not seeing the urgency of what was unfolding. the president allowed this to go across our most sensitive sites and wasnt even going to tell the americ...

The president addressed the takedown of the balloon on his way to camp david on saturday. >> on wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down, and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. >> joining me now is the republican chair of the ho...

Sade, hey, its not safe yet. do you accept that? >> there is no excuse here. when this first occurred last time during the administration, remember, this is the third year of this administration, they should have been preparing for this. they knew what this was. they know what the balloon is, what its capabilities and maneuverability is from having observed previous actions by china. they should have been prepared. they seem not only to be unprepared but to even be waiting. where is the balloon ...

Balloon weekend, as im calling it, was the pictures you just showed up all the republicans tweeting pictures of themselves, pointing their guns to the sky, saying theyre gonna shut down this balloon that 65,000 feet in the air. obviously, its a nod to their gun loving followers. i do think that 80% of those republicans that posted that were probably doing it as a joke, but then youve got a republican like kari lake he doesnt really have a firm grasp on reality. she still thinks she can win an el...

To the news on sunday morning. late yesterday, an air force f—22 fighter jet fired a single air—to—air missile into the balloon, bringing it down. president biden was criticised by republicans for not acting sooner, but he chose his own time. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided... without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided the best time to do that was over water, within a 12—mile limit. chinas foreign ministry accused the...

China didn't accuse the US of violating international law this time, as it often says when it thinks it can argue such a case, expert Julian Ku said.

The american public or not? she hadnt what began as a spy but has become a trial testing president biden strength and resolve at unfortunately the present test. that is dangerous for the american people. the president wasnt paralyzed for an entire week by a balloon. we shouldve shot this balloon down over the aleutian islands. we never should have allowed to transit the entire continental united states. i think theres a lot of open questions administration is to answer to congress on behalf of t...