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Fairly easy to recover. chinese officials deny it was a spy balloon, and theyre condemning the u.s. for using force to bring it down. president biden says he approved the plan to shoot down the chinese balloon earlier in the week. cnns arlette saenz has details from the white house. >> reporter: president biden told his top military leaders in a meeting on wednesday to shoot down that chinese spy balloon transiting over the u.s. as soon as possible. the president heard advice from military leade...

Closer, but they dont have persistence. persistence is when youre in the same area for a long period of time. satellites close to the ground dont have persistence, but they have good imaging. their satellites are much further away in whats called a geo synchronous orbit. they stay on the ground the whole time. theyre always looking at the same part of the earth, but theyre very, very far away. in some ways the balloon has the best of both of those things. its much, much closer to the ground, so ...

Throwing objects including firecrackers, at a wall of riot police officers, who fired teargas canisters to disperse the crowd. the demonstrators are demanding the resignation of president dina boluarte and for new elections to be brought forward. this is bbc news. a reminder of our headlines: the us military shoots down the chinese balloon that had been floating in american air space. three airports were shut and the local airspace was closed — it came down off the us east coast. an aristocrat...

How he plans to expand democratic control in 2023 and how not to celebrate black history month. we will reveal our worst of the week contenders. im ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. lets start this hour with the breaking news of the night the united states has shot down the suspected surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina. officials say a f 22 missile jet took up the balloon with a single air to air missile. at 2:39 eastern this afternoon. nbcs gary graham joins me now from washin...

From wilmington, myrtle beach and charleston airport while the balloon was shot down. militariliry official said it was the first chancer to target over the balloon while flying over water. they could have shot down the balloon over montana but didnt do it out of abundance of caution. chinese responded that u.s. use of force is clear overreaction and serious violation of international practice. china will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the company concerned and reser...

Been on this solitary object, floating serenely through us airspace. was it a harmless weather balloon or a spy in the sky, sent by the chinese? whatever it was, the american government had decided enough was enough. look at that trail of white vapour on the left of the screen. that is a us f—22 fighterjet, streaking towards the balloon. then, a second trail, this time from a sidewinder missile, about to bring itsjourney to an abrupt end. suddenly we saw something take off from the jet and we ...

This just before mr. blinken was coming. since his meeting in bally with president biden, hes been on a drive to improve relations with the u.s., or at least take down the temperature. he would have known that this would not have contributed to that, so it raises a question on, was it an accident or did someone in china just not get the memo and let this thing go anyway? >> because of course, the u.s. would obviously know if this huge balloon was flying over the united states. the chinese had to...

Dan: i think the state of the union would have been a problem for them with this balloon flying over. coming up, joe biden is bringing back a disastrous obama-era rule that could bring racial equity into your neighborhood. th

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People and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon said to be large enough to hold three massive buses. what was it carrying? did it drop and scatter devices for unlimited data surveillance throughout america? former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe on the potential capabilities of in the so-called stratospheric balloon. was the damage already done? what data did the balloon collect, and wer...