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The potential impact it could have o and impact it could have here on the ground and affecting people. we will see what else the white house and pentagon has to say later today regarding this balloon. it has been seen over north carolina, potentially heading more towards the east coast. this certainly represents another inflection point and tension point with china as the u.s. is confronting how exactly to address this balloon. >> oren, is the pentagon revealing how theyre going to take care of ...

Transiting latin america. we know it says it is another chinese surveillance balloon. antony blinken had been due in beijing this weekend to hold talks on a wide range of issues, including security, taiwan and covid—19. but he said that was no longer possible because the purpose of the trip — to forge better relations between the two countries — had been undermined. the presence of this surveillance balloon in us airspace is a clear violation of us sovereignty and international law, that i...

The Pentagon says a second Chinese surveillance balloon is currently transiting Latin America.

The kneejerk reaction of the government which is to keep some of this secret committee try and studied as much as possible to inform their approach, and then of course the conquest which is going to try and push this further in the public eye. —— the congress. absolutely fascinating. jack, stayed there for us, i want to go back to ashlyn, the one who i spoke to an earlier whoever is describing there, it is an interesting story about how she heads out into her back yard and takes those amazin...

That might be made a little less strange. mike: were starting to get some reaction from senior lawmakers on capitol hill. senator susan collins, republican of maine, who is a member of the intelligence committee saying just moments ago, quote: chinas brazen deployment of a spy balloon to surveil some of our most sensitive military assets required a forceful response by our government. i support the decision to shoot down the balloon, but it should have been taken out earlier over remote areas of...

Quote, u.s. military commanders have determined downing the balloon while over land posed anen due risk due to the size and altitude of the balloon and likely heavy payload. the department of defense developed options to take down the balloon safely over our territorial waters while closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities. this action was done in coordination and with the full support of the canadian government, and we thank canada for its contribution in tracking and ...

And id never heard or felt this before. and were you aware that something was afoot? because your local airport was shut down, wasnt it? yes, absolutely. that was definitely a big sign that something would happen, because previously when airlines were flying by the balloon, they were pointing it out. so it definitely gave us a flag that there was a plan — and the fact that the balloon was about to go over the ocean and away from the population, it all just started making sense. and how do you ...

Visit, alongside the leaders of the church of england and church of scotland. hello to you in the uk, and around the world. in the last few hours, a united states fighterjet has shot down a chinese surveillance balloon which had been spotted over sensitive us military sites, on the orders of president biden. three airports on the east coast were closed in preparation for the operation. beijing has tried to calm the diplomatic row about the balloon, insisting it was gathering weather data and was...

The chinese balloon was doing. and so, like the end of the day will find out how it was shot down, not entirely clear. and then hopefully, that pay load and some of the equipment there is still intact so we can find out what exactly the chinese were doing. >> how likely or how quickly do you think it is that we can gather unintelligent from this debris, mark? >> it all depends on what is in fact. i think probably that was a factor in how we brought it down but obviously, won some of the equipmen...

>> all right. i want to correct something i mistakenly said it in the last segment i apologize. but president biden was indeed asked about the chinese balloon situation when he landed in syracuse for a private event, im told. he was asked about the balloon and he says, were going to take care of it. thats all we know. were going to take care of it. meanwhile, were going to take care of whats happening at the border as well. thats a promise from the administration, but growing indications that it...