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Arrive in the carolinas as early as today. it appears that has happened pearlescent reports put it over western kentucky it is traveling the entire width of the united states. flying at 67000 feet thats higher than most u.s. warplanes can fly per u.s. believes along the way its actually change course. >> is the chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon? or is it just floating with air streams? >> we know this is a chinese balloon and it has the ability to maneuver. but i will ju...

Truth of identity. her work specifically has been targeted -- from the college girls and five -- be sure to join me by the, way also after president bidens state of the union address on tuesday night, for postgame coverage with my good friend stephanie ruhle, thats from midnight to a am eastern, stay right where you, are picks up our news coverage right now. e right now. >> good morning and welcome, im yoshimasa elder, in washington d.c.. it sounds like something straight out of the comics, its ...

Sharper image than you would with satellites up significantly higher. what do you think of that? >> well, first of all, im no scientist, neil. neil: neither am i. >> and climatologist and so im quickly out of my depth on the technicality of all of this and your question, but that said, we have very, very sophisticated equipment that we use and we monitor the chinese, have, that doesnt mean theyre not able to slip something in that were not aware of. i come back like a broken record, it would be ...

Well, people are concerned theyre watching us, i think our military was watching that balloon and gathering information from that, as well, and that might be the reason they didnt shoot it down. so its now in the ocean? yes, i believe so, yes. yes, and one wonders how easy or difficult it will be to retrieve information from it? well, they definitely make sure they shot it down in the daytime too, so there would be able to retrieve pieces of it, and not have to do that in the dark. everything al...

Absolutely. people were at every access, i mean, it looked like a normal day on the beach where all the beach accesses, the amount of people here, you could see it, it was literally right over this way whenever it went down, whenever it got hit. i got the photos, i got some video of it.— got hit. i got the photos, i got some video of it. , ., , some video of it. yes, we are seeing those now. — some video of it. yes, we are seeing those now, travis, _ some video of it. yes, we are seeing thos...

Eyes were locked on the skies Saturday as a suspected Chinese spy balloon slowly drifted toward the U.S. Atlantic Coast and remained in clear view over the Carolinas — where local authorities warned civilians against taking potshots at the floating orb — before it was shot down when it drifted over the Atlantic Ocean.

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>> the context and the timing of this are really important. the secretary of state antony blinken called it an irresponsible act by china. keep in mind, this comes just days before he was supposed to head to beijing. he has now postponed that highly-anticipated trip. >> and defense officials have advised president biden against shooting that balloon down. but that decision could change. china claims the balloon is a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and it was blown off course b...

>> and god will serve military lieutenant colonel. our military is a grace in the the world. we got soleimani within 48 hours of getting eyes him. yet it took a week to shoot down this balloon. how frustrating is that for members of the military with their on the line to defend our homeland? to have to wait a week while this has to traverse the entire country knowing military members like yourself could have shot it down like that. >> well, first about that yes is a clear and present danger to t...

And it up in north carolina and south carolina today. then over the atlantic ocean, the u.s. is down this balloon. as you have said, they are now trying to recover whatever debris that they can and to exploit whatever equipment they can retrieve. anthony blinken, secretary of state postponed a really important significant visit to china yesterday. this whole balloon episode came about so it is obviously aggravated tensions between the two countries. we should add that according to china, they sa...