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A good saturday morning to you. it is saturday, february 4th, youre live in the cnn newsroom, thanks for joining us so much for sharing part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with an eye toward the sky. were getting new reports about the location of that chinese spy balloon that has been drifting across the country. according to reports, it has been spotted over north carolina an officials say it could move off the east coast and out over the ocean in a matter of hours. >> and as you wo...

Down, not done because of the risk of falling debris. also, this seems to not be a huge security risk to the us, given what the balloon was and the fact that chinese satellites could get information just as well is this balloon. decision was taken to wait till it got over to the sea, where the risk to people was much less. they shut the air space and we now know they have just shut it down, according to a reuters photographer at the scene. joining me now is our north america correspondent, david...

Have made. and so theres a very tactical aspect to this. weve got to make sure we recover the balloon, weve got to make sure we can get the sensor and exploit it as best we possibly can. but then weve got a long haul in front of us from a strategic aspect of this in terms of china just so, you know, so daringly went and violated u.s. air space which weve known for several days and the fact that we finally shot it down. a lot more to come. arthel: well, lets go in reverse order. what is that stra...

And then explodes. the trouble we are trying to hit the balloon is that it doesnt have the kind of radar signature as you would expect from a really solid object. it doesnt have any infrared source where the of noting. it is difficult to follow infrared being, it was clearly a missile that took an otherwise the f 22 and have to get all the way up to its service ceiling of about 60,000 feet. get really close to the balloon at some speed and then unleash a 20 millimeter cannon. the a missile proba...

After it entered alaskan air space january 28th. when asked why the u.s. military did not shoot down the balloon after it entered alaska, the senior military official says the balloon then crossed over canada, entering idaho january 31st. so your thought on that timeline that were hearing. >> yeah. and thats consistent with what the president said earlier, that hed been made aware of this, that he gave the order to shoot it down on wednesday and they waited. i think its fine to wait. you know, i...

Biden and the chinese leader met and indonesia in november theyre trying put guardrails on the relationship and blankenship was the first since mike pompeo went to try and implement this idea of putting guardrails on a relationship. china needed this president actually quite badly. this balloon situation was extremely embarrassing for them. blank and couldnt go but now he can go and i think he will give that the marsh on this intelligence balloon but then focus on the issues that matter to the u...

Sammy officials say theres no question chinas testing u.s. resolved. the russian sent launch bear bombers from bases in russia just to test the u.s. response to the last of the f-22 are also based in alaska see their launch times intercept. the fact is bloom was built to launcher mainland, china going to u.s. territory quite possibly be the first time its shot down a balloon over the united st states. becoming this wall-to-wall. anything to happen often for this question the pentagon is looking ...

0 effort to take this balloon down, that would pose a risk to these airplanes down below. so were seeing this sort of take place to make it so that the area below is clear and safe for this to possibly happen. we will see exactly when that takes place. we know from the ground stop that was published by the faa, that is in place until 2:45 eastern standard time, so another 45 minutes. and this is also impacting, you know, flights that are going into other places. so this might mean that commercia...

0 in the anchor chair on the last word, ill be in ukraine. ill be retaining to ukraine reporting to mark the grim milestone of one year since the russian invasion. looking more to -- continue to endure and persevere. thats tonights last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle can begins right now. >> tonight, president biden touting a blockbuster jobs report, while the new book compares the former president to an infamous mob boss. and the pentagon says a chinese spy balloon is still moving ove...

Pentagon decides not to shoot it down, citing possible risks to people on ground