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Satellites over the u.s. after 90 minutes as they orbit the earth and they have at least equal surveillance capabilities. they are highly advanced. in terms of what china could gather from this balloon, not an enormous step forward. and we should note this. this is something to be concerned about, is that china is one of the most active in terms of launching new satellites. just look at the growth going back six single digits in the 2000s, now up close to 100 per year. the only other country com...

Lawmakers and policy experts sound the alarm after a Chinese balloon is spotted over the United States.

They have obviously had to acknowledge its existence because of people frankly being able to see it from the ground. they say it is of no danger to aircraft or indeed to people on the ground and they also say, and perhaps they would say this, that it is of limited value, in terms of gathering intelligence. there are more efficient ways like satellites. nevertheless, they have protested to the chinese here in washington and have done the same in beijing. the chinese have not acknowledged it is th...

Plus more firepower for ukraine, the u.s. about to approve longer range missiles to counter russians on the battlefield. and too cold for school, classes in big cities like boston and buffalo canceled with the coldest windchills since the 1980s about to take hold. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. im christine romans. right now chinese spies could be watching you from above from a high altitude spy balloon. the pentagon says they have been tracking...

The abrupt decision came despite China’s claim that the balloon was a weather research satellite that had blown off course. The U.S. has described it as a surveillance satellite.

The Chinese government says it is looking into the suspected intelligence balloon that has been discovered hovering over the northwestern part of the continental United States.

To top up their metre. and more than 2 million are being disconnected at least once a month. the whole system needs to be rewired so the regulation of the energy market starts with the principle that the greatest protection is in place for the most vulnerable households. were1 million miles from that, so good the temporary injunction on forced installations. but we need a whole root and branch review of prepayment so it works for householders — notjust for suppliers concerned about bad debt. t...

Bianna, as you mentioned most notably taiwan, and i would hope that the secretary wouldnt cancel the trip, because of the balloon, and because there are big issues at stake here that need face-to-face discussion. >> yeah. there is a u.s. air force general who cause d a stir a wek ago to release really an exhortation under his command under the prospect of war in two years in year 2025 and that is not the pentagons assessment, but he is a high ranking general in the indo pacific command, and is t...

China, if the us had something like this in china, they would have taken it down immediately. on that safety in i assumed, obviously wrongly, that nothing like this could ever happen because i assume that our airspace was vacuum tight and that the moment a speck of dust enters that airspace. it is shot down, so my big takeaway is if our enemies can get a slow moving balloon into our airspace, and whos to think tv concern about shooting it down, but but i also understand what michael waltz is say...

Bring it down a little bit and then the chinese have this balloon flying in the area that makes it impossible for the secretary of state to go. >> if youre still at the nsc, how would you advise the biden administration moving forward, victor? >> i still they still have to keep their eye on the ball. continue to deal with this question of how the ukraine war is affecting chinas designs on taiwan, improve capabilities of all the allies in the region. thats chinas threat, thats what we have to foc...