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Hovering over the united states and it has been for several days. defense officials say they continue to track it minute to minute and they will do so, and reserve the right to take some action if they maintain its a threat. again, i think the assessment on that continues to evolve every single minute, hallie. >> what does take some action mean, court, because weve -- some republicans want to shoot it down. they are concerned if this blows out of the sky it could be a danger to people on the gro...

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Americans with their eyes on the skies, posting images like this one, the balloon floating over missouri. commercial pilots radioing in. >> we got that balloon in sight also. looks like its way up there, maybe 50,000 feet or so. >> reporter: the balloon is huge with a technology bay attached below that is itself the size of three busses, loaded with high resolution cameras, according to a senior u.s. official, equipped with what appear to be solar panels on the side that could power its technolo...

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Surveillance capabilities are better than the average satellite the chinese have up anyway in lower orbit thats already gathering information every single day. so the pentagon keeps saying theyre able to mitigate some of its surveillance capabilities both on the ground and in ways they wont talk to us about. >> court, ill let you go. ambassador locke, let me askia this. if you were advising president biden in the white house right now, what would you be telling him to do? >> well, i think they n...

♪ >> shannon: all right, we are going to take a live look. we are told this is the balloon now over cape garrard dough, missouri. the chinese balloon they say its weather. our guys say its actually attracting and attempting to supply on the u.s. jennifer griffin you have updates on the timing of how long we think this may be over the continental u.s. and what may happen as it goes out to sea, potentially. >> well, shannon, its really interesting, if you look at the flight path, its moving at a...

The table including shooting it down, perhaps trying to capture it. what else jumped out at you? >> when pressed as to the exact location of the balloon, he said he wasnt going to be giving an hour by hour update and when asked if it was classified no, but if the american people wanted to see where it is, they can look up in the sky, which is a glib answer giving the fact it is flying at 60,000 feet. that figure is a new detail from the pentagon. we had been told it is u.s. air space in the atmo...

Appreciate it. >> well, i wonder if that balloon has as much hot air as we just got. mark meredith live at it is white house with more. it was frustrating to learn something violated our airspace and international law and that is all they want to tell us and its been days of them watching this. >> looks like that balloon will be around for a couple days to come. you mentioned, this is first time the pentagon made it clear this is violation of u.s. international law and they do see this as intent...

Allowing a spy blue to drift over —— a spy balloon to drift over its own airspace. a, a spy balloon to drift over its own airsace. �* ._ ., let us now speak to elisabeth braw, a defence and security expert who serves as a senior fellow with the american enterprise institute. hello to you, thanks to being with us. this balloon is over a nuclear site, sensitive information could be picked up in montana. the chinese are saying its just to do with the weather. what is the level of veracity of ...

International law which is unacceptable and weve conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels, and in terms of specific locations, im not going to be able to go into specific locations, again, other than to say its moving eastward at this time. >> you had a follow-up? >> follow-up on as people start to see the balloon, do you have any guidance? should they try not to interfere or photograph? >> so the balloon is currently assessed to be at about 60,000 feet, so again, well above the rang...