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Protect against surveillance capabilitieses, that seems like a defensive move, what have you heard about potential for offensive moves by the united states to show how unacceptable this is? >> it is interesting, emily, this is clearly violation of u.s. sovereignty, we heard the pentagon official say that. what is interesting to me, having followed this for sometime is where is the similar outrage to the chinese cyber intrusions, the chinese learning far more in being embedded in our all of our g...

From u.s. assessment of what is inside the balloon and what its trying to do? secondly, this week india and u.s. launched an initiative on critical emerging technologies and this has quite a bit of defense component in it. can you give us more details about it and how its going to strengthen and build your relationship with india? >> sure. on your second question ill have to take that because i dont have that information in front of me. on the first question, i appreciate it. as i mentioned, we ...

A senior official says the balloon is the size of “three buses” and is complete with a technology bay.

A us meteorologist has tracked the route it may have taken using a model normally used to look at the spread of pollutants. the bbc�*s data analysts and weather teams say this model takes account things like wind patterns and shows a trajectory from china across the pacific, crossing alaska then canada before entering the us. it was then spotted, supposedly first by civilians on a plane, over rural montana. here, us officials claimed, the balloon lingered. why? well, one possible reason we can...

I would say thats unlikely. you do know its reporting. you probably know its reporting on multiple channels. you probably can get an aircraft close enough to take a picture of it. you can see whats there. you know what the technologies are of the chinese and what the -- what you can see from that altitude, but thats what you would get. you need to have the balloon down and analyze it. weve had a couple of cases over china where u.s. aircraft have been forced down. the chinese have seized all the...

Mir is coming up next, and i will see you back tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. news coming in, the suspected over the u.s.alloon hovering - where it is now, and will there be a window to shoot it down? also tonight, the dangerous life threatening cold moving into the northeast. the live readings already. first, the pentagon tracking that chinese balloon, the intelligence bay hanging beneath it, the size of three busses. where its spotted over the u.s., where its ...

Intelligence target for the chinese if they wanted to get a sense of what was going on there. were told now from the pentagon that it is actually started to move eastward. they wont say exactly where its going, but they say look, just look up in the sky because you can see pretty clearly if you are in the right place where this thing is going. now i do want to get to chinas claims because they actually, as you said, have acknowledged that this is a chinese balloon, but what they say is that it i...

Of state antony blinken prepared for a weekend trip to beijing. that trip now canceled. >> in light of chinas unacceptable action, i am postponing my planned travel this weekend in china. we concluded that conditions were not conducive for a constructive visit at this time. >> reporter: there have been other foreign surveillance balloons above the u.s., but not like this. >> what makes this different is the duration and the length to of which it has been over u.s. territory. >> reporter: the pen...

Minute, what can they do if they see that it is potentially going to a location that the u.s. doesnt want it to be surveilling, and obviously they maintain the right to bring this balloon down, but in addition to that, they are taking some steps on the ground. some things as simple as just moving, moving things out of the sight of this surveillance drone. remember, chris, china has satellites that are already seeing a lot of these things. theres commercial satellites that can see some of these t...

Concern, but there are ways i am absolutely sure of being able to, in one way or another, not just track the balloon, but be able to maintain some element of control over where it goes. >> i assume if you were the secretary of defense or the cia director or the white house chief of staff at this moment, your advice to the president of the united states was whatever our capabilities under no circumstances let this get outside of the united states air space now that its in it without capturing it ...