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Just without the lactose. tastes great in our iced coffees too. lets listen into secretary of state tony blinken, speaking about the chinese balloon in the united states. >> im postponing my travel this weekend to china. as you know, president biden and president xi agreed during their meetings in bali in november that i would travel to beijing to follow up on their discussions. we have been working across the u.s. government to prepare for a substantiative set of discussions on issues that ma...

The air space in general, the u.s. jurisdiction ends about 60,000 feet. well see if they ultimately make statement, so far theyve remained pretty mum on this. >> what goes you must come down, im guessing it will have more of an impact on air travel. thank you very much, keeping us posted >> a short time ago the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area, look closely. you can see it in the kansas city weve had several reports across ...

A diplomatic row with china — over claims and denials of spying. seen at high altitude over montana, the balloon was being used for intelligence purposes, according to us defence officials. we know that its a surveillance balloon and im not going to be able to be more specific than that. we do know that the balloon has violated us airspace and international law, which is unacceptable. china has apologised, but a planned visit to beijing by the us secretary of state has been postponed. also on ...

To my right, i can see it... its not the moon, nor a ufo, but, us officials claim, a chinese spy balloon. it seemed so brazen and just so insane to me, it wasjust, like, this thing is so visible. and its now sparked a major diplomatic row. the chinese foreign ministry today first called for calm but later apologised, saying a scientific balloon mainly used for weather research had gone off course. but within hours, the us military responded by saying they did not believe beijing. the fact is, we...

The chinese have apologized for what they say is a weather balloon that has drifted into the u.s. what do they want to see? what kind of resolution are they looking for? certainly not this balloon getting shot down as some republicans on the hill are calling for. >> reporter: chinese officials spent much of today trying to lower the tension with washington over this balloon dispute. what isnt clear is whether china had alerted the u.s. to this balloon inadvertently straying into u.s. airspace, i...

U.s. believing it is being maneuvered by china. today spotted over missouri. where is it tonight? and where u.s. authorities believe its headed. first sitings over billings, montana. a ground stop. that intelligence bay hanging beneath the balloon, thats the size of three busses. the pentagon on discussions over whether or not to shoot it down, and will there be a small opportunity to do just that? what were learning tonight. antony blinken postponing his high-stakes trip to beijing, calling chi...

They havent detailed exactly where it is, despite some apparent sightings in parts of the central united states. how long has this balloon been in the air, how long has the u.s. been aware of it, and why did it take the united states, ultimately secretary blinken, several days before they did postpone the trip during a call with reporters aboard air force one, the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said president biden was first briefed on the balloon on tuesday, he has continued to ...

They deteriorate even further. with a host of challenges facing the two countries trade, technology, taiwan, russia, the list goes on and on, the relationship is not at a stage where it can sustain a crisis over this balloon. what struck me, hallie, was the way the secretary was talking about how much discussion goes into planning this like the one that was supposed to get under way here this weekend. ive sensed that he was speaking to the fact that the behavior on the chinese side is certainly ...

Atlantic ocean and then shoot it down once its over u.s. territorile waters. that way you can avoid injuries on the ground, and two, retrieve the balloon, study it, and ultimately exploit the intelligence. tonight china says it regrets the unintended entry into the u.s. air space, but as you can imagine, not flying with u.s. security officials. >> lets bring in mary bruce. president biden chose not to talk about this today, trying not to enflame the situation. what are you learning from the whit...

The china challenge has been a dilemma for u.s. officials, including all of your time in government, it is front and center now for president biden, whether its about technology, whether its about the expansion of u.s. military capabilities now with bases in the philippines. it is economic, it is geopolitical, it is military. at a moment when the chinese say we would like things to be normal, thats what they keep saying publicly, we would like things to be more normal again, xi jinping decided t...