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hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. im fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now ...

coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. lets get the latest on the balloon and todays recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. >> i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese go...

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Wednesday, June 15

Can understand theyre not taking any chances. they are coming and collecting it so it can be looked at properly by investigators. having said that a malaysian official saying its just a piece of domestic stepladder that washed up. thats typical all along this coast. youll see hundreds and hundreds of pieces of ocean debris and metal fragments. the task of the person is to decide whether its related to the missing airliner or not. and there will be lots of beach combers going up and down the coas...

Necklace of hell. >> yeah. unfortunately, tidy bowl isnt going to clean this up. its probably going to cost us many, many billions of dollars, and with every oncoming high tide, we get this oil. whats really spooky, is you go to that oil strip and you dig down about six to eight inches, you find the oil from the previous tide, because when that tide comes in, it brings more sand. of course, this is just the tiny little kiss of this oil spill. when you go along the coast of venice and other parts...

Object was spotted on the beach, about 30 miles from here. it was reported to authorities who sent them to collect it. they took it away this morning. officials not commenting at all. they have no suggestion if it has to do with the disappearance of mh-370. they are understandably taking no chances. however, one malaysian official has reportedly said its just a piece of a domestic stepladder. another example of the ocean trash that washes up along these shores every day. weve spoken this weekend...

Ring for lack of a better phrase that youre pointing to, this necklace of hell. >> yeah. unfortunately, tidy bowl isnt going to clean this up. its probably going to cost us many, many billions of dollars, and with every oncoming high tide, we get this oil. whats really spooky, is you go to that oil strip and you dig down about six to eight inches, you find the oil from the previous tide, because when that tide comes in, it brings more sand. of course, this is just the tiny little kiss of this oi...