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The pentagon pushing back forcefully saying last weeks balloon crossing of the u.s. was not an intelligence failure. they say they were able to collect a lot of intelligence to try to understand what chinas capabilities are, what the equipment was onboard and of course they hope to learn a lot nor by gathering all those different pieces of it that balloon and its payload that are now scattered across the seabed off of south carolina. those pieces now being sent to the fbi lab in quantico, virgin...

Aishah hasnie has the latest from capitol hill. >> on thursday, every lawmaker in the house and senate will get a classified briefing from defense, intelligence, and state department officials on the chinese spy balloon. 10 days after it entered the mainland. house leaders already filled in. >> its very power of attorney that we do capture it, to find out whats on it. find out what they are doing. >> new images show the navy working around the clock to recover the rest of the downed aircraft as ...

Damascus says western sanctions are to blame for the lack of aid arriving in syria. lots of the aeroplane, cargo aeroplane, refuse to land on syrian airports, because of the american and european sanctions. so even those countries who want to send humanitarian assistance, they can not use the aeroplane cargo because of the sanctions. of course the lack of equipment, the lack of capabilities all syria need this assistance, so whenever and whatever we receive, it will be for all syrians. a spokesp...

Going in, yes, it is beginning to flow but it is not enough and it needs to be wrapped up. this is a once in a century earthquake, twice in a century earthquake, i think we have kept to capabilities in the united states but they need to be ordination. as you just described, there is a bit of a war zone and up political problem with the asad regime who does not want to facilitate the flow of aid into syria which is so devastating to think about that in the midst of a war, that country after and i...

This whole story has moved very quickly and we have learned more about what the chinese balloon was doing and how much history there is to this. not all of these blooms have been the same. thereve been variations between the balloons, different capabilities and different surveillance on board the different balloons as they have refined the design of this. they are saying that it is a weather surveillance balloon. >> thank you so much. joining me now is retired navy admiral -- admiral, thank you ...

Deal. the pentagon has 100% certainly that chinas surveillance balloon was not being used for civilian purposes. the spy balloon that floated across america is just one in a fleet. cnns kylie atwood is at the state department for us. how extensive is this alleged surveillance program? >> reporter: quite extensive. u.s. officials believe it is run by the chinese military, and they dont know the full extent of this program yet, but what they do know at this point is that in recent years, there wer...

To start beating them back. of course, jake, the ukrainians understand that if western nations like the u.s. are going to give them jets, it will take quite a while for something like that to be put in place and for them to use those jets here in the battle fronts. of course, theres more imminent needs that the ukrainians have, as well. its something that president volodymyr zelenskyy talked about when he was in the united kingdom. he said armored vehicles are a high priority and longer distance...

A domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. but i dont want to go into further detail. >> is your committee going to push for more details on this so-called awareness gap. >> yes. were going to be asking a lot of searching questions. at this point, were trying to basically ask how did this happen, when did we know this happened? has this happened in the past and how do we know it happened in the past? these are all the types of questions that well be asking at these classified briefings. ...

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Administration officials tell nbc news, u2 spy planes were circling the balloons taking pictures about the chinese capability. >> theres immense intelligence value in watching an asset like this actually behave, its maneuverability, its emission characteristics. >> reporter: but the white house is facing questions on capitol hill. >> members of congress on both sides of the aisle have some serious questions about how long they knew about this, why they didnt shoot it down sooner, what informatio...