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Former general who is the world expert on emps says the perfect way to deliver one of those is with a balloon. they are penetrating our deferences. testing our capability and norad is coming up short. and we have got to get to the bottom of this because this is a huge. what if we get into a conflict or a face-off over taiwan and they -- they -- hover a balloon over our country and threaten to take out our pour grid over taiwan. >> this is a huge national security issue we got to get to the botto...

Rescue efforts being made, there is no limit to the machinery that can be used. the only team who have the capability or the ability to continue in a can of risk effort as the white helmets and they are only prepared to respond to a specific location out of the bombardment but on the other hand we have a complete disaster covering the entire area of the north—west, and all the teams landed previously in turkey were directed to continue the risk efforts in turkey, this is of course something th...

>> the answer is both. we know that china has a worldwide surveillance fleet of fl balloons and drones, they go into taiwans airspace all of the time and jasmine japan has seen a lot. but this has escalated. were learning there is a capability for china to intrude into our airspace. we know the big balloon was theirs, i think they are the prime suspect for these latest three objects as well. this tells me that china has global military ambitions. right now they are n not afraid of u.s., not afra...

Type of significant intelligence collecting capability or what they might have been intended for. at this white house briefing, what you did hear from national security spokesman john kirby is there is clearly a shift into a robust, all-of-government approach to get more answers, not just to the three objects shot down over the course after a three-day period but what theyre seeing in the skies. the widening of the apertures, its at least one element of why weve seen this more over the course of...

Really significant payload for that chinese spy balloon that was downed off the coast of south carolina. so indications of a payload indicate that theres something onboard there. there could be propulsion that was giving it the capability to actually fly and keep the object in the air. obviously, we dont know what is in that payload, but the fact that they are now discovering that they did have a payload means a few things. first of all, the recovery efforts have begin because obviously we know ...

Defending the homeland. it is about understanding their capability and intent and how to mitigate it, take it out or defend against it. so again these are the many, many questions we have before us. >> sandra: two big things were watching as the story develops. we watching for the briefing at 1:00 this afternoon. hope to learn more from john kirby and looking at the recovery efforts off the coast of south carolina. the "new york post" says new york city is going back to the bad old days. huge sp...

Were really only focused toward anything coming over the north pole. if something ands in south of alaska, we might not see it. then we have this technology gap in terms of most of our radars are from the 1980s. and so thats when the filtering is because our processors literally, the ones that are attached to the radars, dont have the capability to look through that much material. so we had to filter it to identify threats that look like things we recognize as threats. >> a couple other quick po...

Is doing, some of the big concern there was that a lot -- many of those reports were happening around our training ranges, were happening around air training ranges. so combat pilots were seeing these things. and it was -- there was a potential impact to the safety of our pilots. but you may not have but a fleeting moment on some of these things to see it. and so, its different. in these cases, we had time to detect, time to analyze, time to engage, time to make those kinds of decisions. but it ...

Natasha, you have new details. what exactly are you learning? >> what were learning, the objects shot down over alaska and northern canada over the weekend, the object shot down friday and saturday, they actually had similar characteristics in that they both had payloads. what does that mean? thats essentially a small metal s cylinder that is on the object to potentially collect surveillance. but its unclear whether they had that capability. and then were learning that the object shot down over ...

I am throwing pens behind me, apologies, everyone, and just to track these down? >> well, it is a statement of fact, and if they were benign as described, at least we would know that, and that is okay, and whether it is a balloon with the capability or a whatever with no capability other than it got our attention, and it got our attention, and we responded appropriately, and this is going to give the adversaries how they can possibly get into our mechanism of national defense. we dont know what ...