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Something like 17,000 flights over 10 days. >> yeah. >> steve: you called southwest the management on the carpet yesterday. here is the co. who essentially is saying yeah, we blew it. watch. >> apologize to those impacted by disruption. we understand for many this is the most important trip they take all year. why did this happen? let me be clea mess sen up t om this isnt just southwest airlines. this is for major airlines across the country. that came out in the hearing. they have to make sure ...

Steer and hover over those targets for longer. the satellites are going at, well, 15,000 miles an hour or so as they circle the planet. this could move more slowly and gather more information as it does so. and this, of course, informed by where it traveled. what might it be looking at? in montana, icbm bases up there. in missouri, white man air force base, the b-2 bomber is based. in north carolina, you got fort bragg, camp ledge eun, other military installations. to have that capability more t...

U.s. spy planes is revealing what chinas spy balloons are capable of. cnn has learned that images captured by altitude reconnaissance aircraft offer details about the balloon before it was shot down. jim sciutto joins us to explain. what did chinas spy balloon at least have the capability to do? >> the defense department said it had limited surveillance capability. we are learning more details now. it maybe had more capability than we realized. first of all, signals collection, in other words, i...

>> trace: back to you as the news warns, lets bring in senior strategic analyst general jack keane and she makes a good point there, general, that we are on high alert status right now, and another good point saying that we dont shoot aircraft, and shoot down balloons whatever, so theres a reason this was shot down. theres a reason they watched it for 24 hours and we just arent privy to that reason at this point in time. >> yeah, and we have to be a little sensitive, a couple of hours into this ...

To provide capabilities like fighter aircraft to ukraine, thats certainly their decision to make. and one would assume that if youre going to introduce a system into a military that they have no experience with that theres going to have to be some training that goes along with that. were doing it right now. fort sill, oklahoma, weve got ukrainian soldiers learning how to use a patriot battery, and outside of ukraine, were helping train them on combined arms maneuver, so its not unusual to do tha...

Capability. and could slow down, speed up, and that it was on a path to transit over sensitive military sites. >> thank you. >> thanks. admiral kirby, on the latest object, you said it did not appear to have the maneuverability, capabilities that the chinese spy balloon had. did it have any maneuverability or was it flying on its own? >> at this time, all i can tell you is that it did not appear to have the ability to independently maneuver. well attempt recovery and well see what we can learn m...

Ownership of the balloon. will you send the balloon back to china? >> there are no plans to send the debris we are recovering back to china. we are going to pull it up off the bottom of the ocean and learn more about this capability. >> iran is building a drone factory in russia and they are receiving drones from russia. how do you view cooperation between north korea, iran and russia. >> i cant confirm those specific reports, but i was up here not long ago talking about the burgeoning defense r...

Reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. >> okay. and to given what you said earlier about intent, with regard to the chinese spy balloon, does the u.s. give any credence to the chinese argument that the balloon accidentally veered off course and ended up where it did? >> which -- the one from last week? yeah, say that again. >> would the u.s. give any credence to the chinese argument that this thing accidentally veered off course and ended up where it did? >> no. >> so was it targeti...

Possible. can we just zoom out for a minute. this is the second time in, what, ten days now that an object has been discovered in u.s. airspace. the first one a chinese spy balloon shot down. still so many questions about this one. whats your reaction to the breaking news that we just learned minutes ago, and now just two hours ago this thing was shot down? >> well, victor, it tells me that they have changed their protocol. the fact that theyre going to notify the administration or put the messa...

>> and as of this moment, are you convinced you shot down -- do you know what you shot down, it wasnt just a harmless weather balloon that, you know, that there was some motivation to fly this over u.s. air space, or -- >> i think were going to try to learn more. i can tell you it was an object at 40,000 feet. and the predominant concern by the president was a safety of flight issue at that altitude. remember the one that was shot down last saturday was at 65 plus thousand feet. so no threat to ...