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Closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities. the action was taken in quite a nation with the full support of the canadian government. colonel, one, what does, what does that tell you about the threat? was a threat to the public on the ground greater than the threat of china getting a hold of u.s. intelligence? why do you think the united states will find in this debris? >> well two things about, that the first is not the chairman and chief of staff came to that conclusion ...

Eroded significantly. china has more airplanes, more ships and more missiles offense and defense that we have. im assuming ammunition stockpile could last for months as opposed to just a few weeks which is where we are. we have serious deficiencies. and what we dont want to do is encouraged china, recognize the united states has a vulnerability. incentivize them to move on taiwan. that is the position we are on right now. what we have to do is bring in more capability to the region and having th...

Say this but we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balloon has been taken down. it is now falling from the sky there over surfside beach, south carolina so your reaction to this sir? >> yes i am watching it. first of all, well done. congrats to the military for being able to do that. obviously tracking this thing is no problem in bringing it down with the united states military is not much of a problem either. its still a major coordination effort to do it. hopefully we will c...

Sometimes. so you can jam those kind of things with aircraft, with ground mounted systems. wont go any further than that. but, again, you know, just because this thing is passing overhead doesnt mean its collecting information because it can be prevented from doing that. we do have the capability to prevent that. the. >> all right. very good. well hear more about all of this in the days to come. lieutenant general marc hertling, great insights as always. thanks very much. >> thanks, jim. joini...

Intelligence on us, but you know what, once you notice something like this flying over your territory, the u.s. and canada was also collecting intelligence on this balloon. what the heck is going on. how are they doing things? what kind of things can we intercept? how can we jam this piece of equipment to ensure it doesnt take pictures? who do we notify on all of those bases that it may pass over? how do we get an alert out so the least amount of damage is done. the state department is interacti...

>> reporter: experts say these balloons can fly at altitudes of 60,000 feet to 15 miles above earth. we asked what the capabilities might be. >> cameras for imaging sensitive sites, other sensors that can collect signals intelligence like eavesdropping on your scel phone. zbl >> reporter: with military satellites have sophisticated capability, what would a spy balloon have? >> they can fly at low altitudes and hang out and loiter other sites, whereas satellites are in orbit rotating around the e...

It represents a real step in improving our capability in the pacific. >> do you believe the u.s. government is hoping that china views the u.s. support for ukraine as something of a blueprint of what the u.s. might do for taiwan if war were to break out there? and do you think china would give any second thoughts about attacking because of it? >> i dont think theres any question that xi is paying attention to whats happening in ukraine, and thats one of the reasons its so important for the unite...

Be a more complex treatment. im sorry, are you alluding to nuclear weapons capability of russia when you talk about...? i am not alluding to anything, i say we will solve the worth i say we will solve the war whatever that means and the result, i assume, we have all kinds of possibilities, i hope we will not be using all these possibilities. but our western partners or enemies or whomever are ramming the door. i promise you, we will come back to that discussion about the full weapons capability ...

Cop program from 2010 to 2018 and now works for sky cop, a private company that works with police departments to build the cameras and technology that goes with them. >> so this is a -- this is a utility pole powered by the light. it has a recorder inside. it has blue light. it has a pan tilt zoom camera on it and connection with cellular. so that we can pull this camera up at any time. its always recording. if we need video, we pull it up in the crime center. >> reporter: is it a 360 view or is...

Be able to deal with whatever threat china represents. >> and there are more step as well. theres also this new u.s. base in guam and increased military cooperation with japan. how do you expect china to react to all the u.s. activity in the region? >> well, theres no question theyll be nervous. weve not only improved our positioning in guam, were in the process of improving our position in japan as well, in okinawa. and in addition to that obviously this announcement that were going to have acc...