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super bowl and neal tee de gras die tyson talks about pop culture. and the next hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning. welcome to "cnn this morning." im boris sanchez. >> and im amara walker. all eyes are on the sky this morning as the chinese surveillance balloon continues to drift over the u.s. where it is expected to go and why the white house hasnt ruled out shooting it down. plus a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. and some...

there is so much of that video to look at. new hour begins now on monday morning. a -- im owe bill hemmer. sandra smith is with us. >> sandra: good to be here. at least 25 people were killed across mississippi, another died in alabama. hundreds were left without homes. the towns of rolling fork and silver city absolutely destroyed. the stunning satellite images of rolling fork taken before and then after the storm showing the extent of this devastation. >> bill: the latest weather r...

♪ its the top of the hour in cnn newsroom. were following multi-. concerns about that chinese spy balloon hovering over the u.s. secretary blinken just postponed his stop in china. the pentagon is about the size of three buses. its huge. it was spotted soaring over montana at 60,000 feet. >> just moments ago the balloon was spotted over columbia, missouri. the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area. despite growi...

national security interests and threats as best we can. >> thanks, admiral. >> real quick, is there a timeline for recovery of this object? >> youd have to talk to the pentagon, i dont know. guys, again, this just happened in the last hour and a half and theyre still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to which they can get to it. >> on the poland visit, i know in the statement that you put out, it says that the president is going to meet with leaders of the eastern flank ...

the department of justice reveals it has already complete its review of documents seized. in other words, theyre now finished with what a special master would be designed to accomplish in the first place. they say that a privileged review team, quote, identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client information and is following the procedure set forth in paragraph affidavit for disputes if any. that filing, and it started a classification review of all of ...

plus what we know from the doj filing about who asked me have legal exposure. >> they dont have anything. there is just nothing there. >> and the legal, political and moral implications of a potential decision to indict the 45th president. all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it is a pm eastern, and we just hit the deadline for donald trumps legal team to respond to the department of justice filing that just passed. it looked like it jus...

s legal team to respond to the department of justice filing and we are letting you know what it is and what it says. and -- what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point. the one thing we know for sure is that the department of justice is not messing around. they are not messing around with their investigation into the classified documents that phone trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of illegal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it ca...

Intercepting a drone? >> well, for intercepting a drone, the race track pattern picture that was showed, that drone was probably flying, clecl collecting intelligence either on russian ships or merchant ships coming out of odesa with grain as part of the embargo at this period of time. certainly the russians dont like that. they dont like people to know where their ships are. they dont like people to know whats going oin their area of operation. so this is not a killer drone. this is a drone tha...

Time. certainly the russians dont like that. they dont want people to know where their ships are they dont like people to know whats going on in their area of operation. this is not a killer drone, this is a drone that collects intelligence and communications. so they want it out of the area, even though its in international waters and doing the things that it has every right to be doing. its an intelligence collection platform, anderson, either on russian military operations or an merchant oper...

Course, about sensitive intelligence. the basic capabilities of the reaper, it flies at 50,000 feet. almost as high as that balloon that we shot down off the coast of south carolina. what it does is its an intelligence collection platform. it can be an armed platform. in this particular case, im certain it was intelligence collection platform. supports strike missions but mainly done for surveillance. one big thing about this is it has a range of about 1150 miles. it can stay up for about 24 hou...