Down Balloons News Today

The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinar...

Correspondent and ive covered it for a long time. i dont remember when u.s. fighter jets were shooting down balloons. do you? >> yeah, thats a very rare occurrence. you can go back to world war i and probably world war ii to find a few instances like this in air power. but this is something in the modern age you never expect to see this. but what it really tells us is that the adversaries we have can use a variety of weapons. some of those weapons are unexpected weapons. some of them are, you kn...