Exploitation Phase News Today

welcome back to "cnn newsroom." im jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given confli...

Exploitation phase of looking at the remnants of these devices and trying to put them back together and make good assessments as to what their capabilities were and what they might have been doing. >> yeah. and its a huge mystery right now as to what this other object is. everybody is trying to get to the bottom of it. andrew mccabe, thank you very much. as always, we appreciate it. >> thanks, jim. its a miracle in turkey where they desperately need one. a 16-year-old boy is one of several chi...

Arabic speakers to start looking through this stuff. what are they learning, and how exciting is this from an intelligence standpoint? >> well, this is the gift that keeps on giving because were going to be poring over this data for months on end. and were going to be taking data we get from this raid and piecing it with other information we already have in our possession. its going to help to further bring out the mosaic of how the al qaeda network operated. so there are really three categories...

Uzbecks. you talk about al qaedas number three. the joke is we keep killing them because we can kill them. >> exactly [ laughter ] >> pretty straightforward. not that we were putting one and two to the side. we could kill them. an opportunity here, two-fold. david talks about intelligence, exploitation phase what we gather in that compound could lead to serious opportunities for us. the second is watch the chatter, watch the movement of individuals to see if we create another opportunity from th...