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More questions than answers after the u.s. shot down this un iden dentified object over alas. second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have had to take down an object after that chinese surveillance balloon was brought down last saturday. >> and the latest object was shot down about 10 miles off the coast of alaska. the federal aviation administration issued a temporary flight restriction in the area around dead horse alaska as the military took action. the pentagon says officials ...

Good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 11th, were live in the cnn newsroom, and you dont have to adjust your tv, were actually in the same set in the same place. >> no split screen. >> right. >> great to be with you as well. up first this hour, president biden ordering an prague to shoot down an unidentified object over alaska, an operation that he is describing as a success, and right now, there are way more questions though about what that thing was that got shot down and actual deta...

Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of south carolina. lets start with oren lieberman. the biden administration is not saying much about this object. they said its not a balloon, though. >> we dont have a good description of what this object was other than we know its size, that of a small-size car. we have no description of what it looked like, how it operated, if it floated or if it was a balloon. its just dramatically smaller than the chinese balloon we followed across the united ...

Its also important to note here that we still do not know whether this item or device actually has any kind of intelligence value. it was unmanned, so it didnt pose any kind of risk to any human being inside the object to shoot is down, but also it didnt pose any threats to -- appear to pose any threat to anyone on the ground, and it was traveling at an altitude that could have posed a threat to civilian aircraft. there was not as much of a choice here in what they were going to do as they had w...

From smoke to anything else. >> reporter: there is no other aircraft up in the air, because there is going to be a flight restriction that is 30 miles wide. >> reporter: those flight restrictions will be enforced by norad with these f-16 fighter jets. >> we have been able to safely escort out any aircraft that has violated the flight restrictions. >> reporter: and they apply to these drones, and this is belonging to the photo journalist, and our pilot here, and we are using it as a prop, because...

>> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted air space that it put in place that says at the request of the department of defense, because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over the coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted air space twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted air space thats been in place post-9/11 over washington, d.c. what...

That havent been seen in a long time. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted airspace it put in place because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over if coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted airspace, twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted airspace thats been in place over 9/11 since washington, dc, whats very telling about this...

Minutes. so then theyre going to have to collect it. so i would imagine its possible that the stop might be expanded. >> mary, stand by. i want to bring in cnns natasha bertrand because earlier we heard a posting from the president when he was spontaneously asked -- i mean, these are live pictures right now. hes been in syracuse, new york, and he is momentarily going to be departing. but it wasnt that long ago that the white house press pool asked him what are you going to do about this balloon,...

In which the u.s. military, intelligence, all parties have been taking this to now make the decision that its important to have this temporary flight restriction in place, ground stoppage, at three coastal airports, and to also declare this a national defense air space. >> first of all, everybody has agreed that this is not a weather balloon, its a surveillance balloon, and the payload passenger is the size of three school buses. so this is a substantial payload. theres no telling whats in there...