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Listening gear and transmitting continuously back to china and the chinese have real time control over it by a satellite. all of that technology were watching, im sure, through nsa, and our other technical means. but we still need to get it down and see whats there on the inside. >> okay. and general wesley clark, we have just learned -- remember, i mentioned the temporary flight restriction, the window was until 2:00 p.m. local time. now we understand its being extended, the ground stop involvi...

Area. it runs from 12:45 p.m. local to 2:45 p.m. local. according to the faa, it is for the use of national defense air space. any aircraft in that area are told to leave in as expeditious a manner as possible for the duration of this until 2:45 p.m. local. it is right along the trajectory of the balloon from the latest sightings in north carolina and now towards the coast where its headed between that border between north and south carolina. significant because the pentagon until now has recomm...

Back with a breaking news. commercial and private planes are now back in the air all on the carolina coast. the faa closed the air space and grounded planes for a short-term earlier today just ahead of the efforts to shoot down the chinese spy balloon. pete has more on the layers of coordination between the faa and military and how it played out. >> the faa has now ended its temporary flight restriction that it put in place it says at the request of the department of defense because apparently o...

Tracking flight websites. a couple refuelling tankers right there, which is what fighter jets would need to use as they waited for this balloon to arrive. the faa now putting out this temporary flight restriction for a national defense effort. president joe biden said just a short time ago well take care of it, hinting perhaps strongly that the intent now to shoot this down as it gets over air space. >> were also joined by cnn military analyst cedric leighton. help break down what it means. when...

Now about how this seems to be precipitating what will be an intentional takedown possibly of this balloon. also with us is our cnn aviation expert, pete muntean. talk to us about this temporary ground stop, the level of cooperation that is now under way between the faa, you know, commercial, private aircrafts and of course the u.s. military. >> there are two things happening here. not only is there a ground stop in wilmington, north carolina, charleston, south carolina and myrtle beach, south c...

0 effort to take this balloon down, that would pose a risk to these airplanes down below. so were seeing this sort of take place to make it so that the area below is clear and safe for this to possibly happen. we will see exactly when that takes place. we know from the ground stop that was published by the faa, that is in place until 2:45 eastern standard time, so another 45 minutes. and this is also impacting, you know, flights that are going into other places. so this might mean that commercia...

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