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youre live in the "cnn newsroom." im jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china...

Planes are now back in the air all along the kcarolina coast just ahead of the efforts to shoot down the balloon which occurred a short while ago. weve been following that all afternoon. pete muntean joins us now. pete, when the faa put out that notification, that was a pretty clear indication as to where this was heading. >> yeah. you know, the faa really sort of gave off the signals with arrows in red pointing towards exactly what was going to happen here. the shootdown that took place not far...