launched on january 21st from china crossed into alaska on january 28th. senior u.s. defense official tells me it spent minutes, not hours, over the u.s. territorial waters near the aleutian islands off alaska and crossed into canada. entered the continental u.s. through idaho on january 31st. president biden gave the order to shoot it down when deemed safe to do so on wednesday, february 1st when briefed about the balloon by his national security team. the u.s. military took the shot, one shot with an air to aramis ill known as a side winder as soon as the balloon left the continental u.s. six minutes into its flight over the atlanta was brought down from af22 launched from virginia. they estimated they had approximately 18 minutes to shoot it down after it left the u.s. mainland and still remained over u.s. territory before it
are told. let s look back at the timeline of events. the chinese surveillance balloon was launched from the chinese mainland on january 21st. it crossed into alaska on january 28th. a senior u.s. defense official tells me it spent minutes, not hours over the territorial waters near the aleutian islands off alaska and then over canada, and idaho on january 31st. president biden ordered to shoot it down when safe to do so when briefed by the security team. the u.s. military tack one shot with an air to air missile known as a side winder when it left south carolina on saturday. six minutes on the flight over the atlantic ocean it was brought down by an f-22 fighter jet. i m told they estimated they had approximately 18 minutes to shoot it down after it left the
january 13th we found on january 21st zoo staffers found a vulture dead in its enclosure. scroll monkeys stolen from the louisiana zoo. it goes on from there as people can see that even denver was told to be on alert after the dallas disappearances. are these things connected? i believe they are, dana. i think what s going on is somebody got away with it in the beginning. at least until today. and that s spurred the idea that you can walk into a zoo, typically a pretty low-security facility. cut through a fence or hop over a railing and grab these animals which is incredibly unfortunate. this isn t stealing a snickers bar but stealing a living life that doesn t deserve to be mistreated. dana: do you think it is being done to resell the animals or is it because somebody wants an animal for themselves or something even more nefarious?
and we re told in a statement from the president s personal counsel that bob bauer, that this search is being cone with the full support and cooperation of the president. the search today bauer says is a further step in a thorough and timely doj process. whether he continue to fully support and facilitate. they add that there will be additional information later today. we learned in that january 21st statement about the search the day before from bob bauer that they had discovered additional potentially sensitive or classified documents as well as having taken a number of handwritten notes, note books our colleague carol lee reported a significant number of note books following that search. what s interesting about this is when we first learned of the discovery of classified documents at the penn biden center, that is when this story broke earlier this month, the search was about maybe a handful of documents that had been taken perhaps by mistake in a quick
they re known for their trademark mustache and considered friendly to humans and are very popular on the black market. you can take an animal out of the wild, but you can want take the wild out of the animal. for anybody who thinks i can turn this into a good pet, you re wrong. you re wrong. reporter: it s the dallas zoo s fourth animal mystery in less than a month. on january 13th, a leopard was missing. on january 21st, an endangered vulture was discovered dead. what we found was deemed to be very suspicious, not a natural death. reporter: there are issues a causing other zoos to analyze their own security. my fear is that it s going to get so bad we have to make so many different types of barriers and security that we lose the ability to do what we were meant to do. to connect people to animals and that s really a sad state.