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"the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news -- welcome to "the lead." im pamela brown in washington, d.c. in for jake tapper. >> and im wolf blitzer. after the attacks and the israeli military now surrounding an inside significant areas gaza city and the bombardments continues to take a devastating stake on those inside. they cannot keep up with the amount of injured and sick cases. at least 9,000 people killed in israeli attacks on gaza acco...

Would want to take a look at because theyre building their own missile fields. in fact, the pentagon is just now saying that china right now has more intercontinental ballistic missile silos, not necessarily warheads or missiles. but silos. then the united states and so, but right now, the pentagon is reader, and they dont know the origin of these last two flights, his last two objects that were shot down over canada and alaska over the past two days. the one canada today yesterday in alaska the...

Big worry. >> yes, trace, i certainly think its a big worry. this balloon hovered over not only our missile fields of which we only have three, it hovered over one of them but also hovered over the command, the strategic command, that command and controls all of our nuclear missile sites, and then weve asked a lot of questions and were still waiting on the analysis, i dont think we know yet for sure what exactly they were able to take and what they were able to transmit back to beijing, but trac...

Elections. these protesters also want elections in congress. lets go back to top story — and the us shooting down that chinese balloon off the coast off south carolina. dr michael clark is a defence and security analyst. i asked him whether the balloon presented any intelligence danger. i dont think it presented any any surveillance danger, given the areas that it went over. it wasnt going to pick up very much from montana or the midwest states where the missile fields were, where the american...

Blown off course whilst it was gathering weather i spoke to earlier to dr michael clarke — a defence and security analyst — and asked whether the balloon presented any surveillance danger. i dont think it presented any any surveillance danger, given the areas that it went over. it wasnt going to pick up very much from montana or the mid—west states where the missile fields were, where the americans keep their intercontinental ballistic missiles. there was nothing to be gained from that tha...

Capture the equipment and understand what they are doing. are they taking pictures? are they intercepting signals? what are they doing and what is the level of technical capability? it will tell us about what they are trying to learn and what their capability is of doing that. failing that, i would definitely shoot it down provided there is no risk to people on the ground. >> so you are surprised that this is hovering over the continental u.s.? >> absolutely. not just the continental united stat...

With intermediate deadlines, wolf? >> orrin, this report comes in the middle of heightened tensions between china and taiwan. is there concern over chinas plans for this expanded arsenal? >> absolutely. china in the past has stated for decades now that it wants a lean and effective nuclear stockpile, but obviously, 1,000 nukes would be well beyond that. it also puts into question the stated no-use policy with some exceptions to that where there would be a first-use policy and there are other war...

Missile fields and bomber bases. and so unfortunately, we have left that flank unprotected. there are ideas and recommendations weve made for trying to, in a hurry, close this gap in our defenses. they could also do it by launching a balloon or short-range missile off of a ship, a freighter, north korea had a freighter with a nuclear capable missile in 2015. we only found out about that because they tried getting back to the panama canal and found hundreds of missiles hidden in bags of sugar on ...

Distance to our missile fields and bomber bases and so unfortunately we have left that flank unprotected. there are ideas and recommendations weve made for trying to, in a hurry, close this gap in our defenses. they could also do it by launching a balloon or a short range missile off of a ship, off of a freighter. north korea had a freighter with a nuclear capable missile in the gulf of mexico back in 2013. we only found out about that because they tried getting back to the panama canal and foun...

Distance to our missile fields and bomber bases and so unfortunately we have left that flank unprotected. there are ideas and recommendations weve made for trying to, in a hurry, close this gap in our defenses. they could also do it by launching a balloon or a short range missile off of a ship, off of a freighter. north korea had a freighter with a nuclear capable missile in the gulf of mexico back in 2013. we only found out about that because they tried getting back to the panama canal and foun...