Ocean Shelf News Today

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...

That would be roughly an 8500 mile trip or 1/3 of the distance around the world. lets look at what it came over on the way here. when we had these spottings here, it gave us an idea of the path it was following through the united states here. these reports maybe it was guided to some degree, but this matches up pretty well with what the jet stream would do with any balloon out there. what did it pass over? close to a dozen nuclear facilities, missile facilities. five or six large military facili...

Waves also have a big difference based on the ocean shelf. you dont get as high a ways in the golf because it is just that very flat fee that you can walk out in a very different thing. that energy is pulling him towards the miami area and will be very concerning for us. we will see the storm surge moving in in the center of the storm just crossing the keys right here getting pummeled with this. the line of red right there is the strongest we have of all of the winds. anywhere from key west, and...

To 60. our neighbors to the north might even be a little bit worse because of geography and the way the ocean shelf sits off of our coast. but thats the most troubling thing. its why i personally left with my family. >> okay. mayor todd wodraska, jupiter, florida. thanks for taking a few minutes. we appreciate that. much more of our live team coverage ahead as hurricane matthew continues to make its way to florida. millions of people now in its path. were going to stewart, florida where people a...