you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m 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 relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let s get straight to cnn s oren liebermann at the pentagon. oren, what more are you learning? i understand you were listening to officials explain how all of this went down. what can you tell us? it started on wednesday when president joe biden gave the authorization to shoot down the chinese balloo n as soon as possible. there were tankers and others to shoot this down. it was an f-22 that fired an a 9 side wind er. the ai
traditional definition of being in a recession. the second quarter gross domestic product g.d.p. shrank at annual rate of nine tenths of a percentage point. that s the second straight quarterly deficit and that checks the box, historically considered as recessionary. president biden says it s no surprise the economy is slowing down because of inflation. but he insists he has the nation on the right path and, quote: it doesn t look like a recession to me. the president also spent time today on a call with his chinese counterpart in a time increasing tension with communist china. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. the numbers are right there in black and white. the u.s. economy shrunk for a second consecutive quarter. but, until large, well-respected groups, nonpartisan groups of economists issue some sort of a formal declaration that a recession is underway, then officials here
shot of momentum for republicans and signals major gop gains among latino voters with midterms around the corner. carley: griff jenkins has more on the huge win in the other big races of the night. griff: good morning, carley and todd in south texas, wife of a border patrol agent and daughter of legal immigrants. the seat is up again in november. take a look at the race board. nearly a point. dig into the numbers and you see the story. this 34th district president biden carried by four points. go to cam ron county, democratic stronghold along the mexican border, biden won that, butflores ran it. of course they call her sexist and racist, this democrat being party think they hold the vote. griff: former president trump getting victory in south carolina, the first house republican who voted to impeach him. challenger russell fry ousting tom rice. the other high-profile target of the former president nancy mace held on defeating katie arrington. trump predicted her victo
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