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coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. lets get the latest on the balloon and todays recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. >> i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese go...

administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. >> i want to start by doing something that i dont do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to d...

pete: will almost took out the entire fence line and the guy waving the checkered flag. will: you got me at that turn. pete: he got better as the whole thing went on, and i blocked hi- rachel: i feel like blocking interfered with -- [laughter] pete: that was after i said it was over. rachel: wow. will: was it over? rachel: it looked like you were going to win, will, for quite a while. and then, pete, you pulled it out. you said that this is go-kart season. for me, its the summertime. m...

shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. >> is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinkens visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have...

what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, chinas one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, im incredibly concerned about where, you know, where...

general keane, im not sure if you can see this, but we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balloon has been taken dow- >> oh, thats great. arthel: it is now i falling from the sky there over surfside beach, south carolina. so your reaction to this, sir. >> im watching it. well, first of all, well done. congrats to the military for being able to do that. arthel: very dramatic, indeed. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with the very latest. lucas. >> reporter: ...

just revealed to give the military the order to shoot down that balloon three days ago. lucas tomlinson live at the white house, lucas. >> that afternoon guys u.s. air force f-22 that locked from langley air force base in virginia fired a single sidewinder missile to destroy the spy blimp six off the coast of south carolina took late at 3:30 9:00 p.m. in the afternoon. the debris field is stretching . the u.s. navy is sending a salvage crew. president biden spoke moments ago. >> on wed...

in "the faulkner focus." it will be a kwik trip as you know to new york city from where he is in florida. facing charges related to the stormy daniels hush money case. he is set to be at the courthouse tomorrow in manhattan at 11:00 a.m. his arraignment begins at 2:15 eastern. it may take as few as 15 minutes. after that trump will head back to mar-a-lago and planning a speech tomorrow night. however were learning the judge could take an extraordinary step of imposing a gag order on th...

state of emergency tonight, it comes as florida is dealing with catastrophic damage from in, at least 17 people dead tonight. there are fears that that number will go up. cnns chief climate correspondent is bill weir, and he joins me now. bill, hello once again to you. you say this is some of the worst damage youve ever seen in your career. covering these disasters. tell us what you saw? >> well, by that i mean, don, there are certain sort of moments and scenes in storms that are just ...

somehow. so, anyway, they are getting, this is just south of myrtle beach, down there by garden city, surfside beach on the southern part of the grand strand, just south of the grand strand on down toward georgetown. georgetown in this area here, and then i want to make a note of this spot right here, this is mcclellanville, and behind it is march. it was notorious near hugo, they had a high school that flooded and they had to hang from the rafters and on top of tables and stages to sa...