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Beach essentially flying in a holding pattern. why is that note worthy? because fighters that could be used to shoot this down might need to refuel as they wait for this balloon to reach this area. t the pentagon hasnt confirmed these flights are related in any way to the balloon but they are along that trajectory. >> cnns diane gallagher is in charlotte, north carolina, where there were some sightings of that balloon. what is the latest there? >> reporter: lots of sightings of that balloon over...

At some point if it continues on this path it will no longer be above our airspace and in the control and domain of the united states. is there a point in time where they are going to have to make a decision to destroy it or wait for it to land controlled? >> if they want to look at it from a legalistic standpoint, its better if you bring it down if your territorial waters. thats what you want to do. you want to bring it down in a way that you can control every single last aspect of it. certainl...

Could go out into the ocean. >> right. i mean, its hard to say exactly where it will go because of all the things i just said, the changing of wind speeds, the changing directions, things like that. i think it would be hard for it to end up across the northeast if its solely drifting by the i winds because the winds will be north to south. we have this extreme cold blast in the northeast right now, and thats sort of driving those up level winds from north to south. i think it would hold on to th...

Can do something about it and is choosing not to. so thats the question, is what happens now. our last slide, which well go through briefly, whats the reaction to in? because it could be 60 more hours, will, based on the trajectory of this balloon that the chi-kc concern coms are peeking at us. will: heres pentagon press secretary ryder on other balloons. >> that information is classified, im not able to provide it other than i can confirm that there have been other incidents where balloons did ...

Area. it runs from 12:45 p.m. local to 2:45 p.m. local. according to the faa, it is for the use of national defense air space. any aircraft in that area are told to leave in as expeditious a manner as possible for the duration of this until 2:45 p.m. local. it is right along the trajectory of the balloon from the latest sightings in north carolina and now towards the coast where its headed between that border between north and south carolina. significant because the pentagon until now has recomm...

Demonized her. theres a reason why councillor omar said a few weeks ago this is because shes muslim. she is seeing the trajectory of this gop that began in 2000 in the 22,000 2012 election, saying muslims what islamic law. in 2016 trump take it to new heights saying that we have too many muslims coming into this country, islam hates a grams in this country. mccarthy saw all of that, made the base happy. kevin mccarthy is not like way anyone. hes trying to kiss up to the maga base. this is why he...

Watching what is happening right here on our shores. mike: we heard from the commander in chief, president biden, saying he gave the order on wednesday to take down the balloon. the pentagon made the assetsment it would be better to wait until it got over water as opposed to over the east coast of the united states. your reaction to that information. >> yeah, i just dont think it should have got on the that point. i think it should have been taken down prior to it something our air space. we loo...

But, in this environment, it would seem relatively favorable that they could get most of the pieces together. very different than 1986 when the "challenger" blew up. we covered 43% of it and years later were still finding pieces. this is more likely a lot more compact. thats why they want to get ahold of it. can you figure out what it actually was doing along the way and technologically how it was doing it. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. also back with us now, john miller. lets talk more a...

This weekend to china. so, where did the balloon come from? a us meteorologist has tracked the route it may have taken using a model normally used to look at the spread of pollutants. the bbc�*s data analysts and weather teams say this model takes account things like wind patterns and shows a trajectory from china across the pacific, crossing alaska then canada before entering the us. it was then spotted, supposedly first by civilians on a plane, over rural montana. here, us officials claim, t...

In the world doing this kind of garbage, it requires some explanations and to make sure that if this happens again, we are very confident that there will be no good things that come out of it for china. >> meanwhile, the pentagon said friday evening theres another chinese spy blon over latin america. the u.s. balloons trajectory has it hitting the atlantic by the end of the weekend. the state of the union address is tuesday night. you put those two together and i predict it will be popped in the...