possible explosives to deflate the balloon. gillian: in a moment, karine jean-pierre will be asked questions why the president waited nearly a week to shoot it down. john: we will bring you the white house briefing when it begins. john roberts in washington, good to kick the week off with you. gillian: you, too, john. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. the president said ordered the military to take out the balloon after it had been drifting for days. they say the military should have listened. he projected weakness at this moment. i think the administration lacks urgency. became a situation of argument and everybody wondering what is the administration doing. this is a wake-up call for the country. gillian: john kirby pushed back, said it gave the u.s. time to study the balloon, as well as chinese s motives. john: seems clear china s motive is to replace the united states as the leading superpower. a list of how china has provoked and escalated tension
good morning, top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom i m erica hill. i m jim sueciutto. the head of the epa is headed to ohio two weeks after a train derailment that leaked chemicals into the air and the ground and the water. why are people getting sick? everybody that came here the rail company norfolk southern abruptly pulled out of last night s town hall, citing security concerns we ll go live to east palestine in a moment. standing by for news out of georgia this morning. the fulton county district attorney is expected to release parts of a special grand jury report on former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. it is expected what will be released will be concerns that the panel had about witnesses lying under oath. we are monitoring that. we ll bring you those details as soon as it s released. let s begin in east palstein ohio. residents demanding answers in the wake of that train wreck. they packed a town hall meeting. railroad o
how did this happen? that s an excellent question, katy. the balloon was able to get past our west coast anti-balloon defense system, the seattle space needle, but once it was here, we were able to keep an eye on it with our sophisticated tracking technology of going like this. our thanks to saturday night live there. there are rising dramatic tensions, however, between the united states and china after a white house decision to shoot down that massive spy balloon. we ll walk through what happened and take a look at the growing fallout. plus a powerful earthquake leaves hundreds of people dead in turkey and syria. this morning rescue crews are searching through the rubble for any survivors. and heading into 2024, democrats have approved a new primary calendar, reshaping the way the party picks its precedential nominees, but there are still some potential challenges ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, february 6th. i m jonathan lemire
human smuggling into the country, one day after lawmakers held first site hearing at the actual border. fox news exclusively capturing this video of the group touring rio grand valley last night. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. hoping to force administration to pay attention to what is upon haing. it is important we convene in texas to share light on brutal and unsustainable conditions this president s administration has caused at the border. my hope is for an honest conversation in america at the border tonight with each of you. the u.s.-mexico border is close to 2000 miles long, how many pounds of fentanyl are coming through the ports of entry? we need to secure the border. ashley: todd, who else better to lead this site tour than brandon judd. you can turn on fox news channel nearly any time of day and see brandon on there. he is fired up because what we re seeing at the border is a comp
then there s this. fox on top of china threats heating up and now the u.s. cracking down. from senators taking on tik tok, which could be used to track our movements to defense officials taking aim at chinese made cranes that could be used to track our military shipments. we have you covered with kelly o grady with the crane threat. edward lawrence with the tik tok threat and lieutenant general jerry boykin on suddenly a china global threat. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is your busy world yet again. it s a pattern, isn t it? let s go to kelly o grady in california on a different version of chinese spying. kelly? that s right, neil. this is the new possible chinese spy threat. i m at the port of l.a. these cranes are hard to miss. hiding in plane sight. so for context, they re used to transport containers. the concern that are made by a chinese manufacturing company are being used to spy on. they re being used to call these cranes to a trojan horse that i have s