surveys in waters facing china. the chinese have said the research vessels like bowditch have been spying on chinese activity in the south china sea. what most experts who tell you when the chinese dook the drone out of the water, they likely knew they would be sending a message to the united states. that message being, they are not happy with u.s. naval operations in that part of the south china sea. back to you. and coming up, china will have to deal with donald trump and he was quick to weigh if on china's seizure of drone. the u.s. president-elect took to twitter early saturday and called the action unprecedented. later, he tweeted, we should tell china we don't want the drone they stole back. let them keep it. trump wrapped up his thank you tour with a rally in mobile, alabama. trump told the large crowd of supporters that returning to the deep south was a homecoming of sorts. cnn's ryan nobles was there. >> donald trump making good on a