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so now here's what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there's a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and...

collecting over his state. james clyburn on the impact this is having on the president's big state of the union speech tomorrow. republican senator tom tillis on bipartisan calls for the administration to get tough on china and fast. it is all straight ahead. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. let's get to it with lucas tomlinson at the white house. hi, lucas. >> hi, neil. the white house press briefing just wrapped up and karine jean-pierre says things will china will continue to be calm despite u.s. forces shooting down a chinese spy craft. this was not the first brush with the chinese spy ...

course, it's been a really fun series to watch. all right. thank you. and the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. it is the top of a brand new hour. good morning to you. and welcome to cnn this morning . i'm victor blackwell. camera walker. thank you for sharing a part of your morning with us, and there won't be much trash talking here at least between me and victor right during the commercial during the commercial breaks. here's what we're watching this morning major decision by the supreme court and a major win for abortion rights supporters, a widely used abortion pill...

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 hun...

rocked two countries. more than 2,200 are dead in turkey and syria. thousands more injured. we've got the latest details. a new republican criticism this morning of how the biden administration handled the suspected chinese spy balloon drifting for days over the u.s. before the military shot it down over the weekend. all this as president biden red december to address the nation tomorrow. a huge night for a star-packed grammy awards. that's bad bunny. we'll tell you who made history. we begin with that breaking news, a deadly catastrophe unfolding right now in tour key and sy...