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Information about things in the continental u.s. so they've been tracking this for several days, but one of the differences here, this is not unprecedented. the chinese have had surveillance balloons like this, and in fact, they've even come close and gone into the continental u.s. the difference here is this one straight into the u.s. and it stayed. it hovered. in the past they've maybe come in and then left quickly. officials here at the pentagon became so concerned that on wednesday secretary of defense lloyd austin convened this meeting of senior military leaders. he was in manila at the t...

Minute, what can they do if they see that it is potentially going to a location that the u.s. doesn't want it to be surveilling, and obviously they maintain the right to bring this balloon down, but in addition to that, they are taking some steps on the ground. some things as simple as just moving, moving things out of the sight of this surveillance drone. remember, chris, china has satellites that are already seeing a lot of these things. there's commercial satellites that can see some of these things anyway. defense officials we've been speaking to about it say the collection capability of t...

>> on that subject, the pentagon says that the decision was made not to shoot the balloon down, at least right now, because debris could injure or kill people on the ground, seriously damage buildings. take a listen to what former defense secretary under the trump administration, mark esper, said about that subject earlier on cnn today. >> my interest would be not necessarily shooting it down but bringing it down so that we can capture the equipment and understand exactly what they're doing. are they taking pictures? are they intercepting signals? what are they doing and what is the level of t...

16 of the large balloons. some of those smaller balloons are already out on the parade route ready to go. it's looking like thumbs up. the very start of the parade for the 93rd macy's thanksgiving day parade. happy thanksgiving to you. >> happy thanksgiving. >> miguel marquez balloon. >> there should be. >> there should be a miguel marquez balloon. >> we need to work on that for 2020. >> there should be. >> no matter what the wind. >> you can't keep that miguel marquez balloon down. >> in places you wouldn't want it to fly. >> that's a different segment. thank you, my friend. your hour-by-ho...