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Room in montana to take this down. like montana is the atlantic ocean of states, okay? if you can take a balloon down, you can do it there. the biden family must have never taken a road trip in montana to believe you couldn't do it. but before that, it was in alaska. this thing was in the alou schenn island a chinese spy balloon and they knew about it for two days and they didn't do anything. of all the excuses they made the worst one was they couldn't have acted preemptively. they could have and as a result the chinese got who knows what intelligence from this. >> greg: they saw how tract i h...

Days. they do not expect this to play out for several weeks or several months. we are told once that process is done, they will go ahead and take that debris from here in south carolina up to virginia. >> carlos suarez with the latest from myrtle beach. we have more on the recovery efforts. alex, what can you tell us? >> reporter: the u.s. military is sending a salvage ship up that way. they are trying to get as many pieces of this balloon as its surveillance equipment in hand as they can. this debris field is about seven miles wide. they are encouraged by the fact that it is only about 47 f...

Arriving at quantico according to a law enforcement source. the debris could help provide key answers about the balloon's capability. the faa is restricting air space off the south carolina coast, that is where cnn's dianne gallagher is tracking the recovery efforts in the waters off the carolina coast. tell us what you're seeing? >> reporter: yeah, john. i can tell you that we are much further closer to the coastline than we were earlier this morning, and that's because essentially we went out on this shrimp boat to see what we could see from this recovery. we know that it was about six nauti...

The debris stretches over seven miles. the chinese called it an overreaction. the us insisted on using force in disregard of china's repeated explanations, which is an obvious overreaction. china firmly opposes it. the us should not continue to escalate and prolong the situation. republicans in us congress take a different view, and they say the delay in shooting the balloon down was a mistake. if you look at the path, i believe that they were trying to gain information on how to defeat the command and control of our missile defence systems. that's a crisis. that certainly should have had an u...

With the closure of this airspace, so we thought, "right, the actual mission there, to shoot the balloon down, is imminent," but did you get any sense of that? i down, is imminent," but did you get any sense of that?— get any sense of that? i think i might've — get any sense of that? i think i might've been _ get any sense of that? i think i might've been the _ get any sense of that? i think i might've been the last - get any sense of that? i think. i might've been the last person to realise what was happening! laughter but my friends and some of my neighbours i think knew this was going o...