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coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. let s get the latest on the balloon and today s recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese government s explanation that it was a civilian aircraft. they have strongly indicated, defense officials and administration officials, strongly told us that this was used for spying and they believe it was used to try to collect data about sensitive u.s. military sites across the country. now, that raises an being question, though, and one that the biden administration is going to have to grapple with in the next few days. they know that was the intent of this balloon, why did they not sho ....
martha raddatz with new reporting. scooverseas tonight, and to turkey, where today, 182 hours after the earthquake hit, the extraordinary story of survival. a 13-year-old boy pulled from the rubble. how did he survive a week? and the other teenager discovered alive, as well, the mother kissing his head after he is pulled out from the rubble. and tonight, more than 100 arrest warrants now issued for shoddy construction. marcus moore in turkey. here at home, for the first time in the alex murdaugh murder trial, the police body camera video now made public. police arriving on that scene and what alex murdaugh says to them, saying, it s bad, it s bad, i checked their pulses. the war in ukraine tonight. the u.s. state department is now urging any remaining americans in russia to leave the country immediately or risk getting drafted to fight against ukraine. and did russia already begin a major new offense? what nato is now saying tonight, and what the pentagon believes ....
Balloon, of course. martha raddatz with us from washington. martha, back to these three other objects. it would seem the administration still doesn t know much about these three objects. any idea how long it will take to find them, locate them, and if they are weather balloons or scientific balloons, as you pointed out there, for scientific study, do the agencies or the people that send them up, have to ridge st information somewhere? reporter: well, david, we saw the chinese balloon get shot down off the coast of south carolina, but these other three are in very remote locations and weather has been an issue in the recovery, so, that could take awhile. and no one has reported weather balloons missing, but there are well over 1,000 launched every day worldwide, close to 200 here in the u.s. alone, and they don t have to file a flight plan unless they re near an airport or information is requested, but they do notify before they are launched, and then they are on their own, david. w ....
This. so the congressman obviously a democrat and a member of the house armed services maybe previewing what biden officials are going to tell lawmakers over the next couple of days when they re going to be pressed to explain this situation. it took seven days before the mf administration and the president made the call to shoot this down. the president said he gave the call on wednesday, but it only happened yesterday. no question they re going to face questions about this. there are unintended coincidences, at the same time it sounded as though pentagon officials were saying they were intrigued by this somewhat and wanted to know what s going on here. what can we learn about this thing? thank you very much. now to south carolina where locals watched the balloon get shot down in realtime. carlos suarez is there. officials are working on recovering the debris. what are you seeing right there? any indication at all? any sense at all as to what s happening off the coast in this rec ....