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hello, and everyone, welcome to cnn newsroom. right now there is a desperate search and rescue operation under way across turkey and syria after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through the two countries before dawn. the death toll now tops 2,700 and will like will keep rising as crews dig through the rubble. more than 120 aftershocks hit after the earthquake, including one almost as powerful as the earthquake itself. buildings crumbled to the ground. people feared trapped inside. others having to run for their lives. rescuers having to reach those who are stuck under piles ...

that is the east coast of the state, a few hours ago, they cleared that airport, grounded the planes, nothing coming in and nothing coming out. and the reason we now know was because they had a planned operation that balloon. let's remind you what this balloon looked like what we have been tracking for a few days. the white balloon... that's been... and then came down across the us. there have been attempts to shoot it down, not done because of the risk of falling debris. also, this seems to not be a huge security risk to the us, given what the balloon was and the fact that chinese s...

you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let's get straight to cnn's or...

Going out, but obviously a lot more to learn as they collect the remains from the ocean. >> thank you. congressman kinzinger, let me start with you. there is a political side of this we're going to talk about and then the practical spy craft of it. and you know a lot about this. this whole thing about there were ones in the past flying all the way from hawaii to florida, last i checked. that's a pretty much end to end. so now they're finding out that that happened in the past. does that make sense to you? >> it can. because so they probably have historical data of what kind of radar returns th...

This whole thing about, there were ones in the past flying all the way from hawaii to florida last check, that is a pretty -- that is pretty much and end. so, now they're finding out that that happened in the past, does that make sense to you? >> it can because, they probably have historical data of what kind of radar returns they've gotten. seeing a balloon on the radar is not actually that easy. keep in mind, the balloon itself, that material is not going to reflect anything on the radar. what you get is the contraption that is holding, it three buses in essence. if you look at on the radar,...