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united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. >> spy balloon down. a recovery effort now underway after fighter jets launched a precision strike. cnn has reporters across the globe on the latest developments. plus -- parts of the u.s. finally warming up, this after record-breaking freezing temperatures, the coldest in decades in some areas. we'll look at when people can see relief. and basketball superstar lebron james continues to chip away at the nba's a...

And conduct espionage from a balloon platform and, again, perhaps this is what china's doing here. >> we might see more of these in the future. i appreciate your expertise on this, iain boyd. divers from the u.s. navy are working to recover the balloon and its payload from the atlantic ocean. it will be taken to the fbi lab to quantico, virginia, for analysis. cnn's tom foreman has challenges ahead. >> reporter: this is the portion of the balloon they want to get their ands on, the payload. when the balloon was destroyed, you could clearly seeing it falling away below. if this had the mass o...