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hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i'm fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis....

with the united states says with a chinese surveillance balloon, roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina. well within u.s. territorial airspace. the balloon crashed into the atlantic ocean, creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in relatively short shallow water. the recovery of that debris is ongoing, including navy divers, the coast guard, and other manned and unmanned salvage feedback vessels. the fbi counter intelligence agents are also on board the recovery vessels, officials say there are plenty to learn from that debris, but added that they h...

Meteorological purposes. a weather balloon, in other words. which, deviated far from its plan course because of strong winds, which is a bit hard to believe given that montana, where the balloon was actually hovering for about a day is more than 6000 miles away from mainland china. it is also home to one of america's three nuclear missile silo fields, which operates and maintains intercontinental ballistic missiles. indeed, a senior official in a bomb, was monitoring several -- sites, including a collection pod and special solar panels. more damning, the u.s. has confirmed that another chinese...

Officials simply aren't buying china's claim this was an errant weather balloon. one senior administration official i spoke with last need said they are confident that china was trying to seek and gather information over possible military sites. additionally, they've been pointing to some of the technical components of this balloon, things like -- that collection pod and also the solar panels that were located on that metal truss below it. they're arguing ha is not consistent with steve meteorological devices. as president biden asked his team to formulate plans for shooting down this balloon,...