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you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. yet another shootdown of a high altitude object. this one in the skies over northern canada. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau this afternoon gave norad the order to shoot it down and a u.s. fighter jet successfully just did that. it is not clear if it is related to yesterday's incident off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. natasha joins us now along with pa...

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Happening, i suppose, until something puts a stop to it. it is very strange. we were just talking about a chinese spy balloon a week ago and things have changed dramatically. what's going on? we don't even know what these objects are. isn't that puzzling? >> yes. it is. i want to pick up on what natasha was reporting. after the chinese incident balloon last week, our air surveillance has increased. that goes through norad. norad is a unique entity. its commander reports to both the united states president and the prime minister of canada. so when trudeau calls this, it is both the canada and t...