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administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t und ....
I think we do know a lot. the pentagon will tell you that they think they have learned a lot over the past seven days what this started a week ago saturday when the balloon first showed up over the aleutian islands, they ve been able to collect information. and now they think they re going to be in a good position. the debris field in the atlantic is not as extensive as they originally thought it might be. they had been talking about seven miles debris field. now it looks like general van herck, the head of north com told reporters this afternoon it s about the size of 15 football fields times five football fields, which pentagon people think is a really small area. they think that s relatively shallow water. they think they ll good able to get a lot of this debris out, and it s going to go to intel ....
Surfside beach, south carolina, where locals on the scene were watching with their own eyes as this massive balloon was shot down. carlos suarez is there. carlos, i m sure this stirred up a lot of reactions on the beach. what are you hearing? reporter: yeah, jim. so that recovery effort is well under way out here. in fact, some of the rain that we ve had seems to have moved through and so we re told that the work to try to get some of this debris out will begin in earnest in the next couple of hours if not the next couple of days. in the last hour or so, we were able to make out what appears to be a military vessel just off the coast here in myrtle beach, south carolina. we re told that all of this is taking place at least ten miles off the coastline. now, officials believe that crews are going to be able to get to this debris site relatively quick in large part because it is in some shallow water off the coastline. initially we re told that officials thought this was going to land i ....
Workers, and every large truck we can find. let me tell you, today in mayfield, we even started moving debris out. when you think 40 hours in, that s a testimony to the people and the workers here and also the workers at that cabinet. division of forestry is assisting with tree removal. we have asked and received assistance from all over the state, and from the federal government including help in search and rescue from federal teams as well as other state teams, and for supplies, especially drinking water and generators, we are now working on getting enough water for the hospitals here to operate on a daily basis until service is restored. we launched the team western kentucky relief fund, wky relief fund. 18,031 donations, over $2.3 ....
Been out. hundreds of kentucky workers and every large truck we can find. and let me tell you, today in mayfield we ve even started moving debris out. and when you think 40 hours in, that is a testament to the people and the workers here and also the workers at that cabinet. division of forestry is assisting with tree removal. we have requested and we have received assistance from all over the state and from the federal government including help in search and rescue, from federal teams as well as other state teams, and for supplies, especially drinking water and generators. we are now working on getting enough water for the hospital here to operate on a daily basis until service is restored. we launched the team western kentucky relief fund at ....