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From smoke to anything else. >> reporter: there is no other aircraft up in the air, because there is going to be a flight restriction that is 30 miles wide. >> reporter: those flight restrictions will be enforced by norad with these f-16 fighter jets. >> we have been able to safely escort out any aircraft that has violated the flight restrictions. >> reporter: and they apply to these drones, and this is belonging to the photo journalist, and our pilot here, and we are using it as a prop, because this is a no-drone zone, and any individual who violates that rule, could face from $30,000 fine up...

>> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted air space that it put in place that says at the request of the department of defense, because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over the coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted air space twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted air space that's been in place post-9/11 over washington, d.c. what was very telling about this when this went into place about 1:30 p.m. on the east coast on saturda...

That haven't been seen in a long time. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted airspace it put in place because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over if coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted airspace, twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted airspace that's been in place over 9/11 since washington, dc, what's very telling about this that took place around 1:00 p.m. on saturday is it was up to 60,000 feet, which the pentagon sai...

Minutes. so then they're going to have to collect it. so i would imagine it's possible that the stop might be expanded. >> mary, stand by. i want to bring in cnn's natasha bertrand because earlier we heard a posting from the president when he was spontaneously asked -- i mean, these are live pictures right now. he's been in syracuse, new york, and he is momentarily going to be departing. but it wasn't that long ago that the white house press pool asked him what are you going to do about this balloon, and he says, we'll take care of it, if i'm quoting properly. and now, not long after that, we'...

In which the u.s. military, intelligence, all parties have been taking this to now make the decision that it's important to have this temporary flight restriction in place, ground stoppage, at three coastal airports, and to also declare this a national defense air space. >> first of all, everybody has agreed that this is not a weather balloon, it's a surveillance balloon, and the payload passenger is the size of three school buses. so this is a substantial payload. there's no telling what's in there. this is much bigger than what you would have on a normal spy satellite, the kind that we use. ...