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We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So...

the president absolute was involved in this decision. he ordered it at the recommendation of pentagon leaders. he wanted it taken down and they did that. space i would try to glean the low down the chute on second object taken down over our airspace in less than a week for this time our reaction is a whole lot different whole lot quicker. here's at least we know for the time being. the threat to civilian flight was pretty clear given the altitude the thing was flying at. that is why the president ordered it shot down. but, this is what we still do not know, where did it come from and...

the suspected chinese spy craft brought down a week ago. according to the white house this is about the size of a small sedan, a lot smaller than the balloon. it was not equipped with a significant payload, in fact, who or what yesterday's object belonged to is still up for question. >> we're calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it's a -- whether it's state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned. we just don't know. >> well, the object's flight path over alaska was north easterly. it's unclear where it ...

60,000 feet which is above civilian air space, didn't pose any danger to civilian aircraft, but it was flying more in the 40,000 foot range. we do know that from public reporting. that does pose a potential challenge to civilian aircraft. that's why the president ultimately ordered it taken down. neil: we talked about senator tim kaine talking about it coming down. it was an object flying within the range that commercial aircraft do. and bipartisan support the president having done that. not so much how he handled the balloon incident about a week ago. let's go to alexandria hoff how lawmakers...

Merits. no indication at this time that it was maneuverable. but again, we'll know more. and in terms of entering the united states, it did enter u.s. airspace, and we took it down. >> reporter: did you gain intelligence from this as you did the previous one? >> we're going to recover what we can and more to follow. >> reporter: was the decision to take it down before it entered too far in u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to political will? >> we're going to judge each object on its own merits, it entered in u.s. air face. we set up aircraft to saesz aesz -- assess what it was. the president...