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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...

To pick up on one of juliet's points here. the friday shootdown, we don't know what the object was. we know where it was flying. at 40,000 feet. so there was an instant justification to take it down and get it out of the way of the aircraft. that's a big polar route to asia. for this aircraft, they have not said at what height it was moving, but they did say it was a very high altitude. so a big difference about whether it was at 40,000 again or whether it was up at 65,000 where the chinese balloon was. to your question, yeah, if these turn out to be all chinese origin, or even russian origin,...