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now i'm being told that is actually a plane after the strike of a balloon and then the balloon then losing shape, going down. security analyst is back with us. juliette, maybe your eyeballs are more trained than mine. we can at least see, perhaps, with a tighter view it looked like that balloon was disintegrating, as we heard an eyewitness describe earlier. can you decipher what's going on here for me? i hear your doorbell. >> i'm sorry. so you've got the -- look, the f-22 or f-15, we don't know which ones yet, we'll get a debrief from the pentagon, from areas in the carolinas, the m...

you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let's get straight to cnn's or...

security concerns for days. most of the wreckage is believes to be sitting in 47 feet of water at this hour. let's go now to oren at the pentagon. do we think we might have get an update this evening as to whether or not they have been able to secure that wreckage and retrieve it? >> they'll put a perimeter around it with navy and coast guard assets that were in the area. whether they can retrieve it tonight or tomorrow, that's a different question. 47 feet of water according to a senior defense official, so not that deep, but still it's a question of what's left, what's down there a...

down the financial sector. coming on the heels of the major collapse of silicon valley pank. we'll dig into the investigations now being launched into svb, including whether bank executives sold any stock before the spectacular meltdown also right now, abortion rights are firmly in the spotlight in a texas courtroom a judge is set to gavel in a high-stakes hearing over whether to pull a major abortion pill off the market we're expecting crowds of support etc. to gather outside the courthouse how soon the judge could make a decision and how tar beyond texas it could reach plus mic...

let's go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that's right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. >> the chinese balloon -- >> we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barac...