Metrics System News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

good to be with you, i'm kay katy tur, the chinese spy balloon is still hanging over the white house. why they didn't know about it sooner and what the u.s. was able to gather about the balloon while it was still in the air. the gang of eight is waiting for a full briefing. the white house has offered one and it's expected to get on the schedule next week. house intel chair republican mike turner said the balloon exposed a weakness at the top. >> clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear w...

You're right, republicans are trying to make this a referendum on biden's leadership, even democrats are saying why did we find out so late. >> the biden administration says the reason they didn't want to shoot it down earlier is they didn't want to hurt anybody or damage infrastructure. it's 200 feet tall. the payload attached to it was similar in size to a regional jet liner, weighing more than 2,000 pounds. the debris field at the moment after it was shot down over the ocean is about 1,500 meters by 1,500 meters, in other words, for us americans who don't do the metrics system, 15 football ...