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good morning, everyone. welcome to "cnn this morning." >> i'm a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. >> all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it's expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we're seeing the cold air and tell you when it's going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her h...

a good saturday morning to you. it is saturday, february 4th, you're live in the cnn newsroom, thanks for joining us so much for sharing part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with an eye toward the sky. we're getting new reports about the location of that chinese spy balloon that has been drifting across the country. according to reports, it has been spotted over north carolina an officials say it could move off the east coast and out over the ocean in a matter of hours. >> and as you would imagine, the balloon is raising national security concerns, and it is adding to the ...

following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it's a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn't buying that, calling the balloon's flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn's oren liebermann is a...

oren liebermann at the pentagon. let's go arlette at the white house. >> reporter: president biden offered his first comments on the situation regarding that chinese spy balloon just moments ago, saying they are prepared to take care of it. president biden has been receiving briefings since tuesday, including potential options relating to how they could address this. here is how he answered reporters' questions moments ago. you heard president biden say we are going to take care of it. officials here at the white house say the president is consistently being briefed on the various op...

this week that their recommendation to president biden was not to shoot this down because of risk to people and property below. so this balloon made its way across a good chunk to have united states, from montana on tuesday and wednesday to where it is now over essentially north carolina where it's reaching the coast and open water beyond that where you no longer have the risk to people and property below. therefore, the question then becomes, does the military change its recommendation and recommend to president joe biden if you go ahead and follow the we'll take care of it, that wi...