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Potential breakthrough in the search in the atlantic from the debris from the chinese spy balloon. crews have recovered what north com calls significant debris including all the priority sensors and electronics as well as large sections of the structure. but big questions tonight about the shoot-downs of three smaller objects last week. the white house said today those unidentified ones which told congress are likely balloons could be for benign commercial use or academic research. the joint chiefs chairman acknowledging it took two missiles to bring down one of them. >> on the fourth one over...

Maritime space. we're very deliberate in our planning. north com does that with the pilots themselves. we're very careful to make sure those shots are safe. that's the guidance from the president. shoot it down, make sure we minimize collateral damage and we preserve the safety of the american people. >> are you confirming the other three objects were also -- >> i'll use the word object. that's what everyone is using. we'll see. they're not recovered yet, as you know. number two, three and four not recovered yet. number one we are recovering and getting a lot of stuff off that. two, three and ...

We'll get them eventually. it will take some time to recover those. >> to dmytro. >> to courtney kube who is standing by for us in brussels. let me ask you in general, we're not getting much new. give me a sense of how much of a conundrum this placed on not only the biden administration, but those two officials we're listening to, the top officials in the dod. >> reporter: that's right. so remember these are two people inside the room when they're doing the -- making the -- having the discussion about what to do. so, back to the very first one of these objects, this high surveillance chinese s...

We will evaluate each and every event on its own merits and we'll make decisions based upon the recommendations of north com, norad commander, the chairman of the joint chiefs. they'll make recommendations to me and i'll evaluate and make recommendations to the president. again, these three events, each presented a risk to safety of flight. we don't know if they were actually collecting intelligence, but because of the route that they took out of an abundance of caution, we want to make sure we have the ability to examine what these things are and potentially what they were doing. >> the defen...

That is the latest coming into cnn at this very moment. we're learning the faa is closing more airspace over montana. natasha bertrand joins us on the phone. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we are just learning that the faa has restricted some airspace in montana for, quote, national defense airspace. and it is not immediately clear the reason for this, but the faa has made similar flight restrictions in recent days when operations took place to shoot down the spy balloon last week and the object on friday near alaska. now cnn has reached out to the faa, north com, and the department of def...