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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 ...

Over u.s. water and into international waters beyond that, and that's the area where we're looking at, where the pentagon thinking, the u.s. national security thinking might change on whether to shoot this down or not. it is worth noting there is a significant amount of pressure coming from capitol hill, especially republicans, urging the biden administration to take a harder line, and to shoot this thing out of the sky. >> it may happen as we said in a matter of hours, so we'll keep an eye out for that. oren liebermann from the pentagon, thank you you so much. we want to pivot now to the ch...

Severely he views this, here is what he said after announcing his decision to postpone at least for now that trip to beijing. >> i made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in u.s. air space is a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and international law. that it is an irresponsible act, and that the prc's decision to take this action on, on the eve of my planned visit is detriment toll the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have. >> in terms of where pentagon thinking stands at this moment, president joe biden had asked for military options when it was first spott...