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live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you're looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highligh...

united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. >> spy balloon down. a recovery effort now underway after fighter jets launched a precision strike. cnn has reporters across the globe on the latest developments. plus -- parts of the u.s. finally warming up, this after record-breaking freezing temperatures, the coldest in decades in some areas. we'll look at when people can see relief. and basketball superstar lebron james continues to chip away at the nba's a...

You know what makes sense to me as a former fbi agent? someone who has worked with the fbi laboratory? why the fbi would be the location this would go? this will be a multi agency operation. you often think about dna forensic analysis, firearm analysis, but there's an entire division call the operational technology division. these are the technical wizards that are responsible for assistance with offensive intelligence collection. we help with court authorized surveillance ance that the fbi does and help the fbi intelligence community defeat foreign penetration. that makes sense to me. second,...

Well. there's also a very public component to this as well. there will be a public accountability component. we've heard a number of politicians criticizing the white house, why wasn't something done sooner. there'll be a report, what did the fbi find, what was on this balloon, and that's why the fbi would lead it rather than the cia agencies don't like to be out there in the realm. meanwhile the pentagon said another balloon was flying over latin america. this video was filmed in san jose, costa rica, on thursday. cnn spoke with a witness who filmed it, though, he thought he was seeing a uf...