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you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let's get straight to cnn's or...

Planes are now back in the air all along the kcarolina coast just ahead of the efforts to shoot down the balloon which occurred a short while ago. we've been following that all afternoon. pete muntean joins us now. pete, when the faa put out that notification, that was a pretty clear indication as to where this was heading. >> yeah. you know, the faa really sort of gave off the signals with arrows in red pointing towards exactly what was going to happen here. the shootdown that took place not far off the coast of the carolinas. you can see in the video there the contrails of the f-22 and the m...

Martha: well, there are a lot of bubbling concerns about what iran is now up to on the world stage, building nukes perhaps, a lot of new ed pointing towards that, supplying nations like libya with the ability to use chemical weapons. a while back now republicans are saying the white house is not doing enough in this regard. here is senator mark kirk on that. >> they'll give some pretty good speeches against iran, but they will not take decisive economic action. that may be because they don't want the disruption in western economies, worried about the prospects for the campaign. but i think thi...