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Saturday, and we are told that "uss path find are" a survey ship, is on-site and mapping that out rooun right now and th debris field is 15 football fields by 15 football fields. they're still going through this recovery operation and they have not given us any details yet on what they have actually been able to recover intact from this balloon. of course that is going to be really key in terms of what they are able to recover and then send to a lab to analyze and what they can find out anything more about china's surveillance program here. abby? >> yeah. this is a huge piece of that puzzle. n...

>> wreckage recovered from the chinese spy balloon, if it's recovered, that u.s. fighter jet shot down into the atlantic ocean and on the coast today will be taken to an fbi lab for analysis. an official tells cnn the fbi will be working with the defense department and counter intelligence employees. josh campbell, former fbi agent, joins us now. this is going to be fascinating to see this untowed. i imagine they're going to be taking the debris and going through it piece by piece? >> yeah, that's right. and jim, to the extent that this intelligence collection apparatus survived the shoot down...

>> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted air space that it put in place that says at the request of the department of defense, because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over the coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted air space twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted air space that's been in place post-9/11 over washington, d.c. what was very telling about this when this went into place about 1:30 p.m. on the east coast on saturda...

In north america. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the u.s. military right now working to salvage that suspected chinese spy balloon after it was shot down over the atlantic. president biden giving the go ahead to shoot it down several days ago, and the pentagon waiting until it was out over water to execute that order. on saturday, a single u.s. missile hit the balloon at an altitude of some 12 miles or 20 kilometers. the debris is now said to be on the ocean floor but in relatively shallow water. china's foreign ministry protesting the shoot-down of what it said was a rese...

Some Granite Staters down in South Carolina witnessed the suspected Chinese spy balloon being shot down on Saturday.