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You can see in other videos these fighter jets just drawing contrails until they could get the right moment. president biden commended these pilots. a commendable job this afternoon in the shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon. >> unbelievably impressive. pete, we have new video in. i want you to watch it with me. i'll be seeing it for the first time, just as i believe you will be, too. it gives another point of view on the actual hit and you're going to hear it as well, i'm told. let's take a listen and watch right now. >> oh, gosh. now is that the firing of that, you know, arsenal or is tha...

0 effort to take this balloon down, that would pose a risk to these airplanes down below. so we're seeing this sort of take place to make it so that the area below is clear and safe for this to possibly happen. we will see exactly when that takes place. we know from the ground stop that was published by the faa, that is in place until 2:45 eastern standard time, so another 45 minutes. and this is also impacting, you know, flights that are going into other places. so this might mean that commercial flights on the ground are being told to stay on the ground so the trickle effect, the trickle-dow...

The US Department of Defense said on Thursday that they had communicated to Beijing “through multiple channels" over the incident, declining to say, however, whether the Chinese government had admitted the balloon was theirs

I will not go into specific intelligence that we may have, again, we know this is chinese balloon and it has the ability to maneuver, but i'll leave it at that. >> once it is over a body of water, will you shoot it down? >> again, right now we're monitoring the situation closely reviewing options, beyond that, i will not have additional information. tony. >> one quickie, can you confirm the photos this is not the man on the moon and that is the actual balloon? >> thanks, tony. certainly aware of photos posted online, i will not get into the business of confirming whether or not those are -- wh...

The US military says it has been tracking the surveillance device for days, but has not shot it down due to risk of harming people on the ground.