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coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. let's get the latest on the balloon and today's recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. >> i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese government's explanation that it was a civilian aircraft. they have strongly indicated, defense offi...

administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. >> i want to start by doing something that i don't do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn't do that until a ...

hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom," and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, america's school shooting epidemic. vigils held for the victims of the michigan state university shooting, as the country marks five years since the massacre at a high school in parkland, florida. we will hear from survivors of both tragedies. a new report says thousands of ukrainian children have been held in russian camps to be reeducated, militarily trained, and even forcibly adopted. and as the death toll in the ...

this week that their recommendation to president biden was not to shoot this down because of risk to people and property below. so this balloon made its way across a good chunk to have united states, from montana on tuesday and wednesday to where it is now over essentially north carolina where it's reaching the coast and open water beyond that where you no longer have the risk to people and property below. therefore, the question then becomes, does the military change its recommendation and recommend to president joe biden if you go ahead and follow the we'll take care of it, that wi...

now i'm being told that is actually a plane after the strike of a balloon and then the balloon then losing shape, going down. security analyst is back with us. juliette, maybe your eyeballs are more trained than mine. we can at least see, perhaps, with a tighter view it looked like that balloon was disintegrating, as we heard an eyewitness describe earlier. can you decipher what's going on here for me? i hear your doorbell. >> i'm sorry. so you've got the -- look, the f-22 or f-15, we don't know which ones yet, we'll get a debrief from the pentagon, from areas in the carolinas, the m...