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you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across america's skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. >> on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. >> cnn has t...

>> bret: but, first, breaking tonight, increasing concern over aerial objects that were spotted and then shot down over the u.s. and saturday over canada. the total right now is for china blamed for at least one of these so far says the u.s. has sent multiple balloons over its territory in the past year. the biden administration denies this. more of the chinese spy craft has been recovered and is being analyzed from off the coast of south carolina. but, as for the other objects, there is still very little information about what they are, what they were doing and who is behind them. a...

jennifer griffin at the pentagon and the latest information about the balloon. good evening, jennifer. >> good evening, shannon. fox news has learned the chinese spy balloon could exit u.s. continental territory moving off the east coast in the next 60 hours. the spy balloon first flew over alaska on january 28th, exited u.s. airspace and then reemerged to cross into the continental u.s. on january 31st. passing from canada into idaho. the balloon was most recently seen flying over missouri. >> the balloon has changed its course. right now we assess that it will probably be over the ...

and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did. and it came inside our territorial waters. >> will: so, what is this thing? is this another chinese balloon in the pentagon says they have no clue or they are just playing stupid. >> can you say definitively it was not a balloon? >> i don't at this point, considering the fact that we're still assessing the object. i don't want to get into characterizing it. >> will: so, they are calling it an object. we don't know what kind. an object could literally be anything. they say ...

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