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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...

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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...

Some area churches are celebrating Christmas virtually, offering livestreamed services, and others are gathering in person while following COVID-19 health and safety practices. For the parish of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Angola, there will be four days of celebrating the Mass of Christmas Day. “Four days of Christmas? Not 12?” a parish blog rhetorically asks on its website. The blog then goes on to provide a detailed description of Christmas worship options at St. Anthony’s and St. Paul’s Chapel at Clear Lake that are being offered in response to COVID-19. Th...