the senate will get its own briefing later this morning. bill: the u.s. revealing the spy flight was part of a larger espionage program going on for years. china maintains it with as a weather balloon that drifted off course and traveled over sensitive military sites in the u.s. the pentagon says no chance. i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. we re 100% clear about that. we are very confident we ll be able to detect these kinds of capabilities as evidenced by the continuing body of knowledge that we ve been able to build up on this. obviously that s something our intelligence community will continue to work closely on for this and any other potential threats. dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debris. we begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today s briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members e
he s running for reelection. he s sago owe i m saying he s got a lot of explaining to do about the economy if that s what he s out talking about. i don t think the folks in iowa are going to be real excited about unemployment rate where it is and the number of americans who are out of work. this president has been an ab jekt failure when it comes to the economy. republican candidate michele bachmann s bus will be in dpreenville and spartanburg, south carolina, today. today is the national day of action. latino groups will protest the immigration policies. he s been criticized for the number of undocumented immigrants 1:30 eastern in boston. 2:00 eastern in charlotte and 3:00 eastern in miami. now on to san francisco. bart says the trains are running on normal schedules again. transit officials closed and reopened several downtown stations yesterday to keep protests from getting out of hand. protestors are calling attention to several shootings involving bart polic
that he can win the white house. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. the taliban warn that this will not be the only death. they are claiming back to back suicide bombings at a pakistani training facility in northwest pakistan. at least 80 people were killed, most of them pakistani army recruits. reza is joining us live from islamabad with pretty horrendous crime. what are they saying where you are, reza? reporter: well, wolf, this was a coordinated attack designed to kill a lot of people and indeed it did just that. twin suicide attacks targeting hundreds of army recruits that had just finished an extended training session, about nine months. they were celebrating the night before. they came out of this facility early this morning, ready to go home, about to board some vans and that s when police say a suicide attacker came on the scene, and people were there to help and that s when police said another suicide attacker, and the aftermath was an awful see