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hello, everyone. at this hour, trying to cling to hope as rescue and recovery efforts continue in turkey and syria and the death toll continues to climb. plus, new details out today of what that chinese spy balloon may have been capable of. a member of congress who was just briefed on the incident is our guest. and north korea is showing off the military arsenal a very big way as kim jong-un's daughter is stepping out into the spotlight. thank you for being here. i'm kate bolduan, and the images coming out of turkey and syria continue to boggle the mind of how widespread and ju...

all of that is coming up. but first -- >> you're here today. your ceo didn't want to show up. >> i want to sincerely apologize impacted by this. caused a loft of anguish. >> people want to know if we're going to invest in this system so it won't happen again. >> we need to invest in technology and also in our operational system because the winter operations were too much for us. >> it was a failure epically from top to bottom. >> it's obvious that ya'll messed up and your customers, they expect you to fix it. >> neil: all right. the fix is not in, at least not yet. a south airlines n...

balloon after it reveals it was capable of collecting evidence. the president's critics say it should have been shot down sooner. >> they had a chance to shoot it down over water and they did and recovered major pieces of it. >> have relations now between u.s. and china taken a big hit? >> no. no. >> owl speak to former defense secretary leon panetta whose criticism of the spy balloon and its response has caught the president's attention. and as the death toll rises to 19,000 people, and hope fades to find any more survivors, we'll talk to david milla land, the president of the int...

hunt is live with us with the breaking news. >> good evening, trace. we learned the balloon is just one of a fleet operated by the chinese military. with a significant game of spying on the u.s. in this game, many other countries in many other cases and the balloon shot down by a u.s. fighter jet on saturday was laden with sophisticated equipment to gather intelligence and possibly to transmit that intelligence directly to beijing. >> the tool package, the equipment package on that balloon, was enormous. we were not able to jam the transmissions. we don't know the extent of the progr...

seems a little odd that the black kid are there with a white santa. >> it's all good. >> to each his own. >> you was scared of santa. he's got the cutest things. >> you can't really see my phone. there's a black santa and white santa stocking that we found. >> ryan, you're the best. thank you. >> "cnn this morning" continues right now. so glad that you could join us this morning on the eve before the eve of christmas. good morning, everyone. poppy and kaitlan are off and i'm here with the lovely and smart and talented sara seidner. >> i was wondering where you were going with that ...