live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
did you murder paul? i would never hurt paul. court adjourned late today capping a stunning week by my measure. so what was it like in court today? well anderson, this was the first time we got to see the prosecutor question alex murdaugh about the night of the murders. he asked him what time he got to the kennels where the murder took place. and he asked them these questions repeatedly presumably to try to trip him up. but he kept coming back to the same theme. don t believe what alex murdaugh tells you. i have lied well over a decade. reporter: that is what he was trying to propose on the stand. i told a lie about being down there and got myself wed to that. reporter: waters tried to box murdaugh into a corner using cell phone data and time line evidence from the night of the murders. i m still not absolutely certain how they ended up at the kennel. reporter: murdaugh told the jury he drove his golf cart to meet his wife and son at the kennels. he said t
we begin with the recovery efforts under way off the south carolina coastline following that dramatic takedown of a suspected chinese spy balloon yesterday. the u.s. military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifted over the atlantic near myrtle beach. president biden saying he ordered the military to take it down on wednesday. now, efforts are under way to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last few days. chinese is accusing the u.s. of overreacting. we re covering this from all angles from the nation s capital to the coast where the balloon was shot down. let s start with diane gallagher in surfside beach, south carolina, where the recovery operation is under way, even though the conditions right now are allwful. what are you hearing about the search and recovery efforts of the debris? reporter: the weather not exactly clear as it was yesterday when everybody here in the myrtle beach
$25 million to help mothers, abortion activists stormed the state capitol building. the most egregious form of restrictions are the lack of restrictions. democrats are tapping the lead counsel on first impeachment to hear testimony into bragg s motivation. if there is a appearance of a conflict you get off the case. it is inherent conflict and they are touristing it. usfl convict singing off second season show boats and the philadelphia star. it brings us together from so many different background. brian: national guard member accused of will disclosing highly secret intelligence. set to appear today. the fbi as you can see right there excourting out jack teixeira from his massachusetts home at gunpoint yesterday as a fallout from one of america s most serious security breaches ever deepens. ainsley: there he is t-shirt and red shorts. teixeira may not be the only ones facing charges in this. federal authorities are looking at him like a ringleader of source
show boats and philadelphia star. brings us together from so many different background and that s what i love. ainsley: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. air national guard members accused of sharing intelligence secrets is set to appear in court today. steve: that s right. the fbi as you can see right there leading jack teixeira out of massachusetts home at gunpoint yesterday as fallout from one of america s most security breaches deepens. brian: alexandria hoff has the latest. alex? good morning. according to the pelc this was a deliberate criminal act but what motivated teixeira, that is still a mystery as is why a junior air guardsman was able to gain access to such secret military planning. the 21-year-old was based in cape cod and served as tech especiallyist for the air national guard. he was taken into custody outside his family s home. today the justice department arrested jack douglas teixeira alleged retention of classified national defense in