stay right where you are. cory coffin comes to pick up the coverage right now. good morning, welcome into you, i m cory coffin current you from new york. we will begin with the latest on the high altitude object that was fly over alaska airspace, and shot down by the u.s. military yesterday. ce, and it has been less than ak since a trial spy balloon was discovered flooded over the u.s., it was a sudden eventually shot down over the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. pentagon officials would not confirm whether or not the new object was also a balloon, or what the country of origin was. officials did say the object was roughly the size of a small car. flying at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircrafts. here is national security spokesperson and retired admiral john kirby yesterday. i can confirm that they department of defense was tracking a high altitude object over alaska didn t base in the last 24 hours. the object was flying a
Its Defense Spending because its looking at north korea, chinese aggression and also looking ahead possibly to another Trump Administration where its not so sure the us welcome to the rescue. And its making these investments to be able to stand on its own there clearly also emphasizing here, theyre unity, right . But there is something obviously hanging over this. And we understood from mj lese reporting that it might not come off, which is the us still deal. However, it did come up, obviously they were going to be asked about it and that is japans largest steel maker offered to purchase us steel to the tune of 14 in december. The biden is very opposed to this. Hes trying to stand with the union and i wonder what you made the question as it was, was did it come up . Did the topic come up . No. The answer is no one answer directly. And Prime Minister kishida basically said discussions are underway between the parties and then he sort of said japan believes something to the effect of bas
Turkey views the airdrop of humanitarian aid to Gaza and a plan to deliver aid via a maritime route as positive developments, but thinks they fall short of resolving the core problem, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. NATO member Turkey has been very critical of Israel for its attacks on Gaza and backed steps to try its leadership at the World Court for genocide. It has repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire, sent thousands of tons of aid and urged the West to exert pressure on Israel for increased aid flows.
in the earthquakes, despite the city flow of international aid flow going in the turkey, aid flows are of a secondary disaster brought on the hunger, disease, and freezing temperatures in the region. nbc s matt bradley joins me now from turkey reporting on the ground live. matt, have rescue workers said how much longer they think anyone could survive under the rubble? all right, we have lost max audio, we are going to go back to him as soon as we can to get that live report. in the meantime you can t talk, what we are saying he can t talk because there are searches going on. they need other silence when they do these searches because if there is anybody calling out in the rubble, rescue workers need to be able to hear that. what we will do is we will get