a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, the u.s. and canada authorized the takedown of a third high-altitude object in recent days, but just what was it? even as the death toll in syria and turkey climbs, officials are looking for answers. why did so many buildings crumble? ukraine says it shot down 20 drones from iran during a russian attack. ahead, a live report from kyiv. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it happened again. for the third time in a week, a u.s. fighter jet has shot down an object over north american air space. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, says the latest object violated canadian air space and was taken down by a u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in the northwest of canada. mr. trudeau and u.s. president joe biden authorized the strike by the country s shared air defense organization, norad. we ll hear mor
hello and welcome to all of you watching new state and canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, another shoot-down. this time the unidentified object was in the skies over northern canada. we ll look at the differences. plus we ll take you live to istanbul with a look at incredible stories of hope and survival still coming from turkey six days after the deadly earthquake. and ukraine is facing a new barrage of russian strikes in kyiv. we ll show you the latest on the front lines. we re working to learn more details about what caused canadian and u.s. fighter jets to be scrambled saturday and what triggered the shooting down of another unidentified object over canada. prime minister justin trudeau and president biden agreed to the shoot-down. trudeau said the latest object violated canada s airspace. it will be supported by the canadian armed forces in conjunction with the rcmp. this coordinated operation will allow a further investiga
is of great concern. i m up here working in alaska, obviously it s hugely important to american defense. there s tremendous military presence. in anchorage yesterday and today, for example there were air aawac reconnaissance planes up. the skies were full, a lot of military aircraft coming and going. you know, you can t really overestimate the value of the alaskan defense system and american defense system in alaska. so it s very important on all of those fronts. and you know, the description of the object and the fact that the pilots couldn t really describe it is not surprising. the weather has been rather poor here in alaska and the area around anchorage. we ve had heavy, heavy snowfall. more unusually cold and heavy weather. the skies have been very cloudy. so the fact that the pilots really couldn t see the objects too well is not surprising.
these last two unidentified objects including the scope, the size, the origin, and what exactly the purpose was. arlette saenz, cn, the white house. canada s national minister of defense says the military strike on saturday was the first instance of norad downing an object in canadian airspace. earlier we asked mary schiavo to weigh in on the significance of this. here she is. reporter: more important, we re downing objects. don t know and haven t identified what they were yet. depending on which briefing you review, some of them say they did enter our airspace before we were actually aware of them entering the united states airspace which, you know, is of great concern because i m up here working in alaska, and obviously it s hugely important to american defense. there s tremendous military presence. in anchorage yesterday and today, for example, there were