it s the top of the hour in cnn newsroom. we re following multi-. concerns about that chinese spy balloon hovering over the u.s. secretary blinken just postponed his stop in china. the pentagon is about the size of three buses. it s huge. it was spotted soaring over montana at 60,000 feet. just moments ago the balloon was spotted over columbia, missouri. the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area. despite growing calls to shoot it down, for now president biden is opting against that. the chinese are saying it s a weather balloon that blew off course. we re aware of the statement. the fact is we know it s a surveillance balloon. i can t be more specific than that. we know the balloon has violated u.s. air space and international law which is unacceptable. we ve conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. john miller is here with us, cnn s intelligence analyst and kylie atwood. tell us abo
They have sensors equipped on them so they can detect vibrations. Using vibration detection, you figure out when a bridge is likely to fail and intervene before that happens. This has huge implications. We saw in minnesota the collapse of the bridge there. Recently i10 outside of los angeles. This is a huge problem in the United States. Using connected devices to get realtime information about which bridges, highway structures should be replaced sooner. I pressed the button everyone told me not to press. I press it again. Hows that . The other thing transforming homes. This is really interesting way. People are familiar with the net thermostat. Now net has whole line of devices. They have along with that, my favorite is a, they have a smoke alarm and Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide detector. This is not just a Smoke Detector connected to to the internet. Why does that even matter right . Working together with the rest of your home system, if there is fire detected in your home for e
Involving party bus. Hello, everybody. And tonight we are learning new information from a witness on that bus, about just about what happened. Fox 25 join u. S. With her story. Well, john according to notes Neither Boston Police or bus company has core rob borated our witnesss story. Sheep say she was passenger on the bus. She says she saw two women dancing with each other and then all of a had fall own out of a window on that bus. 2 00 am the my way in east boston. Police respond to what they one points report as two pedistrians hit by a socalled party bus. But woman who was on that bus, that does not want to be identified either by fate or voice, tells us that knows what happened al ought but reality nor mission i did tushing. Someone said two people fell off the bus. Fell off the bus through with down think passenger says it was fell out of the window . And clearly this someone who was on the bus, as you see her and then she was off of the bus on the street . Yes. Witness describes
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Agents. With reduction of overall numbers. Do you anticipate a need to reexamine and restructure how the Border Patrolmans bases and Forward Operating bases . I share very much the concern we discussed on this hiring issue. For the Border Patrol to be in a downward spiral, which means were not able to hire as fast as attrition is very concerning. I have talked with your staff also about the number of programs that we put in place, particularly to speed up the process. So in these new hiring hubs we can get people through in 160 days until at times, well over a year. That is important. The close cooperation with the department of defense as people leave the department of defense and the active duty military to be able to hire them into the Border Patrol or into customs and Border Protection is particularly important. Working with congress for additional pay for very difficult locations where they work, hardship reimbursement would be particularly helpful. Along with things that weve dis