underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say that
in the forecast. here in new york city, minus seven degrees. that is not a typo. the wind chill could reach minus 100 degrees on top of mt. washington in new hampshire because of the hurricane-force winds. the arctic blast in the northeast comes after a deadly ice storm reeked havoc across the south leaving eight people dead. we ll check in on the latest forecast in a moment. first, we have our cnn affiliate reporter live on the ground in burlington, vermont. it s close to zero degrees where you are. how are officials in the area bracing for this? how bad are we expecting it to get? good morning. we re no stranger to the cold. this wind chill is really the kicker. as you said, we re teetering on zero to 1 degrees. 200 schools have been closed already. multiple ski resorts is cloeg wh closing because they love the cold. some are staying open with some lifts in and some not. but now this is severe with the wind chill. temperatures here in vermont have dropped 30 degrees since
off today. now, we are looking into the first move the blockbuster anti-trust game against a u.s. company google. now, some sources say that the attorney turned over the classified record to the fbi, and the fbi and the justice department s national security division have now launched a review of the documents and how they ended up in pence s carmel indiana s home. and we will begin a look at how this happened with pence, and tell us more about what you know about the discovery. what happened in light of the biden documents and of course, the trump documents, we are told that the former vice president mike pence asked his personal lawyer to go back and triple-check that there were no classified documents, and he went through four boxes and he found roughly 12 documents with classified markings, and they informed the archives immediately, and the archives informed the justice department and last week, january 19th at 9:30 p.m., the fbi showed up at the pence home in indian
park, california where investigators are searching for what motivated a man to kill ten people on saturday night at a dance studio during lunar new year. police have identified the gunman as 72-year-old huu can tran. he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers closed in on his vehicle following a massive manhunt and this morning we re hearing from one fts heros who helped so stop the carnage. a 26-year-old man who subdued and disarmed the gunman at a second location is speaking out for the very first time. natasha chen joining me now with this hero s riveting account. good morning. what did he say. reporter: well, brandon tsay said he was cleaning up after most customers have gone at the lailai dance studio in alhambra and wasn t paying attention to the front door but he heard it close and he saw this man and heard the sound of metal rubbing together. this man, he said, seemed as if he was not looking for money. not as if hes with trying to rob anybody
his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to breaking re