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
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.
ministry saying they reserve the right to shoot down person assets if they pop up in chinese air space. does the air space include any u.s. military planes that might try to land here on this self-ruled democracy of taiwan. china claims this island which has its own government as its sovereign territory even the rulers in beijing have never actually controlled it. and you are there in taiwan. and, you know, that island has had its issues with similar chinese incursions in the past. what happened then? as recently as february of last year, there was a suspected chinese spy belong hovering over the airport, just a short drive from where i am right now. there was another suspected balloon sighting back in september of 2021. the taiwan defense ministry has said that they re constantly monitoring the skies and there are chinese military aircraft and drones that regularly