general keane i m not sure if you can see this. we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balance has been taken down. that is great. it is falling from the sky. reporter: air force f-22 fighter jet shot down the fighter plane that floated down across the u.s. last week. shortly after president biden claimed he wanted to shoot down the balloon earlier was overruled. president biden: on wednesday i briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided to do that when it got over water, within the 12-mile limit. reporter: the 12-mile limit biden mentioned that the coastal states right to claim 12 miles of nautical ocean as their territory. closing the airspace around the balloon, closing air traffic from wilmington, myrtle beach and charleston airport while the balloon was shot down. militariliry official said it was the first chancer to target over the balloon while f
plus, the latest on house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. the uncertain visit is straining an already tense relationship between the united states and china. and a texas man gets the longest prison sentence to date tied to the capitol attack, but his daughters want someone else locked up, too. good morning, and welcome to way too early, on this tuesday, august 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. after decades on the run, the top leader of al qaeda has finally been taken off the battlefield. ayman al zawahiri was killed this last weekend by a cia drone while standing on a balcony in downtown kabul, second in command to osama bin laden during the september 11th attacks, and became the top leader when the united states killed bin laden in 2011. a senior administration official tells nbc news that the strike was so precise, none of his family inside the home were killed. in a rare evening address last night, president biden still isolating from covid said j
we should have been for you in a few minutes. this is the kind of thing that a president, any president, would usually be monitoring while it s in progress from the oval office, from the white house situation room. that was impossible as we learn more about this raid because the president is quarantining. he got covid. this is something that was in progress while he has been isolating. we know that about 30 minutes, because of the covid, he s going to be speaking from the blue room balcony. it s not something we usually see from this president. mrs. oh leader who about a year ago argued limits to what was widely considered at the time a hasty withdrawal from afghanistan. it was never going to be pretty but that the u.s. was going to figure out how to go and kill terrorists without an afghanistan base. this drone strike, if confirmed, as we can for more details, it appears to prove the president correct in that regard but remember. this is a leader, when he was vp, and all som
we remember two legends. i contributed a great deal to the game. basketball superstar and civil rights champion bill russell. captain, the enterprise is up there. and television trailblazer initial nichols of star supreme court. power. power. these protest remembers at the steps right in front of the senate. many of them slept overnight on the steps outside here to protest the failure of the burn pit legislation. they all have this mumbo-jumbo about a budgetary gimmick but nothing changed. this is the oldest trick in washington. republicans are not opposed to any of the substance of the bill. i think it s a disgusting move. it s really an ongoing crisis at a scale almost unimaginable. you can see some of the garbage that s still over here, and can you actually see how high the water has come. this is what we do not want to see, a floodwatch. more rape coming and we expect the water to rise up each higher. and i m pamela brown in washington. you re
we ve never seen. we are spending way too much money to use to hide behind a veterans bill on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree is wrong. the first grain to depart from ukraine s black sea ports under this new agreement. resuming exports could be a critical first step in easing the global food crisis. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s monday, august 1st, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. we begin with extreme weather fueled by a climate crisis unraveling in real time in the united states. in california, the mckinney fire has burned more than 52,000 acres. the governor has ordered thousands of people to evacuate leaving their homes to burn as high temperatures and drought make the blazes more intense. a heartbreaking realization for some that the fire has taken everything. i watched it from my bedroom. i watched everything come. it was headed right straight towards our property. that s when al