live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
finnish president. he fell as he was walking toward that meeting. he got up. he was fine. he also fell earlier this month at reagan national airport. he was fine. he got up and went back to the capitol. not as much as the one in march when he suffered a concussion. the question is whether lingering effects of the concussion were the reason he had that moment on the floor yesterday. i asked if there was any connection to that fall interesting concussion, to go why he froze? he said i m fine. we hope that s the case though questions linger about his future in leadership going forward. thank you so much. let s turn to c infer n medical analyst, doctor, thank you for being with us. what factors could contribute to someone freezing up the way mcconnell did in the middle of a sentence? there are a number of thing we have to consider, including could he have had a seizure?
from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese were up to. reporter: absolutely. that video is pretty incredible. it is not that close but it is pretty good quality, it is clear that missile hit the balloon itself. that s what the u.s. wants to get its hands on. this shows the payload was at least mostly intact. now, of course, it fell from