national security interests and threats as best we can. thanks, admiral. real quick, is there a timeline for recovery of this object? you d have to talk to the pentagon, i don t know. guys, again, this just happened in the last hour and a half and they re still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to which they can get to it. on the poland visit, i know in the statement that you put out, it says that the president is going to meet with leaders of the eastern flank countries. are any other european leaders, nato leaders expected to join the president on this trip? we re still putting the agenda together. the predominant reason is to talk to those nations who are literally on the eastern flank of the nato alliance. but i can t rule in or rule out there may be additional attendees that the president may have. thanks very much. back to lula, is there going to be any commitment to the amazon fund by the united states during this visit? let s have the visi
high-altitude surveillance balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina on february 4. separately, u.s. northern command continues their recovery operations in support of the recent takedown of the chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon. recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. debris that s been recovered so far is being loaded onto vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and moved onwards to labs for subsequent analysis. while i won t go into specifics due to classification reasons, i can say that we have located a significant amount of debris so far that will prove helpful to our further understanding of this balloon and its surveillance capabilities. of note, due to less than favorable sea states right now teams will conduct underwater survey and recovery as conditions permit. the department wants to thank our interagency partners from the u.s. coast guard, the fbi and state and local authoriti
the surveillance balloon. recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. debris that s been recovered so far is being loaded on to vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and then moved on wards to labs for subsequent analysis. and why i won t go into specifics due to classification reasons, i can say that we have located a significant amount of debris so far that will improve helpful to our further understanding of this balloon and surveillance capabilities. of note, due to less than favorable sea states right now, teams will continue to conduct underwater survey and recovery as conditions permit. the department wants to thank our inner agency partners from the u.s. coast guard, fbi, and state and local authorities. in other news, i think this is important that we remember a lot of folks, people in turkey and syria right now are suffering.
command, coordinated the operation with assistance from the alaska international guard, federal aviation administration and the federal bureau of investigation. we have no further details about the object at this time including any description of its capabilities, purpose, or urgent. the object was the size of a small car, so not similar in size or shape to the high altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the c cow coast of south carolina on february 4. separately u.s. northern command continues to recovery operations in support of the recent takedown of the chinese high altitude surveillance balloon, recovery teams have mapped the debris fields and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. the debris that has been recovered so far as being loaded on the vessels, taken ashore, catalogued, and moved onwards for subsequent analysis, but i won t go into specifics due to classification reasons, i can say we have located a
0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. i m sandra smith. martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, the story with martha continues to breaking news. it s actually a trace, good afternoon, and trace gallagher in for martha maccallum, the story is a bombshell as we can train new breaking news, about to go to the pentagon as a white house confirms a high altitude object was shot down over alaska today. though there is no confirmation on who owns the object. we don t know if it is state owned or corporate owns, we just don t know that right now, mainly because we spotted this thing at night. in a moment, repu