watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, recovery efforts are underway after the u.s. military shot down a suspected spy balloon over the atlantic ocean. meanwhile beijing is warning it will use necessary steps in similar situations. could this push the u.s. toward a cold war with china or will both sides find a diplomatic solution? after days of suspected spying over the u.s. mainland, a chinese balloon was abruptly shot out of the sky on saturday by a u.s. fighter jet. the balloon was so high up when it was destroyed, the sound of the blast took several seconds to reach the ground. listen to this. and the shoot-down ended days of concern and speculation about the balloon s purpose. chinese insist it was a balloon. the u.s. is confident it was conducting a survey over the ocean and the u.s. issued a fighter jet with heat-seeking missile to destroy it. the debris landed in water that s about 47 feet
off the u.s. east coast. salvage efforts are underway in southwest north carolina after we shot down the balloon saturday saying they would use necessary means to deal with similar situations. the intrusion has further soured relations between beijing and washington at a time when they were already badly strained. now, there s concern it may unravel months of efforts to resolve numerous disputes with china, including taiwan. here s what cnn national security expert david singer had to say earlier on cnn. it shows you how difficult it would be to de-escalate a taiwan crisis if china moved again the way it did last summer when nancy pelosi visited and the way it undoubtedly will move to choke off part of access to taiwan waterways if you see the
sources warn what the attackers said may never be known because these encryptions are so hard to crack. officials also say new evidence reveal they tried to cover their tracks by changing cell phone s.i.m. cards. with me to talk about this is cnn national security expert peter bergen. i m also joined by martin boes, senior security principle and provides customers with information security protection and describes himself as a good hacker. that was a mouthful. thank you for joining me. peter, i m going to start with you. the significance of what was found out that these paris attackers were using encryption devices to hide their communications. well, i think the very one of the most significant things, carol, is telegram, one of the
engines! road rage. nascar crowd boos the first lady before the last race of the season. this is your am: wake up call. and good morning to you. it is monday, november 21st from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. an accused terrorist behind bars in new york city this morning. 27-year-old jose was a u.s. citizen who was taken into custody on saturday and arraigned late last night. he s accused of building homemade bombs and plotting to plant them in police cars and they say he planned to target u.s. troops arriving home from iraq and afghanistan. the supercommittee ending up like all the other mere mortal committees announcing they failed and the trigger about to go off to an automatic across the board budget cuts. 20 people killed as protesters returned to cairo s tahrir square and things take an ugly square just one week from elections. let s head to atlanta and get a check of today s weather. meteorologist bonnie schneider is in. good morn