cnn s casey hunt above that discovery. because of the intelligence community made this a priority after the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things as the trump administration wasn t able to detect. we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american airspace, and american territory. okay, let me bring in our guest now. we have cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. political commentators era louis and scott jennings, and national security analyst john turner. sean, i wanna start with. you help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yeah, i ll say it s clear to
one balloon circumstnavigated t glove, drifting pass hawaii and florida at an altitude about 65,000 feet. this is what jake sullivan told kasie hunt about that discovery. because the intelligence community made this a priority at the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial air space. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the trump administration was unable to detect. and we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration, as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american air space and american territory. okay. let me bring in our guests now. cnn analyst, john miller. errol lewis and scott jennings and shawn. i want to understand. help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yea
lord, what a shocking moment there from turkey. good morning to you this monday, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. the death toll continues to rise after this catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck near the border of turkey and syria. more than 1,800 people are now reported dead, but there are concerns that that number could ultimately reach into the tens of thousands. at this hour desperate rescue operations underway. crews searching for survivors who may be trapped under piles of rubble. here you see this is the moment that a child you see in the arms there of that rescue worker, a child was pulled from debris this was in northwest syria, a region which of course already heavily impacted after years of a bloody civil war. in each city, in each village, across northwest sudan there are people under rubble. the number of trapped people under the rubble, it s countless up to now. we don t have exact number. countless. multiple powerful after shocks have al
The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S
war, the u.s. and russia have had confrontations at air and sea. these incounters have only rarely blown up into serious incidents. that s because at least to some extent there are routines that are followed, less so for russia, everyone involved acts professionally. that was not the case today. an american reaper drone was intercepted by two russian fighters. it was damaged and then forced down. somebody could have gotten hurt. nobody wants to see that happen. and it could lead to miscalculations between two militaries that are operating not obviously in ukraine together, but certainly in proximity in the region. we don t want to see this war escalate beyond what it has already done to the ukrainian people, so this is clearly, this was inappropriate, unsafe, unprofessional conduct by the russian pilots. russia s ambassador to washington was summoned to the state department. we ll also get perspective from mark hertling, but oren liebermann joins us from the pentagon. r