a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, the u.s. and canada authorized the takedown of a third high-altitude object in recent days, but just what was it? even as the death toll in syria and turkey climbs, officials are looking for answers. why did so many buildings crumble? ukraine says it shot down 20 drones from iran during a russian attack. ahead, a live report from kyiv. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it happened again. for the third time in a week, a u.s. fighter jet has shot down an object over north american air space. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, says the latest object violated canadian air space and was taken down by a u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in the northwest of canada. mr. trudeau and u.s. president joe biden authorized the strike by the country s shared air defense organization, norad. we ll hear mor
incidents to try to get a better sense for what these objects were and what they are actually capable of. natasha bertran, cnn, washington. cnn transportation analyst mary scavo joins us. we heard from the canadian defense minister saying it was the first instance of norad downing an object in canadian air space. her point was that we shouldn t underestimate the importance of this. how do you parse that? well, i agree completely. it s very important that we actually have to down objects in our air space. but probably more important than that is we re dining objects and we really don t know and haven t identified what they were yet. and depending upon which briefing you review, some of them say they did enter our air space before we were actually aware of them entering the united states air space, which