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let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
this case. tell us why that decision is so important to you and your desire, your goal here to find justice? i think idaho has a chance to make a message. unfortunately, a lot of bad things happen across america. but we moved here and people move here for the safety that we have. we have to make sure that the world knows that you can t come to idaho, you can t hunt our children down and you can t kill them in their beds and just be given, you know, a room to stay. you know, this guy is a smart man. he s going to try to exercise his influence and write papers for other criminals. he d have a presence. and still be able to act as a bad character. that s not what we want. we re looking for somebody to pay the price of what he did. it s not one person, it s four,
well because justice doesn t fall out of the sky. sometimes you ve got to earn it. you ve got to do everything. i get it. one thing you ve said is that you re working with the state of idaho now to try to make sure murders like this don t happen again. can you tell us what kind of changes, what kind of steps you would like to see? you know what, we ve wrote letters and we ve gotten people involved that can actually make things happen. i can just voice what the public you know, what people are sharing with me. we are getting a lot of people reaching out to us. and just extend that information on to people, because right now i do have people who will listen. but my voice really isn t different than anyone else who s a member of the idaho community. but we are trying to work with you know, with people to make sure that we can make something better and make the
explaining, they have done ground stop, live picture above surf side beach, south carolina, geographically, just south of myrtle beach, north of charleston. what are your thoughts? it appears they met get a chance to take the shot, should they take it? they should have taken it a long time ago. first of all, when you shoot a balloon like this, it doesn t fall out of the sky. it takes time for the balloon to actually deflate and who knows how long it s going to take to drift before they actually can get it on the ground if they really do intend to take the shot and at that altitude f22, get a lot of rounds to get it to deflate. if it goes too far you won t be able to recover which is the sensor package, the sensor package is the size of a school bus, it s massive and it s been collecting data as it is