nuclear launch sites. will the united states shoot it down? plus, the u.s. providing longer-range missiles to ukraine, double the range of what it currently has. this as zelenskyy warned that putin is out for revenge. and the money questions tonight mounting for congressman george santos, questions now about 37 expenses that were exactly in the amounts of $199.99, one penny shy of having to provide a receipt. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will america shoot? china s spy balloon right now making its way east now over st. louis. the balloon flying over and lingering over some of america s most sensitive locations, near nuclear sites. cnn has obtained this exclusive video of the balloon over columbia, missouri. first of all, you see below it it s almost hinden burg style. you can see what appear to be solar panels underneath the balloon. just to be clear what you re looking at here is in columbia, missouri, which happens to be
roles you know as much about this as anyone. what exactly do you think they are doing here, that they are gathering? we look at the path, and obviously these nuclear silos in montana and part of the nuclear sponge are on the path, now near a nuclear plant in missouri. erin, i think they re demonstrating a very asymmetric capability to deal with our space superiority and our overall information surveillance and reconnaissance enterprise superiority. so you can take a device like this, which probably only cost the chinese equivalent of a couple million dollars. you can park it or loiter it potentially over a target, taking away the limitations that we see with many of our satellite systems. you could put up dozens or even hundreds of these and still stay on the positive side of the cost curve compared to a multibillion dollar satellite and build in tremendous resiliency and redundancy to your ability to gather information, surveillance and reconnaissance. and we need to be paying very