the community in smoke and forced families to evacuate. bill: fears of an explosion had crews conducting a controlled burn of toxic chemicals. officials gave folks the okay to return home. dana: the governor insists it is safe to breathe the air and drink the water but people who live there say it feels anything but safe and voiced their concerns last night. [inaudible]. i don t know what to do other than to provide you assurance for don t lie. i understand. we re doing all that can be done to look for the source of potential bill: representatives from norfolk southern, the company that operates the train that went through town in early february. they were scheduled to be there last night but they pulled out at the last minute we re told citing fears that residents could become violent toward the company. dana: it made people angry that they said that about them when they just wanted to ask questions. pete buttigieg was not there. they re wondering why he is
they used a single digits missile 20 shoot the unmanned air ship out of the sky. arthel was on air when discussing the threat to taiwan and the war in ukraine. watch. other thing is we have to up gun taiwan. if we learned anything out of the ukraine war because we weren t able to deter it and most everything the ukraines are using now pardon p me, general, we hava live shoot of the balloon going down. it s been taken down. it s now falling from the sky. they re over surf side beach, south carolisouth carolina arthel: they say that i had geopolitical the take down from president biden on wednesday and waited until it was out of the way for debris to not harm people on the ground. the page reading pop secret, spy balloon shot down after white house hid it for a week . live news coverage alexandria hoff near the south carolina beach town where it was shot down but lucas tomlinson at the white house with more. brian, the u.s. navy dispatched three warships to comb the
that s troubling if that is indeed the case. neil: and we don t know whether that s the case, but what mark esper was telling us, there was an easy time you could have shot down the balloon, they call it a weather balloon, more than gathering temperatures for people, but this is a shot right now over the skies of north carolina, you guessed it, by the map and the map of the united states, that s the last stop before you get to the atlantic ocean and then, what happens is anyone s guess. a lot of people say we shoot it down to see what the technology because lost in the sauce is how big this thing is typically six times of a traditional weather balloon and that it s gone very, very far. some say propelled by wind, others say by things far more advanced which is why some want to take at that look at it. we ll be exploring that with among others, chuck hagel, the former secretary, and mark green, he ll weigh in and many, many more. we re not done with this issue. the impact what
jacqui heinrich. griff: it s great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let s start off. earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that s troubling if that it indeed the case. here at the white house, president biden only wanted to talk about the strong jobs report not that chinese sp, whe will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? the chinese spy balloon had been spotted over charlotte, north carol
secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for the russian ambassador to the u.s. be expelled along with journalists. president biden said that wasn t part of the immediate plan and offered this. detaining the wall street journal reporter. let him go. you heard the president say there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. th