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reporter: i m just hearing you now, anderson. what i can tell you is that the japanese government is saying that they believe the flying vessel from north korea, they did detect it and that it was in the air for just over one minute. now, the plan was that if that flew over japanese territory, if the rocket broke up and started to threaten this land, that the patriot missile you see behind me, it s an intercepter missile, land-to-air, that it would fire off and that it potentially would with try to take some of those pieces down. that was not the case, because the rocket then in just over one minute did break up, according to the japanese government, and then fell harmlessly into the sea. at this point, japanese security meeting is taking place and they expect to have some sort of guidance after that meeting wraps up, some time this morning here in tokyo, anderson. kyung lah, appreciate the reporting on that. we re going to check in with our correspondent, stan grant, who