chinese by flight over the carolina coast. now china is threatening retaliation. the foreign ministry says there is another aircraft flying over the skies of latin america. in the meantime u.s. navy divers working to recover degree to recover until you are the aircraft spotted by residents from montana a week ago, which was days after it first enter the u.s. airspace from mainland china. that leads to questions about when the biden administration and why it waited so long to shoot it down. instead, the aircraft was allowed to travel across the continental u.s. flying over at least five sensitive military sites. and finally on saturday and f-22 took it out. the incredible moment only seen live on fox news. our team capturing the strength with this exclusive video. and now, republicans want answers. they want to know why the president waited days to take any action at all. watch. why did the president go on television? the country with cameras and explain what we are dealing
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. meanwhile, president biden says he and u.s. military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its cross-country journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. listen to this. on wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. cnn has team coverage of this extraordinary moment in u.s. china relations. i want to start with cnn s orin lieberman over at the palm. walk us through what happened earlier today. this was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. in the end, the department of defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the united states, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the water
Down of china s spy flight and the impressive aircraft to do the mission. fox news had the shot live on air. f-22 fighter jet firing a single missile taking down the spy flight. the f-22 boasts speeds of 1500 miles per hour and can reach altitudes of 60,000 feet. fighter jets deployed for the takedown used the call sign frank 1 and frank 2, some believe it was after a world war i pilot, frank, he took down 14 german observation balloons over the span of 17 days. amazing stuff. america, u.s.a., great they shot it down and for that as well, i don t know where i was going. beautiful to see it shot down, thank you for our military, they