in theaters february 17th. ihop. let s put a smile on your plate. . hello i m victory for blackwell, i m allison, mounting concerns about the chinese spy balloon floating over the united states. secretary of state to anthony blending just postponed his high stakes trip to china hours before set to depart. moments ago, the pentagon said this is a surveillance balloon and man new or gently usedible, about the size of three busses was spotted over montana in recent days, the pentagon says it s now over parts of the central part of the country, moving at 60,000 feet over u.s. air space, the chinese are down playing this discovery. they claim it s a weather balloon that blew off course. for now, president biden is opting against the growing calls to shoot it down. . considering the size of the pay load on this, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or property damage, we assessed it. it does not pose a risk to people on the ground
prc at multiple levels. that is key here, that the u.s. has continued to keep these channels of communication open with the chinese and remains unclear however whether the u.s. still going to potentially keep that option on the table of taking it out by force. shooting it down, as we ve seen republicans in congress have been urging the biden administration to take some kind of major action here and shoot the balloon down. because they fear that it could be collecting intelligence about potentially very sensitive missile installations inside the united states. thank you for all of that. let s bring in pete, is this balloon impacting air travel at all it s flying high allison but not that it is not having an impact on commercial flights, what s also interesting is we re now learning that the impact on commercial flights may have started as early as wednesday, which is a day before the pentagon first made this public, we re learning from the airport
in theaters february 17th. ihop. let s put a smile on your plate. . hello i m victory for blackwell, i m allison, mounting concerns about the chinese spy balloon floating over the united states. secretary of state to anthony blending just postponed his high stakes trip to china hours before set to depart. moments ago, the pentagon said this is a surveillance balloon and man new or gently usedible, about the size of three busses was spotted over montana in recent days, the pentagon says it s now over parts of the central part of the country, moving at 60,000 feet over u.s. air space, the chinese are down playing this discovery. they claim it s a weather