action and went on to say he has to tell us why. what s going on? defense officials refusing to rule anything out. now there is a bipartisan call for greater transparency. house oversight chair james comer slamming the president, his administration for failing to answer these basic questions about what is going on. no one knows what s going on. even democrats are frustrated at the lack of transparency from this administration. you need leadership from the white house and the president should come forward and explain to the american people exactly what s going on. dana: chad pergram on capitol hill as washington struggles to understand a potential emerging threat and standing by is former navy seal ryan zinke of montana. let s go to mark meredith at the white house. do you expect to hear from the president today? i do not as of now. good morning. president biden has yet to say much about the latest objects spotted and shot down over both canadian and u.s. airspace. we ve
greetings, everyone. you are watching simone. we re following breaking news out of michigan. we re learning new details shot down by u.s. forces in just over a week. this happened just a fort short while ago. we ll have a very live update for you this hour. also, the death toll from that devastating earthquake in turkey and syria, it is hard to even imagine rescue efforts are still underway in the ruins as thousands forced from their homes are in desperate need of aid. we are live on the ground with the latest. and are living black history series. we are talking to civil rights history author and president i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. greetings, everyone. we begin with breaking news on a developing story out of lake here on michigan. nbc news has learned that the united states military has shot down a fourth aerial object today. the sheer spoke we will have more news on that in a moment. this is something we are following and watching qu
michigan. we do know that object was shot down by an f-16. norad s commander says they aren t calling that object a balloon because they re not able to say right now how that object was able to stay in the air. the uncertainty is escalating the war of words between the united states and china. china claims the united states has been flying balloons over chinese airspace without permission. that s an argument admiral john kirby flatly denied earlier. not true. not doing it. that s absolutely not true. we or not flying balloons over china. also this week, over a week since the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, rescue crews are amazingly still finding survivors in the rubble this morning, but the devastation is immense, spanning the area nearly the size of texas, and the number of people confirmed dead is now more than 35,000. in moments i ll be talking with former arizona senator jeff flake, now the ambassador to turkey about how the u.s. is helping people there.
than 35,000 after two earthquakes devastated the region, and yet miracles bring glimmers of hope one week later. back here at home in kansas city, fireworks and celebrations after the chief s star quarterback patrick mahomes led the team to victory over the philadelphia eagles during sunday night s super bowl thriller. and we begin this hour with the mystery surrounding those objects in the sky. this weekend the u.s. shot down three flying objects over north american air space bringing the total to four in just over a week. on sunday, president biden directed a shootdown of an unidentified object flying over lake huron. the day before a u.s. jet was authorized to shoot down an unidentified obvious flying through canadian air space. on friday the u.s. shot down an object over northern alaska. this all comes after u.s. officials shot down a chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina last weekend. this morning the white house is denying a new claim from chine
viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has the day off. just ahead on cnn newsroom for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s., specifically over montana. what we re likely to encounter is going to be really unprecedented. these are dangerous temperatures. if you don t need to be out, stay inside. the resolution is adopted. house republicans in one of the first moves in power, ousting democrat oilhan omar frm a seat on the foreign affairs committee. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, february 3, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 2:00 a.m. in montana where a mysterious flying object is being monitored. there is the moon. and then what is that? what planet is that? it is not a planet, but a suspected chinese spy balloon, the size of three buses that is flying over the northern u.s. u.s. military is being aware of it fo