welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. great to be with you. i m boris sanchez. several new developments following the military s shootdown of that suspected chinese spy balloon off a south carolina coast. the fbi now analyzing that wreckage as china sends a warning to the white house. our team coverage from this story is looking at multiple angles this morning. also, we have new details out of ohio on it that train derailment that sparked a massive fire. officials are saying the cars contained hazardous materials and the cleanup is underway. plus, banned by association. how facial recognition software is being used to keep some fans out of madison square garden. why some say this is a slippery slope. plus, the proposal that could soon cut major cities off from the colorado river. that s just ahead on cnn this morning. most of you are waking up to a much warmer weekend morning. it is sunday, everyone, february 5th. thank you so much for waking up with
debris pickup and especially the benefit of it having been monitored as it was going down. this is not a hard dive. this is relatively shallow waters. we don t know how long it will take. but we are not talking months at this stage. we are probably talking a couple of days or weeks to pick up the pieces that they know survived. and i want to just basically based on the reporting and the pushback that people are giving the white house, this was a very smart approach to bringing the balloon down because what they were clearly able to do is get the balloon and in some ways protect what is of most relevance to the united states, which is less the balloon and of course the cargo and what was in it in terms of chinese surveillance capacity. i know it s hard to believe because the chinese were so aggressive in this regard. but this is bad news for the chinese. we essentially have sort of picked up a bunch of tanks and
biden administration. what you basically saw over the week was really sort of a planned different pieces of an overall strategy. we want the balloon down. wednesday biden gives the orders. the military says the best way to implement those orders, because they are the experts, is when it gets over the water. that happened midday saturday. now that s the second part of the mission. the third part is now the debris pickup. so this is an ongoing mission in many regards, even though we don t see this part because it s not up in the sky. who knew that a balloon could cause such a kerfuffle. thank you so much. thank you. have a good one. so as we have mentioned, the wreckage from that balloon splashed down into the waters off the south carolina coast. and coming up we are going to talk to an oceanographer about the delicate operation to retrieve the debris from the ocean. also, president biden set to address the nation tuesday for
we are continuing to follow the latest developments after the downing of that suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. salvage effort are underway after a fighter jet shot down the balloon yesterday and right now navy and coast guard vessels are in the area gathering debris. recovery crews are going to face tough challenges adds they look for answers. joining us is dr. david gallo, an oceanographer and senior advisor for strategic initiatives at rms titanic, inc. thanks for being with us this morning. this balloon debris field is roughly seven square miles off the of the atlantic ocean off the carolina coast. talk us to about the logistical challenges of looking at an area that large. sure. good morning, boris. that s the size of that debris field is difficult, of course, because you have some things
higher chances of recovering the payload of that balloon completely intact. that is important according to defense officials because they want to snow exactly what is inside that balloon. and u.s. officials who were briefing reporters yesterday said that actually they believe that by shooting it down over the ocean as they did they are going to be able to discover new and important things about china s intelligence gathering and surveillance program and what the chinese were able to discover when that balloon was a actually over u.s. territory. this was a deliberate action by the president and his team. it remains to be seen, given this debris is scattered around seven miles how long telling t it will take to recover it. jasmine wright, shall we know that this very large spy balloon was detected about eight days ago and then in and out of u.s.