just revealed to give the military the order to shoot down that balloon three days ago. lucas tomlinson live at the white house, lucas. that afternoon guys u.s. air force f-22 that locked from langley air force base in virginia fired a single sidewinder missile to destroy the spy blimp six off the coast of south carolina took late at 3:30 9:00 p.m. in the afternoon. the debris field is stretching . the u.s. navy is sending a salvage crew. president biden spoke moments ago. on wednesday when i was briefed on the bloom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground, they decided the best time to do that is when it got over water. within the 12-mile limit. the success took it down i want to complement our aviators who did it. we ll have more to report in this little later thank you. hugs your sake the recommendation from your national security? once i told them to shoot down progress on wedn
take thousands many millions of photos and bring that back home just to see what kind of information we can blame. works quick question here when you hearing rachel confident clues are in terms of gathering the debris? it seems the only analogy i can go to the horrible one it s the one it s in everybody s mind is when a plaintiff plummets from 30,000 feet that leaves a very, very wide and debris field that takes sometimes weeks, months if not years to regather. how long could it take to gather this debris field? again receiving a balloon fall is not your sub baleen balloon at a nice leisurely pace at lot heavy equipment balling really fast. that is right as you see from exclusive box video from our cruise on the surfside beach you see all that shiny objects right there. but the actual infrastructure the spyware being shot out of the sky.