away, he will run a source telling cnn. it s no longer helpful or necessary to not just say the obvious. the exact day, however, still being debated. already the oldest person to serve the president would be weeks away from his 82nd birthday. should he win a second term advisors tell cnn the decision to announce comes at a time with the campaign fields it needs to energize voters about the president. his policies. and a second term. mattingly our chief white house correspondent joins me, so no date has been set. not finalized, i think is probably the best way to frame things, but advisors have made clear and have been privately meeting and planning to announce on tuesday of next week, and the reason that s important and it would be through a campaign video. it s not going to be a major rally, but officials start to things launch that we have long expected long been told, was coming, but never really had a firm timeline on that seems to be shifting pretty clearly. that date on
starship inaugural test flight indigenous 2.5 minutes after takeoff. the rocket had no crew members onboard tumbled out of control what spacex called a rapid, unplanned disassembly. spacex also said it learned a tremendous amount from the test and called it quite a show. the effort comes after years of explosive tests regulatory hurdles in public hyping from musk. news continues. let s hand it over to pamela brown and cnn prime time. pamela anderson. thank you so much tonight the race for the white house getting clear on one end and more dramatic on the other sources say president biden is ready to formally announced his reelection bid as soon as next week for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that wo
a good saturday morning to you. it is saturday, february 4th, you re live in the cnn newsroom, thanks for joining us so much for sharing part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with an eye toward the sky. we re getting new reports about the location of that chinese spy balloon that has been drifting across the country. according to reports, it has been spotted over north carolina an officials say it could move off the east coast and out over the ocean in a matter of hours. and as you would imagine, the balloon is raising national security concerns, and it is adding to the tension between washington and beijing. it was people on the ground in montana who spotted the balloon as it passed overhead. that thing is not the moon. the moon is right there. this thing is so weird. it is definitely moving. the context and the timing of this are really important. the secretary of state antony blinken called it an irresponsible act by china. keep in mind, this comes just day
following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
oren liebermann at the pentagon. let s go arlette at the white house. reporter: president biden offered his first comments on the situation regarding that chinese spy balloon just moments ago, saying they are prepared to take care of it. president biden has been receiving briefings since tuesday, including potential options relating to how they could address this. here is how he answered reporters questions moments ago. you heard president biden say we are going to take care of it. officials here at the white house say the president is consistently being briefed on the various options they have been presented. one option was the possibility of shooting down this plane. that s something they have not ruled out. previously as he was presented that option, he was warned about the potential impact it could have o and impact it could have here on the ground and affecting people. we will see what else the white house and pentagon has to say later today regarding this balloon. it