watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, recovery efforts are underway after the u.s. military shot down a suspected spy balloon over the atlantic ocean. meanwhile beijing is warning it will use necessary steps in similar situations. could this push the u.s. toward a cold war with china or will both sides find a diplomatic solution? after days of suspected spying over the u.s. mainland, a chinese balloon was abruptly shot out of the sky on saturday by a u.s. fighter jet. the balloon was so high up when it was destroyed, the sound of the blast took several seconds to reach the ground. listen to this. and the shoot-down ended days of concern and speculation about the balloon s purpose. chinese insist it was a balloon. the u.s. is confident it was conducting a survey over the ocean and the u.s. issued a fighter jet with heat-seeking missile to destroy it. the debris landed in water that s about 47 feet
that long before the leak of that draft opinion, security protocols when it came to documents at the supreme court were very lax. now, that could have led to the leak or at the very least, it hindered the investigation into the league. for example, several of the justices over the years, sometimes that i would put sensitive information into personal emails. information belonged on secure servers, and the person who told me this wasn t suggesting that it meant a justice had leaked a draft copy of an opinion but at the very least it showed that the justices themselves weren t setting a good example to the chambers, to their employees about how to deal with sensitive documents. another issue concerned so-called burn bags. these are bags where you put sensitive information thapd re later burned or shredded. at the supreme court, they re taking down to the basement, put in a locked bin, and later picked up by a shredding company. the source tells me the problem with this is there s no unifo