let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
the fact that the reports that general milley didn t want to take the cost and austin. jacqui: general, there s faa stop in charleston, does that tell you it s going to happen in the very near future? the signal is yes. that s clearly what is designed. for a ground stop to occur for security reasons, that doesn t mean the balloon is going to transit overhead. they are probably going to take a shot at it. my concern is these things don t fall out of the sky. when you talk a debris field as large as it is, we have done this before in shooting down weather balloons, it takes forever to deflate. it doesn t deflate like a hilium balloon. we know the balloon was higher than commercial air traffic,
explaining, they have done ground stop, live picture above surf side beach, south carolina, geographically, just south of myrtle beach, north of charleston. what are your thoughts? it appears they met get a chance to take the shot, should they take it? they should have taken it a long time ago. first of all, when you shoot a balloon like this, it doesn t fall out of the sky. it takes time for the balloon to actually deflate and who knows how long it s going to take to drift before they actually can get it on the ground if they really do intend to take the shot and at that altitude f22, get a lot of rounds to get it to deflate. if it goes too far you won t be able to recover which is the sensor package, the sensor package is the size of a school bus, it s massive and it s been collecting data as it is