hours ago. just days after the downing of the chinese spy balloon. another classified document is found in the possession of former vice president mike pence. the fbi removing the material from pence s indepeiana home. the hunt for survivors in the earthquake soon zone with a rescuer on the ground. we are getting accounts of people found alive. the death poll toll rises higher and higher. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the us military shooting down a high altitude object a little while ago after tracking it over alaska for 24 hours. we have a team of correspondents and experts stand big as we break down what we know and what we don t know about this object and how it compares to the chinese spy balloon shot down nearly a week ago. first, jim sciutto. what are your sources telling you about this object that was shot down over alaska? the details
we have a team of correspondents and experts stand big as we break down what we know and what we don t know about this object and how it compares to the chinese spy balloon shot down nearly a week ago. first, jim sciutto. what are your sources telling you about this object that was shot down over alaska? the details we know right now, it was unmanned, flying at 40,000 feet, lower than the 60,000, 70,000 feet the chinese surveillance balloon was flying at. closer to commercial air traffic. not maneuverable, unlike the first balloon last week. smaller, the size of a car, the pentagon says, as opposed to two to three buses. this is key, the u.s. is not identifying a country as the owner/operator of this particular object. here is what white house national security spokesman john ker kirby had to say.