he s here in moments. former cia director, mike pompeo. he has said that he thinks it should be safely shot down. that that is what needs to happen. he s with us in a moment. stand by for that. first, to the pentagon. national security correspondent jennifer griffin join us having covered since it broke last night. hi, jennifer. we had a series of briefings this morning including one on the record with brigadier general pat ryder, the press secretary for the pentagon. this spy balloon, chinese spy balloon entered u.s. airspace several days ago. the u.s. military has been watching it during that time. what concerned them is that it was lingering over montana, over perhaps a sensitive spot, the malmstrom air base, the home to the u.s. nuclear silos and icbms. now we can report that spy
tremendous embarrassment for the united states of america. it s one more example of the weakness of the biden administration on the global stage. their look of response, the show of weakness is provoking our adversaries and making america weaker. we had montanians calling our office saying they saw a balloon in the sky. a lot of montanians said is it okay if i take a shot at it? why was this spy balloon over montana? because we are proud of the fact that we have the malmstrom air force base. we have intercontinental ballistic missiles across montana. these are the most powerful weapon known to man kind. these are weapons of mass destruction that we use to prevent a war. they are a terrific deter rent to make sure we re at peace.
make sure that it operates for a sunny day but then when we have this inclement weather there s no buffers in place to allow rebooking to other flights because all the flights are full, for example, it just creates a malmstrom of issues we can t recover from and there s no excuse for them to be soient indicated in its systems. lynn montgomery, thank you so much more being here. there is some good news coming. there is warmer weather on the way. meteorologist tom sater is here to give us the latest on that so, tom, what are we looking at across the country? when can some of these folks find relief? it s already starting to move in. l.a. had their second warmest christmas on record at 84 degrees. today s high, 66 so the adverse weather. in a moment i ll talk about that for the west coast. in miami they had their coldest at 50 degrees. they re at 71. denver, 62.
Snowmobilers Rescued After Intense Beartooth Mountain Search Written by Andrew-Rossi on February 22, 2021
Dozens of volunteers and several aircraft from many agencies mobilized to find the two stranded snowmobilers, who were found alive after a three-day search.
A call came into the Park County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Office on Thursday, Feb. 18: two snowmobilers – Trevor Wayne Deal, age 22 of Bridger, Montana, and Maison Deacon Ostwald, age 21 of Laurel, Montana – went out for an excursion that morning, and had yet to return. They had called a friend at 5 p.m. saying one of their vehicles was disabled and they were trying to reach a road on foot.