good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m boris sanchez. and i m amarah walker. what pentagon officials are saying about it and the differences between this object and the chinese balloon that was shot down last week. plus a moment of hope amid the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria. more than 24,000 people killed, but amid the huge loss, under days trapped under the rubble, a teenager is found alive. plus under review, memphis prosecutors say they are now looking at every case involving those now fired officers charged in the beating of the death of tyre nichols as we re learning new dethe tails about the officers involved. and executives at southwest airlines grilled by lawmakers on capitol hill. the changes the airline says it s going to make in the wake of that meltdown, ahead on cnn this morning. . take a deep breath and relax. the weekend is here. it s saturday, february 11th. we appreciate you re waking up with us. and we re together in person. t
last week. that s what led really to these two things being treated very, very differently. now the biggest difference when you talk to officials say is where this object was flying. it was flying about 40,000 feet up in the air. now that s about the top range of where commercial airlines will fly. last week s chinese supply balloon was 60,000. so they said there was a great risk to commercial aircrafts, even though that area doesn t have a lot of planes going through it, there s still a great risk to civilian aircrafts and they believed it needed to be down ed. now there were other major differences including the size of it. this object was the size of the small car compared to last week s supply balloon, which the payload was the size of three buss. and the maneuverability. the white house said that they could see it had maneu maneuverability. so all those factors led to that