you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let s get straight to cnn s oren liebermann at the pentagon. oren, what more are you learning? i understand you were listening to officials explain how all of this went down. what can you tell us? it started on wednesday when president joe biden gave the authorization to shoot down the chinese balloo n as soon as possible. there were tankers and others to shoot this down. it was an f-22 that fired an a 9 side wind er. the ai
French cities. Throughout europe, authorities are trying to track down one terror attack suspect who remains at large this hour as well as others who may have been involved in the paris attacks. One of the cities targeted in toulou toulouse. Meanwhile, an International Manhunt is on for belgium born French National Salah Abdeslam. A source close to the investigation tells cnn French Police questioned abdeslam a few hours after the attacks but then left him go. Now, they suspect he was involved in the terror plot. Lets bring in fred flight gwen for the latest on the antiterror raids joining us live from paris. Fred, if you can start with the paris raids and what weve learned about them. Of course they are going on throughout various parts of france. If that one in toulouse is indeed a very important one. The french authorities are saying they are not directly linked to the terror attacks that happened here on friday. However, we do have to keep in mind at this point in time after those
the u.s. military shooting down a chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. this is brand-new video we are getting in a few moments ago. we should note recovery efforts are now underway to collect the balloon debris from the ocean. let s bring in marc hertling. general, good to see you. your sense of how this went down. well, it s interesting because there s been a lot of breathless flurry over the last couple of days. what i would suggest, i don t know how right i am on this, this all started probably last weekend with an intel comment in the president s daily briefing saying china had a balloon somewhere over the bering sea heading towards the aleutians. the pentagon and others tracked that over the next couple of days, tracked it through canada as part of the north american air defense command, and i ll remind everybody that norad is not just a u.s. organization,
sometimes. so you can jam those kind of things with aircraft, with ground mounted systems. won t go any further than that. but, again, you know, just because this thing is passing overhead doesn t mean it s collecting information because it can be prevented from doing that. we do have the capability to prevent that. the. all right. very good. we ll hear more about all of this in the days to come. lieutenant general marc hertling, great insights as always. thanks very much. thanks, jim. joining me now is democratic congressman adam smith of washington. the ranking member of the house armed services committee. copying man, what is your reaction to the u.s. military shooting down this balloon out over the water this afternoon? where do you come in on this? do you wish it had been shot down sooner? do you think the right precautions were taken to wait until it got over the water so it didn t come down in a populated area, that sort of thing? i think president biden handled the whol
have occurred and he probably said the governor of hawaii has to handle messaging the people there. i m sure all of this will be assessed after-action review which will certainly take place. you see the governor of hawaii within an hour or two and the head of the emergency management association take responsibility for the shortcomings and i think is the most important thing for the people in the state of hawaii. lieutenant general mark hertling, thank you. thank you. you saw people scrambling there trying to find some shelter, the president did tweet something out as victor was saying. so much fake news is being reported and they don t try to get it right or correct it when they are wrong. the they promote the fake book of a mentally deranged author who knowingly writes false information.