hello an a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster. just around the world. we re never leaving here. we re going to stay here. president biden ordered the takedown of an unidentified object in north american airspace. nobody should expect to fly over u.s. airspace like this and not be taken down. there s some semblance of hope we could still find survivors beneath the rubble. we re in a need. and today we re thinking about the most basic needs that are not being fiulfilled. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, february 13th. 9:00 a.m. here in london. 4:00 a.m. in washington. government officials are working to get more information about another high altitude object shot down by u.s. military on sunday. the object was taken down over late huron-after u.s. picked up signals over montana until u.s. president joe biden gave the
neville, u.s. fighter jets taking action yesterday for the third time in a week, this time over northwest canada hours later nor at closed part of montana s airspace over what it called a radar anomaly. all of this of course the day after the u.s. took down a high altitude object off of the alaska coast. a week after downing a chinese spy flight that drifted across our country for days, lawmakers are concerned about what seems to be a pattern. i would prefer them to be trigger-happy than permissive. what i think this shows more important to our policy discussion here, we really have to declare there were going to defend her airspace and then we need to invest, this ministry should now needs to declare that it will defend its airspace. art.eric: or chinese balloons coming? we have covered this our alexandria hoff on the latest reaction. brian llenas and myrtle beach south carolina were the first spy balloon was downed, they re now undergoing recovery efforts, first let s go
and appears that fighter jets are in route. when we have more we will get back to you. right now we just know anything but the airman issued and air spaces closed in north lake michigan. going after shootdown in canada, mike, u.s. officials describing mysterious object metallic balloon with payload, on abc senate majority leader chuck schumer used balloons. they probably have been all over the world. i do think senator tester is looking why it took so long for us, our military, intelligence to neglect about these balloons. that s something i support, congress should look at that. lucas: not long after that mysterious object shot over canada and fighter jet shot it down in canadian air space, faa closed air space in montana near border with canada and nuclear missile silos. lifted that flight restrictions, said in a statement radar anomaly caused the possible false alarm. john tester told cbs a short time ago he thinks there may be something out there. the object shot down i
Deputy administrator in the obama administration. He stressed the importance of faa innovation. The chair of the house transportation and Infrastructure Committee spoke in support of the nomination at an earlier hearing. Good morning, everyone. The u. S. Senate committee on commerce, science and transportation took him to order. This morning we are here to consider the nomination of Michael Whitaker to be the administrator of the federal aviation administration. I want to thank mr. Whitaker for his willingness to serve. Im also grateful that the house chairman sam graves is here and we will hear from you soon. Chairman gray along with my colleague Ranking Member larsen have worked hard on a bipartisan bill to pass a longterm faa reauthorization so we thank you for that. Im hopeful we will be able to do the same. In a bipartisan fashion. And finalize the bill into law before the end of 2023. This is a reminder that the aviation safety and the job of running the faa are not partisan. The
House chairman sam graves is hear and we will hear from you soon. Chairman graves along with my colleague Ranking Member larson have worked hard on a bipartisan bill to pass a longterm faa reauthorization, so we thank you for that and im hopeful that we will be able to do the same here in a bipartisan fashion and finalize the bill into law before the end of 2023. This is a reminder that the aviation safety and the job of running the faa are not partisan endeavors, they are ensuring strong leadership at the top of americas chief aviation regulator and this should be our common goal. Mr. Whitakers nomination has drafted broad support not only from across the aisle but across from the Aviation Community. Supported by the aviation workforce, pilots, attend answers and enjoys broad support in the private sector of aviation. The foundation of support will serve well because the faa administrator has a big job over 44,000 workers across multiple lines of business from airports to air Traffic