good evening. this time no one waited. just days after a chinese spy balloon was allowed to drift across the country, another unidentified object was spotted over alaska. in this case, fighter jets were scrambled to investigate and then shoot it down. president biden was asked about it not long after. do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska, mr. president? more on how all this played out and how the administration is handling it. what else has the administration said about this object? reporter: here s what we know, anderson. this mysterious object is the size of a small car. it was unmanned. it didn t appear to have the capability to maneuver itself within the windstream. and also according to a u.s. official, it didn t appear to have surveillance equipment on board. so those are some significant details. but we really don t know the answer to the major question here, which is who was responsible for sending this up into the sky. listen to wh
we re joined on how this played out and how the administration is handling it. what else has the administration said about this object? reporter: here s what we know, anderson. this mysterious object is the size of a small car. it was unmanned. it didn t appear to have the capability to maneuver itself within the windstream. and also according to a u.s. official, it didn t appear to have surveillance equipment on board. so those are some significant details, but we really don t know the answer to the major question here, which is who was responsible for sending this up into the sky. listen to what the nsc s john kirby said about that earlier today at the white house. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned, we just don t know. reporter: now, what he also said significantly, anderson, is that this mysterious object was traveling at abou
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to them there and they said that at least 40 people have been killed in the strike. we ve been told that there were children among those killed. and certainly in the video shared on social media, you can see body bags and corpses under blankets lined up. there do appear to be some small corpses there appearing to belong to children. the israeli military said that it took steps to try to avoid harm to civilians during this strike, such as aerial surveillance, and that the head of the hamas run government media office has denied that this was being used as as a hamas command post. but really, this is part of a new israeli offensive that we ve seen this week in the centre of the gaza strip that has involved heavy israeli bombardment with the israeli military acting against what it says are hamas targets.
so there are and the other part of this is there are ways to collect intelligence on the balloon that is not directly connected physically with the balloon itself. so if we have some insight into its launch facilities and the protocols the chinese use when they launch, that s all valuable stuff. and particularly if you can connect that with the actual operation of the balloon as it s flying. secretary cohen, do you agree with director clapper that there should be some publicly announced protocols or at least explained protocols? i think general clapper is absolutely correct in terms of making sure that congress is on board. one of the things that s taking place is everybody s trying to be quick draw mcgraw, come out and say who s got the fastest gun in the west? i think what we saw is this administration acting and our military acting with restraint to, first, understand what the object was in the chinese balloon, see if they could get