general keane i m not sure if you can see this. we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balance has been taken down. that is great. it is falling from the sky. reporter: air force f-22 fighter jet shot down the fighter plane that floated down across the u.s. last week. shortly after president biden claimed he wanted to shoot down the balloon earlier was overruled. president biden: on wednesday i briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided to do that when it got over water, within the 12-mile limit. reporter: the 12-mile limit biden mentioned that the coastal states right to claim 12 miles of nautical ocean as their territory. closing the airspace around the balloon, closing air traffic from wilmington, myrtle beach and charleston airport while the balloon was shot down. militariliry official said it was the first chancer to target over the balloon while f
uphill battle for liz cheney.ony voters in wyoming go to the polls on primary day. cs s robert costa is the only network correspondent there, as the congresswoman casts her vote. as a country, we re facing very challenging and difficult times. o donnell: the staggering number of americans who are unhappy at work. this job is not fun, and we re not getting paid enough to deal with the stuff we have to deal with every single day. o donnell: cbs s elise preston on why that s costing companies trillions of dollars. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. .we want to begin tonight with severe water cuts that will impact tens of millions of americans, and puts a fine point on how dire the crisis is in america s west. a mega-drought is drying up the colorado river, and depleting the nation s largest man-made reservoir, lak
affidavit could compromise the ongoing criminal investigation. it s been eight days since that unprecedented fbi action and we know that doj filter teams have combed through at least some of the contents retrieved from trump s home. we know this because doj returned trump s passports, three of them, in fact, that were found among the materials that were taken away by the fbi. we ve been tracking all of this for the past week. katelyn, what can we expect to happen at this hearing on thursday that has been called by that florida judge? reporter: alex, this hearing is going to be all about secrecy, and especially the arguments that the justice department is going to make to keep secret this very important document that backed up that search of mar-a-lago last monday. remember, that document, it s an afte affidavit. it s only been seen by the judge so far outside of prosecutors and investigators. and it s a narrative that would detail everything that has happened in this invest
we want to break down for you real quick on the board over here, some of the military sites over the path of this chinese spy balloon. will, i think you re right. first premise of this is a trial, right if we float a balloon, up through alaska, across the country what will the reaction of the united states government actually be? they effectively learned if there was order to shoot it down here, it didn t get shot down until it reached the east coast. if the second aspect was to truly gather intelligence about our nuclear capabilities, our nuclear response, for the chinese that was a success. if you look at all the major air force bases it crossed over, they include all three of the u.s. air force bases that operate, maintain, secure what is known as the minuteman 3, icbms. intercontinental ballistic missiles. one of the try add to deliver capabilities if we need to. will: explain the nuclear triad?
the minuteman 3 force that s in the ground, that part of the so-called triad. one of the things the secretary of the air force told me about is the modernization of that icbm missile force. there is a new missile called the sentinol they re bringing in. this is the age of electronic warfare and cyber, so you have to have modern systems you can depend on. they ll be doing that. have other new weapons coming in. a big bomber called the b-21. what is deterrence about in the end? when russia rattles its sabers and says, you know, we may use nuclear weapons in this crisis, deterrence is about having forces that are so overwhelming and reliable that any rational adversary would hesitate, simply wouldn t take that step. it would be utterly unthinkable. this is a war that can t be thought because it can t be won. so you need to make sure your weapon systems are solid and up