would ex ptend political capita to a very capable recognizance satellite program that gives them all the intelligence they need. reporter: but we ve heard the science excuse before from beijing when china tested a missile that went around the world in 2021 they claimed it was a routine spacecraft ex expe experiment. this is like tiktok. does anybody trust china? of course not. for good reason. reporter: china has spy satellites but they can t loitder over a big area like a balloon. the government will track the balloon as it makes its way across america. the u.s. response so far on the diplomatic front with antony blinken delaying the high stakes visit to beijing. conditions are not conducive for a constructive visit at this time. the decision to take this action, my planned visit is detrimental to the discussions we were planned to have. reporter: for where this goes from here. the pentagon says for now they re continuously tracking this balloon and determined it s
found earlier this week safe, but going back three weeks to various animal enclosures, including a monkey enclosure and also a leopard enclosure that had been cut, the casings of those enclosures had been cut, and one animal was able to escape, the leopard on the grounds, safely. and then there was another monkey exhibit also cut. none of those animals escaped but it s been a very mysterious situation. what authorities still don t have an answer to is what is the motivation behind all of this. you were inside the zoo. you saw the cages cut. what are officials saying about these incidents? reporter: they re really overwhelmed and rather troubled by exactly what s going on here because there s just a lack of answers as to exactly what has happened. and, you know, there was also