good everybody, from msnbc world headquarters in new york, i m lindsey reiser in for alex witt. breaking news developing drama playing out over the skies of the carolinas, just a short time ago we received this video. residents say is that alleged chinese spy ballooned flying over the skies, over asheville, north carolina. floating eastwards toward the atlantic ocean. more video in our news room just a short time ago shows that over clover, south carolina, that s a neighboring city of charlotte, north carolina. president biden responded to a question about, it listen closely. joining me right now is nbc news investigative report there, dan. you can sort of make it out there, the u.s. president saying he is going to take care. but what do you take that to mean, any word from officials about these latest sightings? well that does seem to suggest that the u.s. is prepared to shoot down at the boulogne, given that it s now approaching the atlantic ocean, that could presen
without revealing anything, i obviously the united states tries to understand what s going on and trying to. so, we learned about this because nbc s broken on thursday i. believe the u.s. had been talking for several days. how long to think the u.s. had been monitoring this balloon and basically how would the u.s. pick up on something like this? that s a very good question, and we don t probably know exactly from the outside. i think the reality is murad, which has the responsibility for kind of american airspace is that they would obviously have picked this up again, we are constantly looking at ways to recover some of that, again, we have satellites in space that is more difficult. that either moves into a
suspected chinese spy balloon, floating over the continental u.s., reporting sightings in north carolina in south carolina and now we have ground stops, essentially the faa posing departures at three different airports to help the department of defense. let s go ahead and bring in nbc dan lewis, so dan we ve got three airports houston all to quote support the department of defense and it national security advisor but does that all mean? i think it s becoming pretty clear now, given this announcement and then what president biden said earlier today about how they re going to quote, take care of this. this would be a very logical thing to you before you took military action to shoot down at this a very large balloon hovering towards the coast of north carolina. so, this is a precautionary stab so that there are no civilian aircraft in the area, and they ve lowered a safety risk to civilians when you
efforts and strategies of the chinese, but what i can say it is the timing, as it relates to this very critical and important committee will help us to continue to keep our eyes on this situation, situations like this and prevent them from happening in the future. this is a very sensitive issue, again, it s very concerning. i just cannot overstate or overemphasize the importance of the public safety and health and welfare of our citizens and making sure that we re not doing anything to cause irreparable harm to the people who may be impacted by taking this balloon out, if you will, as it is being discussed. all right, congresswoman chantal, don thank you so. much our thanks also today nbc investigate report and we appreciate you. time what you do know about the man handy a s investigation into donald. shop an insiders view from a
the face, the hot, you have gloves? no gloves. may, yes. same onions. like onions! they d like an onion. i m from boston, i m very used to new england weather but this isn t great, i m not loving. it can you send another six weeks of this type of weather? if those consistently, this is not at, all know. maybe a possibility of some rules? yeah, i mean yeah, to be on the beast right now would sound really. great [laughter] let s bring in nbc meteorologist michelle grossman who s tracking all this. fourth and the people talking, people are out and about experiencing, but this is dangerous cold, michelle. it is dangerous we re looking at really frigid temperatures, we have seen some improvement terms of air temperatures. we ve seen improvement terms of the, wind but still you need to cover up. george was out about, you saw their face, their arms, their hands as what you want to. do it you can get some frostbite as you are headed out. today we are still under wind chil