tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
thinks things will shake out. we start with a dramatic move that could have huge implications for the fraught relationship between the u.s. and china. the biden administration pulling the plug on secretary of state blinken s planned chip to china, just hours after the pentagon revealed it had detected a chinese surveillance balloon over montana. so right now the video, this video was taken in billings, montana, on thursday, although it s not clear if this is the balloon in question. obviously there s the balloon. that was secretary blinken who was supposed to leave tomorrow. that s now on hold. the u.s. has decided to monitor the balloon instead of shooting it down, even though it s apparently still gathering intelligence as we speak. a decision not sitting well some republicans. this is the fist time in my lifetime i ve ever seen anything like this, and it s very disturbing to know that it s still up there in the air near our military installations. the time is now, let
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The polls have just opened in hawaii meaning voters in all 50 states are making their voices heard. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. And im erin burnett and this is cnns continuing coverage of election day in america. Take a look. Weve got live pictures. This is a Polling Location were showing you just outside the philadelphia. So far only minor glitches with officials reporting no major Voting Issues so far, wolf. Heres whats at stake today, erin. All 435 seats are up for grabs, republicans need to turn five seats red to take it back. Over in the democratic controlled senate, 35 of the 100 seats are also in play today. All republicans need there is a net gain of one seat to change the Balance Of Power in the u. S. Congress and here in washington. As always we have our correspondents all over the map covering all the key races along with our entire cnn election team. Lets get straight to pennsylvania where there is an issue