The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S
ijust i just feel for everybody who is like me and my children, in the unknown, whether their family is or not. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. we have some breaking news for you. the white house has set in the last few minutes that the us military has shot down an object off northeast alaska that was around 40,000 feet high and could have posed a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft. we are going to bring you more on that news live from washington in a moment. back to that earthquake in turkey. and syria. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need after monday s devastating earthquakes, living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions. there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 23,000 people are now known to have died. living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions. syrian state media says the government has approved inter
on vacation, this time ate in a very sunny tropical, lush destination. a full report straight ahead. but first, let s begin with joe biden s unyielding commitment co free speech. he loves the to free speech. he loves the first amendment. here is press secretaryre s p karine jean-pierre with more. takree a look at this.rine-j eahour. h support for free speechupport and free press is well documented. just twitter, as you know, is a private company and they will make their own decision. so content moderation. but our support again for free press and free speech has been well documented. and so i ll leave it there.il okay, that that s laughable.s obviously, in reality, the documents tell a dramatically different story and a new batch of internalerna twitter files published by david zweig show that the biden white house frequently attempted to strongen arm social media platform into censoring speech, especially surrounding covid-19. here s a quote, the biden teamte was very
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