following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the
for victims of the marathon bombings. the man claimed his aunt lost two limbs in the bombing which could have qualified him to receive more than $2 million. prosecutors say aunt had been dead for a decade and the man had faked doctor s letters in his application. a listeria outbreak may have killed one person and sickens four others. fda says the outbreak is linked to a cheese distributed by crate brothers farmstead classics in wisconsin. more information including safety tips at cnn.com/health. now to your holiday weather. it s still very hot and dry in the west. boy, are we getting drenched in the southeast, chad. it is nasty. you have a conveyor belt now from the gulf of mexico. it is right over atlanta, right over asheville, nashville, knoxville, and on up even into columbus, cincinnati and pittsburgh today. if you look at where this conveyor belt was earlier in the week, it was from florida right on up into new york city and into boston. it s just been pounding with