floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.
tam ron monkeys taken found in an abandoned home several miles south of the dallas zoo this is where it started coming to light, this is the habitat for the clouded leopard, she will not show up for us, in the middle of this cold in the middle of day nova is that leopard and this is the enclosure where back on january 13th, right down here on the ground at least this wire mesh was cut, and at some point nova that leopard was able to walk out and initially, you know, everybody heard leopard they feared the worse, the dallas squat team showed up that morning briefly thinking the worse, this is actually a rather small leopard about the size of a bobcat, and actually we re told that the cat didn t make it very, she stood in this area, in fact, they found her just down here, later that later that day, just behind that fence over there.