good saturday morning, everyone. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. and i m boris sanchez. all eyes on the sky this morning as a chinese spy balloon continues drifting over the united states. where it is expected to go and why the white house has not ruled out shooting it down. and a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below zero. where we re seeing the cold air and when things will start to warm up. plus new developments in the tyre nichols case, why another officer is out of a job and why some first responders are now losing their licenses. plus important new testimony in the alex murdaugh trial, twists in the case and what it could mean for murdaugh s defense, coming up on cnn this morning . hi, everyone. if you are not keeping track, it is saturday. not time to go to work for most of you. february 4. thanks for waking up with us. i m amara walker in atlanta. an
good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it s expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we re seeing the cold air and tell you when it s going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her home. what local officials are saying about that case. plus the usda rolling out new changes for school lunches. the proposes they are changing, just ahead on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 4th, we reesht you joining us for a lot of you out there, it is freezing cold outside, yobd beyond treezing cold. we re going to get to that in a moment. we start with this balloo
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
and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave [cheers and applause] rachel: good morning. it is 6:00 in new york city and i m happy to be here with will and pete. love that national anthem. love your photos. please keep sending them into friends@foxnews.com. will: good morning. rachel: nice to be here. i ve been reminded of that. pete: what is everybody right now? 10? it is lower than 10. rachel: this is like your childhood. will: that is why i fled as quickly as possible. if it was over 40 °, we didn t wear a jacket. pete: that was a warm day. will: it was a warm day. over 40, you could go light. we had an ice storm all week in texas. everything was an ice-skating rink. your driveway, your grass was an ice-skating rink, not snow, ice. pete: do you use the acquired skills of ice-skating
together with you broadcasting balloons. rachel: that s right. if you get a little chilly, i have a heat or here, will. will: is it on? pete: i don t know why you haven t turned it on yet. rachel: because it s been cozy. pete: have you been to the great american ballpark in cincinnati? will: no. never been to cincinnati. pete: never been? will: have you been to cincinnati? everybody acts, like, wow. pete: dial up a diner for will in cincinnati, and you ve got to have chili for breakfast. rachel: that sounds good right now. pete: on noodles. will: let s do a list of american cities by population and find the biggest city you haven t been to. want to do that? i don t think cincinnati is the biggest city we ll find out, let s do the three of us, what s the biggest american city you ve never visited? @. pete: it s going to be a small i know i ve been to all 50 states, multiple times over. will: i ve never been to. pete: i don t know if i ve been to big cities in maine. yes, i