right now on early start, what is going on up there? three mystery objects shot out of the sky by american fighter jets. plus, against all odds. people are still being saved from the rubble of turkey and syria s earthquake disaster, more than a week later. kansas city erupts as the chiefs take the super bowl for the second time in four years. all right. here we go, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. we begin with the u.s. fighter jet shooting down another airborne object on sunday. this one over lake huron. according to the pentagon the object was not a military threat but it was determined to be a flight hazard. the operation marks the third day in a row that an unidentified object was shot down over north american airspace. these are objects, i m not able to categorize how they stay aloft. it could be a guess. it s a type of balloon inside a structure. or it could be some type of a propulsion system. but c
hello, everyone. thank you for joining me, i m fred whitfield. and we begin with new details on the latest potential threat shot down in north american air space. the third object taken down in the last week by a u.s. fighter jet. this shootdown happened on saturday over the canada central yukon territory, about a hundred miles from the u.s. border. chuck schumer suggesting that intelligence suggested it was another balloon. joe biden and trudeau giving an update a short time ago. yesterday afternoon, i also spoke with president biden and confirmed together that we will continue to do everything necessary to protect the sovereignty of our shared north american air space. but also to do everything necessary to keep our citizens safe. u.s. fighter jets assigned to norad scrambled to take the object down. canadian authorities are now ron ducting recovery operations. jasmine wright and kylie atwood are tracking the developments. jasmine, to you first, what do we know about th
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over the united states. eventually shot down off of the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. now pentagon officials will not confirm whether or not the new object was also a balloon or its country of origin. officials did say the object was roughly the size of a small car, and was flying at an altitude that will make it a potential threat to civilian aircraft. alaska senator melissa spoke with lester holt last night, said she was briefed and told the object was not a balloon. take a listen. but today, to know that we have yet another unidentified objects successfully shot down in alaska, making sure that the message is clear that any sovereign territory or airspace in this country, and there s a threat, that there is an incursion. there will be consequences. here is nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa with more. today, the search with ice and snow is underway for any debris from that second flying object in u.s. airspace. this object shot do