handle it rather than did you do it, it seems kind of strange and see if he does anymore interviews. bill: tracking illegal migrants at the border is about to get more difficult. the biden administration is ending the use of one of its most critical and important border patrol surveillance, blimps at the border with mexico. bill melugin is on that story in mission, texas. what s up with this? good morning. these surveillance blimps are known at aero stats. there were 12 deployed along the southern border, now only four left due to a lack of funding. look at this video we shot of these stats considered a massive asset for border patrol. an eye in the sky. highly sophisticated cameras and technology. night vision, see for miles in all directions. they re highly effective at tracking evaders, smugglers and relaying realtime information to
began all this in 2016. not only misinformation but actually untruthful evidence that they were presenting and the federal government was co-opted by this also. every bit is not only realtime information we need but our friends, the democrats, of course, want none of this to be told and they say it s irrelevant. it s very relevant when the government is initiating their information to suppress free speech, we know we are in trouble, and that is what it appears as though we have captured that dead on. we just have a little bit of time left here, congressman, i want to ask you about the chinese situation and the balloon and where we go from here. what the president said about the balloon last night at the state of the union. listen here. make no mistake about it. as we made clear last week. if china threatens our sovereignty we will act to
terms of the reaction time and willingness to react on the part of the u.s. also they did, perhaps, collect realtime information of the military equipment that you outlined. so what part of that is concerning, or should we just not be concerned about that at all in. well, no, we should be. it s not just maybe on the equipment, but when it was the loitering and the sensor package they had, they were gathering signals intelligence and communications intelligence, and that s very important. what were we saying, how were we reacting to it. and when you sweep up that kind of information and pass it back, they can decipher that kind of information, and it s all based on decision making. we weren t just being silent when all this was going on. the military command authorities were making calls, i am sure, we were passing information back and forth. and it was sort of like eavesdropping on a telephone. they were just listening in, and they were passing that information back to china. so part
realtime information or you could see officers stack up with shields to actually go and then at least gather information of what s happening. a dynamic situation waiting to see what happens with this van. dynamic, indeed. thank you. live pictures right now of torrance, california, 30 miles away from monterey park which is where a deadly shooting took place last night. ten killed. ten injured. police are now looking at a vehicle that may be associated with a suspect. cnn newsroom continues after this.
so they try to keep information close to the vest. so we don t know if they started honing in on a particular vehicle. around the city of los angeles, a lot of squad cars as well are equipped with license plate detectors. so if they were near the scene, more information about the subject vehicle that they were looking for and that included a license plate, all it would take to trip law enforcement, they re interest is for a squad car or a license plate reader around the city to that van to drive by that and now to gather realtime information. so those are some of the possibilities. we don t know specific. but again going back to the key point. i could tell you as an example when i was here with the fbi in los angeles. at fbi l.a. headquarters, they had bearkat vehicles and you launch them for specific operations if you re doing a high risk arrest or if you have some type of emergency situation. but they have no know where to