count has gone up and hope it doesn t go up further. emily: such deep history, this is lahaina united methodist church and maui hub where people go to worship, it is burnt to the ground. david: fire is a living thing, it feeds, it grows. when you think of it that way and on an island, where does it go? it can encompass the whole island. the effects go beyond this. personal stories, death toll, things we ll learn, when you get to recovery side of this and i think about something most don t get in the news. i sit on the board of american humane, we rescue animals in disasters around the world. after this is over, insectses, small animals issue part of the ecosystem needs to be brought back or you lose part of the environment on the island and
neil: speaking of alaska and you ve been patient, faa is reporting air space closed in northern alaska to support these defense activities to get this and to retrieve this object. is that still the case and will that go on indefinitely? do you know? well, when these kind of ops take place, neil, you can imagine, what you have seen in this case, coordination between active duty forces, our military forces, but also involved coordination with the faa, coordination i m sure right now already with the fbi, to look at again on the recovery side. so if that is what you re hearing right now, i imagine that that is happening. remember, alaska plays a strategic role for our country
spying on our country, that we should take effort to shoot this down. we should do it safely, if this is another chinese incursion and we don t know that yet and they emphasized that in briefings to me. i said this morning on a news show, neil, we need to reestablish a sense of deterence. if the chinese think they can willfully violate american air space, we need to make sure they understand otherwise. i commend the military for taking this action, challenging military action they carried out very professionally and wish those were still involved in the op, on the rescue side, on the recovery side, good luck and safety. it is tough to operate up in alaska, very cold and it is going to get dark early and right now our military is doing
0 prude obey witches on the border of canada and alaska on the northern side of the continent. that s all we know, we know that it was there for the better part of 24 hours and was shot down at 1:45 east coast time today. we will continue covering breaking news. i will see you back here on fox news at can you speak to rumors that there is another chinese balloon above alaska or any other u.s. territory that the u.s. shot down? so i can confirm that the department of defense was tracking high altitude object over alaska air space in the last 24 hours. out the object was flying at altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. out of abundance of caution and recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did and it came inside our territorial waters, the waters right now are frozen, but it s territorial air space and waters. assigned to u.s. northern command took down the object in the last
quickly and there were rescues we made, rail one thanking everyone immediately with boats. we will be awhile before we can start on the recovery side of things, donations, things like that, food, medical supplies. okay, we are going to tweet out information about how people can donate to you, sender the donations that you need of food or money. and, people who want to get involved with the united cajun navy, jordy is a search and rescue captain with the united cajun navy, they are not on tv because they are nearby undertaking rescues. i want to look at the building nearby because this is an effort to get this cleared up. we are seeing excavators on both sides of the building i think we have a shot of one over there at the moment. right now it is fairly steady but we have the owner and some people we know who are trying to clear up as the excavator is now taking the lumber and the parts of this building. now there is no repair to be