the biden administration to shoot down the balloon over the atlantic ocean. the federal aviation administration has issued a ground stop close airspace in north and south carolina until 2:45 p.m. eastern time. the balloon is currently floating over south carolina and moving southeast republican congressman anthony of the homeland security committee standing by with his reaction. but first lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with 30 tables unchecked details. good afternoon mike if you going to shoot down a chinese spy balloon over the atlantic that s exactly how you do it. you close airspace you launched fighters. that appears to be what happened are present biden spoke earlier indicated a decision had been made without offering specifics. [inaudible] earlier this morning on fox former defense secretary chuck said it s unlikely this bible it will make its way home. i do not have the pentagon is going to do with the president ultimately decides but once he gets out
plus more firepower for ukraine, the u.s. about to approve longer range missiles to counter russians on the battlefield. and too cold for school, classes in big cities like boston and buffalo canceled with the coldest windchills since the 1980s about to take hold. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. right now chinese spies could be watching you from above from a high altitude spy balloon. the pentagon says they have been tracking this balloon about the size of three buss for days. people on the ground in montana at any didn t know what to make of it at first. there is the moon. all right. and then there is that. what planet is that? that sighting raises two big questions, what is it doing here and what does the biden administration plan to to about it. we get more from oren liebermann at the pentagon. reporter: for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s.,
[laughter] steve: how is that? hey, who is for the eagles? [crowd boos] steve: so many people have kansas city memorabilia on today. thank you very much. who likes fox & friends in the morning? [cheers] and here we are live from the bbiscuit in kansas city. i got married here, i used to work here and i m here to cheer on the kansas city chiefs. that s great. listen, what a crowd we have got today ainsley and brian. look at this. one of the people actually brought in the super bowl trophy. and this is what it is all about. of course, this is probably a bootleg or something. [laughter] can t possibly be real. so, anyway. we are live today from the big biscuit talk about kansas city that is going to be playing in nine days against the eagles. the people here even though it is 11 degrees, ainsley and brian. they are amped up and ready to win, right? [cheers] brian: you got some special guests coming down, too, right? steve: what s that, brian? brian: you have some s
Exclusive coverage on this chinese spy balloon going down over south carolina could you talk to us about what happened in terms of coordinating us to get to this point now? we have all of our watching this for some time. certainly our military capability got alerted. people have been planning it likely for couple of days. i am assuming the president made a decision within the last 24 hours to take this out. they probably presented him with a number of options where the best place to do so we heading to the east coast which is considerably more populated than montana last probably ruled out they would do anything over land if they were willing to do it over montana they are certainly not going to do it on the east coast of the united states or in transit to the east coast.
There at the white house. they have had this chinese spy balloon flight over the continental united states in recent days. quick status right we first saw the spy balloon over montana come to air force base we have a number of nuclear missiles. minuteman three missiles in the chinese are building their own missile silos back home. in fact the pentagon says a chinese nuclear forces are going to double and stockpiled double over the next decade, there s no question chinese wanted to look at how the u.s. air force has their silos for china is no stranger to stealing information especially sensitive information for summit military was stolen from the united states. was concerned for many officials at the white house was the pentagon is a slow burn if you will the chinese spy balloon was lighting from montana to down to the air force base in missouri. when the two bombers i can deployed nuclear warheads for