the department of defence to develop options to take down the blue safety over our territorial waters while closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities. this action was to cash taken in coordination and with the simple support of the canadian government and we thank them. the reason why they are thinking cap motor is because you may remember it spent a bit of time over canada over to montana, and that is where those sensitive security sites in the us were, and that is where with this chinese surveillance balloon. and thatis chinese surveillance balloon. and that is when this news went global, and since then, we have been tracking it heading and now no more, now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if you were here earlier. just off south carolina. if you were here earlier, my just off south carolina. if you w
systems are attacked, to see if there s any footage available. of course this was being transmitted to the chinese in real time but who knows if there is a hard drive or something else on board american officials can try to recover, but as this operation is ongoing, they will try to learn as much as possible. the question is has this been a major source of investment, a fleet of these blues were out, so it may be the case that china is already on further iterations of this aircraft and there may not be very much to learn. , ~ ., , learn. interesting. another line is cominu in learn. interesting. another line is coming in from learn. interesting. another line is coming in from reuters, - learn. interesting. another line is coming in from reuters, us - learn. interesting. another line is. coming in from reuters, us military took precautions to minimise spying risk as balloon crossed over sensitive sites. so, the us military took precautions to minimise the spying risk as the balloon cr
trump tweeted on sunday he may want to take another look at those penalties. so that s raising a set of questions. there s another issue with zte. u.s. intelligence officials say they and other telecom companies present a national security risk to the united states because if they penetrate the u.s. market, their a spying risk. a u.s. intelligence official affirmed that in congress today at a hearing, chris. and so the idea that donald trump would be trying to give a benefit to this chinese firm zte is raising a lot of hackle also among people of both parties on capitol hill. nbc s ken dilanian, thank you. turning now to a dramatic situation in hawaii. lava erupting in leilani estates, forcing many people to leave their homes. this is the 19th fissure that opened in kilauea. now there are growing concerns of a possible explosion in the volcano s crater. for democrats looking to take control of the house of
because there are two possibilities. one is they may not be able to prove the case. espionage is a difficult crime to prove. you almost need to have someone on tape handing the information over to the foreign handlers. the other possibility is they are often reluctant to go into court and expose these highly sensitive secrets in a public courtroom and so they settle for a lesser charge. it is entirely well i think unrelated, a story, but the u.s. is concerned about one of china s largest smartphone manufacturers spying on americans. are you up to speed. this is wau way. it is one of the largest telecom companies. they make smartphones and interswitching and trying to crack the u.s. market for years and intelligence and lawmakers have been pushing back and raising questions about potential spying risk. and now at&t has banned a selling of the phones under pressure from the u.s. there is a real fear obvious