every bed wonders what is it a verdict come from? hello everyone welcome to fox news led by eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i am arthur neville for this let us latest takedown lesson a week from another f-22 shot down a chinese spy craft off the south carolina coast last saturday you might remember. fox news live shows you that dramatic event exclusively as it happened. now, republican senator from mississippi is voicing new concerns. this one did not seem to have any way to decide the direction but it did not have a steering mechanism like a chinese balloon had. i don t know they were not testing us with the first balloon incident. we do not know where this one came from. possibly china possibly russia. you can almost guarantee it was launched by someone who does not wish us well.
does it have some kind of steering mechanism? we can speculate at this point. we ll know a lot more about that as the pieces of this thing get put together. don t forget, nasa, for example, was able to exhaustively reconstruct challenger which blew up at a much higher altitude and was scattered over thousands and thousands of miles. we ll learn, i think, some answers to those questions. my guess would be this had limited capability to maneuver because it s just a hard problem set to have an enormous determiningable like this and move it with real precision. i think we ll skoofr it had some capability, but it was also overmastered at times by the winds. i think it s going to end up being a bit of both, jose. admiral, the chinese government reacted by saying it was, quote, an obvious
as the chinese spy balloon floats over the carolinas, police in one south carolina county warning residents not to shoot at it. what exactly is a spy balloon, by the way? here now is cnn s brian todd. it s just floating there. that s the weirdest part. reporter: that tiny white dot in the sky can seem deceptive. this suspected chinese spy balloon, experts say, is a vehicle that s more impressive than you might think. balloons have a long history of being used for reconnaissance. this is no different. reporter: u.s. officials say that balloon is the size of three city buses and appears to have solar panels and surveillance equipment. since the balloon likely has no motor, the panels would help power the balloon. to allow for an operator to steer the balloon because any steering mechanism would require some degree of power as well.
have been used in war since the 1700s through the american civil wars and in wars in iraq and afghanistan. experts say they may look unwieldy, but don t let that fool you. it s just floating there. reporter: that tiny white dot in the sky can seem deceptive. this suspected chinese spy balloon, experts say, is a vehicle that s more impressive than you might think. balloons have a long history of warfare of being used for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance. reporter: u.s. officials say this balloon, now moving over the central u.s., is the size of three city buses and appears to have solar panels on it as well as surveillance equipment. analysts say since the balloon likely has no motor, the solar panels would help power the balloon and to allow for an operator to steer the balloon. any steering mechanism would require some degree of power as well. reporter: experts say these balloons can fly at altitudes of 60,000 feet to 50 miles above the earth. we asked analys
divide that is putting the health of americans at peril. doctor, lastly, what is your take on the sensitive issue of mandates? do you think that mandates with vaccination or with required testing are a reasonable ask for businesses around the country? well, rev, i am unabashedly unapologetically for vaccine mandates. whether you re a professional athlete, again, a teacher, a public sector employee, a nurse, a physician, because that s the only way we get to the other side of this, is that we ve got to get more americans vaccinated. and if the steering mechanism of a mandate is one of the tools in our tool box, we should use it. you know, human behavior being human behavior, rev, we always delay things that we think may be unpleasant. unfortunately, particularly in black and brown communities, we know, there has been some delay, but again, the best thing we can do right now is, we get more data on how significant omicron