announced chinese firms connected to beijing s surveillance balloon program to an export blacklist, so they cannot access u.s. technology or goods. the white house says they have not reached out to china about this new object shot down. norah? norah: all right, weijia jiang with all of those new details. thank you. overseas now to turkey and syria, where the death toll continues to climb five days after the deadliest earthquake in more than a decade. over 140,000 rescue personnel are on the ground in turkey, but in syria, it is a much different story. aid workers are incredibly short-staffed and they say they are in desperate need of help. cbs s chris livesay is in the disaster zone in turkey. reporter: in turkey s southeastern city of adiyaman, they now live among the rubble. every one of them with relatives inside. alive or dead, they don t always know. but five days after the earthquake, hope is beginning to slip through the ragged fingers they have been digging with.
call one eight hundred, eight million in the coming hours, the u.s. house is set to vote on a resolution, condemning china s use of a suspected spy balloon over u.s. territory. it is the latest in the dispute over the balloon, that was shot down on saturday, prompting nato to acknowledge there s been an increase of chinese surveillance activities globally. u.s. officials agree it s part of a program that violates international law. this is what we assess as a larger chinese surveillance balloon program.
of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. general ryder says it was not until recently under the biden administration that they were able to look back and realize that the four previous times, three during the trump administration, all near sensitive installations were in fact the chinese surveillance balloons. not all of them were the same size or had the same payload. fox news has confirmed that this fleet of surveillance balloons are part of a large covert program run by the chinese military or pla, and the balloons are launched from an island province, a global program that covers five continents. when you look at the scope of the program and the fact we know the balloons have been spotted in what we now can subsequently assess to be chinese balloons operating over at least five continents and regions like latin america, south america, southeast asia, east asia, and europe. when asked why norad did not
since acknowledged, is that they believe that this balloon was part of a broader chinese surveillance program that has conducted about two dozen missions over at least five continents in recent years, and roughly half of those flights have actually been within u.s. airspace, so pentagon press secretary brigadier general patrick ryder he actually did just address this with reporters earlier confirming that the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance program for quite some time now and does believe that it s part of a larger mission, a larger operation being carried out by the chinese government. take a listen. this is what we assess as part of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. you ve heard us talk of us talk about the fact that this is a program that s been operated for several years, and this last week provided the united states with a unique opportunity to learn a lot more about the chinese surveillance balloon program. all information that will help us to continue to
aishah hasnie has the latest from capitol hill. on thursday, every lawmaker in the house and senate will get a classified briefing from defense, intelligence, and state department officials on the chinese spy balloon. 10 days after it entered the mainland. house leaders already filled in. it s very power of attorney that we do capture it, to find out what s on it. find out what they are doing. new images show the navy working around the clock to recover the rest of the downed aircraft as china s dirty secret is out. this is what we assess as part of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. the pentagon reveals china s espionage program is run by the people s liberation army and based in the hay man island province designed to gather intelligence on military capabilities. when you look at the scope of this program and the fact that we know that these balloons have been spotted in what we now can assess to be chinese balloons operating over at least five