super bowl and neal tee de gras die tyson talks about pop culture. and the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m boris sanchez. and i m amara walker. all eyes are on the sky this morning as the chinese surveillance balloon continues to drift over the u.s. where it is expected to go and why the white house hasn t ruled out shooting it down. plus a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. and some places it will feel like 50 to 60 grows below zero. we ll tell you where that is and when things might finally start to warm up. and a developing story out of ohio, hundreds of firefighters are on the scene of a train derailment there. you can see the huge fireball lighting up the night sky. the mayor of that town is joining us with an update. and new development in a strange case out of dallas, it has been a weird few weeks for the dallas zoo and now a man has been arrested after police sa
following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
Reporter one of more exciting competitive super bowls, it was tied first and second quarter, and were tied minutes to the end of the game. A lot of attention to mahomes, entered the game with an injured right ankle. He is now back on the game. Buffalo bills damar hamlin in the house. Garnering prayers and support of nfl after he suffered a Cardiac Arrest in a regular season game on january 2. And before the very exciting game, we talked with rowdy fans about their final thoughts headed to super bowl lvii. Chiefs go home. Reporter how much did you pay for your ticket. I paid i bought 10 tickets. For 160 thousand, i had to do it, who is richer than me. Where you are coming from. Kansas. Your thoughts, chiefs by 10, mahomes all day long. Philly and kansas dise kansas city, great teams, great people. Wholl win. Eagles. Chiefs. You mentioned dangling halftime show, rihanna had a visible bump. A lot of speculation she is, founded pregnancy, we dont have that confirmed right now. Thank you so
reporter: one of more exciting competitive super bowls, it was tied first and second quarter, and we re tied minutes to the end of the game. a lot of attention to mahomes, entered the game with an injured right ankle. he is now back on the game. buffalo bills damar hamlin in the house. garnering prayers and support of nfl after he suffered a cardiac arrest in a regular season game on january 2. and before the very exciting game, we talked with rowdy fans about their final thoughts headed to super bowl lvii. chiefs go home. reporter: how much did you pay for your ticket. i paid i bought 10 tickets. for $160 thousand, i had to do it, who is richer than me. where you are coming from. kansas. your thoughts, chiefs by 10, mahomes all day long. philly and kansas dise kansas city, great teams, great people. who ll win. eagles. chiefs. you mentioned dangling halftime show, rihanna had a visible bump. a lot of speculation she is, founded pregnancy, we don t have
and the latest on what china is saying about that balloon hovering over the u.s. and president biden is going to speak following a new jobs report that smashed expectations. 517,000 jobs added in january and nearly three times the forecast. we will bring you reaction live. and a life-threatening deep freeze headed to the northeast, and millions are bracing for once-in-a-generation sub-zero temperatures. china is confirming that the balloon floating over to the u.s. is theirs, and it is not a spy balloon as the pentagon says, but it is a civilian airship used for research are the words of the foreign ministry, and it is said to be the size of three buses. china says it accidentally drifted off course. and the sources says that china cannot manually control it, but how did it get there in the first place? the continental u.s. is a big target. yes, what happens next is the big question. the pentagon says it is not a military or physical threat to the people on the ground