hunt is live with us with the breaking news. good evening, trace. we learned the balloon is just one of a fleet operated by the chinese military. with a significant game of spying on the u.s. in this game, many other countries in many other cases and the balloon shot down by a u.s. fighter jet on saturday was laden with sophisticated equipment to gather intelligence and possibly to transmit that intelligence directly to beijing. the tool package, the equipment package on that balloon, was enormous. we were not able to jam the transmissions. we don t know the extent of the program. as the u.s. navy continues to collect debris from the waters off south carolina where the balloon was brought down, it s emerged that some of the recovered parts were western made and had english writing on them. officials have not pickly name the manufacturer of those parts, but they have said they believe that manufacturer has a direct relationship with the people s liberation army of china.
which all other rights depend. if you can t defend yourself, te can t defend your family and your property, you don t have any rights at all. you re a l.. by definition. so you may be wondering in this moment of creeping authoritarianism, how is the right to self defense doing in our country? ou we can give some kind of long lecture, but instead, how about some examples? consider two shootings that took place at gas stations in the past year in the united states . the first shooting occurred around two p 2:0m.m on october a the state of missouri, a twentyo three year old felon called javon taylor with a long criminal record convictiontaylor armed robbery, for example, began threatening a female clerk, apparently becausn es st the gas station didn t carry the kind of cigars that he wanted. that s when an off firemanat sw called anthony santae, who was inside, decidehed to step in.or. he told javon taylor to leave ty the storloe. response to that, taylor began threatening h
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for police reform. stephanie ramos in memphis. that dangerous ice storm, winter alerts across 30 states. 50 million americans. that ice storm causing those multiple accidents already. concerns over the power grid tonight. hundreds of flights canceled. and the record-breaking cold right behind it. wind chills well below zero by tomorrow morning, all the way north. mireya villarreal in dallas. ginger zee timing it out. the urgent manhunt tonight. police appealing for the public s help. the suspect accused of brutally beating and kidnapping a woman who is now in critical condition. authorities say he may be using social media and their warning tonight. matt gutman reporting. secretary of state antony blinken in israel tonight, urging calm on all sides after some of the worst violence in years. and the mysterious drone attacks in iran. what we re learning tonight. back here at home, the alex murdaugh trial. the once prominent attorney accused of murdering his own wife and
in the nineteen nineties during a visit to nasa, sheila jackson lee demanded to see the flag that astronauts had planted on mars when gently informed that no human being has ever been to mars because it s very far away. lee flew into a rage. she accused nasa of racism and pointed out her membership on the , quote, science committee in congress and so on . we could spend the entire hour on sheila jackson lee stories, and it s tempting. on capitol hill, she s known as the queen and not in a good way. but what s interesting is that nobody ever talks about the congress district that sheila jackson lee supposedly represents. it s mostly inner city houston, and it could use some help. lee s district has a poverty rate almost twice the national average for all the usual markers of civilizational decline, high crime, bad schools, low social cohesion, drugs. now, lee has, quote, served in congress for nearly 30 years. but it s hard to think of a single thing she has ever done