living inside the u.s. more than 40 charged for, quote, creating and using fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate dissidents of china s regime living here and seeking to suppress their free speech. the defendants remain at large. the other case sur real. two men in court yesterday, federal agents arrested them for operating a secret chinese police station in new york city. the d.o.j. calling it a significant national security matter. despite that, the suspects were able to get out on bond with just a few hours. it is new york city. one hour, one house foreign affairs republican says this is just the beginning. i think this is a coordinated plan. i this i the chinese are embedding chinese nationals throughout our country. this police force here will be a big part of making sure they can coordinate and keep them on the same page for whatever their intended goal is here. not good. i think that they are a force that is intended to coerce and intimidate those here.
i m sara sidner in new york. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news here at cnn. former president jimmy carter will begin receiving hospice care at his home in plains, georgia. that is according to a statement from the carter center which says the 98-year-old has decided to spend his remaining time surrounded by his family and forego any further medical treatment. our jeff zeleny has the latest. reporter: the decision of former president jimmy carter to remain in plains, georgia, after a series of hospital stays certainly speaks to the center that this town has really been to his life. he has spent nearly all of his the 8 years in 98 years in plains, with the exception of his time in the white house and has time as a young men in the american military. plains, georgia, a town 140 miles or so south of atlanta really has been the place where this former president has done his life s work in the post presidency. he s talked abo
to mandatory evacuations. the president was paralyzed for an entire week by a balloon. the president made a very clear and decisive decision. domestic, political, and international blowback as china s spy balloon has upended president biden s state of the union address this week. and the u.s. is on alert for possible retaliation from beijing. another close call on the runway as a fedex cargo plane nearly collides with a southwest flight in texas. breaking the record for the most grammy wins of all time! queen bey is now queen of the grammys. beyonce making history, taking home more grammys than any other artist ever. cnn this morning starts right now. and you can see, there s a lot going on this morning. and we have to begin with a dramatic new video of a reporter running for his life on live tv, while he was reporting on the devastating earthquake in turkey. take a look. [ speaking non-english ] [ screaming ] the catastrophic quake has now killed more than
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across america s skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. cnn has team coverage of this very tense moment in u.s./china relations. i want to start with warren lieberman who is over at the pentagon. what are you learning about the recovery effort that is gong on? i say sum that officials want to get their hands on it as quickly as possible. absolutelily. but the debris, what was left of the payload, the length of three school buses has fallen in 47 feet of water.