what the heck is that? those are the bad guys. are they friendly? the 10g network, only from xfinity. one giant leap for mankind. the top of the hour this monday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. this morning the white house is refuting china s claims that they had illegally flown balloons in china airspace ten teams. the white house is calling that allegation flat out false. it is coming on the heels of the u.s. shooting down three unidentified objects over the last week. and it is not known if they have connections to the three others after the shot down surveillance balloon. there is pressure mounting on president biden to explain all of this as one democratic congressman says that people are quote freaked out. the pentagon says that there was no military threat, and despite that military officials across north america are on alert for more of these. we go to natasha bertrand with more on this. and natasha, what are we learning about at the latest objects shot down, an
planes. we are laser-focused on confirming their nature and purpose. reporter: three day, three unidentified objects shot down by u.s. fighters. no precedent. efforts are actively under way right now at all sites to find what s left of those objects so we can better understand and communicate with the american people what they are. reporter: no shortage of unanswered questions, driving a robust all-of-government response from president biden. every element of the government will redouble their efforts to understand and mitigate these events. reporter: recovery efforts under way for downed ob jebts and critical. they are focused like a laser on figuring out what happened and coming up with sort of a comprehensive analysis of how we deal with this present and future. reporter: as even white house allies are raising concerns. in an absence of information people will fill that gap. reporter: a new cabinet-level task force underscoring the approach. we re sta
wednesday over at the office of direct tofr of national intelligence. phil mattingly at the white house, thanks so much. we re getting brand new information including the object flew through u.s. sensitive sites. kylie atwood joining us now. what else does the memo say? this was a memo sent to lawmakers today. what it is saying according to the pentagon is the object that wu downed over canada was a small metallic balloon that had a payload beneath it. that was the object that is said to have traveled over sensitive u.s. sites before being downed. that s concerning because we don t know if it had collection surveillance capabilities on board. this memo also said that the object that was down over lake huron on saturday descended slowly into the water after it was shot. this memo that was gathered by my colleagues jeremy herb and zach cohen is giving us some of
governor ron desantis over its preliminary decision, florida s preliminary decision to reject a course on a.p. african american stud dis. the statement says florida is attempting to claim a political victory by taking credit retroactively for changes that were never suggested to us. we afford courtesy to an education agency but they ve exploited this courtesy for their political agenda. that prompted this response earlier today from florida republican governor ron desantis. the college board was the one that in a black studies course put queer theory in, not us. they did that. they were the ones that put in intersectionality. they put in other types of neo marxism into the proposed syllabus. this is the proposed course. so our department of education looked at that and said in florida we do education, not