hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis. the balloon had made its way across the country after first being spotted in montana on wednesday. its appearance over the u.s. and the military operation to take it down complicating the already tenuous relationship between the u.s. and china. beijing accusing the u.s. of overreacting and expressing strong dissatisfaction over the balloon s destruction. we have reporters around the world coverin
coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. let s get the latest on the balloon and today s recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese government s explanation that it was a civilian aircraft. they have strongly indicated, defense officials and administration officials, strongly told us that this was used for spying and they believe it was used to try to collect data about sensitive u.s. military sites across the country. now, that raises an being question, though, and one that the biden administration is going to have to grapple with in the next few days. they know that was the intent of this balloon, why did they not shoot it
time clock winding down, lebron drove it and found dennis schroder, who knocked down the three the lakers celebrate like they won, but there was still one second actually left on the clock went to overtime. lakers 180 to 102 to claim the seventh seed in the west and a date with the grizzlies. the hawks, meanwhile, putting a beat down on the heat last night hawks would prevail. winning 116 to 105 they now move on to face. the celtics can t wait for that. and for our next hour in this morning continues right now. it s probably the largest fire have seen. indiana town under evacuation orders after a giant fire broke out at a recycling plant. host of denver. chemicals plastics give off when they re on fire, and so it s concerning , and honestly, this fire is gonna burn for a few days. what? you re about to see his body camera footage from louisville metro police officer corey galloway s camera. dammit shooter has an angle on that officer. we need to get out there. i have no where
and has forced thousands of people to evacuate. cnn is live on the ground. we also have this for you. louisville police releasing intense body cam video of officers confronting the mass shooter at the bank on monday. the police chief says their actions saved lives. we re going to bring you the video next take a look live. look at president biden, speaking now in northern ireland on a historic visit will take you there lives. but first we ll go to that massive fire in indiana. where about 2000 people are being forced from their homes right now. is this virus continuing to rage? cnn s omar jimenez is live on the ground in richmond, indiana. omar i know you just got there. i see that you re wearing a mask. what is it like? on the grill there. and what are you hearing from? officials? yeah caitlin, this huge plume of smoke as you were driving into richmond, indiana here coming off the highway for miles. you really couldn t miss it. at this point. we do know that has been burning
crisis from hurting themselves or others, let s come together and make sure that not another family experiences that this loss that not another community is ripped apart and it s very fabric by this type of savage and senseless violence. you mentioned universal background checks. we know most action on gun reform is likely to happen at the state level more likely to happen at state level than it does at the federal level. just give us a sense since being there in washington, and i know you ve reached out to your constituents and we re calling them as recently as last week. asked about their concerns, gun violence was right up there. since you ve been in washington . are you more or less hopeful that this country can and will in fact address gun violence? uh i m always going to be helpful. hopeful i spent 10 years in the state senate in the minority is a democrat and kentucky and worked every day with my colleagues from all over the state and across the aisle to try to make th