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
A major part of the wreckage of a Japanese Self-Defense Forces helicopter that went missing in early April was hauled from the seabed Tuesday by a salvage company, a government source sats.
what they need just by divering in hopefully a quick operation. and have you ever heard of a wreckage salvage operation like this one before? i mean, this is pretty unique. well, we ve done lots of salvage operations. obviously, a balloon, we ve done space shots out of cape canaveral where the payload was in a lot of pieces and we needed to recover those pieces for various agencies in the federal government. it s a thing that they can do. it just takes time. when you re working out in the water, and you got weather, you have to worry about and people with welfare, safety takes time. hopefully everything is one big pile and they ll be able to find it quickly. it won t happen as quickly as