arizona. for the first time in history, an all-women team will perform the annual pregame flyover to kick off tomorrow s super bowl between the kansas city chiefs and the philadelphia eagles. the team will commemorate 50 years of women flying in the navy. the first eight women began flight school in pensacola, florida, in 1973. according to the navy, the aircraft in tomorrow s flyover represent the capabilities of the carrier airwing of the future. the fly overnormally comes at the crescendo of the star-spangled banner signaling that the action is just minutes away. can t wait to watch that. that will be some show. stay with cnn for the latest on the object shot down over canada. we ll bring you updates as we get new information as it comes in. thanks for joining me this afternoon and this evening. i m jim acosta. cnn will be back tomorrow with more news on all of this. so stay with us for that. we appreciate it. american pain is coming up next. have a good night.
and that it was in it was cylindrical, a small cylindrical object which obviously sounds very strange. but as mary schiavo was saying, there might be some perfectly fine explanations for that. your impressions as to how much information you re getting from the canadian side of things we re not getting a lot from the american side at this point. reporter: yeah, and if canadian officials wanted to get ahead of this obviously because it was shot down over canadian airspace and was up to them to make thyselese pronouncements ty what was shot down, what was going on, the fact that it was shot down 4.5 hours ago now. they were going through the debris field to try and ascertain what it is. i think there were a couple of significant things, and i think and the defense minister saying that it was at 40,000 feet. that gives us some explanation as to why they decided that it had to be brought down. we re showing a map now of yukon. that is a huge territory. she said it was shot down in c
airship, you know, a dirgible, they wouldn t have seen that the last couple decades. i think that they re having difficulty actually getting eyes on and the equipment that they use to shoot them down obviously does not depend upon human eyes to have eyes on. they have the ability to do that, you know, with their computers. so i think that the visibility s a big issue up here. all right, mary, thank you so much for springing into action for us. we ve added an additional hour of cnn newsroom this evening. we appreciate it. paula newton joins me on the phone. paula, i guess you and i had just a brief couple of moments to parse through what the canadian prime minister was saying in the press conference. i want to reiterate what she said just about 2 0 or 30 minutes ago, that this object was flying at about 40,000 feet. it was over the yukon territory.
everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let s go. the digital age is waiting. breaking news into cnn. we continue to cover the downing of an unidentified object earlier today over the skies of canada. we are learning that the faa right now is closing some airspace over montana for defense department activities.
getting in the way of all of us getting some more information as to what is going on with these two objects, one in alaska and one in canada, is the weather. and mary was just alluding to this a few moments ago, that the weather is quite awful right now in alaska and getting aircraft, rescuers, i guess military personnel to retrieve that piece of equipment, it just might be difficult because of the weather in terms of where it went down. might that also be the case in this area of the central part of yukon? absolutely. that s absolutely, jim. no one should underestimate that challenge. i m glad that mary described that. the main issue with the weather is they can t be too careful. it can change literally in an instant. so at one point where you have had visibility instantly then you do not have visibility. and so they don t want to put any lives in danger, obviously, but also what s the point of going out there if you do not believe that you actually have line of sight? now while t