♪ hello and welcome. coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up on "cnn newsroom" -- >> i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. >> the u.s. has shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon after it traveled across america for days. recovery efforts now under way. china says the balloon entered u.s. air space by accident, heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. live in hong kong with the latest from there. it's not the only one. the pentagon says a second balloon is flying over latin america. a report ahead. >> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with michael holmes. >> we br to show you the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that has caused so much havoc this week. the balloon was so high up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers, that it took a few seconds for the shockwave to reach the ground, have a listen. the shoot-down happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. it was a sensational landing to a saga unfolding for days as the giant craft drifted silently above the american heartland. china is loudly protesting, accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing continues to insist it was merely a civilian scientific balloon that blew off course. after studying its movements and patterns for several days, pentagon officials say they are confident the lumbering craft was conducting surveillance. for now, many answers will have to wait until the balloon and its payload are recovered and analyzed. at last report, we're told the wreck along is lying on the ocean floor some 50 feet down, about 15 meters, and salvage efforts are starting to get under way. oren lieberman explains what the u.s. plans to do with the balloon's remnants. >> reporter: what has been an effort to track this chinese surveillance balloon for days is now a recovery effort to bring up the wreckage of the chinese surveillance balloon and the payload it was carrying from the ocean floor. not all that deep, according to the pentagon. a senior defense official says the wreckage landed in 47 feet of water, so relatively shallow there. there were navy and coast guard assets on-site to begin establishing a perimeter and a salvage vessel on its way to start bringing up the wreckage here. it may be difficult to see what's left of that wreckage. it did fall from a height of 60,000 feet. so nearly 12 miles and impacted the water that may very well have done serious damage to the technology on board. that's what the pentagon and that's what the u.s. government will figure out. what condition is it in and what is salvageable, what can you learn from this? what can you glean about the state of chinese technology and what they put on that surveillance balloon? that becomes the effort now. a senior defense official says that didn't just start now, though. over the course of the last several days, the pentagon made an effort to make sure this chinese surveillance balloon couldn't gather as much information as they were looking for, although they wouldn't detail exactly what those efforts entailed. they tried to flip the script, monitoring the balloon constantly and trying to learn what they could about it as it traversed the united states. in terms what was went into this beforehand, there were days of planning to figure out the best possible time too shoot this down. in fact, it was decided not to shoot it down over the continental united states because of the risk to people and places, people and property. instead, that decision was made out over the water. the pentagon and northern command launched f-22s from langley air force base in virginia as well as support f-15 craft and tankers as well. a single f-22 fired a single sidewinder, a short-range heat-seeking missile that in the dramatic video we saw pierces the balloon, one shot, one kill. breaking down and bringing down the surveillance balloon we've watched as it made its way across the u.s. that is the military side. the diplomatic side as well, the u.s. making it very clear they found this unacceptable and considered a violation of u.s. air space. now we have seen the military's response. oren lieberman, cnn, at the pentagon. >> ivan watson is in hong kong with the latest from there. china's view, overreaction by the u.s., a violation of international practice. which is surprising when you think about what china would have done if it was the u.s. balloon over its territory. >> reporter: yeah, i don't think that an aircraft like that would survive for very long in chinese air space transiting the entire country. the chinese official reaction to this has evolved. on friday night, the chinese foreign ministry expressed regret and said that this was a research aircraft that had gone off course, been blown off course, and it was working with the u.s. to help deal with this. now, after you have an f-22 shooting the balloon downright off the coast of south carolina, the chinese foreign ministry is suddenly protesting this saying, "china expresses its strong dissatisfaction and protests against the u.s. use of force to attack civilian unmanned aircraft. the chinese side had repeatedly informed the u.s. side after verification the ship is in civilian use. it is completely an accident." as the chinese government has argued, that this was a research meteorological balloon, the question is which branch of some chinese company or the chinese government could it be from? we haven't heard any real explanation about that yet. we also know that china is very jealous about its own territorial sovereignty. as it has made claims into what international courts of arbitration have argued are international waters, such as the south china sea, china has accused other governments of infringing on its own sovereignty when, say, the u.s. sails warships in the south china sea or flies planes there. so it doesn't seem to have a very steady leg to stand on when it is arguing that the u.s. shooting down a chinese balloon over u.s. air space infringes on chinese property. >> yeah, and ivan, that balloon's not the only one. there's a second reported balloon over latin america. any response to that one? >> yeah, i mean, there are so many unanswered questions here. because not only have you had this balloon flying over the entire u.s., but now you have a costa rican aviation authorities and colombian air force saying, we're seeing something that looks an awful lot like the same balloon flying over our own air space. there's been this statement from the colombian air force saying they're seeing an object at an altitude of more than 55,000 feet -- which is similar to the balloon that was flying over the u.s., at a similar altitude -- saying they're following it, that it doesn't pose an immediate threat. and we're also starting to see images emerging from people on the ground in central and latin america. and guess what, it looks an awful lot like the same balloon that the u.s. war plane just shot down over the u.s. a lot more questions about this. and you know, michael, it brings another question. if, as the americans have said, this balloon had solar panels and had equipment on it the length of three buses, why would china be sending such equipment, such technology, flying around the world and not have a way to reclaim it? it would just seem to be throwing away resources, throwing away money. so many more questions that perhaps we'll get an answer from chinese government officials on monday when they do their routine briefings. >> yeah. appreciate the update, ivan watson in hong kong. military analyst malcolm davis is the senior analyst at the australian strategic policy institute. he joins me now from canberra. good to see you. what do you make of china's story of a civilian commercial balloon? a story they are sticking to. do you buy it? >> well, thanks, michael. no, i don't buy it at all. when you look at this balloon before it was shot down by the f-22, it was a fairly sophisticated platform, had a large set of solar arrays that were powering an instrumentation package underneath the balloon itself. that doesn't sound very much like a weather balloon to me. and the very fact that this balloon was floated over sensitive u.s. military sites, it would have been an ideal platform to gather signals, intelligence, rather than necessarily taking photos. so i think the chinese claim that this is somehow an innocent weather balloon gone off course is frankly nonsense. >> tell us more about what you military types call sigant? >> a satellite is in orbit, it's moving in orbital velocities, about 27,500 kilometers per hour, moving very fast. which means its dwell time, its ability to be over a particular target, is very short. the balloon is at 60,000 feet drifting with the wind. so it can actually spend a long time over a particular region. and with signals intelligence and electronic intelligence, sigent and elent, it's about scooping up emissions, transmissions, everything that could be happening electronically in the air around those sensitive u.s. military sites, including significant numbers of nuclear missile icbm silos. so this is an important area for the u.s. military. that chinese balloon would have been gathering intelligence on sigent and elent emissions, and it would be a useful way for that intelligence to then be sent back via satellite to the chinese. >> yeah, yeah. and it's going to be interesting. we don't really know what the americans, if anything, were able to jam or block as it flew along. but what sorts of things might the payload reveal once the americans get it off the ocean floor? >> well, that largely depends on just what the shape of the payload is. i mean, it's fallen from 60,000 feet, as you saw in the shoot-down video. the payload, the instrumentation package, and the solar paneled separated from the balloon itself, which was ruptured by the sidewinder shot. so it would have been falling at a terminal velocity, about 225 feet per second. so it would have hit the water fairly hard. we don't know just what shape the payload would be in. but assuming some of it is intact, it would give the u.s. and its allies some understanding of what sort of signals intelligence and electronic intelligence-gathering capabilities the chinese would have for that particular type of aircraft. >> and when it comes to implications going forward, what might the chinese do now to avoid losing face? would you expect a response perhaps in other parts of the world where the american military operate? >> yes, i think that's quite possible. what you could see is the chinese responding essentially asim mat trickily or indirectly in other parts of the world. particularly south china sea where the u.s. undertake freedom of navigation operations, fonops as they're called. we've had incidents of u.s. aircraft harassed by chinese fighter aircraft, australian aircraft in that area. ships at sea have been harassed. these are international waters and international air space. they are not chinese territory. and so the chinese will go into that international air space and harass u.s. flights. that's a possibility that we could see. >> great analysis as always, malcolm. appreciate it. malcolm davis there for us. divers from the u.s. navy are working to recover the debris of that chinese spy balloon from the atlantic ocean. sources telling cnn it will then be taken to the fbi lab in quantico, virginia, for analysis. cnn's tom foreman with more on what they will be up against. >> reporter: this is the portion of this balloon that investigators want to get their hands on, that payload. a central core and what looked like a couple of solar arrays on either side. when the balloon was destroyed, you could clearly see it falling away below. now, if this had the mass of a human, like a skydiver, it might be falling at 100, 150 miles an hour, something like that. fit had the mass of a couple of cars, its terminal velocity might have been 500 miles an hour or up. what that means, when it got to this area off myrtle beach, the water would be essentially like concrete. it would hit it with tremendous force and be absolutely misshapen, torn apart, broken up by this impact. what does that mean to recovery? what it means is the first thing they have to do, get divers down, 47 feet down, that's good. a good, workable depth. there they have to look at this figure out how many pieces it's in, where they are, assess it. figure out if some of it is buried in the muck below. and then come up with a list of priorities. what do they want to bring up first? how do they want to bring it up to protect all of this as much as they can? and how long it's going to take. these operations typically are longer than most people expect, even though they believe this one could be pretty fast. think of it 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drifting silently for days above the american heartland and causing a great deal of consternation on the ground, that suspected chinese spy balloon was shot out of the sky on saturday by a u.s. fighter jet. the balloon had finally drifted out over the atlantic when president biden's standing order to shoot it down was executed. the u.s. navy and coast guard are now actively looking to salvage the balloon and its payload from about 50 feet or 15 meters of water off the coast of south carolina. those materials will then be taken to an fbi lab for analysis. multiple people witnessed the moment the balloon was shot down near myrtle beach on saturday afternoon. here's one local resident's account. >> well, we came here to the parking lot then saw the balloon up ahead, up -- up high. and then we probably watched it, i don't know, maybe about five minutes. then started seeing some jet trails coming from the west. and one in particular all of a sudden seemed like it was coming fast and coming straight towards the balloon. and from there, suddenly we saw something take off from the jet. knew it was a missile. and you could see the explosion. didn't hear anything, but saw the explosion of the balloon. seemed like it started falling apart. starting to come down. and now it's just drifting out to the ocean. hard to see anymore. yeah, it's still out there, though. >> now the jet that reportedly took down the balloon was like the one you see there on your screen. u.s. military says it was an f-22 fighter from langley air force base in virginia and that it made the hit with an aim 9x missile. ukraine says around 500,000 people are without power following a technical failure at an electricity substation in the country's third-largest city. officials say the station suffered a serious malfunction saturday after being damaged in russian strikes earlier. the city's heat and water system are still up and running, but officials are rushing in emergency generators as well. in the east, pro-russian officials say one person was killed in an artillery strike on that occupied part of ukraine. they say the victim was found under debris after a ukrainian attack hit an apartment block in the city of donetsk. canada says the leopard tanks it promised ukraine are on the way. canada's defense minister posting this video of tanks being loaded on transport planes. on saturday, portugal became the latest country to pledge leopards to ukraine. while france and italy are now promising a new air defense system to be delivered this spring. the pledge came as ukraine's president made this warning. >> translator: in the course of 346 days of this war, i often had to say that the situation at the front was tough and that the situation was becoming tougher. it is once again that time. the time when the invader is putting more and more of his forces into breaking down our defense. it is very difficult now in bakhmut and other directions. >> ukraine says over 100 of its prisoners of war are back home after the latest prisoner exchange with moscow. it says the remains of two british aid workers killed in the east of the country were also returned. a russian state news agency says more than 60 russian troops were freed by the ukrainians in a deal mediated by the united arab emirates. for the fifth straight weekend, thousands of protesters filled the streets across israel. this was the scene in tel aviv. thousands more demonstrating in jerusalem, haifa, and other israeli cities. protesters object to the right-wing government of prime minister benjamin netanyahu and a series of planned judicial changes. opposition leaders attended the demonstrations again this weekend, including the former prime minister. dozens of wildfires are burning in chile and the weather is not helping. temperatures in excess of 100 degrees, or 40 degrees celsius. an area the size of philadelphia, already charred. the cost in human lives continues to rise. the death toll now standing at 23. >> reporter: the fires have done their damage in this part of chile. home after home burned to the ground. some flames yet to die out. wildfires are raging through some 40,000 hectares of land in the south and central parts of the country. fanned by strong winds and searing temperatures. the government declaring a state of catastrophe in some areas, said its soldiers can join firefighters in battling the blazes. chile asking its neighbors for assistance, with argentina pledging to send more manpower and machinery. that help too late for some. more than 20 people have died because of the fires. and hundreds of homes have been damaged. much of the terrain in the fires' path made up of vut initial farms and forests. some residents going into salvage mode, pouring buckets of water on their still-smoldering property to prevent reignition. for many, a total loss. what's left of their homes lies in scrap piles. on friday, chilean president gabriel borerich cut short his vacation, visiting people in shelters, saying the government is using all its strength to combat the fires and the families of the victims will get the help they need. no help in sight from the forecast, with more hot temperatures and windy conditions expected which could further the advance of the fires despite the reinforcements chile is bringing in. a massive fire near the ohio/pennsylvania border followed a train derailment that happened nearly 24 hours ago. evacuation and shelter in place orders were put into effect for nearby residents in northeastern ohio. no injuries have been reported but the train was hauling some 20 cars with hazardous materials, according to a local transport official. however, environmental authorities say they have not detected any harmful releases at the moment. the cause of the derailment, unclear. do stay with us for our international viewers, "inside africa" is next. for viewers in the united states and canada, i'll be back with more news after the break. this week is your 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ensure complete with thirty grams of protein. ♪ welcome back to our viewers in north america. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the u.s. military right now working to salvage that suspected chinese spy balloon after it was shot down over the atlantic. president biden giving the go ahead to shoot it down several days ago, and the pentagon waiting until it was out over water to execute that order. on saturday, a single u.s. missile hit the balloon at an altitude of some 12 miles or 20 kilometers. the debris is now said to be on the ocean floor but in relatively shallow water. china's foreign ministry protesting the shoot-down of what it said was a research balloon that had gone off course. but the pentagon says it is confident the balloon was conducting surveillance as it slowly floated over the u.s. mainland and some sensitive military sites. president biden said he approved the plan to shoot down the chinese balloon earlier in the week. he says the pentagon wanted to wait until it was over water to avoid damage to anyone on the ground. cnn's arlette saenz has details from the white house. >> reporter: president biden told his top military leaders in a meeting on wednesday to shoot down that chinese spy balloon transiting over the u.s. as soon as possible. the president heard advice from military leaders who warned that shooting anything down over land, over ground, could pose a risk to american lives. so ultimately, the president heeded their advice and waited to have this balloon shot down until it was over the waters on saturday afternoon. president biden was briefed on those final plans friday evening and ultimately defense secretary lloyd austin gave that final go ahead shortly after noon on saturday. the president was flying on air force one from syracuse, new york, to maryland and was on the phone with his top officials as this operation was under way. and here's what he had to tell reporters about the considerations given to that decision. >> on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was it got over water, outside -- within our 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down, and it want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we'll have more to report on this a little later. thank you. >> mr. president, what's your message to china? >> you said the recommendation was from national security -- >> i told them to shoot it down. >> wednesday? >> on wednesday. they said to me, let's wait for the safest place to do it. >> reporter: republicans were quick to criticize president biden for not taking steps sooner. republicans argued this is a sign of weakness in the white house's approach towards china. but the white house has pushed back saying that this was a responsible action for a commander in chief to take. they are arguing that what the president was trying to do was prioritize saving american lives. now, there are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are calling for briefings and hearings into this matter and the so-called gang of eight congressional leaders will receive a briefing from biden administration officials next week as there are still so many outstanding questions about how this incident unfolded. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. >> let's discuss more with our senior political analyst, ron brownstein, also senior editor at "the atlantic." he joins me now from los angeles. good to see you, ron. politically, what does president biden do now? this is a political gift or a burden? how does he handle this domestically, politically, diplomatically, so on? >> well, i think diplomatically, it is going to be an issue. another turn of the screw in the several-year process we've seen of both parties moving toward more skepticism of china and hardline positions toward china. but i think in domestic politics, i think the impact is likely to be pretty slight over time. you know, look. a lot of things can go wrong between now and 2024 for president biden, but the idea that there's a meaningful number of voters who would otherwise really be open to vote for him are going to conclude he doesn't deserve a second term because he waited too long to shoot down a chinese balloon seems to me kind of a small number there. what it will do, of course, is think you were suggesting, is provide today's fodder for the kind of outrage machine that republicans will have going full-time, 24/7, between now and november 2024. >> yeah, yeah. even though we now know that these balloons were out there under trump as well. >> yeah. >> and were not shot down. does that blunt their argument? >> yes. clearly. i mean, like i said, i mean -- there is a demand side. i kind of look at this as an example of the dynamic we're in is that there is more of a demand side than a supply side pull for the kind of outrage du jour. especially once you have control of one chamber of congress. there is constantly going to be something. always going to be something between now and election day in 2024 that is going to cause congressional republicans to erupt in outrage. it just kind of -- there's a demand, something has to fill that spot on any given day. right now, this is the thing that will fill it for the next few days. but i suspect it will not dominate political conversation any longer than the balloon itself lasted over the u.s. i do think it is going to kind of advance that debate. it isn't really a debate at this point. it's more of a movement in both parties toward a hard line toward china. i think this is more about providing this week's example for that existing conservative audience of why joe biden is a failure as president. >> yeah. china is sticking with this civilian craft story. you know, that might be true. it doesn't look like it, according to the experts. but regardless, how important is it for the biden administration politically and otherwise to prove the chinese story wrong, to get that stuff out of the water and to an fbi lab and say, see, we were right about this? >> that's a really good point. again, i think the implications are more significant for international relations than for domestic politics. and i think that will be a very important point that they will want to underscore. there are obviously issues, i'm daughter sure you've talked to other experts who have said exactly why did they need a balloon traversing the u.s. when they have a satellite system that can -- satellite surveillance that can presumably achieve many of the same goal? this was a provocative act. it was not something that they had to do. they can argue that they were responding to our own spy planes and so forth, but the reality is, in a context in which we have seen both parties move away from where they were under bill clinton and certainly even barack obama, toward believing that we could coax china into becoming more of a model or at least a kind of participant in the international system, a responsible participant. both parties are extremely skeptical of china. we see it in all sorts of ways, even the inflation reduction act and all the efforts to move critical materials and production of ev batteries out of china, back toward the u.s. and i just think that this is something that is going to give more momentum to that cooling toward china which really now has become almost a fully -- there's still a difference of degree between the republicans and democrats talking about china, but both of them are moving in the same direction, toward a harder line. >> and also, i mean, the timing of the plan's journey seems even more extraordinary, given antony blinken was about to visit. that was a meeting the chinese wanted. you've got to ask, why do it now? how big of a blunder is this for china? is it leverage for the americans? >> first of all, you know, closed -- one-party states, closed systems, as we are learning again or as putin perhaps again is learning, are not always the best predictors of how their actions are about going to be received outside their borders. they really have no experience in trying to manage any kind of a political debate. they're basically used to doing what they want and not hearing anything back. and so it is hardly surprising, i think, that china miscalculated as fundamentally as this. yeah, i do think -- joe biden is not bill clinton or barack obama. he did not begin his presidency looking for ways to enhance china's integration into the global system. in many ways he echoed the skepticism of china in a less bellicose fashion than we heard from donald trump. and this gives him more reinforcement in that direction. i think it further marginalizes -- i don't think it was a faction in either party at this point. a kind of substantial faction in either party that is looking to reverse course on china, and this is the kind of thing that will make that even reinforce that basic trajectory of our policy. >> yeah, great points as always. ron brownstein, always a pleasure. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. commercial airliners spend extra time on the ground as the u.s. military takes aim at a suspected chinese spy balloon. when we come back, what steps were taken to keep air traffic away so the military could knock that balloon out of the sky. also, the northeastern united states finally thawing out from that arctic blast that brought record-breaking low windchill temperatures. we'll have all of that and more when we come back. pods handles the driving. pack at your pace. store yoyour things until you're ready. then we e deliver to your new home - across town or across the country. pods, your p personal moving and storage team. my husband and i have never been more active. shingles doesn't care. i go to spin classes with my coworkers. good for you, shingles does't care. because no matter how healthyou 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(co-worker 4) what are you doing this weekend? this breaking news just coming in here at cnn. the former pakistani president, general musharraf, has died. according to a statement from pakistan's military, he died in dubai after a prolonged illness. musharraf was president of pakistan from 2001 through 2008 during the height of the u.s. war on terror and the conflict in afghanistan. he was 79 years old. more now on our top story. the u.s. retrieving the remnants of that suspected chinese spy balloon after shooting it down over the atlantic ocean. witnesses captured the moment it was struck by a single missile for a fighter jet. it happened off the south carolina coast on saturday, a week after it was first detected over alaska and days after the balloon gained public attention over montana. it drifted across the country at an altitude of about 60,000 feet or 18,000 meters. that's almost twice as high as most passenger planes. but to take the balloon down, u.s. officials had to make sure that civilian air traffic stayed well away from the area. as cnn's pete muntean reports, that required taking some steps that have not been seen in a long time. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now ended its temporary flight restriction, the restricted air space that it put in place that says at the request of the department of defense, because apparently of this shoot-down of this chinese spy balloon as it wafted over the coast of the carolinas. this huge piece of restricted air space twice the size of the state of massachusetts, five times the size of the restricted air space that's been in place post-9/11 over washington, d.c. what was very telling about this when this went into place about 1:30 p.m. on the east coast on saturday was that this was up to 60,000 feet, which the pentagon says was the altitude this balloon was floating at. that's very critical, because the faa simply wanted to clear out the air space below and make it so there would not be a hazard to airliners which fly at roughly half the height of this balloon. the faa put into place a ground stop as well because of that restricted air space at three airports along the carolina coast. wilmington in north carolina, charleston in south carolina, and myrtle beach in south carolina. those airports were paralyzed for about an hour as this shoot-down took place. it wasn't long after that all of these restrictions were lifted, although this will likely go down in history as one of the largest pieces of restricted air space ever. we have never seen something like this put into place. and the faa says it was all at the request of the pentagon. pete muntean, cnn, washington. the arctic blast that gripped the northeastern united states for a few days is beginning to taper off, finally. the windchill alerts have ended and the gusting winds have died down. temperatures are expected to be about 5 to 10 degrees above normal in the coming hours. on saturday, boston dropped to a low temperature of minus 10 degrees. the mayor declaring a state of emergency through the weekend and opening warming centers for people experiencing homelessness during what was life-threatening cold. parts of new york city hit 5 degrees fahrenheit on gloria pa. >> reporter: record-low temperatures across the region. here in new york city, right outside of central park, people have been doing what they do best here in new york. they have been braving the elements all day. i've been speaking with tourists and new yorkers who are unfazed by the cold temperatures. all day i've been watching my friend here, gamal, who is running this hot dog cart here. he had a hard time this morning trying to get it set up because his generator had actually frozen. the oil and the gas that was inside of it. he had a hard time getting it set up. and he's told me that this is -- business is a little bit slow to today, right? 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