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 grou
the department of defence to develop options to take down the blue safety over our territorial waters while closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities. this action was to cash taken in coordination and with the simple support of the canadian government and we thank them. the reason why they are thinking cap motor is because you may remember it spent a bit of time over canada over to montana, and that is where those sensitive security sites in the us were, and that is where with this chinese surveillance balloon. and thatis chinese surveillance balloon. and that is when this news went global, and since then, we have been tracking it heading and now no more, now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if you were here earlier. just off south carolina. if you were here earlier, my just off south carolina. if you w
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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
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.