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good evening, we begin with breaking news. the pentagon now saying a second chinese spy balloon is currently crossing latin america. that s on top of the one now floating somewhere over this country. exact whereabouts unknown. something so unexpected to be what it is where it is that it left people asking questions like this. what planet is that? actually, that s a good question. it s not mars or venus. the balloon is the size of three buses equipped with solar panels for power, and surveillance equipment. spotted yesterday crossing montana including over icbm sites. it drifted across nebraska spotted across missouri floating at 60,000 feet following the prevailing wednesday. in a moment we ll take a look at where it could be headed next. today china said it was, quote, civilian air ship, a weather research vehicle gone astray, and secretary of state blinken postponed his upcoming trip to beijing. any country that has its air space violated in this way i think wou ....
welcome back to the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington on this busy saturday afternoon, and we begin this hour with unsettling new development in the skies over canada. norad says it is monitoring a high altitude airborne object and military aircraft are currently operating in the area from alaska and canada. this follows yesterday s shoot down of another high altitude object, 10 miles off the northeastern coast of alaska near the canadian border. natasha bertrand joins us now. what can you tell us about the latest object? we have to keep underlining and highlighting the point this is not what we were talking about yelled off the coast of alaska. this is a new object that we re talking about. this is a new object that norad has apparently detected over northern canada, and justin trudeau tweeted that he ordered the take down of that unidentified object that he says had sviolated canadian airspac it was a u.s. f-22 that successfully fired at this object. again, ....
Airplane crash case. the difference in the activity here with military aviation, i m literally, i can see it,you know, aviation and air base from here. there are awax planes, the early surveillance planes from the military base circling around alaska. i mean, there s a tremendous increase in activity here just on surveillance activities from, you know, fixed wing aircraft and the awax. the important thing to note is the united states and of course canada has every right to take these aircraft down, whatever these objects are, or balloons because we have a series of treaties with all nations of the world, and we also have requirements for air craft to t identify themselves, particularly at the altitude they re flying. you can do a visual flight, you don t have to have a transponder on board, but the altitudes, they will interfere with commercial air traffic. ....
Was used and what its capability was. and frankly, i think senator tester is absolutely correct. he s approaching it the right way. let s get some real answers here. when did the military first decide this did not pose a threat, a military threat or national security threat. and then secondly, were we able to tap into, hack into whatever technology is on board of that so-called aircraft, and we re able to take advantage and obscure what it was seeing. i think there are a lot of issues to be raised here, but the most important thing when people call just shoot it down, i would do that from a military point of view. but the first thing i would ask the intelligence community, what information do you have about their capability? if you have a spy taking place or a spy in this country is about to leave, do you shoot him down or shoot that aircraft down, or do you capture it, bring it in, interrogate it and find out what the facts are and ....