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
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