viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has the day off. just ahead on cnn newsroom for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s., specifically over montana. what we re likely to encounter is going to be really unprecedented. these are dangerous temperatures. if you don t need to be out, stay inside. the resolution is adopted. house republicans in one of the first moves in power, ousting democrat oilhan omar frm a seat on the foreign affairs committee. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, february 3, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 2:00 a.m. in montana where a mysterious flying object is being monitored. there is the moon. and then what is that? what planet is that? it is not a planet, but a suspected chinese spy balloon, the size of three buses that is flying over the northern u.s. u.s. military is being aware of it fo
good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman s hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in
groundhog day. tom brady announced he is retiring again. yeah. everyone got emotional watching the heart felt message. even bill belichick s shirt holes grew three sizes. brady is done in a related story. tickets to the buccaneers games are now free. that was funny. that s a good one about the groundhog day. i didn t think of that one. i like the belichick. clever there, jimmy fallon. i like the holes. good morning, everyone. we re going to speak with robert kraft a little later on in the show. we re in new york. kaitlan is in capitol hill. there is a lot going on there. the u.s. military signed a deal to ramp firepower on china s doorstep. beijing is responding. a busy day on capitol hill. the president is going to be arriving soon. he is facing a series of investigations, of course, into the documents or the investigation into his classified documents. and also standoff potentially that could tank the economy. we re going to talk to rick scott of the budget commit
reporter: we were going basically to the scene of where that missile strike took place last night on that residential building that killed several people because of course there is still a big rescue operation going on there. and we had just arrived at the scene, left our vehicles when the house in front of which our vehicle was parked was hit by a missile strike. it was a really heavy explosion, very close by. i would say maybe 40 or 50 yards from our location. so we then tried to go into a sheltered building. and as we were doing that i turned around, and you could see the second missile hitting the exact same area. we already know that there were people who were severely wounded on the ground there. it s unclear if and how many people were killed. of course right now there s a big rescue operation going on there. but i think it s important for our viewers to understand this area this was in, there was an active search and rescue operation in a residential area. and today