Newsroom. We begin this hour with more Breaking News. Yet another shootdown of a highaltitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in Northern Canada. President biden and canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. A u. S. Fighter jet successfully brought it down. Its not clear if this latest shootdown is related to yesterdays downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. That was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if its related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. Arlette saenz is at the white house. The president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. Doesnt sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. But obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were Reporting On Last saturday which was the shootdown of that chinese spy balloon. And now these
newsroom. we begin this hour with more breaking news. yet another shoot-down of a high-altitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in northern canada. president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. a u.s. fighter jet successfully brought it down. it s not clear if this latest shoot-down is related to yesterday s downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if it s related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. arlette saenz is at the white house. the president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. doesn t sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. but obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were reporting on last saturday which was the shoot-down of that chinese spy ballo
catching something there? it s all quite a mystery. i will say in a lengthy press conference that the canadian defense minister had, at her side was the chief of canadian defense staff. so this will give you an indication how serious this was. the fact that the defense minister herself had said that it was cylindrical, that that object that they shot down was at about 40,000 feet, that it was much smaller than the one that was shot down over the carolinas, off the coast of south carolina, by the u.s. military. but also that it was unprecedented, right. the first time in her knowledge that norad had done something like this jointly with the united states and canada shooting it down. now in another part of the press conference, the chief of the defense staff kind of indicated that while it was cylindrical, that there might have been some kind of a balloon apparatus involved, as well. i don t know if he misspoke or if he was knew something because we do know, jim, that on that object th