over the skies over asheville, north carolina. now it s possible one of the latest known tracks of the balloon as it flows eastward heading towards the atlantic ocean. more video into our newsroom just a short time ago shows that over clover south carolina, that is a neighboring city of charlotte north carolina, and this is international drama playing out in realtime as u.s. officials ponder their next move. just moments ago, president biden responded to a question about it. listen closely. mister president [inaudible] balloons [inaudible] we re going to take care of it. joining me now is it mr. bce vest of gated reporter dan. dan, what is taking care of it mean? any words from the u.s. officials about these ladies reported sightings? based on what the pentagon has said before right, they said that they were not ready to shoot down when it was overland because they were worried that this really large balloon would break up into debris, and dangerous piece of of debris
Of this. obviously this was expected to pass, we knew this was going to happen, but now officially official. but it means a lot, it is going to change as we look forward and we go closer to 2020. all right, marissa, standby for us. i wanna go ahead and bring in barry gump very grumbach who is in washington d.c. covering the white house today. i was as likely being received administration? covering the white house toda the administg to be thrilled by this. this was president biden s goal to make this happen in part because south carolina was such an important state for him in 2020. looked like he wasn t going to make it very far in the primaries at all until we get south carolina, and jim clyburn and others really turned it around for them. but it also speaks to what the dnc s priorities are here. they re looking for more diverse states. if you look at what iowa new hampshire look like versus what south carolina and nevada look like, it is significantly more diverse, significantly