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recovery efforts underway this hour for debris in the atlantic off the coast of the carolinas after the president ordered a suspected chinese bivalent to be shot down after hovering over the united states for several days. people nearby had their phones reeling, when fighter jets on the bloom around 2:30 eastern on the balloon off the coast of south carolina. au and senior military officials said the debris spanned seven miles. the u.s. is now working to recover that debris. a senior defense official tells nbc news that two of 22 raptors for the single missile took out the spy balloon as it flew at least 60,000 feet above us. the federal aviation administration paused all arrivals and departures at three u.s. airports in the carolinas. under an abundance of caution. it turns out president biden ordered the shoot down on wednesday. why did it take until today to carry out those orders? here is how president biden explained it a short time ago. on wednesday, when i was ....
any safety risks because there was an urgency here. this balloon is not armed, it does not pose some physical threat to the united states, even from an intelligence perspective. the chinese have much more effective ways of picking up intelligence from the satellites and otherwise. the fact that the president said what he said about taking care of it. now we have the physical fact that the balloon is heading towards the atlantic. these airports in north and south carolina are being closed for the moment. it does seem to set the stage and present an opportunity to have this shot down. it is really not a reversal. i think they ve been preparing for this and contingency planning. once it is not overland, it changes the calculus. general, weigh in for me if you will, you heard the presidents words there, we are going to take care of this. from your estimation, what is taking care of this look like and what are the risks and calculations going into that decision? i think ....
announced. and it s basing agreements with the philippines. upping our game against china, and in fact the biden administration is continuing the trump administration policies on this. there actually is some bipartisan consensus on what to do about china in the future. all right mark polymeropoulos, you will stick with me hopefully. general steph twitty, you are sticking with me as well. so thank you for that. we are following this breaking news everybody, top of the hour. 3 pm here on the east coast. i am yasmin vossoughian, you are watching msnbc. we are taking a look at images of the chinese spy balloon that was spotted over the carolina coast. we have now learned just in the last ten minutes or, so that spy balloon has in fact been shot down over the carolina coast. seems as if in the atlantic ocean, we are gonna wear now from u.s. officials that they are currently gathering up the debris or attempting to gather up the debris. as i five conversation was general tw ....
underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say ....