time on hbo max. join us here on cnn the week after the super bowl to find out who is talking next. welcome back to the 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with more breaking news. some of the first images we have seen of possible debris from that chinese spy balloon downed yesterday off the coast of south carolina. this video was shot by a south carolina resident just coming in this evening. this resident told cnn he saw a navy boat carrying what he believed to be debris from the balloon. cnn cannot independently confirm whether this is indeed debris from that balloon. we are reaching out to the u.s. navy for comment. in the meantime, this comes at the same time we are learning new details about when the pentagon learned about the balloon and when the president was informed about it. more on that in a moment. i want to begin in north myrtle beach, south carolina, and the focus of the recovery efforts. ca carlos, what can you tell us abou
Once the boat was able to give him a life vest, it was determined getting him off by helicopter was going to be the best option. none of us expected the boat to overturn the way in which it did. the training and standardization and everything from the school that we attend, the whole purpose of us being there was for the advanced helicopter school and training in those conditions. that prepared us to execute that. lieutenant, we are watching this. there s the boat turning over again, which is just incredible. correct me if i m mistaken. there s a coast guard swimmer in the water swimming over to the boat right before it capsizes and turns over, and he is okay? that swimmer is okay? yes, sir. that s correct. that s petty officer branch
We are back looking live at the scene in richmond, texas. you can see on the right side of your screen there, just drop that radar map. it is in houston from kprc. a rescue right now. this is exactly what we have talking about. the flood waters still affecting so many people and so many neighborhoods and these rescues are going on four days after the storm first made landfall. it looks like those folks getting out of that rescue boat. they are walking across to, essentially, higher ground at this point. again, coming to us live from kprc. as it s all up folding today. the storm hit late friday. this is what rescuers, what people by boat, people by chopper are having to deal with. you see that boat turning right back around, presumably, potentially, going to find more folks that need some help.