floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.
Netanyahu. Shes due to meet tomorrow with the leader of the Palestinian Authority in the west bank, president Mahmood Abbas and then she will fly to cairo to meet with mohamed morsi. She wont meet with hamas which the u. S. Government regards as a terrorist organization. Netanyahu met last hour with secretary of state ban kimoon. The two met with reporters only moments ago. Unfortunately, mr. Secretary, hamas and Islamic Jihad and the other terrorist groups do not share your concern about our civilian casualties or about civilian casualties at all. That was the israeli Prime Minister meeting with the u. S. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon. Earlier today israel put an allout ground assault of gaza on hold,age im quoting, to give limited time for a diplomatic solution. Egypt sees an end to the gaza conflict, thats see. President morsi says, the travesty of the Israeli Aggression on ga did will end in a few hours ap Christiane Amanpour is here and watching whats going on. The diplomacy is inte
State department knew about the military sophistication of the military assault. Frank townsend will join us shortly. Bob b enair and john mccain wil join us as well. But i want to start with, intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. The fbi is expected to take the lead on this investigation. So, it is not clear. Fbi will take the lead on interviews and cia. Others will be there . That is what was expected. Its not clear that the cia will take the lead and other intelligence will be there . Thats what we understand you understand what this looks like with Law Enforcement. But we are told that right now the fbi is told to take the lead. They would be able to uphold in court but that the Intelligence Agency will be there as well. They want to know how many other people they can lik nk to the attack in benghazi. So, his name is ali alhazri. We know that he was posting details of the attack as it was happening on his social media websites. As it was happening . As it was happening. Specta
The alleged plot to pat down attractive passengers at Denver International airport. This is just the tip of the iceberg, according to a former officer. Whats happening at security checkpoints . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com a shattering blast outside the consulate in iraq. No american personnel hurt but a calling card from isis claiming responsibility and a direct challenge and threat to the United States. Isis is already on the move to the south, where it threatens to capture the key iraqi city of ramadi. Sending tens of thousands of residents fleeing, and the terror group has been brazenly showing off its assault on iraqs Biggest Oil Refinery with new pictures of fighting there. Ill speak live with senator king of the intelligence and Armed Services committees and our analysts and guests standing by for complete coverage. We begin with cnn Global Affairs correspondent with the very latest. Reporter the u. S. Began air strikes in part
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