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you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. yet another shootdown of a high altitude object. this one in the skies over northern canada. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau this afternoon gave norad the order to shoot it down and a u.s. fighter jet successfully just did that. it is not clear if it is related to yesterday s incident off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. natasha joins us now along with paula newton. what do we know about this latest shootdown? obviously significant enough for the canadian prime minister to tweet about this in the last hour or so. and given the week we ve had with these objects, it is pretty predictable that he would want to be fully transparent about it. we were talking about norad, the north american aerospace command observed this high altitude object, c ....
Is this testing our systems? is it people taking advantage of what happened in china? is it private? is it government-based? we don t know and we ought not to speculate at this stage about what it could be. i will say, people are right to be, to view this as a little disconcerting. it is not common to scramble airplanes to shoot down things out of the sky. now we have three in the last seven days. in my memory, i was checking before i went online. i don t remember a single time that a canadian prime minister sought norad to shoot something out of canadian skies. i think this is unprecedented. highly unusual. what do you make of all this in. well, a few things. the first possibility is one that natasha raised before, which is that everybody was spooked by the fact that the ....