chips and transistors. what we want is to take it down in such a way we can grab it, look at what s in there. maybe there s something to learn from it. some people say the chinese optics aren t as good as our optics and maybe they needed a real close-up look of some of our missile silos. some people are suggesting other things might be in there. so it s important to take this down for military reasons, it s also very important for diplomatic reasons, and obviously the president wants to show he can protect american airspace and do it the right way. so it makes a lot of sense to me that it s going to be taken down over the coastline somewhere, probably there s a joint task force stood up, so there s people communicating, there are probably a couple of ships offshore ready to grab it with helicopters or whatever when it hits the water. that would be my expectation. i worn, as we wait to see what happens, how it might be taken down, i wonder if you feel like, was china s intention
0 effort to take this balloon down, that would pose a risk to these airplanes down below. so we re seeing this sort of take place to make it so that the area below is clear and safe for this to possibly happen. we will see exactly when that takes place. we know from the ground stop that was published by the faa, that is in place until 2:45 eastern standard time, so another 45 minutes. and this is also impacting, you know, flights that are going into other places. so this might mean that commercial flights on the ground are being told to stay on the ground so the trickle effect, the trickle-down effect goes beyond this area. it s a huge area, but it goes well beyond that and it s including places that have commercial planes flying into the three airports impacted. let s zero in on that. a huge area, 20,000 square miles, and that includes the coastline, and of course, what, generally about 14 miles of waterways along the coastline, which is, you know, u.s. territory before hitting inte