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china watcher gorden chang warning we must prepare for war because of it. he means what he says. it s all coming up. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with jacqui at the white house. jacqui? the washington post has been reporting that the chinese spy balloon s path over the u.s. may have been driven by the wind and that analysts are examining the possibility that the chinese did not intend to penetrate the american heartland with their surveillance equipment. i m told that that is not the full story. we re learning a lot more right now. officials tell me that we don t know if the balloon s direction over the continental u.s. was intentional. because it s a balloon, its trajectory depends on a range of factors that includes the wind. the balloon also went over guam, we ve learned, which is u.s. territory. it also later loitered over several sensitive sites in the continue continental u.s. the chinese still had the ability to man ....
Several sensitive sites in the continue continental u.s. the chinese still had the ability to maneuver this thing. they sent it to guam and loitered over u.s. sites. we learned that the u.s. has detected and tracked this balloon program for a long time. they take off and go in didn t directions. it doesn t always mean that they re coming to the u.s. officials have been on record stating that chinese balloons have crossed over 40 countries across five continents. when this particular balloon left china, it s not accurate to say that we knew it was definitely headed toward the u.s. the u.s. was tracking this balloon for a matter of days by the time it was shot down. remember, we would not have had the authority to shoot it down over international waters. when it launched, it seemed like it was headed toward guam, which is u.s. territory. at that point, the military did not feel like it was a threat. they wanted to collect intelligence against the ....
in washington state, an arms standoff is over. the suspect s body found inside a fortified underground bunker. police think peter keller killed his wife and daughter almost a week ago and holed himself up in a bunker he spent eight years building. i talked with agent cyndi west how the standoff finally ended. about 9:15 our s.w.a.t. team used and explosive to breach the roof of the bunker enabling them to get enough of a view where they could see him. they tell us they saw a body, were able to get in there and find this person that appears, we believe it s keller, it appears as though he s been dead for some time. what did it look like inside that bunker? what was in there? well, we haven t actually been able to go in and do a thorough search at this point. we still believe that there s possibly boobytraps, maybe explosives. because his mentality, and we want it to be safe to enter. our bomb disposal unit will slowly take their time to go in and clear the bunker b ....