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ramping up. what our team is just hearing from the doj. plus, in memphis, a sixth officer has been put on leave at the horrific beating and death of tyre nichols, what s happening tonight, what s next in that investigation, and the new development this afternoon on the calls for more accountability on the federal level. we ll take you live to memphis and to capitol hill in just a minute. let s start here in washington. i m hallie jackson, with me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell who s with us. ryan noble, nbc news senior political editor mark murray, and julia ainsley is joins us as well. let me start with you, president biden in baltimore, set to take other trips this week, clearly meant to be a run up to the state of the union. he has a lot he wants to sell. he s also got some that s sort of a shadow hanging over him at this point. we mentioned the classified documents investigation. yes, this is the president, at least today, in a ....
it is sunday, february the 5th. i am ali velshi. we begin today with a big balloon! a major metaphor and a geopolitical turning point in the wrong direction. yesterday, at 2:39 pm eastern standard time the united states military f 32 aircraft flying at 15,000 feet used a single air to air missile to shoot down what the united states says was a chinese around balloon. roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina, while within u.s. territorial airspace. the blue crafted to the atlantic ocean creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in monthly shallow water. the recovery is ongoing. that includes navy divers, the coast guard, another manned and unmanned savage vehicles. fbi counter intelligence agency are also on board the vehicles. officials say there is plenty to learn from the debris. they add they have also been studying the balloon since it first entered u.s. airspace in the lucian islands of alaska on january the 28. the balloons, which ha ....
we began this morning with an update on that traumatic incident with the chinese spy balloon 60,000 feet in the air. eight days after it was first spotted in u.s. airspace, and have 22 raptor shot down the balloon with a single missile yesterday off the carolina coast. the search for degree is now underway. it my touch off a war of words between the u.s. and china. heightening tensions in an already data diplomatic relationship. china expressed its, quote, strong dissatisfaction. they have insisted that the device was a civilian weather balloon. a u.s. senior administration official said in response that they were confident the balloon was, quote, seeking to monitor sensitive military spots. we shift the focus now tuesday state of the union. president biden s first before the new republican house majority. security is being ramped up with plans to install fencing around the u.s. capitol ahead of the primetime address. we don t know too many specifics about what the pres ....
tornadoes kill at least two dozen people in the southeast, and the severe storm threat isn t over yet. and nukes next door, vladimir putin now says he ll put tactical nuclear weapons right on ukraine s doorstep in belarus. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the crisis in israel , where the country s main airport just halted all takeoffs . it s part of a general strike called for just a short time ago by israel s largest labor union . the aim is to stop benjamin netanyahu s government from pushing through a highly controversial judicial overhaul what one labor leader called quote this craziness. right street. protests against that plan have intensified huge crowds filling the streets of tele viv after netanyahu fired his defense minister. for opposing the overhaul. cnn s had asked. gold is live in jerusalem this morning. what are we hearing from prime minister netanyahu this morning had asked n ....
nuclear launch sites. will the united states shoot it down? plus, the u.s. providing longer-range missiles to ukraine, double the range of what it currently has. this as zelenskyy warned that putin is out for revenge. and the money questions tonight mounting for congressman george santos, questions now about 37 expenses that were exactly in the amounts of $199.99, one penny shy of having to provide a receipt. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will america shoot? china s spy balloon right now making its way east now over st. louis. the balloon flying over and lingering over some of america s most sensitive locations, near nuclear sites. cnn has obtained this exclusive video of the balloon over columbia, missouri. first of all, you see below it it s almost hinden burg style. you can see what appear to be solar panels underneath the balloon. just to be clear what you re looking at here is in columbia, missouri, which happens ....