hours ago. just days after the downing of the chinese spy balloon. another classified document is found in the possession of former vice president mike pence. the fbi removing the material from pence s indepeiana home. the hunt for survivors in the earthquake soon zone with a rescuer on the ground. we are getting accounts of people found alive. the death poll toll rises higher and higher. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the us military shooting down a high altitude object a little while ago after tracking it over alaska for 24 hours. we have a team of correspondents and experts stand big as we break down what we know and what we don t know about this object and how it compares to the chinese spy balloon shot down nearly a week ago. first, jim sciutto. what are your sources telling you about this object that was shot down over alaska? the details
Excessive tape, those are things to key in on. Every bomb maker, theyre just like bakers, they have their own special signature, how they crimp the wires, the tool marks, how they tape it up and type out the address. Thank you for your expertise. Were going to stand by, jim and i here. Were just about a block away from cnn, which is still closed because theyre looking at what that white powder could be. Well go back to the studio in d. C. I do want to reset what we know right now. Any moment now the president is expected to deliver a speech where hes likely to address these devices that have been sent to Public Officials and offices today. A pipe bomb appeared to be mailed to the Time Warner Center, which is where cnn is in new york. And there is white powder still
being tested in the mail room there. We have an image of a device addressed to former cia director john brenan. However, it was found there at Time Warner Center. Also targeted, former president obama, the clintons and forme
developed a protocol, the administration, some rules of enga engagement, if you will. get that blessed or explained first to the congress and then to the public. again, i m not being critical here. this is kind of a new airrea fo us to manage. i think at some point, there needs to be a commonly understood pro tocol on how thee will be handled and responded to. in this particular case, it sounds like this was a potential hazard to navigation. although, i m not sure how many airplane flying in that region. i can only speksculate the d
question as ukrainians continue to ask for a no-fly zone, 24 foreign policy experts wrote an open letter to president biden and the international community calling for them to establish a limited no-fly zone in ukraine surrounding what we re talking about, these humanitarian corridors. what would that look like? what do you think of that? i don t know how you create a limited no-fly zone. you re either pregnant or you re not. no fly zone or there s not. in order to have a no-fly zone and if it was limited in nature, it would have to be very narrowly described. the rules of engagement would have to be established. there would have to be notices to all airmen, in other words, russian aircraft as well would have to know that these particular corridors where you are not allowed to fly over them at certain altitudes. what that means is that there s a violation. there s now going to be an enga
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