plus more firepower for ukraine, the u.s. about to approve longer range missiles to counter russians on the battlefield. and too cold for school, classes in big cities like boston and buffalo canceled with the coldest windchills since the 1980s about to take hold. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. right now chinese spies could be watching you from above from a high altitude spy balloon. the pentagon says they have been tracking this balloon about the size of three buss for days. people on the ground in montana at any didn t know what to make of it at first. there is the moon. all right. and then there is that. what planet is that? that sighting raises two big questions, what is it doing here and what does the biden administration plan to to about it. we get more from oren liebermann at the pentagon. reporter: for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s.,
constitutional right for him to remain silent. and i d say in this case, christine, i would not put him on the stand. i d concentrate on poking holes in the circumstantial case that the prosecution has. all right. nice to see you, have a great wee weekend. and quick hits across america, vermont school district banning fans from basketball games the rest of the season. a man died during a brawl at a middle school game. three bodies found in a detroit area apartment are believed to be rappers missing for almost two weeks. police have not confirmed identities or the cause of death. and a woman pronounced dead suddenly gasps for air at an iowa funeral home. the center that cared for her face as $10,000 fine. the woman did die two days later. still ahead, a ghost warship in the atlantic, why naval forces thousand want to sink it. and a fugitive mob boss