hello and welcome. coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. the u.s. has shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon after it traveled across america for days. recovery efforts now under way. china says the balloon entered u.s. air space by accident, heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. live in hong kong with the latest from there. it s not the only one. the pentagon says a second balloon is flying over latin america. a report ahead. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. we br to show you the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that has caused so much havoc this week. the balloon was so high up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers, that it took a few seconds for the shockwave to reach the grou
Emergency through the weekend and opening warming centers for people experiencing homelessness during what was life-threatening cold. parts of new york city hit 5 degrees fahrenheit on gloria pa. reporter: record-low temperatures across the region. here in new york city, right outside of central park, people have been doing what they do best here in new york. they have been braving the elements all day. i ve been speaking with tourists and new yorkers who are unfazed by the cold temperatures. all day i ve been watching my friend here, gamal, who is running this hot dog cart here. he had a hard time this morning trying to get it set up because his generator had actually frozen. the oil and the gas that was inside of it. he had a hard time getting it set up. and he s told me that this is business is a little bit slow