Newsroom. We begin this hour with more Breaking News. Yet another shootdown of a highaltitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in Northern Canada. President biden and canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. A u. S. Fighter jet successfully brought it down. Its not clear if this latest shootdown is related to yesterdays downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. That was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if its related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. Arlette saenz is at the white house. The president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. Doesnt sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. But obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were Reporting On Last saturday which was the shootdown of that chinese spy balloon. And now these
newsroom. we begin this hour with more breaking news. yet another shoot-down of a high-altitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in northern canada. president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. a u.s. fighter jet successfully brought it down. it s not clear if this latest shoot-down is related to yesterday s downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if it s related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. arlette saenz is at the white house. the president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. doesn t sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. but obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were reporting on last saturday which was the shoot-down of that chinese spy ballo
she used. she said cylindrical in shape. she said it was flying at about h 40,000 feet, going back to the conversation we had earlier, you can t have objects flying that low, could get in the way of civilian aircraft obviously. but what is your sense of it listening to that kind of information, particularly the shape of this object that is very odd. well, it s very odd. you know, if you re looking for a traditional balloon or an aircraft. throughout history there have been many cylindrical flying objects. okay. not to mention there have been rigid formed dirge bells. they don t have to be a gossamer balloon so to speak. the fact that no one has reported that the object took evasive action it suggests that perhaps it was not being remotely controlled, perhaps it was moving with the winds, et cetera. but right now could be a lot of things, not to mention as mentioned before, it could be a rigid form of a balloon or other