balloon, the pentagon refusing to say whether they re considering shooting down what sure looks like a chinese fly balloon, officials telling cnn they haven t ruled it out either, meanwhile the balloon the size, by the way of three school buss is meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice missouri today including in columbia missouri this very afternoon, where this exclusive footage was shot. now, the flying about 60,000 feet up 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane and the pentagon said there s another chinese spy balloon currently somewhere over latin america. we ll talk about what the heck is going on in the skies tonight here to help us figure this out. cnn tom foreman and animal coldnal layton, let me begin with you, tom at the magic wall, where has this balloon been and where is it going. if we trust what the military thinks about it where it s been was china, flying coming in over canada and drif
the chinese also have maryland satellites going around you know, the united states constantly, probably have all the information they are looking for, you were talking about sensitive sites, it s highly unlikely there is something in montana that has not been photographied by chinese satellites, marchly increases you get because the balloons is lower, the balloons is very crude, this is stuff used during the french renovation, the american civil war, this is not cutting edge technology a few advantages but for the most part, the chinese do this routinely, we do this routinely. the interesting question is why should something like this cause this kind of collective freak-out particularly on right where people seem to be willing to get into a conversation about conflict and war over a balloon? and and that the administration finds itself having to react and
adam: yeah we are kicking it off. winter wonderland. it s a little miserable out here. tracking a big round of rain sweeping across the country. if this was colder we could turn this into snow that s not the case. you do need the umbrellas out here. rainy, kind of nasty and marchly. this is the weather system tracking now moving into the mid-atlantic, east coast. on the back side of this system there is snow. that s moving across the dakotas and minnesota. that s a winter storm warning. because they came out here we will toss it back in to you with these guys. i m not the only ones out here. they have umbrella. winter wonderland can i get a back to you as we throw it in back to you. they are with me. i like it. ainsley: looks pretty out there. we will join in a little while. steve: lovely. ainsley: what happens when impeaching a president doesn t work? democrats say they have a plan. the president poses a threat to our election. that he put himself his own interest above the intere
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of defense. what defenses we have against them doing this stuff. marchly because we knew they did it before. it does seem like it was a federal court ruling that helped microsoft catch this attack in action and that in turn helped you figure out who one of the targets was. yeah. it was a real interesting case, microsoft going into court and suing these hackers as john doe defendants because they didn t know the names and of course, they didn t show up so microsoft won by default and that puts them that a position to actively interfere. without getting too much into the technicalities here, as far as i understand it, and i understand it from your writing about the ruling, microsoft noticed that these hackers, which it seems like according to the recent indictments from the special counsel s office. one of the things they did was