thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, let s go there. the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen s hall for temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a productive series of meetings in the republic of korea in the philippines, the secretary and his counterpart reaffirmed measures for deterrence on the korean peninsula, and pledge to closely cooperate regarding assets in the future, as well as further expand and bolster level and scale of combined exercises and training. in the philippines, secret
on this new day, justice has been delivered. president biden announcing the leader of al qaeda, the world s most wanted terrorist has been killed in a drone strike. and nancy pelosi is set to visit taiwan amid escalates threats from china. and dozens of people are dodd and hundreds more missing in rising water on the way. plus, a january 6 rioter who was turned in by his son handed down the longest insurrection sentence today. his son joins new day, ahead. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is tuesday, august 2nd. one of the master planners behind the 9/11 attacks is dead. president biden said ayman al zawahiri was killed by a precision drone strike in afghanistan. he was bin laden s trusted lieutenant and took over al qaeda s leader after bin laden was killed in 2011. biden said the strike that took out al zawahiri was the result of extraordinary persistence and still by u.s. intelligence. zawahiri was targeted when he stepped out on
A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. Country that are talking positively about tariffs and that we need to protect workers, going to talk about the ohio special election, we all know what happened in pennsylvania. Its incredible a complicated here. I understand the president s argument that you need to do this when things are going really well, but if this does hit in a few months from now, thats right in the middle of the midterms and there was already a number of unhappy people who are Soybean Farmers were working at places like harleydavidson and people who like to drink cocacola still were saying why are the price is to go up from this . He promised everybody a lot of stuff and he is delivered for the wealthy for sure, bring it
down this balloon, that was an option, and so that was something that was taken into consideration. again, because we assess currently it does not pose a military risk to people on the ground, we continue to monitor and review options. thank you. back to ely and up here. thank you. how big is the balloon that you re tracking? is it have you picked up, is it leaving anything in its wake like sensors? so on your latter question, i ll not get into intelligence, we do continue to monitor the balloon and know it is surveillance balloon. in terms of the size, i m not able to get into the specifics other than to say it is big enough that again, in reviewing our approach, we do recognize that any potential debris field