hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. just ahead. [cheering] kansas city fans are in for a long night of celebration as the chiefs defeat the eagles for the super bowl lvii title we re live at the stadium with the highlights. the u.s. military shoots down another high altitude object, what officials are saying about the most recent incident in growing frustration in turkey as rescuers dig through the rubble many are wondering why the government response has been so slow and why there weren t more preparations to begin with. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie church. thank you for being with us we began with another shootdown of unidentified object flying in u.s. airspace. this time recovery teams are directing their attention to something shot down over the great lakes region the pentagon says whatever it was it was not believed to be a military threat but t
i m paula reid. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news. the u.s. military has shot down another high-altitude object, this time over lake huron. this is according to aus u.s. official and a congressional source briefed on the matter. this would be the fourth object brought down by u.s. fighter jets in the past nine days. cnn s kylie atwood is at the state department. kylie, war you learning? that s right, paula. and the third object brought down in just the last three days. of course, we re learning that this high-altitude object was traveling and so the down over lake huron, north of michigan, in between michigan and canada. that is according to a u.s. official and a congressional source briefed on the matter. it appears that members of congress from michigan are learning more about this in conversations with the pentagon today. i want to read to you what congresswoman slotkin tweeted just in the last few hours or so, saying,
good evening. this time no one waited. just days after a chinese spy balloon was allowed to drift across the country, another unidentified object was spotted over alaska. in this case, fighter jets were scrambled to investigate and then shoot it down. president biden was asked about it not long after. do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska, mr. president? more on how all this played out and how the administration is handling it. what else has the administration said about this object? reporter: here s what we know, anderson. this mysterious object is the size of a small car. it was unmanned. it didn t appear to have the capability to maneuver itself within the windstream. and also according to a u.s. official, it didn t appear to have surveillance equipment on board. so those are some significant details. but we really don t know the answer to the major question here, which is who was responsible for sending this up into the sky. listen to wh
we re joined on how this played out and how the administration is handling it. what else has the administration said about this object? reporter: here s what we know, anderson. this mysterious object is the size of a small car. it was unmanned. it didn t appear to have the capability to maneuver itself within the windstream. and also according to a u.s. official, it didn t appear to have surveillance equipment on board. so those are some significant details, but we really don t know the answer to the major question here, which is who was responsible for sending this up into the sky. listen to what the nsc s john kirby said about that earlier today at the white house. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned, we just don t know. reporter: now, what he also said significantly, anderson, is that this mysterious object was traveling at abou
and a warm welcome it our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead for us here on cnn newsroom, the race to find survivors in turkey and syria. experts warn time is running out as cold weather heightens the danger. another object shot down off the coast of the united states. details still murky, but u.s. president biden is calling the operation a success. and brazilian president da silva meets with the u.s. president. we ll have part two of christiane amanpour exclusive interview with brazil s leader. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. more than 24,000 people are now confirmed dead in turkey and syria five days after a powerful earthquake absolutely devastated those countries. in turkey, emergency crews continue digging through the rubble with their bare hands if they have to, hoping to find yet another survivor. on friday, they rescued a mother and daughter who had been tr