we begin with the recovery efforts under way off the south carolina coastline following that dramatic takedown of a suspected chinese spy balloon yesterday. the u.s. military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifted over the atlantic near myrtle beach. president biden saying he ordered the military to take it down on wednesday. now, efforts are under way to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last few days. chinese is accusing the u.s. of overreacting. we re covering this from all angles from the nation s capital to the coast where the balloon was shot down. let s start with diane gallagher in surfside beach, south carolina, where the recovery operation is under way, even though the conditions right now are allwful. what are you hearing about the search and recovery efforts of the debris? reporter: the weather not exactly clear as it was yesterday when everybody here in the myrtle beach
top of the hour. thank you for joining us in this cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. i m jim chsciutto. the ntsb investigators are headed back to ohio. they have more concerns after a new crash there. and now, there is a police training facility where there was protesters who set a vehicle on fire and there was a clash there. and we will look at the look next of former president trump and governor desantis as they head to ohio this week. and we go to jason carroll who is on the scene there in ohio, and i understand, jason, that the ntsb investigators are going to be headed to the scene today, and we understand that we have new information about the crash and what the train was carrying, and is there a risk to the citizens there? yes, the ntsb say that there is no risk to the residents here, but within a month s time, a second crash here, and you can see that one of the cars here is still on the side here, and the investigators will be coming out to sort out what happened
mykolalv. critical infrastructure including power facilities have also been hit. part of putin s reply after an explosion hit a bridge. our reporters and guests are standing by to bring you the latest. let s begin this morning with if he had drinkfred pleitgen in uk. i know you went out to see some of that destruction firsthand. what did you see? reporter: hi there, bianna. it was several hours of blasts we witnessed and heard ourselves. it happened or started happening in the early morning hours, i d say about quarter past 8:00 local time which is about 1:15 in the morning where you guys are. there was a big blast sort of quite close to our location as we went out there were several other explosions that we were able to hear. we went to one of the locations where in the vicinity of there a playground had gotten hit by a missile, luckily there don t appear to have been any children there at that time. but then we also got to an intersection that was also hit by a russian
we re beginning with chaos in the skies during what may be the busiest weekend so far this year for air travel. according to the flight tracking website flight aware more than 900 flights were canceled on sunday alone across the u.s. since friday there have been more than 3,000 flight cancellations. so the airlines are blaming weather problems and ongoing staff shortages, in particular a shortage of pilots, so can travelers expect more of this as we enter the peak summer travel season? cnn s aviation correspondent pete muntean is live at reagan national airport. a lot of unhappy travelers this morning, pete. reporter: no doubt, john. in fact, a lot of people probably still trying to get home even today after traveling this weekend. these new numbers are huge, but the cause of this really is not. we were reporting over and over again that airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic and that has led to these massive flight crew shortages. the deck of cards really comes tum
Accomplished in one meeting. He tried the down play expectations in that but we dont have the idea of What Future Conversatio would look like, would he extend the time next week. Have another one in a matter of months, we to be know any of that. But getting things done on the front end is something they are concerned about. Local countries have a lot ride on it. And the president has a lot of shake. We heard from shinzo abe praise for the president to get it thisser if a. There are questith appearances of success versus the substantive success that needs to be determined next week and beyond. President trump may sn be forced to testify under oath thank to multiple depositions he might be facing. On tuesday a judge in new york ruled that President Trump must sit for a deposition in a denamation lawsuit brought by a former apprentice contestant. She accuse had imsexual assault
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