Of since? remember, what s different now is we put in place some additional protocols. they are in a classified setting, but some protocols to help us discrimination what needs to be worried about and what doesn t. i can t speak for what north com is doing. i understand they have not made changes to the radar parameters. what has changed is a new set of protocols to help us decision krim nature what s a threat from what is not a threat. important to point that out. i appreciate your time. see you at the white house. yes, sir. fallout. andrea mitchell has a look at the havana syndrome on the country where it began. that s next on andrea mitchell reports. itchell reports. that s next on andrea mitchell reports. mitchell reports. i feel so accomplished. pet me please! great prices. happy pets. chewy. get refunds.com powered by innovation refunds
Potential breakthrough in the search in the atlantic from the debris from the chinese spy balloon. crews have recovered what north com calls significant debris including all the priority sensors and electronics as well as large sections of the structure. but big questions tonight about the shoot-downs of three smaller objects last week. the white house said today those unidentified ones which told congress are likely balloons could be for benign commercial use or academic research. the joint chiefs chairman acknowledging it took two missiles to bring down one of them. on the fourth one over lake huron, the first shot miss, the second hit. the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron. reporter: that lake is several hundred feet deep. the debris search will take time. they may never find the wreckage from two others. in the yukon, where a c-17 unloaded equipment saturday night, and alaska. that s up in some really difficult terrain, the arctic circle with very, very low
That was wo weeks of work. our military forces in ak ank, which by the way is the top cover of america, were so critical to our nation s defenses, they ve been working overtime. but i will tell you this. i ve been satisfied with the briefings i ve gotten from the military. general van hurt, the north com commander, has kept me well informed on the tracking of the object friday. i strongly encouraged him, by the way, in a bipartisan manner, to shoot that aircraft down, which is what they ended up doing. but where i have not been satisfied is the broader administration s lack of transparency. there are a number of things we learned in the briefing yesterday that i ve been aware of that i think the american people should know about. and, you know, there s things that they should let us know. there s things they should tell us they don t know. of course they shouldn t let on to sources and methods. but i don t think they ve been transparent enough. as you know, when they re not transparent
Maritime space. we re very deliberate in our planning. north com does that with the pilots themselves. we re very careful to make sure those shots are safe. that s the guidance from the president. shoot it down, make sure we minimize collateral damage and we preserve the safety of the american people. are you confirming the other three objects were also i ll use the word object. that s what everyone is using. we ll see. they re not recovered yet, as you know. number two, three and four not recovered yet. number one we are recovering and getting a lot of stuff off that. two, three and four not yet recovered. they re in difficult terrain. the second one off the coast of alaska, that s up in some really, really difficult terrain in the arctic circle with very, very low temperatures in the minus 40s. the second one is in the canadian rockies in the yukon, very difficult to get that one. and the third one is in lake huron, probably couple hundred feet depth.
We ll get them eventually. it will take some time to recover those. to dmytro. to courtney kube who is standing by for us in brussels. let me ask you in general, we re not getting much new. give me a sense of how much of a conundrum this placed on not only the biden administration, but those two officials we re listening to, the top officials in the dod. reporter: that s right. so remember these are two people inside the room when they re doing the making the having the discussion about what to do. so, back to the very first one of these objects, this high surveillance chinese spy balloon, they were in the room with the on the phone with the head of north com, norad, the general, and ultimately and other members of the joint staff and senior dod officials, and they made the decision not to shoot that first one down initially because of the concern of people on the ground. only to come back several days