In north america. i m michael holmes. you re watching cnn newsroom. the u.s. military right now working to salvage that suspected chinese spy balloon after it was shot down over the atlantic. president biden giving the go ahead to shoot it down several days ago, and the pentagon waiting until it was out over water to execute that order. on saturday, a single u.s. missile hit the balloon at an altitude of some 12 miles or 20 kilometers. the debris is now said to be on the ocean floor but in relatively shallow water. china s foreign ministry protesting the shoot-down of what it said was a research balloon that had gone off course. but the pentagon says it is confident the balloon was conducting surveillance as it slowly floated over the u.s. mainland and some sensitive military sites. president biden said he approved the plan to shoot down the chinese balloon earlier in the week. he says the pentagon wanted to wait until it was over water to avoid damage to anyone on the ground. cnn s
Approved attacks on a number of targets including radar and missile batteries and radars in air and ships in position when the word came to stand down. today the president gave his own account on what happened on twitter and in an interview with chuck todd. his version has suspicious details. we were cocked and loaded on three different sites, 150, sir, it was not proportionate, the military is rebuilt, by far ready to go and the best in the world. a lot there, first of all, it is very harge to imagid to imagine pentagon waiting until the last moment to find out how many
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But if the president does not fire stanley mcchrystal, it s not a sense of perception that he is a weak leader, it is a reality that he would show weakness in a way that i don t think the president wants to show weakness, the commander in chief. my opinion. for what it s worth. and an awful lot, kids. coming up, moderator of meet the press, david gregory. we need the mcchrystal clock of general mcchrystal. let s go to mcchrystal cam right now. at the pentagon waiting for stanley mcchrystal to get in the house. first, bill karins with a check on the fox 5 forecast. what is it looking like? i m not coming from the chopper this morning. if you re flying in and out of o hare large thunderstorms heading your way. currently just fine, all of the travel. a looted radar. the green, the rain. the yellow areas of