Well have much more on the suspected spy balloon in a moment, but first this Breaking News just coming in. The man who led pakistan at the start of americas declared War On Terror and the conflict in neighboring afghanistan has died. He died after a prolonged illness according to a statement from pakistans military. He was in dubai where he lived for several years in selfimposed exile. Musharraf was 79 years old. Youre now about to see and hear i think were going to youre now about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u. S. Sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc last week. Here it is. It happened saturday off the coast of South Carolina near myrtle beach. The balloon was so high up at nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave to reach the ground. China issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u. S. Of overreacting. Beijing insists it was a civilian Research Balloon that blew off course, but pentago
Live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese Spy Bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. Youre looking at the footage right now. Our u. S. Fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. Right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. Most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. Oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. Back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. You can clearly see what appears to know the Surveillance Equipment dropping very quickly into the Atlantic Ocean. I suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese were up to. R
lord, what a shocking moment there from turkey. good morning to you this monday, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. the death toll continues to rise after this catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck near the border of turkey and syria. more than 1,800 people are now reported dead, but there are concerns that that number could ultimately reach into the tens of thousands. at this hour desperate rescue operations underway. crews searching for survivors who may be trapped under piles of rubble. here you see this is the moment that a child you see in the arms there of that rescue worker, a child was pulled from debris this was in northwest syria, a region which of course already heavily impacted after years of a bloody civil war. in each city, in each village, across northwest sudan there are people under rubble. the number of trapped people under the rubble, it s countless up to now. we don t have exact number. countless. multiple powerful after shocks have al
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S