oren liebermann at the pentagon. let s go arlette at the white house. reporter: president biden offered his first comments on the situation regarding that chinese spy balloon just moments ago, saying they are prepared to take care of it. president biden has been receiving briefings since tuesday, including potential options relating to how they could address this. here is how he answered reporters questions moments ago. you heard president biden say we are going to take care of it. officials here at the white house say the president is consistently being briefed on the various options they have been presented. one option was the possibility of shooting down this plane. that s something they have not ruled out. previously as he was presented that option, he was warned about the potential impact it could have o and impact it could have here on the ground and affecting people. we will see what else the white house and pentagon has to say later today regarding this balloon. it
by the western winds deviated from its planned court. the chinese government regrets the entry of the airship into us air space. the chinese government is a black box, it s opaque. clearly they re trying to lower the temperature. there was a statement from the foreign ministry that accused politicians and media in the u.s. from hyping up the incident to, quote, attack and smear china. there was also an editorial asking why china would be clumsy enough to rush balloons into us air space when they have satellited. was it deliberate? was it an accident? either way, this is embarrassing for beijing. it derails that highly anticipated meeting with secretary of state antony blinken coming to beijing that beijing had been gearing up for months for. even though there were low
that s the search and recovery, you see a couple of the crew members on one to have search and recovery teams, they are discussing right now and taking break. primary activity is to look through this rubble and find anything that would possibly be a void space where someone could be trapped inside. talking with city officials right now or just short time ago, frankly the communication is so chaotic they can t give specific number, one official said 100 people unaccounted for and another said 50 are unaccounted for and what i heard from a mayor is you had 280 people that elect today ride out the storm here in mexico beach and you can see just about everything except for the satellited houses were just wiped out right down to the ground and largely was on storm surge but also the wind. you can see the scene of autoer devastation, piles and piles of debris, primary activity right now is going through piles of debris and hopefully finding
believe it. this is data that came from the acars system that adjusts the sequence of events investigators have been laying out. telli tell us about it. that s correct. acars can be set up different ways. it can radio back to the ground the current flight. if you set it up differently, it will radio back to the ground the next leg or leg after that is going to be. at some point it radioed back or satellited back this change in course, this very sharp left turn. there are a lot of ways to change the direction of the airplane. you can grab the yolk, turn it, reach up to the glare shield where there s a heading mode. you can twist the dial. the smooth easy way to do it is enter it into the computer to head for another waypoint, another three dimensional point in space. that was done in this case. it s standard, unhurried.
wednesday october 12th. american officials are outraged and say iran will pay. this texas used car salesman is the unlikely suspect in an alleged assassination plot backed by iran. the u.s. claims that mons orr arbab arbabsiar was going to kill the ambassador of the united states. saying ar baubs yea wanted to blow up a restaurant killing the diplomat and potentially many americans right along with him. officials gathered in washington and gathered the diplomatic corps at the state department to ensure them they are safe. the obama administration is also deciding how to respond to iran. it s an outrage that violated one of the fundamental premises of which nations deal and that is the sanctity and safety of their diplomats. this is really over the top. they have to be held accountable. the u.s. linking the alleged plot to the elite quds force that is part of iran s revolutionary gad, but it is far from clear if quds was acting on its own or from top iranian leaders. iran