it is sunday, february the 5th. i am ali velshi. we begin today with a big balloon! a major metaphor and a geopolitical turning point in the wrong direction. yesterday, at 2:39 pm eastern standard time the united states military f 32 aircraft flying at 15,000 feet used a single air to air missile to shoot down what the united states says was a chinese around balloon. roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina, while within u.s. territorial airspace. the blue crafted to the atlantic ocean creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in monthly shallow water. the recovery is ongoing. that includes navy divers, the coast guard, another manned and unmanned savage vehicles. fbi counter intelligence agency are also on board the vehicles. officials say there is plenty to learn from the debris. they add they have also been studying the balloon since it first entered u.s. airspace in the lucian islands of alaska on january the 28. the balloons, which had mane
protests, a crippling nationwide strike and warnings of civil war ? israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delays the judicial overall plan that s dividing his country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the nashville school shooting and what we know about the woman who pulled the trigger that, according to police, cnn national correspondent dianne gallagher is working the story for us. she s on the scene, diane as we await an update momentarily from police. what do we know at this hour? wolf. we just got a notification from police on the identities of the six people who were killed this morning in the covenant school in nashville, tennessee. i want to read their names to you, um evelyn decals. halle scruggs, william kenny, all of them just nine years old cynthia peak 61. katherine coons, age 60 and mike hill age 61. according to police. all six of them were killed by a 2
medication will remain available through midnight on friday after the supreme court pushed their self imposed deadline. due to conflicting rulings from federal judges in two states. we are tracking a major threat more than 50 million people from texas to wisconsin, bracing for severe weather after deadly tornado slammed parts of oklahoma overnight, officials fear the death toll could rise these stories and more coming here to cnn news, central. if all goes well, we are just minutes away from the historic launch of the spacex starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. this is a critical test fight with test flight with a longer term goal of one day, taking people back to the moon, and maybe even mars . the launch window opens this hour 9 28. am eastern. to be exact. then it gives spacex a 62 minute window to get that massive rocket off the launch pad. this test was originally planned for monday. you ll remember, but that launch was called off almost as soon as