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dana: why did the administration let it spend days floating over sensitive military sites? among those pressing the pentagon for answers is montana senator john tester. say yes or no. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes or no? yes. we think we know what they were going to collect, we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we are building our understanding of what capabilities they have. i have a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state, much less the rest of the country. mike: president biden down playing the incident. president biden: it is not a look, it is totally violation of national law, our airspace. once they come in our space we can do what we want with it. mike: we begin with bryan llenas off the coast of south carolina where the salvage operation is moving forward. good morning, bryan. good morning. the f.b.i. says a majority of the chinese spy balloon remains underwater spread out in two separate sectio ....
Yesterday during a congressional hearing defense officials said part of the reason they did not shoot the spy balloon early on over the aleutian islands in alaska was because they had a better shot at recovering it in the relatively warm and shallow waters off south carolina. water depths off shore allusions at six plus nautical miles could quickly from 150 feet to over 18,000 feet in the sea. the winter water temperatures there hover consistently in the low 30s which would make recovery and salvage operations very dangerous. more u.s. navy unmanned underwater vehicles and equipment were moved in yesterday to assist in the recovery. f.b.i. says some of the debris recovered has english markings on it. unclear if it s american. the state department said it is confident the balloon was manufactured by a chinese company with a direct relationship with china s ....