carley: a fox news alert. a car slams into the presidential moetorcade. the car tried to drive away. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. crash occurring in wilmington, delaware. the crash was said to not be intentional. alex. the president was not a target, the police are looking into the driver and investigating the motor vehicle collision, which did not result in injuries. investigators are working to determine if impairment was a factor. president biden was departing around 8 p.m. last night. he reacted to the sound of the crash and ushered to safety of his vehicle, where the first lady was already seated inside. north were injured. secret service said a secret service vehicle was struck. the president s motorcade departed without incident. the sedan tried toef loo the scene before being warmed by secret service. the driver was seen with his hands up. the vehicle sustained bumper damage, police are investigating. carley: don t try to leave the scene when you a
legitimate concerns about a threat and dealing with that threat. nobody hurt. general jack keane is standing by. but first to jennifer griffin live today at the pentagon. good afternoon, jen. the canadians have called off recovery efforts in lake huron and expected to do the same in the yukon mountains. we may never know what was shot down. john kirby said shooting down the three objects were likely benign was an overreaction. i d ask you to put yourself in his shoes in light of the chinese spy balloon and what was a very real, certainly sizable and tangible security surveillance threat to the united states in the wake of that. near impossible arctic search conditions continuing a the u.s. and canadian militaries acknowledge that they may never find the objects or balloons which some hobbyists said could be their research balloons. the president acknowledged this yesterday. nothing acknowledged that they were related to the china balloon program. the current assessm
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
hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis. the balloon had made its way across the country after first being spotted in montana on wednesday. its appearance over the u.s. and the military operation to take it down complicating the already tenuous relationship between the u.s. and china. beijing accusing the u.s. of overreacting and expressing strong dissatisfaction over the balloon s destruction. we have reporters around the world coverin
good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it s expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we re seeing the cold air and tell you when it s going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her home. what local officials are saying about that case. plus the usda rolling out new changes for school lunches. the proposes they are changing, just ahead on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 4th, we reesht you joining us for a lot of you out there, it is freezing cold outside, yobd beyond treezing cold. we re going to get to that in a moment. we start with this balloo