time on hbo max. join us here on cnn the week after the super bowl to find out who is talking next. welcome back to the 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with more breaking news. some of the first images we have seen of possible debris from that chinese spy balloon downed yesterday off the coast of south carolina. this video was shot by a south carolina resident just coming in this evening. this resident told cnn he saw a navy boat carrying what he believed to be debris from the balloon. cnn cannot independently confirm whether this is indeed debris from that balloon. we are reaching out to the u.s. navy for comment. in the meantime, this comes at the same time we are learning new details about when the pentagon learned about the balloon and when the president was informed about it. more on that in a moment. i want to begin in north myrtle beach, south carolina, and the focus of the recovery efforts. ca carlos, what can you tell us abou
President would have wanted to take this balloon out of the sky. we understand he made that decision on wednesday after having been briefed on tuesday. there was a four-day gap between his first briefing on the 31st of january to saturday when that balloon was eventually shot down. alex, lots of questions looming over this balloon and the aftermath of that. thanks very much. let s discuss all of this with democratic congressman khana. there s word tonight from congressman waltz, one of your colleagues there in the house, that congress was briefed about earlier spy balloon flights near texas and florida during the trump administration. we talked to congressman castro in the 6:00 hour earlier this evening. he had not heard about this. is this something that you were aware of? jim, i was not.