The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S
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reporter: the marine corps is saying 23 personnel were being transported participating in exercise predators run, a multi-national military training involving more than 2,000 troops from five countries. this is a former accident investigator for the navy and marines. this is a very unique aircraft and does have a higher accident rate than other types of aircraft used by the military for that very reason reporter: the tilt rotor osprey is a widely used support aircraft in the marine car and can lift like a helicopter and tilt the engine housing to achieve speed like a plane. but it has a controversial history of problems. march, 2022. four marines died in a training flight in norway the marine corps says pilot error caused the crash. june 2022 five more marines died when their osprey went down in california. investigators say the result of a catastrophic mechanical failure. still, he says the osprey is an extremely useful, life saving
Entailed. instead, they tried to flip the script, monitoring it constantly and tried to learn about it as it traversed the united states. there were days of planning to figure out the best possible time to shoot this down. in fact, it was decided not to shoot it down over the continental united states because of the risk to people and property. instead, that decision was made out over the water. the pentagon and northern command launched f-22s from langley air force base in hampton, v.a., as well as support aircraft and tankers as well. in the end it was a single f-22 that fired a side winder that pierces the balloon, one shot, one kill, breaking down and bringing down the surveillance balloon that we watched as it made its way across the u.s. that is the military side, the diplomatic side as well. the u.s. making it clear they found this unacceptable and considered a violation of u.s. air space, and now we have seen