for their continuing assistance and partnership. in other news, and i think this is important that we remember a lot of folks, people in turkey and syria right now are suffering. we want to, again, express our support for the people of turkey and syria as they respond to the deadly earthquakes that struck there earlier this week. in support of ongoing u.s. assistants efforts spearheaded by the u.s. agency for international development, u.s. european command has positioned personnel, equipment and a range of assets to aid the government of turkey in its continued search and rescue efforts. this includes the george h.w. bush strike group repositioning to the eastern mediterranean sea to provide logistics, medical and rotary airlift support if required. additionally there were missions flied on february 7 to transport first responders to the most affected populations. on february 8th, uh-60
we want to, again, express our support for the people of turkey and syria as they respond to the deadly earthquakes that struck there earlier this week. in support of ongoing u.s. assistance efforts, spearheaded by the u.s. agency for international development, u.s. european command has positioned personnel, equipment and a range of assets to aid the government of turkey in its continues search and rescue efforts, includes the u.s. navy s george h.w. bush carrier strike group, to provide logistics, medical, and rotary air lift support. to transport first responders to the most affected populations and on february 8th, uh-60 black hawks transported injured civilians to a local medical facility. u.s. european command has designated u.s. naval forces europe and africa as the lead
significant amount of debris so far that will prove helpful to the further understanding of this balloon and it surveillance capabilities. of note, due to less than favorable see states right now, teams will continue to conduct underwater survey and recovery as conditions permit. the department wants to thank the interagency partners from the u.s. coast guard, the fbi, state and local authorities for their continuing assistance and partnership. in other news, and i think that this is important that we remember a lot of folks and people in turkey and syria are suffering we want to express our support for the people of turkey and syria as they respond to the deadly earthquakes that struck their earlier this week. in support of ongoing u.s. assistance efforts spearheaded by the u.s. agency for international development coming u.s. european command has position personnel and equipment and a range of assets to aid government of turkey and its continued search and rescue
0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. i m sandra smith. martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, the story with martha continues to breaking news. it s actually a trace, good afternoon, and trace gallagher in for martha maccallum, the story is a bombshell as we can train new breaking news, about to go to the pentagon as a white house confirms a high altitude object was shot down over alaska today. though there is no confirmation on who owns the object. we don t know if it is state owned or corporate owns, we just don t know that right now, mainly because we spotted this thing at night. in a moment, repu
0 president lula has to make. reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and you re right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether that s terrestrial related or whether it s from the air. and i think i ll just leave it at that. reporter: would you work with congress to put in place legislation to prevent that we are always willing to work with congress to address our national security interests and threats as best we can. reporter: real quick, is there a time line for recovery of this object? you would have to talk to the pentagon. i don t know, guys, this just happened within the last hour and a half, and they re still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to whi