This is sky news today. The headlines at 10 00. Iran launches the first ever direct attacks on israel where pour than 300 drones and missiles and ies rate says they intercepted 99 . U. S. Military helped repel and the Royal Air Force was involved. Fears about israels possible response means tensions remain high in the region. Joe biden calls it a brazen attack and reaforms americas ironclad commitment to protect israel. He called a meeting of g7 leaders later today to discuss the unfolding crisis. We will have all the latest live throughout the morning here on sky news and we will be assessing what israel will do next. Good morning. We begin with a tense and significant turn of events in the middle east. Overnight, the skies of jerusalem lit up with explosions as iran carried out its first ever direct attack on israel. It comes two weeks after suspected israeli strike in syria that killed two iranian generals. In a moment, we will hear from the Israeli Military on the state of the coun
The surveillance balloon. recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. debris that s been recovered so far is being loaded on to vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and then moved on wards to labs for subsequent analysis. and why i won t go into specifics due to classification reasons, i can say that we have located a significant amount of debris so far that will improve helpful to our further understanding of this balloon and surveillance capabilities. of note, due to less than favorable sea states right now, teams will continue to conduct underwater survey and recovery as conditions permit. the department wants to thank our inner agency partners from the u.s. coast guard, fbi, and state and local authorities. in other news, i think this is important that we remember a lot of folks, people in turkey and syria right now are suffering.
Command, coordinated the operation with assistance from the alaska international guard, federal aviation administration and the federal bureau of investigation. we have no further details about the object at this time including any description of its capabilities, purpose, or urgent. the object was the size of a small car, so not similar in size or shape to the high altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the c cow coast of south carolina on february 4. separately u.s. northern command continues to recovery operations in support of the recent takedown of the chinese high altitude surveillance balloon, recovery teams have mapped the debris fields and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. the debris that has been recovered so far as being loaded on the vessels, taken ashore, catalogued, and moved onwards for subsequent analysis, but i won t go into specifics due to classification reasons, i can say we have located a
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