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down. of course, the question tonight is, where is that exactly and when will it come down? by the way, how will it come down? the a spy balloon. the pentagon refusing to say whether they are considering shooting it down what looks like a chinese spy balloon floating high above some sensitive sites in this country. but officials telling cnn they haven't ruled it out either. meanwhile, this balloon, which is the size, by the way, of three school buses, is just meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice over missouri today, including in colombia, missouri, this very often-afternoon where this exclusive footage was shot. it's flying about 60,000 feet up, 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane does. and now the pentagon says there is another chinese spy balloon that is currently somewhere over latin america. we will talk about what the heck

is going on in the skies tonight. here to help us figure all this out, cnn's tom foreman and military analyst colonel cedric leighton. so glad to have you here. tom, at the magic wall, where has this balloon been and where is it going? >> well, if we trust what the military thinks where it's been is china over the aleutian islands, coming over canada and drifting down to montana where we had these sightings that you mentioned. of course, sensitive area because there are missile facilities up there. used to live in south dakota. now sighted around missouri. last we heard maybe somewhere around saint lewis. so where is it going? that's a great question. if it's being purely pushed by the jet stream, which travels about 110 miles per hour, if that is what it's doing and if it's keeping pace with that, then you might say it traveled along this predicted route that it might be right now somewhere between nashville and

louisville, kentucky. that's just a guess on math. the math could be completely wrong. the winds can change. the speed can change. how much the balloon is reacting can also change. the idea is, if it continued on this path, it would reach the coast near the outer banks. obviously, it could be further south, a little bit further north. that's what the jet stream is tending to push and at that speed, nine, ten hours, something like that, from where we last had a sighting of it, that is no guarantee, but that's where might be now and that's where it was making its way there. >> what exactly do we know about this balloon? people have an image of what they think is happening and we have seen some im angs, but what do we know about this balloon? >> as you noted, it's called the size of three buses. little confusing there because they may be talking about the size of the balloon. the balloon that nasa does like this are made of polyethylene, basically no thicker than a

sandwich bag. they are filled with helium typically. they can lift several thousand pounds if you are doing and controlling it for scientific purposes. eventually, you would release the balloon. it would let the helium out, separate from the payload, which drops by parachute back to earth. that's how you retrieve your equipment if you wanted to. it's visible to the naked eye. it's way up there. it's high enough up around, you know, 11 miles up or so that you can see it if the lighting is just right if it's bouncing off it just right. it's in an area, i tell you, you can't survive. you are not in a pressure suit or something, way too cold, way too little oxygen. but a possible threat if airplanes went through the general area, although again as you noted much lower than that in a common sense. when you don't know what it is and you don't know when it might start coming down, a lot of safety there. that's what we know about it. other than that, a lot of

questions about exactly what it was doing here and where it's going to wind up. >> colonel leighton, we bring you in here. what we do know is it's in our airs space. there have been a lot of calls to make sure it's no longer in the airspace and bring it down. should that happen? >> what you want to do is you want to gain the intelligence value that you can from this particular balloon because you know that there are sensors on there. you want to prove your case if you are the united states government. you want to prove your case that this actually is a surveillance balloon. one thing to make the assertion. it's quite another to say we have the proof, we have the sensors, we know the sensors communicate with this space station in china or whatever the case may be, and that's the kind of thing that you want to have because once you have that then you can take measures to mitigate these kinds of systems as they come in and you can also use this as a way in which to, frankly, embarrass china on the diplomatic front. >> the idea of taking it down has been called for.

that seems to imply destroying it. but you are saying it would be more prudent from the intelligence standpoint to have it come down, to have it intact to study and know exactly what it is, what it's been transmitting and the capabilities? >> exactly right. you want a controlled descent. if you are lucky you get into the data stream that controls the balloon and make it land on your command, not on the command of the controller in china. and when you do that, you bring it down easily. you can examine it. you can say this is what these pieces do. this is how it works. this is where these things -- you are reverse engineering it. >> i wonder if that's why we heard from the brigadier general who talked about the balloon having the ability to maneuver but wasn't specific beyond that about who it was and how it's done. maybe the idea of partially the unknown. maybe partially not wanting to divulge too much information. as you are talking about it, obviously, just the jet stream we have already seen.

at some point if it continues on this path it will no longer be above our airspace and in the control and domain of the united states. is there a point in time where they are going to have to make a decision to destroy it or wait for it to land controlled? >> if they want to look at it from a legalistic standpoint, it's better if you bring it down if your territorial waters. that's what you want to do. you want to bring it down in a way that you can control every single last aspect of it. certainly technically possible over the ocean. but then it becomes a bit legally questionable when you have got it in international waters as opposed to on your own territory or own waters. >> tom, you have been following the trajectory, the flight path of this balloon. is there a particular area where it could be brought down perhaps in a controlled manner where really to minimize any disruption to what would be of on the ground. >> safety on the ground, the places to do that have already passed. if you look at this path and you

look at basically where the u.s. population is, the density is much, much less out here where it was. it's been moving over more dense areas. so the idea of just dropping it here, if you are worried about risk, that's not great place for it. i will note, i always love having colonel leighton with us. he has great insights. the outer banks here, really the part that is the territorial waters, if we put it in statute miles, is 14 miles. it's not far. if you want to drop it at that point, i have no doubt that the u.s. military could take it out of the zie right when it cleared the safety zone as long as they had no boats in the water there. but it's still a narrow band there. i don't know how you guarantee it doesn't sink when you drop it. so the problem is there has to be, as the colonel suggested, you either have to somehow take over control of it and trigger it to do this the way it's supposed to do it, which is tricky, or you have to try to

shoot it down in some fashion that doesn't bring it down dramatically or quickly or take your chances and you drop it in that narrow band and hope that that works. i will point out my finger here is making a band that is much, much, much wider than that 14 miles would be. >> real quick, i want to get to one more thing. while i have you, colonel, let me ask you, it's covered a great part of the united states of america and presumably over things highly sensitive in nature. what do you make of the idea -- is there a way for us to be less vulnerable to what it could have already seen? >> one of the things that you do, if you know it's coming, you can certainly change your communications pattern, you can hide things, for example, say you have planes on a runway and you don't want the adversary to see the planes, you can camouflage them, put them in other places docks a lot of different things like that. if you have no warning, of course the intelligence picture becomes much less advantageous to you and much more

advantageous to the adversary. >> i want to discuss more with the international implications of all this. fareed zakaria joins us now. you have been hearing the conversation, of course. one of the things that was not shocking to people is the idea that there were -- the chinese were spying in some part, that there was a possibility of spying. the u.s. and china have been known to spy on one another over the course of time. so what is it about this that is -- makes this so different? >> well, it's a very good question. i think the discussion was fascinating about the mechanics of all this. but as you say, you step back and you ask yourself the big picture. this feels a little bit like that line in casablanca where we are suddenly shocked to discover that the chinese are spying on us. of course the chinese are spying on us. by the way, we spy on them. probably a lot more than they

spy on us. the national security agency has probably the biggest budget for all of this kind of stuff around the world. the chinese also have military satellites going around, you know, the united states constantly. probably have all the information that they are looking for. you were talking about sensitive sites. it's highly unlikely that there is something in montana that has not been photographed by chinese military satellites. there is some marginal increases you get because the balloon is lower, but, you know, these balloons are very crude. i mean, this is stuff that was used during the flirench revolution, the american civil war. it's not cutting-edge technology. it has a few advantages. for the most part, the chinese do this routinely. we do it routinely. the interesting question is, why should something like this cause this kind of collective freakout, particularly on the right?

where people seem, you know, to be willing to get into a conversation about conflict and war over a balloon. and then the administration finds itself having to react and cancel a trip by the secretary of state. all over something, as i said, we know they do. we do it as well. >> well, i mean, it is visible to the eye. so perhaps that's part of the reason why people are now more aware of it or you've got people actually everyday civilians now seeing what has probably been known to others. there is something about perhaps the point being that they don't care if it's seen and what does that actually say about how they feel about the relationship with this country. there is also, you mentioned technology. and i agree. i mean, depending what's in this balloon, not high brow level of technology. senator mitt romney did today though talk about tiktok. he talked about that as being a bigger source to be concerned about than a balloon.

in fact, he says a big chinese balloon in the sky and millions of chinese tiktok balloons on our phones. let's shut them all down. is tiktok, outght to be a bigge concern? >> yeah, i think that's a much more interesting problem. what exactly is the vulnerability? what kind of data are they getting? can that data be returned to china? is there a way to create servers in the united states where the data is stored here and cannot be transferred to china? i am a little reluctant to -- the united states believes in freedom of speech and let's say what tiktok to be transferred to american ownership. would that solve the problem? but, yeah, there is something i think that is very real. it's very new. it's a kind of cyber war or cyber intelligence that we don't quite know how to handle and i would be all for a serious investigation into it. but by the way, laura, i still

don't believe that these kind of things should shut down communication between the united states and china. the secretary of state of the united states does not go to china to meet his counterparts as a favor to china. he does it in order to secure the interests of the united states, to clarify the united states' position in the world, to achieve some degree of stability and guardrails in that relationship and to preserve peace between the two largest economies in the world. and increasingly, the two largest military powers in the world. it seems like it has been treated like some kind of gift that is now being withdrawn, and i think that's the wrong way to think about international diplomacy. we are engaged in this precisely because we have problems with the chinese. >> i want to read for you a statement what china has said about it just so you -- this is from the chinese foreign ministry spoke person.

it is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes. it deviated far from the planned course. the chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into u.s. airspace. you can flag the idea of the word regret used by the spokesperson. does that surprise you, the statement that was made, given all you said and the idea of not believing it was in the trf the united states, frankly, for blinken to even cancel the trip? >> well, it's difficult to know what is going on there. the chinese routinely, as i say, do engage in espionage. it's possible this is in fact a spy balloon. it's possible as some have suggested it may have had dual purposes. what i'm sure is that it's not some kind of highly sophisticated new step. the fact that it's veered so far off course tells us it's not particularly well controlled at this point. so i think that more than

anything else this whole episode has revealed to me the degree of anxiety and insecurity, particularly on the right, where there is a kind of paranoia about what is going on in china, what the chinese can do, and it's very troubling because, look, this is a very, very serious relationship that we need to be able to approach in a way that secures america's interest, preserves the peace, make sure we deter china, and it doesn't help to have a collective freakout over a balloon. >> well, until we know what it is, i wonder if it is just a balloon or not. we will have to wait and see. we will see. >> it is a balloon for sure. >> it definitely is a balloon. >> you're right. it is a balloon. it is absolutely a balloon. now, what it can do in the capacity, we will have to defer to those who are specialized. you are point is well taken about what the reaction is, something that maybe people don't realize is as common

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tracking the progress of the suspected chinese spy balloon floating above the united states. by next guest was actually able to catch footage of the balloon as it passed over his montana workplace. michael alverson joins me from bills, montana. michael, thank you for joining us this evening. we are getting a lot out of the footage to see what it looked like and how close it was for it to be visible to the naked eye. what did you do when you first saw it? what did you think it was? >> at first we were working on some stuff and i happened to glance up at the sky while we were working. i noticed what appeared to be kind of like the moon and then appeared to look off to the right and noticed that the moon was out, clear as day, and that's when it started to bring concerns to me and my co-workers at the time. >> what were you concerned about? what did you think it was? >> at first when we saw it akin of had a tail.

we thought it might be the comet everybody was talking about that was coming through around this time. then it kind of just stopped and started hovering there and it seemed to just get bigger and get bigger as the sphere got closer to billings. and then we decided to bust out some binoculars and get a closer look at it. it appeared to be a balloon of some sort. we kind of just assumed it was a weather balloon and didn't really think much more of it. so i grabbed my camera and tried to get a good shot of it as well as i could for an iphone and decided to post it up on my media page to see if anybody by chance in the area knew what it could be. >> i mean, i am so glad you did and got footage. it's fascinating to see. what is around you in billings, montana? i wonder how people there are reacting because if it is a suspected spy balloon from china, many are wondering what it possibly could be seeing in your area.

>> i am not really sure. there is not a lot around here in the billings area. we used to vn old military air force base up on the northridge of billings, but it's no longer really a thing anymore. we just have the logan international airport right there as far as i know of anything they'd want to look into, i suppose, if it were to be a spy balloon. >> do you think it should have been shot down or taken down in some way? >> yeah, i was hearing that they had a good opportunity to possibly shoot it down when it was more out in the middle of nowhere in montana but they decided not go with it. i feel like -- have an idea to get a better, closer look at what we were trying to see in the sky, i suppose. >> do you -- are people feeling in your area, in your community, are they reacting to the fact that it was in and around the skies around you? has there been a sentiment about how people feel about the fact

that it was this close? >> yeah. i definitely feel like it's similar to like, i guess, a house break-in, i suppose. a foreign object flying into the united states airspace. >> i wonder what -- >> a source of uncomfort. >> i hear you. >> it wasn't normal or natural. >> i'm sure it comes as quite a shock to think about that. i know you have -- i think you got some major oil refineries in the area as well. there are three in the area. i am curious as to what it would have been like if they shot it down or taken it down, whether there would have been damage on the ground below or of course people in the area. i so appreciate you taking the footage and allowing people to have a closer look and seeing what you saw in that moment. thank you. >> yeah, thank you guys. everyonek look, police departments in florida and also

ohio showing off cruisers, unveiling them, as you see, that are wrapped in black history month artwork. but it happened days after the video released showing the beating of tyre nichols. more in a moment.

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week two police departments, one in miami and another in columbus, ohio, unveiling police cruisers that are wrapped in black history month artwork. the columbus cruiser featuring martin luther king jr.'s quote that says be the peace you wish to see in the world. mind you, the unveiling of the cruisers comes days after the video released showing the horrific deadly beating suffered by tyre nichols at the hands of five memphis police officers. we are also learning tonight that the officer that was heard saying, quote, i hope they stop his ass, unquote, on that video of that initial traffic stop has now been officially terminated and departmentally charged after being placed on leave this monday. the department determining preston hemphill violated multiple department policies,

including personal conduct and truthfulness. he is the sixth officer to be fired and one other officer is on leave. of course, five have been charged with second-degree murder among other charges as well. joining me it is cnn political commentator karen finney, rina shaw and former head of intelligence for the d.c. homeland security department donell harvin. glad to see you here today. let's begin with the unveiling of the police cruisers that were wrapped in black history month artwork. i wonder what you make of it. is it tone deaf? is it something that -- is it a rhetorical question? >> it's tone deaf. absolutely tone dev to the point of actual willy being offends. it's the kind of thing where if you -- i suppose you can give them the credit that they were trying to do the right thing, but it's one of those situations where if you don't know, ask. so instead of saying, hey, let's

wrap our car in, you know, quotes from martin luther king jr. on the heels, not only of that video, but in the middle of a national conversation, right, about the relationship between police and communities of color, ask. ask a community leader who is african american, is this a good idea? is this not a good idea? >> if you follow that thread, the idea if this cruiser were in rotation and then arrested somebody, this is the car that would be holding the person and if that person happened to be african american you could see where this would be going. i want to hear your take on this. i mentioned that both miami and columbus police departments tweeted statements, by the way, about tyre nichols. columbus says after -- the chief, elaine bryant. after watching the videos released of the violent arrest of tyre nichols from the memphis police department i am deeply heartbroken and saddened. the actions of the former

officers do not represent the -- we hold. our officers are trained to treat every individual with dignity and humanity. we respect our community's right to voice their frustration and we will give them space to do so peacefully and talked about continuing to listen and work together. miami similar, their chief of police, manuel morales, also talking about the idea of wanting to show support. i wonder what your take is? >> it's certainly tone deaf. i'll try to give deference to the police departments. they probably commissioned these things months ago. but certainly they could have waited for a better time. we have seen these types of wraps, emergency response vehicles for other types of months. so breast cancer awareness and things of that nature. the problem is that i think it minimalizes, t particularly dur black history month the impact and types of contributions that

black history month is supposed to represent. to do that on the heels of tyre nichols' death i think is poor taste, it's a horrible coms issue for them and certainly i think sparks a conversation about rethinking what black history month means. is it just wrapping a police vehicle? is it being prospective and looking at what contributions can be made or looking backward. i think it's a bad look for law enforcement right now and, hopefully, nobody does that again. >> you make a good point about particularly how this is not the first time this is done, even in columbus, ohio. they actually talked about and responded to a lot of the criticism about it and talked about how as part of their community engagement they had a cruiser that is commemorating numerous holidays and events and have done so for lgbtq pride month, breast cancer awareness, veterans day and the holiday season. they plan to do so more this year. to the point that donnell raised, there is something about

the performative aspect as opposed to the understanding of what the awareness months are actually supposed to be for. so does this fall into the category of performative without being beneath the surface and ending up with pr issues? >> well, i think a bigger pr issue is that one in miami, the vehicle covered in graphics of africa. not every black american feels a connection to africa. to have the imagery i thought was really confusing and, frankly, wrong. i think that was a bit of a pr stunt and it feels wrong. when you look at that and think, that's performative. that is trying to make it look like we are doing something here. what does is it doing? it's not being an ally. allyship continue performative. there is a new generation of leaders looking at law enforcement and they know the history, the dark history, the harmful history between black americans and law enforcement in this country. people who have been -- he with saw take tyre nichols' life away from him in the most cruel way

possible. that just doesn't sit right with me. and with so many other people who are non-black. what do we do? talk about this next generation of leaders who are coming up in this era authenticity, they want that talk and walk to match and they are going to call people out for it. >> i want to play for a second what the miami police department actually said in response. here was their video statement. >> you know from the past we have had breast cancer, autism, military. so in keeping with the tradition, we had a lot of officers, members say how come we don't have one for black history? we have one for hispanic heritage month. we said we will try to work on something and reach out to the chief and see what to, you know, work on. this was something for us to honor everyone. this had nothing to do with, you know, being disrespectful, being disgraceful. this was a social pride for us, and still is. >> karen, what's your thought? >> interesting to see who they put out to clean it up.

also, you know, on all of these things, i would say from a communications standpoint having doing -- as someone who does public affairs work, speak to the community. it's a lost opportunity to not talk to the community and say we want to do something special for black history month. we want to do something for lgbtq awareness. we want to good allies. what can we do? you know, the cruisers, probably spent 5, $10,000. what can we do with the money? is there a community event to show allyship that builds a stronger bond and relationship between the community and the police officers? again, i think it's, like you say, performative to just do a wrap when you have an opportunity to actually engage the community in a conversation. >> and not to be outdone, it's not just police departments. the irs as well, by the way. there was this tweet from the irs criminal investigation today saying that, quote, it celebrates the rich history and

impactful contributions of black americans to our nation and around the world during hashtag black history month. the other day, you were watching this program. we illuminated an issue involving a study that showed that black american taxpayers are three times as likely as their white counterparts to be audited by the irs. i want to be clear. we have shown that tweet. this division that tweeted is not tied in the irs to the algorithm that was making that happen. of course, the question would be, the idea of the right-hand and left hand knowing what the other is doing and the performative versus putting substance ahead of form. more to talk about. thank you to all of you. we also have a big update in the dallas zoo saga. police now arresting a suspect in connection with habitat tampering. now in new york an eurasian eagle owl has escaped after the exhibit was vandalized. those stories are next.

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tonight a 24-year-old man in texas is facing at least eight charges in connection with the tampering of animal habitats at the dallas zoo. davion irvin was arrested last night and charmed with six counts of animal cruelty in the suspected theft of two tameron monkeys earlier this weaning. they were found safe in an abandoned building. irvin faces two charges of burglary in connection with the tamerons and tampering of the clouded leopards enclosure. police say he is linked to the tampering of the monkeys habitat as well but has not been charged in that incident. the zoo's president speaking this afternoon. >> it's been an unbelievable three weeks for all of us here at the zoo and, you know, it's

unprecedented what happened here. >> let's talk about what is going on at the dallas zoo and what has happened there. back with me is wildlife biologist jeff corwin, host of wildlife nation. jeff, i'm glad to see you this friday night. we have been talking since this began, the incident after incident after incident after incident, and now we have a suspect who is -- has been arrested after being seen at the dallas aquarium near animal exhibits there as well and police believe he may have been trying to commit another crime. what do you think is the motive or going on here? >> it's just really insidious. these animals have paid such a horrible price. the great news is they have captured this gentleman and he is being held. i think on $25,000 bail. he think he is in jail right now. there is also other crimes. we are looking at the state and the local crimes in dallas. a lot of people don't realize

that since the 1900s we have had some very strict regulatory laws that are designed to protect species, especially endangered species and when they cross county lines or other states. that's the lacy act. that can come up with five years in prison and i think upwards to $100,000 in fines. >> i mean, the possibility is really far more expansive than the idea of a prank or something that was supposed to be menial in nature. i will say we don't have any reporting whatsoever that there is a connection to that vulture, but you raise the possibility of the investigation is likely ongoing, especially because the dallas zoo did say today that the staff is still even having somebody who is a suspect, has been arrested, they are still on high alert. i am wondering, i mean, if this is part of a larger operation. do you foresee that one person could have been responsible for

this act that we have seen so far? >> as we earlier had discussed as this wild story, i mean literally a wild story began a week ago, is how that is really hard to get these animals into the multibillion-dollar black market wildlife trade. so when we find that they were left to their own devices, these tameron monkeys, these primates, that tells me i don't think he knew what he was doing. but he was stealthy enough he could get in there and get the animals out. and while we don't know what that connection is with the vulture, there seems to be some connection with the other species. that for me is good news, that maybe one person is the culprit behind all of this. what really upsets me, laura, is that what happened at the dallas zoo is bad enough. again, a world-class zoo. it really is devastated that incredible community of conservationists there.

we are now see copycat crimes in other zoos across the country. >> i want to go there now. there is a new story tonight out of new york. and the city central park zoo officials are trying to recapture a eurasian eagle owl named flacco. he escaped last night after the stainless steal mesh of his exhibit was cut. one thing for the dallas zoo. you see the concentration of different events happening. there was the one in louisiana. there was the missing squirrel monkeys. now in new york city you mentioned the copycat aspect of this. are people becoming emboldened to see if they can try to accomplish something as well? and you've got to wonder what the end game will be in these instances as well. >> i think there definitely is that sort of underlying component here of someone wanting to try to get away this. we often see this with crimes like this. we see the copycat echo effect.

in this case, this beautiful species, i mean, the eurasian eagle owl is absolutely spectacular. it's as big as an eagle, even though it's an owl. hence, its name, eagle owl. the only thing that is the saving grace here is that this is a species that can thrive. they are incredibly hearty. they survive from siberia to north africa. so these vicious cold spells we are having in new england and new york, i'm confident this owl will survive these elements until they can get into a position to secure this animal and get him banning to the zoo. again, they found that its enclosure had been vandalized, tampered with. one note i want to tell people, a lot of people are worried about this eagle owl. and millions of people flock, literally flock to central park every year to see the incredible birds that are there. if you see this owl, you want to give it space. we don't want to push it off

into traffic or harm's way. once they have this animal secure, they will grab it and put it back into its home where it belongs at the zoo. the saving grace is that this is an owl that lives in a cold environment. so he should survive the cold, ha harsh conditions of the big apple. >> as you say, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, they say. it's up to you, new york, new york. we will see if he lives through that particular old adage to actually be applicable. thank you so much. jeff wcorwin. i hope this is a lesson from other zoos around the area if people are trying to duplicate and be copycats, that is not just dallas, not just new york, it's not just louisiana, there has to do be precautions in a national way. thank you, jeff. nice talking to. >> ythank you. two hoots to that. [ laughter ] >> i like it. what i don't like is the arctic air that's blasting

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we are going to breck down all of the top stories of the week. there is the, as you know, the suspected chinese spy balloon flying over the united states. officials telling cnn they have not ruled out the possibility of shooting it down. plus, president biden taking a bit of a victory lap over the jobs numbers that came in, claiming it proves critics of his policies are dead wrong. also, this week loved ones saying their final goodbyes to 29-year-old tyre nichols who died after a brutal police beating in memphis