kind of followed throughout this time, like engage in a lot more kind of hobbies and things that may be before you of don't have time for, right, in your daily life after workly and after school. like really going on nature walks, spending a lot of time with family f and friends. i know in sutherland springs that religious brought the community even closer. it's like the this incredibly tightknit group that is gotten sober after that because aer len on each other and they know what each other has gone through, and kind of like what you end up valuing the most and treasuring the most. the support you can get from that, and the real value that you place on human life after knowingg how quickly and can be lost. that can be a really beautiful thing to witness. >> unfortunately, that's all the time we have today. silvia and john, thank you both for joining in "washington post live." >> thank you. >> thanks so much.

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know and that officials don't know and arey not quite ready t to share with the public. what we do know is there were three different objects shot down over the weekend, friday saturday and sunday by the u.s. military. what we know is not much beyond that other than where they were shot down, which is on fight over alaska, saturday up in canada and sunday over lake huron. so beyond that officials are not really ready to classified or described what these objects were beyond just w calling them aerial objects. but they said the reason they were shot down is because number one, they were in civilian airspace, around 20,000-40,000 feet up in the air, and they decided that a wereec unsure of the surveillane capabilities that these objects might have. president biden went ahead and make the decision to shoot these

down, but beyond that we still don't know where they came from, what their purpose was. so still much to be learned i think in the b days ahead as the teams work to recover the debris from these objects. >> host: the first one was described as as a chinese spy balloon. these last three a little bit different. are we certain even yet that these three are from china or is that just the expectation? >> guest: we are still not sure where they came from. officials of an careful not quite to assign china responsibility for these. certainly it is possible that that may have in that being the case but john kirby, who is the white house spokesperson on national security issues, was talking on monday about how the reality is that it made in the end turn out to be there's nothing nefarious about these objects, acknowledging that research institutions, private companies send up weather balloons and other objects for whatever reason. so it's possible that it may not be nefarious in t