we are live in myrtle beach. you're looking now here as you see a plane just travelling across the sky. we are awaiting and believe that we will see this giant chinese spy balloon making its way across the u.s. now, we have been tracking its movements as it comes across the u.s. and again, it's not in the frame here. earlier you see, you can see it there, the faint to the right of the screen as another plane is just going across. we have gotten no updates from the pentagon or from the norad folks for northern command of the military of its exact location or exact predicted track, but we're trying to follow it to bring you the latest updates on the balloon as we get them and doing same mri with the pentagon is doing all americans to do, look up in the sky or any reference or frame of what we're looking at and we will bring that as we get it. jacqui. jacqui: the polar vortex blasting the northeast is bringing frigid temperatures across the state. katie byrne is in boston with the latest. katie, i applaud you fob be

then attempt to collect the reminiscence, you're getting a live look at the sky of myrtle beach, south carolina where the chinese surveillance balloon is expected to appear next. welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. let's go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that's right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. >> the chinese balloon -- >> we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. >> we don't know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i'd be surprised if we would allow this balloon just t

so, worthjust myrtle beach at 2:2apm eastern time.n these pictures. these are the first pictures that we have had in, moving footage like this that show that level of detail. what we are going to do is reload those pictures and play them again a second so we can ever pause under proper look at them. but before that, president biden has given an update to a reporter a short while ago, let's take a listen to that. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was overwater, and within a 12 mile limit. they successfully took it down and i want to compliment our aviators who did it and we will have more to report on a little later. interesting. i have another line here that i want to bring jack back in two to get the response because we are now getting detailed for the first time, again from reuters, but the operation to shoot it down, what actually happened. jack, let me read you this line if you are still the

a couple refuelling tankers right off the coast of myrtle beach essentially flying in a holding pattern. why is that note worthy? because fighters that could be used to shoot this down might need to refuel as they wait for this balloon to reach this area. t the pentagon hasn't confirmed these flights are related in any way to the balloon but they are along that trajectory. >> cnn's diane gallagher is in charlotte, north carolina, where there were some sightings of that balloon. what is the latest there? >> reporter: lots of sightings of that balloon over charlotte, north carolina. in the 10:00 hour this morning we're still seeing people post those photos. a local affiliate here in charlotte got video of the balloon as it passed over. it is a very clear day. it has been easy to spot. just to the south of us in york county the sheriff's office posting pictures of it. we're seeing a lot of different police departments reminding people this is 60,000 feet up and asking people to please, one, not clog up the 911 systems to report it. we know it's there. essentially take a picture of it, post

you're saying you're a local photographer in the myrtle beach area. i don't know if that was us losing the signal there. travis said he was a local photographer in the myrtle beach area, he is saying that he saw some sort of missile come at -- or strike the balloon, and then saw the balloon deflate. are you still with me, travis? >> caller: yes, ma'am. can you hear me now? >> yes. oh, that's better. >> caller: so as i was talking with the other lady, i seen, i guess, a missile or something come from the airplane, and it struck the balloon and the balloon basically, like, popped, like you would see a normal balloon kind of pop. now it's still drifting and floating down as we speak. >> with the naked eye, are you telling me with the naked eye or through your lens, you're able to see the balloon drifting? >> caller: it was with the naked eye. it was super visible here from the beach. i know all the accesses are covered with people, so everybody just witnessed it. >> so you were around a lot of people witnessing this? >> caller: no, i come up to the 15th

bryan llenas reporting from myrtle beach, thank you. u.s.rmy veteran lieutenant colonel darren joins us now. you've heard now we got a second or actually a third if you include the spy craft from last week, a second item shot down in canadian airspace. got one yesterday over alaska. when you put those pieces together, what are you thinking? >> thanks for having me on to me, it feels like we are being tested and primarily for our response. the first one clearly we failed to would care not by the department of defense and exclamation for why we didn't shoot it down over one ocean after it crossed the entire u.s. also a plaintiff of the military, this feels like they are setting some additions based on whatever our response is. whoever they is, we know one was china and the rest we are not one 100% positive get or it hasn't been shared yet. i do believe it does feel like those conditions are being set based on our response, it could be determining what happens in the future. jon: just like burglars will probe an alarm to see what chance they ha

it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up that it took a few seconds of the sound of the blast to reach the ground. china issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u.s. of overreacting to a civilian research balloon that was blown off course, and the defense ministry has warned it now reserves the right to do something similar, but the pentagon officials say they're confident the balloon was conducting surveillance. salvage efforts are now underway to retrieve the debris from a relatively shallow area of the atlantic. anything recovered will be sent to fbi for analysis. tom foreman is in washington with a look at the recovery efforts. ivan watson is in hong kong with reaction. but we begin with the pentagon with what comes next. >> reporter: what has been an effort to track this chinese surveillance balloon for days as it made its way is now a recovery effort to bring up the wreckage of the chinese wreckage and the payload it was carrying. the wreckage landed in 47 feet of water, so relatively s

and then we end up with missiles in myrtle beach. as you said so well.f what's going on there? >> well, obviously, i think they're securing the perimeter to make sure that they can get into the waters i. sounds like it's much shallower than they originally thought. the county yesterday put out an advisory that that if debris lands, to let them know, and they'll coordinate a response with federal officials to get that that. so could take a couple days to collect everything, obviously, but they're well on their way of doing so right now. pete: representative russell fry, thanks for your time the, we appreciate it. a good way of describing it, like independence day. get out of your car, stare at the chi-com balloon, missiles over myrtle beach. thank you, sir. >>> up next, with two days before biden's state of the union address, will and i will go off the wall to the remind him that america is in jeopardy. i'll take will cane for 800. concern will cain for 800. and still ahead, get ready to go-kart. rachel and rick get behind the wheel for our next competiti

beach and surf side beach and charles watson is in myrtle beach for us. charles, what are people there saying? reporter: they're saying a lot, brian. we'll get to that in just a second but you come to the myrtle beach south carolina area and often see people coming out behind me and this is what the restaurants say behind me and tourist town fund and a front row seat and defense playing out a few miles off the coast and they plead witness to on saturday and the u.s. military sent an f22 fighter jet into bringing expected spy balloon down and it was sent crashing into the atlantic ocean and thousands of fo folks that lived vacation in the area got to see with this their own two eyes and quite the spectacle and folks pulled over on the side ovthe road and take pictures and snap videos and we spoke to one resident living off the beach and said he could see this operation happening right from his home and it was a different kind of experience for him because he says as a retired lieutenant colonel and the air force, this is the same type of operation he would

>> so, kristin, i am off of the coast of the myrtle beach area. i will get wayne to push over here, and there is the coastline of myrtle beach. you can recognize the surf building if you have been in this area, and so we are on the surfside of the myrtle beach area, and few miles away from where the perimeter has been set up around the recovery area, and i know this because we got to the perimeter and the coast guard cutters essentially told us that we had to leave. they radioed our captain, that you cannot be here, and this is a restricted area now, and you have to go back south now. they literally followed us as we start our journey back south. they told our captain that there is a 20-mile perimeter around this recovery zone. now, a couple of things that we do know about this suspected chinese spy balloon that was shot down and what this recovery is going to entail. it is actually the water was going to be much deeper than it is, according to the u.s. military official, we are talking about 47 feet of water, which is that official means that the

charles is live in south myrtle myrtle beach with the latest. charles?ivers were out searching the waters of the atlantic ocean to try to recover the debris from the chinese spy balloon shot down off the carolina coast on saturday. for sunday we were out here most of the day and saw several vessels large and small out on the water presumably for this operation which is expected to take days. we're told recovery efforts began not too long after the balloon was shot down by an f-22 fighter jet and debris went crashing into the atlantic. the suspected spy balloon originated in china and floated for at least a week through the continental u.s. with a brief diversification into canada before it eventually ended up off the coast of south carolina, shocking folks who live in the myrtle beach area. >> expected to come to your backyard and so, of course, when it does, you kind of follow it and watch what's going on and it's been something that's drawn the attention of all the people in the community. >> yeah, and so this balloon passed over at least five sensitiv

expected to get to the myrtle beach area around 2:40 p.m. but that did not happen. again until the ground stop was finally lifted this afternoon. this was white a site here as folks were able to get a look at the chinese spy balloon, get shot with the missile and drop down into the ocean. we haven't seen any boats or anything of that sort, any military boats on the water to try to pick up some of the debris we were told that fell into the ocean but we do expect some teams out there to try to collect some of the debris and tried to figure out what exactly this balloon was made of and what exactly it was doing here floating across the u.s. of course there are a lot of folks out here able to get a look at this thing falling from the sky, we will hopefully get a chance to talk to some folks to see if we can get what happened from their perspective. jon: the good news is, it's lying in fairly shallow water, 50 feet or less. charles, thank you. after the u.s. military took down the spy balloon, there are questions about what information it surveillance gear might have col

. >> dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debriswe begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today's briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. >> this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members exit the briefing. they are not talking to our cameras. not telling us exactly what they heard inside but they are being briefed by intelligence, defense and state department officials ten days after this thing actually entered u.s. mainland. it comes as the pentagon reveals the balloon is part of china's massive espionage program run by the people's liberation army based in a province designed to gather intelligence on military capabilities. >> it is bound of the president gave the order to shoot it down. what was the sequence of event and when was the order given? >> we want to get as much information as we can get and prevent them from gaining that information and our intelligence community takes it very seriously. >> congress has a lot of questions. chinese surveillance program has se

residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you're looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese were up to. >> reporter: absolutely. that video is pretty incredible. it is not that close but it is pretty good quality, it is clear that missile hit the balloon itself.

we're on a boat six miles off the coast of myrtle beach.ur fox news drone team has footage of the salvage operation. you can't see much from where we're at. from the air you can make out those ships that are doing this salvage operation. we're told the majority of the debris on the surface has been picked up by the military and is making its way to the f.b.i. lab in quantico. this operation is now moving towards an underwater operation. debris is 50 feet under water where they are trying to get the pieces of china's spy air ship. we're told it's the size of a regional aircraft several thousand pounds, debris field the size of 15 football fields by 15 football fields. monday morning the u.s. ns pathfinder began mapping the ocean floor using sonar and underwater vehicle technology to locate the debris. it is collected on board the u.s.s. carter hall. f.b.i. and naval criminal investigative service agents are embedded with the salvage. yesterday general, the commander of norad and north command spoke to the press by phone saying they had eyes

charles watson live in the ground on myrtle beach. hello, charles. charles: hey, good afternoon, mike. myrtle beach, south carolina is a tourist town and when folks come they are expecting to have fun and expecting to have fun in many restaurants here. no one was expecting to have front row seats to a national defense operation playing out just a few miles off the carolina coast but that is what folks, this area beared witness to on saturday. military -- the u.s. military sending f22 fighter jet to bring the suspected chinese spy balloon down. it eventually hit the balloon with single missile before it came crashing down in the atlantic ocean. thousands of folks who live and vacation in the area got to see with own two eyes and quite the spectacle and came out into the balconies an streets and snap pictures of what they were seeing out in the ocean. we spoke to a gentleman who lives out in the beach. this was an operation that he took different from others because he's a retired lieutenant colonel in the air force. he says, what he saw up in the sky

the shoot-down happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach.t was a sensational landing to a saga unfolding for days as the giant craft drifted silently above the american heartland. china is loudly protesting, accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing continues to insist it was merely a civilian scientific balloon that blew off course. after studying its movements and patterns for several days, pentagon officials say they are confident the lumbering craft was conducting surveillance. for now, many answers will have to wait until the balloon and its payload are recovered and analyzed. at last report, we're told the wreck along is lying on the ocean floor some 50 feet down, about 15 meters, and salvage efforts are starting to get under way. oren lieberman explains what the u.s. plans to do with the balloon's remnants. >> reporter: what has been an effort to track this chinese surveillance balloon for days is now a recovery effort to bring up the wreckage of the chinese surveillance balloon and the payload it was carrying from the ocean floor. n

charles watson is live in nearby myrtle beach with some reaction.. >> reporter: yeah, hey, good evening, jon. people here in the myrtle beach area area are certainly surprised that that suspected chinese spy balloon ended up here, and it certainly caught a lot of people's interest. just about everyone you talk to in this area makes mention of that suspected spy balloon being shot down right off the carolina coast on saturday. and what's shocking for many people who live and vacation in this area is that they were basically given front row seats to a national defense operation that few people knew was going to happen. our cameras were rolling at as the f-22 the fighter aircraft was sent in to bring the suspected spy balloon down. a single missile was fired, striking the balloon which eventually went crashing into the atlantic ocean. that's not something you see every day in an area best known for its tourist attractions. and folks who live and vacation here were understandably stunned by what they were seeing. >> you never expect it to come to your b

eric: hopefully we will get it all, brian and myrtle beach, thank you.rthel: back to the late issue down yesterday over canada. let's bring in lieutenant colonel army veteran in international military strategist, colonel are we witnessing a soft launch of a spy game more? >> thanks for having me on again there is some truth to that i think and let's assume for now all of this is from china and this is them probing our perimeter or testing a response that is not a new tactic in warfare at all and i would consider it more of a continuation of chinese buying of work in america because we are seeing them via bigger cultural land, spying on her industry-standard trades in our universities, cyber attacks, this to me would be the latest in a series of things that china is doing because they consider themselves in a form of conflict with the united states for decades. again if in fact this is all china this is just more but more public now than it's been over the years. arthel: there's no confirmation of who sailed yesterday's balloons but china is flying balloo

>> hey, jim, i've seen a lot of crazy stuff at myrtle beach. this was by far the craziest. we were at lunch. joking around, what if we see it? what if it's right here. like obviously them shooting it down as reports indicated was imminent. we went outside. we saw the fighter jets circling around. there were three or four of them and after that we heard a bang and the balloon was gone. >> and about how long did all of this take, like a couple of minutes? how much time went by as you watched this? >> about 15 minutes from when we walked out of the restaurant to when we -- when the balloon was gone. >> and were there people around you watching this? what was that like? >> there was -- it was -- it was actually pretty cool. we looked around all the stores and restaurants, people were outside staring at the sky. it was -- you know, it was a good -- it was a great moment to see everybody watching -- united watching this happen. >> can and i guess where you were at, it makes sense that they shot this out over the water because, i mean, where you're at, myrtle beach, that's a prett

this is what folks on the ground and myrtle beach saw. residents not to go any debris that might have landed in the area. the orders to shoot down this by blue came from the president on wednesday. this morning, biden explained why they didn't act on those orders until today. >> on wednesday, i -- and shooting it down as soon as possible. >> i told them to shoot it down. >> on wednesday? >> on wednesday. they said it was best to wait for the safest place to do it. >> of course, continue to follow this story as it develops. now to former president trump. a former prosecutors calling for him to be charged like a mob boss. in a new book mark pomrenze -- serious financial crimes. pomerantz argues trump showed up under the racketeering law. quote, it was far amin's -- pomrenze resigned from the da's office last year after his investigation into trump was shelved. however, nbc has learned that the district attorney is reopening the case but the focus on trump's 2016 payout to stormy daniels. the new york times reports the da's office is putting

navy divers and other military personnel are collecting that debris off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. a u.s. fighter jet fired a missile through the balloon yesterday to bring it down. top republicans say the biden administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. >> i want to start by doing something that i don't do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn't do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. >> they're saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. >> presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nat

when you are there in myrtle beach. what have you been seeing? >> good afternoon, yasmin. we know military operations to recover the balloon debris and equipment have been ongoing, luckily at this hour, for the people here of myrtle beach, it has been pretty dreary. officials thankful for that because it has kept people off the beach, which is what they want. some of this debris presumably will wash on shore of the carolinas in the -- they want this to be handled by the proper authorities. they don't want people coming here to take any of this home and impede this investigation, which will obviously be taking place as more equipment gets washed onshore. pretty clear day. we have we -- earlier in the morning we saw -- in the water. it has moved way offshore. we know at this point it will be a swift and strategic operation. we know the recovery is expected to be moving fairly quickly. i do want to have you listen to what one myrtle beach police official told us as far as the recovery efforts of any debris as it may washed onshore in the next several days. take a listen. >> w

myrtle beach, south carolina, on what navy divers are now discovering.r griffin of the pentagon on the size of the china spy program that itself seems to be polluting. and general jack keane on just how concerning all of this really is down the road. welcome, everybody, grabbed to have you. neil kabuto, and this is "your world," a very volatile world right now, where relations between the two biggest economic powers on the planet but to say nothing of the two biggest military powers on the planet are bad, they are fractious, they are ice-cold. that's go to capitol hill and aishah hasnie on the fallout they are. aishah? >> neil: hey there, neil. we are just getting brand-new information about the classified briefing that is set for every lawmaker in the house that happens tomorrow, and i can tell you that members of the o.d. and i and state department and dod, including general then hurt, commander of u.s. north, and norad will be an attendance in this briefing to tell these w in terms of the china spy balloon. the senate will also come of entire senate w

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. >>> it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up at nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave to reach the ground. china issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing insists it was a civilian research balloon that blew off course, but pentagon officials say they're confident it was conducting surveillance. at last report we're told salvage efforts are under way to retrieve the wreckage from the ocean bottom. the water in that area is only about 50 feet deep or 15 meters. well, cnn's oren leiberman explains what the u.s. plans to do with the balloon's remnants. >> reporter: what has been an effort to track this chinese surveillance balloon for days as it made its way across the united states and out over the ocean is now a recovery effort to bring up the wreckage of the chinese surveillance balloon and the payload it was carrying from the ocean floor, not all that deep according to the pentagon. a senior defense official said the wreckage l

and myrtle beach, south carolina. charles watson, fox news and the suspected spy balloon expected to be one of the issues mentioned at the state of the union address on tuesday night. the president also set the layout is administration's priorities for the remainder of his term. president biden is also expected to announce his bid for re election in the days after his speech. the state of the union address is set for this coming tuesday night. you can watch it live right here on ktvu at six o'clock. ukraine's defense ministers expressing confidence and securing western allies agreement to his country's latest weapons request, cop told a news conference in kiev today that ukraine has already received everything from its wish list except planes. so far , ukraine has won support from baltic nations and poland in its quest to obtain western fighter jets. but several western leaders have expressed concern that provided warplanes could provoke the kremlin and draw their countries deeper into the conflict. german made tanks

owner about those challenges. >> we had probably 4 to 5 years ago actually had a plane go down off myrtle0 to 25 foot of water. very favorable conditions. it was about a week after it had gone down and it took weeks and weeks to finally locate that plane just because it was very light on the bottom and skipping along the bottom. >> time is so important here. you can understand why they are pushing to get the debris. they're being analyzed and put together by the f.b.i. in quantico, virginia. china says they want their debris back. >> what i can say is that this air ship belongs to china and not the united states. >> the u.s. coast guard had set up a ten nautical mile security zone. this is as close as we can get as the u.s. navy works to beat the clock. >> bill: beautiful day on the carolina shore. good luck to the navy. >> dana: here to respond is wisconsin congressman mike gallagher on the house select committee on china and intel. chinese are demanding they want the debris back. how will that go down? >> well, i don't think we should be in the business of creeding to the ccp's demands

we also heard from the myrtle beach police department asking folks if they run across any of the debris to call police so they can report it get it collected, arthel. >> a mixed total since logic clarified is the first time a foreign aircraft was shot down over u.s. airspace since world war ii. charles watson always audit to appreciate it, take care. in q charles. >> new hampshire governor says he believes china spy aircraft as part of a larger plan to test the u.s. government. >> is all but china poking at his protesting the american resolve it. whether it's with tiktok, the balloon or whatever things are going to be next month they know tensions are escalated with doing to see what kind of leadership we have it. >> national security and military analyst doctor rebecca grant joins us now she is also present a virus independent research. doctor grant thank you so much being here pilots are statement from a pentagon official on saturday. as part of a prc fleet of balloons built to conduct operations that also violet the sovereignty of other countries. these activities under the liberatio

military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifted over the atlantic near myrtle beach.resident biden saying he ordered the military to take it down on wednesday. now, efforts are under way to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last few days. chinese is accusing the u.s. of overreacting. we're covering this from all angles from the nation's capital to the coast where the balloon was shot down. let's start with diane gallagher in surfside beach, south carolina, where the recovery operation is under way, even though the conditions right now are allwful. what are you hearing about the search and recovery efforts of the debris? >> reporter: the weather not exactly clear as it was yesterday when everybody here in the myrtle beach and surfside beach area watched that suspected chinese spy balloon be shot out of the air, fall into the ocean about six nautical miles off the shore here. look, there is some weather issues today. but we're told that recovery began almost immediately after it was shot down

military blasting the balloon out of the sky after it drifts over the atlantic near myrtle beach. president biden saying that he ordered the military on wednesday to take the balloon down as soon as possible. and now efforts are underway to recover the debris and analyze it to find out what it may have been doing as it drifted across the u.s. over the last few days. >>> meanwhile china is accusing the u.s. of overreacing and expr expressing strong dissatisfaction and the balloons destruction. from all angles to the capital to the coast where the balloon was shot down. let's begin with dianne gallagher where she is live in surfside beach where recovery efforts is underway. what is being located and discovered? >> reporter: so, fred, we're in the surfside myrtle beach area where that suspected chinese spy balloon was shot down about six nautical miles off the coast here. now yesterday afternoon. now we're told that there were vessels from the u.s. navy and coast guard that were already there in the area to try and form a perimeter that recovery efforts began soon after that balloon

a new temporary flight restriction banning all aircraft from 100 square mile box off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. the u.s. navy is leading recovery efforts with the amphibious ship, and a destroyer, and cruiser, along with navy divers. the recovery will be expedited because of the shallow water, we are told. let's look back at the timeline of events. the chinese surveillance balloon was launched from the chinese mainland on january 21st. it crossed into alaska on january 28th. a senior u.s. defense official tells me it spent minutes, not hours over the territorial waters near the aleutian islands off alaska and then over canada, and idaho on january 31st. president biden ordered to shoot it down when safe to do so when briefed by the security team. the u.s. military tack one shot with an air to air missile known as a side winder when it left south carolina on saturday. six minutes on the flight over the atlantic ocean it was brought down by an f-22 fighter jet. i'm told they estimated they had approximately 18 minutes to shoot it down after it left the mainland and remained

the city of north myrtle beach, south carolina.king people to be on the lookout for any debris that may wash ashore. they're asking people not to touch it, and to call police and the military will handle it. but for the latest, i want to bring in msnbc correspondent gary. gary, thank you for joining me. what do we know about the current recovery effort for that debris? >> good to see you, mister secretary. this was a really most high agency effort, the faa cleared the airspace and stop the air traffic from wilmington, south carolina. and south carolina. and from charleston. and then the air force itself shot the balloon down with an f 22. and the coast guard was in the water, off the sarah carolina posed to collect some of the debris that we're talking about. because this balloon was traveling in the air for so many days across the country. from idaho to montana, all the way down to the carolinas, the u.s. intelligence agencies have had a significant amount of time to see what is in that balloon. what the capabilities of the balloo

but abc's elwyn lopez leads us off from myrtle beach. >> reporter: tonight, an urgent mission under way to recover debris from the chinese spy balloon after it was shot down by a u.s. fighter jet off the coast of south carolina. the air force confirming this is the pilot in the moment after it was hit. >> frank one, blast one. that is a take kill. >> reporter: multiple u.s. navy and coast guard ships searching and securing a massive perimeter. navy divers working to retrieve every piece they can. pentagon officials say the debris field stretches across seven miles in shallow water. >> what the u.s. navy is looking for with the coast guard is looking for is where is that pay load, where is the metal part of the balloon that was underneath that balloon that holds the sensors. >> reporter: that metal part, a large bay of technology running the size of three buses. the biden administration facing criticism from republicans saying it should have been shot down sooner. >> i can assure you if we fly a balloon over china, they're going to shoot it down and probably a lot sooner than we did. >>

>> so, i told you before, we're here on the linda ana shrimp boat off the coast of myrtle beach.with you, kaitlan, a little bit ago. essentially, the coast guard telling us, look, you can't go any further. this is as close as we can get to the recovery efforts. if you see behind me, this is the perimeter. we're not even seeing what the navy is doing to try to get the remnants of that suspected chinese spy balloon. it's about 47 feet of water deep. that, though, is a coast guard perimeter. we've seen a couple of these ships now around here. and a couple miles from that is where we actually start to see the recovery effort begin. to give you an idea of where i am right now, we're about three miles off the coast of myrtle beach in this direction. and so, this is as close as you can get to this very large operation. again, u.s. navy divers, unmanned vessels, trying to get that up off of the ground, on to a ship, and to quantico, so intelligence officials can exam it. and once again, i have lost ivb as i get clouser to the bow there, so i'll pitch it back to you, kaitlan. >> diane gal

we are roughly three miles off the coast of the myrtle beach shoreline in south carolina at the moment. that perimeter is set up. within that perimeter that's where the recovery efforts are taking place. according to a u.s. senior military official we are talking about 47 feet of water, which is a lot more shallow than they had anticipated when they shot down that suspected chinese spy balloon. we are told that they are going to use navy divers as well as unmanned vessels to try to bring the structure up. they will put it on a salvage vessel, they will take that, then, back to the quantico area so intelligence officials can examine what they bring up. i can tell you also last night in the north myrtle beach area we saw what seemed to be items that were being brought up, but cnn was not able to independently confirm. we did reach out to the u.s. navy to see if, in fact, that's what those u.s. navy officials were bringing up but they would not confirm it for us. i can tell you out here our captain says that this area right now at this time of day is usually very busy. we are the only ves

i'm not sure how many people had on their radar before, but everyone in myrtle beach knows there wasfor nicola bulley, who disappeared during a dog walk in lancashire more than a week ago, say they want to speak to a woman who was seen pushing a pram on the morning the mother of two was last seen, along the river bank in st michael's, on wyre. police have released this image of the woman they believe was walking along the same path — they're urging her to get in touch as a potential witness. in response to the police�*s theory, nicola's friend of ten years emma white said it's important to keep searching for evidence. we can't be talking about a life and basing it on a theory. we can't go and tell those girls, well, the theory could be x, y and z — we need some evidence. whatever the news is, then we'll deal with whatever the evidence is. so again, we're out in force today and raising that awareness. if anybody does see anything, hear anything, jogs the memory of last friday, please share. but on the bulletin yesterday, we're asking for factual information so that influx of calls yes

and myrtle beach, south carolina. charles watson fox news had the decision to shoot down. that balloon was largely met with praise from some bay area lawmakers will have their reaction coming up at 10 30 roads are back open tonight, but these live images of interstate 80 near truckee give you an idea of what drivers are facing. reporter erin have shows us how new snow is piled up in this year tonight. covered in slush. slip and slide conditions. up and down the sierra. signs even warning of chain controls completely covered. so what inspired you to come up today? the beautiful weather and the snow. that'sver here. tandon and his friend greg, brothe up to ski. just find this guy over here. and yeah, i'm blaming you , but they couldn't make it up to donner because they said it felt like they were sliding. they pulled over to the side just in time to get kicked out. chain controls ever changing as snow hit lower levels, caltrans wheel and change checks inched further and further down. i 80 lines of cars backed up and following plows, providing some relief to drivers willing t

. >> i see a lot of crazy stuff at myrtle beach the last three years. this is by far the craziest. at lunch and joking around what if we see it? what it's if right here? them shooting it down as reports indicated was imminent. we went outside and we saw the fighter jets circling around. there were about three or four of them. then after that we heard a bang and the balloon was gone. >> well, some witnesses say they were caught off guard by the delayed sound of the explosion. >> whoa! did you hear that? are you still videoing? >> i am still videoing. the sound just hit us. >> how could you not hear that? soon after the balloon came down president biden explained why the strike that he ordered earlier in the week had to be delayed. >> on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible and decide the the best time as it got over water. so within 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. >> well, china accused the u.s. of overreacting and expressed a strong dissatisfaction and protest over the shootdown. of cou

i want to begin in north myrtle beach, south carolina, and the focus of the recovery efforts. tell us about the video we are seeing coming in to c nn that appears o show possible remnants of the spy balloon? >> reporter: jim, earlier tonight we came across a navy crew that was wrapping up some work at this dock here behind me. the members of the navy did not want to tell us what they were doing out here. this is the dock where we believe that some possible debris was spotted here earlier today. important to note, as you mentioned, cnn has not been able to confirm the details with the u.s. navy. we have reached out to see whether or not what they found out here is, in fact, related to what's left of that balloon that is off the coast of south carolina. a cnn viewer provided us video that shows some white material on the deck of a boat. all of this is taking place about a half hour north of where we were earlier today in myrtle beach. off the coast there, about 10 to 15 miles to the east of there is where we spotted what we believe to be a navy vessel. that is the area in questi

joining us now marissa parra, who is in myrtle beach, south carolina. what do we know about what's been found so far and the challenges of what they still have to find? >> reporter: i mean, it is a seriously tedious process, and before i get into, that i want to explain why we are where we are. so we have a bird's eye view of what has now become sort of a makeshift joint operation space between the navy and the coast guard. this is normally supposed to be a public docking area. you can see instead we have military vehicles, military boats. if you pan to the left you see brown shipping containers. this is where they're bringing in those pieces of debris as they find it. when we talk about the sheer size and scope and difficulty of this. you have to remember the size of that balloon, as you mentioned, 200 feet tall. thousands of pounds, and the debris field, more than 15 football fields by 15 football fields, so you have to remember that this was shot down by a jet missile. this fell from 60,000 feet in the air, so there's a lot of questions on what the i

so let's begin our coverage with abc's elwyn lopez there in myrtle beach, south carolina.yn, good morning. >> reporter: yeah, janai, good morning. all eyes were on the skies. people across the country from montana to right here in myrtle beach catching a glimpse of that massive chinese balloon before it was shot down. now china says it has a right to respond. this morning, the race is on to collect the fallen debris of the chinese spy balloon after it was shot down by a u.s. fighter jet off the coast of south carolina. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> we have eyes on the balloon falling. >> reporter: a senior u.s. official saying the balloon was hit by a single f-22 firing an air-to-air missile roughly six nautical miles off the south carolina coast. the military operation ending a three-day spectacle as pentagon officials tracked the balloon's every movement since being spotted over montana flying at an altitude of nearly 60,000 feet. the massive balloon making its way across several sensitive military installations as it flew over the continental u.s. seen in wyoming, kansas, and m

i could have never imagined that it would be - never imagined that it would be going over myrtle beachthe video of the balloon being surrounded by three fighterjets. my the balloon being surrounded by three fighter jets. my stepdad the balloon being surrounded by three fighterjets. my stepdad is retired, and we let him know and went outside to watch it tomorrow —— some more. my stepdad said he suspected they would shoot it over once they were in the ocean, so it wouldn't hit any people in the population, and he was absolutely right. he stepped in for a second to watch the news and get updates and we heard a huge boom, the house shook. i grew up on a military base and i've never heard orfelt this before. and i've never heard or felt this before. ~ , ., ., ., ., before. were you aware that something — before. were you aware that something was _ before. were you aware that something was afoot? - before. were you aware that something was afoot? your| before. were you aware that - something was afoot? your local airport was shut down. absolutely. that was definitely _ airport was shut down.

myrtle beach is known for many things, but part of that equation is never been an international incident taking place right off of our shores. the chinese common his party last friday said this was merely a weather balloon gathering meteorological data and got lost in our country. it is comical to me that they would actually think that we would fall for such a bogus claim. let me be clear, this was a latent violation of american sovereignty as part of a comprehensive surveillance program on the united states as well as other countries across the globe. this was a test by the chinese common his party and it saddens me to say that i think this administration failed that test. this is the united states, our foreign policy has always been built on peace through strength. this is our wake-up call. it is time for president biden to step up on the world stage and take a page from one of my favorite presidents, teddy roosevelt. speak softly and carry a big stick. while diplomacy should always be a first objective, we must be prepared to respond with strength when necessary. this resolution shows

the jets flying, we are about 15 minutes from myrtle beach.m assuming that the balloon was shot over myrtle beach. >> we are watching least, just so you know we are watching the footage that you shot of this balloon i believe outside of your home, lisa that's where you wear. when you spotted it so we are watching that footage now, as you are talking. when he spotted the balloon initially, did you know it was? >> i would not have known if i'd only seen it earlier on the news. it had to be really big because the two jets underneath, it they were little compared to the blue and i thought. like i said, it was above our house for a good 20 minutes. we watch the entire, time i took several videos and pictures. i was like one of the odds, so over here but yes. >> was it moving pretty quickly lisa, that it seem to be moving slowly? >> it was moving very slowly, at one point, i thought it was going and moving straight up and then it came back down when the jets got closer. and then like i said, they were constantly flying around. they would go around i

before reaching the carolinas where it was shot down off myrtle beach. china called it an excessive reaction, adding it retains the right to respond further. marco rubio tells this week act was delivered. >> they wanted to send a and we would be unable to stop it. pentagon's effort. >> i am grateful they took decisive action but have issues. this is not the first of its kind. in officials as china has of them. >> we're are getting a better idea of how long stephen curry will be sidelined with a leg injury area you may have seen it happen in last night's game. chris alvarez has an update. also, a new analysis says there is a growing financial trend. here is a hint. talking about - life is uncertain. everyday pressures can feel overwhelming it's okay to feel stressed, anxious, worried, or frustrated. it's normal. with calhope's free and secure mental health resources, it's easy to get the help you and your loved ones need when you need it the most. call our warm line at (833) 317-4673 or live chat at calhope.org today. curry. chris alvarez is here. my fing

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our military has been working to recover all the pieces of the chinese spy flight in the waters off myrtlesouth carolina. brian, what is the latest? >> reporter: a senior us state department official says that ultimately this high-altitude spy ship was far more sophisticated than a weather balloon is the chinese government says that it was which obviously was not. according to this official the airship was capable of intercepting communications signals. it had antennas and type of equipment to geo-locate different signals including communications and according to the secretary of state anthony blinkenin, he says the government is learning more and more about this ship as they recover read off the coast of myrtle beach. >> getting more information almost by the hour as we continue to work to salvage the balloon, we are learning from that and as well, we are learning from what we saw and picked states. as to who is responsible for that, china is. >> reporter: the state department says they have high definition imagery from spy planes that were able to capture the specially comment on board t

brian has been in myrtle beach, do we know what they are looking for specifically and have they found it? >> foxes learned a significant portion of the high-altitude spy craft from china that was located last week on the seafloor was lifted out of the sea and recovered friday before the bad weather came through on the weekend. we are told this recovered portion of the payload is 33 feet long, the size of a bus. it is big, mostly intact. a senior us defense official said, quote, they got the electronics they were looking for, important electronics and sensors removed and handled separately for processing. the department of defense released new images of recovery operations showing navy sailors preparing for transport to virginia. fox has told us intelligence officials and the fbi are already analyzing the electronics at the fbi lab. a salvage ship named the rosebud which has screen capability has been bored at the debris field 6 miles off the coast of myrtle beach since friday, the ship continues raising debris from the seafloor weather permitting. yesterday the white house's national