forces failed to detect previous incursions from chinese spycraft into the united states. >> it was my assessment that this balloon did not present a physical military threat to north america. i could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent. >> that was general van herck explaining why he did not order it shot down near or at alaska. admiral harry harris during the trump administration, he told the house armed services committee that recovering these parts will help the u.s. learn more about china's capabilities. >> we need to understand more fully the prc, the chinese surveillance capabilities and systems. shooting down that drone and then recovering the parts over the atlantic is helpful in that regard. >> the pentagon only learned of the balloons recently and examined them more closely. four months ago, a chinese spy balloon crashed into the ocean near hawaii. u.s. intelligence looked backwards through images and data and realized there had been other chinese balloons that had crossed over u.s. territory, why trump administration offi

department after state department officials revealed more about the scope and capabilities of the spycraft. i'm john roberts in washington. let me say it again, sandra. happy friday. >> sandra: happy to make it to friday with you, john, details, the american public are going to want to hear. according to the state department, the airship was listening to americans conducting what is called signals intelligence as it floated over the united states. authorities say the craft had multiple antennas to intercept electronic communications and solar panels fueled its sensors to gather all that information, including conversations that were being had on the ground, john. >> john: meanwhile, the fbi releasing new images of the ongoing salvage operation, it could take up to two weeks to finish with much of the spy equipment still underwater. bryan llenas is live in myrtle beach, south carolina, off the shore, where recovery efforts continue. you won't be out there much longer, the weather is about to turn. what more do we know about the payload at this point? >> yeah, that's right, john. fox news ca

to take down the three objects last weekend, after acting far too slowly on the original chinese spycraft. tom tillis will join us. >> since then i have the chemical burns and reaction rash on my face. >> i could smell the chemicals and like, it's obvious something is not right. >> before two days ago you could not stand here without getting a headache. >> it's travelling to inside the ground, it's a very rural area where this happened, these people have farms and livestock and it's going into the waterways. >> sandra: begin "america reports" with that train derailment up ending people's lives in a small ohio town where there are lingering safety questions at this hour. almost two weeks after the disaster. hello, welcome, i'm sandra smith in new york. hi. >> john: happy wednesday to you, john roberts in washington. people in east palestine, ohio hoping to get some answers during a town hall meeting, after a train went off the tracks 12 days ago carrying hazardous chemicals. a toxic fire spent plumes of toxic smoke for days. >> sandra: some residents are worried about water and air quality

tracked the chinese spycraft for its entire flight. and the pentagon officials telling fox news that is not exactly possible. what we are now learning on all of that with jennifer griffin, people are so hungry for more information on what we learned about the chinese spycraft. what do we now know today? >> well, it's interesting, sandra. my sources at the pentagon and white house say they have been generally aware of the chinese spy balloon program for months and briefed congress about it back in august. these officials say they saw this particular balloon take off on january 21st. assumed it would travel east because that is the direction of the winds. they did not have visibility the whole time as it traversed the ocean, the pacific ocean is a big place, i'm told, from this official, and they were not able to track it the whole time. they picked it up again closer to alaska as it approached on january 28th. "the washinton post" reported yesterday the surveillance balloon that flew across alaska and the continental united states may h

to return the debris from the chinese spycraft. many officials are relieved the spy ship was shot down and will not be floating over the united states when president biden gives the state of the union arrest tomorrow night, john. >> john: lucas, thanks, talk to you soon. >> gillian: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for the u.s. to take a tougher stance on china. aishah hasnie joins us from capitol hill with details. sounds like even a few democrats now are calling out the white house response. >> yeah, hey, good afternoon to you, gillian. that's right. even though leader schumer has been saying that the gop criticism largely in part has been premature, and very political, there are a number of democrats on some pretty powerful committees looking at this thing and wondering how in the world it was allowed to enter into u.s. air space, and one of those democrats is montana senator john tester, a chairman of defense appropriations. he's already called for a hearing on the chinese spy airship. he says he's going to actu

did we learn anything now about the previous incursions of chinese spycraft into u.s. air space?ll, sandra, we certainly learned more about the scale and scope of the program. we were just briefed by brigadier general pat ryder. i asked whether the pentagon would look back at the unidentified aerial phenomenon, parts of a mandated intelligence report to congress last year on ufos and whether some of those incidents are explained as chinese spy balloons. we are learning more about the scale of the chinese balloon surveillance program which u.s. intelligence and the pentagon have been observing for several years. >> we are aware that there have been four previous balloons that have gone over u.s. territory. this is what we assess as part of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. >> general ryder says it was not until recently under the biden administration that they were able to look back and realize that the four previous times, three during the trump administration, all near sensitive installations were in fact the chinese surveillance balloons. not all of them were the s

senators want to know when the spycraft was picked up on radar. since the odyssey across the united states, are countries are reporting in india, philippine, taiwan and u.s. territory of guam. the one that crashed off hawaii a month ago, other recent sightings in the u.s., "washington post" says it is part of chinese espionage arsenal. chinese have taken old technology and married it with modern communication and observation capabilities to glean intelligence on other nation's militaries, it is a massive effort. americans want to know why the spycraft was not shot down sooner, especially if there are explosives onboard. president biden defended his actions. >> president biden: i told the military to shoot it down when safe to do it, they said it was unsafe over land and they could learn a lot watch being it go across the country. as soon as they had a chance to shoot it down, they did. we will determine what they garnered and what kind of equipment they had. >> lucas: other lawmakers want to know when the u.s. military detected the baloon. >> todd

i want to ask you about the chinese spycraft and the spy flight across the united states. had you a classified briefing on it. obviously you can't answer every question but what questions did you go into the briefing with and were they answered? >> we did not get sufficient answers in the briefing. i got the feeling they knew this was out is there, they followed it for several days, they wouldn't have said anything if it had not been for a citizen who is a pilot who takes a picture, puts it up and says what's the deal here? and then they did that, of course, blinken did not want to cancel his trip, he ends up cancelling his trip, but here is what we have learned. this is a global network, china is putting this up, it's part of their surveillance. they are trying to spy and surveil whether it is dealing with our economy, whether it is great power competition, what they want to do is dominate. they know that joe biden is weak, joe biden is not going to do anything to them, indeed he let this thing sashay across the united states from one corner to another and waited until it

may respond to china after the spycraft was shot down off the carolina coast. and how the white house long-term national security will play out, and a bipartisan uproar on the hill about the entire incident. the president likely going to face questions with reporters in the room later on, also a white house briefing due to get started any minute. reporters are likely to ask about what the president had to say when he spoke to telemundo on thursday. >> it's not a breach. look, it's totally, it's a violation of international law, it's our air space, and once it comes in our air space we can do what we want with it. >> officials have learned a lot about the spycraft in recent days. size of a regional jet and multiple antennas capable of collecting sensitive communications. the white house seems like it's eager to move on, lawmakers keeping it front and center. the house voting, approving a resolution to condemn china's action. the chinese believes congress is dramatizing the whole thing. and see if the white house may have new reaction of the classified documents

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this a short time ago is that we have now learned that there have been some 40 of these chinese spycrafts countries, not just the united states in recent years, so i'm baffled as to why the pentagon is now saying, oh, yeah, they've been doing this for a long time. ah but nobody has brought it to the attention of the general public until that, you know, very obvious flight over the whether there was first picked up over montana more than a week ago. yeah i can't speak to the classifications that we're in. prior to that. i trust our military that when they're given the flexibility to make decisions, and not in a political nature that we make the right decisions. our military is very good at that once. we don't have political constraints, but so what i'm hoping now is that we're actually seeing a little bit more transparency i would love to hear from either norad or the president. when each of these now happen. we should be hearing about it. hey, we got something on the inbound. we got something over having montana. it should be no secret. we're picking them up. let's let's see some more tr

will respond going forward because of what china did with the first spycraft that was shot down. the decision to shoot this down was a stark departure from a week ago, the president addressed the first incident sitting down with telemundo on thursday. >> it is totally violation of international law, it is our air space and once it comes in our space, we can do what we want with it. >> those are comments the president made on thursday, we'll see if he has fresh reaektion when we are in the oval office in the next few minutes. lawmakers are keeping this issue front and center. congressional team say staffers have been briefed about what is going on, no indication, maybe the senators have in washington getting this meeting together may take time. the staffers have been briefed. neil, there will be questions about what the chinese may or may not say, they had a news conference this morning and the foreign ministry was asked about the incident last week and they said they believe congress was overreacting or dramatizing the incident. >> neil: i appreciate it, mark. i was hearing remar

the reason that these some of these spycraft were detected during the trump administration was becausey're taking this data they're collecting from these balloons are going back to the system because the u. s military civilian satellite companies anyway, none of them get rid of that data. they're going back just like finding those old emails using keyword searches, finding out where these could have been detected . that's how they're going back and finding these, but it's very notable that us by satellites. for years, they've been looking at north korean missile launches. ballistic missile launches ir satellites flying over space they're looking for those booms, explosions. those are what gets picked up. they have a library of information. that's how they know what kind of missiles flying from north korea, for example, the range and all that it's about historical data. that data just does not exist with these balloons. so while the pentagon on the classified site could have been tracking some of these balloons for years, certainly going back. let's talk about those ufos were seen off t

house lawmakers getting their first classified briefing on the chinese spycraft. the fbi says the u.s. has barely recovered any of the debris from the ocean floor of the atlantic. >> john: can the american people expect to get answers over china's growing surveillance over american sale? ro khanna here to discuss coming up next. on your credit cards lately? get ready for a shock. the rate on credit cards is now over 22%. if you want to save hundreds of dollars every month, pay off the balances on your high-rate cards with a lower rate va home loan from newday usa and get the financial peace of mind every veteran deserves. no one takes care of veterans like newday usa. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhhhh... here, i'll take that. [woo hoo!] ensure max protein, with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar and nutrients for immune health. about two years ago i realized that jade was overweight. i wish i would have introduced the fresh food a lot sooner. after farmer's dog she's a much he

. >> we know they were chinese spycraft at the time. >> they were tracked and it was determined theyere chinese. >> a close -- came close to u.s. surveillance was that related to the bloom programmer observation? >> yeah. we have time for one more pic of me go back to jeff has been waiting patiently. the acoustics in this room are amazing. >> thanks very much for doing this. one follow-up on the question of communications with china. he said responsible nations if it was a civilian balloon what if -- it had notified the country advance. is china acting recklessly on purpose in creating a bigger incident and separately on the balloons is there any evidence or assessment that some of the blends whether the one that was tracked over the u.s. or the others had capabilities other than surveillance, perhaps transmission and are there any other countries that may be running similar balloon programs to that being run by the prc? >> thanks jeff. your last question obviously nations around the world maintain various degrees of intelligence programs and i'm not going to get into those from here

and of course in the past week, we've had this sputnik moment with this chinese spycraft floating overhead and very little about that at all. he said if you violate our sovereignty, we will protect the united states. but that's basically it on china. and i think that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, just not republicans, were looking for something more definitive on china. that was a seminal moment this week. consider how much the president talked about the junk free protection act. that's a bread and butter issue, very important when you start talking about baggage fees and things like that, that hits people's wallets, that's going to resonate. but in the past week to ten days, people have been chattering all over the place about this balloon and that is critical and there was very little about that today. >> yeah a bit of a hard line on china, but not a lot of time. there was substance but not a lot of time. chad, i want to ask you also, there was this moment where he talked about the infrastructure bill because that was a good bipartisan achievement for him. it's something this a

this all started last weekend, the giant 2000 pound giant spycraft was blasted out of the sky of youre state of south carolina. trey: lucas tomlinson digging deep for answers thank you. >> joining me now military analyst dr. rebecca grant. dr. grant, i am not going to ask you to speculate. but you are an expert. it educated speculation. this is new? or are we just like discovering that there has been stuff in the sky for years and years? what do you think? >> the answer is both. we know that china has a worldwide surveillance fleet of fl balloons and drones, they go into taiwan's airspace all of the time and jasmine japan has seen a lot. but this has escalated. we're learning there is a capability for china to intrude into our airspace. we know the big balloon was theirs, i think they are the prime suspect for these latest three objects as well. this tells me that china has global military ambitions. right now they are n not afraid of u.s., not afraid of biden and pushing the limits with this military surveillance activity, worldwide in u.s. and and canada aerospace. trey: if presiden

like we have no idea what we're shooting at, what is going on in our air space because we let this spycraftart shooting at kites in the sky. >> if you put up a drone that weighs more than 240 grams, a small drone about this big, you have to get that registered with the faa and they'll know when that i think this goes up in the air. what is terribly damming to national security, the things get into the united states like the china balloon or these floating across the united states and don't know what they are and the president will use every one of these as a press conference to come up there and admit the fact we don't know what these thing are when floating across our country. i cannot believe we do not know that, i don't know what norad does, if they can't tell when something is crossing the border. the president goes out and overexplains these things, shows his administration does not know how to handle national security or crisis situations, as you were talking about earlier with pete buttigieg and this train derailment, they don't know how to handle these things. it is just a press con

says it's spycraft that's part of an extensive chinese military surveillance program that spans multipleaying overnight it is 100% certain this balloon is not a civilian weather balloon. back to you, rosemary. >> all right. many thanks. >>> to north korea, now, where speculation is growing over kim jong-un's second child. and whether she is being groomed as his successor. she was by his side at an event on wednesday. the first of his children to be seen attending a military parade. could she also become the first female dear leader? cnn's will ripley tells us what's known about this young girl. >> reporter: at this lavish banquet for the north korean army's 75th anniversary, kim jong-un, with his wife and a girl around 9 years old. a girl some say could be the chosen one, the one being groomed as the next north korean leader. by spending some quality time with his daughter, it looked like he was trying to showcase his family as a good and stable one and show himself as a leader for normal people. her life is anything but normal. at elementary school age, she already outranks a room full

officials say they are in recovery mode as the military works to scoop up what is left of this chinese spycrafte debris is being taken to a military facility in virginia. president biden is defending his action to shoot it down, calling it the right thing to do. critics think the u.s. should have moved more quickly. the president asked about the delay, take a listen. >> has it always been your view to shoot down a chinese balloon or just since it became public? >> president biden: i wanted to shoot it down as soon as appropriate. >> the president said he anticipated provocation by the chinese and he's aware it happened before during the previous administration. >> when it -- when the prc government surveillance balloons transited the u.s. during the president's prior administration, but the intelligence community is provided to give briefings to key shall ifs. >> a white house official told me the president will make a reference to the incident during the state of the union address, but probably a line or two. the speech 13 hours from now, the white house laying out what we can expect from the

hopefully you are right, it is just that what are intentions for taiwan how many more spycraft are they going to float above the airspace -- united states, we appreciate you joining us breaking news thank you for making the time. >> all right. thanks. cheryl: we've got more coming up this morning, how markets are moving on abbreviated nonexistent trading day we will move you into tuesday a big retail earnings i want to ask a strategist's thoughts on what is coming up next. you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. . sometimes you're so busy taking care of everyone else you don't do enough for yourself, or your mouth. but eventually, it will remind you. when it does, aspen dental is here for you. we offer the custom dental treatments you need, all under one roof, right nearby. so we can bring more life to your smile... and more smile to your life... affordably. new patients without insurance can get a free complete exam and x-rays, and 20 percent off treatment plans. schedule your appointment today. why are 93% of sleep number sleepers very satisfied with their bed? ma

state department overnight says that explanation rings hollow and it was used for s spycraft and that it had propellers and an aerial rutter which gave it limited maneuverability. earlier china condemned the u.s. shooting down its balloon with a u.s. fighter plane calling it an overreaction and also that it reserves the right to do a similar situation but didn't elaborate. earlier today they say the debris belongs to china. and she said that the airship is china's, and she goes on to say that the united states should have handled it properly in a calm professional nonforceful manner, but its insistence on using force is a clear overreaction, unquote. the chinese balloon caused a political uproar in the united states. it also prompted the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken to cancel his planned february visit to beijing. but the white house says that that visit could be rescheduled but only if the timing is right. back to you. >> the plot thickens, doesn't it. thank you so much. >>> authorities in ohio have detonated several cars in a derailed train in order to release an unstable

that spycraft was the size of three buses, blasted out of the sky and mysterious three objects in alaska and lake huron. the white house says there are no ufoshgs, this is not invasion of ailen whys. john kirby says actually these are unidentified flying objects. >> these could be balloons of completely benign nature, perhaps commercial or scientific research focus there. >> lucas: officials tell fox it could be little timmy's science project. here is jacqui heinrich in the briefing room. >> will you be releasing to us or talking about that? >> we will definitely have more to share later this week on that. i don't have a vehicle or how it is going to be shared to all of you. clearly the president thought it was important to get this done and asked for this to be stood up and he asked for jake sullivan to run this process. >> is that what the president is waiting for before he talks to the american people? >> i don't have anything to read or share about remarks from the president. he takes this seriously. >> lucas: rubio and kennedy describe briefings on capitol hill and did not appear sa

they did not have that procedure this past week because they say the chinese spycraft and didn't tell the white house until the 31st, there was no standard operating procedure. now we have a plan, know what we got to do, the white house has to be performed and i, lawrence, i was comfortable today with the people that i heard after they said they took this smaller balloon down because it might get in the way of civilian aircraft. the people that i saw were competent generals who understood, who were fluid and glib with the facts and knew how to communicate. the president doesn't know how to communicate, i don't think he knows what is going on. i hate to say that, the truth is the american people are aware and we'll not tolerate it and lisa murkowski was furious it went over her state and now we've got china relations biden trying to say everything issin foo until judy woodruff said, have you spoken to him since? he said, no, and general would not accept his call. we're not in a good place right now. we have china that wants to be number one in the world militarily, economically and see

army shut down the spycraft, it was the air force apologies there. >> cheryl: didn't you pass out? had regurj tory issues. thank you, glad to have you back. people in ohio scared to send their kids to school and they their pets are dying over the toxic from the derailment. >> ashley: tomi lahren is here next to talk about it all. good news! a new clinical study showed that centrum silver supports cognitive health in older adults. it's one more step towards taking charge of your health. so every day, you can say... ♪ youuu did it! ♪ with centrum silver. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ hey, man. nice pace! clearly, you're a safe driver. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! [sfx: limu squawks] whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ >> todd: at least 16 train cars derailing in texas yesterday one car hit by 18-wheeler. the driver of the tractor-trailer dying in the crash no. other injuries reported. another train derailing in south carolina yesterday

as you know, there were all sorts of theories about these objects from aliens to more spycrafts sent by adversaries, but it turns out they were just likely benign weather balloons, like hundreds of others in the sky. this morning for the first time an official explanation about those three mysterious objects shot down after that chinese spy balloon swept across the country. president biden acknowledging the three flying objects were not a national security threat. >> the intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research. >> reporter: the administration had deemed the objects a threat to civil aviation, so sent fighter jets to shoot them down. >> smaller than a car. >> reporter: one after another, over alaska, canada and lake huron. the balloons were detected after norad adjusted radars to look for smaller aircrafts at high altitudes in light of that chinese incursion but there are hundreds of balloons over the u.s. eve

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surveill the sites in montana where the nuclear silos are and so they feel pretty confident that this spycraft is not necessarily able to continue gathering information and so they won't say how they know that or how they are managing to control that. i think what was interesting, i asked who is controlling this balloon at this point and there was no clear answer. it is quite clear the fact they said maneuverable, there is still some chinese control over this. so again, there are many things we don't know about what the u.s. government has many capabilities, but it is certainly concerning, certainly concerning the chinese would be this brazen, particularly on the eve of the secretary of state's visit to beijing, which has now been called off. it is definitely escalation and being taken very seriously and it will be very interesting in the coming days as it moves eastward, there is possibility it will be over a body of water at some point and i'm told there are many options on the table. >> jennifer, to that end and the point harris was making surveillance might not pose a military or physical

and the west says it was spycraft, part of the wider surveillance operation that spanned more than 40 countries in five continents. now, we also heard earlier today from chinese ministry of foreign affairs and it formally opposes the balloon calling it pure political maneuver. >> kristie lu stout, thank you for that. >>> in a rare moment of unity, house lawmakers passing a resolution that condemns the youse of the balloon. and administration officials got a grilling over when they learned the balloon was heading here and why they waited to shoot it down. al nexex marquardt has more. they were asked why not shoot it down sooner. >> fact of the matter is that alaska is the first line of defense for america. >> reporter: in four different often tense hearings, administration officials stood by their argument that it was safer to let the balloon cross the country while also gathering intelligence on chinese capabilities. many democrats satisfied, many republicans still rejecting the white house and pentagon's positions. >> next time, you know, we won't want for it to trend -- go across my

. >> john: senators sounding off what they would like to learn regarding that chinese spycraft downedm fbi officials, fbi telling fox news most of the evidence relating to the surveillance aircraft is still underwater. new development comes as

navy is racing to recover the debris from the chinese spycraft miles off the coast of south carolina. on the screen right now, our first look at what those divers are now pulling out of the ocean and at the balloon itself, so take those new images in. >> john: it went down in relatively shallow water, about 50 feet deep. biggest challenges are currents and water temperature which is only this time of year about 53°. >> sandra: in a moment, we will be speaking to retired navy seal commander sears about what they are recovering and what the navy is doing about it. >> john: bryan llenas is off a boat close to the recovery effort. how is it looking from where you are, bryan? >> the weather has gotten better since the weekend, incredible conditions on the water, great for a salvage operation underway. you are looking live at our fox news drone showing you the military ships that are over the debris field said to be 15 by 15 football fields wide. right now this is all about what's happening underwater. you mentioned 50 feet deep. the u.s.ns pathfinder is a survey ship using special sonar an

says that explanation rings hollow and it was used for spycraft. and they say that they found propellers as well as an aerial rutser that gave it limited maneuverability. earlier china condemned the u.s. for shooting down its balloon calling it an overreaction. china also says it reserves the right to deal with similar situations. but earlier today at a briefing, we heard from a spokeswoman who said that the debris from the balloon that was shot down belongs to china. she said, the airship is china's, not the u.s.' she goes on to say that the understand should have handled it properly in a calm professional thon infnonforcefu, but this was a clear overreaction. and the chinese balloon caused a political uproar in the united states, it prompted secretary of state to cancel his planned february visit. and the white house did say that visit could be rescheduled but only if the time is right. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> two people are in under arrest in baltimore charged with a plot to attack the power grid and completely destroy the city. bri

flying foreign intruder, the white house seems to have underestimated anger at allowing chinese spycraft to wander in air space for days. no hesitation with this thing in alaska. >> bill: the administration was giving the vibe that we took care of it. and i thought it was a little tone deaf. everywhere i went the previous week, four straight days, all anyone was talking about was this balloon, where it came from and what we need to know. >> shannon: here is what a democrat had to say at the hearing. >> i don't want a balloon going across the united states when we could have taken it down overthe aleutian islands. >> shannon: members of his party saying to get it together. >> clay: any time you have a foreign aircraft that entraits american air space, how is the immediate response not to shoot it down. i think when you talk about tone deaf, that is how most americans felt to allow this thing to move across the country and use the excuse we're worried what might happen when it falls down. tester said there are a lot of parts of alaska, not a lot of people. >> bill: it is personal to him be

balloon groups now accused the federal government of mistaking their balloons for spycraft bay area group weighs in on the issue. ♪ ♪ before the xfinity 10g network we didn't have internet that let us play all at once. every device? in every room? why are you up here? with speeds like this, i can't even dream of what he'll be able to do. get xfinity internet for just $25 a month with no annual contract during our limited time launch celebration. you have no idea how good you've got it. huh? what a time to be alive. introducing the next- generation 10g network. only from xfinity. chinese. balloon debris from the remnants of the balloon are now on their way to the fbi lab in virginia for deeper analysis, military officials will examine the three smaller objects shot down in the eight days following the chinese spy balloon incident. president biden said on thursday that they were most likely private balloons used for recreation or scientific research. the white house insists that the u. s airspace is safe. there shouldn't be any overarching concern by the american people that that the skies

incursions were initially classified as unidentified aerial phenomenon then later reclassified as spycrafthe pentagon and intelligence agencies intensified efforts to identify them. evacuations continue in parts of ohio and pennsylvania after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed friday night. plumes of black smoke billowed above the village of east palestine, ohio as officials released chemicals from the train today that train at 141 cars, 50 of them derailed and 10 of them were carrying hazardous materials. residents within a one mile radius were advised to evacuate the area. at this point, it's unclear when they can return home. according to the national transportation safety board of mechanical issue with the railcar axle is to blame. still the camp tonight? one bay area city is expanding its universal basic income program also ahead, researchers saying farm workers are facing harsh conditions here in california. we will break down the findings of a recent study next if you did not get a chance to see the sunset tonight. here you go as the clear skies made way for that stunning

in the world of spycraft this could be legit, jamil. is it possible that after what we know is a chinese spy balloon, after that was shot down, is it possible that things might have been launched to do exactly what you're saying. they may not be something that has a lot of information gathering technology, but they may be saying let's see how long it takes, how they will react? >> that's certainly a very real possible. it could also be the russians testing our defenses. we know it's clearly an earth-borne adversary coming after us. are they looking at sensitive sites? we know this last craft shot down over lake huron did pass over sensitive dod sites in montana. that may raise questions, too. the question is why are we seeing them now? is it because we reduced our filters? are these new objects being sent in recent days and weeks? >> that's a very good question. what if it's outdated technology? there's a lot to ask. next question to you, ali, with china stoking all the diplomatic tensions, they've been accusing the u.s. of flying ballo

also, another question that is out there right now, ashley, when it comes to this spycraft.re were english words on the debris that was recovered, so what english-speaking country , presumably a western country, assisted china in creating this and the big question, could that have been an american company? that's a frightening question but you can tell by the tone of my voice and just the tone of the senator's voices, and all of our people in the house of representatives as well they voted 419 to nothing this was a big deal. it's amazing the president doesn't think so. ashley: yeah. i want to move on to this one, todd. senator joe manchin reportedly livid with the white house over the implementation of their climate laws but todd, this is because of the inflation reduction act and didn't mention vote for that. why is he so outraged? todd: yeah, how does manchin not see this coming? literally everybody that you and i have interviewed saw this coming when this inflation reduction act which does nothing to reduce inflation was put before the american people, so this could be on

l securityis nationa catastrophe last week from a national security standpoint where a chinese spycraft was allowed to takese transcontinental voyage across our most sensitive sites and critical infrastructure. and he's passing it off as asod no big deal or even a good thing. well, john , do youse dec actually think president biden is the one making thesisallye decisions? i mean, do yous really thinkx l he's mastering has mastered the complex details of all the ins and outs of these these surveillance balloons? it doesn't seem that way to me.i your reaction to that now? >> i mean, i see what you see, laura , and , you know,ngin he's changing stories in the middle of interviews. he's changing alibis literally n in minutes. and so, yo'tu know, i don't knoa what i do know is that this u this national security team that he has in place is unwilling to confront our number one adversary. noy, matter what they do, no matter how many timesy pa they pants joe biden and thento united states in public, they take no action. d me and it's why, you know, i get this question earlier today, someonl the

the announcement coming as we learn more about the surveillance technology on board, the spycraft foxes, caroline shively has details. u s officials knew the chinese were trying to watch us with their massive spy balloon. now the pentagon believes they are attempting to listen to using multiple antenna to collect electronic conversations and solar panels to power collection sensors. but the truth is, we think we know what they were going to collect. we don't know. that scares the #### out of me. the navy is still trying to find all the parts of the balloon shot down off the south carolina coast as the fbi pieces together the recovered wreckage in a lab at quantico. defense officials have said they took measures to block the balloon from gathering sensitive data as it floated across the country last week. it's not measure breach. i mean, look is totally to violation of international law. it's our airspace, and once it comes into our space we can do we want with the house voted unanimously to condemn china's actions, but members of congress are split on the u. s response. i think it shoul

white house officials briefed both chambers of congress on what they've learned so far about the spycraft. among the revelations, it was part of a multicontinent chinese spy campaign and was capable of monitoring communications here in the united states. let's bring in cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raj you and evan perez. >> reporter: it's because of that that the collection aspect of this balloon that the fbi is involved and now they are analyzing the first components that have been brought back from the atlantic ocean. they are now, you see pictures there, at the fbi lab in quantico. they were -- they've only recovered limited parts of it. the umbrella -- the balloon canopy, some wiring and some of the smaller electronic parts. the bulk of what they call the payload which is the electronics gathering equipment, the spy equipment is still at the bottom of the ocean. dozens of feet below. you see pictures there of the fbi, their divers along with the navy divers are working together being hampered a little by the weather to try to recover those pieces and bring them back for

w said a while we returbon their spycraft to them. no, no, no offense is toose i great. >> they'ves beeton able to get they away with everything c with thi administration and why wouldn't wouldn they see thi't they s as a windf opportunity?it i hate to say it, but the fear, se of many of us ise that they see a two year window of opportunity for continued aggression thad that may not ee after two more yearsr . inte yeah, continue to gather intelligence, continue to pump andpeople and deadly drugs acrs our southern border while working with the cartels and continue to poison- the minds of people terribly. >> that that's the concern. they'll move militarilyl on taiwan while there's a window of opportunity and essentially, you know, we've given no indications thath are ever going to be considered by the biden administration anything but a friendl be consi. competitor, because that's what we keep telling them, no matter what offense keep tellin they co matter what aggression against our country and our citizens, they just keep getting away

verbiage the white house is using, response to recent aerial objects, not saying balloons, not saying spycrafts or ufo, but recent aerial objects. and president biden's visit to walter reed for a physical, he did not have one in 2022, but in 2021, some acid reflux, stiffened gait from degenerative changes to his spine and some small benign polyps on his colon. and check-ups like this could influence a very important decision. president himself has said so. >> do you plan to run for re-election? >> yes. but look, i'm a great respector of fate. fate has intervened in my life many, many times. if i'm in the health i'm in now, if i'm in good health, then i would run again. >> that was from about two years ago, but it goes to show the results of today's physical could have very profound and potentially historic personal and political implications, john. >> john: sandra, are you still there? >> sandra: yes, hello, my microphone open now? peter, put this all together for us. we have the train derailment situation in ohio, pete buttigieg is being criticized for not being out there and more clear to hel

because they saw the chinese spycraft on the twenty teght and didn't tell the white house until the thirty first. so therell house is no standard operating procedure. sta and so now apparentlndary we hae a plan. we know what we've gotgot to to the white house has to be informed. and i lowrance, i wass comf orcomfortable today with the said people that i heard after they said they too thek the smah balloon down because it might get in the way of civilian aircraft. but the people that i saw werelo competent generals who understood who were fluide and glib with the with thed knew facts and knew how to communicate. to the president doesn't knowt thie how to communicate. i don't think he even knows what's goingat i on .that, th and i hate to say that. butht the truth is now the american people are aware of what's going on and we'rete i not going to tolerate it. and lisa murkowski was furious i that it went over her state and now what we've got is china relations. biden is trying to say, oh, no, everything's fine until even judy woodruff had to say to him ,but have you spoken to him you since he

security blunder whereaigh for r straight days,e hours, one hundred consecutive hours, our enemies spycraft hovered over the united states and all of our sensitive facilitiesthisa and critical infrastructure. and this administration sat there paralyzed, either afraid to do something or too tentincompetent to do something about it. >> well, don't worry. the media is more focused mindn, stormy daniels, i'm sure that's more important in their minds. secretarmpeoy director radclyff, thank you bothnt.inue we appreciate your time tonight as we continue now, tomorrow night, joe biden will deliverano his state of the union address. buug chinat don't expect any toy words from china for china instead, joe is reportedly planning on trashing republicans, magar republicansi, ,even though the vast majorityhy of americans, including democrats, they doapprov not ape fe his job as president. only thirty nine percent of americans are feeling positive about the direction ofnd the country. ch lookthat is not stopping joe from working hard on his speech. coth milk. in t at that as milk and cookies and a scriptr

state of the union speech dealing with something that is actually in the news, which was this china spycraft, which the the the information about that gets worse by the hour. e thinkseven though the white he actually thinks that because they shot it down overt make the water, eventuall bidey, that it makes biden look strong. now, maybe g to tryin to rally the allies and seeity h what they can doer there.ps but to miss an opportunity tonight when you have perhaps your biggest audience for your speech of the yeach of thrn our fox poll last week, he% ap is at a thirty one percent approvalprg on rating on the bot you would think that he wouldor. want to do something f more becauseor of problems for the dreamers are only made worse by the situation ate l the border rightot. let me just say that a lot of presidents make their way out of the chamber really quickly. this president may not make his way out of the chamber. he's taking his time. let's just listen back in for a couple seconds. good news. just so thank you, passenger3 4 30%. really, it's it was masterful. it's a legacy that's because of