that makes the u.s. navy'ser, and yet america's navy faces serious challenges, trouble recruiting a new force, and aging ships, with long repair delays and sailor deaths by suicide. most notably, america's naval fleet is set to become its smallest in 100 years, as china becomes the largest navy in the world. but one thing the chinese don't have is nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. the uss nimitz is breathtaking to behold, a floating city of 5,000 sailors. when we first landed on a c2 greyhound, we watch hundreds of sailors. their uniforms color-coded, red, yellow, green, purple, and brown, each defining critical jobs to refuel, arm, and launch aircraft. we met america's best-trained pilots, who say this mission is a new challenge. this is unlike anything the u.s. navy has done since world war ii. >> that may be the case. i'll tell you this: we are here to stay, right, in the south china sea and in this part of the world, and i think that is the message that we really want to convey to not only china, but the e

they've eclipsed the u.s. navy in size, the world's largest navy. as the u.s. has about 300. the u.s. navy secretary said china has a significant advantage when it comes to ship building, and that gap is expected to grow even though there are plans to modernize the u.s. navy. now, one thing, however, that china is doing with this kind of aggressive actions in places like the south china sea is it's pushing smaller countries like the fill peep philippines, whic of years ago was ready to end military relations with the u.s. to now try to expand it, the philippines inviting u.s. forces to operate out of more philippines bases. japan recently announcing it will dramatically expand its defense expenditures, and the u.s. is partnering up with countries like australia and the uk to build nuclear submarines. all of this is aimed at basically force projection and trying to convince beijing to think twice before acting too provocatively in some of these contested areas as we've seen russia do in ukraine. >> yeah, ivan watson, appreciate it, thank you. >>> comi

the u.s. 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 unde

u.s. air craft, chinese navy war craft.g a safe distance from the air unit. >> reporter: a cat and mouse game between two rival militaries in one of the two most hotly contested regions in the world. ivan watson, cnn over the south china sea. >>> thank you, ivan. coming up we'll go live to kyiv. ukraine marking one year since russia's brutal and bloody ininvasion. mom. can we get a puppy, mom? please? girls, pets are a big expense. paww.e? [ audience cers ] maybe try switching your cainsurance to progressive. you could save hundreds. [ audience laughter ] thanks, tv dad. we'll think about it, okay? look what i found. -a puppy! -a puppy! oh, no, no. i wish tv dad was always in charge. [ dog barks, audience laughter ] listen to your tv dad. drivers who switch and save with progressive save nearly $700 on average. (vo) verizon has the epic new phone your business needs on the 5g network it deserves. boost your team's productivity with samsung's fastest processor yet. switch and save up to $1000 on the new galaxy s23 ultra. now

. >>> we have new reporting tonight, the u.s. navy off the east coast and what they've now decision covered. parts of that suspected chinese spy balloon and what it reveals. and the unmanned underwater vehicles examining the wreckage for explosives. a way for the chinese spy balloon to self-destruct. martha raddatz with new reporting. >>> just moments ago, the first look tonight at what president biden will tell the american people later this evening. the address in prime time, the state of the union here on abc. the president before congress and the country, and mary bruce live at the white house. >>> there is also breaking news from memphis at this hour in the tyre nichols case. we have new reporting tonight. what one of the officers allegedly did. pierre thomas is here. >>> also, the war in ukraine tonight. ukraine claiming the last 24 hours have been the deadliest for russian forces since the start of the war. the numbers not confirmed. and tonight, where ukrainian troops are now training on those first german tanks. >>> back in t

50 years, just wrote a piece on substory that u includes this quote, last june, the navy divers, u.s. navy divers operating under the cover of a widely publicized midsummer nato exercise known as ball tops. twenty two plants had remotelyer emotely triggered explosives that three months later destroyed three of the four nord stream pipeline ls, according to age source with direct knowledge ofo the operational planning. this piece continues.th it's probably the moste mo comprehensive news story sto you will read this year. >> seymour hersh on substract. you should read it. >> and it recounts in detail meetings with the national security adviser at the white house where this was planned exactly what explosives were usedve, how they were triggered. by what aircraft on what day. sotail many details in here that is not possible, that it's not true. inossithat it's it is true. and in fact, no one in the highh leveigl, the u.s. government is denying it with any specificity and said the white house is just dismissing this utterly false. >> and no reporters are following up on this amazing aaron. ma

and course u.s. navyertainly patrol the east coast near operating area routinely does submarines profit out of bay, georgia. they routinely conduct a missile shoot you close down the airspace just like using this type of thing. up-and-down east coast for the military to exploit information they want to do it very precisely. insensitive into the balloon back into american custody, right? like she want to do that part of the best way i've been told from experts 20-millimeter the f-22 f-16 to build a poke holes in the balloon if you will. not have exploded in midair but actually go down into the ocean gently. of course in the atlantic and not worry as much about chinese warships or russian warships. the area will be not contested you be able to roll up on this thing, take it aboard and disseminated and exploited. of course is a chinese spy balloon has been transmitting officials say in real time. and the information has been sent home something good old days are set to go back into the earth. putting similar

former u.s. navyd navy navy seal aubrey davis, welcome toes show. to the show. >> good evening, thanks for the invite. kennedy: what are prob probabilities that u.s. government could be involved? >> as far as u.s. involved, they had good reason. since stupid statements were made before the operation was made, should not have been said, that leads other people to believe we did them. but i'm not sure we did. there are a lot of other country that would have had reasons to do that and the capability. kennedy: which. >> was it u.s. navy seals? you have all of baltic nations who know the russians are breathing down their necks, they are next after ukraine. then there could be china, you know china loves to stir things up, and create a mess. that would have been fun for them. but it is a difficult operation to do, even more difficult covertly. kennedy: if you have navy seals and cia involved a joint trading, seems they could do it easy, then sert secretary of of state, said she was happen to pipeline was a

u.s. navy secretary carlos laid out the navy and marine corps priorities and ways to enhance partnerships with allies around the world. secretary it was a keynote speaker at the national defense industrial association 25th annual expeditionary warfare conference in arlington, virginia. [applause] flexible thank you printed such a privilege to join you for the expeditionary warfare conference and on behalf of the chair michael bayer our vice chair, our president and ceo they gave me the privilege of getting to visit with you here this morning as the former chair america has also hit up our emerging technology institute. this meeting comes at a time wherever the expeditionary excellence of the marines and sailors who fought in iwo jima and seven years ago this month. as someone who had the privilege 70000 marines and sailors, primarily the fourth and fifth divisions whose quote uncommon valor. tomorrow, is the 78th anniversary of the flag raising. when a staff director of the senate armed service

. >> u.s. navy secretary carlos del toro laid out the navy and marine corps priorities and ways to enhance partnerships with allies around the world. secretary del toro was the keynote special at the national industrial warfare conference in arlington virginia. [applause] >> thank you, it's such a privilege to join you for ndi's warfare conference on behalf of ndi's chair michael bear and the ceo david norquist, a privilege to visit with you this morning, as the past year chairman and emeritus, and heading up the emerging technoloies institute. and this meeting comes at a time when we remember the marines and sailors who fought at iwo jima 78 years ago this month. as someone who had the privilege of commanding the 4th marine division for three years, i'm keenly aware of the legacy of the 70,000 marines and sailors, primarily the 4th and 5th divisions whose, quote, uncommon valor was a common virtue, end quote. tomorrow is the 78th anniversary of the flag raising, and when i was staff director at the

so how is the u.s. navy preparing?nd out just what they are doing here in the western pacific. that is coming up tonight on the cbs evening news. >>> thank you. still ahead, >>> this snow day is all anyone seems to be talking about on social media, and our viewers have been sending us photos all day long. they are getting really creative. take a look. that is a man that is snowboarding down the driveway of a napa county winery. and he is the assistant winemaker. for others, skiing is more their thing, we saw this guy on twitter, he was speeding down a trail in tilden park. and let's go to a combing photo, somebody snapped this photo of mount diablo, you can see the reflection in the lake below. check out this brave guy, he was walking around the top of mission peak in fremont, he tweeted this video from the whiteout conditions, writing, it was a bit windy at the top. and talk about a stadium with a view. this is at the college of marin and the baseball coach tweeting in his 30 years as a player and coach, he has never

this cell phone video shows u.s. navyday with what appears to be a white deflated balloon laying across two different boats. republicans are furious that the balloon was even able to cross into u.s. airspace. >> he allowed a full week for the chinese to conduct spying operations over the united states, over sensitive military installations. >> reporter: the pentagon assesses that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall with a debris field the size of 15 by 15 football fields. china claims it was a weather balloon that veered off course, calling the u.s. responsible unacceptable and an overreaction. >> does the balloon weaken u.s./chinese relations? >> no. we've made it clear to china what we're going to do. they understand our position. >> reporter: the white house says similar chinese spy balloons entered u.s. airspace at least three times during the trump years, though this information was discovered after the prior administration left. biden officials would not say how or when they found out about those balloons. while chi

. >> 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. >> reporter: overnight, china condemning the decision, calling it an excessive reaction, adding that it retains the right to respond further. beijing has insisted the balloon was a civilian aircraft used mainly for weather research. claiming it had seriously deviated from its scheduled route and they had limited ability to control it. >> we do k

the cell phone video shows u.s. navyel on sunday with what appears to be a white deflated balloon laying across two different boats. republicans are furious that balloon was even able to cross into u.s. airspace. >> he allowed a full week for the chinese to conduct spying operations over the united states over sensitive military installations. >> reporter: the pentagon assesses that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall with a debris field the size of 15 by 15 football fields. china claims it was a weather balloon that veered off course, calling the u.s. response unacceptable and an overr overreaction. >> does the balloon we can u.s.-chinese relations? >> no. we made it clear to china what we are going to do. they understand our position. >> reporter: the white house has similar chinese spy balloons entered u.s. airspace at least three times during the trump years, though this information was discovered after the prior administration left. biden officials would not say how or when they found out about those balloons. while

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 vessel out here aside from that perimeter. the coast guard said this is as close as we can get. >> dianne gallagher, appreciate it. thank you. >>> with me now to discuss what happens next retired army major general spider marks and zolan cano youngs. general, if i can begin with you, the possibility of retaliation and escalation whenever you have a super power firing at another super power. i want to play briefly an incident that occurred a number of years ago when i was on a u.s. surveillance flight around china in 2015 when the chinese navy warped us away. these flights continue every day. have a quick listen here. >> this is the chinese navy. please go -- >> they were warning away a u.s. besiden surveillance jet i was on at the time. the pa besiden is a crew ed flight. china made a not to vei

u.s. navyorking day and night. yesterday they brought in an unmanned underwater vehicle which will help locate small pieces of china's spy air ship sitting 50 feet below over a 15 square football field size debris field. the pathfinder is equipped with sonar to map the sea floor. u.s. navy released images showing most if not all the debris from on the surface of the water has been recovered. the challenge now will be finding debris under water which is constantly shifting. we spoke to a local salvage business owner about those challenges. >> we had probably 4 to 5 years ago actually had a plane go down off myrtle beach in 20 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 quanti

today u.s. navycollecting 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 republican

a u.s. navy salvage teams are enroute, the u.s. to start recovering some of the effects. now, the pentagon also saying that chinese spy balloon was shot down at 58,000 feet, about the same height the jets were flying, and president biden spoke a short time ago to reporters. this is what he said. >> on wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, 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 when it got over water outside of, within the 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down, and i want to compliment our aviators who did it, and we'll have more to report on this a little later. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> what's your message to china? >> you were saying the recommendation from your, was from your national -- >> i told them to shoot it down. >> onen wednesday. >> on wednesday. >> but the recommendation -- >> they said to me, let's wait for the safest place to do it. >> reporter: we l

and the trained u.s. navy teams now using unmanned, underwater vehicles to detect whether there could be any explosives. martha raddatz right here with me tonight on what she's learned. >>> here in washington, president biden on the eve of his state of the union address, after that very promising jobs report, and after some key victories, including that bipartisan infrastructure law. the white house knows many americans still are not feeling this. what we've learned about his address. and mary bruce is standing by live at the white house. >>> tonight, two suspects under arrest for allegedly plotting to attack five electrical substations. the city they were about to target, officials say. federal prosecutors say one suspect is the founder of a neo-nazi group. our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas is here. >>> the close call on the runway. two planes less than 100 feet apart. a southwest passenger jet told by air traffic control it could use a key runway, but there was a fedex jet coming in for a landing

navy. how can the u.s. keep up, ivan? >> reporter: that's a tough questions. secretary, carlos del toro, says china has an advantage, has more shipyards. he is call for modernization of the u.s. navy for improvement of the shipyards. again says that the u.s. is at a disadvantage when it comes to china's ship-building capacity. that said, china's aggressive posture is pushing countries in the region, japan, to dramatically increase defense spending. the philippines is asking the u.s., is making a deal to expand u.s. military presence rotating through the philippines bases. that is a way of force projecting. add to that a u.s. deal to build nuclear submarines with the uk and australia. that may be a way to try to keep pace. >> ivan watson, okinawa, japan, thank you. >>> cnn this morning starts right now. ♪ ♪ >>> here we are now a year later. uk

. >>> this morning, the u.s. navys trying to recover the remnants that expected chinese spy balloon. a u.s. fighter jet shot it down over the coast of south carolina saturday. as a sn team reported that navy personnel were removing items from boats and material from north myrtle beach. creme phone video shows a pile of white material on top of one of the boats. cnn's alex marquardt has more. >> reporter: we are now learning more about how and when president joe biden was informed about the suspected chinese spy balloon crossing the united states and his decision to eventually shoot it down on saturday. biden was first told about the balloon on tuesday. four days before it was eventually shot down, and three days after it first entered u.s. airspace in alaska. now, after asking for military options, biden was advised to not shoot it down over land because of the harm that the debris could cause. he was eager to shoot it down, we're today, in a way that was not only safe for people but to try to preserve as much of the

vessel, what we think was a u.s. navy vessel, the coast guard radioed in to the captain of our boat and told us we needed to be 20 nautical miles back, basically back to land right now. so, we were not able to get close at all, but we know navy divers and unmanned vessels are in the water looking for debris from that suspected chinese spy balloon. we are told, fox news has confirmed some of the debris that was found is en route to quantico so u.s. officials can examine what it is. if there is more in the water is unclear, we are not getting any answers in terms of what they are looking for out there in the ocean. but the u.s. coast guard seems to be very serious about this national defense operation, again, they are escorting us away from the navy vessel. back to you guys. >> john: charles watson out there in the waters off the coast of south carolina. the white house is on defensive after officials at the pentagon revealed spycraft was not the first time the china military has infiltrated u.s. air space with surveillance

marine corps to deal with the specific, especially china present china's navy needs to understand the u.s. navy can sink the chinese navy, bottom line amen brother. he hit the nail on the head. the second thing he said this is also really important is here is a guy except to us as industry folks, we have got to maintain some economic ties to china. because if we don't where's the incentive for china to basically behave properly? we've got to have the stick but we also have to have a carrot. finding that balance is very, very difficult. i would say in that regard though, our industry is ready and able to complete his capacity to meet these new demands. we need a clear and firm signal from our government from dod and the congress. when covid first hit any real understanding of the nature of the pandemic. our defense industry is one of the few that stayed on the job the national security mission was so important. in some states we exited to fight with the governors to be allowed to come to work. so, we need to ensure senior decision-makers in the building and in the congress are knowledgeable of w

it's part of a celebration of 50 years of women flying in the u.s. navy. zimmerman says she's proud to be part of the team and is grateful for the women who served before her, paving the way. >> thanks for giving me the opportunity to be here, show the world we're awesome in the navy, what we do. we've come in far, an all female air crew and team, it's really hard to describe how awesome that is. >> so cool. she'll be on the ground tomorrow. lieutenant commander zimmerman was in the cockpit for a tour, showing the lieutenant governor what the pilots do. >> loud planes, super hornets. blue angels have switched to that. they'll hear it. >>> cold temperatures, showers to start the weekend. warmer changes now as we head to the super bowl sunday forecast. for your parties outdoors, it's going to be nice. rain did fall, as expected, highest totals closer to the coast, about a quarter inch or close to it in marin and the santa cruz mountains, but farther in, about 0.1 inch of rain and it's cleared out. 49 in san francisco. low 40s in san rafael. the north bay val

government and specifically from the u.s. navy. the u.s. navy by that time had an elite nuclear sub marine program. they therefore had a lot of trained engineers who are experienced with nuclear technology. even so, they knew that anybody working on this shutdown effort could only spend about 90 seconds inside the reactor before they would hit what was considered to be the limit for radiation exposure. so what they did, back in 1952, they assembled these crews. they thought they were the best people on earth to be able to handle this kind of a crisis. then they had to make spaefk plan that would split the whole task of taking apart the nuclear reactor. they would split the whole thing, everything they needed to do, go into individual 90-second steps. because nobody could do anything inside the reactor that lasted more than 90 seconds. so the way it worked was one man would run in and unscrew a bolt if that would take 90 seconds. then he would run out. then the next man would run in. he would unscrew the next bolt or do whatever the next step

military issued a statement that the u.s. navyun recovery operations off the coast of south carolina. they are combing waters about 7 miles wide and 47 feet deep. now, earlier on fox news sunday senator tom cotton says that spy ballooning should have been shot down when it crossed over the aleutian islands which is u.s. air space in alaska. >> what began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon testing president biden's strength and resolve. and, unfortunately, the president failed that test. >> reporter: it's the first recorded air-to-air kill for a u.s. air force f-22 raptor since entering service in 2005. it's also not the first time a chinese spy balloon has been to american shores recently. two u.s. officials tell fox a similar spy balloon crashed into the pacific off the coast of hawaii four months ago. that incident had not been previously reported until today. the pentagon says three other chinese spy balloons crossed into the continental united states during the trump administration, something that former president's t

escort part of a regular routine. >> i would say it's another friday afternoon. >> reporter: the u.s. navy invited cnn to fly on a p-8 reconnaissance plane taking off from a u.s. air base on the japanese island of okinawa. along the way, picking up fuel from a flying gas station. >> reporter: we're refueling in mid air right now. flying about 40 feet away from a kc-135 tanker plane. >> reporter: the plane is headed past the self-governing island of taiwan which china claims as its own. to the south china sea which china claims almost all for itself, ignoring competing claim from countries like vietnam and the philippines. some 30 miles from the chinese occupied parasail islands, a chis voice crackles over the line. >> you are approaching chinese space. >> reporter: that's when the chinese people's liberation army fighter jet appears, flying so close, you can see the pilots in their cockpit. >> fighter aircraft -- [ inaudible ] i have you off my left flank. >> reporter: the chinese pilot never responds, but eventually leaves when the u.s. plane turns south. >> it's like oil spots as they bu

sy hersh reports u.s. navys planted remotely triggered explosives on the pipelines in june while nato was conducting military exercises in the area. he reports the divers were all members of the navy and not members of an american special operations command, whose covert operations must be reported to congress. then on september 25, 2022, norwegian surveillance plane dropped a sonar buoy which triggered the c4 explosives that had been placed on the pipeline. soon after the explosion, the united states strongly suggested russia was behind blowing up its own pipeline. this is national security advisor jake sullivan responding to a question at a white house press briefing. >> the president called the nord stream pipeline attack "a deliberate act of sabotage" and said "now the russians are pumping out misinformation and lies about it." does the u.s. now believe that russia was likely responsible for this act of sabotage? >> first, russia has done what it frequently does when it is responsible for something, which i

. >>> a recovery mission underway as the u.s. navyris from downed chinese spy balloon suspected spy balloon, we'll have a detailed report next. plus diplomatic fall-out from the balloon incident, a former u.s. defense official weighs in on the long-term impact this could have on u.s. china relations. ♪ ♪ h♪ >>> welcome back to cnn newsroom, more now on our top story this hour, the u.s. shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon over the atlantic ocean. witnesses captured the moment it was struck by a single missile from a fighter jet. it happened off the south carolina coast on saturday. a week after first detected over alaska, and days after the balloon gained public attention over montana. chinese officials deny it was spy balloon, condemning the u.s. for using force to bring it down >> divers from the u.s. navy are working to recover the balloon and its payload from the atlantic ocean, sources tell cnn it will then be teen to the fbi lab in quantico virginia for analysis, cnn tom foreman has more on the challenges ahead. >> this is

. >> bill: new pictures from the u.s. navy.at spy flight debris from the waters off myrtle beach, south carolina. that's a live image right now. these are the photos that were posted to the twitter feed for the u.s. navy. we believe based on the time stamp for the feed this came out late on sunday night and that is obviously what we've been watching for days, right, dana? from the water it looks like they've got a pretty good handle on what is left of that balloon once they saw it hit the water. whatever was encased in the helium stayed on top of the surface and before sunset it looks like they pulled it into the boat. >> dana: fascinating pictures. it was cold out there and our navy is there to make sure they could get whatever they could get. the search is on for what's at the bottom of the ocean now. >> bill: if there is more hopefully we get it soon. president biden will head out of town after tonight going to madison, wisconsin tomorrow to talk about his economic plan and how it is affecting american families. great topic

and that they stole an underwater drone from the u.s. navy and 2001 u.s. navy ep-3 collided with a chinese fighting jet causing the american plane to go down and the crew held for 11 days. asked how long the balloon would be over the u.s., they were vague. >> right now we'll monitor it and right now assess that it will be over the united states for a few days. >> that means that the spy balloon could be over the united states when the president gives his state of the union address. griff: thank you. jacqui: and chinese officials remain adamant that it entered u.s. air space by accident this as antony blinken called off his trip to beijing this weekend. ryan chillcoate joins us with more on the efforts, hey, ryan. >> yeah, hi, jacqui. well, chinese officials say the united states hasn't canceled secretary blinken's visit because neither side had formally announced the visit in the first place, effectively arguing you can't cancel something that isn't officially on. the chinese foreign ministry putting out a state, in actuality the u.s. and china have never a

the u.s. navyse spy balloon they recovered in the waters off of south carolina. t this is really intriguing to see, chinese balloon shot down over the weekend. >> right now, the house committee is holding a hearing to look at the failures of the government not detecting chinese incursions in the trump administration. what are you learning, oren liebermann? >> i was watching house committee, and although it was scheduled before the latest chinese government has been discovered, it has been a topic of the committee, and the chairman said that you would have to be naive to know that it was not an attempt by china to spy on the united states. last year, there was a report called the people's republic of china high altitude means. it documents case in 2019 where a balloon flew all around the world over hawaii and over flying parts of southern florida in the trump administration, and what is unclear in this report is when the u.s. realized it was a chinese surveillance balloon, and the pentagon believed

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the u.s. navyom the surface has been recovered. the challenge now will be finding to breathe underwater just constantly shifting because of the current grade we spoke to a local salvage business owner about the challenges. >> we had probably four to five years ago, actually had a plane go down off myrtle beach and about 20 to 25 foot of water, very favorable conditions, 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. >> the pieces of debris being recovered are being analyzed at the fbi lab in quantico. administer for china says the debris is there's. ashley: thank you very much for the latest. still ahead, chad wolf, steve daines, martha and brent bozell, 10:00 a.m. hour of varney & co. is next. ♪ ... who has starred in good will hunting too fast, too furious and the current hit show yellowstone. beyond his impressive career, he is a proud supporter of the tunnel to towers founda

the u.s. navy is sending a salvage crew. president biden spoke moments ago. >> on wednesday when i was briefed on the bloom 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 the best time to do that is when it got over water. within the 12-mile limit. the success took it down i want to complement our aviators who did it. we'll have more to report in this little later thank you. hugs your sake the recommendation from your national security? once i told them to shoot down progress on wednesday? what's on wednesday they said let's wait until a safest place to do it. >> is notable chinese spy plane was shot down on u.s. territorial waters just 6 miles offshore but of course had been shot down over 12 nautical miles offshore that be international airspace that would've raised a whole different issue. but sean as you can see this as exclusive fox footage is seeing the balloon being shot down from the sky but everyone is very excited abo

the u.s. navyre working to recover the debris of that chinese spy balloon from the atlantic ocean. sources telling cnn it will then be taken to the fbi lab in quantico, virginia, for analysis. cnn's tom foreman with more on what they will be up against. >> reporter: this is the portion of this balloon that investigators want to get their hands on, that payload. a central core and what looked like a couple of solar arrays on either side. when the balloon was destroyed, you could clearly see it falling away below. now, if this had the mass of a human, like a skydiver, it might be falling at 100, 150 miles an hour, something like that. fit had the mass of a couple of cars, its terminal velocity might have been 500 miles an hour or up. what that means, when it got to this area off myrtle beach, the water would be essentially like concrete. it would hit it with tremendous force and be absolutely misshapen, torn apart, broken up by this impact. what does that mean to recovery? what it means is the first

tonight possible debris from the chinese surveillance balloon recovered near myrtle beach as the u.s. navy combs a seven-mile-wide debris field in the atlantic ocean. local law enforcement urging beach goers to stay alert. >> right now the big thing i'm here for is to say if any debris washes up we need to know right away so we can secure that and make sure we get it to our federal partners >> they shot it! >> reporter: the balloon shot down saturday afternoon by a single missile from an f-22 fighter jet. >> there we go. >> fired a launch. they got it. >> boom! >> oh, my gosh it's going straight for it >> we have eyes on the balloon falling. >> reporter: for days the spy balloon's movements captivated the nation first detected by the biden administration in alaska on january 28th before briefly entering canadian air space. then crossing back over into montana, wyoming, kansas, missouri, and finally the carolinas. despite flying over several sensitive military sites, u.s. officials tell nbc news they took action to weaken china's surveillance capabilities also determining the balloon posed

the u.s. navy is looking for a large bay of technology the size of three bus lengths. a senior u.s. official says the balloon was hit by a single f-22 firing an air to air missile roughly six nautical miles offshore. the massive balloon made its way across several sensitive military installations as it flew over the continental u.s., including wyoming, kansas, and missouri, before leach -- before reaching the carolinas where it was shut down of myrtle beach. china calling it an excessive reaction, adding that it retains the right to respond further. on capitol hill, florida senator marco rubio tells this week, china's act was deliberate. >> this is what they wanted the world to see, that they could send a balloon over u.s. airspace, over military facilities, and we would be unable to stop it. and ultimately when we shoot it down, they would argue, look how they over act -- overreact to a weather balloon. reporter: new jersey senator cory booker, who sits on the foreign relations committee, praising the pentagon's effort. >> i am grateful the military took decisive action when they d

. >> reporter: as u.s. navy divers work to recover degree from a chinese spy balloon spot down by u.s. military off the coast of south carolina, experts weigh in on the impact the incident will have on already strained relations with china. >> these incidents will increase the distrust, and the problem with distrust is that you don't have good forms of communication to work out while it is going on. one of the u.s. reactns pull the plug on some of the communication by canceling the trip of the u.s. secretary of state who was about to go to china to discuss these types of issues. >> what more can you tell us about the takedown operation? >> reporter: republicans are criticizing the president for waiting too long to shoot down the balloon and they say it's not the first time it's happened. >> they've failed to prepare after the first time this happened during this administration. the administration has admitted, which i've been briefed on, that china has done this before in the continental united states, during th

it is still being retrieved by the u.s. navy and it could take some time.t the atlantic ocean, it can go right down to the bottom of the sea. what officials say they have seen so far is equipment that totally contradicts beijing's claim it was a balloon used for weather research. the equipment they have found so far involves antennas. there are large solar panels capable of running intelligence sensors. furthermore, officials say that this was part of a fleet of surveillance balloons that were oating over 40 countries over five continents directeby the chinese military. the state department go so far as to say it believes there was a direct commercial tie with the company that made the balloon and the people's liberation army. the fbi is involved in all of this. the first time they are doing anythingike this. they will analyze the content. as we have heard, the u.s. state department, administration is clear on what they think. >> with all of this information being gathered about the balloon, what is the u.s. government going to do to stop these balloons fly

. >>> the u.s. navy continues to gather what is left of the massive chinese balloon, what it's been able to uncover. >>> is your pg&e bill rising? why the high price of natural gas? >>> the news at 5:30 starts now. thanks so much for joining us, i'm janelle wang. >> i'm raj mathai. he's blaming his car, his tesla, a man in contra costa county said his tesla drove itself into his home while not on autopilot. what happened here? pete is in san ramon. what is his side of the story? >> reporter: the driver was still shaken up. it was just a routine task, moving his car into his garage and now he's left wondering if he made a bad investment. >> i stopped to look -- >> reporter: he was simply moving his tesla from the front end of the house to the garage when the car seemed to take over. >> blocked the control, it's not stopping. bumped into the wall. >> reporter: it went careening into his home. this was the scene this morning when his tesla was removed from the wall it plowed into. he said he wasn't on autop

reporter: meanwhile the u.s. navy coast guard have ended their recovery operations off south carolina's coast, the u.s. military successfully retrieved china's spy flight load payload is about 3 feet wide and filled with electronic sensors and equipment the debris was sent to fbi labs in quantico, virginia in the intelligence community hopes that it will give an indication as to why the chinese were loitering over your sensitive sites like maelstrom in montana u.s. strategic command which oversees the nation's nuclear arsenal in omaha, nebraska. brian: jennifer griffin five washington, thank you l from house like me, congressman carlos, himself and your reaction to the in particular i would love to hear if you respond to the president saying that is acting out of an abundance of caution and that is why he was justified in shooting down those three balloons whose origins we do not know. guest: well it is par for the course, i mean, the shooter tell the chinese spy balloon we knew was attorneys spy blue never completes