China’s eye in the sky, plus, 'Overtime with Bill Maher'
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Cotes, and this is CNN Tonight. Well, they say, |
| 0:13.5 | what goes up must come down. Of course, the question tonight is, where is that exactly? |
| 0:19.0 | And when will it come down? And by the way, how will it come down? The it, of course, |
| 0:24.0 | is spy balloon. Depending on refusing to say whether they're considering shooting |
| 0:27.8 | down what sure looks like a Chinese spy balloon, floating high above some pretty sensitive |
| 0:33.0 | sites in this country. But officials telling CNN they haven't ruled it out either. |
| 0:39.2 | Meanwhile, this balloon, which is the size, by the way, of three school buses, is just |
| 0:43.9 | meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. It was spotted twice on Wednesday over |
| 0:49.9 | Montana, and twice over at Missouri, today, including in Columbia, Missouri, this very afternoon, |
| 0:55.9 | this exclusive footage was shot. Now, it's flying about 60,000 feet up, about 18,000 feet |
| 1:03.4 | higher than a commercial airplane does. And now, the Pentagon says there's another Chinese |
| 1:08.7 | spy balloon that is currently somewhere over Latin America. We'll talk about what the |
| 1:14.2 | heck is going on in the skies tonight, and here to help us figure all of this out. |
| 1:18.9 | CNN's Tom Foreman and military analyst, Colonel Cedric Layton. So glad to have both of you |
| 1:24.3 | here. Layton begin with you, Tom, at the Magic Wall, because where has this balloon been? |
| 1:29.9 | And where is it going? Well, if we trust with the military, things about it, where it's |
| 1:33.9 | been, was China flying over the Aleutian Islands, coming in over Canada, and then drifting |
| 1:38.8 | down in here to Montana, where we had these sightings that you mentioned a minute ago. Of |
| 1:43.0 | course, sensitive area, because there are missile facilities up there. We used to live |
| 1:46.2 | in South Dakota here, or there were missile facilities. And now, sighted down here around |
| 1:49.9 | Missouri, last we heard, maybe somewhere around St. Louis. So where is it going? That's a great |
| 1:56.6 | question. If it's being purely pushed by the jet stream, which traveled about 110 miles |
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