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The 7

Monday, February 13, 2023

The 7

The Washington Post

News, Daily News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Monday briefing: Mysterious flying objects; Turkey earthquake recovery; another Super Bowl win for the Chiefs; De La Soul; and more


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The US shot down three mysterious flying objects over the weekend and the

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Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champs. That's some of what would get to on

0:11.5

the seven from the Washington Post.

0:13.7

I'm Jeff Pierre. It's Monday, February 13th.

0:17.5

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

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First up, the U.S. military shot down not one, but three more mysterious flying objects over the weekend.

0:31.0

One was shot down over Alaska on Friday. White House spokesman John Kirby said the

0:35.8

object was the size of a small car and posed a threat to civilian airspace.

0:41.0

The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of

0:47.8

civilian flight.

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Out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object

0:56.0

and they did

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Now another object was shot down over Canada on Saturday

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then one more was taken down over Lake Huron yesterday.

1:06.5

The question on everyone's mind is what exactly are these things?

1:11.2

Military officials either don't know or aren't saying.

1:14.0

They've been watching the skies closely since the suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down earlier this month. The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey crossed 36,000. That story number two. Hope to find

1:31.9

more survivors is fading. It's been a week since a pair of powerful earthquakes

1:36.4

hit southern Turkey and neighboring Syria. Anger is also growing over the amount of aid getting to both countries. In Turkey,

1:44.6

relief has been pouring in, but in the northwest region of Syria a lot of people have

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had to deal with the crisis alone. The area is controlled by a rebel group and that has made it

1:54.4

harder to get aid there. As all day now some rushes come going to throw it as for as his arm can take it

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