Saturday, February 4, 2023

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

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Summary

A Chinese surveillance balloon floating over U.S. airspace leads to diplomatic tensions. And U.S. employers added more than half a million jobs to the market in January, which is great for wages, but bad for fighting inflation. Plus, two suspected gang members are arrested in a California in connection with the murders of 6 people, including an infant.

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0:00.0	The Chinese surveillance balloon over US airspace has the Pentagon on alert.
0:07.5	And leads the Secretary of State to cancel a trip to China.
0:11.2	We'll bring it the latest on the diplomatic fallout.
0:13.7	I'm Ayesha Roska.
0:15.4	And I'm Scott Simon and this is up first from entry our news.
0:21.2	We know that it's a surveillance balloon.
0:23.6	We do know that the balloon has violated US airspace and international law, which is
0:28.4	unacceptable.
0:29.6	The Pentagon is taking the incident very seriously, so as the State Department, we'll look
0:34.8	at the diplomatic fallout.
0:36.8	And jobs, lots of jobs, higher wages, great news unless you're trying to fight inflation.
0:41.8	We'll tell you how that works.
0:44.2	Plus, a rest have been made in the horrific murder of a family in California.
0:49.4	So please stay with us.
0:50.4	We have the news you need to start your weekend.
1:02.6	The Pentagon has been tracking what it says is a Chinese spy balloon that was first seen
1:07.4	over Montana and now moving east.
1:10.3	China insists it's a civilian vessel just doing meteorological research and that they
1:15.2	regretted veered off course.
1:17.6	Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken abruptly called off a trip to Beijing and said he'd
1:22.9	only go when the time is right.
1:25.1	I'm not going to put a date or time on that because what we're focused right now is on
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