me. i m jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. and right now on andrea mitchell reports, search crews and loved ones fearing the worse for the five people on board the small submersible with the coast guard discovering a debris field within the search area. i ll speak to former u.s. commander in just a few moments. a district judge is about to unseal documents revealing just who paid the $500,000 bond to keep disgraced congressman george santos out of jail after he turned himself in on federal criminal charges, including money laundering and wire fraud. and president biden is scheduled to hold a joint press conference with india s prime minister modi as the administration hosts a controversial leader, an ally they hope could be a military and economic counter weight to china, but closely tied to russia, accused of widespread human rights abuses. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington, we ha
becoming more desperate by the minute. the coast guard now says noises have been detected in the search area where a titanic tourist submersible has been missing since sunday. we ll bring you the very latest on the intense race against time. another supreme court justice now at the center of controversy. new questions about a trip justice samuel alito took. we ll talk about it with one of the reporters who broke the story. china firing back at president biden after he called the nation s leader a dictator. china slamming the president s rhetoric as a provocation. we ll talk to congressman ro khanna about that and a whole lot more. at this hour, the frantic search for the missing titanic tourist submersible grows more desperate as the five-member crew s oxygen supply ticks below less than 18 hours. more help is arriving this morning, the u.s. coast guard says three vessels are on the scene to aid in the search. overnight, there were fresh signs of hope that the coast
and get that back to them. so, you know, the one thing we think you shouldn t do is just start recovering thingsdo immediately, just start grabbing things. you know, you do want to treat it likeu a crime scene and control who goes in there, who comes out of there, and be sure that you ve got all the different elements thatth you nt to study. it s very air france 447, which was aircraft people thought would never be found, p.h. was a co-expedition leader with me and we were able to show you could find a debris field and work with a forensic team to get them the information they need without actually recovering everything from the sea floor. do you think that this will set back the submersible industry private exploration? that s a real good question. i don t know if it will set it back, but there s going to be a very good look at what this is
that walked the face of the earth. is calm, he s thoughtful, whether he s on the deck of a rolling ship in the middle of a storm or in a parisian cafe. and smart, smarter beyond smart. if i was going to the titanic, he be the first person i call. is the person that we worked with to make the air france 447 search successful. is the person, also an employee that helped create the first tailed map of the titanic in 2010. you are with rms titanic and have thexclusive rights of this wreckage site and know the region. as we are told, there are seven mechanisms on this submersible that would bring it to and involuntary, even if people are incapacitated, there are ways to bring it to the surface.
encouraging. hopes go up. tough for the families. really tough for the families because you have two things, is that really them, do they have enough air, and do they have enough air to wait until the recovery gets to them? so, it is really got to be tough for the loved ones and the families of those five people. yeah. i m hopeful. i m hopeful. we heard when we heard that it wasn t best described as banging, but rather sounds, you know, again, what you re talking about, there is so little information, we understand why, but it just evolves into a lot of speculation and if it is indeed just sounds versus banging, that could, you know i was involved with p.h. on the successful search for air france 447 and we were out there, and what was actually