the carrington event. and at that time, this was the electronics, cutting edge of electronics of the day. the 1859 telegraph key. all over the world, india, china, africa, north america, we laid the translantic cables that north america and europe were connected for the first time. it was so powerful, viewers will see the simple switch is crude, made of heavy metal and all the rest. telegraph keys were melted. the wooden baits burst into flame. telegraph stations burned down. the telegraph wires burst into flame and caused fires all over the world. pulse was so powerful, it burned the cable out. it had to be replaced. this didt end civilization in 1859, thoseer the horse and buggy days, it wasn t an electronic civilation. this is just cutting-edge technology, more or less a
3500 meters off feet. i ll correct that in a second, we behind it of what it is towing. i remember it being feet because you have almost a mile of cable out. every time they make a turn they have to be careful and you make the right point, which is if they do it wrong it will drop and break. i think it might be meters because it s 1,000 meters off the bottom. 3500 meters down below. i thought they said it was close to a mile. that s why it s taking a long time. that s why they have confidence of the new pings. they believe here in the right area. the big discovery is when they find actual debris. he did say last night two things on that. he thinks it s going to be a matter of days before the autonomous vehicle goes into the water and he says it won t be too long, he doesn t believe, before they will have some debris. thank you for coming in this morning, professor. always a pleasure. thank you, reverend. kate? big story overseas this morning. the standoff in eastern ukrai
you are in the picture, but i can t see it. okay. if i take a picture of you here, you are in the picture, and so i have to send that vehicle or that sonar down closer to within 30 meters of the bottom and fly it around. so i either drag it with a cable, and 9,000 or 14,000 feet deep, you have to put three or four times the cable out, and the cable weighs is heavy, and in those seas, it is up and down, and the data, and it is so what we do is to send autonomous vehicles now, and state-of-the-art coming along in the last ten years. and it is drones. and they send the drones down the search, but it is 12 gnat cal miles or 12 square miles a day is all you can get. still. oceanographer kathleen dohan and deep water diver tim taylor. thank you both for your expertise. and now, president obama is
thank you. still ahead here on the dr show more of the insurance scams aimed at the fallen soldiers. can a family recover the money being harvested as a result of the death of their child? they do it right down the street here at park avenue. i could show you. also drowning our sorrows. americans drinking like it s the depression. what do we do? we ve got ourselves a 21st century prohibitionist to share a few of his ideas on the issue of a drunk america. nine months after americans were stuck in the homes with the cable out, hospitals bracing for the baby boom. we ll be right back. good job, keep going !