has operated at those depps quite a bit in the past. the second thing is that it comes with a very capable launch recovery system. that s how you get it on and off the boat. and that s very important because it increases the weather window that you can operate in. so you have less downtime when you re out there. the third part of the problem really is navigation. you know, when you think of this as finding a need until a hay stack it s more like trying to find maybe a lost antique coin in a big football field in the middle of the night. and all you have is a pin light to go looking for it. and you really have to fold back the pieces of the grass and look very carefully to find out where you are. so navigation becomes extremely important. you ve got to make sure that you ve seen, looked in between each blade of grass, and our systems are very capable of using this because we use seafloor transponders to navigate them. all right. still unclear whether the remus 6000 will be used and if
analyzing the data it did manage to require. it says that no objects of interest had been found. we understand that it is currently aboard the ocean shield. bad weather preventing it from being put back into the water. chris? thank you for the reporting. let s bring in cnn aviation analyst and former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation mary schiavo and cnn safety analyst and former faa inspector david soucie, author of why planes cra crash. let s start with what is not a surprise and then go with what is a surprise. what s not a surprise is that the bluefin encountered depps that were beyond is capability. fair assessment? fair. because we don t know what is the bottom of the ocean here, it hasn t been mapped. this is an unchartered mission. yep. just speculation as to how deep it was in the first place. yeah. all right. so, mary, the question becomes, how do you move forward? you calibrate the bluefin to make it go deeper but that is going to be lim
the challenges of what happens when you get down there, are you yet convinced that these pings are the black box? well, you know, remember the frequency doesn t match. there s been some speculation that there might be some reasons why the frequency has changed. battery life, depth. consistent with it. but it s not that kind of smoking gun that you really want where it s exactly the right frequency. so after a month of this bizarre saga that we ve been through, it s all come down to the cylinder of ocean, about 12 miles across or so, about three miles deep. this dark, cold, you know, alien world. and we re trying to find out what s in this cylinder, if it s there, great. if it s not there, well, boy, we re really back to square one. especially when we are at we are even past what should be the battery life of these pingers. they still want more pings at these depps. it thanks for your perspective.
has already bought. that s why it s something that has been routine. traditionally, it s not a big deal. congress has raised it 45 times since ronald reagan took office. this is a routine part of keeping the government running. the last time the house republicans flirted with not raising the debt ceiling back in 2011, some of you remember this, our economy took a bad hit. our country s credit rating was downgraded for the first time just like you d be downgraded if you didn t paying your mortgage. this time they are threatening to actually force the united states to default on its obligations for the very first time in history. now, you will hear john boehner and mitch mcconnell and these other republican epps say we don t want to default, but everybody knows and it s written about in all of the papers that
the sand when investigators arrived at his house on sunday and put a cardboard box over his head to breathe. today on studio b, the reporter who broke the story called mcafee a larger than life character. one of mcafee s hobbies is telling tall tales to reporters. a hobby. it s a hobby of his. he finds enjoyment in his. that s something you need to know about mcafee. listen, i would be surprised if he was actually at any point buried in the sand up to his neck with a cardboard box over his head. that doesn t seem to be a very good strategy for police i would think. shepard: mcafee told the new york times newspaper his hundred-million-dollar fortune dwindled to just 4 million bucks after the financial crisis. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom. trace, mcafee claims the cops set him up, maybe even killed his dogs. yeah, john mcafeces, shep, a few months ago the police in belize raided his home for no reason and confiscated all of his epps with. it turns out