dead. the news comes after an intense search effort since contact was lost shortly after departure on sunday. two debris fields found 1600 feet from the titanic remains. the senior correspondent mike tobin is in st. john s canada tonight. mike, good evening. trace, friends, family and fellow explorers were holding out hope for a miracle and learning today all hope is lost. u.s. coast guard announced that the submersible titanic was found in five major pieces as you mentioned 1600 feet off the bow of the wreckage of the titanic itself. the pilot and passengers are all lost. the debris is consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. upon this determination, we immediately notified the families. stockton rush chief executive of oceangate was the pilot. passengers were hamish harding. a businessman. he lived for the adventure. will are suleman and a veteran of 35 titanic dives. larry daily was a close friend of natural gas lay according to say what they are
last night on the five. it is true. i did eat the salad with my fingers. i didn t have a fork and didn t use a comb. let s get back to the news. the second state of the unya than for president biden. his first before a divided congress. the president made lofty claims about his record. fact checkers are having a field day today. bill: headline, joe lieden. it had vocal pushback in the house chamber. president biden: some republicans want medicare and social security to sun set. we ll need oil for at least another decade. if china threatens our sovereignty we ll a act to protect our country and did president biden: fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. let s also come together on immigration. we ve been sent to finish the job. let s finish the job this time. dana: among the issues the president made no mention of, cartels, chinese spy flight, afghanistan and didn t mention his classified document. bill: surprise. president spent 12 minutes about th
is. the problem is they are not employing an asset that can actually go down there and confirm its location and deploy other asset mcgel alan pick it up. by the time they decide to do it it s too late. that 6 krov gets there this morning. it gets down there right where they thought it would be. not in this twice the size of connecticut area. no, it s right where they thought it would be and they are finding debris. i don t have any more information because apparently the civilians that were, you know, there to confirm that it was debris from that sub, they are kicked out of the room. so, i don t have that information coming to me. i have real questions about a coast guard authorities and what kind of decision-making process was made here. what s going to happen in the future? should we put these people in charge of future recoveries? should they? they can t seem to make proper decisions. trace: i think it s a fair assessment because this administration has been criticized from the st
sitting 50 feet below over a 15 square football field size debris field. the pathfinder is equipped with sonar to map the sea floor. u.s. navy released images showing most if not all the debris from on the surface of the water has been recovered. the challenge now will be finding debris under water which is constantly shifting. we spoke to a local salvage business owner about those challenges. we had probably 4 to 5 years ago actually had a plane go down off myrtle beach in 20 to 25 foot of water. very favorable conditions. it was about a week after it had gone down and it took weeks and weeks to finally locate that plane just because it was very light on the bottom and skipping along the bottom. time is so important here. you can understand why they are pushing to get the debris.
reporter: well, the rescue crews are at the scene tonight. they re combing the area for clues. they re finding fragments and they re finding debris, but they re not finding any signs of life. 123 passengers on board along with nine crew. what we know at this point is that flight 5735 took off from kunming airport just after 1:00 local time today, heading over the mountains to guangzhou, about an hour into it, 130 miles out of guangzhou, the plane abruptly lost speed and altitude, according to the flight tracking platform, the plane was at 29,100 feet, and then plunged 21,000 feet in just over a minute. and then it appeared to regain altitude, but then continued to plunge. the civil aviation authority here said that radar contact was lost. now, weather doesn t seem to be