the submersible had disappeared, raising hopes the five people on board the titan might still be alive. sandra: looks like the presser is going to be underway shortly. time is quickly running out to get the necessary rescue equipment to the search area. the presser has begun, let s get to boston. provide an update on the search efforts for the titan submarine. these individuals represent only a small fraction of the many dedicated professionals working around the clock. we understand it s an extremely difficult time for the families of the missing crew members aboard the titan and our thoughts go out to them and the crew. the unified command team is working tirelessly to bring all available assets and expertise to bear as quickly as possible in response to the complex operation. we remain in close contact with the family members and crew to make sure they are fully aware of our current and future search efforts. additionally, we have been in close contact with the british
hour. what an inspire story. sandra: i love a good story with a happy ending. this very special conversation coming up as the student athlete, the sixth grader and his mother, all join us live coming up. we ll start things off with this fox news alert. john: secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his historic trip to beijing and attempt to clear the air between the world s top two superpowers. sandra: they say the conversations were constructive but admitting they failed to reach notable breakthroughs on taiwan, slamming the talks as fruitless. the risk here of this renewed engagement strategy is we will abandon important defensive actions to engage in a series of endless fruitless talks with the ccp. john: a bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on president biden to take a page out of his predecessor s playbook. he want to expand israel s diplomatic ties with countries in africa to keep china from establishing a bigger footprint there. sandra: we will
warning of quality control and safety problems, among the claims, the port hole was only certified for a depth of 4300, but operating at 12,000 plus feet. and no unmanned testing of the submersible and the hull integrity alarm would alert just milliseconds before an implotion. we do know that there is this hull integrity monitor which would detect any problems with the hull as it was going through the descent phase, allowing the pilot to bring it back up to the top. but if something went really, really wrong, would you have time to turn around and come back? well, again, i don t know, and john, i would hate to speculate on information that i don t have all the data on and all the facts on. there s plenty of time for that. right now, as a fellow aquanaut and titanic diver, i would hope
reliant on text message-like communications to let anyone know that they are in distress. obviously they are not getting any of those because they don t know precisely where this vessel is at this hour. but we are learning of one person at least on board, british billionaire hamish harding, the ceo of action aviation in dubai. not a whole lot more. there was some optimism from a titanic expert a short time ago, john, but who knows, we don t know. john: we should mention that hamish harding went the other way, he went into space on a june origin flight a year ago, june 4, 2022, and now the depths of the ocean. they have hull integrity monitors. if anything was going wrong they should have been alerted to it. maybe it s just that they have lost communications, and maybe either wandering around in the lower depth or bobbing about on the ocean surface.