let s get right to it. at this hour, adding to the horrific humanitarian crisis in ukraine, filthy water putting people at risk. plus, in just under 60 minutes, john durham set to testify in front of the house intelligence committee. expect a lot of questions about his scathing report on the fbi and doj s handling of the trump russia probe. the judge sets a date for former president s trial in his classified documents case. and the breaking news that charges filed against the president s son, hunter biden, mean he ll plead guilty to federal tax charges as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that plea deal for hunter biden. ken dilanian joins us now. my understanding, ken, is the judge still needs to approve this so what happens next and what more can you tell us about the terms of this deal? that s right. we expect hunter biden to appear in the coming days at this courthouse behind me
being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we are following breaking news this morning. charges have just been filed against hunter biden, the son of the sitting president has agreed to a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors and a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed. we ll have more on the latest in just a moment, including new reaction from the white house. plus, more breaking news, save the date for the start of donald trump s federal trial. august 14th, this year, as in less than a couple of months from now for that classified documents trial to start. also ahead, the race against time to find a submersible lost in the middle of the atlantic ocean. five people set out to the wreckage of the titanic deep underwater, but according to the coast guard, there is only enough oxygen in the vehicle to last to until thursday. what we know about who is on board and the search efforts currently under way. we begin with
They are all boston strong and we salute them. Im anderson cooper. Good night. I hope you were with us during the last hour and you were inspired as watching adrianne hasletdavis story. She is truly boston strong. One thing she wanted to get across to everyone watching is something her grandmother said to her as a kid it is okay to not be okay sometimes. But adrien is doing okay. And she has a long road ahead of her as do many of the survivors but we will root for her along the way. If you are just joining us, we expect a News Conference any moment from Australian Authorities on the search for flight 370. It is 11 00 a. M. In the search area. The newly refined and somewhat
smaller search area. You see it in the red near the top of the screen. The gray is former search areas. The question right now is will it change yet again when Angus Houston, whos coordinating the search effort, steps to the make phone in perth. Will he make bigger news. We will find out shortly and we expect the Pre
to make noise so the acoustic pingers can hear them. so that can be an effort made, you know, as team work to do locate it, to bang on the hull. so outside people can hear them. again, should have a pinger on this, but that would sufficed to do almost similar, and works in very much a similar way. so, look, we ve heard from officials that they ve been searching on the surface area about the size of connecticut. now, they re moving the search under the water itself. in a perfect world, how would they do that? what would they be using? as far as underwater? y. yes. well, underwater, they have to locate them. and time is of the essence, so whatever assets they have on location, they should deploy. if they have a sonar in our instance, where we work, we specialize in autonomous underwater vehicles. so we would launch an autonomous
situation? yes, so, it is smaller, it doesn t have main propulsion, so it can t drive itself from out to the titanic site. it needs a mothership to tow it out there. it has little propellers and it can drive itself down and maneuver itself around the wreck. now, it should have the they should have the ability to communicate if they re not incapacitated. submarines sometimes carry pingers, electronic pingers, sometimes an underwater telephone and last result you take a wrench and bang against something metal and that rhythmic banging, boom, boom, boom, you do that every 15 minutes, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. that would be detected by the sonar buoys and we could triangulate the position. i hope that s happening right now. thank you so much for offering your expertise. i know you stayed late in order to have this segment with us, captain. it was great to have you here. thank you. thank you. up next on ana cabrera