now. not giving up. crews frantically searching for the missing submersible. they re desperately trying to rescue the five human beings before they run out of the oxygen. i will speak to a person who has been on the missing submersible before. and i ll speak with a man who says there is hope tonight. anti-vaxxers stalking and harassing one of the top vaccine experts after he criticized rfk engineer s crusade. let s got outfront. good evening. holding out hope. underwear noises detected in the search area for the missing titanic bound sub is raising the possibility they are still alive. time is running out. there could be hours left. the coast guard estimated this time last night, the sub had about 34 hours of beliefable air left. if there s still life support available on the submersible, and we will continue to hold out hope until the very end. the massive search, if successful would be the deepers underwater rescue is using buoys that they dropped into the water
see the wreckage of the titanic. this hour the supply of oxygen is rapidly running out. we ll show you what conditions are like inside the small, cramped sub that left with five people on board. china is now lashing out at the united states after president joe biden referred to chinese leader xi jinping as a dictator. this as cnn is getting an exclusive look at military drills preparing for a potential chinese invasion of taiwan. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the massive search for the missing submersible. the source of banging sounds in the area remains a mystery at this hour but they are giving rescue crews hope. when you are in the middle of a search and rescue you always have hope. that s why we re doing what we do. reporter: with what could be less than 24 hours of oxygen left onboard titan, hope at this point may rest on banging noises detected by sonar. the coast guard re
welcome to our viewer in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. and we begin with donald trump s arrest and arraignment in the classified documents case. the washington post reports that trump rejected efforts by one of his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to return the documents and avoid indictment. post says chris kise wanted to negotiate with the doj back in the fall after the fbi found more than 100 class filed documents at mar-a-lago. but cnn spoke to sources close to trump s legal team and they cast doubt on whether that was a real opportunity to settle. and merrick garland is depending the special counsel behind the trump indictment, jack smith. paula reid has more. reporter: speaking for the first time since former president trump was indicted mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. reporter: attorney general merrick garland standing by special counsel jack smith who was prosecuting former president trump and ad
The now muddy nevada desert. Plus, an escaped killer on the loose. The search intensifying after a convict was caught on a home surveillance video. And ukraines fired Defense Minister, president zelenskyy sacking him in the middle of crucial counteroffenses. Hi there, welcome to a special Holiday Edition of early start. Im david culver. We start with what is anything but a relaxing Holiday Weekend for Tens Of Thousands of people at the burning Manifest Value in the nevada desert. They are trapped in a sea of mud out there this morning. What a mess out there. Theyre waiting for organizers to give the allclear to exit the site. That is expected to happen sometime today. Amid a downpour friday and saturday transformed the Dry Desert Dirt into thick claylike mud that traps bikes and organizers alike. Organizers asked the attendees to shelter in place and shelter and food. And also plans to set fire to the iconic Burning Man Effigy in tonight. Police out there are investigating one death at
Averting a shutdown. Congress gets back to work. And an old problem needs solving again. Muddy and messy. Deplorable conditions at the Burning Man Festival. Ukraine shakes up its military leadership. How a new Defense Minister could make a difference in the war with russia. The u. S. Senate returns To Washington Today Facing A Packed Schedule and a ticking clock. Pressure is building on the u. S. Capital, lawmakers a few weeks left to make a deal and avoid g shutdown. Members of the u. S. House arent back until next week, but conservative republican hardliners are already pressuring House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy to stick to strict guidelines on any deal. They dont want to make any concessions, but mccarthy and the white house are seeking a shortterm bill that would put a bandaid on the problem for now, moving the issue months down the road. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez has more details on those negotiations. Reporter as Congress Returns from recess this month, the white house is asking lawmak