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
expected to run out of the oxygen at 7:08 eastern time this morning. that is literally one hour and seven minutes from now. right now officials are unsure if those reported underwater banging noises are a sign of life but they are still treating it as a search and rescue operation. with respect to the noises specifically we don t know what they are to be frank with you. i can tell you it s inconclusive. again, i think the important pieces we re searching in the area where the noise was detected. todd: search expanded over 2.5 miles below the surface with more vessels and equipment joining. in crews are also surveying over 14,000 square miles, twice the size of the state of kentucky cut. we are learning more about the history of ocean gait expeditions report of technical issues on six prior trips. one passenger claiming he was on the suband lost contact two hours forcing early end to the journey. safety report detailed several concerns including whether it met safety standar
trial diversification which means his charges gets dropped if he doesn t do drugs. this plea deal actually goes against justice department guidelines on the tax and the gun charge. this isn t a plea deal. this is a cover-up. hunter biden s attorney says the case is closed. this was an investigation into fara violations which is now you register to work with a foreign government if you are an american citizen. money laundering. again, five years and what they came up with is two misdemeanor tax counts. that s the resolution we have is that mr. biden is going to take responsibility for failing to timely pay his taxes for those two years? is this the end of it? my understanding is that we are done. jesse: they are done because the prosecutors never even cracked open the laptop. the laptop has evidence of money laundering, bribery sex trafficking, wire fraud. foreign lobbying crimes kickbacks and racketeering. almost as if the laptop wasn t a part of the investigation wel
20 minutes joined by a friend of one of those people trapped in the vessel but we have a lot of news out of d.c. this morning. let s get to this. hunter biden is set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges related to his tax filings. brian: many are calling his agreement a sweetheart deal that s why we put it in bold in the prompter. drop his felony drug charge after two years of probation. house republicans say they won t stop their investigations. ainsley: lucas tomlinson joins us. good morning. the chairman of the house oversight committee says he wants to see transparency. he says he s not getting it. unfortunately, we saw a lot of redactions in these documents. i would estimate that 55 to 60% of the two documents were redacted. it s just a complete waste of my time. it s another example of the fbi stalling, stonewalling, doing everything they can to obstruct the house oversight committee s credible investigation of biden bribery. bill barr says the justice d
re-election bid. rich edson live at the white house with the latest for us. good morning. president biden begins second day in california in san francisco meeting with those artificial intelligence experts as the white house says to seize the opportunities and manage the risks of a.i. technology. yesterday was all about climate. president biden touring a march land in palo alto, california. announced $600 million in funding to help mitigate the effects of climate change. the president took the opportunity to rip republicans for trying to reverse climate initiatives like this as biden has started campaigning for re-election. we re investing in the people and places that have been hit the hardest. but who are also on the front lines of leading us forward. unfortunately, some of our maga republican friends in congress are continuing to try undo all the progress we have already made in the first two and a half years. they were holding the country hostage over the debt limit