reporter: pretty dramatic. they took place across several sites in paris this morning. we learned the 2022 paris organizations committee says it is cooperating fully with investigators. two different investigations. one that was launched in 2017 looking at the investigating committee looking at allegations of embezzlement of public funds, favoritism when it comes to awarding of contracts. the second investigation is targeting the company, the public company that is responsible for the construction, infrastructure work here in the french capital ahead of those games and it also is looking at allegations launched in 2022 of favoritism when it comes to the awarding of contracts and that sort of thing. so pretty serious allegations. we don t know yet what exactly they are looking for. this happens within the framework of those investigations. these raids quite common of course. they if in without announcing
air national guard flew patterns roughly the size the state of connecticut. today we have underwater seven capability on scene and so we are going to be using that to see if we can locate the submersible in the water. what was the last time there was any contact with the submersible? we understand from ocean gate expedition that the last time that they were in contact with the submersible was about an hour and 45 minutes into the dive on sunday. you told nbc news this morning that the company oceangate expeditions is actually leading the seven. that was surprising to hear. is that correct? if so, can you explain why? sure. in my lead planner for the coast guard goes by the title of the sar mission coordination, search and rescue mission coordinator. we don t have all the
2018. dave, give us some context of the space, the size. you re there. imagine you and four others. what can you tell us from being inside it? victor, to be clear,is was onboard above ground or on the surface. not in water. but i did several stories on oceangate during my time reporting in seattle. in 2018 i did that story that you are seeing on titan, this submersible that s now missing. we went to oceangate headquarters in everitt, washington, we sinterviewed the crew and sat inside the vessel. what struck me, what you saw in that cbs report, was how simple some of the technology seemed. it is this tiny vessel. it s very cramped. it s small. it only fits five people onboard and it s operating, as you saw, operated as you saw by a gaming controller. what looks like a playstation controller. yet the company was confident
that this vessel could safely make this remarkable journey, could dive 13,000 feet into the ocean and handle 150 million pounds of pressure at the ocean floor. the company s ceo stockton rush told me that the pressure vessel, that it s a carbon fiber structure of titan could handle that pressure no problem, that they had not cut corners when it came to costs or when it came to safety. in fact, in all of my interviews, every oceangate crew member, including the ceo, talked about safety and talked about how confident they were in this technology. they said they worked with nasa and boeing to design titan. that said, we learned that titan had some communication issues in the past, they lost communication with support crew on expeditions before that cbs news report indicated that last year the vessel was lost for more than 2 1/2 hours unable to
able to reach support crews or first responders in the case of in case the vessel got lost. at this point we really don t know what newer tools might have been put in place or what sort of emergency beacon might be onboard. we have not heard about anything like that. again we are trying to get that information from oceangate and at this point they haven t said. if we were talking about a plane or a ship, we d search for regulation. we had search for numbers records. we search for oversight evidence. i want to put up on the screen what the company says on their website about certifications and regulation. it s pretty broad here. they say by definition innovation is outside of an already accepted system. however, this does not mean that oceangate does not meet standards where they are applied, but it means that innovation often falls outside of existing industry paradigms. so, gabe, you know not just the vessel, but the company, are they subject to government