is considered to be guilty for criminally trying to bring narcotics into the russian federation and been sentenced to nine years of jail time and 1 million rubles, around $16,400 u.s. dollars in a fine. of course, nine years in extremely long period of time. that nine years in a penal colony. they said there was mitigating circumstances like the fact she had pleaded guilty, she had admitted her guilt and other things, as well. obviously, she was a high class individual and someone who is very important to the russian federation, nevertheless, an extremely harsh sentence and i want to read to you a little bit because also the lawyers for brittney griner have already voiced their disappointment and said we re disappointed by the verdict as legal professionals, we believe the court should be fair to everyone regardless of nationality. the court completely ignored all the evidence of dvnltefense andt importantly, the guilty flea. the defense is extremely
haven t asked. we ve not gotten an answer yet. besides the orion, bluefin-21, there s other submersibles that potentially could be used. that s right. there is something called the rimas-6,000. it is a lot like the bluefin. autonomous underwater vehicle. it can go 6,000 meters, 3.7 miles below the surface. about a mile deeper than the bluefin. the problem is the navy, the u.s. navy, has three of these things, but they say all three are on military missions. they re tasked to do other things. the navy won t tell us anything more. we get the sense maybe it s classified. they say basically those are not available. now, what phoenix international has just told us is they re considering now tweaking the bluefin that s out there to be able to go 5,000 meters deep. that s 16,400 feet. a little bit more than 1,500 more than it can go now and about 3.1 miles down. this vehicle out there now in
don t know exactly where it is. these could be off a little bit, but i just want to show you some of the features that we are going to be dealing with. we do know a broken ridge and a plateau in the areas they re searching. take you under the water now and some areas 16,400 feet where that ping is detected. estimated to be about 14,000 feet below the surface. some of the deepest amounts up to 20,000 feet and then you have the plateau that raises up to about 10,000 feet. so, these are very, very deep features. i also want to put this in perspective for you. this is incredible. we picked some of the tallest structures in the world and look at this. the eiffel tower stands at about 1,000 feet. this is 13,000 feet. this is the perspective. you have to stack 10 to 13 on top of each other to equal the depth of where we re talking about the empire state building
latitude. so we re very close to some very cold water, but that said, the indian ocean is one of the warmest in the world. so very warm temperatures expected out there. this is also a very deep ocean with an average depth of 12,000 feet. so two miles. that makes it very difficult to find any debris that could have gone to the deep part of the water. the very deepest point of the indian ocean, 24,000 feet. it s covered by a length knowns a the plateau surrounded by water as deep as 16,400 feet deep, so this is going to make it very tough finding debris out here. of course this has not been confirmed. but that s what we know right now. a lot of planes out there or at least on the way to help in this search, including the u.s. navy. we hope that they re very
would be better off. martha: a lot of agreement on that one. bob and rich, thank you very much. bob, we ll see you tonight. bill: quick check of markets. dow closing 16,400 on monday. we ll keep eye on the markets. apparently not a whole economic news to chew up on or chew out on or chew over or any of that chewing stuff. 16,407 at the moment. martha. martha: when we come back we ll talk about the missing jumbo jet. how does this happen? where out there in that vast ocean or even on land is malaysia airways flight 370? why officials are saying that finding this plane may be a lot harder than you might think. bill: also the beebs showing serious attitude. justin bieber legal deposition with attorneys showing the pop star may need to act more like an adult next time. remember earlier today, when