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me. i m jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. and right now on andrea mitchell reports, search crews and loved ones fearing the worse for the five people on board the small submersible with the coast guard discovering a debris field within the search area. i ll speak to former u.s. commander in just a few moments. a district judge is about to unseal documents revealing just who paid the $500,000 bond to keep disgraced congressman george santos out of jail after he turned himself in on federal criminal charges, including money laundering and wire fraud. and president biden is scheduled to hold a joint press conference with india s prime minister modi as the administration hosts a controversial leader, an ally they hope could be a military and economic counter weight to china, but closely tied to russia, accused of widespread human rights abuses. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington, ....
That point about what they think this debris could possibly be. of course, there s been a question since the beginning whether or not the titan was intact or not. they had been hoping that it was still intact and they would be able to go down, they do have the capability now on-site to get that low, to be able to somehow pull it up to the surface using a u.s. crane ship and that french rov that has the capabilities of hooking a cable to it. at this point, though, all they are saying is that there has been a debris field found in that area, andrea. and let me ask captain david, talk to me about what the situation is like? what were those forces that that submersible would have been contending with at 13,000 feet on the ocean floor? down at 13,000 feet, you re 380 times the pressure that we feel here at atmospheric pressure. it s the equivalent of the ....
They were hearing sounds and now talking about a debris field, the ocean can be a place where there s a lot of sound and there are a lot of debris fields, night. exactly. i mean, we re close to the titanic. the titanic broke apart on the surface. there s a lot of debris from titanic all over that area. so, you know, there s a lot of debris from lots of things. when we did twa flight 800 there was debris that stretched for a lot of the area that we searched in. i can t thank you enough for your time. i appreciate it. this is breaking news. we know what we know and we don t know what we don t know. i appreciate you coming and giving us the explanation. appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for ....
Told it s the size of a minivan. the equipment, some of it seemed off the shelf, not sophisticated. there had been questions about it. obviously, space and oh exploration is challenging. just the mission itself. thank you for having me on. i will agree with everything that the experts have been saying, that the debris field is potentially, the submersible, there is a great deal of debris on the ocean floor and in this area, one of the concerns i would have is that submersible at that pressure would have imploded, so possibly the debris field that we re talking about that they re going to hone in on may be the ballast that was supposed to bring the sub up in case of a catastrophic failure. it doesn t look good. i think that everyone out there is doing the very best. we ve got the best experts ....
Here in boston simply because ol jur dixship. because of the zone that they are in. they ve rushed in, the canadians on air and nad sea power, ameri in the air, we believe ships are en route from the coast guard.e you have the french vessel coming in, t dropping the deep e rov, and we re not sure if it was the french rov or the canadian rov today, that came down there to the titanic wreckage on the gr tound on the sea floor and spotted the debrir field. presumably, because the titanic debris site itself, the wreckage site, has been so well documented and so well photographed, people can tell the difference between debris from the titanic and fresh fh debris and as you would expect, the coast guard then put out the notification that there was a s debris site near the wreckage itself. that s great context. general honore, talk to us about ....