minister for a state visit. looking at pictures there now, india of course a critical ally to the united states at a time when relations with china are more strained. and then in the north atlantic ocean, a final push to findsubmersible, the big question this hour, have they run out of air. and we want to begin with that story, the critical deadline in the search for that submersible with five people on board that went missing on a voyage to the titanic. the u.s. coast guard estimates that oxygen may have run out as two new search vessels arrived this morning. we want to go right to tom costello. bring us up to date, where are we on search efforts this morning? reporter: absolutely. and from boston coast guard command center, here s the latest. we are now well past that 96-hour window when they thought air might start to just simply be gone, that it might be exhausted inside that sub. keep in mind, the sub went into the water sunday morning 8:00 a.m. or so, and so now we
comment that we ve been talking about that the president made during that fundraiser on tuesday where he called chinese president xi a, quote, dictator. and so this is seen as sort of a wider advantage to be able to counter that chinese aggression with a key ally in that part of the globe. and so we expect these two to have a bilateral meeting in the oval office. they ll then hold a press conference early this afternoon. prime minister modi will then head to capitol hill to address congress before coming back here to the white house for this state dinner. they re expected to announce a list of initiatives, economic initiatives, military initiatives that represent the partnership between these two countries. we also expect modi to sort of make the case for why the u.s. should increase economic ties and commerce with india rather than china. so a lot at stake, a lot to watch coming out of this meeting
prime minister modi. after this they will then move on to the oval office in which they will hold a bilateral meeting and take questions from the press. the prime minister also addressing a joint session of congress around 4:00 p.m., and you all saw the pomp and circumstance leading up to the address there on the south lawn. the president reiterating the strong bond as he put it between our two nations and the partnership that we have as we spoke about with allie raffa a little bit earlier. this partnership coming at a very critical time between the united states and china and the fallout from that relationship certainly india with the fifth biggest economy in the world and continuing their relationships with both russia and china. that is sure to come up certainly, of course, in the bilateral meeting between these two leaders. of course we re going to be watching what comes out of the prime minister here today along with the bilateral meeting as
speaking now on the south lawn. let s listen in. [ speaking non-english ] i m honored to be the first to have you here in 15 years. the united states is honoring and hosting an official visit of the republic of india. prime minister modi, welcome back to the white house. [ cheers and applause ]
president s held during the president s term, and there s been some criticism over this rolling out of the red carpet for the prime minister for a couple reasons. there s been criticism over the fact that india has been reluctant to really take a side in ukraine s war with russia. we know that india has continued to buy russian oil since this war began. there s also been criticism of modi s really sharpening and directing towards authoritarianism. there s been criticism that there s been some abuse of muslims in india, and so what is what the white house sees as this key partnership as a tradeoff in strengthen his partnership with india as a key ally to be able to counter this increasingly aggressive china, we talked about how sensitive the relations between the u.s. and china are right now, especially in the wake of that