Any minute, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell is set to speak on the floor of the senate for the First Time Since his latest Freezing Episode as questions swirl about the future of his leadership. Were monitoring those remarks. The man hunt for a dangerous escaped murderer is now expanding. Pennsylvania Authorities Say the convicted killer was spotted outside of the original search area. Two School Districts closed their doors as hundreds of Law Enforcement officers deployed to help with the search. And more than 50 years after his heroic actions in vietnam, retired Army Captain Larry Taylor will be honored at the white house. Captain taylor will receive the nations highest Military Award. We are following these latest developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. This hour on capitol hill, the senate is back in session after its august break, and many eyes and ears are going to be trained on the minority leader. Any moment now were expecting to he
This as cnn has exclusively reported on the Special Counsels 2020 election probe. Also tonight, the u. S. Warns north korea it will pay a price if kim jongun arms, helps arm Vladimir Putins war in ukraine. Ill ask key white house official john kirby about that and the prospect of a kim putin being in russia. The manhunt for a Fugitive Killer expanding right now after a Security Camera catches a glimpse of the escaped convict in pennsylvania. Outside the original search area. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. We begin with Breaking News right now. The former chairman of the proud boys was just sentenced moments ago in connection with the january 6th attack. Cnn senior justice Cover Ant Evan Perez is outside the federal courthouse here in washington. Evan, enrico dario got 22 years, 22 years in prison. Tell us more about this very significant sentence. Reporter thats right, wolf.
appears to have come from a boeing 777, potential from malaysian flight 370. that stunned people, because this piece of debris was suffered so very far from the original search areas that teams have been exploring for months. tom foreman is standing by for us. to find this 2300 miles away from the original search area, but experts say it s perfectly possible debris did drift that far? it sounds impossible, and 2300 is the smallest measurement. remember we ve been talking about search areas over here off the coast of australia, and now we re talking about finding this debris over here. yes, at least 2300 miles away. the width of the united states or more, and yet take a look at this animation that scientists put together. if you were to drop something in here, what would the natural currents do? the natural currents in fact do push steadily over this
floor, once this mapping has been completed. the mapping of the ocean floor is currently engaging two vessels. the chinese survey ship and an australian contractor vessel. these are in the areas that have been identified by the atsb. it will take around three months to complete this mapping survey. but that gives crucial information about the nature of the sea floor terrain which make it possible to undertake the underwater search. i repeat that this area has never been comprehensively mapped previously. and so to put new equipment down into that area, without having a clear knowledge of what the sea floor is like certainly risks the operation and the capacity of that equipment to operate safely. now, we expect that the underwater search element will consequence in august and take
communications information. information which was never really intended to have the capability to track an aircraft. now, that process which has been going on now for several weeks is complete. the new priority area is still focused on the same seventh arc in the southern indian ocean where the aircraft last communicat communicated. we are currently focusing our search effort further south. the area has been subject to aerial and visual searching for wreckage and debris. now we will move to an underwater search. again, i want to reiterate that this area of the sea is very deep. three to five kilometers, it s estimated and it is largely unmapped. the transport and safety bureau