traveling 400 miles to the site of the title 42 for a ten-hour journey two miles below the ocean surface to explore the breckage. there were five people onboard. less than two hours after their descent they stopped communicating with the parent ship. the u.s. navy detected a sound that could have been an implosion in area and reportedly forwarded that information to the incident commander. that was not release olympicly. rescuers needed to find it quickly because it had 96 of ox. over the next hour, step by step through the five-day search for missing submersible, everything we know about what happened to the titani and its passengers the risks of going so far down into the ocean and the warnings that had been raised about the titan submersible. just into cnn, a deep sea search and rescue mission with life or death consequences. there was a rush to find a submersible that ferries people to the wreckage the titanic. the united states and canadian coast guards have la
now. not giving up. crews frantically searching for the missing submersible. they re desperately trying to rescue the five human beings before they run out of the oxygen. i will speak to a person who has been on the missing submersible before. and i ll speak with a man who says there is hope tonight. anti-vaxxers stalking and harassing one of the top vaccine experts after he criticized rfk engineer s crusade. let s got outfront. good evening. holding out hope. underwear noises detected in the search area for the missing titanic bound sub is raising the possibility they are still alive. time is running out. there could be hours left. the coast guard estimated this time last night, the sub had about 34 hours of beliefable air left. if there s still life support available on the submersible, and we will continue to hold out hope until the very end. the massive search, if successful would be the deepers underwater rescue is using buoys that they dropped into the water
the noises were heard by a canadian p-3. and that was this morning and some yesterday. reporter: the noise described as banging sounds at regular intervals in the department and homeland security briefing are now described as less specific than that. but still, the focus of the search. we need to have hope, right? i can t tell you what the noises are. what i can tell you, and i think this is the most important point. we re searching where the noises are. reporter: the sounds picked up by buoys like this one dropped from planes. and then listening for any sounds of life from the titan submersible. this team has multiple sensors. they re in the area. they re sending data back expeditiously to the best in the world. reporter: it takes about a day for ships from st. john s, the closest land, to the titanic wreck site to arrive to the search area. it is enormous. two times the size of connecticut. a grid pattern presented by the coast guard indicates the size of the
states, along the eastern seaboard. new york city has ordered an unprecedented evacuation, of 370,000 people. some of america s biggest cities are now bracing for the worst. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we want to start with chris lawrence, he s joining us from maryland, the chesapeake beach, right now, chris, this powerful storm is moving in your direction, what are you seeing and what are you feeling? reporter: i feel very wet, and i can feel a tremendous amount of wind, that kicked up in the last few hours. where i m standing now and a lot of the areas right around it, earlier this morning when we were here at 11:00 in the morning or noon, this was sand and very quickly over the past few hours, we have seen the tide start to rise and the winds get more and more intense here. it really says something, when you consider how far we still are from the a lot of these homes are bui
here. we re standing, a lot of this was beach. we got here this morning. quickly it s already risen several feet. i was talking to the mayor. he said one of the big worries in this area is when you go past here, there s homes that s built on a cliff. at this point their worries not so much the wind, this is not going to be the kind of storm here where the wind is going to do catastrophic damage, but what they are worried about is, it s moving so slowly, and it s going to hit right before high tide which comes about 3:30 in the morning here, that they are worried that there may be so much water brought into the areas quickly that it could erode a lot of the soil that these homes are built on a cliff. so he s been going around today trying to make sure, you know, people have left their homes or if they haven t that they are at least aware of the risk that they are taking by staying inside. wolf? even though everyone was strongly urged to leave where you are as you say, chris,