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a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. time is of the essence for the frantic mission to find the titan submersible that has been missing since sunday with officials fearing oxygen may have run out. we re going to break down what is next for the search, which continues. in texas, four people are dead after a tornado ripped through a small town. part of a brutal string of summer storms pummeling the state as residents grapple with scorching temperatures. india s prime minister modi in the white house for his official state president with president biden. we ll talk about it with national security council coordinator john kirby. we begin this morning with a desperate race to locate that missing submersible with heightened sense of dread looming over the search because the coast guard projected that the five-person crew would have run out of oxygen about four hours ago. earlier rear admiral john mauger told nbc news the coast guard will continue to search ....
Hours ago. earlier rear admiral john mauger told nbc news the coast guard will continue to search throughout the day. reporter: this is what they re looking for. the titan is just 22 feet long. this is to scale. five people, all men, are on board. and when you look at how small this is relatively speaking, you can see why it is so difficult to find in an ocean that is just so incredibly vast. thch vessel itself has four electric thrusters that move at a speed of about three knots, roughly 3 1/2 miles per hour. search crews have already scoured a surface area twice the size of connecticut. and two and a half miles deep. that s about how deep the titanic lies, where the titan was headed. no sunlight, frigid cold, the pressure is just immense. the titan is made up of titanium ....