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, we ha
David markay and christine denison, a specialist and ocean explorer. first to you, what do you expect? what is the latest? how likely is it that this is the debris field from the submersible? right. andrea, so within the past 15 minutes or so, the u.s. coast guard sent out a tweet saying that a debris field was discovered within the search area by an rov and experts within the unified command are evaluating that information. we learned more that it was found by the arctic horizon s rov a canadian ship, that has been on the sea floor since early this morning combing the area around the titanic wreckage. there is a press conference from the u.s. coast guard scheduled for 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. we re told it will be the rear admiral, the man who is in charge of this entire operation, who will be giving that briefing. we re hoping to learn more at
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
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
An rov to hoist you out of danger. sadly, i think we re looking atl a tragic ending. christine and tim and captain marquet and tom, standby. joining us is russell honoree involved in many search and rescue missions. this was, colonel, just an extraordinary challenge for the coast guard. trng it is. it and it s a good reason why they have brought in theas navy and evennd civilian assets are workg at that depth. at that i had experience when i was at the pentagon working for the chairman of the joint chiefs and the national military command center and as a respondent to white house requests for those o type missions i ve dealt with three of these, the russian submarine that wentth off cours dealt with the kennedy airplanen that was lost off the coast. and twa. and egyptian 300.n