what was an incredibly tragic day? seeing refugees streaming in this turned into a violent night? they seemed terrible things experienced unimaginable hardships to come this far. what happens now? the, the lot now to the city of boston, where search and rescue officials are holding a briefing about the missing some muscle. calling the briefing, the joint information center staff. and i will be here to help you with any of your further needs may now please introduce rear admiral john lager the this morning. and the r o v are remote operated vehicle from the vessel horizon,

our tech discovered the tao cone of the titan submersible. approximately 1600 feet from the valve of that titanic on the sea floor. the r o b subsequently found additional debris in consultation with experts from with in the unified command. the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. upon this determination, we immediately notified the family. on behalf of the united states coast guard and the entire unified command, i offer my deepest condolences to the families. i can only imagine what this has been like for them. and i hope that this

discovery, it provides some solace during this difficult time. additionally, we've been in close contact with the british and french consul general to ensure that they are fully apprised and that their concerns are being addressed. the outpouring of support and this highly complex search operation has been robust and immensely appreciate that we are grateful for the rapid mobilization of experts on the under the search and rescue. and we think all of the agencies in person now for their role and the response. we're also incredibly grateful for this full full spectrum of international assistance that's been provided. the

reviews will remain on seeing and continue to gather information. again, our most heartfelt condolences go out to the loved ones of the crew will now take questions. this was a uh, incredibly complex case. and we're still working to develop the details for the timeline involved with this casualty and the response and to provide the

so this is an incredibly complex uh, operating environment on the sea floor over 2 miles beneath the surface. and so uh the, the remote operating vehicle has been searching and it is highly capable. and we've been able to classify parts of the pressure chamber for the tight and submersible. let me refer to one of my under c experts here, mr. paul hank and to talk about the nature of some of the debris. okay. so essentially we found a 5 different major pieces of, of debris that told us that it was the remains of the tide. the initial thing we found was the nose cone, which was outside of the pressure all we then found in large debris fields within

that large debris field of we found the front and belt of the pressure home. that was a 1st indication that there was a catastrophic event. surely there, after we found the i seconds smaller debris field within that debris field. we found the, the other end of the pressure hall that they asked and bill which was basically the surprise that you took out of that pressure vessel. we continue to map the debris field and as i said, we will do the best we can to fully map out what's down there.

so, so the questions was related. i'm restating the question from the standpoint of us . sometimes it's hard to hear the question here. what are the prospects for re recovering crew members? and so this is a incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor. uh and uh, the debris is consistent with a catastrophic uh, implosion of the vessel. and so we'll continue to work and continue to search the area down there, but i don't have an answer for a prospect at this time. so

the question was, is, or any question as to whether or not this i'm collided with, the direct an act or whether it's uh, imploded above and debris field created from that. uh so the uh, the, the location of the titan submersible was in an area that was approximately 1600 feet. uh, from uh, the uh, wreck of the titanic. uh, i have uh, an expert here that can, that is familiar with that area and can talk about uh, the debris field and, and what's uh, the debris field indicates in terms of, uh, the where the casualty may have occurred to me when we call back i think your ad role. uh so the question is, where does the rack lie in relation to the titanic? i didn't hear the admiral's uh answer. i think 1600 feet. is that correct?

uh so that's uh, that's off the valve titanic. it's in an area where there is not any debris of titanic, it is a smooth bottom there to my knowledge in anything i've seen. there's no titanic wreckage in that area. and again, 200 plus meters from about inconsistent. what's the location of last communication for an implosion in the water column and the size of the debris field is consistent with that implosion in the water column. okay, so the question was about the timing of the catastrophic implosion. right now, it is too early to tell. with that, we know that as we've been prosecuting this search uh over the course of the last,

uh 72 hours and beyond that we've had sown our boys in the water nearly continuous age and have not detected any catastrophic events when those on our boys have been in the water so so we will, the question was, what happens from here? what, what's the next phase? and so right now, again, our thoughts are with the families and making sure that they have an understanding as fast as we can provide of, of, of what happened and, and begin to find some closure in terms of the large process. we're going

to continue to investigate the side of the debris field. and then i know that there's also a lot of questions about how, why and when did this happen. and so, you know, those are questions that we will are collect as much information as we can on uh now while uh, the governments are, are meeting and, and discussing. uh, you know what, uh, uh, an investigation of this, uh, nature of, uh, a casualty might look like. this is something that happened. i'll just just remind everybody, this is something that happened in a remote portion of the, of the ocean. uh, with uh, uh, people uh from you know, uh, several different countries around the world. uh and so it is a complex case to work through, but i'm,

i'm confident that those questions will begin to get answered the the, the uh, the uh, the question was, uh, was there any suggestion that time factors uh, may have played uh a role or, or consideration and the, the casualty here, and so the debris field is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel. again, while we were prosecuting the search, we had listening devices in the water throughout and did not hear any signs of catastrophic failure from those. and so we're going to continue to investigate

or we're going to continue to document the information there and, and understand based on all the information we have, the, the timeline. so the question was, what, what are the resources required for the investigation? and what ships will be pulling out and staying and, and so it's, it's too early for me to talk about an investigation. that's a decision that's going to be taken outside of the search and, and efforts that i was leading in. but we do have a number of vessels. we have 9 vessels on the scene right now. we had medical personnel on seeing, we had other technicians on seeing. and so we will begin to d, mobilize personnel and vessels from the scene over the course of the

next 24 hours. but we're going to continue are remote operations on the sea floor. and, and i don't have a timeline for when we would intend to stop remote operations on the sea floor at the b r. c rated. yeah, there's the question was essentially about, do you think that there should be changes and safety ratings or inspection for the standards? i know that there's a lot of questions about why, how when this happened in and the members of the unified command, you know, have those questions to as, as professionals and experts that work in this environment. and this has then it an incredibly difficult and dangerous environment to work in out there. but those,

those questions about the regulations that apply and, and the standards that's going to be, i'm sure focus a future review. right now. we're focused on documenting the, the scene and, and continue and stuff so throughout the search efforts we reacted to the information that we had available to us. and while we continued to send it off for deep, deeper analysis, again, really complex uh, operating environment for us to work in. uh,

let me check yeah, with the experts, but there doesn't appear to be any connection between the noises and uh, uh, the location uh on the sea floor. again, uh, this was a catastrophic implosion of the vessel which would have generated a significant broadband sound down there that the sort of bullies would have picked up the . okay, this was a, uh, incredibly uh, complex operation. uh and uh,

we were able to mobilize an immense amount, a gear, uh to the side and uh, just a really remarkable amount of time. uh, given the fact that we started without any sort of vessel response plan for this or any sort of pre stage resources. and so the equipment that was brought on site this morning uh that we were using uh, was a pelagic r o b capable of operating at 6000 meters cameras on our, uh, other uh, articulating arms and resources on it. uh and its uh, you know, we had to transport it here through c. 17 uh, aircraft is 2 aircraft that it's hard to get this up here. and so we've really had the, the rates gear on site and worked as us as, as swiftly as possible to bring all of the capabilities that we had to bear to this

search and rescue new efforts. and it was just a huge international and enter agency effort to make this happen. so i'm, i'm really grateful for all of the responders that came out to support this. and, and really, you know, search uh for uh, for the vessel. it is a difficult day for all of us and it's especially difficult uh for the families in our thoughts or with the families today. but this was an immense support and we had the right here on the bottom to to find it that was near. i don't know. don't know the from the u. s. coast guard confirming the loss of the titans semester will say you said that a remote operation vehicle had discovered the tail coating of tighten around 1600

feet. us around 450 meters, a bit more than that from the bottom of the titanic on the sea floor. and they subsequently found additional debris and the debris was consistent with a catastrophic, most of the pressure chamber. and they will say no to find the families and give them that content been condolences or the assumption is that the crew and passengers who died and they will create, keep the results of the underwater way of what's on the scene for further investigations to try and find out a bit more about why and how and when this will happen, gabriel is on those in the city of boston. the headquarters is that search and rescue operation. so them use that to everyone was hoping wouldn't come has come now. yeah, that's right. you just heard it there live the coast guard confirming that there was a catastrophic failure in the titan submersible. and that it essentially imploded, obviously killing all 5 people on board immediately given the depths that this took

place, a coast guard also saying that the debris field was about 400 meters off the style of the titanic wreckage. to give you some sort of idea where this debris field was at, they said they will continue to search in the area at the depths of the sea, trying to gather any pieces of the debris, to presumably bring up to the surface to begin some sort of investigation, but it's clear that after since sunday, so pushing almost 5 days now of searching for this a submersible, they found it. and sort of the worst case fears if you will, coming true that there was that catastrophic failure. and that all people on board were killed and killed immediately in terms of the grim task of any sort of remains. no indication of that,

given the depth of the down there and a very difficult environments down more than 3 kilometers uh, from the surface of, of the, of the ocean. but there's also all sorts of questions now about how, why, when and the coast guard is you heard they're saying we have some of the same questions that we're going to start asking ourselves in the coming days and weeks in terms of certification of experimental devices. there's experimental submersible such as this training, all sorts of things now are going to be questions now are going to be asked and need to be answered in the coming days and weeks and gave it as a pointed out. so it was an international rescue operation, was that equipment built from all sorts of places? and one of the elements during the last few days was whether it's noises that were heard and perhaps gave people a sense of,

of hope. tell us more about how that cato yeah, there was questions about those noises that were apparently heard. and we asked them about that. and it's clear that those noises probably did not have anything to do with this catastrophic event. because he said, if this would have happened, they've had sooners down there for over 72 hours picking up noises. so he said, if this implosion occurred in the last few days, they would have heard it from his owners sooner devices. so clearly this, the insinuation is that this happened on sunday when the, when the immersive all went down to, to, to go explore the titanic. and that these noises that we heard over the last couple days. probably were not from that catastrophic event because they would have heard it much louder than what the noise is they heard. so listen, there's going to be

a lot of questions moving forward. also questions about how long it took to get these under water devices, these unmanned underwater devices. they could get down to the depths of the titanic . they just arrived this morning. why did it take so long? well, they came from far away, one came from france, another one came from another part of canada. again, this is over 1300 kilometers off the coast of boston. nearly nearly 600 kilometers off the coast of uh, of canada. so this is incredibly remote area, but there's gonna be questions of, you know, could they have gotten something there sooner. but the bottom line is, if there was a catastrophic implosion that happened on sunday, nothing could have saved the people that were on that vessel. thank you very much. indeed, doug gabriel is on the 9th from us and thank you. the

is present. joe barton and indian from is to new engineers. d has hailed a booming relationship between the 2 countries. on moody's 1st state visit to washington to have discussed the war and ukraine. economic toys and security in the asia pacific region are now to our white house correspondent, kimberly how kitchen it can be. what, what are the areas that they that they agreed on? oh, well, they certainly have agreed in the area of defense of economic partnership. in fact, there's been a number of agreements that have been signed. the agreements include india is procurement of us made c, guardian, drones. there certainly have also been purchases of new semi conductor testing packaging units. and also the united states has ease visa restrictions to allow for more indian work or a skilled work for us to come to the united states. so there's a real clear understanding that they want to try. it expands the economic

relationship, the defense partnership, and that has a lot to do with the growing influence of china. there is a desire on the part of the united states to really counter the growing influence of china. there is another reason for this, a partnership. if you will, and that is that the united states is concerned about the partnership that has increasingly been built between india and russia. the fact that india has increasingly purchased oil and gas for russia at one time, there was very little being purchased now. almost half of the gas that is purchased from russia, from the sea is bought by india. and that is of great concern to the united states as well. the fact that the united nations, the india has repeatedly abstained from votes that have sought to seek to really come down hard on russia when it comes to a,

it's invasion of ukraine. and so this has been a full bits of discussions in the oval office between india's prime minister in the us president. and so this is something that they have really thought to discuss in expanding their relationship, really trying to resolve that conflict with diplomacy, as well as dialogue. so this is what this conversation is about. this is what this meeting is about, furthering that relationship. one that they believe will not only benefit india and the united states, but also the world, both of the float in terms of diplomacy and also in terms of the economy. and give me what's next on the, on the opportunity as well right now, the indian leader is on capitol hill. he is set to address a joint session of the us congress. so we should point out, this is a,

is an honor that many were leaders have bestowed on them, but what they don't typically have is both that opportunity to address a joint session of congress as well as a state dinner. in fact, it is a bite and presidency. only one other leader has had the opportunity to have that double honor if you will, not. soft free is later. and so that really shows just how important this relationship is to the 5 in white house. but we should also tell you that many feel that this is not an honor, that no renter a body should be bestowed or have to start upon. given the fact that many believe that he is the human rights abusers, the fact that the many a leg she has been persecuting muslims that his own country, that he has been cracking down on the independence of the judiciary using government institutions for uh, for persecution purposes and also that there has been the lack of a freedom of the press freedom of speech and so on. and as a result, i can tell you that 70 members of the us congress has sent

a letter to joe biden saying that he shouldn't be having such a state dinner for the indian leader. and also their members of congress will be boycotting this joint session of congress. kimberly, how can thank you very much. indeed. the united states is suspended mediation talks on the conflict industry. don officials have said the format is not succeeding in american delegation has been holding discussions in jetta. alongside of negotiating team from saudi arabia. they've helped to broker several sees files between saddam's army and the rapids support forces, but fighting as laundry continued in spite of the truce deals. solution to fall into the officials and it has on an crime is a ukrainian missile has hit a bridge connecting the 2 regions of the trunk. a bridge is known as the gate to crime in russia next to trains. com in peninsula in 2014. he has governance as the bridge was struck by storm shadow miss all supplied by the u. k. nadine baba his

most damage but not destroyed the trunk bridge. lincoln crimea, and it's kind of still in provence, in southern ukraine. it's one of the root is the russian forces lose to move between crimea unexpired rusher in 2014, and other parts of ukraine under russia's control, russian appointed officials say the bridge was hit by a type of long range missile the fronts in the u. k. you have given you cranes military, judith for you. this is another meaningless act pub attracted by the key for a game on orders from london. it solves nothing as far as the special military operation has come, centers, officials in crimea, se repairing the damage could take several weeks. in moscow, president vladimir putin was at the time of the unknown soldier. commemorating the anniversary of the nazi invasion of the soviet union. the also chat a session of the national security council here, defense minister said again, showing you tells him ukrainian forces are decreasing their activity on the front

line and regrouping, but could still mounts offensive actions by whose it is up. indeed, it looks like the ukraine's west and allies decided to fight russia till the last ukrainian. however, we must assume that the enemy's offensive potential has not been exhausted yet. a number of strategic reserves haven't know them deployed. can you ship an? the ukraine's counter offensive began in the southern region of a separate he's young earlier this month. but in the woods it presidents, the landscape progress has been slow within desired. and this video released on thursday, he claims ukraine's intelligence services have information that rushes, putting an incident to release radiation from this upper region nuclear power plant, the largest in europe. so enough that are not to, there should never be any terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants. and by this time it should not be likely to hold the world has been worn. and so the world can at most equitable when the criminal has dismissed. the allegation is another lie.

this week, ukraine's military intelligence chief accused russia of mining, the cooling pon, that used to keep the react as cool. ukrainian troops of fired on the front line, the russian, i've done yet skipping some days. but there's nothing to suggest only this article making any real gains here or else with that evolved, but i'll just share the numbers here. these are the top stories. the u. s. coast guard has confirmed its search team is discovered. remnants of a missing some noticeable near the wreck of the titanic saying funding is were consistent with a catastrophic implosion. the company that owns the vessel has said that moons the loss of the 5 crew members in consul.