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newsroom, a desperate search, deep below the waves after a tourist submarine heading to the "titanic" crash site disappeared during descent. what we know about the search and who was onboard the craft. donald trump, facing new restrictions from the judge as his legal woes mount. but are voters paying attention to any of us? and the high-stakes meeting between the world superpowers. antony blinken says progress was made in his talks with china. but have tensions really eased? an urgent search and rescue mission is under way right now in the north atlantic ocean, for a missing submersible carrying five people to see the wreckage of the "titanic." three of the people onboard have been identified.

haimish harding is the founder. he wrote on instagram this mission would likely be the only manned mission to the "titanic" this year. and a pakistani businessman and his son were onboard, according to their family. the father is on the board of trustees at the setee group in california, a nonprofit group. the wreck of the "titanic" sits in two parts on the ocean floor, more than two miles or almost four kilometers below the surface. an official briefed reporters monday on the search efforts. >> it is a remote area. it is a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area. we are deploying all available assets to make sure that we can locate the craft and rescue the

people onboard. >> more, now, on the search from cnn's paula newton. >> reporter: the u.s. coast guard is taking the lead on this search and rescue mission. they confirm this is a challenging mission. they say this area in atlantic is remote. not only do they have to search a large area in challenging weather. we know that fog has rolled in. but the fact they have to search an area of the seabed as far as 2 1/2 miles down. that's where the "titanic" wreck is. that's when presumably they lost contact with the submersible. it's only 21 feet long. so, this will continue to be a challenge as the hours roll on here. i want you to listen to the u.s. coast guard. >> to make sure we're looking on

the surface, using aerial and surface vessels. and expanding into underwater search, as well. our capability is listening for sounds. we're working very hard to increase the capability. they are confirming on what they know from the company, ocean date exhibitions, they have 96 hours or thereabouts in total of emergency life support. that would include fuel and oxygen. they continue to can for resources to go to the region. the canadian armed forces will cycle fixed-wing aircraft through that area for the search. they are calling on commercial vessels to go to the area, as we continue to try to locate the submersible. when they lost contact with it on sunday afternoon, they had zero communication.

therefore, it makes it more difficult to pinpoint a search location. paula newton, cnn, ottawa. more on this story. i'm joined by rick armstrong who was a master diver with the u.s. navy. thank you for being with us. >> good evening. how are you? >> i'm doing well, thank you. this is a story that everyone is talking about. a question i keep being asked by people, how this submersible was able to lose contact with ocean exdecisions, given that it isn't self-sufficient. what sort of track ing technoloy is available here? >> titan is the name of the submersible, and did not have a navigation system what i read about the machine itself. they were guided in by sonar

from the surface. losing communication is a big deal, especially with this. that current and that kept the, losing communications is a major thing. they should have surfaced losing communication. that you would think that would be one of the emergency procedures. that said, it could be tangled in the wreck. many things could have happened. it's all speculative at this point. it is a search and rescue mission. they are looking for survivors, if you will. it's not a recovery operation at this point. >> given this search and rescue mission is challenging for so many reasons. not at least that, as i understand it, they need to simultaneously search the surface and the depths that go up to about 4,000 meters.

how will they approach locating the submersible? >> the fastest way would be remote-operated vehicles. unmanned underwater vehicles, as well. an rov would be the fastest method, if they can get one out there, in a rapid method. the way they land it on, say, they are bringing it from the states, they have to find a vessel to bring it out. how fast it could get out there. they may be able to fly it out, 400 miles, with a helicopter. there's a lot of logistics involved here. given the dire situation, i'm sure everyone is trying to expedite gear out to them in a rapid method. the rovs are capable. that's what they'll use for searching for this vessel.

as far as going in the water, nothing manned, that deep. it will probably be rovs. >> what agency, if any, do the passengers onboard have here to help the situation? >> the coast guard right now, is leading this recovery or search ands rekah operation. there's a special diving firm that offered up equipment. and they're very capable. they do this on oil rigs and deep diving. their operators are some of the best in the world. the supervisor salvaged, if they're tasked to go and do so.

it's a matter of moving the equipment. it's rather large. getting it out to the site on time. you're talking about hours of gas left of oxygen for the survivors. they have 70 hours is what i read last. time is of the essence. it's a matter of getting it out there rapidly. getting on site and looking. it's a big wreck field. that's a small vessel. it's only 20 feet. finding that on a big wreck like that, that's going to be difficult. >> you touched on this briefly in one of your earlier answers and i'm not asking you to speculate. what hypothesis or scenarios will the teams be working on to find the submersible in terms of what might have happened? >> besides the surface search, they have ships and planes.

the water portion of it is -- the vessel is submerged from almost 1:40. it may have been on the wreck. there's a lot of stuff in wrecks. there's netting and lines and all kinds of things you get entangled in. that may be the case. they're entangled and can't communicate. an rov will help. they have arms. they have cameras and can look inside the vessel, see if the survivors are still alive. possibly cut them away from the wreck, if that's the case. it's a 23-feet vessel on a wreck the size of the "titanic," is a big search area. >> it is. rick armstrong, thank you for joining us. we're waiting and hoping to hear something positive. thank you for joining us. >> hopes and prayers for the

families and survivors. in india, a blistering heat wave is scorching parts of the country. officials say that 44 people have died in recent days, due to the high temperatures. the india meteorological office issued a red alert after some districts in that province recorded temperatures of 113 degrees fahrenheit or 45 degre s celsius. temperatures are expected to cool in the coming days. storms have batted the south in some of the places devastated by tornadoes over the past few days. more than 90 storms are reported across the country monday. and more than 25 million people across the south are under a severe weather threat tuesday into wednesday. take a look at this video of a possible tornado in moss point, mississippi. the storm ripped through the area, leveling several homes and businesses in its path. also in mississippi, at least one person was killed and nearly

two dozen injured when a powerful twister swept through mississippi sunday night. the national weather service gave it a preliminary rating of ef-3. 35 million people are under heat alerts from texas to new mexico. and hundreds of thousands without power in the blistering temperatures. meantime, the third hurricane depression has intensified over the atlantic ocean. it's now a tropical storm known as brett. it will likely become a hurricane on wednesday. it's churning east of the southern winwood islands, packing sustained winds of 40 miles or 65 kilometers per hour. it would be the first hurricane of the 2023 season. joe biden is touting his record on climate change.

he visited a nature preserve on monday, after a week. the president says he has taken the most aggressive climate change action ever, while republicans have tried to block it. >> when i think of climate, i think of jobs. i think of miami,climate, i thi innovation. i turn peril into progress. that's why i'm optimistic about the future. >> the president announced funding to california to update the electrical grid. he's appearing at several fund-raisers during this trip. new polling shows a close race for the white house in 2024. how president biden faring in a head-to-head match-up. and the high-stakes trip to beijing. what antony blinken is saying about the progress made during

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♪ a u.s. magistrate is barring donald trump and his co-defendant from disclosing any information handed over to their attorneys in the special documents case. tremp trump went on fox news and gave his latest explanation for not handing out the items to deputies. >> i will go through the boxes. i take out personal things. everything was declassified. >> why not hand them over then? >> i had boxes. i want to get all my personal things out. i don't want to hand that over yet. i was busy, as you've seen. >> pictures show boxes of

materials in a ballroom and a bathroom at the mar-a-lago resort. he has pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of obstruction of justice. the two indictments are not making a dent in his support with republican voters. jessica dean reports. >> reporter: as former president donald trump sorts through all of his legal battles, we're getting fresh insight how this is playing out politically for the former president. if you look at the republican field for the nomination, his support has not eroded away at all, after the indictment, and a potential third one out of georgia. 53% of support from republican voters or those that lean republican. and 23% for ron desantis. everybody else in the single digits. it is early still. and this is a national poll.

this is not done in the states that will determine the outcome, the early voting states. quinnipiac doing a head-to-head match-up between the current president, joe biden, and then-former president trump. biden leading 48% to trump's 44%. while all of the voting in the 2024 race is far away, that doesn't mean we're not seeing the candidates on the trail. president biden talking about one of the key issues central to his campaign, that's climate change. he's talking about money going to the coastal areas, to put practices into place. some of the signature legislation that passed last august. we see florida's governor ron desantis. he is talk about different

messaging. he's seeking to contrast himself to blue states, led by democrats. he is seeking that contrast between himself and california governor gavin newsom. he was slamming his policies in california. he was fund-raising to smaller donors on being in california and really taking on these democratically-led states. and the ultimate democrat, president joe biden, who he continues to try to laser focus in on on the stump. off the stump, we see him take on his chief rival, in the gop contest. that's the former president, donald trump. jessica dean, cnn, washington. natasha lindstaedt is joining me from england. beautiful to have you on the program. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> we have a court order that

bars information in the documents case. and trump went on fox news and gave the latest information why he retained the documents. what do you make of that? is that particularly unusual? >> everything about this is unusual that we have an ex-president being federally indicted for stealing documents and after being subpoenaed, he refused to comply with that and tried to hide and do a cover-up. now, he is making a defense on tv that he was too disorganized and too busy to return the documents. we'll see jack smith trying to get something in place so he can't disclose information about the classified documents, that contains highly sensitive information. what they are trying to say here is they can't trust trump with very important information.

that he's not going to do interviews where he talks about the information freely without thinking about the consequences. he's really loose with his lips. no problem sharing information with people that didn't have security clearance, which led to the probe in they put forward tm from this is not particularly special. what is special, is they can't trust trump with this information. are you surprised that so far, the former president's popularity hasn't been dented by this case? especially when we consider that republicans care about issues pertaining to defense and national security, which this case corresponds to?

and why do you think that is? >> it's i 's interesting. the republican party has been remolded as the party of trump. it has lost a lot of its values, caring about the police, caring about security institutions like the fbi. even trump's contenders in the primaries, with the exception of chris christie, basically saying, they support him in this documents case. that they don't want to go after him. he has a strong hold on the republican party with the public, as well. you have incredibly high approval ratings. these indictments, the one in new york or the federal indictment, have not put a dent. we're seeing republicans like exattorney general bill barr, who hired his own special counsel to investigate the 2016 investigation of trump and fbi's

conduct of that. now saying that trump is acting like a 9-year-old and he can't be trusted with these things. and this is a problem of his own making. we're seeing former defense attorney mark esper saying the similar things. and his former chief of staff said that he's the most flawed individual he's ever met. there's republicans that have worked with him closely coming out to critique him. thus far, no one that is contending him is willing to put their neck out saying that what trump did was wrong and we need to break away from him. >> i was going to ask you how the gop candidates tackle this. the silence is conspicuous. but it's so challenging. they want to retain the support

of trump's base. it's unusual to have presidential candidates not expressing a defensive institutions and setting standards about presidential behavior. how do they negotiate that? >> they're in trouble. the republican party has become an authoritarian party. the party itself has shifted. it no longer has a lot of the elements that we'd see in a democracy, where there's checks and ball lances within the part. you're not blindly obeying what the leader of the party says. and going along with it no matter what. even if it comes to breaking the rule of law and disintegrating our institutions. the republican party has to agree to break free from trump to break free from there.

that f they do that, that means they will not bin the election. if they recall back to the midterms in 2022. trump candidates were mostly losing. he is not helpful to this party. they don't seem to understand that. >> natasha lindstaedt, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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we have no lost positions, only liberated ones. they have losses. >> the pressure really is on. ukraine needs to make huge gains. before the american election, and plenty of other things. what is the state of play right now on the battlefield? >> that's absolutely what they need. they need a breakthrough. we are weeks into this offensive. the push to retake territory in the east. we've seen small, modest gains from ukraine. but no major breakthrough again. and you have to remember, they are coping with attacks across the country. a fnew wave of drones targeting kyiv, the first in 18 days. there was a period of quiet there. this morning, families are dealing with air raid sirens. you can imagine how much that

terrorizes communities, so far from the front lines. russia continues, according to officials, to focus in the east. that's been a flash point for many months. but russian troupes are re reallocating troops to the s south. that's opian attempt to push through the land bridge to the rest of crimea. absolutely russia has been preparing for this for months, just as ukraine has. that means there's anti-tank equipment laid out. more and more soldiers prepared to provide stiff resistance that kremlin wants to see. part of the reason why you're seeing the slow movement from ukraine, is because they're poking, they're prodding,

they're trying to find that area of weakness. and then, that might be when we see that major shift on the ground. the u.s. secretary of state is now here in london, after wrapping up his high-stakes trip to beijing. he is set to attend the ukraine recovery conference, to help mobilize support for the war-torn country. taiwan's foreign minister is reacting to blinken's visit to bay jipg. it maintains the firm stance of peace and stability. the issue of taiwan was one topic discussed of two days of talks between america's top diplomat and chinese officials, including xi jingping. the visit was aimed at easing tensions between the two nations. >> secretary of state, antony

blinken, casting relations as a work in progress. coming when tensions between the competing nations have never been braeter. >> it was clear coming in that the relationship was at a point of instability. and both sides recognize the need to work to stabilize it. >> after ten hours of visits with the top officials, he capped his visit with meeting with xi jingping. the two sides made progress. on one major objective, that biden officials wished to accomplish, setting up military communications between the superpowers, blinken left empty handed. >> that's something we need to keep working on. >> reporter: the vital need for these channels evident in the last few weeks.

when aggressive chinese maneuvers resulted in two incidents in international waters of the south china sea. blinken did walk away with a significant agreement. setting up a working group on fentin fentanyl, to slow the chemicals coming from china. >> we will have better communications going forward. >> the meetings marked with polite smiles. a tone in contrast the first time he sat down with his counterpart in alaska in 2021. in beijing, chinese officials told blinken that the chinese government would not boulevard support for russia for the war in ukraine. >> this is something that china has said in recent weeks. and has repeatedly said, not only to us, but to many other

countries that have raised this concern. the foreign minister accepted the invitation to visit the u.s. president biden said he is gearing up to meet with xi in the coming months. >> i hope i will be meeting with xi again and talking about differences we have and the areas we can get along. >> it appears that the visit here is serving as a spring board, for fourth further chin officials. officials are visiting beijing in the coming weeks. the biden administration was looking at visits to beijing, for the commerce secretary, the climate envoy. >> china has a vested interest in engaging with the u.s. in economic and trade issues. there's been a slowdown recently

after the post-covid economic boost. and last month, there was an all-time record high rates of youth unemployment in the country. >> that was kylie atwood reporting from beijing. a ferocious firefight in the west bank. what set it off and what the u.s. is insisting that israelis and palestinians do. your living space. with two times the natural esessential oil it's time to raise your fragrance expepectations. vibrant from air wick.

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a massive firefight between israeli soldiers and palestinian militants erupted monday in the west bank, leaving at least six

palestinians dead and dozens wounded. it happened as israeli forces arrested two suspects in the city. here an ied explodes under an israeli truck, wounding system of the eight troops hurt in the battle. israel opened fire with attack helicopters. the first time it's done that since the early 2000s. the palestinian health ministry says more than 90 palestinians were wounded in the fighting that went on for some 11 hours. at least five israeli vehicles were damaged. you can hear the rattle of gunfire as they moved out of the city. as a siren blaring raced away in the other direction.

elliot's been following this live for us from jerusalem. what triggered the incursion from the israeli forces to begin with? and what reaction has there been? >> what triggered the incursion is what triggers all of them, commonly during the daytime, which is israel's desire to arrest militants that it had on its want list. it went in there around 4:30 local time monday morning. it arrested militants from hamas and from islamic jihad. the battle that erupted after that was really something extraordinary. not something that usually happens. there's usually firefights and usually casualties. but nothing on the scale that we saw on monday. one thing that the iz lael defense forces will find alarming is the trestrength of s explosive device, that damaged one of the vehicles and injured one of the eight israeli soldiers.

this is something that the idf says was pretty advanced. it will be looking at where it came from and where it was made and what ramifications that might have for future attacks. as you mentioned, this use of an apache helicopter to give cover to the soldiers that were stuck and bogged down. a ferocious battle. six palestinians dead as a result. three have been claimed by a group with islamic jihad. on the israeli side, eight soldiers injured. some of them receiving a visit from benjamin netanyahu, who reiterated the threat of militants on its wanted list.

he wants to show he is in control, given the backdrop of the controversy of his political overhaul plans and that he is giving support to israeli forces. the u.s. state department calling for a de-escalation to call on both sides to refrain from actions that escalate tensions. israel, plans in future incursions will assess how it goes into places given what happened on monday. >> thank you so much for that live report. we'll speak to you next hour, as well. a courageous world war ii marine corps veteran celebrates his 100th birthday. but he waits for the one recognition he wants from the pentagon. his remarkable story. neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key i indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: thihink bigger.

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welcome back. one of the first black marines in the u.s. military fought both the enemy and discrimination during world war ii and is recipient of a congressional gold medal. there's only one thing he's asking for, a medal that the pentagon says he does not deserve. jason carol has his incredible story. >> reporter: 1923, the year of the charleston. before televisions, f.m. radio, before penicillin. the year he was born in jackson, tennessee, 100 years ago. >> i live a quiet life. >> reporter: not so quiet. in 1942, at the onset of america's entry into world war ii, he made history.

he was drafted into the marine corps when he was 18 years old, making him one of the first african-american brmarines. >> i was nervous. i didn't know what i was getting into. i wanted to serve my country. >> reporter: did you feel exla pressure because you were one of a few? >> i did. but i was thankful for the opportunity. >> reporter: he was assigned to the marines, a segregated unit in jacksonville, north carolina. not long after, he headed to the south pacific, to the battle to fight an enemy overseas while coping with racial barriers from home. >> reporter: they kept you segregated? >> segregated. yep. >> it was that mission in the solomon islands, where he was

badly injured during an accident, when gasoline exploded in a hole. >> something hit me in my chest. when i hit the deck and got up, a all of the skin was laying up. i said i want to come back but i want a family. >> reporter: burns covered 60% of his body. he was hospitalized several weeks. then, his family says the marines sent him back into action. >> he was ordered to go back into the war. he wasn't 100% healed. >> that was me getting married and so forth. >> reporter: i don't want to ask you what year that was. >> he received dishonorable discharge but was not treated by a war veteran back home when he struggled with racism and jim crow laws. he found work as a january store

and schauffeur. local news covered his birthday in april. he took us to his room at the senior living facility outside of detroit, where he showed us his medals, including the congressional gold medal. this was presented by president obama? >> yeah. >> reporter: and a framed birthday letter from joe biden. he's grateful for all of it. but it's this letter that is causing him so much pain. it came last month, informing him he is not eligible to receive the purple heart, something he had been hoping for. since you were not wounded at the hands of the enemy, you are not entitled to the purple heart. >> that makes me feel not good. the united states government, you know, in the years, as the years have been passed by, we've been getting a short deal. >> his family heartbroken. but planning to appeal the decision. >> he should have that.

that's what he's fighting for, hoping for. >> just to respect, you know, his sacrifices. >> purple heart or not, he has already earned his place in history. >> i still love america. i still say maybe someday, i hope that it will be better. for my race as a whole. >> jason carol, cnn, detroit. thanks so much for joining my. stay with us. max foster will join me after a quick break.

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