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i'm christine romans. "cnn this morning" starts right now. good tuesday morning, everyone. we are so glad you're with us. i'm so thrilled to have my buddy all the way from atlanta, victor blackwell, good morning. >> good to be with you. >> back in the day we used to get to sit next to each other. we were young. i was wrinkle free. i'm glad you're here. there's a lot of news to get to. five things to know this tuesday, june 20th. a rescue operation for tourist submersible carrying five people who paid to see wreckage of the titanic. the u.s. coast guard one of multiple teams scouring the atlantic ocean trying to locate the vessel thousands of feet below the surface. donald trump offers up a new defense of why he didn't turn over those classified documents. he said he was too busy. a tropical storm brewing over the atlantic is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by

tomorrow. we are tracking where that's headed. the texas senate is expected to set the ground rules in the impeachment trial of ken paxton. among the procedures to debate, should his wife, who is a sitting state senator, be allowed to serve as a juror. and have you had your bmi checked lately? it may not be the best barometer after all to gauge your health risks. "cnn this morning" starts right now. we begin this morning on just a terrifying story. a huge search and rescue operation is under way, really racing against time trying to find a tourist submersible that went missing on a trip to see the titanic shipwreck. five people are onboard. the united states and canadian coast guards have launched an all-out search with planes, with ships, and with buoys equipped

with sonar. as of yesterday afternoon officials estimated the passengers could have been somewhere between 70 and 96 hours worth of air, that's all they had, they believe, and that was yesterday. we're learning more about the people on the submarine. a british billionaire explorer, a pakistani businessman and his son and reporting that a world renowned french diver and titanic ex personality was also on this trip, th yy has yet to confirm, though, he is onboard. these are some of the last images as it prepared to dive down on sunday. the ocean is about 13,000 feet deep in that area, the deepest ever underwater rescue was less than 2,000 feet for some perspective. cnn national correspondent jason carroll live from boston. any updates this morning, jason? >> reporter: poppy, what i can tell you as you can well understand a massive search is

now under way, a search by air, a search by sea. the coast guard has reached out to experts in deep sea exploration. meanwhile, time is running out. >> we're doing everything we can do to locate the submersible and rescue those onboard. >> reporter: search and rescue teams from the united states and canada are working around the clock in the north atlantic to locate a lost submersible with five people onboard. search planes have been scanning the ocean's surface, sonar buoys deployed to try to detect any sound from the missile vessel. >> the location is approximately 900 miles east of cape cod in a water depth of roughly 13,000 feet. >> reporter: according to the coast guard the submersible lost communication with its

mothership, "the polar prince" less than two hours into its descent as it ventured to the wreckage of the titanic. the company on voyages to "the titanic," our entire focus is on the well-being of the crew and every step possible is being taken to bring the five crew members back safely. onboard businessman harding, no stranger to adventure. >> i've always wanted to do this. >> reporter: recently he was a passenger on blue origin's june 2022 space flight. on saturday he posted on his facebook page, i am proud to finally announce that i joined oceangate expeditions for their rms "titanic" mission as a mission specialist on the sub going down to the titanic. also onboard shahzada dawwod and

his son suleman, issuing a statement we are grateful for the concern shown by our colleagues and friends and would like to request everyone to pray for their safety. according to oceangate expedition website the 23,000-pound submersible made of carbon fiber and titanium has up to 96 hours, four days, of oxygen for five people. larry daly has been inside. >> i was in the sub for five hours. we have our own breathing system onboard. you can stay down for quite a few hours. >> reporter: in an interview with cbs oceangate expedition ceo touting the submersible's safety. >> everything else can fail. your thrusters can go, your lights can go, you're still going to be safe. >> reporter: well, it's still unclear why the submersible lost

contact with the ship that was on the surface. according to oceangate there is a system onboard, some sort of an early warning system, which is supposed to alert the pilot if something has gone wrong on board the vessel. again, unclear at this point what went wrong here. poppy? >> jason, thank you for the reporting and stick with us for a minute. victor and i have so many questions about this. one of them is i know they have these buoys with sonar trying to find it. would this be something that would set off pings? we know it didn't have gps. they use text messages. would it even be emitting pings sonar can trace? >> reporter: that is a question that is still outstanding at this point. again, there is a system onboard which is supposed to alert the pilot should something go wrong. and one would theorize then

there would be an emergency alert system if something had gone wrong so if you sent out a sonar below the surface that would ping. we are expecting to get another briefing from the u.s. coast guard here in boston so perhaps at that point we'll be able to get more information about how these sonar pings are going to work, more information about the c-130s in the air at this point searching from the air so perhaps we'll get more information, more specifics about how they're trying to find this vessel. >> what do we know about the scope of this search? this submersible doesn't move quickly. do we know how many square nautical miles they believe this could be in?

>> it is a very vast area. what sort of search area are we talking about here? one would theorize if you have the ship on the surface and the vessel descending at any particular rate, are you searching within that square area or because of currents and other factors how much have you widened that search out? that was asked of the coast guard. the coast guard was trying to get that information, again, still waiting to hear back from them. >> really appreciate the reporting. here we will speak directly with the coast guard rear admiral who is overseeing the search and rescue operations where crews are now headed as the oxygen inside this vessel dwindles. russia is unleashing iranian drones. officials in kyiv say they came in waves from all directions,

and that air defenses shot down more than 2 dozen of them. meantime, president volodymyr zelenskyy says ukraine is only gaining ground on the russians and has not lost any positions in its counter offensive. fred pleitgen is in kyiv. fred, are there reports of damage caused by the drone attacks? >> reporter: hi there, victor. we haven't received much in the way of reports of damage from these attacks. one of the things you mentioned is extremely important where the ukrainians say they detected 35 of these drones coming in waves and if the vicinity of the ukrainian capital but the ukrainians were able to shoot down 32 of those. it's unclear where the other three might have landed and the damage they caused. we haven't heard anything in the way of loss of life in the ukrainian capital. certainly one of the things that does point to is the efficiency of the ukrainian air defenses which is something we've been seeing here as we've been on the ground in the ukrainian capital.

we have an air raid alarm every night and often during the day. it is these shahed drones with ballistic missiles in connection with cruise missiles to try to penetrate the air defenses. as we can see the air defenses seem to be working very well. nevertheless the ukrainians are saying the drones do remain a problem for them as they do threaten the population centers of this country and, of course, critical infrastructure as well. >> president zelenskyy says ukrainian troops are losing no tarot, only making gains on russians. what do we know about the latest in the counter offensive? >> reporter: one of the things we see there were people on the ground feeling the counter offensive should be going quicker than some may have anticipated and hoped for. we just returned from the front lines and one of the things we

did see is the going is very tough. we spoke to some units on the ground and all the ones we spoke to were in good spirits, but they do say the russian defenses are really tough and the russians are putting up a fight as well. the ukrainians right now, as they say, are sort of penetrating the early stages or the first stages of those defense lines but they haven't even reached the main defense lines of the spokesman shans so they understand there is going to be a tough battle ahead and one of the things they have said again and again is russian airpower is being discovered by russian drones but russian helicopters and jets as well. the ukrainians are saying they need to do something on that front to improve their own short-range air defense as they move forward. certainly the ukrainian president seems to be correct. and this is something we've seen over the past 24 hours as well.

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>> how highly unusual for this storm to form in the month of june in the location it actually is called the main development region. we look for the clusters of thunderstorms that move off the west coast of africa and start to form into alexandria or storms. the water here is running two to five degrees fahrenheit above average like jet fuel for development of storms. another wave that's going to likely be named later today. this is the official forecast track from the national hurricane center shows a strengthening storm by thursday morning and then you see some gradual weakening to the windward islands, into barbados, st. vincent and the eastern caribbean, we should see de-strengthening as it travels

across the area. the forecast rainfall, a couple inches of rain across the windward islands and hurricane force gusts this is wind shear. hurricanes and wind shear do not work well together. that upper level, high-level winds, that's going to shear apart the storm so the potential exists, indicating this system will be disorganized in the five to seven-daytime frame. that's good news for the united states. the severe weather threat that continues to move across the deep south, this area has been battered with day after day of severe storms. from new orleans into mobile, flash flood video, level two of five, victor. >> and the heat some people are dealing with. those triple digit temperatures are sweltering. derek van dam, thank you. up next on "cnn this

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welcome back to "cnn this morning." we are following the news off the coast of newfoundland very closely. ships and planes are searching for five people onboard a small submersible which set out to see the remains of "the titanic" at the bottom of the north atlantic. time is of the essence as there may only be 70 to 96 hours of oxygen left onboard. what is it actually like being inside that vessel? watch. >> reporter: inside the sub has about as much room as a minivan. this is not your grandfather's submersible. >> it should be like an elevator. it shouldn't take a lot of

skill. >> i got these from camper world. we run the whole thing with this game controller. >> come on. >> that was a cbs "sunday morning news" report last year. our colleague and friend gabe cohen has reported on this company a lot. you've been inside when it was aboveground working for our affiliate komo. what's it like? >> reporter: yeah, poppy, that's right. i did several stories on oceangate reporting in seattle, washington. you can see an image there of me inside of "titan," the vessel that's missing. we did stories when oceangate would set off on expeditions and in 2018 that's when i did the sfoer interviewing the ceo and we went to oceangate headquarters in everett, washington, talked to the crew. i was really blown away by how some of the technology seemed.

you have to sit inside of it, shoes off. it is operated, as you heard in that report by a gaming controller, what essentially looks like a playstation controller. what seems so simple the crew and ceo insisted could pull off this remarkable feat. it could dive 13,000 feet down into the ocean and handle 150 million pounds of pressure that it would feel on the ocean floor and it has made, of course, that expedition before. it was incredible to see at that time right as they were packing up the vessel and getting ready for one of these expeditions. it is difficult and sad to see what has happened now. >> it's interesting. it seems the company is proud of the ability to build this using consumer available parts. >> simply. >> your gamer controller, a modern day buy from a store, a

simple button push. they say this should be simple. what can you tell us about the company oceangate expeditions that's running this? >> reporter: victor, the company was founded in 2019 by its current ceo stockton rush. they have done many of these expeditions and really science-driven expeditions. that's what they have pushed to to different shipwrecks and repeatedly they would tell me that, yes, you talk about those consumer friendly products like the game controller but they stress the carbon fiber structure could pull off a mission like this and they did not spare any expense or cut corners to pull that off. i've interviewed stockton rush several times. not just him but his staff and crew. they would talk safety of the

vessels and the other vessels they developed over time. we learned "titan" has had some issues before with communication, they've lost communication with support crew on the surface of the ocean before. cbs news reported that last year the vessel was lost for more than two hours, unable to get messages from the surface which they rely on to get to where they're going because there's no gps onboard. titan's last communication was sunday at 11:47 a.m. local time. authorities weren't notified until a half hour after it was scheduled to surface but it didn't. >> the faa has to sign off on all these safety things for commercial airplanes, does this entity have any regulatory body that has to sign off before they can put people in it? >> that's a good question. farce we know, no.

they talk about how these vessels are not classed and that essentially federal regulation or regulations in general have not caught up with innovation. passengers who go on these ex petitions have to sign waivers. >> gabe cohen, thank you. it's interesting. i think about virgin galactic or blue origin and these commercial civilian -- spacex -- they have to have signoffs. >> let's read what's on their website. by definition innovation is outside of an already accepted system. however, this does not mean oceangate does not meet standards where they apply. innovation often falls outside of existing industry paradigm. that's an important context as we go into the next

conversation. a "titanic" historian, studies "titanic" wreckage. you know the area. you know this portion of the north atlantic as we have the coast guard, the u.s. navy in this search and there's not a lot of time, what are the environmental challenges they are going to face in trying to not only find this within the time of the air availability in this capsule but also to pull it from wherever it is in the ocean? >> good morning. it's good to be with you. when we think about "titanic" almost 900 feet long at the bottom of the ocean and we think about "titan," which is 21 or 22 feet long, it took 73 years to locate "titanic" notwithstanding its size. and when we compare it, we're looking at something 22 feet long and we may think it would take even longer than 73 years to find something like this,

but, fortunately, our technology in 2023 is better than it was in 1912 and even better than it was in 1985 when "titanic" was located. but "titanic" itself and this region of the north atlantic is a very caustic environment, nothing can submarine outside at that depth 1,200 feet. not to mention the fact it's a known area for swells and storms. despite the fact we are dealing with the best navy in the world and the best coast guard, they have their work cut out for them because the ocean is a very big place and is a very difficult place. technology should be able to accommodate for sonar testing and it's sort of unknown whether this submersible has a pinger so we can listen to the ping and try to locate it.

that i don't know about. it doesn't mention if there's a pinger or not. oceangate is a very safety oriented company. they test, they cancel voyages when the weather looks iffy. between the safety measures that were used through oceangate and this particular sub and the technology we have this is going to be something that gets resolved at some point before the oxygen runs out. i think we have another two days that the oxygen can keep the people alive. >> let's hope people. so striking to hear you say it took 73 years to find "the titanic." discovered in 1985. it has been many years since 1985. has the technology to locate something like this gotten

marketedly better or has it not changed that much? >> it has gotten better. in 1985 we were able to find with side scanning sonar. sonar has gotten better. we are using c-130s, using airplanes rather than just submersibles to try to find theship. it has gotten a lot better since then. we have to remember it is a very big ocean and we are dealing with a very small craft. >> craig, we appreciate your expertise and insight. we will lean on you again as we follow this. two days worth of air left. >> left me hopeful. >> craig, thanks so much. >> thank you. my pleasure. coming up, this. >> why not just hand them over then? >> i had boxes i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. i don't want to hand that over and i was very busy as you've sort of seen. >> that was former president trump offering up a new excuse for why he didn't hand over

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a judge has issued a new order barring donald trump and his co-defendant walt nauta from handing over information while prosecutors in the classified documents case. in an interview from last night the former president offered a new reason for not giving the boxes to investigators. >> before i send boxes over, i have to take all of my things out. these boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things, golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes. there were many things.

everything was declassified. >> katelyn polantz, fit this defense explanation into what we know about the case. what do you make of the new line? >> well, poppy and victor, i don't know if you ask any defense lure on the planet if it's wise to talk about the case as they are heading to trial want to go fight it. most will say that is not something you should do. they are warned anything they say could be held against them in the court of law and donald trump is out there on fox news in this interview essentially responding to many of the things that are alleged in this indictment. bret baier asked him about the

spen he received where a grand jury demanded he return documents with classified markings in his position to the federal government. and here was what his response was there. >> why not just hand them over then? >> because i had boxes. i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. i don't want to hand that over. and i was very busy as you've sort of seen. >> reporter: so trump does appear there to be be a knowledging the delay and the next thing he did want to pull out his personal things, things like golf shirts, other clothing. there is also another portion of this interview where he is asked about the bedminster 2021 episode where he's caught on an audio recording talking about and referring to a top-secret or secret document in his hand, waving documents around. here is what he said about that as well.

>> that was no document, a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about iran and other things. and it may have held up or not but i didn't have any document, per se. there was nothing to declassify. these were newspaper stories and articles. >> reporter: so trump is clearly acknowledging he may have remembered that episode here, but when you get into the court, victor and poppy, there's going to be witnesses, that audio tape that the justice department would be able to play at trial. and there will be people who were in that room who we know have testified to the grand jury would be likely they could be called back and testify at trial. would donald trump take the stand and say the same things in court? what he says on television may not be what he would say under oath. >> a really good point. the magistrate judge has signed off on a request from the special counsel jack smith essentially saying you can't share any of this discovery that the trump team gets, you can't

share it with the media, with supporters, with anyone. i read that and thought, well, that's obvious but obviously the judge felt he needed an order for this. >> reporter: it is obvious. this is something very common in criminal cases. an agreement that comes early just like this that has not a lot of dispute around it and says a defense team, a defendant himself, and any other witnesses they're talking to, other lawyers, if they share evidence from the case with them, they can't share it more widely. that's a way of protect the integrity of the trial. in this situation it's an important moment because it's a restriction placed on donald trump and donald trump is already charged with wanting to allegedly share documents that are protected from the national security perspective. how he handles this and responds to this, if he can abide by it leading up to trial that's a new

world for him as a criminal defendant. there's a judge's order. >> it changes things when you are a criminal defendant. katelyn polantz, thank you for all the reporting. the united states is urging de-escalation between israelis and palestinians this morning. this is after an israeli raid on the west bank town that left dozens wounded. live from jerusalem, the u.s. is hoping for de-escalation here. what can you tell us? >> reporter: poppy, this raid that took place on monday, the dust has settled on that. the ramifications of the fighting that ensued will perhaps persist in the days and weeks ahead because it's not uncommon for israel to go into jenin or other cities in the west bank to arrest wanton militants. they arrested one member of hamas, one member of islamic ji jihad. it wasn't expecting this improvised explosive device that

damaged a number of vehicles. after that, after the israeli soldiers, a number of whom had been wounded, were bogged down in jenin, they had to call for support from an apache helicopter. that's the first time that's happened in the west bank in two decades. six were killed, half claimed by the jenin brigade group with islamic jihad. the last of the funerals took place in jenin and the u.s. state department calling for a de-escalation. they reiterated they would continue to carry out these raids as and when it sees fit. poppy? >> elliott, thank you very much for that reporting from jerusalem. the mystery in kansas continues. government officials across the state are getting ominous letters with white powder so, of course, the question is what is

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i spoke to a republican who says the gop-led legislature in kansas voted to override multiple vetoes by the current democratic governor, and she says many of these were very controversial but points to one specifically, one regarding transgender female athletes. the reason she says that she points to the actual envelope that she received for a clue. she says that she looked at the name of the return address, looked it up, and it's actually the name of a transgender woman who died and she believes that's not by mistake. take a listen. >> it's unfortunate that's the political climate we're in today. i just keep thinking when i agree with someone, i agrees to disagree and want to move forward. i think of how polarizing our politics have gotten.

>> reporter: now authorities have not identified that as the motive here but, victor, it's important to note that the fbi kbi, the kansas bureau of investigations, they're all investigating. no one has been hurt and they have tested this powder and it has come back negative for biological agents. >> we had roughly 100 letters received overall. this must be putting a massive strain on law enforcement to recover the letters, process the letters, and make sure that the powder in each of them is harmless. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. the representative talked to me about this and shared photos of the recovery process at her parents' house because that's where the letter was.

she said there were a lot of resources needed. it required the bomb squad, a hazmat unit, an ambulance, a fire truck, the fbi the kbi, other emergency vehicles just to recover one letter and just imagine, victor, there are 100 of those letters across the state of kansas. and these are finite resources that the state and federal government has. representative blew says some of the lawmakers were told to double bag the letters, leave them outside, because the recovery could take a while, and i should mention, victor, i asked the kbi, the kansas bureau of investigation, about this to see if they are still recovering the letters or what the recovery time has been, if anybody else is waiting and i have not heard back. >> rosa, thank you. and, ahead, republican state lawmaker steven owen will join us. he has received one of these threatening letters.

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president biden preparing today to meet with leaders in artificial intelligence as part of his west coast swing. the white house says the goal is to talk with these experts about the advantages of ai but also how to manage the risks.

our arlette saenz with more. one of the things that's encouraging to see the white house, to see congress try to get ahead on this where we fell so behind on social media. is that part of what the white house is trying to do here? >> reporter: the white house is racing to try to get a handle on this quickly evolving world of artificial intelligence, a top priority for president biden. we've heard him share how some are concerned ai could overtake human planning and thinking and that is one of the agenda items that will be discussed today as he's con vengs these top experts and researchers who talk about the opportunities presented by ai but also the potential risks. and we've seen the white house in recent weeks ramping up attention to this issue. white house officials are meeting two to three times a week to discuss ai, president biden himself has been

extensively briefed on the issue. he's experimented with programs like chatgpt. the white house chief of staff's office has overseen the process to try to develop decisive actions they can try to roll out related to artificial intelligence in the coming weeks. this is an all hands on deck moment as they address this issue. the president out in california today holding that meeting. >> arlette, thank you very much for the reporting at the white house. "cnn this morning" continues right now. an urgent search and rescue operation is now under way in the north atlantic. >> the u.s. coast guard is searching for five people aboard a missing submersible that tours "the titanic" wreckage. >> it is a race against time. you're racing oxygen levels. >> we have to look on the surface but expand into underwater search as well. i have every right to have those boxes.

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