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he'd get off roseanne, lose 60 pounds and gain it back and hopefully these lifestyle changes stick and we wish him luck keeping it off. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. tonight on 360, the race to prevent another titanic disaster. five people in a tiny submersible. hunter biden's plea deal on tax and weapons charges. republicans say he got a sweetheart deal. tonight we look at the facts. the kremlin plot to kill a high ranking official. good evening. we begin tonight with a desperate search for the ocean gate titan. a miniature submarine with five people inside. they had hoped to visit the wreck of the titanic in the north atlantic but now they face a disaster of their own.

their air slowly running out, that is, if they are still alive. we do not know. all communications have been lost. even if the craft is somehow able to surface on its own, it can't be opened from inside so rescuers have to locate it before those on board run out of oxygen in some 33 hours. this is what five people in the missing ocean gate titan are up against now. joining us from st. john newfoundland is miguel marquez. miguel? >> reporter: anderson, i want to sort of set the sea for you. this is the dock where the polar prince that took the titan out to where it is now left from. this is the sister ship to it. they have been furiously working on this ship. we expect this ship is going to receive lots of the gear that is making its way to st. john. this is a very small town on the very edge of canada and it is still 400 miles from here to the

search area. the but right now it is a race against absolute time. >> this is a complex search. >> reporter: a complex search now more complicated by time, which they're running out of. >> we know there's about 40 hours of breathable air left. >> reporter: deep water su submersibles and gear converging on st. john's newfoundland and canada. it's the closest land to the search zone. if it can be found, they'll need to bring all resources to bear as quickly as possible. >> you're dealing with a surface search and subsurface search. that makes it a complex operation. >> reporter: the five-person submersible started its time at 9 a.m. newfoundland time sunday. the last contact with the polar prince was 1:45 into the dive expected to last just over 9 hours. at 6:35 p.m. newfoundland time

the sub was reported missing when it was supposed to surface at 6:10 p.m. it has oxygen for five people for about four days. oxygen is only one critical element. >> if they are alive and they're in there, they're going to be at almost freezing temperatures, assuming they lost all of their power, that's why they can't communicate. it's going to be dark. cold. it's deep. roughly 460 miles south of st. john's newfoundland and 900 miles east of boston. possibly more than two miles below the surface where pressure is nearly 6,000 pounds per square inch. >> we will do everything in our power to effect a rescue. >> so, miguel, exactly what is going on? you said that ship is waiting

for some of the equipment that's going to be being sent. obviously the clock is ticking. is that vessel then going to try to get to the area of the dive? >> reporter: that is the hope. there are three enormous c17 airplanes, u.s. military aircraft at the airport now here in st. john's. there is tons of gear on there, including some deep water submersible gear that will we believe eventually make its way to this ship. there are several coast guard ships in the bay here as well. another coast guardship, canadian coast guard, is heading out there and should be there in the morning. all of this, anderson, assumes that they can find the capsule. this is the biggest problem, they can't find the sub yet. the easy part should be getting a ping off af beacon, knowing where it is and being able to try to get to it to bring it up. if they can get that ping, if

they can figure out where that sub is, getting to it, getting those people out alive, that is going to be the hard thing. anderson? >> right. what i hadn't realized early on is that even if, you know, this is a vessel that supposedly is able to shed weight so that in the event of some sort of emergency it would naturally surface -- it would naturally float up, but for whatever reason that is not happening. even if it did float up, if the currents have taken it a great distance and rescuers can't get to it once it's surfaced, from the inside those people inside cannot get out of that? they can't open up this submersible from the inside. so they could run out of air even if the craft has surfaced? >> reporter: it is -- they are bolted into the craft so they -- it is an absolute race against time. they need to find them even if

they're bobbing on the surface somewhere. the problem with that, they have searched a massive area, the size of connecticut, if not larger, with aircraft from the air. they have sonar beacons to try -- or bouoys and they have sonar to see if they can hear anybody clanging on the side of a sub. all of that in the hopes they can identify where it is and then, as you say, they've got to get to them in time because at the end of the day, if they don't, they will run out of air even if they are close to or at the surface. anderson. >> miguel marquez, thank you very much. want to get some perspective. a self-described adventurer who has been involved in two missions. as someone who's prepared for similar expeditions who knows

the risks involved, can you talk about what might have happened with this submerse snibl i understand it has multiple systems to shed weight to allow it to surface unless it was somehow trapped under -- in some sort of -- somehow trapped under the water. >> yeah. we really are in the realm of speculation at the moment so frankly nobody knows unless you're on the vessel itself, but what could have happened is that the -- there could have been an electrical failure on board. the systems are shut down. clearly communications is not working since sunday after the one hour and 45 minutes decent. what is supposed to be happening, the submersible is supposed to drop the weights and given the submersible is made up of carbon composite material, it's supposed to go back up to the surface somewhere, which will make it a lot easier for the ships to identify and find

it. so -- and that is honestly also the best hope for getting back up to the surface because given the time frame and the lack of -- or the limited supply of oxygen, 96 hours is what is on board, there wouldn't be time enough to send a replacement submersible or anything that could mechanically try to lift it up. it would be too complicated and technical, not feasible. so the best hope is really to get rid of the weights and try to come back up to the surface. >> if the electrical system was out, would they be able to get rid of the weight? does that require electricity? >> not sure whether they have a mechanical loop for that. i'm sure this has been thought through by the engineers, that they would be able to operate without because you do try all sorts of failed systems before you go down to these kind of

depths. clearly there's an issue. difficult to speculate exactly what it is. >> i had read that this is what they describe as a self-rescue vehicle with seven different types of unloading weight. if -- i mean, how much room is there in this for all these people? does everybody -- i assume everybody has a seat. what -- i mean, is there food on board? is there -- obviously oxygen is a huge concern now. >> yeah. clearly the most important thing is oxygen, and you do have 96 hours of oxygen supply. in terms of space, there's not like a seat. you're not sitting in a seat. you're just literally in a tube effectively. there are time inside. the length of the submersible itself is less than seven meters so it's not huge, but it does fit five people. there's no toilet on board so it is literally a place where you

sit ano down during your decent, which can take approximately three hours, most of the times you will be sitting there chatting away looking out at the dark because, i mean, there's not much to see all the way down in a standard dive. but there's not much facilities in its own right. if you've got to go to the toilet, there's a bottle. there will be water and to a degree food on board as well, but clearly not intended for this duration. the biggest issue is oxygen. that's the real important one. >> and i know there were flights being flown over the seas, areas. i assume that's just to see if the submersible has actually come to the surface. obviously beyond that, do planes have any role in this search? >> absolutely.

both planes and other vessels. this is almost a little bit like unfortunately reminding us about the titanic when it actually sunk. you remember there was a number of commercial vessels that eventually made it there for the rescue. there are a number of commercial and navy vessels that have been deployed. they've put sonars in the water so they are trying to identify and see if they can find it via the sonars. and there are planes, c-130s, that are flying on top just for visual outlook and also using their radar, of course. so both underneath the water and above the water the search and rescue mission is clearly looking, but so far to no avail, which is a bit strange because ultimately they were -- the submersible were targeting titanic so the natural thing would be to start around titanic.

as time goes on it gets more and more difficult because the potential dye a.m. meter of the search area would be increasing by the simple fact that, let's say, after one hour and 45 minutes of decent one would estimate that they would be at about 2,500 meters of depth. let's say there were mechanical failure at that point, serious failure, and let's say there were currents, that would then slowly start to move the submersible in one direction or the other. and as time goes on, that could move significantly. therefore, enlarging significantly the search area. so the time is really the enemy here. i would have hoped by now or soon the submersible would have made it to the surface. that's really what we need to see because it's difficult to -- i mean, impossible to send somebody down or something down. we just don't have the time. >> you were saying it's possible it's taken by underwater

currents. is it also possible that it -- i mean, that it sank and it's on the sea floor? >> technically it's possible, but it's not designed for such. it is designed that you can unload the weight and then it's supposed to make its own way back to the surface. but things can go wrong, and we are really in the realm of speculation here. nobody, frankly, knows. and the person who probably would know it best of all is probably stockton rush himself, who is on board the submersible. i guess the good news is if you want a pilot who knows all the systems, who founded the company, he is on board. that's the good news. so i'm sure he's doing everything he possibly can to get them out of this very tragic situation. >> it's sickening to think about

the people on board in that small space. thank you so much. appreciate your time. >> you're welcome. we're now on the five people on board, including the pilot, who first visited the titanic three decades ago. melissa bell reports. >> translator: the 24th of july, 1987, was my first dive to the titanic with two team members and it was an unforgettable moment. we had been waiting a long time. >> reporter: that's the 77-year-old frenchman who has made more than 30 dives to the titanic earning him the nickname mr. titanic. david gall low is now nargeolet's close friend and oceanographer himself. >> i'm sure he did everything he could or would do everything he could to make sure they would survive whatever it was. >> reporter: it's difficult to imagine what it's like in the tiny craft. what kind of leadership, calm

character would he bring to that situation? >> he thes outside the box all the time. that's the kind of guy you want on the scene whethings like this happen. the wisdom the guy has is pretty amazing. it's just now sinking in that this is nomething that will be gone tomorrow. it's something that could be forever. >> reporter: for stockton rush, the chief executive of the firm behind the dive and who is also on board, the experience of those involved has always been crucial. >> five individuals can go on eachive. three of those a what we call mission specialis. those are folks who help finance the mission and they are active participants. we're not fans of the tourist term these are crew members. >> reporter: one is hamish harding. he achieved a world record for the circ couple navigation of

both poles. >> i've always wanted to do this. the bashir experience looking out the window is something i'm looking forward to. >> reporter: in a post over social media, he described being proud to be part of the titan's expe expedition. also on board, one of pakistan's richest families who lives in the united kingdom with his wife and two children. he had taken his son, reportedly 19 years old, along with him. the family asking for prayers for their safety and privacy for the family as the race to find the men enters a critical phase. melissa bell, cnn, paris. when we come back, a closer look at the his terry and mystery that have drawn people to search for the titanic for decades. later, the hunter biden plea deal. unequal justice and what the facts have to say about it.

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the wreckage. part of what makes the titanic so captivating from people. >> the titanic wasn't the only disaster but there's something very special about the ship. there's an allure about it. >> allure so intense that the cost of venturing down doesn't stop those with means. ocean gate expeditions operated the missing submersible. the costs start at $250,000 per person for one trip to the sunken ocean liner. >> $250,000 per person and that's steep. guess what, sold out. it shows you how tight that ship and the story of titanic is for some people. >> part of the titanic miss steeg according to historians, the fact it was considered unsinkable when it stepped forward on april 10th, 1912, with more than 2200 people on board including some of the world's richest and most

glamorous. >> john was the richest person in the united states. possibly the richest on board. he went down with the ship with the rest of the victims. >> more than 1500 people perished after the ship struck an iceberg and sank on april 15th. the deadliest peace time sinking of an ocean liner or cruise ship. several movies depicted the disaster. but hardly anything fired our enchantment like the oscar winning 1997 epic "titanic." >> we have to stay on the ship as long as possible. come on. >> it was earth shattering. people wanted to get more and more information about the titanic and with that people wanted to get closer to the titanic. they just had to be there, had to see it. >> director james cameron with the interview of cnn's larry king say the the you thor shock of -- utter shock, the passengers

were in denial and they couldn't believe the great edifice was going to sink. >> oceanographer david gall low who works to preserve the titanic said it works to get more challenging. there's an increasing amount of trash at the site and he says several countries are now involved in trying to figure out how to protect it. the brian todd, cnn, washington. just ahead, republicans are trying to compare the hunter biden plea deal announced today with the former president now tentatively scheduled. there are two standards of justice. that's not the facts. keeping them honest next.

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keeping them honest tonight. it's a question of whether the misdemeanor federal tax charges he pleaded to for failing to pay taxes were unusual. it's also a question whether being permitted to avoid a firearms charge as hunter biden did was par for the course or

not and it's a question of whether there's any evidence the u.s. attorney who's overseeing the investigation for years was in any way influenced by president biden or anyone else in the biden administration. those are factual questions with factual answers which are either knowable or to some extent even known. is this remotely comparable to former s er president trump? republicans say it is. >> it continues to show the two tier system in america. if you are the president's leading political opponent doj tries to literally put you in jail. if you are the president's son, you get a sweetheart deal. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy today. another republican leader, elise stefanik said, quote, this is the epitome of the weaponization of joe biden's weaponization of the department of justice. they didn't offer any evidence that the u.s. attorney was operating under orders from the

administration. in fact, there's already one pretty clear letter in that one. it came from david weiss to congressman jim jordan dated june 7th. in it the prosecutor writes i want to make clear as the attorney general has stated, i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter for deciding where, when, whether to file charges and for making decisions to ensure the integrity of the prosecution. it's signed david c.weiss, united states attorney. he was appointed by the former president, by president trump. in his letter, of course, it does not conclusively prove his impartiality. it bolsters the notion. it stands in stark contrast to the former president's former plans to politicize the justice department if elected again and the promise he made the night of his arraignment. >> i will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history

of the united states of america, joe biden, and the entire biden crime family. >> now that's an open promise to do what there's no evidence that president biden did in response to being charged with crimes that are in no way comparable to what the president's son is pleading 2k3guilty to. for more on all of this, we're joined by cnn's paula reed. talk more about this deal. >> reporter: as part of this deal, anderson, hunter biden has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of failing to pay taxes on time. he oda proximately $100,000 but failed to pay the irs by the deadline. he has subsequently paid those taxes plus fees an penalties and as a result of this deal the justice department is expected to recommend probation for his sentence. now as part of this deal, he can also avoid being charged with a felony related to the purchase of a gun where he allegedly

failed to disclose his ongoing addiction issues. as part of this particular aspect of the deal, he will have to follow through with some requirements that will be set out by the court. he's being allowed to enter a diversion program. that's a common alternative to incarceration especially when drugs or alcohol are involved. anderson, all of this is subject to approval by a judge. >> is the investigation over or not? we heard different characterizations of that? >> that's a great question. a trump-appointed u.s. attorney did say as part of the statement that the investigation is ongoing. now we have talked to several sources and experts and they all suggested that is likely just boilerplate language, right? this deal was on the table but it hasn't been completed. a judge hasn't approved it and it will likely -- this file will be open for a while, right, while he serves on probation, goes through diversion and only then is the case closed. anderson, it's highly unusual to enter into this deal if they were still investigating

substantive matters. lawmakers, this is going to be one of the first questions they have for the u.s. attorney as soon as they have a chance to question them. >> this prosecutor, was he looking at this, at the other allegations the republicans had been making about hunter biden? >> this investigation has been going on for five years. they looked at everything from foreign lobbying to possible money laundering. last summer they narrowed it down to tax charges and the potential charge related to a gun. two months ago biden's lawyers went to the justice department, made their pitch why he shouldn't be charged at all. they've been negotiating in the pa few weeks and it resulted in this agreement. as you well know, the president's son has been a real focus for republicans. they have long made various accusations about his foreign business dealings trying very hard to link that to his father but they've been unable to do that so far. prosecutors who have been looking into this for five years at the end of the day what they

were able to get in terms of a deal only had to relate to failing to pay taxes on time and this one firearms charge. arguably fairly minor charges when you compare it to the unsubstantiated charges that had been made about hunter biden. >> thank you, paula reid. joining us is our panel. is this a plea deal or a sweetheart deal? >> first of all, anyone who at this point has a fully formed, deeply held opinion on whether or not this is a sweetheart deal is sort of telling on themselves because we don't know the universe of what doj had. unless you know that, you can't assess whether this is fair or foul. this u.s. attorney, david weiss, was a trump nominee who joe biden kept in place. i see no reason why he had any reason to tilt the field in

favor of hunter biden. if you look at this case, i don't see anything that jumps out. the other thing that's been notably absent, what federal chargeable crime do people believe hunter biden believe committed and has not been charged of. >> i'm wondering what he thought this is a two-tiered system of justice and if you're the president's son you don't get jail time but if you're the former president, you do. >> it's going to be a hard argument to make. there couldn't be a more starkly different fact pattern than what donald trump is facing. his doj indictment over mishandling classified documents, obstructing justice there. in this which does to ellie's point seems like a pro forma charge. republicans should take the win. the president of the united states, joe biden's son, was charged with a federal crime. you should make that case to the public in a general election.

why that might be an indictment of his character, his family's dealings. there's been an ongoing search, james comber coming forward saying he may have a whistle-blower and it doesn't materialize. there may be sketchy foreign dealings. we've heard about the business practices. if it's not a chargeable crime, it frankly doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. at the end of the day, if it's donald trump, is going to look at do you trust joe biden or donald trump? >> elliott, the federal prosecutor in this told jim jordan that he had ultimate authority. what role does the attorney -- can the attorney general have said, well, maybe, you know, let's be soft on hunter biden? >> he could have done that, and apparently he did not. doj regulations say if you are a u.s. attorney you have to notify the bosses, the deputy a.g., a.g., big moves. the a.g. would have the power to

overrule. what david weiss said, i made this call, neither merrick garland or any of the top brass had anything to do with it. that's an important point. >> is hunter biden still a useful political tool for the maga wing of the republican party? >> for the maga wing, the more republicans overreach with him, the less effective he is. even back in the biden administration, hunter was a concern to the biden officials. fs it a factor in him into the running in 2016 as president. there is plenty there, but you have to make an actual executable argument about what is he doing, how does it influence the average american voter or governor. this is not jared or ivanka. >> is there anything from the former president seeking a plea deal. >> if his lawyers came to doj and said we're interested in

talking, if i was at doj, i would say, yes, let's please talk. if there's any reasonable outcome you can reach a plea deal. non-incarceratory, i'm sure they're not saying, we're going to trial all guns ablaze. you will have a jury pool and it will be difficult and potentially a polarizing trial. >> your name came up with the former president of fox on monday. i just want to play that. >> something happens. when people leave, they can like me very much. i had this woman named alyssa farrah. she said the greatest things. he's the greatest president, he's unbelievable. then "the view" offered a contract only if she changed her views and she can say negative things. money gets offered to people and

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as we reported earlier, hunter biden has agreed to plead guilty. he struck a deal to resolve a felony gun charge. he shouted, quote, i'm very proud of my son and earlier white house spokesman said, quote, the president and first lady love their son and continue

to support him. for years he's battled drug addiction. despite the controversy, the president has long defended his son. randi kaye has more. >> reporter: was there ever a time where you thought, okay, there's no way he's going to give up on me? i've done it now. >> never. never. not once. >> reporter: in that exclusive interview with cbs, hunter biden, president joe biden's younger son, opened up about his drug addiction and his close relationship with his father. he told cbs his father always saw the good in him. hunter recalled in that interview how joe biden tried to get him to stop binge drinking vodka. joe biden was vice president at the time. >> so he dishetched the secret service. got over to the house. honey, what you are you doing? you're fine. i'm not fine.

>> reporter: he attended law school at yale. he struggled with substance abuse for years. in fact, he was kicked out of the navy reserve in 2014 av testing positive for cocaine. hunter shared details with his battle with alcohol and drugs in his book "beautiful things." >> i went one time for 13 days without sleeping, smoking crack, drinking vodka exclusively throughout that time. >> reporter: he briefly dated his brother's widow, halley biden, didn't pay years of federal taxes and had deals in ukraine. through it all his father never waivered in his support. he spoke to jake tapper about it. >> he's a grown man. he got hooked on, like many families have had happen, hooked on drugs. he's overcome that. he's established a new life. i'm proud of him.

>> reporter: in october of 2018, halley biden, reportedly tossed his gun in the trash out of concern for his safety. all of this reportedly mentioned in text messages discovered on hunter biden's laptop. also emails discovered and forensically authenticated for cnn reveal hunter biden was repeatedly warned about deep debts and years of back taxes. a 2019 spreadsheet sent to biden from his assistant showed more than half a million in bills due or past due, including hundreds of thousands in taxes over several years. still, joe biden has always stood by his sons. when hunter and his brother beau were badly hurt in a 1972 car accident that took the lives of their mother and sister, joe biden took his oath of office for the u.s. senate at the hospital where his boys were recovering. now decades later the bond between the biden family seems

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as if tensions between the united states and russia couldn't be higher, a new report has unearthed details of a thwarted assassination of a russian defector on u.s. soil. according to the "new york times," which says it confirmed the story, the initial reporting comes from a forthcoming book by a national security expert at harvard. the "times" reports that vladimir putin's obsession with retribution against defectors led to a plot against a man called alexander potev who the "times" called a cia informant in miami who'd been a high-ranking russian intelligence official more thain decade earlier.

russian intelligence located the man in florida after he renlsed to vote and obtained a fishing license both under his real name. the plot was revealed in 2020 when russia essentially blackmailed to help track him was detained by u.s. officials. joined by cnn national security analyst, former cia chief of russia operations. how big of an escalation was this in your view, to have russia try to go after an american informant on american soil? >> yeah, anderson, it's a really significant one. back when i served at cia, there was an informal sort of agreement between the two intelligence services, the russians and the americans, that this sort of thing would not happen, that we would not try to target either each other's intelligence officers or the spies that those intelligence officers were running. so if there was a spy that ended up in a third country or some sort of situation like that the informal agreement, nothing on paper, nothing formally agreed to, but the informal arrangement was that's off limits.

clearly putin has decided that the gloves are going to come off. and this is not a big surprise based on some of the patterns we've seen over the past couple of years. some of the other people putin has had assassinated. but this step where it goes into u.s. territory is a big deal. >> the details of this plot are really interested. according to the "times" the russians basically pressured and enlisted a mexican scientist who had a russian wife they essentially detained or refused to allow to leave to get this guy to track their target in florida. i'm wondering is that standard operating procedure for them? >> yeah, that part of it is pretty much standard operating procedure. that's referred to as an access agent operation. this mexican guy -- i guess one of the morals of the story is don't have two wives. because he did. he had a russian wife and then of course he had a mexican wife. but the russians identified him initially when he went to kazan earlier in his life to study. that's inside of russia.

i'm very sure that's when they started a portfolio on him, a dossier on him, and probably contacted him and said we don't need anything from you now but should we need something later we're going to need your help. he probably nodded politely but then when it turns out he married a russian person who then went back to russia and was told by the russians you can't leave, they then turned to him and said we've got your wife, we're going to need that favor from you. >> the other thing about the "times" story is that this former russian intelligence operative who i guess i would assume had been given a new identity to live in miami had gone and registered to vote and gotten a fishing license under his real name. how does that happen? >> anderson, i'm afraid there's a number of things i can't talk about, whether or not we take care of people, resettle people or do things like that is something i can't confirm or deny. all i can tell you is human nature being what it is you can never entirely control another human being and tell them what

to do and what not to do and hope that they do it. that was certainly the case with the mexican guy. >> do the russians have a typical m.o. for trying to kill somebody in a targeted assassination? we have seen poisonings over the years in europe. >> yeah, they do have a number of different m.o. ands it's kind of scary because they've been doing it for a long time. sort of coincidentally one of the more famous cases was when trotsky was assassinated in mexico city by a kremlin assassin. and then -- >> that was -- wasn't it an ice pick in his head? >> yes, it was an ice pick in his head. that's right. but you know, if you fast forward to these years past, recently, it hasn't been any less gruesome. i mean, you have them putting poison in navalny's underwear. you've got them putting polonium in litvinenko's tea. you've got them using a nerve agent for sergei skripal in the uk. that was i think the first one that probably caught our attention. if they can do it in the uk are they willing to do it in the

united states. but yeah, these m.o.s that they have they'll developed over the years. they have large resources put up against this, how to best kill people either publicly or privately. >> it's really incredible. steve hall, appreciate it. thank you. just ahead, that green dot you're about to see is lightning captured by a spacecraft hundreds of millions of miles from earth. we'll tell you where, next. [bushes rustling] [door opening] ♪dramatic music♪ yes! hon! the weathertech's here. ♪ laser-measured floorliners... no drill mudflaps... cargoliner... bumpstep... seat protector... and cupfone. ♪ what about my car?

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see your dealer for exceptional offers today. we leave you tonight with this startling image from the juno spacecraft above jupiter. the eerie green glowing dot you see there is lightning inside a swirling vortex near the planet's north pole. the photo was actually taken almost 2 1/2 years ago. nasa posts these images online for anyone to develop. in this case a man by the name of kevin gil took it upon himself to develop the final image you see here. nasa says that in the future juno will have more opportunities for photos of lightning, plus it will get near jupiter's rings to learn more about their origin and their composition. that's it for us. the news continues. "cnn primetime" with kaitlan collins starts now. see you tomorrow. tonight, five people are missing at sea, and that's the best case scenario.