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Crewmembers, theirfamilies and prayers for the five crewmembers, their families and their loved ones. 0ur crews are working around the clock to ensure we are doing everything possible to locate the titan and the five crewmembers. yesterday, we set up a unified command consisting of expertise in the united states coastguard, the united states navy, canadian armed forces and coastguard and the titans parent company ocean gate expedition. this is a complex search effort that requires multiple agenc...

Well continue to provide updates as they become available. and again our thoughts and prayers are with the crew and the families and the loved ones. we will provide unwavering effort as we continue the search and i think ill open it up and take a few questions. [ inaudible ] >> so each of the rovs, thats a vague question. rovs have different capability. it is our understanding the current rov deployed at the site now has limited capability and has a camera on board. but, again, each of those is ...

Rescue, we dont have all the necessary means required in search of this nature. the unified command brings that expertise and additional capability together to maximise effort in solving this very complex problem. as a recap, on sunday, the coordination command centre in boston received a report from the vessel, polar prince, with five people on the board postpone. people on the board approximately one hour and a5 minutes into the scheduled dive, the polar prince lost all communication with the ...

Because there is only a limited amount of air on board. 96 hours, it was estimated, of air. it dr. co2 scrubbers, but it doesnt have the capability of making more oxygen. and so this really is a desperate, desperate search right now. we are expecting the coast guard here in boston to update at about 1:00 eastern time. and so, were waiting for any new details on the search. they have dropped sonar buoys in. and theyre trying to listen for any type of pinging, banging, voices that they hear that m...

Correspondent courtney kube. courtney, great seeing you. if its true that china is doing more with the cuban regime, is this significant in u.s./china relations? >> yes, absolutely. and the issue is so significant according to a readout of the state meeting with secretary of state antony blinken and xi jinping, the two men discussed the issue. and according to this readout, secretary of state blinken raised the chinese concerns about chinese intelligence capabilities on cuba. but the new reporti...

Thats why we have both types of assets, because we dont want to exhaust one possibility in vice of another. we dont want to rule out that it another. we dont want to rule out thatitis another. we dont want to rule out that it is on the surface. the way that our crews train, this is the environment they train and theyre specialised from the air, so weve given everything they have to it. if its on the surface, were fairly certain we would find it. do you think is more _ certain we would find it. d...

Something? >> each of the rovs -- thats a vague question. the current rov has some limited capability, a camera on board, but again, each of those is different and well be gathering more information as that operation goes on through the day. >> captain, how many hours -- >> abc news. if your submersibles can find this sub, is there any way to retrieve it and save the people on board. >> all our efforts are focussed on finding the sub. we have a group of our nations best experts in the unified co...

Everything they have got. - thrown at it? they are throwing everything they have got. we i thrown at it? they are throwing - everything they have got. we know that both canadian and united states coastguard services are using large planes to help scour the area, we know that there are ships in that area as well using boys and, of course, as we mentioned, any commercial ship that would be in that area is being recruited as well. this is a very difficult search operation. due to wear this location...

So i think that is an issue. they are building up their military and i saw the live fire exercise drills when i was in taiwan as they threatened us on the island just for being there. their nuclear capability is growing. we have no treaty with china. i think they are putting a lot into their military and very clear about their intentions about taiwan and the south pacific sea. we need deterrence there and we dont have deterrence to stop that aggression. talk is one thing but action is another. >...

Board this submersible. and were working very closely with all u.s. and international partners to provide any capability that we could provide to search for the overdue vessel and rescue the crew members on board. at this point, well take questions. >> the report said that some canadian -- [ inaudible question ]. >> so in terms of locating the over due submersible, we have to make sure that were looking on both the surface using aerial and surface vessels but then expanding into under water sear...