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coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. lets get the latest on the balloon and todays recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. >> i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese go...

By Nouran Salahieh, Eric Levenson, Priscilla Alvarez and Ray Sanchez, CNN

Crews searching for the Titan submersible heard banging sounds every 30 minutes – and four hours later, after additional sonar devices were deployed, banging was still heard, according to an internal US government memo.

It was unclear when the banging was heard Tuesday or for how long, based on the memo. A later update sent Tuesday night suggested more sounds were heard, though they

Have the capability. theyve done this before. >> reporter: retired navy captain chip mccord has been involved in at least 50 ocean salvage operations include twag 800 800 and swissair which crashed in 1998 off the coast of nova scotia. the vehicles are equipped are lights and cameras and are outfitted with sonar to skoutd for debris. they are steered by two operators on board the ship above who use instant feedback if the salvage vehicles cameras to direct the robotic arms. >> they can hover, th...

Among wreckage. >> they have the capability theyve done this before. >> reporter: retired navy captain chip mccord has been involved in at least 50 ocean salvage operations including twa 800 and swiss air flight 111 which crashed in 1998 off the coast of nova scotia. under water vehicles are equipped with lights and cameras. theyre also outfitted with with sonar to scout for debris. they are zeered by two operators on board a ship above who use instant feedback from the salvage cameras to direct...

Here divers are maneuvering among pieces of the twisted pieces. >> theyve had the capabilities. theyve done this before. >> reporter: retired navy captain chip mccord has been involved in 50 ocean salvage operations including twa-800 and swiss air flight 111 which crashed in 1998 off the coast of nova koe nova scotia. the navy has remote underwater vehicles designed for deep water salvage operations. they can go as deep as 20,000 feet, but the deeper the recovery, the slower the process. >> it t...

Leadership" a presidents private diplomacy." well, this morning, 11 ships, 13 planes, all frantically searching for flight 370. and australias prime minister says the search is, quote, the most difficult in human history. even if the wreckage is found, you wonder how much of this plane could be salvaged. randi kaye looks at the technology and the challenges involved in that. >> reporter: this is what it looks like trying to recover an airplane in the ocean. youre watchg a u.s. navy salvage tea...

If the pinger battery dies out, now they have a location fix in which to search. they can deploy all the other wonderful resources that the other guest was telling us about, the side-scan sonar, et cetera. this is a hugely wonderful development. i think we were talking yesterday what they needed right now is a huge dose of luck. maybe they got it or maybe they just had a lot of hard work going in by the particular ship and had a theory of where to look. it is the right frequency. it doesnt occur...

Twa flight 80 which went down off new york in 1996. here divers are maneuvering among pieces of the twisted wreckage. >> the u.s. navy has recovered an intact helicopter from about 17,000 feet. they have the capability. theyve done this before. >> reporter: retired navy captain chip mccord has been involved in at least 50 ocean salvage operations, including twa 800 and swissair flight 111, which crashed in 1998 off the coast of nova scotia. those were both in water much shallower than the the in...