Debris First News Today

the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is on another diplomatic tour of the middle east — his fifth visit to the region since the conflict erupted between israel and hamas. he will be visiting saudi arabia, israel, egypt, qatar and the occupied west bank. mr blinken�*s trip follows days of air strikes by the united states against iranian—linked targets in iraq, syria and yemen. ahead of his arrival, a drone attack killed six us—backed kurdish fighters at an american base in...

Well, for some people, the chinese ship detecting a pulse signal is unlikely. why is that? well, the ship was outside of the search area, and using a more modest piece of equipment, and the experts have said that finding a ping without having found confirmed debris first would be very, very difficult. so we will bring back our own experts to talk about this side of things. cnn aviation analyst miles obrien, and cnn regulation and government correspondent rene marsh back with us, and cnn correspo...

Hiccup, but a slow down. >> and basically, chad, they have to remove the debris first, right? >> yes, they have to get the debris out which will take about 36 hours. they want the casing in, and the well to go down. they have 100 feet down to drill before they intersect where they want to be. you have to understand that this is like trying to poke a pin in a nine-inch well down in the bottom 17 or 18,000 feet down. this is not the first try may not hit. you know the first try when they try to ge...