implosion of the titanic bound sub deepening as one man speaks out to tell his story. plus, inside the implosion, we ll tell you what the catastrophe might have looked like under water. i m here with a friend of those on board to talk about the warning signs he heard himself. and tanks on the streets of moscow tonight. russia breaking into state television with an urgent message. now the head of russia s private army accused of attempting a coup. let s go out front. good evening. out front tonight a new mission to the titan debris field underway at this hour. the robot that found the sub s wreckage near the titanic is back deep under water to search and map the debris. it s a slow process. right. it s pitch black. it s operating under that crushing pressure, 380 times the pressure on the surface. and as this new mission is underway at this hour we re learning troubling new details about the titan submersible. a marine certification company telling cnn it rejected a requ
seater experimental sub that he built down to the ocean floor to see the titanic and it was just he has ape different risk a different risk appetite than i do. i am a pilot and wouldn t get into an experimental aircraft. yeah. shawn, when you think about what happened here and how close you were to being on this i know that you all thought about it. did you ever convey to stockton rush safety concerns? i mean, i know at one point jay you talked about a friend of shawns worried about things like a squid hitting it and he dismissed those concerns but did you talk to him about your serious structural issues and worries that you had? yeah. he came out to las vegas in march to see me. we met a couple of times in person but the march 1st he came out and took me through the titanic exhibition and then we
is not going to go forever. the only way to really keep both of these guys at nbc was that we were eventually going to have to promise conan that he would take over the tonight show. but we didn t want that to happen any time soon because we knew jay was on top of the world. the suggestion was that we offer jay leno an extension of his tonight show contract for five years and that conan o brien would be made the host of the tonight show. this was the ultimate prize. and i think conan s feeling was if i can get the tonight show and keep doing late night show, why not? growing up it was the show i watched with my dad. and it was the whole tradition. steve allen, parr, and of course johnny carson. this is the chance to be part of that lineage now, and i m going try to live up to this.
basically what you re doing is offering someone a 2 liter bottle of pepsi just before you offer them a 2 liter bottle of coke. and in this analogy, i m the coke because that s the better drink. when the nbc said to jay, you know what? conan s going to take over your job in five years, that s when you say, okay, fine, no hard feelings. you call abc, you call fox. you try to get my job. you leave. you don t, you don t i ll be in the lobby if you need me. don t hang around. ing like it. garnier brightening serum cream. i m obsessed with vitamin c. one product and it does it all. yay, spf! garnier brightening serum cream. already more than 1000 5 star reviews. by garnier, naturally.
but i think conan was feeling the pressure, and who wouldn t? conan gets three months on the air as the host of the tonight show before jay leno gets his prime time show at 10:00 and becomes conan s lead-in again. late night television is very dependent on lead-in so having jay at 10:00, our hope, my hope is that he would do really well. it didn t work out that way. jay was incredibly talented, but the program didn t work. nobody wants to see a late night show at 10:00 they found out. we were branded the biggest bomb in the history of prime time television. nbc always considered the jay leno show a bit of an experiment in prime time, but after only four months they ve decided to end that experiment. i ve been in this business for 30 years. the most difficult conversation that i ve had in those 30 years