expedition yesterday and failed to return safely last night. sandra: operated by oceangate expeditions, a company in the past year has begun taking tourists for $250,000 apiece to explore the wreckage, which is located on the ocean floor of the atlantic around 350 miles south of newfoundland. alexis mcadams has the latest breaking details. just having the developments roll in here, it s a small vessel, so an active search and rescue mission hoping to find the five mission specialists on board. oceangate launched it, the size of a minivan, so inside a small vessel from newfoundland, six-hour tour of the wreckage of the titanic. they reported it missing to the coast guard, the coast guard has also stepped in trying to reach out to the navy and armed force, all hands on deck. we are told it is designed in such a way if it has a problem it automatically floats to the surface. if it happened here, we are waiting to find out. video of the wreckage was taken by oceangate last ye
show @thelead. you can listen to the lead once you get your podcasts, all two hours, just sitting there like a delicious tray of sushi. our coverage continues now with mr. alex marquardt who is in for wolf blitzer in a place i like to call the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, a desperate search and rescue mission. thousands of feet below the surface of the atlantic ocean. submersible operated by a company running expeditions to the wreck of the titanic is now missing. we have up-to-the-minute details on the mission to find the sub and the five people on board. also this hour, the high-stakes meeting of the super power secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. and china have made progress towards getting relations back on track, but there still is a ways to go. we ll have a report from beijing. and more than 50 million people across the southeast face the threat of severe weather including tornados this holiday weekend. we ll have the latest
you ll see here first on the story. first, this is an incredible frightening story playing out right now. the clock is ticking. 72 hours to go and counting for the long titanic submersible. the adventure tourist vehicle, which we believe has five individuals on it. we have the identity of one of them. we ll talk about this in just a moment. they lost contact with their home base several hours ago. they were supposed to be down there for six hours and return last night. now, as i said, the race is on to find these people. several government agencies are involved, private entities searching the vast ocean. you can see where the titanic is resting on the floor of the ocean and where this mission went from to take these eco tourists down there, these adventure tourists to see the wreckage up close. it s an extraordinary opportunity. the company that does this is called oceangate expeditions. they use a sub like this. you can see the man at the front of it. it s compared to the
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