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Indian ocean and deposit itself on the island of reunion. to address your second question -- actually could you repeat that? >> im sorry. heres the question. this is from twitter. "can oceanographers work backwards from the final location and follow ocean currents to determine the initial location?" >> you can then model and do a reverse model based on the ocean currents and the wind that has been affecting the sea surface over time to narrow down the geographic region that may indicate you know...

2,647 miles away. that has been over a year now. this thing has been floating out there and has been influenced by the ocean currents at this point here. the ocean currents there are five gyres across here because of the circular nature. the gyres do so as well. the piece found on the beach on the coast was large enough buoyant enough to be carried by these gyres which control essentially the first 300 meters or so above the ocean current here. one we are particularly interested in is the indian...

Left wing. a controlling flaperon. it is the right type of piece to find. it is also the right color and in the right condition. it has barnacles all over it. it is consistent with being in the water for 500 days. we have to check out the identifiers. almost every part of the big aircraft has serial numbers on it like this seat cushion from a different plane. if they find the serial number on the part they just found and it matches the malaysia airline flight, that is a deal. they will have evid...

Dedicated, but hearing from some of those family members intensifies their feelings about what theyre doing. and he describes those searchers as energized right now. i mean if this is indeed part of the plane, then that gives them more reason to get out there and do their job. and do their job in a part of the ocean where they are currently facing 50-foot swells. its not easy. >> wow. >> towed sonar along the bottom of the ocean. so theyre really doing an intense job. they plan to continue. and ...

On the other part and it matches the malaysia air flight then thats the deal. they will know they have evidence of what happened to that plane. doesnt answer the question how did it wind up where it is. remember all of the search areas for the plane were over near the coast of australia over here. how did this get all the way over there some 2,300 miles or more away. thats where they have to look at the currents and see if ocean currents were strong enough to push it over there to reunion island...

For this plane were near the coast of australia over here. how did this get all the way over there, some 2300 miles or more away? thats where they have to look at the currents and see if in fact ocean currents were strong enough to push it to reunion island and give us us maybe the first physical piece of what happened to this missing plane. >> thauz that was our tom foreman there. if the plane debris is from a triple seven she is fairly confident it is from mh370. i spoke to her a while ago. >>...

A barackdown breakdown of how that could happen. ivan cabrera. >> how it got to the island rather than tracing it back to where it originated from. thats what we want. that will be the tricky part. show you the ocean currents and how complicated they are in a second. what we are talking about. this is australia. this is the search area. continues. fly you in closer. be able to see we are talking about 4,000 kilometers away. from the search area. there is reunion island. there is where the debris...

Stay so close together. >> if both of these pieces of debris are from flight 370, would that suggest to you theres more debris not to far away? >> well, if they both are, then maybe yes. apparently it might have been caught in what we call an eddy, and that eddy might have carried stuff coherently all the way across the ocean, but really our modeling theories say this is a very, very large debris field that we are looking at, and one of these debris ending up on a beach is certainly possible. tw...

Ocean currents in the indian ocean and im asking because ive just been wondering, you know geographically if this would all fit, then, how this piece washed up. and then let me add this. this is from twitter. i have this question. can oceanographers work backwards from the debriss final location to determine the shallow indication? >> let me address your first question. >> sorry for throwing a lot at you. >> no worries. the indian ocean has defined currents that oscillate in a certain direction ...

Her office is now saying in response to that. unfortunately, in baltimore city many defendants become victims of crime. lawyers also change roles within a legal profession defending an individual one day does not preclude an attorney from fighting for justice for that same individual the next. coming up here on cnn, what the ocean currents in the indian ocean could reveal about this newly discovered plane debris and where it might have come from. and later, a former university of cincinnati po...