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There are conflicting reports about what exactly has been recovered so far. malaysia officials have said they have handed over debris including window panes, cushions and aluminum materials to authorities but french authorities havent reported any new items turning up. today marks the year of a police shooting of an unarmed african-american teenager, the shooting caused outrage and protests. >> dont shoot! hands up! dont shoot shoot! >> michael browns family and friends marched in saturday on ...

That proved transparency and willingness to share with the families and media. on the other hand the french are doing this strictly with their procedures in mind. they are dotting the is and crossing the ts. all the tests need to be carried out before they release the results. what i think has happened is the malaysian experts, experts and local people searching on reunion island. the malaysian experts have found this debris. lets remind everyone it is what they said. the malaysian transportatio...

In the malaysian experts working on reunion island who picked up that debris which, he says is confident from an aircraft but not yet, of course tested to be from mh370. its debris like window panes and seat cushions. were waiting for that to be sent from reunion to here. poppy? >> and we know that the french in particular have really stepped up the search here right, by air, by sea, by land? >> yeah absolutely. because, of course when the flaperon turned up and they started to do the drift anal...

Well, we are following breaking news for you because another potential break through in the search for missing malaysian flight mh-370. reports today that more debris has been found. malaysias transport minister telling the afp news agency that seat cushions, window panes and aluminum foil were found by a search team on reunion island. thats the same place where part of a boeing 777 wing was found days ago. the malaysian prime minister confirmed that that was from nh-370. the 29-year-old movie...

Lets head to toulouse, france, with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yes, we were expecting, of course when we first heard about that flaperon last thursday that more debris may turn up. a surprising admission from the malaysian transport ministry because so far the teams down on reunion island that cnn has been told that there was nothing significant. now the malaysians say they found plane parts which they say are like windowpanes, aluminum material and other parts that th...

Malaysia telling local reporters and french news agency that the new debris had been found. related to an aircraft. that is his term. calling it that. we are talking about window panes and strips of foil and seat cushions. this is the direct quote. they were small and have to be identified by french authorities. people are reunion island this was found on reunion island where of course the flaperon was found. police are telling us so far today there has been no reports of any debris being handed...

Window panes or aluminum material from a plane. or it is possible, david, it is from a different plane. >> that is certainly possible because these things are buoyant items and they have closed cells, meaning they dont get so much water and then sink over time. they are closed cell. that means that they could float up definitely. so if it was from another aircraft, it is possible, highly unlikely, that you would find debris that wasnt noticed before and now it is on those islands. >> but i dont ...

Moshin near toulouse. saima, what are we learning about what may have been on the ground? >> reporter: good morning. breaking news here christine, from afp agency which is the french pressor. the malaysian transportation minister believes we have also found debris like window panes and seat cushions where the wreckage from mh-370 was found. the wreckage he is referring to is the flaperon being tested now. he added to afp that the wreckage they found, the new debris will be tested by french autho...

Centrofuge is moving in the middle of the ocean. >> so what the french minister is saying, the transport minister is saying, is that aircraft seat cushions and window panes have been founded in the same area. could they be something else? i mean, aircraft seat cushions are pretty distinctive. >> they are pretty obviously to people who study fabric. there are a lot of things that have fabric on them, just like a boat cushion. but until experts meet again, once again its boeing, until the boeing e...

A refractive index. >> refractive index is a measure of the speed of light through a transparent object. >> the glass is placed in a silicon liquid, then heated. the point where the glass disappears is called its refractive index. >> the five fragments that have the same refractive index as the fragments that were recovered from the door are consistent with having originated from the door. >> they came back with not only the glass fragments that matched the windowpanes, but also paint and wood s...