Indian ocean. Thats where investigators are headed for a closer look at a piece of airplane debris that could be part of Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Reunion island is a long way from the area where search crews are looking for the missing jetliner. Malaysian airlines issued a statement saying it is way too soon to speculate if the debris found could be part of the plane. Cnns brian todd has the latest. Reporter its reported to be almost eight feet long three feet wide and maybe the most tantalizing clue in the 17monthold mystery of mh370, this metallic debris which appears to be from a large plane was discovered off the coast of reunion island in the western indian ocean near madagascar. Now the race is on to see it is from flight 370. After one official said the part seen here in local media appears to be an airline wing flap. It would be part of mh370. The number of triple sevens that crashed in this area are minuscule at best. One says it is too soon to say if it is part of the missing plane. Many have serial numbers attached to the parts which are riveted on to that part. A look to see if it traces back to a boeing plane or any other type of plane. Plight 370 disappeared after taking off on march 8th 2014 bound for beijing but never made it, vanishing without a trace. Sparking an International Search that continues to captivate the world. Authorities know the plane veered off course. But dont know why the boeing 777 with 239 people on board made a dramatic turn over the sea and dont know where the planes journey ended. Using satellite data search officials calculated it went down in the southern indian ocean and most recently have been combing an area of the ocean floor 1,000 miles of perth australia, 700 miles from where the debris was found. Now investigators and scientists are calculatinging if pieces of the plane could have drifted that fwaur. Experts stress other planes have crashed in the area and this piece could be from one of them. Contacted by cnn, boeing would only say it is continuing to provide Technical Expertise to the search teams. Brian todd, cnn, washington. We heard brian todd there. So many unknowns in the investigation. We know the location of the debree may possibly match up with drift modeling done by the australians. Im not alone when i say we need to be cautious. Absolutely. A lot of caution and sensitivity. What you have is 239 families watching this very closely. Nobody wants to get this wrong. It will take time. It will take collaboration between the australians and boeing and the french and pos my malaysia the americans. They want to get it right. I had a chance to talk to the top australian investigator the aft bureau what he said is that where this debris was pick ed up is not inconsistent with the search search zone. 2500 miles away. The distance from new york to los angeles. The drift modeling and i think we have a graphic from a local professor in perth we can show you, it is consistent with a piece of debris making its way from the potential search zone in the blue area and up and around across the indian ocean in to the red area. They are cautioning this is one of the possibilities but the chief of the transport Investigation Agency says it is not inconsistent with where they are looking right now. It is possible that debris the flaperon could have ended up there. This is a complicated investigation. This is an american plane, a boeing plane. The debris was found in french waters. The australians have said they will be the ones to examine the black boxes. What is the role of malaysia in the investigation do you think . This. This is a malaiselation investigation, Malaysian Airlines and they have been working closely with the australians on the search efforts and also with china. The majority of the passengers on board mh370 were headed from kuala lumpur to beijing. They were chinese nationals. Two things at play here. This is beyond the time window of identifying whether the piece is from mh370. Theres still the question of finding the plane and the passengers. We have heard this from Family Members over the past few hours. Australian investigators are saying theres very slim chance this could provide clues. It basically will not narrow down that search area even if this is confirmed to be from the aircraft. Finding the plane and the passengers and after that it is uncovering what happened so that it could potentially never happen again. Thats huge ponceability. Not only weighing on the shoulders of malaysia but International Partners looking at this. They do not want to get this wrong. They certainly have to be cautious. This debris a lot more debris could be floating. David molko, thank you so much. Lets try to get a few more answers here. The chief correspondent is joining us from sydney. We are hearing from boeing this is a piece of debris from triple seven. We know mh370 is a triple seven. The only one listed missing in the world right now. You fill out the rest. Lets taugs caution about it. It is absolutely exactly identified. If we assume it is part of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft it is certainly a major breakthrough in the search. However, we have to keep this in perspective. We have to realize this is not going to answer the major questions about this mystery. Its not going to tell us what happened. Its not going to tell us how it happened. It is not going to tell us precisely where the rest of the aircraft is. So we have to keep that in mind when we are looking at this discovery. What does it tell us . Well with it will absolutely give the investigators once they are able to take a look at this rubbish, for instance they will probably be able to eliminate the possibility of an explosion. If there was an explosion, the aircraft broke up in the midair there would be signs on this piece if an explosion had taken place. If it is apart from the barnacles they found on it because it has been so long in the ocean it was in relatively good condition, it would seemingly point to the aircraft have been pancaked in to the ocean in one piece and that perhaps some pieces broke off as it hit the ocean. It will show there was not a catastrophic breakup of the aircraft. Are you surprised i it is this lone piece found so far . Normally this kind of debris would travel in clusters at least, wouldnt it . There should be more pieces out there . Of course it depends how large the debris field was in the first place. Im not surprised. They found one piece. I imagine im sure now the investigators and the French Police the authorities in reunion will be searching the shores of all of those islands looking for further debris. It wouldnt surprise me if other parts were found on beaches in that area. The bottom line is that everyone saying it is a breakthrough big clue but not going to reverse engineer it because the currents are tricky and it will give us a general idea. The bottom line is they may never find the bulk of the debris of mh370. I disagree with that. I think they will eventually find mh370. I think even then there will be an issue finding out what happened even if they retrieve the black boxes. The fact is the black boxes will only record the last hour or hour and a half of this flight. It will not show what happened when the aircraft diverted on the flight to beijing. It will show whether human hands were involved in controlling this aircraft in the last period of its flight. At least it dispels some of the crazy theories out there. The lane was hijacked, on an island somewhere. We know that much. Thats some certainty. Tom, its always good to speak to you. I want to bring in our meteorologist meteorologist. You were talking about how the indian ocean giers andyres could have ended up 2500 miles from where the initial search area was. A long ways away. Generally thats the case. We can talk about the global ocean currents here and generally they move in a certain direction. Things get a little trickier here. We will show you the difference here. Set the stage and show you what we are talking about. The search area remains to the west of australia. As we fly you closer here this is the arc they have been searching here. This is the best case where they think the debris field is lying there. It is a large search area. The debris was found upwards of 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 ocean gyre and Southern Hemisphere. And things move toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere. Wind direction, ocean current will be deflected toward the left here. On the northern side of the indian ocean gyre here is what we are talking about, everything is moving west. Generally things undulating toward though west with. There are nuances with the ocean currents here. Generally we have a west ward motion here. If you talk about reverse engineering its going to be tricky. You have some eddies here as well. I think their best guess is where they have been looking over the last year and a half here. May not tell us much here but it is at least one of the pieces in the puzzle as far as the wreckage is concerned. Thank you, ivan. So many twists and turns but as soon as they identify the serial numbers on that piece of debris hopefully an update on another Malaysian Airliner which was brought down this time we head to the United Nations. Just as a recap to what happened mh 17 was shot down in territory held by pro russian separatists. All 298 on board were killed. Still to come here a u. S. Police officer facing murder charges after shooting a driver during a traffic stop. His the story his body camera tells as the officer defends his actions. To zimbabwe a man accused of helping a hunter kill a famous lion have appeared in court. We will have the latest an the worldwide outrage it has triggered. Stay with us. Look at that Beautiful Hotel on tripadvisor. Wait. Why leave the site . Dont you know the tripadvisor youve always trusted for reviews, book now checks over 200 websites to find the best price . Book. Book. Book over 200 sites checked to find the best price. So dont just visit tripadvisor. 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But up until now, i am and most of the Family Members have continued to believe until we have a body we cant give up hoping they will come back. I cant imagine what they are going through. We know they are sending a team of investigators to reunion island to get a closer look. Out spoken since first started and maybe she will get the closure clearly not easy. To the United States where a former Police Officer in the state of ohio is expected in court in the coming hours. He will be facing murder charges. A grand jury indicted ray tensing in the shooting death of 43yearold Samuel Dubose. This shooting in cincinnati was captured on tensings body camera during a traffic stop. This video may be disturbing. Im going to ask you again, do you have your license on. I have my license. You can check my name. You dont have a license on you . Im asking you a direct question do you have your license on you . Why did you pull me over . Again, the front tag. It is not legal to have a front tag in cincinnati. Actually it is. Im going to can you again, do you have your license on. I have a license you can run it again again. Is that on you. I i dont think i have it on me. Be straight up with me are you suspended . Im not suspended. Okay why dont you have your license on you . Okay. Until i can figure out if you have a license, g ahead and take your seat belt off. I didnt do anything. Ahead and take your seat belt off. Ired from his job. The 25yearold turned himself in to authorities after the indictment. Tensing says he feared for his life and thought dubose was going to run him over. The Prosecutor Says tensing is making an excuse for a purposeful killing. I have been doing this for over 30 years. This is the most asinine act i have ever seen a Police Officer make. Totally unwarranted. It was an absolute tragedy in the year 2015 that anyone would behave in this manner. A small number of people gathered on wednesday night outside of a cincinnati courthouse calling for justice for dubose. We will move to another story which has been breaking earlier today. His death had been long rumored but now the Afghan Government said the founder of the taliban is dead. They say mullah omar died in karachi pakistan two year ago after an unknown illness. Two weeks ago, the taliban released a statement attributed to omar. The terror group claimed he was still its leader earlier this year. Two men accuse of helping an american hunter kill zimbabwes famous lion appeared in court today. Both say they are innocent. The american hunter a dentist, his name is Walter Palmer. He said he didnt know the killing of the lie yn was illegal and because of the backlash from the incident he appears to have gone in to hiding as our ryan young reports. Reporter where is dr. Walk wither j. Palmer . Im so disgusted with that man to shoot any lion. But a lion like that, lure it out of the preserve and shoot him. I mean how could anyone think that is sport . Just appalling. Reporter cnn tried to find him at his minneapolis home but no one answered the door. In fact he has gone underground after releasing this statement which read in part i deeply regret my pursuit of an activity that i love and rack tis responsibly and legally resulted in the taking of this lion. Preserves are meant to preserve wildlife not lure them off and poach them. A wealthy dentist from minneapolis is under a torrent of criticism after a Conservation Group alleged that dr. Palmer and his guides lured cecil out of the park sanctuary and shot it with a bow and arrow, pursuing the animal 40 hours before killing, skinning and beheading him, all for a trophy kill. Authorities say palmer paid at least 50,000 for the hunt. Now the dentist with a practice and a home this this upscale neighborhood finds himself hunted as questions remain of whether he will face charges in zimbabwe. T documents show an individual, the same as the dentist was put on probation for killing a black bear in wisconsin and then lying to u. S. Fish and Wildlife Services about it. He pleaded guilty got probation and paid a 3,000 fine. In Zimbabwe ConservationOfficials Say the hunters tried to destroy the Research Tracking collar cecil wore. These two men seen here have been arrested for the slaying. A professional hunter and landowner released on 1,000 bail. Both facing upwards of ten years in jail. Their Attorney Says they are innocent. Dr. Palmer says he relied on their expertise as guides to ensure a legal hunt. It is a bad image for africa and shouldnt be condoned. I think action should be taken. Reporter back state side questions remain of what is to become of dr. Palmer . 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