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Perhaps, perhaps this is, indeed, a piece of that boeing 777. >> rene marsh for us is passing the eye test. it has a number which corresponds to a component number on a boeing 777 and also markings showing it could be a flaperon from one of the aircraft, the same aircraft that mh-370 used. there's no other boeing 777 that went down in the indian ocean so connect the dots there. our continuing coverage of this breaking news coming up. we will speak to a pilot who has flown a 777, can tell us about a flaperon and tell us about this component number. this breaking news, boeing officials very conf...

Breakthrough? how a simple eye test could some day change the game for alzheimer's early screening. that's next on "and rey 0 area mitchell reports" only here on msnbc. oblem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. reports" only here on msnbc.

How promising do you think that might be? >> hi, andrea. so the eye test is essentially looking for a protein called a.call ed am alloyd. am alloyd is to dementia is what cholesterol is to heart disease. the higher the level in the brain the more likely you are to develop dementia. it turns out that doctors have been able to see this am alloyd in the eye as a surrogate for am alloyd in the brain, and that's a very promising breakthrough. >> what about this smell test, that you can lose your sense of smell or a declining sense of smell could be another indication of the plaque or tangles in the...

No needles, no big scanning machines and in one case, all patients would have to do is just sniff. our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, joins me now. so this is a smell test, elizabeth? >> i know, it sounds so weird, a smell test for alzheimer's, but it turns out the part of our brain that governs smell and alzheimer's are really the same part of our brain. so when smell starts suffering, it may be an indication you're going to go on to develop alzheimer's. so in this test, they gave people a different smells. and people who had a tough time distinguishing one smell from another,...