2015. This is the cbs morning news for friday, july 31st, 2015. Good morning, and thanks for joining us. Im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. The chunk of the airplane wing thought be from flight 370 is headed to france this morning. Experts there will determine if the debris that washed up from the indian ocean is the missing piece of the boeing 777. There was also a suitcase disloving. Hena daniels has more. Good morning, alison. This discovery that washed up off the beach gives hope to family members. The analysis marks the beginning of a full examination to see if its the part that came from ma labor shah flight 370. The sixfootlong flaperon that washed up. Experts will there be taking a closer look at barnacles covering it. Theyll be looking at other markings on the debris. Theyll be looking at the deformation of any of the metal, theyll look to see if it was torn, char marks on it to indicate fire. So far investigators are confident the piece did come from a 777 boeing jet.
Youre making plans. August 1st. I know, i dont like it. Its moving too fast. Slow down, mother nature, slow down, relax. Well, really, if you think about it, summer is like two months. Here, yeah, exactly. Whats up with that . Its too short were robbed. I know, its brutal. Im not ready for it yet. Im rob nelson. Im michelle charlesworth. A nice day ahead and i think less humidity than a few days ago. Exactly. Keeping with yesterday. If you like the hot stuff, amy, this has been your week, huh . Thats right. I like the hot stuff we all like the hot weather, the three of us. Amen. Temperatures have been in the upper 80s, low 90s. We had 89 yesterday, were going to go for 90 again. A beautiful blue moon, by the way, last night. A lot of pictures sent in to social media. Thanks for all of those. Love to see what you saw last night. From brooklyn into lower manhattan, we have a beautiful look day in front of looking day in front of us. Look at the sun glistening on the buildings so gently.
Bookstore here in the Renaissance Center, adrienne hecky, i dream coming into the rest of the team at amicom books. Christine durham, the manager here of the Renaissance Center, and finally come ed snider and John Mcdonald of General Motors Corporate Communications who facilitate of all of the audio and visual set up. As background i but also like to give just a brief summary of my own riding writing credentials. I started writing as a soldier infantryman with a Rifle Company and a heavy order platoon in vietnam. When i came back to the world i wrote the first vietnam lawful posted by a and infantrymen which was nominated for the National Book award and the National Endowment for the arts fellowship. From there, i began writing about vietnam and south asia for the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly and the new republic. From there somehow ended up in the Foreign Service and was at the embassy is in pakistan and venezuela come and then did another vietnam novel called Hamburger Hill i
J. C. Monahan is back with more. J. C. several roads were closed today as agents looked for the tiniest bit of evidence that could help them solve the case. Crews spent hours today looking for evidence on the lawn of a house roughly a block away from where robert was shot. Investigators taping off the yard, sweeping it with metal detectors before packing up and leaving just about an hour ago. The employee was shot once in the head as she walked near her home last august. Roberts family just want answers. Were way past the shock stage and were all looking for some sort of resolution. J. C. a reward for information in this case has grown now to more than 42,000. Ed a Framingham High School student accused of raping a fellow student, the alleged victim said to be incoherent when she was found by School Counselors near a swamp in the woods. Lets gets to Kelley Tuthill who is live in framingham. District court, pleading not guilty, held on 50,000 bail. The 18yearold pleaded not guilty to ra
Acres. That campus 300 acres. The floor space is more than 3. 5 million square feet. But you know what . If all of the things that you know and believe in the world are things you know and believe because you saw them in american political ads, that plant should not exist. That plant does exist. Its doing great. Theyre making jeep cherokees at that plant right now this very second. Theyre making so many of them, theyre operating even with a third shift. Theyre making them at night, theyre making them right now. Toward the end of the last president ial Election Campaign in this country, one of the signs things were getting desperate and weird in that campaign, when the republican nominee for president , mitt romney, went to ohio, he went to the football stadium at Defiance High School an hour outside toledo, an hour from that plant and he said something totally untrue about that plant and the jeeps that were being made there. I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in th