Minnesota dentist who killed cecil the lion as he tried to explain himself to his patients. And there is crying in baseball. A new york mets player crying on the field after he was told he was traded. Why it was all an emotional mixup. Today, july 30th. 2015. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I dont usually bring a box of tissues when watching a baseball game. There is crying in baseball. A reference to tom hanks famous line in a league of their own. There is no crying in baseball. This is a touching story. First, lets get to the top story. What appears to be a piece of wreckage from Malaysian Airlines flight 370 washed ashore on a Remote Island off the coast of madagascar. Thats 4,000 miles from the planes last known position. Nbcs tom costello has been covering this from the very beginning. What can you tell us . Good morning. The australian command center thats been leading the search for mh370 says its not surprised debris has washed ashore so far from the search zone. Thats consistent with ocean modeling that suggests the final resting place is in the southern indian ocean. Theres also a photoing out unconfirmed by nbc news of what appears to be a suitcase that may have washed up on reunion island. We dont know if its from the missing plane and another photograph from the serial number on the piece of wreckage. Theyll look at that piece closely and try to tie that serial number to the missing plane. Its a huge break in potentially solving one of the worlds biggest aviation mysteries. Boeing investigators have looked at this video and these photos of the debris covered in sea seashells. Their conclusion, it is a wing component from a boeing 777, a flaperon. Theres only one missing anywhere in the world, malaysian 370. As a press conference, the deputy Prime Minister of australia called it a major league. This is obviously a very significant development. Its the first real evidence that theres a possibility that a part of the aircraft may have been found. Malaysian 370 contact ho chi minh good night. Good night. 370. It was march 2014 when mh370 with 239 people onboard suddenly disappeared on the red eye to beijing. Radar data suggested it made a mysterious uturn into the southern indian ocean, but why . Search teams have been focus odn a remote stretch of island, but the debris turned up closer to madagascar, more than 4,000 miles from the last known location south of vietnam and thousands of miles from the search zone off australia. Investigators now have a single piece of wreckage, but theyre still missing the rest of the plane. The investigators are going to look very carefully at the component, what kind of damage it sustained at impact, how it left the rest of the airplane. Oceanographers say much of the indian ocean moved in a counterclockwise motion, so its entirely possible the plane could be off the coast of australia or anywhere in the indian ocean. These largescale ocean currents arent very fast. And it can take months to even years for debris to go somewhere, say, from western australia, across the ocean basin, to even madagascar. This morning, one piece of evidence, but we still dont know where mh370 went down. It looks like a break, and what happened today is you could see across the team, there was a new burst of energy. French investigators are working with boeing, with the australians, and the malaysians to identify that piece and then begin the process of looking at the ocean flow charts to see if they can backtrack and find the rest of the plane. Theyll also be examining the sealife on the wreckage to see if it gives them clues as to where the wreckage might have originated. Back to you. See if it provides any clues as to the journey this piece might have taken. Back to you. Tom costello thank you. Greg fife is from the Nation NationalTransportation Safety board. Good morning to you. Good morning. So the investigators have concluded that this is a piece from a boeing 777 and as tom mentioned theres only one of those missing anywhere on the planet. That is Malaysian Air flight 370. Is it just a matter of matching numbers now . If the numbers do exist. All of these parts have data tags or data plates on them but being this part is in the water so long those numbers may be obliterated so they have to use other characteristics of this piece. Such as build diagrams to see the metal and the shape of the structure itself. But they are confirm this im sure at some point. Let me just go to what tom just referred to and lets say they do not find the rest of the plane because that is still a massive undertaking. Based on that one piece of debris can they tell anything more can they glean any more information as to what might have brought that plane down . To answer your question no. Because that one single piece isnt going to answer all the questions. But i think it will answer enough questions especially with the conspiracy theorists that said this airplane landed somewhere and and had been hidden. This will confirm that the airplane did in fact go down in the water. Whether it was in a controlled manner or uncontrolled manner, you wont be able to tell that from one piece of wreckage. But the piece of wreckage is the bottom part of the wing and they can look at it and see that it may have separated during a controlled impact such as a ditching rather than a high speed impact where you have high fragmentation. To be clear, if they can reverse engineer and they can go back and find the rest of that wreckage those black boxes, the flight data recorder and voice recorder after all this time are they of any use at all . Well, as we talked about months ago, if they find the cockpit voice recorder, the cockpit voice recorder may not be useful because it overwrites itself every two hours. The data flight recorder records information for 25 hours so youd capture this event. But all that box is going to tell you is what parameters the pilot may have set into the flight Management System and what the airplane was doing to get to where it ended up. But its not going to give us the answers as to why the pilot flew the airplane to that point or why he programmed the autopilot to program it to some point that was in a controlled crash or it ran out of gas and went into the controlled event. All right, thank you very much. Now heres savannah. Philip wood was the only american on mh370 and sarah joins us now. Good morning to you. Good morning. I can only imagine that mix of emotions you must have felt when this news hit yesterday. Can you take me through it, what youre feeling this morning . Well its a bit of a roller coaster ride, but thats been going on now for almost 18 months. And i think most of the family members would feel the same way i do. Until they can verify that it is indeed 370 we just cant deal with the emotional pressure of trying to make any decisions about it. Because there have been so many false reports, so many theories over the long, long months. If this does turn out to be the wreckage of flight 370 what do you hope happens next . What do you hope gets answered . Well, on the one hand, i hope it isnt because that means theres still a thread of hope. But if it is i hope it can at least help us to find the airplane because that might help us to understand what ultimately happened. And i think that we need to be able to trace it back to the source of the parties responsible. The malaysian government allowed this to happen. People use the word closure. I dont know what that means. But in terms of what youve been going through, and the hope that you have held out for your partner, what does this mean to you if authorities come to you and say, yes, this is the wreckage of flight 370 in terms of your own healing . Well, a part of a plane is not the same as a body. So i think true closure can only come for sure when you can say goodbye properly. But for most of us life has been stuck in march 8th, so at least some verification that the flight indeed crashed would be a step forward in being able to say goodbye. Well sarah vaijack, thank you for your time this morning. Youre welcome. I think its a very fine line between a sense of closure and the reopening of wounds. Its clear those wounds are raw as ever this morning. In other news, a university of Cincinnati Police officer is facing up to life in prison if he is convicted for the deadly shooting of an unarmed black man. Prosecutors handing down a murder indictment in that case ten days after what began as a routine traffic stop. We are also seeing video of the incident for the first time. Nbcs rehema ellis is in cincinnati. Good morning. Reporter good morning, matt. Officer ray tensing is being arraigned here in connection with the shooting death of samuel dubose. It is that video from the officers body camera that has become Critical Evidence in this case. Dubose was a 33yearold father who was reportedly going to meet up with his son and watch a movie when he was pulled over by officer ray tensing. Video from tensings body camera release by the Prosecutors Office shows tensing telling dubose he was stopped for not having a front license plate. Tensing asks dubose for his license several times. I dont have it on me. Reporter tensing asked dubose to step out of the car and reaches for the door handle. I didnt even do nothing. Go ahead and take your seat belt off now. Reporter a second video posted on the cincinnati inquirer website purports to be the body camera of a fellow officer. It shows tensing on the ground and tensing said dubose took off. He took off on me i thought hed run over. Reporter he repeats that he was dragged. He was just dragging me. Dragging me. Hes dragging me. It is our belief that he was not dragged. Reporter joseph dieters the Hamilton County prosecutor said tensings accounting nonsense and the shooting totally unwarranted. This is the most asinine act i have ever seen a Police Officer make. Reporter tensings lawyer says his client has never had any discipline issues and he fired because he thought he was going to be run over. His defense is going to be selfdefense, that he felt like his life was in danger and threatened and he was trying to save his own life. Reporter in cincinnati, wednesday night, there was a peaceful demonstration to protest the killing. For the dubose family dealing with the pain of their loss, the body camera is all the evidence they need. Seeing that video let me know that my son did absolutely nothing. Not nothing. Reporter 25yearold ray tensing is the first officer in the city of cincinnati to be indicted for murder. Accused of killing someone in the line of duty. Matt . Rehema ellis, thank you. Lets turn to natalie. You have the latest on this frantic search for the two boys in florida. Thats right. Day six. The chances are diminishing for the two teens missing at sea. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is in jupiter, florida, with the very latest on the search. Good morning. Reporter well good morning. At this hour a c130 aircraft from the coast guard is right now flying over the search area and there are several coast guard cutters on the water, all tasked with the same mission find the missing boys. Its now day six of the coast guard search for best friends, 14yearold perry cohen and austin stephanos. Lost at sea. Theres been a lot of rumors that the search has been suspended. I want to refute that. The search has not been suspended. It is still active and open. Reporter a search but no mention now of rescue. The boys boat capsized and even if they had life vests they likely have no drinking water. What might have helped save the boys is a epirb, an emergency positioning radio beacon. Im going to drop in the water. Now, even if i were unconscious, the salt water would activate this. We have arranged with the National OceanicAtmospheric Administration for a simulated emergency. In some cases it can be the only notification to rescuers that youre even in some trouble. Reporter at the noaa control center it took moments for the distress signal to show up. We can see that the beacon has been picked up by the system. Reporter a device that might have made a huge difference had it been in the boys boat. Noaa says the beacons have saved 73 lives so far, just this year. Natalie . Kerry sanders in jupiter, florida, thanks. Immediate vaux evacuations are in place for an area of Northern California where a fast moving wildfire has burned at least 3,000 acres. Northwest of sacramento the fire started on the afternoon. Air resources are being diverted from the nearby rag fire to help fight the on going blaze. The fire destroyed at least one structure. The wildfire is spreading fast because the terrain is heavy with brush and timber. A protest in port land oregon getting a lot of attention because theyre dangling from the citys tallest bridge. At least 13 climber froms greenpeace are trying to prevent the shell otherwise oil icebreaker ship from leaving port where it was undergoing repairs. Theyre worried about the impact on the environment and the protesters plan to remain suspended from the bridge for several days. That could be very uncomfortable. Well now to the city of a thief and his very unusual get away car. Surveillance cameras captured the crime at a Grocery Store in belarus. A man is taking a seat on the winnie the pooh toy car while talking on his mobile phone. So he rides around for a while and slowly but surely just scoots the toy car outside the exit door. The police track down the culprit. He told the officers he was drunk and doesnt remember where he parked winnie the pooh. I believe him. Winnie is not talking either. Thats my car. Oh bother. Natalie, thank you. This would be what the third day of the heat wave . Yeah if we get to this and i think were going to hit 90 here in new york. Other places its no question, its but take a look. You think of being in this heat we complain. But look at what trentons bravest had to deal with yesterday. Fighting fires, at least ten firefighters overcome by heat. Had to be resuscitated. I shouldnt have resuscitated but had to take a break. Fans water. It was a really grueling day. Air temperatures got up into the mid 90s. Of course fighting a fire with 70 pounds of equipment thats got to be difficult and no relief in sight. Big area of High Pressure that dome of High Pressure is dominating. Stays up to the north with a jet stream. So the heat is on top of us. Add in the humidity on top of that, your skin cant evaporate. Cant get that moisture off because of the humidity. So it feels so much warmer. It will feel like 101 in richmond today. Same in charleston. Tupelo, 100. New orleans, youll feel like 107. Look at the temperatures staying in the 90s right through saturday in new york city and this shifts to the west. Look at the temperatures making their way into the Pacific Northwest. Triple digits portland, med ford, redding and boise. 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