is playing out right now in portland, oregon. we'll take you there live. good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. we begin with developing news. investigators say airplane wreckage found on a tiny island in the indian ocean is a major lead in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. the fragment appears to be a piece of a wing from a boeing 777. malaysia's prime minister says the debris will be sent to france's air crash investigation agency. a malaysian official says it will take about two days to confirm if the piece is from mh-370. let's go to nbc's tom costello. he's been following this story from the beginning. tom, it was this hour yesterday, breaking news came in of this debris that was found. no one sure where it came from. but it certainly appeared to be from an aircraft. things have moved rather quickly since then. >> reporter: yeah, you and i were discussing this. and i told you the sources i was

talking to in the aviation community did not believe this was coming from a boeing 777. however, sources very high up now tell me that boeing investigators have looked at those photographs and of the video and they believe it is, in fact coming from a boeing 777. and that therefore, would suggest it could be from and probably is from malaysia 370. the australian command center says it's not surprised debris has washed ashore so far from the search zone because it's it is with ocean modeling which says the final resting place of a plane is likely still in the southern indiana ocean. there's also this photograph just out this morning, unconfirmed by nbc news of what appears to be a suitcase that may have also washed up on reunion island. we don't know if it's from the missing plane. and then there's this photograph of the serial number on that wing flap nbc news obtained. investigators will try to match that serial number with the wing flap record that's for mh-370. it's a huge break in potentially

solving one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries, boeing investigators have looked at this video and these photos of the debris covered in seashells. their conclusion the piece of wreckage is a wing component from a boeing 777, what's called a flaperon. and there's only one missing 777 anywhere in the world, malaysia 370. at a press conference overnight, the deputy prime minister of australia called it a major lead. >> this is obviously a very significant development. it's the first real evidence that there's a possibility that a part of the aircraft may have been found. >> malaysian 370, contact ho chi minh minh. >> reporter: it was march 2014 when mh-370 with 239 people on board suddenly disappeared while on the redeye to beijing. radar data suggested the plane made a mysterious u-turn flying off course and into the southern indiana ocean. but why? ever since search teams have

been focused on a remote stretch of ocean 1,200 miles off australia. but the debris turned up closer to madagascar on the island of reunion, more than 4,000 miles from the aircraft's last known location and thousands of miles from the search zone off australia. investigators now have a single piece of wreckage but they're 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. >> reporter: oceanographers say much of the indian ocean moves in a counterclockwise motion. so it's entirely possible the plane could be anywhere in the indian ocean. >> these large-scale ocean currents aren't 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. >> reporter: this morning, one piece of evidence but we still don't know where mh-370 went

down. >> what looks like a break and what happened today was -- you could see across the team there was a new burst of energy. >> reporter: the atsb the australian transportation safety board. french police are scouring the beaches of reunion island and nearby islands for any more debris. they plan to take that wing flap to an accident investigation lab in toulouse, france. they're looking at ocean flowcharts to see if they can backtrack and find the rest of the plane. it will be a monumental challenge. >> thank you, tom. philip wood was the only american on mh-370. this morning on the "today" show, his partner was asked if this discovery brings her any closure. >> a part of the plane is not the same as a body. so i think true closure can only come for sure when you can say good-bye 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 good-bye. >> former ntsb investigator greg fithe joins us right now. you have now on this wing flap a serial number. tom costello shows us the image there. you see -- i think we can bring it back up. there appears to be 657 bb and you can't see the rest. how long to verify ifs that linked to mh-370? >> it will take a very short period of time if in fact that's a serial number or part number or even a build number because they put separate numbers on that structure or assembly. it won't take very long. plus they'll have the ability to confirm the actual composite material, the build structure itself. so it should be within the next 24 hours that they should

confirm that. >> and obviously there's caution -- precautionary measures being taken, not instantly saying this is the missing flight when you have loved ones who have been clinging to every bit of information, you don't want to upset these people. and we have to remember the hundreds of people who were on that flight. with that said if boeing is confirming that this is a 777 and there's only one 777 missing in the world, how long do you think it will take for us to get this confirmation here? >> well i think once the part gets back to france because they're shipping it to france and investigators do their forensics and they're able to confirm that whatever that number is whether it's a part number or serial number is part of the build records for that airplane it will be confirmed relatively quickly. but i think you bring up a good point, tamron. the fact is that now we have to have this optimistic caution, if

you will like we tried to do early on. because the families have been through so much. and if this is confirmed, this isn't going to tell us what happened or even why it happened. and there's still a lot of work to be done. it's only going to put out the conspiracy theory people that said that this airplane was hidden somewhere and it was going to be used later on for nefarious purposes and that possibly the passengers are still alive. so i think hopefully this will help at least narrow the mindset of the families and then hopefully bring some closure to them once we know that this is part of the airplane. >> lastly here this wing piece is about two meters, six feet long. the size of it would that tell us anything about the accident whether it was a crash that was something that would obliterate the aircraft -- can we learn anything from the size of that object? >> you can when you look at the

exact hinge points and the structure itself to see how it may have separated. i've heard a lot of people this morning speculate whether it was a high-speed impact it would fragment and make small pieces and things like that. you can't make those statements because impacts are different. if this airplane was landing in the water, whether the flaps are up or down and it was a controlled manner you can still have separation, you can still have impact damage. it's really going to be exactly that. this is the flaperon it did separate. it indicates that of course the airplane may have touched down belly first, bottom of the wing first into the water. that's a very fragile piece of structure so it's not robust. it will come off relatively easily. so those things put the scenario together. but it's not going to tell us this was an intentional act or something like that. >> if you were in charge of the recovery here of this aircraft would you say even with the information we know regarding current, but looking at this luggage that was possibly found, this piece of a wing that was

possibly found, would you now just focus in the immediate area of this area, la reunion? >> that's a good question. and i think there are unanswered questions. i have not heard anybody say how long this piece has been sitting on the island. it just was found. but has it been there for three months? if it's been there for a long period of time, that's going to change the modeling of how long this may have been adrift and then trying to reverse-engineer where the origin was based on current movement right now because 100 days or 200 days of drift is a lot different than 500 days of drift. so there's still some questions that need to be answered so that you can reverse-engineer and try and determine if the current search area is the proper place or it needs to be redefined or moved. >> incredible information. thank you very much, greg. always a pleasure to have your insight. another developing story we're following, the now former university of cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black man has just made his first

court appearance. ray tensing pleaded not guilty in samuel dubose's death. his bond was set at $1 million. tensing is accused of killing dubose during what started as a routine traffic stop on july 19th. according to the hamilton county prosecutor, the key piece of evidence that led to tensing's arrest was his own body camera which the d.a. says contradicts the initial story he gave. in the footage released yesterday, tensing approaches dubose's car after pulling him over for a missing front license plate. he asks dubose for his license which dubose suzays he does not have on him. the situation escalates when tensing asks him to get out of the car. >> okay. go ahead and take your seat belt off. stop, stop. >> within a matter of seconds, the officer pulls his gun and shoots dubose in the head.

tensing later told the responding officers that he was dragged by dubose's car but yesterday the hamilton county district attorney said that was not the case. >> i've been doing this for over 30 years. this is the most asinine act i've ever seen a police officer make. totally unwarranted. it was -- it's an absolute tragedy in the year 2015 that anyone would behave in this manner. it was senseless. this office has probably reviewed upwards of 100 police shootings, and this is the first time that we thought, this is without question a murder. >> tensing's attorney is calling the charge quote, absolutely

unwarranted and points to this video, apparently from another officer's body cam that was posted online by "the cincinnati enquirer." it appears to show tensing on the ground but it doesn't show him being dragged. >> he was afraid he was going to lose his own life. he thought he was going to be run over by mr. dubose's car as it sped away. it didn't slowly move away. it sped away. >> nbc's rlehema ellis joins me now from cincinnati. rehema rehema, what is next for tensing, his next court appearance? >> reporter: his next court appearance will be on august 19th at 9:00 a.m. following that arraignment he had today that lasted only three minutes in which time as you point out, he entered a plea of not guilty to the charges. and his defense attorney pleaded also for a low bond amount to be set, saying that his client is a lifelong resident of cincinnati that he graduated cum laude from

his class and that he is a kid who has no record whatsoever. in fact, as we now know, he was a former police officer. the judge said in this particular instance because it was a murder case she set that bond at $1 million. and in order to get out on bail this defendant now will have to come up with at least 10% of that, that's about $100,000. >> and rewe could tell from the press conference yesterday with the mayor and the prosecutor other city leaders, this city is trying to, i think in their words, get right what other cities have gotten wrong in the handling of these incidents through the judicial system as well as the understanding of how the community sees these acts against unarmed individuals and most or if not all cases that we've covered as of late, african-american. >> reporter: without question. i should point out that there was a passionate but peaceful

and small protest last night. a small protest broke out here following the arraignment. there were officers out just in case some type of violence erupted. none of that happened. to your point about authoritying trying to get ahead of this. the family of the victim samuel dubose has called for people to be peaceful in their protest saying he was a peaceful man and would not like any violence to erupt in his name. they're also calling that the other officer who witnessed this and who is siding with ray tensing saying that tensing was being dragged and feared for his life protesters are saying that officer should also be charged for, in their words, not telling the truth. >> rehema ellis live for us in cincinnati, thank you so much. joining me now, "washington post" reporter wesley lowery and president and ceo of the naacp cornell brooks. cornell, i should note you and others are taking out on an 860-mile journey for justice

that will kick off august 1st. this is just on the one-year anniversary of michael brown's death. so the timing of this is also intriguing. let me start, wesley with the numbers that have been reported in your paper. according to the paper, 558 fatal shootings by police so far just this year. of that number the death of dubose is only the fourth to result in criminal charges against an officer. from the eric garner case to mike brown we've talked a lot about the relationship that prosecutors have with police departments and officers. and here yesterday was something very different than what we've seen, i think, in any of these cases in how the prosecutor handled this. >> of course. it speaks to the power and the impact of cameras. what we've seen in all four cases -- 558 as of yesterday, there were probably two or three more last night. so that number will go up. but of the four cases this year where there have been charges for an officer who killed

someone in a shooting while on duty, all four cases have the shooting captured on video either on a body camera or a bystander camera. one of the reasons is one, you certainly do have these close relationships between prosecutors and police officers and police departments. but you also have this issue very often of police officers saying things in their reports that are not quite true that it is then contradicted by body camera footage. we saw it with walter scott in south carolina where the officer laid out one narrative and that was not true based on the video we saw. and we saw this in cincinnati where the officer claimed things the prosecutor is now saying clearly are not shown in this body camera video, empowering him to bring charges. >> the mayor of cincinnati was on with my colleague, chris hayes, last night, and was asked if there would be a different outcome if that body camera did not record what we saw. >> i don't know, chris. this is, as i said earlier

today, an endorsement for body cameras all across the country. body cameras brought not a certain agenda but the truth. the fact is that in so many cases around the country, the issue is what actually happened. >> right. >> and we've been through tough times. we are not a perfect city. we're not a perfect situation. but we have made improvements. and body cameras will help us make even more improvements. >> cornell, it's interesting as i pointed out, you have this march on the one-year anniversary of michael brown's death and you still have people who say, what happened there? you have the freddie gray incident, even though some of it was caught on tape, people say, what happened there? sandra bland, a portion of it caught on the trooper's camera asking still, what happened there? eric garner the example that people put up as the what we thought would be a clear point of why body cameras work, no indictment there. so are people putting too much

confidence in body cameras and not enough on some of the legislative changes and perhaps even the change of the demography of those in charge of these cities? >> excellent question. the body cameras can point to a problem. they can point to an injustice. the fact of the matter is you have to rely on the law in order to hold these police officers accountable. we saw that for example in ferguson a law that the naacp passed that called for the collection of statistics. that allowed the department of justice to hold the ferguson police department accountable. so you need both the technology and the law which is precisely why we're marching from selma, alabama, to washington, d.c. to push for and pass the act, to push for and pass the law enforcement integrity act. in other words, it's not enough for us to simply view on videotape these brutalities occurring, these tragedies occur

occurring occurring. . we have to hold these police departments accountable. and one of the things we have to do in accord withes that also train our police officers. when we see instance after instance of routine traffic stops leading to in effect the imposition of the death penalty. if you miss a turn signal if you're not carrying your driver's registration you're subject to the death penalty? the point being, we're at a moment where it's not enough for us to simply watch the videotape. we've got to change the laws. which is why we're taking thousands of people into washington beginning on august 1, landing there september 16th in d.c. and we're going to walk the halls of congress by the thousands to change racial profiling in this country. >> wesley let me bring in the numbers you have reported. of the four criminal charges that were filed against police

officers in the death of a citizen, two also involved white officers shooting black men. the third victim was white. all three were captured on video. but i want to play this video just in from massachusetts, a police detective telling a driver that he would quote, put a hole in his head. let's play this. we're working to get that video. i thought they had it ready for us. the video, which has been played a lot this morning, there's an officer in plain clothing -- let's play it, please. >> [ bleep ]. i'll put a hole right through your [ bleep ]. >> i didn't know you were a cop. >> i'll put a hole right through

your head. >> this plays into what cornell was talking about, policing in general. we had the segment on the "today" show this morning guiding you through what your rights are and what you should do in these situations. and here this is another example. >> of course. this cuts two ways. first of all you have what people believe their rights are in these circumstances with police officers. unfortunately many of us including myself prior to sandra bland and some other cases, are misinformed about what some of our rights are during these interactions that our laws give police officers very broad protections. in fact, they can order us out of our cars for any reason according to legal experts i've talked to. so you have these situations arising because of that. that creates a separate conversation about what some of those rights of officers should and should not be. but also a culture of policing and tactics. i remember talking to police experts as we do this police shooting database and talking about the idea of even in cases where you have an armed victim someone with a gun who's shot

and killed by the police very often police officers are chasing them through a backyard jumping over a fence and then finding themselves in an alley with someone with a gun. this idea that in many of these cases, there might be deescalation tactics, simply letting the person flee or getting away that might lead to the preservation of life. we're having a conversation nationally about what we want our police to be valuing. is it preservation of life is it something else? that's the conversation we're currently beginning to have. >> thank you, gentlemen, for your time. wesley lowery as well as cornell brooks. thank you both. >> thank you. still ahead, the search goes on but hope is fading as two florida teenage boaters have now been missing at sea for seven days. 's one of the stories we're updating around the "news nation" for you this morning. plus donald trump tops the list of republicans in a new poll. and comments from a new hampshire focus group may explain why he's in the lead.

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scratching their heads. in a new video out today, bloomberg politics sat down with a focus group of trump supporters in new hampshire to find out just what they see in the unlikely republican front-runner. >> tell me what you think a trump presidency would look like. >> classy. >> it would be nice to see that debt clock start going the opposite way. >> i think we could be a proud america again. >> to the american people, it would be a presidency of hope. >> and joining me now, bloomberg politics reporter who helped assemble that focus group. thank you for your time. >> hi. thanks for having me. >> these people in the focus group, do they identify themselves as people who are loyal to republican voting? >> these are new hampshire republicans or independents who lean republican. all but two of them voted for romney in 2012. i think the other two voted for newt gingrich. so these are republican loyalists are at least

sympathetic to trump's candidacy. >> one woman referring to trump as reagan-esque. you heard the gentleman say, closing the debt even though donald trump has never held an office, he's not been a governor. he's not had to deal with a day-to-day city or runnings of a city or even a state. >> yeah. it was really interesting. over and over again what we heard from them was that trump equals success, that trump is a successful person, that he has been able to succeed in life and if he's been able to do that then it's because he's smart. it's because he surrounds himself with smart people. it's because he's a strong leader and a good decision maker. this is what they're saying. they see those as translatable skills to the presidency. >> do you believe that much of their reaction or opinion of donald trump comes from his tv show, does it come from knowing he's a successful billionaire

mogul? where are they forming this opinion from? >> for a lot of them we saw that their knowledge of trump and their like for trump started years and years ago. there was one woman who spoke about reading his book on the beach when she was 8 years old. and they had followed him through the years. and of course his show "the apprentice" was a big moment where he kind of crashed into the national spotlight and everybody knows him from that and they got to know his persona through that. but this started a long time ago. people have been following trump for a very long time. >> and that's because he's debated running for a very long time as well. let me play another clip from this focus group. >> he speaks the truth. >> what truth is that? >> when he talks about especially immigration control and the border he really -- he doesn't care what people think. >> unchoreographed. >> he is honest. >> i like his roughness and a little reagan-esque.

>> he's not a politician. >> he's not going to be -- he won't be bought off. >> trump is a threat because he doesn't fit in the same box all the other republicans are in. >> he's like one of us. he may be a millionaire which separates him from everybody wells but besides the money issue, he's in tune with what everybody is wanting. >> when he referred to some illegal immigrants as rapists, did that bother people didn't bother people? what was your reaction to that? >> didn't bother me. >> didn't bother me. >> he said he'll put a wall down on the southern border. when you talk about common sense, that's the commonsense thing to do. >> i knew he was a wealthy, successful man. and i remember asking my mother if i could write him a letter to ask him how he made his money. >> even as a kid, the word trump meant rich. >> success. >> success. >> i think's a successful person. >> he's successful. i want to be a billionaire. how can i begrudge him that? he worked hard.

>> what would a trump presidency look like? >> classy. >> it would be nice to see the debt clock go the opposite way. >> we could be a proud america again. >> to the american of people, it would be a presidency of hope. >> what's interesting for them trump's wealth means success, not rich. but we've talked about a lot of pundits saying hillary clinton and the amount of money she and her husband have made and if that will make her appear out of touch. mitt romney, extract his infamous comments about certain percentage of this country, people wondered whether he was out of touch because he was so wealthy. but that focus group saw rich as successful and, thus, he could make the country and maybe even one of them successful, too. >> that was the interesting dynamic. it was he's one of us. we may be a billionaire. but he's one of us. and when we asked why and how that could be possible the answer was he's one of us because he's not one of them, one of them being a politician. so that's what it was. they like his frankness.

they like his non-p.c. rhetoric. they think he's not a politician. he's not your normal politician and therefore he speaks what i'm thinking, he speaks what he's thinking and he's saying what everybody needs to say. and he's not afraid of the repercussions of that. and because of that, he's kind of like me. >> it's a fascinating focus group, especially given that we've had even a couple of republican strategists on this show who have said oh these people are just lying, they're just saying these things when the polls don't show a face. and now we have a face to match these numbers and folks explaining why they want to support him. very intriguing. thank you for joining us, steven. >> thanks for having me. developing now, a new twist in the standoff involving more than a dozen protesters. this is amazing. look at this video. these are actual people hanging off a bridge in portland, oregon. we'll get an update on this

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returned to port. demonstrators are protesting shell's arctic drilling off the alaskan coast. last week the federal government approved two permits to allow the company to begin exploratory building. there was a testing accident in 2012. in a statement released to nbc news, the company says, shellac knowledges the right of any individual or organization to express their point of view. however, we won't condone illegal or unsafe tactics that put people's safety at risk. annie leonard, the executive director of green peace usa joins us now. you were quoted as saying every second we stop, shell counts. when did you and your team come to the decision that this was the right tactic having these individuals dangle from that bridge today? >> our campaign against shell has been going on for years. this is a priority to stop the oil drilling in the arctic. we seize any opportunity we get.

when shell crashed their own vessel so that it got a 39-inch hull in the hole and had to bring it down to portland to be repaired we raced there, jumped off that bridge very securely because we saw an opportunity to prevent the oil drilling. >> this time around you've been able to turn around the icebreaker but how long -- or how many times can you and your protesters use this tactic? how long will this work? >> well so far they've been up there over 30 hours, those climbers have been there 30 hours, plus the anchors which are their support staff on the bridge. and they are right now emotionally and physically strong and they are committed to stay as long as absolutely possible to block the icebreaker from getting through to drill for oil in the arctic. >> for people who have not been following the story, shell received limited permits to drill two wells off of alaska's arctic coast clearing the way for the first oil exploration since that accident happened in 2012. this equipment that they're trying to move here, the protesters are keeping them from

moving, is safety equipment, they say. and this was required by the u.s. interior department when shell's application was approved saying they can't drill until all the safety equipment is in place. so they might say the protesters are keeping safety equipment from reaching that destination to ensure that this drilling is safer. >> well to talk about safe drilling is kind of a misnomer. there is no way to drill for oil in the arctics that safe. so stopping this ship from going there is actually the best way to promote environmental and public safety. >> and you are calling on the obama administration to do what at this point? obviously the people cannot dangle -- they've been there 30 hours and they're ready to stay as long as humanly possible but that has its limits. >> obama still needs to grant one final permit before the drilling can start. so we're actually doing obama a favor by creating a bigger window for him to stand up be the climate leader that he says he wants to be and deny that final permit.

>> and last what kind of support are you getting from the outside, from social media, from even around the world, that you've heard today? because this is just incredible to even watch play out. >> i have to say, it has been incredible. i have gotten literally thousands of e-mails and facebook messages from childhood friends i haven't talked to in 20 years. i got a message today from an office in argentina and one in istanbul where they said the entire office staff was gathered around the life stream watching and cheering us on. absolute phenomenal support. and i'm not surprised because this is not an isolated incident in portland. it is part of a large and growing global movement to prevent arctic oil drilling. >> the spokesperson from shell says we remain committed to operating in a safety environmentally responsible manner and look forward to evaluating what could potentially become a national energy resource base. s that another statement that we received in. thank you so much for joining us annie. we'll continue to follow this story. playing out still in portland. thank you. >> thank you. still ahead, a mets baseball

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the minnesota dentist who killed a beloved lion is still nowhere to be found. and that tops our look at stories around the "news nation." walter palmer put out a letter to his patients expressing regret for hunting down and killing the lion cecil. palmer's letter reads in part i had no idea that the lion i took was a known local favorite. i relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt. i deeply regret that my pursuit of an activity i love and practice responsibly and legally resulted in the taking of the lion. it is day six in the search

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cup and high crime rates are giving brazil and rio a lot of unwanted attention leading up to the 2016 summer games. brad brooks is the "associated press" bureau chief in chief in brazil. coauthor of the a.p. investigation. brad, whether it's the games in grooest or beijing, we always hear of the air quality, for example, with beijing and greece it was the overrunning costs and now we see how it's happened there. with rio there just seems to be a laundry list including now this water quality issue that you've uncovered. >> yeah i mean when we talk to olympic athletes or olympic coaches who have you know who have a history going back several olympic games they say they've never seen anything like this. the beijing air pollution, you mentioned, they could fix that by forcing people not to drive cars and factories to shut down if here in rio de janiero the problem is they have no control over the sewage that flows down from the slums, from some neighborhoods that just flows

freely into the water bodies like the one you see behind me. there's no way they can fix it before the games. it's an infrastructure project that would require 10 20 years to fix. >> some of the tests said the waters were 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous on a southern california beach. you say that it is right behind you. i can't see the vantage point precisely but are people now in the waters? do brazilians go into the same water waters? >> they do. you know we took samples from six different sites to one tourist beach. one in copacabana beach where the marathon swimming will take place, two in the bay which you see behind me and two in the lake. the readings vary greatly from place to place. that 1.7 million times of the level considered alarming in the

united states and not considered satisfactory, that was the highest reading we saw in the lake. the lowest reading we saw though was still 2,000 times that limit that would be considered alarming in southern california. >> so brazil's government has promised to build eight treatment facilities for water. they only built one. what kind of pressure are they getting from the olympic committee, from countries who will send athletes there who could potentially as you pointed out get sick if not even dangerously sick? >> yeah the international olympic committee told us today that they don't plan to ask for any changes whatsoever to how brazil is testing its water, which was somewhat surprising to be perfectly honest given the findings we presented to them. the problem of infrastructure in brazil goes beyond sewage. they have trouble across the board but the sewage problem has been known for decades.

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