the dga studio diversity agreement.also actively seeking open assignments on tv shows at those same studios. you can imagine what an incredible conflict of interest this is. it's like having a police force that you are asking to go and police a corporation where they are also employed. catherine: as soon as i made "twilight," i would have thought it would be a lot easier. but in fact it was just as difficult. and my next movie, i got paid less. lexi: why has not one studio come forward and said, not one production company has come forward and said, we cannot hear it anymore. these stats are horrible. we will put in a volunteer quota. ♪ catherine: as soon as i made "twilight," i would have thought it would be easier because i could prove that i made $400 million for a studio on a $37 million budget, and it spawned a huge franchise and all the other franchises similar to it. but it was not easy for me after that. in fact, it was just as difficult. and my next movie, i got paid less. rachel: i am in a situation right now w

the dga studio diversity agreement.also actively seeking open assignments on tv shows at those same studios. you can imagine what an incredible conflict of interest this is. it's like having a police force that you are asking to go and police a corporation where they are also employed. catherine: as soon as i made "twilight," i would have thought it would be a lot easier. but in fact it was just as difficult. and my next movie, i got paid less. lexi: why has not one studio come forward and said, not one production company has come forward and said, we cannot hear it anymore. these stats are horrible. we will put in a volunteer quota. ♪ catherine: as soon as i made "twilight," i would have thought it would be easier because i could prove that i made $400 million for a studio on a $37 million budget, and it spawned a huge franchise and all the other franchises similar to it. but it was not easy for me after that. in fact, it was just as difficult. and my next movie, i got paid less. rachel: i am in a situation right now w

being made of the way this announcement, this confirmation has been handled because the french and dga are not giving official confirmation, they have further visions today and malaysia said this is it, this is part of the plane. >> reporter: yes, the french have been much more cautious, as you say in their response. some of the families wonder why the malaysian airline officials and malaysian government have been so category cal in their judgment. they don't dispute this is the wreckage. they think it was planted there. on the issue of come peppization, many of the families i spoke to they are refusing to accept the interim payment of $50,000. to do that is to accept their loved ones are dead, not coming back and they can't do that at the moment. >> we'll leave it there for now. thank you very much. >>> as many as 200 people are feared drowned after a boat capsized in the mediterranean sea. 25 bodies have been recovered so far. the u.n. refugee agency says about 400 people were rescued. gerald tan has the story. >> reporter: a family reaches safety. this one-year-old girl was taken on

the part was taken to the dga near tolouse for legal analysis. august 3rd the judges received -- authorities -- investigators of the transport of the authority and the bureau for simple inquiry. this afternoon the appraisal was start started under the control and in the presence of three judges in charge of inquiry. but also president on site a magistrate from the paris prosecution and the investigators of the investigation team for the the president transport we can say today that there exists a very strong presumption that the flap found on the beach of reunion on the 29th of july belonged clearly to the boeing 777 of the playmalaysian airlines flight 370. the second reason the representatives of the company malaysian airlines communicated elements of the technical documentation of the boeing 777 of flight mh 371. on that basis, it was possible to establish a link between the part examined by the experts and the flap of the boeing 777 of flight 371 because their communal technical specifications. the strong presumptions need to be confirmed by

the dga. it's run by the french minister of defense where those folsom arms that erin mentioned should be cleared. so they've said that it is from a 777 aircraft. they haven't said it's from mh-370. what will happen now is members of the united states, ntsb, malaysian officials and we're told now chinese officials, too, joining this group, and the french authorities will come to this lab, and they're saying that they'll meet on monday, but they won't start analyzing until wednesday. i imagine the scientists will be here first thing monday morning, running the tests they need to. and then the senior officials will come and take a look and hopefully confirm or deny what we need to know. that is, is it from mh-370. and what exactly happened to it? because this is the plane with the right technology, christi, to tell us potentially what happened to the aircraft. and that's because they'll look in detail to that flaperon. see how it came away from the aircraft. we've been discussing, haven't we, ov

minister nazak saying there is conclusive confirmation that the flaperon being tested at this lab at the dgabelongs to mh-370. the french prosecutor with words of caution. a cautious affirmation that he can strongly suppose this flaperon belongs to 370. this morning, we have the debris. the reason we are saying we are confused i have been bringing you the latest every hour since the flaperon has been found and we have not been told by our cnn teams in reunion they have found anything that they can say decisively belongs to an aircraft let alone flight mh-370. having said that you know we don't know what kind of state this debris is. how damage is it? has it been changed in its status? let's remember, 515 days since flight mh-370 has been missing. 17 long months for the passengers and crew on the plane. we just don't know the state of the debris. a reminder this is seat cushions and window panes and foil. according to the transport minister. >> we know over the past 17 months and 515 days a lot of debris that has caught the attention of investigators and people collecting such things and it t

sped down from paris to here at the dga, that's the ministry of defense laboratory. it took a look at the air france investigation as well. now, the scientists, when they get together, are going to take a look in detail at this flaperon and deduce whether it came off in the air or did it pull away from the main body when it struck the water, when the plane potentially struck the water in the indian ocean. these are the kind of things they can glean. by looking at the edges of that flaperon from where it tore away from the plane. but, the prosecutor, the french prosecutor, the malaysian prosecutor, the united states ntsb, they're not going to get here until a few days time and that's where they're planning to meet. >> what are we hearing from the families? it is very good that they're using an abundance of caution here and they're not just coming out and saying anything definitive. for the families, this is the most tangible piece of that plane potentially, and what has happened to their loved ones. what are they saying at this hour? >> i'm glad you mentioned them. it

came through here, they rushed straight to that building over there which is the entrance to the dga,b run by the french ministry of defense which has all the very latest technology to carry out these scientific and forensic examinations that need to take place. of course, the answer that everyone wants right at the top is, does this flaperon belong to mh-370? we know that it's from a 777 aircraft and of course we know there is no other 777 aircraft missing in the world right now. this is, of course, one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. but they don't want to just say that by a process of elimination. they want a direct link between the flaperon that was brought here over the weekend in a sealed container to mh-370. so what kind of experiments are they going to be running right now? they've agreed on what they're going to do over the last two days. of course, every group has its own way of investigating an air crash. so the united states, france, malaysia, had to agree what tests they'd run. and they're likely to be doing things like sonograms, x-rays, 3-d imagery. rene

. >> i would imagine they would give a bit more detail about what happened at this dga lab today. when all the organizations involved in this investigation arrived just a few hours ago, really they were only there for two and a half three hours and clearly now we know that they were able to conclusively attach that flaperon which we knew to be from a 777 aircraft to mh-370. the ntsb and boeing that makes the aircraft malaysian authorities, malaysia airlines a specialized team for mh-370 from malaysia as well and then chinese officials, australian officials and, of course the paris prosecutor represents it brooke and this is not just an air crash investigation here in france. this is a manslaughter investigation because the families of the four full french nationals on board have brought a case for manslaughter and should terrorism or hijack having been involved with the disappearance of mh-370 so of course the priority though today was to conclusively connect this flaperon to hm-370 which we now know without a shadow of a doubt, it belongs to that plane that disappeared 17 months