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>> if youre somebody who real housewives here the arkema plant who is it that youre supposed to trust and believe to tell you that the air near your home is safe to believe when youre allowed to come back? >> thats a good question. the epa like you said has done some air testing and i they is the fire marshals officer local authorities will have set up some air monitoring after. i think its good that the epa did. but honestly from the people i talked to at crosby today, theres a lot of concerns ...

The epa is doing some air testing for us. and water testing as well. >> reporter: what is the danger as his product moves into the water supply? >> we dont expect it to move out of our perimeter. it will burn. all of it will burn. we had no reports of any positive tests for -- >> reporter: what kind of things are you watching for? >> hydrocarbons. organic compounds. total organic compounds. >> reporter: for the first responders who have experienced that stuff, what were they experiencing if the ...

Of the names of the chemicals. i dont have anything about how much of each chemical, i dont have the chemical index code that i can use to research more about the chemicals, i dont know what kind of containers they are in and i dont knee where the chemicals are located on the facility. >> if youre somebody who real housewives here the arkema plant who is it that youre supposed to trust and believe to tell you that the air near your home is safe to believe when youre allowed to come back? >> that...

Yet available at the time of the trial the prosecution relied on inexact hair testing methods yielding results that would not be accepted in a court of law today. >> i consulted a couple of forensic experts i knew and there was no way anybody, fbi, no matter where theyre from could say that pubic hair belonged to james duckett. theres no way they could say that. >> as it turned out, the fbis hair and fiber analyst, mike malone had a long history of controversial findings. >> over the years mike ...

Yet available at the time of the trial the prosecution relied on inexact hair testing methods yielding results that would not be accepted in a court of law today. >> i consulted a couple of forensic experts i knew and there was no way anybody, fbi, no matter where theyre from could say that pubic hair belonged to james duckett. theres no way they could say that. >> as it turned out, the fbis hair and fiber analyst, mike malone had a long history of controversial findings. >> over the years mike ...

>> really? that bad? >> that bad. >> other than dna where we have the vast databases there were no databases for lair at all. they did this for 25, 35 years, not only did they do it without any databases, but supervisors and management let them do it. it went unchecked. lawyers didnt catch it. prosecutors let it happen, judges didnt care. everybody in the criminal justice system was at fault. you mentioned only five people who have already been exonerated. in fact theres another 70 people who ha...

10,000. >> based on -- >> based on nothing. numbers taken out of the hip pocket. >> really? that bad? >> that bad. >> in other words, other than dna where we have these vast databases there to give a number, there were no databases for hair at all. they did this for 25, 35 years, not only did they do it without any databases, but supervisors and management let them do it. it went unchecked. lawyers didnt catch it. prosecutors let it happen, judges didnt care. everybody in the criminal justice sy...

>> nope, aint nothing there. >> they said we cant do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we cant do anything with it. >> we went to the fbi. because theyre the mac daddy of labs. and we asked them to take a look at it. >> mike malone is the fbi expert. he tested it and he comes up and says oh, yeah, this is mike -- jim ducketts hair. microscopically significant. so you have the preeminent investigative agency saying it is jim ducketts hair. thats powerful eviden...

>> with advance dna science not yet available at the time of the trial the prosecution relied on inexact hair testing methods yielding results that would not be accepted in a court of law today. >> i consulted a couple of forensic experts i knew and there was no way anybody, fbi, no matter where theyre from could say that pubic hair belonged to james duckett. theres no way they could say that. >> as it turned out, the fbis hair and fiber analyst had a long history of controversial findings. >> o...

>> carbon monoxide is odorless, colorless, and it kills. more than 400 people die every year from accidental poisoning, and more than 20,000 visit the emergency room. >> its to the blood red cell and you cant get oxygen. its like a form of internal strangulation. your tissues are strangling from a lack of oxygen. >> a scary situation. there are 25 state laws that require carbon monoxide detec r detectors in certain residential buildings and schools, but there appears to be no law requiring gener...