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Clinton campaigns e-mail. is the integrity of next months election results at risk. lets ask the computer scientist with sri international, a nonprofit research center that specializes in cyber security and elections. lets talk about the kind of cyber threats that states might see as voters head to the polls next month? >> thanks. theres a wide range of things that are being worried about from voter registration systems to voting machines and the good news is voters will vote on optical scan pap...

Report cites roofs case as a prime example of the weaknesses in the background check system. 13 states are allowed to conduct their own background checks, using the f.b.i.s database, which includes arrest reports, felony warrants, and some mental health records. the report found that in 630 of lly update the estates can did not fully update the database, that increased the risk that individuals found by states to be prohibited purchasers could be able to purchase firearms in the future. some of ...

Federal trade commission are up 50% this year. >> these calls are abusive and theyre illegal. >> reporter: lois greisman is with the f.t.c. >> some of the calls, though, are fraudulently pitching goods. theyre offering something that doesnt exist. >> reporter: what about the f.t.c.s "do not call" list? thats not proving to be much of a deterrent for scammers. >> you can see here theres seven, eight, nine calls in the same second that came in that were blocked. >> reporter: which is where aaron f...

>> you know, some day when sikh american parents tell their kids they can be whatever they want tr be in this great country of ours, i hope that it rings a little bit more true and it means they can serve in the armed forces just as freely. >> reporter: under army lagulations he wears either a black or camouflage turban. scott, since his victory, three more sikh soldiers have received religious accommodations to serve the u.s. while staying thue to their religion. >> pelley: don dahler tonight, ...

>> reporter: by all accounts, they are well on their way to becoming leading experts in the field. fi in fact, theyre already so well respected, sonia was recently invited to speak at a medical conference with the president. >> devoting ourselves to developing treatments for these diseases. >> reporter: if sonia and eric are successful, they will not only save sonias life but the lives of more than 7,000 other people who die every year from this painful, rapidly progressive form of dementia. it ...

Born with small heads. n.y.u. langones dr. tara ocirazian says doctors here are vacing for the likely arrival of the virus. in america, about four million lymen get pregnant each year. >> out of five women, only one exhibits symptoms, so the other four dont have symptoms, and may still have been exposed and may still develop microcephaly in their fetuses. and the transmission from the lym to the fetus, we think, is relatively high. >> reporter: nurse practitioner safiyyah okoye is 22 weeks pregn...

>> weve gone from being marginalized to becoming the margin of victory. >> reporter: leading the anan vote initiative is congresswoman judy chu who brought in supporters from around the country. >> certain states will have a huge affect on the outcome of this presidential election such as nevada, such as virginia. >> and youre from las vegas. >> we have voters. we know how to deliver those votes, shekar narasimham poipts to the senate election in his state, virginia. >> thank you, virginia. >> r...

Marquez responds, flatly, its syed farook. according to the fbi, later that evening, marquez checked into the ucla harbor medical center and went to the er. the fbi said he had consumed nine bottles of beer. david? >> pierre thomas live in our washington bureau with the 911 call made right after that attack. pierre, thank you. we move onto other news tonight and to another case were following making headlines. what authorities call a pharmaceutical scheme. the young ceo who set off a firestorm...

Misled his investors, boasting in a 2011 e-mail, that his hedge fund msmb, had returned 43% in just two years. in fact, the s.e.c. says, shkrelis fund had suffered $7 million in trading losses and had virtually no assets. a second hedge fund, msmb health care, also allegedly deceived investors, and the s.e.c. says shkreli then used retrophin, a pharmaceutical company he started and took public, to pay off the mounting losses in his funds. >> he used that power and the company assets to pay off h...

>> reporter: according to the indictment, martin shkreli started a hedge fund and allegedly got millions from investors. and when he lost their money, through a series of bad trades, he took money from new investors to pay off old ones. then, he took a company called retrophin public. the company acquired old drugs and sold them for higher prices. according to investigators, he and the companys attorney used that companys money to pay off his hedge fund investors. >> the two defendants could use...