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>> tom obviously having problems hearing. mike brooks is standing by. mike, you were also involved in the olympic park bombing. again, the kind of nails that were used by eric rudolph in that bombing came from a fl particular batch that had a particular defect that they were able to trace, right. >>metalaurgist, they have a database on explosives, on me l metals, paints, you name it, they have a database and if they dont, one of their partners, someone in the uk, who has the biggest database on ...

And leave in important images, contrast enhancement devices, high resolution. it can be done to a certain extent. >> let me ask you about another shot. this is a shot of the crowd near the finish line and what i wanted to ask you about in this, people will be able to see. faces are recognizable in this. can investigators use biometrics? a way to identify individuals. here the faces are clearly visible, but in many shots they may not be to the average eye. would you be able to identify anybody? >...

>> you dont know whats going on afterwards unless you have data base which is really good facial recognition. if you could pick out somebody in a crowd maybe intercement them, the chances of that happening are very, very hard because you have to match it against the known data base. that is very hard to construct. >> they said between 10-15 different terror attacks have been stopped. some are comparing this to the times square bomber? how does it remind you have that? >> same thing as an opportu...

>> reporter: james holmes in colorado, jared loughner, all with mental health problems and all able to buy guns to kill. would proposed new background checks stop them? >> the common ground rests on a simple proposition that is criminals and the dangerous by mentally ill shouldnt have guns. >> reporter: its not simple as all. who is considered dangerously mentally ill? under federal law if someone found by a judge to be "a mental defective or someone committed to any mental institution" but stat...

Weapons bans. >> please, please which one would be some of the most conservatives? >> toomey is probably the most conservative i know you get very emotional about this stuff. >> only one that jumped shipped and force cloture i wouldnt call them the most conservative. >> i could read through the list. >> read them to me. >> all right. there is -- that doesnt mean that they are going to vote for all these amendments. but i do think that when you talk about, if you ask these policemen do you think ...

Family as the day the justice system failed us as americans, and as a consequence, an innocent man was arrested for a crime he did not commit, solely to blah indicate tplacate the m" this two weeks after his brother apologized for controversial tweets. in one, he put trayvon martins picture next to the killer of a baby. and a suspect able to purchase a gun 10 months after he was released from a mental health institute. that because his information not issued into a federal database. two shop...

Weapons bans. >> please, please which one would be some of the most conservatives? >> toomey is probably the most conservative i know you get very emotional about this stuff. >> only one that jumped shipped and force cloture i wouldnt call them the most conservative. >> i could read through the list. >> read them to me. >> all right. there is -- that doesnt mean that they are going to vote for all these amendments. but i do think that when you talk about, if you ask these policemen do you think ...

Check did lead to some form of data base of who owns guns, what the hells wrong with that? >> im just going to venture a couple guesses. one is that cars kill more people than guns by about three-fold, according to fbi statistics. >> the cars primary purpose is to get people from a to b. guns only purpose is to kill things. >> which amendment to the united states constitution allows you to have protection to have a car? >> this doesnt infringe on our second amendment rights at all, though. >> th...

People we arent supposed to catch doesnt mean it isnt worth the effort. were a smart enough country to get this right. >> let me ask on that point, kelly ann. what i dont understand is this. why is it that americans are quite happy to have a full registry of car purchase and car ownership but not guns? what is the big deal? even if the universal background check did lead to some form of data base of who owns guns, what the hells wrong with that? >> im just going to venture a couple guesses. one ...

New york city. i supported it, played a small role in helping to get it passed and was lauded by president clinton for the role that i played. president clinton put together an omnibus bill that gave republicans many things they had to vote for in order to overcome their reluctance to vote for it. what he should have done was include a great many provisions on mental health. he should have included a massive increase in how the data base was going to be handled, new technology. see, the people w...