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Give an ability to reach into a data base and say, wait a minute, this person bought a handgun and a setback to that and cascade. so, again, i keep going back to the operational he reality and how do you minimize the problems for something like this. people are afraid sometimes when you talk about that the reality and securities, versus the theoretical discussions and go all the way, that president obama made an interesting comment early on in the administration about the false choice between se...

Enforcement and give ability to reach in a data base and say this person bought a handgun with extented beret then a step after. that it cascades. again, i keep going back to the operational realities of how do you minimize problems from something like this. >> people are afraid when you talk about the reality of security versus theoretical discussion. president obama made an interesting comment early in the administration about the false choice between security and our ideals. you know what? th...

Enforcement and give ability to reach in a data base and say this person bought a handgun with extented magazine. then a step after. that it cascades. again, i keep going back to the operational realities of how do you minimize problems from something like this. >> people are afraid when you talk about the reality of security versus theoretical discussion. president obama made an interesting comment early in the administration about the false choice between security and our ideals. you know what...

That should in a good economy give them an edge over -- over their peers. >> whats the reality? >> the edge is gone because theyre getting lost in the volume of people. >> reporter: unemployment is such a big issue for the army national guard that some states are testing out programs to help their part-time soldiers. brian runs one program in maryland. >> what im doing is throwing a life ring for them and pulling that life ring until one of these employers picks them up. >> reporter: including r...

Country. theyre up 93% nationwide last month from the same period last year. this situation is dire. >> tonight, there are now hard numbers that would further indicate a real foreclosure crisis in this country. >> that was in 2007. we dont hear so much about foreclosures anymore but that doesnt mean theyve gone away. in fact, as the coverage has ebbed the actual problem has surged. according to reality track which pubs the data base of foreclosures, 75% of the nations top metro areas posted incr...

>> theres this new thing called tone check. how many times have you gotten an e-mail from somebody and said, what does that mean? i dont know what they were trying to say. people try to be funny or try to be direct. theres unintended consequences and theres this new program you can run through microsoft outlook called tone check and heres what it does. it scans e-mail messages for unintended emotion, cross references the words and phrases in the data base and flags down parts that could be misin...

Through the eyes of the western population as you see i it? >> well, we worked on this material with war reporters from afghanistan who were brought back to look at this data base. on one hand, its minute-to-minute description of people on the ground and on the other hand, our journalists who have been there themselves. that allowed us to pull this together. to get a feeling at once. and our feeling after reading this material and from people who have been there is very different to what is comm...

>> not doing a bulls eye for terrorists as far as targets are concerned. >> you can play around with this other -- this other thing that weve done, which is a data base that you can look in and see all of the redundancy and different organizations and judge for yourself whether the conclusions seem plausible. but, you can spend time on that, moving around from agency to agency, type of work to other types of work. and seeing where the problems are. >> >> dana post of "the washington post." looki...

Thanks always for your insight. great to see you today. >> thank you. >> shannon: well, the intelligence community is bracing for a "washington post" series they think could be critical of them and damaging to the effort. the series is apparently two years in the making and led by pulitser prize winner reporter preese, who is expected to lay out private contractors used for intelligent gathering, the first installment cleat with data base of -- complete with database of information publish as ea...

Killers dna from the crime scenes. was it possible it was here as well? >> we are on the cutting edge of this technology. >> reporter: jill says forensic scientists recently developed a powerful investigative weapon. computer software that can find similarities between crime scene dna and the dna of a convicted felon. if a killers dna is not in the data base, maybe a relatives is. >> only convicted offenders we compare to and not arrestees in california. >> reporter: two years ago detectives ran...