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Be seen with the help of another machine. >> the laser would trace the dna. thats what youre going to see here. >> reporter: its a unique readout called a dna fingerprint. to solve the case that fingerprint can be added to or matched in a federal database including some 14 million different profiles. >> hair saliva urine, semen, all these can be used. >> reporter: seemingly small clues picked up at crime scenes. he says a piece of crust can yield millions of cells or even just a few. sometimes t...

Identification lab at mount sinai hospital in new york city. a single bite mark can be enough to crack a case. swab the pizza to get as much dna from the crust. >> reporter: investigators lightly tested a crumb. first a machine separates out the dna. then the sample is amplified. millions of copies made to make the sample large enough to be seen with the help of another machine. >> its called a dna fingerprint. to solve the case that finger sprint can be added to or matched in a federal data bas...

Cells? >> purifying the dna. >> reporter: the sample is amplified. millions of copies made, make the sample large enough to be seen with the help of a machine. >> the laser with the trace the dna. thats what you are going to see here. >> reporter: a unique readout, dna finger print. to solve the case, that fingerprint can be added to or matched in a federal database including some 14 million different profiles. >> hair. saliva, urine. semen, all these can be used. >> reporter: seemingly small cl...

>> put it in a tube and get the cells out and proceed with the dna constructions. >> a machine separates out the dna. >> this is releasing the dna from the cell. >> then the sample is sample is ampified with the help of another machine. the laser traced the dna. what you see here. >> its unique called a dna fingerprint to solve the case. that fingerprint can be added to or matched in a federal database including 14 million different profiles. >> hair, saliva, urine, semen. >> small clues picked ...

For more dna from the lab and the courtroom, we are joined by the department at the john j college here in new york. also the defense attorney. >> the chances of this guy being on the databases, how does someone get on that from a prior crime? >> the database is called codis. it has three levels. a local database and state databases which the states keep and the national database. at the state level, they are eligible for the database. the point is there an awful lot of people that are convicted...

Saliva. theyll either swab it cut t theyll retrieve that small quantity of saliva which is very rich in dna, bring it back to the lab and the rest is standard operating procedure. they extract it, amplify it. and what you have at the end of that process is a genetic profile and now all they need to do is run it in a data base. >> they did that quickly. in the it used to be it took a while. >> very rapid. >> its interesting to me in this day and age with so many cameras he could get away so far s...

Refute. >> its fascinating because this dna on the pizza crust fascinating me because there really isnt a lot of other explanations. you cant argue the guy worked at the dominos because nobody delivers pizza crust they deliver full pizza. its fascinating the subtle difference in whether youre an eater who finishes his entire slice or leaves a crust, had he eaten the crust where would we be today? >> if someone is in a home terrorizing a family overnight hours on end. >> they will leave something...

Also relating to the question of whether the law under which this was done really authorizes it. we went back and forth on that. i believe it does. and there may have been one or two who believes it didnt. >> talk about your own experience. youve been in the trenches with these programs. truly this helps you. this has helped you with going after terror suspects. >> right. and the way it helps is not necessarily catching somebody right at the moment that theyre about to set off an inferno device....

One man is facing backlash for killing a black ryan know. he paid $350,000 for a permit to kill it. conservationists say his actions have done more harm than good. despite the controversy, a small village in namibia celebrated him after delivering the animal for its meat. the rhino mae donated, but he gets to keep the animals head and hide. cnns erin burnett asked the hunter about what he mans to do with it. >> what do you plan on doing with this rhino head which i know database you know, are yo...

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