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Or some other way to share that. along with the technology and those types of things theres going to be a lot of traditional boots on the ground manhunt work at this point until the information or evidence leads them otherwise. >> if you dont mind, mark, the very top of your answer the last few seconds you were hard to hear. how quickly are they able to make a match? >> there will be -- [ inaudible ]. access to databases will be expedited and there will be information available to the investigat...

Partial previously useless samples making them now eligible for the f.b.i. database and secondly more advanced genetic sequencing machine to analyze samples that in the past were too small to generate a profile and something called genetic genealogy. police run a crime sample against private d.n.a. databases and find a relative of a suspect who may be actually the killer. finally 25 years ago the f.b.i. database had a million d.n.a. samples. it is now 20 million. it is possible the killer is the...

In Maryland and Montana, law enforcement will now require a warrant to access the information.

>> [laughing]. >> all of the questions that it raises are -- first of all, user consent is required? the person can decline or accept? do we want there to be a warrant. that requires what you are seizing. there is no such thing here. does that matter? there is a fine line between private surveillance and government surveillance. does it matter here that the company is the intermediary between the police and the users? its like all of the dna databases. does someone elses consent to you and that ...

We have a very sophisticated ied finding capability. we can attack networks, we can defeat devices. i remember as the -- one of the leade lead leaders of the counter eid task force, we developed a sophisticated network of dna databases that today has matured across the nation with law enforcement officials into this ability to very quickly find, fix and capture those that do this kind of thing. thank god he was captured. >> charles: to that point, one of the breaks was the envelope apparently ma...

That bombing in 1963. our fbi, our postal inspectors, the secret service do, their technology is so much greater than it is today. we have dna databases, we have fingerprint databases, we have all manner of ways where we can trace the materials. thats one thing that is going on right now. theyre taking every piece of that -- of those devices and analyzing them for their source of origin, comparing them to each other, and so there say lot of things that can happen. i feel confident that sooner or...

Smiling, having fun with her friends, having no idea that she would be dying at the hands of someone i believe was truly evil. >> during stephanies autopsy, the medical examiner found signs of sexual assault and recovered a dna sample. this sample was compared to dna samples of all criminal offenders in both the state and national dna databases. there were no hits. >> there was not a lot of other evidence that was found at the crime scene. it appeared almost like what the suspect brought with hi...

And then you swab your mouth, basically hand your dna back to the authorities. then you could potentially have your charges dropped. the d.a. and the lab that helps process the dna both say this has helped solve a number of crimes. >> through the use of dna theres been cases out there that though you can get more arrests, more convictions. >> in one case in orange county, a man was actually charged with domestic violence, he exchanged his dna and then got that charge dropped. turns out his had d...

Stay there or head to one of the other three facilities which handle the states 10,000 sex offenders. officials in one california county have been dropping the charges against thousands of suspects on one condition, that those suspects have to hand over a sample of their dna. experts tell us the number of law enforcement agencies creating their own dna databases has spiked in recent months and bringing up a key question -- do you trust authorities to keep human dna on file? supporters say coll...

>> show me a single framer who said that. i have seen no framer who said that and spent years studying it. thats not what the text said and any family said. thats not what the state constitution said. you can have that view, but thats actually not consistent with scalias text. >> lets push it further then. can we have -- is it permissible to have a database of the dna identifiers of every citizen in the country that would run as a matter of course when they interfaced with law enforcement. they ...