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Casey segal. >> you can buy a peg nancy test and do it yourself hiv test. would you shell out a product if it could analyze your own d.n.a. there are three manufacturers here in the san diego area alone working on kits that they claim can do just that the big qui question, why would you want to do it in the first place? they claim that these home genetics test kits are designed to measure your risk for diabetes, breast cancer, and other genetic diseases. you buy the kit, you send off a d.n.a. sa...

And cigarettes and things like that. but the cell phone has me baffled. i dont know what a dog will be smelling. how do you train them to find a cell phone? >> well, like anything else it has to have a unique odor. when we first started this program, that is one thing we had to determine. once we were able to determine that a cell phone did have a unique odor, the training was basically the same as any other type of detection. >> guys, give us a sample. we set up -- i believe we set up three thi...

California, richard subia, deputy director of adult institutions in california department of corrections. he is in charge of the canine search unit. also joining us, sergeant wayne conrad, california department of corrections and rehabilitation. hes a trainer with the canine cell phone unit and his four legged partner is dracco. >> so youre going to give us a little idea how this works. i can understand finding tobacco and cigarettes and things like that. but the cell phone has me baffled. i don...

Dressed up if theyll have me. >> thank you so much. appreciate. that. more wild times on the jersey shore this weekend. popular cast member snooki of that hit reality show is arrested. she was processed and released after beach goers complained she was bother them. youre seeing the video of snooki leaving police headquarters with her cast mates late yesterday. shes now charged with disorderly conduct. the second season of "jers ji shore" kicked off earlier this week. he spent 27 years behind...

Of what was done over the last several years in this unique arena of forensic science, specifically dna. >> reporter: at first police couldnt match dna at the murder scenes to any suspects. franklin had been arrested 15 times in 40 years, but his crimes were never considered serious enough to send him to state pris wherein he would have had to give dna samples. >> were trying to think outside the box. hes outsmarted us for 24 years. >> reporter: one of those other avenues turned out to be a bran...

>> juliet: a new twist on californias grim sleeper murder case. the man they believe is serial killer slipped through the legal system while his murders went on for more than 20 years. as chris reports, police say they finally got their man. >> reporter: for more than two decades, police say he was the unknown architect of what a city police commissioner calls a rein of terror, murder and rape. they are hundred percent sure that this man is grim sleeper. his name is ronnie franklin, jr. lapd chi...

They found a connection in the data bank that was actually his son, which then led them after some investigation to determine that the son obviously was too young to be the suspect. it led them to the father and after some investigation, they actually were able to obtain a direct dna sample from the suspect, which then became the perfect match. >> wow. what do we know about lonnie david franklin? do we know anything else about his history or his past? has any information been retrieved from his ...

Jon: so how did they find him? its my understanding that there was a rather unusual use of dna evidence in this case. >> yes, there was. in the state of california, with the process that they called familial dna, they ran him through that system, and a hit came up in connection with the son of the suspect. they then continued the investigation, and then identified the suspect. they then recovered a direct dna sample from him, and then that was a perfect match. jon: so they started with the son, ...

Lisa sylvester is monitoring some of the top stories coming into the situation room right now. what are you working on? >> a chinese court has sentenced a u.s. citizen to eight years in prison for allegedly spreading state secrets abroad. the u.s. ambassador to china is calling for his release. he has been detained for more than two years and was in the country working for a colorado-based consulting firm. a supporter says he was not privy to state intelligence. the body of the late chess icon...

Juliet: police in iceland exhumed the body of chess great bobby fischer. they took the dna sample to see if he is the father of a 9-year-old girl in the philippines. bobby fischer rose to fame in the middle of the cold war win can the 1972 world chess championship in a dramatic victory over the russians. rick: the clock is ticking in the oil disaster in the gulf. bp saying the oil spill has cost them more than $3 billion. that does not include the $20 billion compensation account it agreed to se...