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Dog pile and they are asphixiated. the same thing has happened in football games, manual asphyxiation could be a pillow, it could be by some other object that doesnt leave any bruises. alisyn: police said dna testing on this little boy is underway. are they trying to match his dna with something already in the system? >> certainly. the department of defense has a dna sample of all members of the military. for identification on death in the battlefield and all criminals have dna samples. there is...

Frightened. this is a person who assaulted and raped her. he is on every single television set. this nightmare keeps recycling in her mind. she has no point of refuge. he says that thas that this iso encountered extraordinary odds to get to the united states, and now she is going through this, and again, he says that the future is uncertain, because she does not know what she will do next. randi. >> im sure if this did indeed happen, deb, it was incredibly frightenbing for her. i understand that...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. its a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. its made up of ten separate jails, most of them b...

Several years ago in boston, where she was apparently receiving treatment, that the fbi had subpoenaed her body so they could get a dna sample. certainly, a sisters dna would be very valuable compared to other family members, correct? >> yeah. if this is a full sibling -- and im not sure if theyre talking about a full sister or this was a half sibling, for example, yeah, obviously if that could -- if you know for sure these people are related, thats very valuable in terms of referencing this, ma...

Bring in this new sample and you start to actually compare it to do this matching. and again, looking for areas that are sort of known as junk dna or areas that are different. and youre looking for repeats in the dna sequence. the more repeats you see that match up with one of the relatives, the more likely it is going to be an actual match. more relatives, that increases the likelihood even further. >> and very briefly, there are unconfirmed reports, and i emphasize unconfirmed, that one of tho...

Could get a dna sample. would they be able to check -- to match dna in the field or would they have to take the sample back to a ship or back to a base in afghanistan or elsewhere? >> thats a really good question. its interesting because when you think about even the machines that do these more rapid tests, they are more sophisticated machines. they need to be free of contaminants, for example. if you contaminate a sample, thats a real problem. so i dont know whether they actually flew the sampl...

Who you think it is. no one will come out and say, though, anderson, 100% because despite all of what ive just described its still an imperfect science. >> there are also unconfirmed reports right now that one of the samples came from his sister, who died from cancer several years ago in boston, where she was apparently receiving treatment, that the fbi had subpoenaed her body so they could get a dna sample. certainly, a sisters dna would be very valuable compared to other family members, correc...

Absolutely positive. and bin ladens youngest wife survived the attack and went on to identify his body. lawrence kobilinsky is an expert in forensic science at john j. college in new york. lets talk about the dna. more than one dna sample was used to identify osama bin ladens remains and that there are places where his dna has been available in the past that the united states has been preparing for this kind of eventuality. what does the result, 99.9% accurate tell you about what dna they got? >...

Plus, wolf. and for a president of the united states to walk into the white house briefing room, and you know the level of confirmation they would require for the president of the united states to walk in and tell the american people and to tell the world that osama bin laden is dead, and the united states has confirmed that, that is a huge development, a hugely significant development. it does not erase al qaeda from the face of the earth. but it does erase when the president makes that announc...

Unidentified people they already have in their system. >> jason, give me what the scientists already know, i would assume that the medical examiner already has a pretty good idea what have that dna profile would be? >> i think a lot of scientists would agree with that given that it takes several days. when you look at when these remains were found, some in more than a week ago, that would give enough time to then extract what you need from the remains in order to come up with some sort of a dna ...