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Qaeda going back to 9/11. on that border on the pakistan side where osama bin laden was killed a number of years ago. we dont know which side of the border just in that border region. >> jim, we know the mission took place in january but president obama has only recently declassified the information. hes going to be sharing the information of this failed rescue attempt moments from now in the white house. what else do we know? why did it take so long? did they have to get dna testing from the si...

>> really? that bad? >> that bad. >> other than dna where we have the vast databases there were no databases for lair at all. they did this for 25, 35 years, not only did they do it without any databases, but supervisors and management let them do it. it went unchecked. lawyers didnt catch it. prosecutors let it happen, judges didnt care. everybody in the criminal justice system was at fault. you mentioned only five people who have already been exonerated. in fact theres another 70 people who ha...

10,000. >> based on -- >> based on nothing. numbers taken out of the hip pocket. >> really? that bad? >> that bad. >> in other words, other than dna where we have these vast databases there to give a number, there were no databases for hair at all. they did this for 25, 35 years, not only did they do it without any databases, but supervisors and management let them do it. it went unchecked. lawyers didnt catch it. prosecutors let it happen, judges didnt care. everybody in the criminal justice sy...

Im jeff glor. this is the western edition of the cbs news. its a review of the fbi lab in washington that is opening eyes across the country and now it could reopen hundreds of criminal cases. 95% of cases looked at so far included flawed testimony that includes 32 death penalty cases. this weekend the fbi acknowledged mistakes and jericka duncan has details. acknowledged mistakes and jericka duncan has details. >> reporter: before dna testing became prevalent, the fbi relied heavily on visual a...

>> he helped in the township. we used to take them out and about, shopping and to doctors and things like that. but he wasnt one ha that has parties or heaps of people. he was quite happy with himself. going to see his grandchildren. >> the bloodstain on davaid crawfords lawn was the outline of an ax. the pathologist believed that the ax was the murder weapon. dna testing revealed that the blood was crawford. the ax was gone. >> a little town, probably quite a few axes. but if we were able to fi...

Was kill weve seen video. and they had do suggest photo images that this is in fact the former right-hand man of saddam hussein who succeeded while being a fugitive, in leading rebel groups in iraq, for 12 years, after the u.s. invasion of iraq. it does suggest that he is in fact the man who was killed. these are images of him at a morgue in baghdad. his body is undergoing dna testing. and iraqi authorities say within 48 hours they should be able to confirm 100% whether that is in fact the man w...

His attorneys there with him obviously thinking, judge how they will appeal this case whether or not they have any avenue for appeal. there was one bit of evidence in terms of the dna testing that was found on a shell casing at the scene. in testing hernandezs dna was found on the shell casing, that may have been, you know, the piece of evidence that they hung this on. also the video that showed hernandez walking out of his house, with something black in his hand. >> right. martha: the jurors ma...

Majority of these casualties if not all of them, are believed to have been the victims of what is now known as the camp spiker massacre, when isis fighters brutally murdered hundreds if not upwards of 1500 recruits when they first took over this area back in june. the families of the dead have desperately been waiting for answers about what happened to their sons. many of them have been pleading with the government to get this process quickly under way. but even though it has begun, it is going ...

Answers about what happened to their sons. many of them have been pleading with the government to get this process quickly underway. even though it has begun, its going to take a very long time to actually exhume all of these various bodies and then dna testing will be underway as well. what we are hearing from one survivor we spoke to earlier and from experts on the site is isis divided them in smaller groups and executed at various different locations. one survivor here who we spoke to came ba...

Soles he had glued on, cut them up and tried to hide the pieces throughout the house thinking that no one would ever suspect what he did. >> i think it was very crucial. it was a pretty good circumstantial placement of the shoes at the scene of the crime leading away from the crash site. >> lastly, scientists found tiny spatters of blood on the garage wall. >> and they also found bloody towels hidden in the chimney. dna testing identified the blood as michelles. based on the forensic evidence, p...