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Again. so that inspired and allowed additional anger and frustration. we have an ungoverned space in eastern ukraine, and these kinds of tragedies take place, and well figure out clearly as we have discussed and as fran has just laid out what took place as a result of some really good intelligence that is going to take place both technical and human intelligence and well piece all that together. and clearly, tomorrow morning the president will get on his desk a president daily brief that is goin...

>> there does seem to be growing awareness that it probably had to be russian insurgent. how we determine that will require forensics but then if there is evidence pointing in that direction, the equipment had to have come from russia. >> malaysia airlines was shot down one day after the u.s. imposed sanctions including the largest oil producer. sanctions sparked by failure to curve violence. ukraine erupted when protests turned deadly. weeks later prorussian armed men seized government building...

President putin says there is no doubt the country on whose territory this terrible tragedy happened bears responsibility. this tragedy, he says would not have happened if there was peace in the country, if military operations had not resumed in the southeast of ukraine. the ukrainian military did not have the ability to launch a missile from this pro-russian region where it took place. listen to the reaction from hillary clinton. >> there seems to be some growing awareness that it probably had ...

Sophisticated in their hands like an sa 7 or 11 that pushes the limits and unbelievably irresponsible on the part of the russians. >> there are a number of shoot downs of aircrafts in the last couple of days. one report and to my knowledge not confirmed yet. one report is that a russian fighter aircraft shot down a ukranian fighter aircraft. both sides, the ukranian government has the buk missiles and the separatist have the buk missiles and how will we prove or how does the world know which sid...

Aligned with what moscow would try to achieve. so not beyond the realm of possibility. i would rank it way up there as the primary area id go to do my forensics and intelligence analysis and put this all together. clearly it is russian equipment, russian developed, former soviet dwroped. it exists in that part of the world. russian units have it, current in their inventory. it could easily be a part of ukraine military that could have been taken over by the separatists. >> but heres the question...

That they would be attacking. this is the medical forensics truck that brings the bodies here. the medical examiner tells us that 48 unclaimed bodies are here at this time. here is the sad thing, a lot of the families in honduras think their family member is on their way to the united states, only to find out that they are here dead. >> rosa flores reporting from honduras. we have new details tunnel in the militarys investigation of bowe bergdahl in his disappearance five years ago. ill talk to ...

She was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. >> im glad they got her, but i dont want to sound like im out for vengeance, although if they wanted to kill her, id volunteer. >> it was the shoe impression on a shard of glass and the partial thumbprint on the leather belt that solved the case. >> in my 12 years of doing latent print work, this case ranks up near the top, if not the most difficult latent fingerprint that ive had to identify. so, this was a very, very sat...

Charged and convicted of capital murder. since she was 17 at the time of the murders, she was spared the death penalty but was sentenced to life in prison. >> if youre a parent, when you lose a child, theres never closure. theres a big hole in you forever. and it never gets better. i could argue that it gets worse. >> this was an excellent example of how family members, police, and scientists all worked together to solve a difficult case. >> the clearest piece of evidence we had was finding chri...

Tools to work with. we take you inside the nypds closely guarded crime lab, a frontline for capturing criminal. it shows detectives a clearer picture. so do evolving computer programs adding greater detail to tracing ballistic evidence. advances in dna analysis are widely considered the most meaningful step forward towards solving more crimes. but the forensics are just pieces of the increasingly elaborate puzzle. you really cant escape the cameras. theyre virtually everywhere. windows that can ...

Routine except one of their most dependable employees darlene vandergiesen didnt report to work for a second straight day. >> on friday when she did not show up for work, her boss called her parents, dee and gene. >> darlenes parents immediately drove to darlenes apartment since they had their own key. >> went to her apartment and we saw her cell phone. we knew something was wrong because she never traveled anywhere, never did anything possibility of parole. >> how do you feel about everything? ...