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That has been very degraded. it may not be revealing of any nature. whats good is were good at obtaining dna from bone. you grind up the bone and extract dna and use the typical procedures we use for human identification. >> lou, aviation teams are flying over the area with high resolution cameras. what might they be looking for? what do you need in terms of forensics to find out if theres a link between all of the remains? >> well, the reason they are using the high resolution aircraft provided...

I will say nassau county police department, probably the most progressive law enforcement agency in the country right now, and i say that because of the technology that theyre implementing, and i bet you find it curious to know the first police department who utilized dna in trying to solve crimes. theyre way on top of this already. pretty much what were doing now is trying to identify -- >> what you said, lou, if its the harsh conditions out there and the bones are wiped clean of evidence, and ...

Lot of anxiety here, press conference scheduled for 1:00. maybe a little more clarification then. >> theyre finding all of these human remains. is there any, is there anything, you know, on those human remains that might lead them to a suspect? >> reporter: well, the remains are at the medical examiners office, both here in nassau county and in suffolk county. that is certainly the focus of the investigation now the forensics, trying to identify these persons using dna records, using the teeth, ...

As wench into, if these sets of human remains are even connected. doesnt it? >> thats absolutely correct. thats why im listening to the term, serial killer being thrown around, and ive not yet heard any law enforcement agency, not suffolk county, not the state police, not the state park police and not nassau county police use that term just yet. the thing i will say to you is that once they identify who the individual is theyre going to further conduct tests to try to determine how long theyve b...

Cnns soledad obrien is working on a documentary "dont fail me" about the american education system. she found one school in tennessee to use innovative ways to close the achievement gap between black and white students. here is the report. >> and to decompose over time. >> reporter: these ninth and tenth graders are learning about forensics at the academy of science and engineering inside of nashville stratford high school. so, the goal is to mimic what a medical examiner might do with a dead bo...

Police in spain have found the body of a missing u.s. college student. zain verjee is joining me from london with the latest on this and many other stories from abroad. zain, this is a sad ending to this story. >> yeah. its really awful, kate. he was 22 years old, his name was austin taylor bice and he was found in a river, what police said we they sectioned off some of the river and drained it and found his body. he was at a club he had been and then just disappeared. theyre doing an autopsy bu...

Act itself but show a precursor behavior that will tell the judge, judge, this guy doesnt know what is going on. >>guest: like researching online extensively as the forensics showed, the federal death penalty, lethal injection and so forth. >>guest: that goes to the argument that he may be sane. he is looking. so, if he does this ... >>guest: and, yes, that is meaning the thing speaks for hit self. you look at the picture and he looks like a crazy man. he is going to be evaluated but as the defe...

Forensics. at the time the pirates are expected to be brought back to the united states to stand trial here, the bodies of those four pirates may accompany them for forensic investigations to figure out exactly how they died and in terms of figuring out who did what, they would have then the medical and forensics evidence to back that up. but it appears likely at this point, that all 15 pirates will eventually end up here in the united states to face trial, tamron. >> mick, thank you very much. ...

Didnt weigh in on any of those law enforcement matters or other sorts of forensics. they just werent asked to do it. and they refused actually to weigh in on the guilt or innocence of ivans or anyone else in the case, randi. >> jeanne meserve, thank you. there is a bizarre mystery unfolding right now. police pull over a pest control truck, inside a sick man and a boy having a seizure. also in the back, a body bag. investigators say its a murder investigation now. the new developments straight ...

Who he is supposed to call, the dentist? my point is this. let me finish. >> jamie: let me make each of you make a point. >> all im saying is this, i understand he is represented by competent counsel, however the question is, what assistance if at all did he give that would not be incriminating. i dont think any of us about the forensics that were done. just because a criminal case is over doesnt mean that that family of that young woman cannot sue him for a wrongful death action. >> jamie: sure...