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Analyses. >> judge jeanine: but the interesting thing about this, with a rape kit, linda, the truth is, there is only -- this is the only evidence you have to test. i mean, we found homicides. you could send in 60 or 100 pieces. all you have to do, connie, is simply do the test. is there any excuse for labs not doing their job because if he had been identified with helena, it wouldnt have happened to amber. >> its not that the laboratories are not doing their job. the laboratories may not know a...

Analyses. >> judge jeanine: but the interesting thing about this, with a rape kit, linda, the truth is, there is only -- this is the only evidence you have to test. i mean, we found homicides. you could send in 60 or 100 pieces. all you have to do, connie, is simply do the test. is there any excuse for labs not doing their job because if he had been identified with helena, it wouldnt have happened to amber. >> its not that the laboratories are not doing their job. the laboratories may not know a...

Analyses. >> judge jeanine: but the interesting thing about this, with a rape kit, linda, the truth is, there is only -- this is the only evidence you have to test. i mean, we found homicides. you could send in 60 or 100 pieces. all you have to do, connie, is simply do the test. is there any excuse for labs not doing their job because if he had been identified with helena, it wouldnt have happened to amber. >> its not that the laboratories are not doing their job. the laboratories may not know a...

Across america.: illinois, financial problems forced the village of ford heights to layoff most of its police officers two years ago. cook county deputies found a bunch of moldy rape kits in refrigerator there. dna evidence led to charges in the rape of a 13-year-old girl. the man charged was already in prison and just days away from being released. alabama, police seizing thousands of pills and tens of thousands of dollars in a prescription narcotics bust in madison county. the pills included x...

Rape kit and not a -- that kit went untested for more than 20 years and went from cold case to a frozen case and to make a long story short and it finally got tested, a man already in prison forth sex crimes was linked to her rape and she says she can finally breathe again, but what about the other 20,000 or so americans still holding their breath? look how many rape kits, crucial evidence, are still on police shelves. 10,000 in detroit and lavenias hometown of dallas, texas, more in those citie...

Go to the state police, to our crime lab to be tested within ten days. in addition, state police will ensure that all local police departments do an inventory of all of the rape kits that are sitting on their shelves and sitting in their evidence lockers. we determine how many there are and we put in place a timetable and we test those because we know that if we test those in the same way that it worked for miss masters, we will find hits on what had been cold cases, frozen cases and cases that ...

Terrible crime that happens to thousands of children. you know, many people think of rape as something that happens to adult women, but when we look at the illinois sex offenders who are registered, 87% of them committed a crime against a child. so what are we saying as a society to family, to children, to women who are the primary victims of sex offenders when we dont take their cases seriously and we dont test the rape kits and we dont seek just ois their behalf. especially when you see what h...

Push palestinians and east jerusalem and also because there was a synagogue that was re-opened just 300 meters or so from the al aqsa monday night and that has caused tensions to rise and ham a the leader of hamas in damascus called for a day of rage today. we may not have seen a day of rage, but can i hear stun grenades in the distance. theyre still ongoing, theyre quieting down, but theyve been the most significant in some time. >> thanks, paula. >> bringing closure to victims of rape. were ta...

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Candidates, lindsey graham, bobby jindal, rick santorum, they will be forced into a separate event, which by rights should have chris christie there, too, but cnn decided to do him a favor for whatever reason. amazing. because thats how we pick presidents. so thats the one thing thats broken in the last hour. its amazing. the other thing broken in the last hour, concerns vice president biden. vice president biden in new york city today. did an event with andrew cuomo, mostly about the minimum ...