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Could you get the light? [ loud crash ] what is going on?! honey, i was close! its a yeti! [ male announcer ] must! have! wheat thins! 400,000. that is the number of rape kits in the united states containing critical dna that are left untested in labs across the country. imagine being brutally attacked and going through the process of providing samples of hair, skin, and clothing for investigators, only to have the samples collect dust for decades. this is a national problem, but some cities a...

Joining me now, one of the authors of the study, professor rohas. lets start with the critique. im sure when you published this, you knew a critique was doing. he basically says this conclusion flies in the face of logic. give me your quick take on that. >> so let me start by saying i appreciate what he wrote about us. i appreciate the attention. and id like to start with the response by saying that random samples are not the only way to learn about the world. there are other ways you can learn ...

Tampas ben zosh owe does the same thing. he answers with another. four homers there. only the third time since 1916 two leadoff hitters both hit two homers in the very same game, by the way, seattle beats tampa, 5-4 fun stuff. the red sox are the seasons comeback kids, 28 times after last night, after trailing six innings, boston ties it with toronto, in the 11th inning, victorino singles. they have tentatively agreed to 40 drug tests each week during the season in the nfl. samples taken dur...

Its something that i think all of us who cover campaigns have got to keep in mind as we head to 2016. theres just going to be a preponderance of polls and we have to be careful how we report them. the flip side is, inside campaigns, both the obama campaign and the romney campaign were polling in lots of different ways. neither campaign was doing national polls the way we do or other news organizations do. they polled only the battleground states. they polled them individually and they polled the...

Procedure moved out. then it will move to san diego and be sensitive down there, and the san diego county sheriffs office dealing with it, but a huge sigh of relief here in california because there have been a huge outpouring of concern for her welfare after this dramatic week of a kidnapping and two terrible killings in san diego. so, as i said a huge relief from here. what the authorities intend to do next, as i was saying that san diego county has to look into what precisely happened. how the...

Jumps in, risking everything to guide the beast in. hes got to steady it, put a blanket over the eyes to calm it, get a line around its tail. one mistake, the shark wins. what do you tell your family? >> that im being safe. this has been my whole life, being around animals like this, being in the ocean, reading fish. they know im safe. im not a thrill seeker kind of person. >> a team of scientist has 15 minutes to take blood and tissue samples, see if the shark has health problems. this hose run...

All of this was going down? but, first, a woman named henrietta lax is responsible for some the most important advances in modern medicine. she wasnt a doctor. she lived to be but 31 years old. but her cells were special. they were able to thrive in a laboratory. and scientists around the world have used those unique and very valuable cells for decades. you may know her story from the best seller of immorality life of henrietta lax. for years it went unrecognized thats now changing. i will expla...

One-year anniversary. first, getting the rover in the exact spot the werent sure could be dub but they -- done but they did it, landing this car-sized project in the exact right spot. and the big news from the mission so far, eight months in, drilling the first rock and soil samples ever taken from mars, they discovered ancient streambeds. so more than 2 billion years ago scientists think, based on the research, there could have been mine microbes, life on planet mars. >> all added up to underst...

Stay there or head to one of the other three facilities which handle the states 10,000 sex offenders. officials in one california county have been dropping the charges against thousands of suspects on one condition, that those suspects have to hand over a sample of their dna. experts tell us the number of law enforcement agencies creating their own dna databases has spiked in recent months and bringing up a key question -- do you trust authorities to keep human dna on file? supporters say coll...

While, any job will feel like a blessing. peter barnes, thank you very much. in indiana, a semitractor trailer went airborne above a highway after someone ran the driver off the road. you can see the semi flip up over the road before coming down and bursting into flames. this is greensburg, about 50 miles southeast of indianapolis. state police say that driver had some minor injuries and his 7-year-old son who was with him just has a few scratches, thankfully. they say this all happened when a...