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Malaysia airlines flight 17 was most likely shot down by a buk missile launcher. this raises the question, can commercial airlines be protected from missile attacks. brian todd is joining us from washington right now. brian, we know air force one is protected by electronic jammers from most of these kinds of missiles. can the same be done for commercial flights with a lot of passengers on board? >> reporter: wolf, it is possible this could be done. there is a variation used on l-al, the israeli ...

Alleged her brother, bill, had sexually abused her as a child. investigators wanted to know whether this was a possible motive. to see if these entries were written by nancy, investigators sent the diary to a forensic document examiner, hartford kittel. >> handwriting examinations based upon two distinct facts -- no two people write exactly alike. within the writing of a single individual, there is normal variation. its this normal variation that we associate or we dont associate with the questi...

Distinctive. >> i determined that the handwriting on the brochure was not written by the mother or either of her daughters. >> in the word courtney part of the hotels address the t was capitalized in the middle of the word. >> this is unusual. not only because its a capital letter but because of the spacial quality of the small r to the tall t. >> and the letter y was written in a way that teresa stubbs had never seen before. >> the letter y was written four times, each time written differently....

Variation. theyre going to clean it up. ♪ >> many, if not most of these guys, are not too sympathetic to my country or my ethnicity, im guessing. but theres that hospitality thing. anywhere you go in the muslim world, it seems. no matter what, you feed your guests, you do your best to make them feel at home. >> we have to eat. [ speaking foreign language ].

That go back through the family so far that nobody knows exactly where they even came from. migas, another iconic dish of andalucia. informally referred to as the shepherds lunch. born as a way to use old, hard bread and combine all the weeks leftovers. im told every household in spain has a variation. what changes is what you put on it. today its sardines, cod, chorizo, melons and peppers. thats a lot of good stuff in one bowl. so how often do you eat this well? >> every lunch is like this. >> ...

The reason arizona passed a controversial bill several years ago is because of the flood of immigrants coming in there. the reason texas and new mexico and southern california have been dealing with this problem so long is theyve been seeing the flood for decades now and this is just a different variation of it. were seeing a lot of young kids and same time the overall number of undocuments immigrations making crossing is slowly creeping back up and very familiar with. i think everybody down the...

Document examiner, hartford kittel. >> handwriting examinations based upon two distinct facts -- no two people write exactly alike. within the writing of a single individual, there is normal variation. its this normal variation that we associate or we dont associate with the questioned writing. >> surprisingly, nancy and richards handwriting looked strikingly similar. friends said this was intentional. while in college, nancy had written some of richards research papers, and she mimicked his wri...

You find a lot of variation amongst the states. but the nation as a whole which is really run by washington, the nation as a whole has not done well at all. >> you see a direct correlation where states that have lower taxes and or no income tax, where the economies are definitely better there so you will see a trickle-down effect to areas like housing and employment? >> those states that have low tax rates or have cut their tax rates, they way outperform the other states. i mean its just a commo...

From the manufacturing process. >> its subjected to several milling and finishing processes, which cause small, microscopic imperfections to be imparted to the surface. >> and those same marks are imprinted on each and every shell casing that exits that gun. ballistics experts at the pennsylvania state police crime lab were asked to analyze both shell casings. >> when he first got the casing, he said, you know, this is somewhat corroded and it has been exposed for a long period of time. he said,...

There a variation somehow on that theme, because even the cops said they didnt think the boy was that long in the basement and they didnt think he could have pulled all of this off by himself. >> well, and erik, its heartbreaking to think this boy escaped and went somewhere and was rejected somehow and he has to go back home and he chooses to huddle in a corner in the basement. >> well, thats where the speculation is, was he put there also. so here again, you have the situation where it might ha...