Page 20 - Wlab Tech News Today

That fight, and if necessary, and if folks will have me, i am prepared to help lead that fight. >> you have put your past experience in law enforcement as the attorney general in california and as a prosecutor, as the d.a. in san francisco, the elected d.a. i remember that election. i remember being amazed to see you from come outside, come outside from the two establishment candidates and beat them both. >> right. >> it was a political marvel to see you win that race. i remember watching it fro...

That lab tech was messing with evidence and anything she touched essentially was screwing up cases. how did that happen under your leadership without you knowing about it? >> so the crime lab was run by the san francisco police department, not by my office. it was run by the police department. there was a technician, to your point, who worked in that crime lab, who was basically sniffing what she should have been measuring. and it turned out that hundreds of cases she had handled and because of ...

Serious problems at the crime lab, that that lab tech was messing with evidence and anything she touched essentially was screwing up cases. how did that happen under your leadership without you knowing about it? >> so the crime lab was run by the san francisco police department, not by my office. it was run by the police department. there was a technician, to your point, who worked in that crime lab, who was basically sniffing what she should have been measuring. and it turned out that hundreds ...

We still have a whole lot of problems around issues of equality and freedom and fairness, right? but people are prepared to fight, and i am prepared to join that fight, and if necessary, and if folks will have me, i am prepared to help lead that fight. >> you have put your past experience in law enforcement as the attorney general in california and as a prosecutor, as the d.a. in san francisco, the elected d.a. i remember that election. i remember being amazed to see you from come outside, come ...

Year. >> we are seeing pattern we missed. the pattern is an insufficient culture of safety. >> reporter: at that time, he was on the hot seat for handling anthrax and avian flu. >> these are unacceptable events and never should have happened. >> reporter: in line with the procedures, the lab was closed pending review and decontaminated. the material was destroyed, investigate launched. it was reported to health and human services secretary and others up and down the chain of command. as for the ...

About safety at the center for disease control and how to fight ebola. this happened after a mistake may have exposed a technician to ebola. joe johns reports, it is the latest development in the struggle to handle and study lethal viruses and bacteria while fighting them at the same time. >> reporter: a potentially deadly mistake at the u.s. institution that handles some of the most dangerous biological materials. the center for disease and control says the ebola virus was transferred from a se...

Is something congress has been very opposed to. >> yeah, for years now. barbara starr, thank you so much from the pentagon for us today. and american veterinarian got the best present she could ask for this christmas, her freedom. stacy addison arrested in east timor after police found drugs in the cab she was in. the 41-year-old maintained her innocence throughout her detention. she will remain in east timor until she gets a new passport and after that she says, without a doubt, she is going st...

Joe, tell me what happened here. >> reporter: this apparently happened on monday and was discovered on tuesday. cdc said a small amount of material from an experiment was mistakenly transferred from one lab to another and it may have contained live ebola virus. material was in a sealed plate and cdc says it should not have been moved from point a to point b. cdc says were talking about one individual who is being monitored and that technician has no symptoms of the illness. >> you say one indivi...

With us. can you stick around? >> of course. >> lovely. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. ahead "@this hour," the united states says it was not isis, the group that shot down a coalition plane, no. but that terror group is claiming they did that and also holding a jordanian pilot captive. were going to settle the score on this story and the rumors. latest from the region in a moment. its another uh-oh at the centers for disease control. this time a lab tech may have been exposed to ebola....

The cdc says theres no danger to the public but the incident raises concerns and we have joe johns with us to talk about the details. i mean, how is a lab tech exposed to ebola. >> i know, think about it, this is probably a lot about procedures and we might not even know about this but for all the other things that have happened over the last year. this apparently happened on monday, discovered on tuesday, the cdc said a small amount of material from an experiment was mistakenly transferred from...