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To the bitter and very public court battle between actress sophia vergara and her former fiance. fertility experts say these legal cases could have a beneficial impact. >> i would hope that people really understand what they're signing before they decide to make such an adult decision to create an embryo, which is a very precious set of cells. >> reporter: the ruling could determine that frozen embryos are future children and subject to custody battles as opposed to the focus of a contract dispute. a ruling in the san francisco case is expected by november. the losing side is certain to appeal...

Friend, more so than the friends of an adult. >> within 24 hours of finding joshan's body, investigators went to hansen's trailer to question him, but he was gone. >> we talked to the park manager and some of the neighbors and they said they hadn't seen him in a day or two. >> a background check revealed hansen, a day laborer, estranged from his wife, had no history of violence. >> a 60-year-old man, having teenagers visit the house and hang around, i think it does lead to suspicion as to what is going on. >> while police searched for hansen, criminalists measured the tire impressions found ne...

Details. >> once the second most powerful man at the sheriff's department, former undersheriff paul tanaka turned himself in to federal authorities charged with obstruction of justice. in a scandal that's rocked the department for several years. >> tanaka had a large role in institutionalizing the illegal activity in the sheriff's department. >> the fbi claims tanaka and former captain tom carrey took extraordinary steps to cover up inmate abuse at two jails. in 2011 when deputies learned an inmate was acting as an fbi informant, investigators say they tried to hide that informant from the fbi...

Microscopic review to see if, in fact this is a match and if in fact, it has some probative value. >> so you've got hundreds of cases that are now tainted by this. what do you do? how do you unravel this? >> you may have thousands of cases tainted by it it, okay? fortunately the fbi to their credit and the department of justice to their credit, are very serious about a duty to correct and a duty to notify defendants and defense attorneys of this problem. and they are working hard at it and we are grateful for that, but they haven't done enough to identify the cases. there could be several thou...

>> so you've got hundreds of cases that are now tainted by this. what do you do? how do you unravel this? >> you may have thousands of case is tainted by it, okay? fortunately the fbi to their credit and the department of justice to their credit, are very serious about a duty on correct, and a duty to notify defendants and defense attorneys of this problem, and they are working hard at it, and we are grateful for that, but they haven't done enough to identify the cases. there could be several thousands more cases, but they're not in the computer database, so it's hard for them to find them. on...