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Evidence for rain kits. this comes six years after a detroit prosecutor brought public attention to this issue when he discovered 10,000 kits sitting neglected in a warehouse. one victim told nbc's kate snow other survivors shouldn't give up hope. >> i would just like to say to the other survivors out there that may be sitting where i was sitting once upon a time waiting for that phone call, don't give up hope seeing the person who did that to you will really make you feel good. >> with me now to talk about this potentially major step forward is msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber and e...

That is? >> i think it's -- the justice department has estimated that it can be up to 400,000. >> wow. >> nationwide. to your point when talking about detroit and what happened there, a third of the rain kits that were actually tested were found to be -- it was serial rapists responsible for these rapes. >> and the 70,000 relates to about 26 states that have amroo applied for some of this money. what they'll do today is talk about who is getting that money and try to bring attention to it so other jurisdictions will apply for it. 70,000 is a minimum. >> i'm curious, how much does evidence that...

Congress is taking new action to combat a shocking problem. more than $4400,000 rain kits remain unused across the country. congress cleared $5 million the clear the backlog, and that includes $36 million already in the budget. it includes photo evidence and rain kit evidence when a rain victim seeks medical treatment. ronan farrow spoke with one woman whose rain kit had sat for nine years. >> i had been attacked in my home, so i consented of the invasive procedure of invasion of my body. >> some liken it as another assau assault. >> it was. >> the biggest city with a ba

Issue, and when you're looking at these rain kits, that kit contains someone whose body was essentially a crime scene. certainly the case with myself when i was sexually assaulted. it's a very arguous process. so it's just a travesty. it's a public safety issue and it leads to a victim being revictimized as you mentioned. >> and sarah, you have an announcement about what the joyful heart foundation is. >> so many cities don't give is information about how big the problem is. we enlisted two law firms that are helping us with public records requests in 15 major

Analyzed. it turns out just four months after that the man who raped her was identified. adding insult to injury joseph houston couldn't be charged because the statute of limitations had run out. so the clock is ticking on testing all the evidence in florida. what's even more baffling is hollywood, florida, a beach community with about 145,000 people is hardly someplace that's overrun with crime. according to neighborhood scout, a website that compiles nationwide crime rates based on fbi data, hollywood had 38 rape cases last year. 38. what we want to know is how with numbers like that the hol...