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A rape kit but she fought back and scratched them to get his skin under her fingernails, so that solved the case. >> jenna: finally the break that the family so desperately wanted. we can understand that for sure. doctor, great to have you on the program as always, john? >> jon: we expect president trump will be taking to the microphones momentarily at centcom. let's listen in as the president receives his introduction. >> he why one of his very first trips to be here at macdill air force base to visit the command and spent some time with our men and women in uniform. i cannot overstate this. ...

Landmark legislation a week ago. victims have a right to have a rape kit for the entire relevant statue of limitations. they are allowed to be notified in writing 60 days prior to the destruction of that per more i want to bring in the founder and president of rise. she worked on the survivor's bill of rights and we were talking about action, active in getting the bill passed. you worked on go fund me to build up money to help the effort to pass this legislation. this goes back to your own personal story. you were assaulted in massachusetts in 2013. you had a rape evidence kit taken and decide...

Applicable statute of limitations, and it is important the know that in a case like this, it is very difficult that you won't have physical evidence like a rape kit or something like that, but make no mistake about it, under the statute the victim or the complainant's uncorroborated testimony is enough to sustain the conviction for aggravated indecent assault. >> fascinating. we will talk more about this. joey jackson, and ba kshkari ses and danny cevallos. and we will also look at the cities and states affected by historic flooding. all of it floating away. this is from missouri, one of the...

>> a few days later in the back of a walk-in vault, the clerk gets on her hands and knees to reach an envelope hiding in a back corner. >> she called me and she said, i found an envelope tucked in the back of the vault where it has been sitting for 20 years. and in that envelope was a rape kit. it had everything we needed. >> in so many cases, we have initially been told, oh, that evidence is lost or destroyed because nobody had a system of preserving the evidence. >> that's when i felt the whole weight lift from me for the very first time. i just felt like i was finally digging myself out of ...

Everybody because i didn't understand that they were trying to help me. i just -- i was still in shock from everything that had happened and i was cussing and screaming, and anybody that tried to come close to me, i was swinging at them. >> brad dennis of klaas kids who helped to rescue shauna said the staff misread the situation. >> what i saw was a very scared, terrorized girl. that's what i saw. someone that had immediately put up her defenses because here's a situation that maybe she had a little bit of control over. >> it was just a nightmare. the hospital got angry because shauna wouldn'...