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>> you have women going through these four to ten-hour exams and have their evidence sitting on a shelf is not right. >> reporter: wayne county prosecutor kim worthy sounded the alarm back in 2009. that's when her office discovered 11,341 untested rape kits in a city warehouse. the kits they later realized, went back 30 years. all that time the women who the kits belonged to expected police to be using that evidence to help catch their attackers. detroit has completed testing on 2,000 of the rape kits. another 8,000 are in the process of being tested. of those that are done worthy says they've...

You don't -- every drug case the drugs are tested. i really think that there has been an evolution to understand that this is a women's right issue. >> well it turns out far greater than that. not only does a rapist typically reoffend so we could stop several rapes from happening in the future if we could catch the one in the relationship kit, but he also has a tendency to create other crimes. this is the kind of thingy you could solve crimes and also prevent crimes. >> it's the reason that our office in november committed $35 million, which we have received as part of forfeiture settlements o...

Groups like these hold. we'll stay on top of this for you. we've been looking back at some of the stories we're most proud of one of them a national story that we report order in june. hundreds of thousands of rape kits left untest and sitting on shelves allowing perpetrators to go free and leaching rape survivors with nothing to back their stories. since we reported on this issue, there has been strong reformrape survivors with nothing to back their stories. since we reported on this issue, there has been strong reform and action. congress has budgeted $41 million to handle untested kits. ...

It without justice. >> this is in-defensible. i don't mind telling you that. >> reporter: the mayor and the city are facing two lawsuits from victims like meg ap. he admits the city dropped the ball. why is the bagcklog still there? >> because the issue hasn't been raised. >> reporter: responding to the calls to end the backlog will take money, money many cities like memphis don't have. >> going forward yes, it is a money question. >> $5.5 million? >> approximately. >> and multiple years. >> mulltiple years. >> reporter: but an appropriations bill being considered includes $41 million to help ...

I think journalists routinely are targeted in places where we never were. >> an unfortunate year for journalists around the world. thank you for joining us from cairo. we will be following the trial closely or at least the appeal for that. thank you both for joining us. up next an update to a story we brought you here on ronan farrow daily months ago. the backlog of untested rape kits and the efforts being made to lower their numbers. stay with us. blap you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-qua...