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Many wrenching personal stories that is all across the country. kim worthy, thank you. what would you say to the legislators voting on federal funding for ending this backlog around the country this week? >> i would say, what i've said already, but also, it's not just rape. these rapists don't just rape, they break into your house and rape. they rape and they kill. they rob you and then they kill. they car jack you and then kill you. it's not just rape. it's pointed to all other violent crimes as well. we're really talking about all violent crimes here. >> an important issue that can increase ...

Transponders went off and turned around and went to a lower altitude. why? hundreds of miles from the last location authority ries reporte. they have theories about what happened. there are interesting truths. we'll get to that at the top of the hour. >> we look forward to it. thanks so much. time to look at what america is working on. daylight saving time could mean more danger on the job. a study of coal miners find their workplace injuries increase the monday following the time change. star of "law and order" pushing for faster testing for thousands of rape kits in detroit. they contain d...

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...

Perpetrators to justice. that's why last year i was proud to sign the reauthorization of the women's right act, which supported the states, including the fund police officers, nurses and to speed up the processing of untested rape kits to reduce that backlog, solve unsolved cases, get justice for victims. we push for the violence against women act for protection against immigrants, for lesbian, gay, and transgender americans, for native americans, because no matter who you are, where you live, everybody in this country deserves security, justice and dignity. and we have to keep reaching out to...

Backlog, but as was mentioned earlier, each rape kit represents a human being whose body was a crime scene, and what an amazing technology, and how can we really ignore that? the criminal, the evidentiary material is on a person's body. rape kit exam is a invasive exam and to go through that process and all of a sudden to be ignored and have these rape kits sitting on shelves collecting dust nationwide, 400,000 nationwide. it's a travesty. 400,000 nationwide, rape kits collecting dust. >> we talk about revictimization and i think she makes an incredible point which is, you've been raped, horri...