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For more dna from the lab and the courtroom, we are joined by the department at the john j college here in new york. also the defense attorney. >> the chances of this guy being on the databases, how does someone get on that from a prior crime? >> the database is called codis. it has three levels. a local database and state databases which the states keep and the national database. at the state level, they are eligible for the database. the point is there an awful lot of people that are convicted felons on this system. almost 12 million people. see this if somebody commits a crime and leaves dn...

The california manhunt for christopher dormer, in february may have relied on surveillance drones when they tracked him down before he killed himself. unlicensed domestic drone systems the report says the use will expand beyond the law enforcement funk, agriculture, monitor crops and take scientific measurements as well. while the technology is powerful the author warns it still needs fine tuning. >> in this case what you're talking about you have to secure the command-and-control of the drones so they can't be spoofed or hacked, so, terrorists can't take them over or criminal organizations ca...

The list. >> shepard: who is behind this? >> reporter: we don't know but they say that it has to be somebody who is working inside the state. you have to have access to the state databases. you look at what they had, names, social security numbers, their places of employment as well as where they live. very detailed information so now they're focusing on somebody who might be inside the state organizations that had access to the databases. civil rights attorneys say it's a big time crime. listen. >> it's illegal for somebody to access those kinds of records and once having access to those reco...

His fingerprints were altered in some way. perhaps he guyed them off, perhaps he put something on them so that when he was arrested, when he was taken into custody, police were not able to use his fingerprints to be able to identify him. so that's one of the troubles that police had. it appears that they have now been able to bridge that gap. they've now figured out a way to identify him. perhaps through his face. they have facial recognition technology. they can use that to match it against databases, state databases. so they do know how and who it is. at this point they're not saying whether...

Anyone who complains about it. they appear far more about appearing virtuous than the well-being of their own people. they were rather you are attacked and being called bigots. they don't care about you. they admit that they don't care about you. speaking of california, a place that is now on the brink of becoming the country's first sanctuary state. the senate bill, 54 the number is, cleared a major hurdle. it awaits approval from a single committee and california's heavily democratic assembly, in other words, it's likely to pass. if it is that would bar federal agents from allstate jails wou...