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Good morning. i'm marci gonzalez in for diana perez. >> i'm john muller. here are some of the top stories we're following on "world news now." the navy investigating alleged cheating on written tests by senior sailors training on nuclear reactors at power submarines. it is the second exam-cheating scandal to hit the military this year. another storm slams the plains and midwest with up to a foot of snow. we'll have the latest from accuweather and a look at how costly this winter has been so far. new government report finds obamacare will cost the american workforce more than 2.5 million jo...

The area to do this? >> well, let's say i have the most longevity in this field. it's a very long process. it's a two-year mentoring program, and you have to do hundreds of cases and test both, you know, written tests and practical test and so forth. there's not many voice identification examiners certified in the world. >> tom, start to finish from getting access to the 911 tapes to coming to the conclusion, how long did that take? >> couple days. >> couple days of, what, you working full-time on this or do you have to -- >> pretty much so. >> so hours. how long did you listen to these tapes ...

Class don't do quite as well on written tests as they do on other tests. and the result is that the numbers of minorities who pass and score high are lower than the numbers for whites. >> right. so you say for this particular test to become a firefighter in the city of new york, that what was not taken into consideration was the physical score, the physical duress that you have to be able to do to do this job as well as your cognitive abilities. but in light of that, mr. levy, isn't it almost disparaging to minorities to say they don't do as well on written tests. shouldn't we talk about the a...