will grow. california state assemblyman jim wood is also a forensic dentist who's helping to identify victims using dental remains. he's volunteered and similar forensic work after 11, hurricane katrina an after the fires in northern califoia last year. mudr. wood, thank you very for being here. i wonder if you could start off by helping us understand a little bit about wha forensic dentistry in a circumstance like the this, what it actually does. what ddo? t' well, for us, doing forensic dentistry,an opportunity to take the records of a person who has died in one of these incidents, compare them to before-death re them up and hopefully identify them. it's a laborious processat times, but it's very effective, and it's been used in many, many mass disasters throughout the last 100 years. >> so searchers in the towns of paradise and elsewhere go through burnt homes and burnt