bisi onile-ere reports a new law made it possible. >> a $20 application fee now 50 mark was given up for adoption shortly after he was born. he says he enjoyed a happy childhood but something was always missing. sw what is it like growing up knowing you're adopted? >> sometimes difficult because you wonder why your parents needed to leave you. >> in search of answer he a redacted kippie of his original birth certificate provided no clues. mark was shut out by a law that sealed adoption records from 1964 to 1996. >> i had come to the personal understanding that i might never know and just sort of come to terms with that. >> i think many adoptees feel like they're being denied their identity. it is a basic human right that most american citizens just take for granted that you can have documents that pertain to yourself and it's very unfair. >> betsy norris with adoption network cleveland hundreds gathered to fill out paperwork that would allow them access to details of their biological history. a new law in ohio is unsealing adoption reports of more than 400,000 people. >> i have two d

bisi onile-ere is in columbus with more. bisi. >> john, hundreds of adopt heees waited in line to submit their applications. many have waited a very long time for this day to come. hopefully to be reunited with their birth parents and learn more about their heritage. a $20 application fee is only thing standing in the way of mark vidmar and his past. now 50, mark was given up for adoption shortly after he was born. he said he enjoyed a happy childhood but something was always missing. what was it like growing up knowing you were adopted? >> sometimes difficult because you wonder why your parents needed to leave you. >> reporter: in search of answers, a redacted copy of his original birth certificate provided no clues. mark was shut out that sealed adoption records from 1964 to 1996. >> i had come to the personal understanding that i might never know. and just sort of come to terms with that. >> i think many adoptees feel like they're being denied their identity. it is a basic human right that most individuals take for grante

bisi onile-ere has the story. >> i was surprised but i wasn't totally shocked. >> it's been six years, at a cost of 500 to $1500 to test each kit a county short on money, most of the kits couldn't be tested. >> so there was nothing else to do but pursue it. >> in 2013, wayne county prosecutor kim worthy told al jazeera america she was on a mission to find the funding. >> and the fact that i have to now have fund raisers to try source this office, that's what we have to do. >> is that normal? >> no it's not normal. it's ridiculous, it's ridiculous but that's what we have to do. >> reporter: worthy pressed hard with the help of state and federal money. each rape kit some dating back two decades ago has been tested. >> i knew it would be difficult. i just didn't know how difficult it has been. >> since then there has been dna matches, how many? >> there has been over 700. but the bigger numbers are and the bigger information is that we have identified over now 188 sear yam rapists. >> the man who raped erica benjamin is one of them. >> he made me close my eyes and undress waist down. >>

john. >> all right bisi, thank you. >>> now to iraq where military officials in the iraqi army sayingy are winning the battle to retake tikrit. now, sadam hussein's hometown has been under isil control since june. last week the iraqi government launched an offensive to recapture the city. today they said they have nearly done that, but part of tikrit still remains in isil's hands. now a report. >> reporter: pounding en any targets on the outskirts of tikrit. on the fourth day of a huge offensive. about 3,000 iraqi soldiers and police have been attacking positions held by isil as they try to reach the city center. they backed by 20,000 militia men known as the popular mobilization forces and a far smaller number of sunni tribes men. while they are not lacking in military hardware, they have reportedly been slowed down by snipers, suicide bombers and booby trapped buildings. this footage purportedly shows iraqi forces stopping isil sueed by bomb nurse a vehicle from reaching a military ba racks nero mad any iraq's western anbar province. in row romadi city center their commanders are tr

now scott walker second bisis -- big *eflbiggest asset is he cany much make it up as he goes alo along. he does not have to worry about backtracking. >> i did vote for the 87 million before i voted against it. kennedy: john, you look like ran old shoe. republican butt sniffers like what they are huffing from walker thus far, he has a incomplete foreign policy education he is trying to bolster, but even with this blank canvass it is possible to make some blunders. >> i want a commander in chief will do anything in their power to make sure terrorists do not wash up on american soil. if i can take on protesters from the union, i can do the same across the world. kennedy: comparing union protest ors to isis. >> you have to be crazy to' to be president of the united states you have to be crazy. >> yep. i agree. wanting to be president is in itself, a mental illness. instead of coronation like conferences and empty debates, maybe she should submit the candidates to rigorous psychological testing before they turn the white house into their own personal cuckoo nest, coming up, saturday night l

bisi onile-ere has that story. >> i was surprised but not shocked. >> reporter: it's been almost six years since more than 11,000 untested rape kits turned up in an old detroit warehouse. at a host of 500 to 1500 to test each kit. in a county short on money, most of the kits could not be tested. >> there was nothing else to do but pursue it. >> in 2013, wayne county prosecutor told al jazeera america she was on a mission to find the funding. the fact that i have fund raises to source the office is what we have to do. >> is that normal. >> no it's ridiculous. that's what we have to do. >> worthy pushed hard with state and federal money. nearly every rape kit, some dating back two decades ago has been tested. >> since we met more than a year ago, there has been a substantial number of d.n.a. matches. how many? >> well there has been over 700. there has been a bigger numbers on the bigger information is that we have identified 188 serial rapists. >> reporter: the man that raped erica benjamin is one of them. >> he made me close my eyes and dress down. >> reporter: if you could describe