they have been cast under the shadow of deborah madden and they're feeling the sting of that. it is important to acknowledge the hard work they're doing today as we speak. the simple fact is they have not been able to keep up with the work load they have been given. so the plan we were talking about putting together today was identifying cases that we can send out quickly to an outside lab, to take away some of the excess burden on the current analysts so they can keep up with their current work load. i am somewhat optimistic that we can come back in two weeks with a definite plan of how to lay this out. maybe in a number of months we can get rid of the entire backlog. that is my hope, and i think the chief and a captain with their leadership and work of the crime lab we can do that. i would suggest we bring it back into weeks. i think we will have a full plan at that point. i think that would be the best approach. >> there was also good news from my subsequent visit later on to the crime lab. the 3100 machine, the connectivity is part of the legacy day-to-day migration. the e