academic institutions about labs. some states have built labs and private entities have built labs. they are expensive we do not really know what is needed. they are developing there own validation procedures1'zs and there is not an assistant -- consistency4m-uÑ. while expecting -- whilebçs> it is not clear where that organization should be located. it is difficult to retrofit this kind of control on top of an existing enterprise. different departments want control over what there needs are. different companies want to compete. going back and retrofitting is complicated. we have not gotten traction on the concept of moving forward to centralize. >> let me ask again do you believe the establishment might address some of the gaps that led to this? how can congress help establish this? >> we do believe having more consistent lines of authority would be helpful. the department of defense has po

the labs then transferred the live spores to an additional 106 labs. so we're talking about almost 200 labs in all 50 states accidentally receiving live anthrax for over a decade. miraculously, nobody seems to have fallen ill as a result of this series of incidents. still, like you, mr. chairman, i'm concerned that this activity was going on for so long before one lab finally raised questions that spurred the department to action. i'm eager to hear answers from d.o.d. how this was allowed to happen in the first place, and what they are doing to ensure it never happens again. i understand that the department's review of the dougway incident released last week found insufficient scientific literature for thein activation of anthrax spores. the dougway lab was relying on procedures that did not permanently or completely sterilize the anthrax spores. now this is not my area of expertise but it seems troubling on its face. how have we conducted research on this dangerous pathogen for the past decade without thoroughly understanding how to inactivate it? we

academic institutions have built labs. some states have built labs. and a lot of private entities have built labs. and they're very expensive. we don't know what, really, is needed. they, as we've heard today, they are developing their own validation procedures. and there's not, necessarily an assurance of consistency. and, so while inspections can be performed of these laboratories the kinds of reportings of problems have been only typically been going to a level above the laboratory, so they're not going to the top of departments or organizations. and so i think that we're concerned that there hasn't been kind of a consistent set of standards in place. a consistent understanding of what the needs are. a consistent plan developed for where these laboratories are to be built and maintained and what the costs are going to be over the long term for maintaining this kind of infrastructure and whether it is in line with the needs. >> well have you gotten feedback from the federal government agencies that operate these high-containment labs with regard to

this includes an additional 106 labs receiving secondary transfers for some of the directors of the labthis brings the total to 192 and three territories of on puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands area recently completed review resulted in several key findings including but the primary systemic issue is the lack of specific validated standards to guide the development of protocols and processes and quality assurance measures. the resulting recommendations are grouped into three broad categories being enhanced quality control programming and establish testing protocols that are based on relevant data and improved program management department is ensuring that this doesn't occur again and this includes the moratorium that will continue. the top priority is the safety of all involved and we remain committed to complete transparency of information as we go forward. they give her the opportunity and i welcome your questions. >> before you speak, i just want to note that we haven't had a chance to review a lot of the testimony because it wasn't until 9:00 o'clock last night and the committ

so the lab lab is located in san francisco's red zone building at 2940, 16th street a in time arts organization and performance space they were founded in 1984 this is the first time for a po e and provide a space for artists performances in our file it is heal i didn't there they have 60 letters a little bit more of support from the community as well a petition that has been signed by over hundred supporters in the file the lab has opposition from other tenants in the building this is mostly regarding sound levels that the lab admits and scheduling conflicts they did an abatement test for the space last week supervisor campos legislative aide joseph and i had a successful meeting with the labs correspondent with the pier building manage from missouri joe and the outcome was the final agreements between the lab in the building other tenants have had past noise issues expressed their approval the sound level during their sound tests in the space in the building the lab expressed their commitment to the tenants of the building to one keep the show to the decimal level and provide a phone number f

academic institutions have built labs. some states have built labs. and a lot of private entities have built labs. and they're very expensive. we don't know what really is needed. they -- as we've heard today, they are developing their own validation procedures. and there's not necessarily an assurance of consistency. and so while inspections can be performed of these laboratories the kinds of reporting of problems have only typically been going to a level above the laboratory. so they're not going up to the top of departments or to organizations. and so i think that we're concerned that there hasn't been kind of a consistent set of standards in place, a consistent understanding of what the needs are, a consistent plan developed for where these laboratories ought to be built and maintained and what the costs are going to be over the long term for maintaining this kind of infrastructure and whether it is in line with the needs. >> well, have you gotten feedback from the federal government agencies who operate the high containment labs with regard to th

those labs then transferred to live spores to an additional 106 labs.e are talking about almost 200 laps in all this judgment in all 50 states over a decade. miraculously nobody seems to have fallen ill as result of this series of incidents. still like you mr. chairman, i'm concerned this activity was going on for so long before one lab finally raised questions for the department. i'm eager to hear answers from dod how this was about to happen in the first place and what they are doing to ensure it never happens again. i understand the department review of the dugway incident released last week found that insufficient scientific literature to develop effective protocols for the inactivation of anthrax spores. the dugway lab was relying on procedures that did not permanently or completely sterilize the anthrax spores. now, this is not my area of expertise but it seems troubling on its face. .. i want clarification as how we have 200 separate all across the country working with amtrak. do we need to have 200 odd or is it possible that we could limit the r

in the 1800s, alexander graham bell came to a lab.damental design that led to the telephone. openness is important. it is part of our tradition, and i hope it is something that you will embrace, like that m.i.t. faculty has. as internet comes to the young boys and girls in afghanistan, that we can bring all of m.i.t., and he can join our community. i was able to work closely with the wonderful child, and young adult now who is fighting for girls' and boys' education. her favorite subject is physics. [applause] the talent is right in front of is often. often there is an inclusion point. if there are 10 qualifications for a job, on average, men often apply if there are three, and women if there are seven. it is not mean anything is wrong with any of those pieces it just means that if you want to include everyone, you have to step up for the job. there also limitations with media and history. what people do not see in the film is that of the 10,000 talented people that saved 11 million lives and shortened world war ii by two years, two t

but a scandal rocked the state lab that identified hennis' dna.results to help prosecutors. >> the woman who handled the sample back in the '80s got in trouble for mixing up some dna samples in another case. and almost put an innocent guy in prison. >> think didn't do a good job of preserving evidence. three people had been arrested for evidence tampering. >> hennis' lawyers asked for a postponement to investigate the lab. the judge refused. meanwhile, military prosecutors found a second smear from the rape kit. they sent it to a new lab and the results also pointed to hennis. >> the medical examiner's slide came back on every marker to the defendant tested by army crime lab. you had two chains of custody. the defense could not attack the slide. >> for prosecutors the dna results swept away all previous doubts. >> i went back and replayed the first two trials. some of the old discredited instances. patrick cohen seeing sergeant hennis. fact hennis took a member's only jacket to the dry cleaners, numerous pieces of evidence that tied him though cri

and now, the lab is testing algae oil with its more global reach. plastics researcher ellen lee gave techknow the first public look at this newest experimental foam. >> i'm gonna have you add in a surfactant, this one, and that kinda acts like the egg in a mayonnaise to blend everything together. and then i'm gonna have you add the blowing agent which in our case is water. i'm gonna mix this up then we'll see the foam start to react. >> whoa, and there it goes. >> it's baking into a cake. >> so you can see all the gas bubbles already forming. >> we use this to kind of evaluate our formulation and how fast it comes up. >> why is it important that this reacts fast? >> how fast you can make each part is really important for manufacturing because you wanna be able to make things in a timely manner. >> are we talking a matter of minutes per foam seat or seconds? >> less than a minute. >> ford is aiming to make their plastics at least 20% bio-based. >> is this actually making the plastic stronger? >> yes, it does. these parts are lighter in weight, i can

in singapore is extracted and analyzed in wasser's lab. the dna from the tusks is then matched against a genetic reference map of africa's elephant populations. this map has been generated by dna taken from another source, rich in elephant dna. >> i am holding a tray of elephant poop. not exactly something you'd associate as a tool for fighting international crime, but these samples provide critical pieces of data for creating a genetic map of elephants across africa. >> yep collecting dung samples may not be glamorous work but it's a task wasser and his team take seriously. >> we make the map from the dung we take genetic markers out of the dung samples. so you see here this map of africa? so there's about 1400 total samples here and each sample is from a separate family group. >> wasser was able to determine the origin of the 6 and a half tons of ivory seized in singapore and shipped out of malawi. it all came from a neighboring country, zambia. wasser's team had made a discovery that would revolutionize law enforcement's approach to poa

why would a lab getting what has been told are dead anthrax spore, why would any lab try to grow anthrax? >> we need to confirm but perhaps in this case, when anthrax is shipped in an evacuated form it's accompanied by a certificate indicating it's not live anthrax. i think in this case it was received without that certificate. because they did not have the certificate they went ahead and did that test, am i correct? >> this wasn't part of acquisition process. so to test the laboratories to see if the system worked against the anthrax. they were sent blind inactivated samples. so they didn't know what the identify of the sample was. so in this case, they didn't receive the death certificate. because they hadn't received the death certificate, they assumed it was live. they sent it out to be cultured and in fact the culture came out positive. [ inaudible question ]. >> this was not issued as a blind study. >> yes. >> so it should have been a death certificate or that shout have been? >> no, because it was part of a blind testing for acquisition, it didn't have a death certificate. so the

why is it the private lab, lab why did it not have a death certificate? >> originally tested they did not see growth. >> if it shipped out the practice the dod with any shipment to have a death certificate. why was they're not one ship to a private lab. >> that particular operation, sending out blind tests. >> to see if people could protect the present. >> we knowingly shipped live anthrax? >> say again? >> shipping it to them to see if they could find it. he knowingly shipped live anthrax to this lab. >> did not provide the certificate. we did not knowingly shipped live agent. >> to the shipment and have as your place or some other place a death certificate? >> yes. >> who produced the death certificate? >> the originator. >> the difference between the test private lab showed. >> very similar. >> one showed in life. >> one of the key differentiators. who is responsible for showing the procedure. >> who is responsible for it at the time? who was it? >> it was dugway. who do they fall? hassle, so some? who oversees dugway? >> army. >> narrowing down for me

the cdc has traced samples to 183 labs across the world and in the u.s.. including maryland, virginia, and the district of columbia. that's more than twice the number previously reported. >> right now, what's causing problem is we just -- it takes days in some cases to determine if any lots that we are testing have any live anthrax in them. >> reporter: the pentagon has ordered the secretary of the army to investigate to determine which individuals are to blame. 31 lab workers are taking antibiotics as a precaution. so far, no one has gotten sick. live in the newsroom, kin chin, station -- chin chip, wusa9. -- surae chinn, wusa9. >>> up next larry miller has another check on the morning commute. >> we're back to live in the '90s today allyson? >> near 90 degrees but most places are going to stay into the upper 80s. it is cool out here. and a beautiful sunrise. cool morning, warm afternoon. we're looking at a nice day with lots of sunshine. how long does it stick around? i'll have the look ahead to your weekend forecast when we return. >>> welcome back. it'

the news comes at a critical time for the lab. work has been suspended there since april after two scathing reports found fundamental problems at the lab. dr. smith has been working as a consultant to help fix those issues. >> she ran the dna lab at the fbi. she worked in counterterrorism at weapon of mass destruction-type research at the cia. she has also been at a forensics department at a university. >> auditors will return to the lab in november to reassess what's happening there. the city those lift suspension by the beginning of next year. >>> a local mosque targeted twice in one week, but there are questions about who's behind it and why they are doing it. >>> a mother of eight was struck and killed by an elderly driver on this sidewalk as she was trying to get home. maria poe sad doughs came to this country for a better life. coming up at 6:00 why her death means her family will now have to struggle even more. >>> and an independent school teacher accused of sexually abusing students, despite >>> a northern virginia mosque

the new meat substitute created from the lab gets the techknow taste test. >> that's our team. let's do some science. ♪ >> hey, guys, welcome to tarrant county techno teckhnow. you looked at designer drugs? >> specifically technologies that could be used by law enforcement or medical professionals to stay one stead ahead of chemists designing dangerous drugs for people who are in charge of illegal highs. let's take a look. >> methadrone, jwh, 18. >> an unfortunate right of passage of parents of teen aners is dealing with the discussion of illicit drugs. >> 2 cb. >> but now a pharmachopia would be more helpful. >> there is a cat and mouse game chemists. >> they are catching on and catch cashing in. they are finding their way to the united states military because unlike using pot, cocaine, or crystal meth, these synthetic drugs will not show up on standard drug tests. >> these things are designed to be attractive, particularly to children. they are designed to appear safe. they are designed to appear wholesome and herbal and all of these things that we like to assume are good. >>

wicket is a 10 year old, black lab- sheppard mix. a former pound dog, she is now learning her 22nd scent. tia, a german sheppard just returned from her work with blunt nosed leopard lizards, she now knows 11 scents. and lily, 6, is a yellow lab she was abandoned by 5 different homes before becoming a conservation dog. she has helped track cross river gorillas in cameroon. >> okay wicket we got the thumbs up... we'll go check it out. >> do these dogs make good traditional family dogs? >> these dogs don't make great pets. they are high energy high focus high intensity. these are the kinds of dogs where if they don't have a job they are digging up the back yard... they are not traditional pets in that regard. so they may have not gotten adopted if it weren't for you guys. yeah these tend to be dogs that are increased risk for euthanasia at animal shelters just because they are bouncing off the walls and too energetic and too much dog for most families. >> but for this assignment at a mussel checkpoint on flathead lake, their intensity i

chris lowe is the director of callcal state long beach's shark lab.ting to know him and his work is getting your feet wet. obviously here a day at the office is a differ different attire and a different look at the world. >> it takes a few moments under the water to understand chris' passion for the other ocean and the sharks he study:when : >> when i caught my first shark there was something about it. it looked so different from all of the other fish i caught and it looked so streamline and sleek. it didn't match all of the fish i caught. >> what about it from the sharks threat that interested you in a sciencivic perspective. >> they are at the top of the food chain. they are the canary of the coal mine and they tell us how healthy the oceans are. the wheel length challenge is hard to study. you want to the want to the sharks to come here and they do and mostly they don't. that is a tricky part. how do we find a way to study them where we don't have to be right there to influence their behavior. >> the answer he believes is this. >> this may look lik

that hunch lab program takes that access to the next level and like the movies, it could help cops ben place to prevent rather than just respond to crimes. dawn? >> all right, thank you, bill. >>> recognize these two? police are after the pair who they say made withdrawals at this atm in wynnefield using a stolen credit card they're accusing taking cash not only here but at several locations throughout the city. the victim is and in 18-year-old he told police his credit card went missing on july 10th. if you know who these two men are, police want to hear from you. >>> tonight one man is arrested and police are looking for another in the theft of a bag with $100,000 cash inside. that bag accidentally left on lawn by atm work in mahwah new jersey this week surveillance video shows a white van pulling up a short time later one man gets out of the van, grab the bag and gets back in the driver takes off. police have arrested the driver in that van 42-year-old elton harvey. they didn't know exactly how to keep low profile. cops say harvey used some of that money to buy nearly a $50,000 suv

and isabelle karle:, who was a chemist at a lab in chicago.irst, i will ask rosemary to tell us a little bit about her story and how her expense on the manhattan project transformed her life. rosemary lane: well, -- >> them -- the microphone needs to be about two inches from your lip. -- lips. rosemary lane: can you hear me? >> can we dim the lights and little bit? -- a little bit? that is better. thank you. thank you. >> [indiscernible] >> [indistinct chatter] rosemary lane: now it is off again. ok. i came to oak ridge in august 1943. i was a relatively new graduate from nursing school. i graduated when you're ahead of that time and i have been continuing to work at the hospital that i had finished my training in. and then was going to school part-time. and i got a phone call one day and it was a former instructor of mine. and he said, oh, i got to be to talk to you about. and i would like to meet you for lunch, which we did. he, it turned out, had become a recruiter for the manhattan project for nurses. because they were -- he was going to h

. ♪ carol: coming up, why j&j keeps heading back to the lab to tinker with an old brand.rre: the germs don't change, but we're constantly changing the formula. carol: plus, j&j's new formula for finding blockbuster drugs. taking a page from silicon valley. >> we're getting a family of entrepreneurs living among us. ♪ carol: i am just the latest subject to contribute a saliva sample at j&j's oral care lab in new jersey. is there a technique to this? j&j researchers regularly collect saliva donations from colleagues, grow bacteria, and compare mouth germs before and after using listerine. why do you keep doing these tests over and over? if it is obvious that listerine works, why do you keep taking samples from people? fourre: we are always looking to improve the formulation. carol: do germs change that much? fourre: the germs don't change but we are constantly changing the formula. carol: why the constant changes, considering listerine is already a core j&j brand with nearly $1.8 billion in sales and growing? and it is the number one brand globally, with 36% of the market,

distinctive black and white paint schemes and that's not the kind of vehicle that was following the lab employee. >> that white tahoe and suburban had a police light bar on top and unlike the real patrol cars with the simple lettering, the suspicious vehicle had the words capitalized and uncapitalized. the caller says the suv followed her for miles along greenville and tesla roads all the way to tracy. because she was unnerved she never went home and pulled off on a private driveway and the suspicious suv drove by. the next day at livermore labs, the ply yes sir was passed out out -- the flier was passed out. >> another employee came forward and reported that they saw a similar vehicle -- they saw what they believe was the same vehicle described traveling northbound on the road. >> investigators are hoping anyone who spots the suspicious suv around the labs and around downtown will give police a call. and if they ever think a phony cop is trying to pull them over they should call 9-1-1 immediately. >> abc7 news. >>> the friday commute has come and gone and drivers came away fairly unsca

distinctive black and white paint schemes and that's not the kind of vehicle that was following the lab employee. >> that white tahoe and suburban had a police light bar on top and unlike the real patrol cars with the simple lettering, the suspicious vehicle had the words capitalized and uncapitalized. the caller says the suv followed her for miles along greenville and tesla roads all the way to tracy. because she was unnerved she never went home and pulled off on a private driveway and the suspicious suv drove by. the next day at livermore labs, the ply yes sir was passed out out -- the flier was passed out. >> another employee came forward and reported that they saw a similar vehicle -- they saw what they believe was the same vehicle described traveling northbound on the road. >> investigators are hoping anyone who spots the suspicious suv around the labs and around downtown will give police a call. and if they ever think a phony cop is trying to pull them over they should call 9-1-1 immediately. >> abc7 news. >>> the friday commute has come and gone and drivers came away fairly unsca

any time now, the part will be flown to a lab in france where ed engineers can tell if it was separated from the plane. a u.s. intelligent report said whatever happened in mh-370 began with deliberate actions in the cockpit. fred pleitgen expects to have answers next week. fred, is there any reasonable doubt this is from mh-370? >> certainly the investigators want to be certain. there have been some officials on the malaysian side and also sources in france that say they have no doubt that this is a part of a a 777 but certainly if you ask the scientists at the lab in toulouse. that piece of debris will be backed up la from la reunion island in the middle of the indian ocean and will come down here to toulouse probably sunday morning and the actual forensic work on that debris will begin on monday. the authorities here tell us that as you said several things to do. of course, they need to find out how long informs the water, how long it separated from the rest of the aircraft. was it upon impact? and it's interesting. one source cnn spoke to, that source said the preliminary report, and

i wrote that on the mobile biological labs which i was indebted in the lab said turned out to be for the rockets. but they were convinced with the analyst added as they were taking the measurements that the is the labs were for biological production. so we wrote the first jury about that then cia issued the white paper then rewrote that then i went back to iraq in june shoot talk to people of. david kelly the british biological analyst who told me the cia has a wrong. and david kay who went on the weapons hunt said as sure as i'm standing here got their run. he got a wrong. so then we did a third article that said one bell labs appeared to be for weather balloons. to talk about mistakes that i made it is important that the intelligence community makes to not make them again. but when you stop doing that in stop going back to ask questions then you fall into a convenient patterns from a ideological preference and it is really important every now and then for all of us to get out of our comfort zone. so i showed you how little was put together and i talk to the people who would not tal

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some of the labs use a b roth. others use a more common substance. >> deputy secretary says the maryland lab that first brought the problem to the attention of the cdc -- my understanding from previous reporting is one they try to grow anthrax culture anthrax perhaps, they were surprised. why would a lab getting what it has been told anthrax data scores why would any lab try to grow anthrax? >> i think what happened in this case was, when anthrax is shipped in an inactivated form it is accompanied by a certificate that says it is inactivated. because the did not have the certificate, they went ahead and did the test. >> to test the laboratories to see if their systems work again they were sent blind inactivated samples. they do not know the identity of the sample. in this case, they did not receive the certificate. because they did not receive the certificate, they assumed it was live. then, the culture came out as positive. >> it was not issued with the sample that was sent. >> in this case. >> yes. >> can you rep

but for one are one local company hunch lab it's a not a theory.hey think they have the formula. >> each one of these areas is the highest risk area win, for example, the district. >> reporter: in a nutshell, hunch lab says that with the right information fed into their computer, they can actually help the police predict where it's more likely that crime will take place. >> so that we're providing each district with areas to go to. it doesn't mean that this area is definitely going to have something happen. it just means it's the highest risk out of the other locations. >> reporter: hunch lab use collected retail information to help identify possible crime locations. new york miami and now philadelphia are evaluate evaluating if hunch lab could help them predict and police future crime. >> we can do things like, say on tonight's shift from four to midnight we expect a 25% chance of rain tonight. 95 degrees and when we've seen those things happen before, this is what the places and the kinds of crimes we expect to happen. >> reporter: although hunch

santa clara county paid $75 million for its state-of-the-art crime lab, but since that crime lab opened in 2009 on west heading street in san jose that lab has been plagued with structural issues. nbc bay area's damian trujillo joins us from that crime lab with a look at the newest problem. >> reporter: raj, there it is behind me. the window panel came crashing down just a few days ago here at the forensics crime lab in san jose. the mystery only adds to the list of issues affecting this crime lab. they help solve some of the county's most notorious crimes. technicians have been testing dna samples at the new santa clara county crime lab since 2009. but that's also the year they started seeing problems with the new building. a faulty seal on a rooftop pump broke, forcing a leak. then two civil grand juries investigated bacteria in a water pipe. bacteria that can cause leej legionnaire's disease and now this. >> so there's a broken window? oh i see. >> reporter: county workers discovered a broken glass panel and vandalism doesn't seem to be the cause. county workers say they haven't been

mayor muriel bowser to name a new chief of the dna lab. the last one was reportedly fired after a damning report on lab practices. "the washington post" reporting a former head of the fbi's dna lab will be named the new director. >>> right now, police are trying to figure out how a woman lost control of her car and hit and killed a mother of eight. maria posadas was hit on a sidewalk in montgomery county, this happened yesterday morning near randolph and veirs mills road in wheaton. the 80-year-old driver lost control and struck posadas. we are learning that several had been hit and killed by drivers in the same area. if you saw the incident police would like to hear from you. >>> right now, new video into the live desk of damage left behind by a devastating tornado in illinois. this -- imagine this coming your way. this is near the iowa border in the town of monmouth. this is damage to a small town called cameron. you see the tornado -- the strength of the tornado ripped down this railroad crossing there. damaged very bad in this town. st