to produce all kinds of travel headaches for anyone doing traveling coming up with christmas already around the corner. some of you will see a white christmas thanks to the snowstorm tracking east. we have snowlingering across parts of western washington, oregon. eventually the storm will move into the portions of the rockies, dumping snow in the higher elevation. good news for anyone wanting to do sking next couple days across colorado, even utah. look at parts of nebraska, iowa, wisconsin. significant snowfall accumulation out here in the area shaded in blue. that is possibly over six inches of snow. chicago you re on the edge of that. you ve had a bit of a snow drought and lack of snow, breaking record for longest period of time you haven t seen snow. you could see some of that. doesn t look like you will see a whole lot of it from this next system. some of that snow may stay on the ground for christmas. some may see a white christmas because of the
of the killers. you didn t, showed their pictures, not their names. don t give them credit. that was a good point. a lot of us tried to adhere to that. completely lost in this case. we better get it back. jon: alan, what is your feeling? is the media a part of this crimes? it is hard to say. jim makes very good points whether publicity could inspire somebody to do some heinous act. on the other hand we live in an open society with a media whose job it is to report the news. i don t know how the media can do its job unless the media is given the freedom to express itself and give the full story. i think there s also a fascination to want to know who are the people who commit these heinous crimes. what are they like? what inspires them to do it? what motivates them? what is the mind like. it gives us a rounder picture. because we know who it is and what they are thinking and what issues may go into them committing these
improvised explosive devices. we want to prepare domestically for any type of threat, and we want to be able to defeat that threat should it occur here in the united states. we need backup. reporter: response training, though, to abductions or active shooters is only part of the mission. we can t afford to just respond to incidents anymore. we have to prevent things from happening. reporter: now, director, after last week s shootings, a lot of people are on edge under the around the country. how that is that affected to what you are doing here? it reinforces why training is so important, and it also inspires us to do a better job. reporter: a real sense of urgency here. jon and jenna, back to you. jon: wow, that looks like a fascinating program. steve harrigan, thanks. jenna: wow. well, b that new health care law means new regulations, we know that, but is the government moving too quickly to put them into effect? a lot in the next year or so, so we re going to get you
yes, yes. jon: ronald reagan was shot by john hinckley, jr., a mentally unstable man who thought he would win the attention of jodie foster, the actress by doing that. are the media part of the problem here? well, i mean i m not an expert but as you mentioned the american psychological association, which presumably are experts, they said exactly this. they said that this is a media copycatting situation and they pleaded to not publicize the situation at least of the killer in virginia tech back in 2007. and frankly that advice or that suggestion wasn t even heeded. it was so badly heeded in fact that the media not only identified the killer, they identified the wrong killer. they got the killer s brother. i can remember back in 1999, in the columbine case, jon, you and i, all three of us were at fox at the time, there was a lot of movement said don t mention the names
budgets can save a lot of money. if you have a detective who, let s just theoretically is making 90,000, and you can hire two people to fill that position? reporter: can civilians, even if highly trained, match the experience of a seasoned detective? it will depend on the training. and some of it is done through colleges. educational programs and there s a lot available. reporter: mary dodge directs the masters of criminal justice program at cu-denver. she says highly trained civilians can bring a lot to the table. they can go into the department and offer a great deal that a police officer may have no training in that area. reporter: she says the key to making it work is combining years of experience detectives have with the skills trained civilians bring. they may miss the whole picture. so if you have police officers still, sworn officers still in your crime lab, they can put the puzzle pieces together. reporter: and the chief says he envisions hiring an