put thousands of cases in jeopardy. mark segraves is at d.c. court with what it means to taxpayers. reporter: the system in question is what every police officer uses to input information after an investigation. washington city paper was first to report these problems. today police claim they ve been reporting problems ever since it went back into use in 2011. we ve replaced our records management system at least three times in the last few years. reporter: the head of the police union says cops have already been warning of problems. the core computer was not communicating. the reliability problem went down all the time. reporter: in a letter sent to defense attorneys, they called it an imperfect system which the police department is planning to replace. but the damage may already be done. the letter says thousands of criminal cases are being reviewed to determine if prosecutors failed to provide defense attorneys with evidence they are required to share. this c
personnel were being deco out of the e.r. these were among the people who brought this woman here to the hospital. again, after she got sick earlier today at the pentagon. and in a penalty gone parking lot. we re told that woman threw up and did tell authorities she had recently traveled to west africa. pe even liberia. when she was brought here, that patient was isolated. tests are now being run to determine if further testing is needed to show that there is actually a presence of the ebola virus or to rule that out. and we are told that it takes about six hours to complete those tests. but we can tell you what happen over at the pentagon immediately aft this woman got sick. hazm crews were called in. that section of the parking lot was isolated. they were keepi people out. hazmat did a cleanup there, and that scene probably is still being held for some time now. here s some other information that we ve gotten recently. one other bus passenger used the bathroom on that bus a
seven members, four from us, three from orange county, deton cam natured. and then we decontaminated arlington county s medical unit. rep the heavy presence of emergency personnel is standard for these situations and chief reilly says despite the number of people here, wasn t overly taxing on the department. it s not unusual for us to have somethi like this. we could have, you know, two or three of these going on at the same time. we have fairly good resources. we have mutual aid already associated with the surrounding counties. w it was significant, it wasn t something that was overtaxing and exceeded our capability. rep and back at the south lot of the pentagon, police cordoned off a portion of the lot where the woman became ill and threw up. hazmat crews came and cleaned the area. all authorities in place authorities say were taken out of an abundance of caution. and we can take some comfort at the ease and speed in which the protocols were put in place. governor ter
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