our "starting point" this morning, tropical storm andrea, rain, lots of it, heavy winds and floods. this storm quickly making its way up the east coast. this is a live picture of the churning seas from north carolina. which state will get hit the hardest? we're going to track this storm. >> first your phone calls and now your internet activity. the controversy surrounding the nsa's spying is growing by the minute, from the political fallout from the president to the public outrage, we cover all the angles. >> the irs forced to defend spending your money on a parody individu video like his this. hear what the head of the agency had to say about "star trek" and "gilligan's island." the norwegian navy blowing up one of its own ships to test out the new long range stealth

missile. >> turns out norwegians have great aim. >> it comes from that vikings heritage. >> i'm john berman. it is friday, june 7th p.m. welcome to "starting point." tropical storm andrea is the kind of rainmaker the east coast hasn't seen since hurricane sandy. in other words, you might want to rethink your weekend plans or make sure you carry an umbrella with you at all times. the storm walloped florida, seriously injuring one woman and made it ways through georgia and expected to churn up the eastern seaboard bringing heavy rain, flooding and the possibility of isolated tornadoes depending where you are. nick valenci is on wrightsville beach. >> the wind has slowly started to pick up in the last couple hours since we've been here and the waves inching towards the shore. no rain yet but that could quickly change. >> reporter: rain, rain and more rain. fast-moving tropical storm andrea is making her presence

known up and down the eastern seaboard. the first storm of the hurricane season will dump rain through the weekend in every state from florida to maine. parts of the northeast seeing rain totals that they haven't seen since superstorm sandy last october. in roadways all across the south, downed trees and closed streets, making it challenging to get around. >> it's pretty bad and the flooding around here is getting worse and worse. >> reporter: in florida, andrea spawned multiple tornadoes. one twister near palm beach. flipping a 28-foot boat, blowing cars off of driveways and snapping trees in half. >> i didn't hear it coming. >> reporter: another reported tornado near fer nan dino beach, florida, tearing apart this roof. >> as soon as i puts the phone down, a huge gush of wind and i looked out the window and it was literally like it was coming off the ocean and i got so frightened i screamed. >> reporter: the sunshine state pummelled with rain for two days as the flood threat now spreads up the east coast.

forecasters predict some areas could see as much as six inches of rain. and as you see in this picture taken in florida after andrea, brighter days will come after this long, wet weekend. now officials have not issued any evacuations for this area. we've seen residents out for their morning jog, another handful of residents enjoying the view. but there are other residents, christine, who have gotten out of town anticipating some wet weather to come here to north carolina. christine? >> after it leaves you, it will be moving up the coast where it will hit us. nick valencia. >> find out where it's going to hit after it is done with nick. check in with alexandria steele. >> good morning. we are going to see this rocket north and east. that is the good news. it's going to move northeast. 28 miles per hour now. could even increase in speed. two threats with this. the rain and thus the flooding. again between 2 and 4 inches locally, even more than that.

there is the isolated tornado threat, especially through the carolinas, north carolina and coastal virginia. that is where the concern is. a tornado watch, already had a tornado warning this morning. doppler radar indicated tornado. that has expired. heaviest rain here you can see, in eastern north carolina into virginia. that's where we're going to see heavy rain today. wind gusting this afternoon between 30s and about 41-mile-per-hour wind gusts. the strongest wind gust, though, right off the coast where the heaviest bands of rain are. so here's its movement this morning. center of circulation right now northeast of savannah. we're going to watch that move north and eastward. by tomorrow see where the center is, where the heaviest rain is. wet night tonight, new york and boston, for the first part of tomorrow, clears by saturday afternoon, and sunday, we'll see partly sunny skies there. so you guys, the biggest threat will be the rain and especially in the coastal virginia, north carolina.

isolated tornado threat this afternoon and today. >> so keep on the lookout for the good news. the storm passing through more quickly than we expected. >> very quickly. >> thanks. are your gmail messages and facebook posts mined by the u.s. government. a question every american has a right to ask. there are new reports intelligence agencies in this country are accessing the central servers of nine of the country's biggest technology firms and mining the data in the servers for years. the operation is called prism and according to the "washington post," and "the guardian," nine giant internet firms are caught up in it. the program reportedly began in 2007 but has expanded under the obama administration and this morning cnn is working to confirm a "wall street journal" report that the agency may be collecting credit card transactions as well. it's not known whether the credit card data was collected once or as part of an ongoing effort as we confirm the different details, we're going to reveal them to you. here are the details we do now from our own barbara starr. >> reporter: a potentially

explosive disclosure about how easily the government can collect information on-line. "the washington post" and the british newspaper "the guardian" are reporting the national security agency, the nsa, and the fbi, are tapping directly into the servers of nine leading internet companies, including microsoft, yahoo! google, facebook, aol, skype, youtube, and apple. that's according to a top secret nsa presentation. intercepting data like video, photographs, and e-mails, flowing on-line. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, things that virtually every human being in the western world now uses, to communicate with one another. >> reporter: the program appears to be intended to grab non-u.s. intercepts, many of which flow through the robust u.s. internet. one slide in the nsa presentation explains, your

targets communications could easily be flowing into and through the u.s. cnn has not confirmed the authenticity of the documents. several of the companies reportedly cooperating with the government issued denials of involvement. this follows the stunning news that a secret federal court order directed verizon to hand over phone records of millions of americans. former intelligence officials and privacy advocates say, it's reasonable to presume other telephone companies got similar orders. >> if this is an open-ended and indiscriminate collection process as it seems to be, then logically one would expect it to be much bigger than verizon business. >> reporter: and it all leaves the administration needing to explain this exchange in march. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or

hundreds of millions of americans. >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not willingly. >> reporter: that verizon program, lawmakers say having access to that data helped law enforcement stop terrorist plots from being carried out. now the man you saw at the end, james clapper, the director of national intelligence took the extraordinary step of issuing a public statement overnight about all of this saying, quote, the unauthorized disclosure about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks important protections for the security of americans. the program cannot be used to intentionally target any u.s. citizen, any other u.s. person, or anyone located within the united states. that is the government's defense. it's legal. i think the questions are going to keep coming. christine, john. >> a lot of questions. it's so interesting, too,

barbara, we're a company country that overshares our financial information on facebook and twitter, but when it's the government we think that is looking in on us without us knowing that's when people start to get real, real nervous. i think the story keeps developing. thanks, barbara. obviously there's political fallout to all of this from the secret surveillance of millions of americans. the obama administration insists that it has been an effective weapon in the war on terror calling it legal, limited and necessary. cnn's dan lothian live at the white house this morning. good morning. the white house has been cautious in its response but in washington there have been strong and divided feelings on this, some lawmakers pointing to the increasing domestic terrorist threats saying this is needed to protect americans but others say this kind of information gathering is going too far. >> reporter: this morning, president obama is waking up in california, as a political firestorm over the government's collection of phone and internet

data intensifies. >> the bottom line is that the united states government now has phone records and other records of tens and tens and tens of millions of americans who have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with terrorism. >> reporter: the political fallout after news that the nsa was collecting american's phone records from verizon was quick, public outrage over privacy rights already taking form on-line. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> can you hear me now. >> yes, we can. >> your call goes through. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> reporter: a singing editorial in "the new york times" proclaims, president obama's drag net and says the administration has now lost all credibility and the letter to attorney general eric holder from the author of the patriot act representative jim sense brenner who writes he's extremely disturbed by what appears to be an overbroad interpretation of the act. even the president's liberal base piled on.

"the huffington post" ran a photo on its cover page showing obama morphing into george w. bush. the program has its defenders. >> this program was used to stop a program -- excuse me, stop a terrorist attack in the united states. we know that. >> reporter: the white house says these types of orders include data, not phone calls, and have been a critical tool in protecting the nation from terror threats. but some lawmakers want more answers and attorney general holder, already under pressure for snooping on reporters, is on the hot seat again. >> could you assure to us that no phones inside the capitol were monitored, members of congress? >> with all due respect, senator, i don't think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue. >> the white house has been emphasizing that the president has been trying to strike a balance between security and civil liberties and they insist that there are safeguards in place in order to prevent abuse. john?

>> dan lothian at the white house for us this morning, thanks a lot, dan. ahead on "starting point" a top irs official who played spock in an agency training video how he fared before a congressional committee, up next. >> what's up with the norwegian navy. why is it attacking one of its own ships. look at what they did. we'll tell you why just after the break.

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this just in, it's going to be a tough commute ahead in kansas city, missouri. you're looking at live pictures of a stretch of interstate 70. look at that. it's been shut down in both directions while workers here a tractor trailer fire. obviously they used some kind of foam to put it out right there, left some kind of a mark. a reporter on the scene said she heard several explosions coming from the burning truck and saw flames shooting 50 to 100 feet in the air. no word on the injuries or how the fire started. quite a mess. >> wow. major development in the extremely strained relations

between north and south korea. the countries trying to agree on a date to begin talks that would result in the reopening of a jointly operated industrial complex. today south korea offered to begin high-level talks next wednesday in seoul. pyongyang responded with a request for a preliminary meeting to take place sunday. north korea halted activity at the facility in april following months of it tension in the region. the veteran irs official seen in a now infamous training video as spock from "star trek" had a new role to play at a congressional hearing in washington. he was playing the role of witness and certainly didn't seem like he was having quite as much fun. ferris fink called before the house oversight committee thursday to testify about a 2010 irs conference in anaheim that cost taxpayers more than $4 million. dana bash has more from washington. >> reporter: the star witness was the star of this now infamous irs "star trek" video, spock. >> total anarchy will occur in

11:11 hours. >> what were you thinking? >> those videos were at the time they were made, were attempt to, in a well-intentioned way, use humor. it's embarrassing. and i apologize. >> reporter: faris fink is now commissioner of the irs division that held a lavish $4 million conference in anaheim, california, where parody videos estimated to cost $50,000 were played. >> i live in a block where most people don't even make $50,000 a year. but yet, we can produce a video that has no redeeming value. none. >> reporter: during the conference, fink, a 32-year irs veteran, stayed in an upgraded hotel suite like this. fink didn't know how millions of taxpayers dollars were spent at this conference. >> you're totally ignorant and -- of the expenses? >> i was not involved in the planning. >> who was?

>> or execution. >> reporter: lawmakers repeatedly blasted irs hypocrisy requiring taxpayers to save receipts but not saving its own documents. that $4 million conference may have cost more. >> could it be $6 million? think carefully. you're under oath. >> yeah. >> could it be $6 million. >> there's no way i know that. >> two irs employees were placed on administrative leave this week for accepting free food at the 2010 conference, but part of the problem was, most of the lavish spending was allowed under irs rules then. since, they've been changed. dana bash, cnn, capitol hill. >> thanks for that report. you have to take a look at the latest weapon in norway's military arsenal. that is some serious scandinavian fire power right there. that's the norwegian navy blowing up one of its own ships to test out a new long range stealth missile. i assume most of its warfare

will not be engaged on its own. the naval strike missile inflicted serious damage on the decommissioned foot long "knm trontime." it's the latest generation surface warfare systems being developeded by the navy team. the polish navy is set to arm themselves with these missiles which clearly work pretty well. >> wow. yeah. it worked. ahead on "starting point" the first lady ruffling feathers over a decision to skip a diplomatic trip to china. michele obama says she has a good reason. we'll explain that next.

welcome back to "starting point." minding your business, your job, your economy, where do things stands, answer in over an hour. the may jobs report out at 8:30 eastern making investors a little nervous this morning. dow futures down about 20 points. expectations are low, 158,000 jobs added, 7.5% unemployment. that's another sign we're in kind of a soft patch. is that an economic term? over the past year the economy has been averaging more than that, 173,000 positions a month. even that's not great. at that pace analysts say it would take more than five more years to get back to where we were before the recession. you do want to see the private sector continuing to move forward. we would like to see this accelerate. feeling richer? american's net worth hit a record high $70 trillion, tops a previous record set in 2007 just before the recession. is that your net worth, berman. >> right. >> $70 million. >> $70 trillion times my net worth.

>> the s&p up 14% this year and home values have been rising. when you factor in inflation and population growth net worth is below pre-recession levels. that's the asterisk. >> the fine print there. presidential meet and greet today in california, president obama will sit down with china's leader for a highly-anticipated two-day meeting. when the president welcomes china's first couple, he's going to be missing something, his better half. michele obama made a decision to skip the summit and that has ruffled some diplomatic feathers. cnn's erin mcpike with more on that. >> reporter: a chinese state visit is usually filled with pomp and circumstance. but when president obama travels all the way to california this weekend to meet with new chinese president xi jinping, the setting will be casual. it's being billed as a sign of progress for american and chinese diplomacy. the chinese president will be bringing along his wife. ♪

>> reporter: like michele obama, she is considered a rock star in china, except she actually is a rock star. ♪ >> reporter: but she won't be serenading michele obama. president obama is going it alone. meaning there will be no face time for the first ladies. there are mixed reactions on chinese social media about mrs. obama's decision to stay home. one said, because our first lady is so pretty that she was scared to show up. another, why disappointed? is it for sure understandble she put family and her kids in the first place. critics say that's a mistake for the white house as it tries to thaw tensions with the che niece. >> people in china will think this may not be just a family matter. >> reporter: now i should point out it's sasha obama's 12th birthday on monday and the white house says they haven't heard any complaints from their counterparts about the mom in chief's decision to stay home.

erin mcpike, cnn, washington. >> a lot of time obama and xi jinping, spending at lot of casual time and down time, people suggesting maybe the chinese first lady could have spent down time with michele obama. not going to happen. >> a long friendship will have to develop because this is just the beginning of these are the most important business relationship in the world. >> crucial relationship. ahead on "starting point" reports the nsa is collecting extensive phone and internet data from citizens dominating the headlines and fueling fears of a big brother society. is our privacy being compromised or is this necessary security? that debate up next. tropical storm andrea battering florida. seriously injuring one woman and making its way up the eastern coast. what's next in its path? you're watching "starting point." know it's your most important videoconference of the day hi! hi, buddy! that's why the free wifi and hot breakfast are something to smile about. now, get great getaway rates

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point". >> tropical storm andrea has walloped florida, seriously injuring one woman. it made its way through georgia overnight. let's get the latest on where the storm is now and where it's headed next. meteorologist alexandria steele tracking it from the weather channel. >> good morning again, john. the good news, it is racing, it is moving northeast at 28 miles per hour. it is clipping along. two big threats with this. the rain we're going to see and the flthreat, there is a tornad threat in coastal virginia and north carolina. the big picture, maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour, but predominantly those are off the coast over water where the heaviest rain bands are. center of circulation, northeast of savannah, georgia. way down here. heaviest rain well to the north and east. here's where the heaviest rain is, you can see southeast of atlanta even. eastern georgia rain. 4 to 6 inches of rain. already seen that, more to come. from norfolk to raleigh, eastern north carolina and virginia,

heaviest rain falling now. we're going to watch this all move to the north. here's a look at where it is now. here's the time stamp on it. here's this morning. look what happens by this afternoon. about midnight tonight, center of circulation south of washington, heaviesest rain new york and boston. overnight rain and then it clears the coast. believe it or not, tomorrow afternoon things will be dry. 1:00, halifax where this is. some rain showers around washington, kind of tropical moisture. there's a cold front that was going to bring rain to this area anyway. it's just all that tropical moisture ahead of the front kind of enhancing the amount of rain we're seeing. so here we go. what we've seen, 2 to 4 inches. again another 2 to 4 from new york down to norfolk, but again, rain and the tornado threat again and north carolina and virginia, coastal areas, that's kind of what we'll be looking out for for today. >> all right. thank you so much. the good news, moving more quickly than we initially thought. >> absolutely. racing. >> all right.

now to the story that has some americans worried we're living in a big brother society. the nsa is collecting phone and data from u.s. citizens. "the guardian" publicist that published the story said in an interview with piers morgan last night. >> there is a massive apparatus within the united states government has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal to destroy privacy and anonymity not just in the united states but in the world. that is not hyperbole. that is their objective. >> serious allegations that have ignited a debate, privacy versus security, among government officials and among american citizens and among all of us. joining us now is jim harper, the director of information policy studies at the cato institute. a whole lot of new information has come out in the last two days. first, these major telephone companies making their data available to the government and now this news that the

government is having access to major internet companies as well. and your mind, does this go too far? >> i'm comparing what we've learned in the last few days, coming out late last night, new information, with what general keith alexander said at the american enterprise inti stuts just under a year ago. he was asked flatly by a reporter do you have information on american citizens and he said flatly no, we do not. so someone's not telling a straight story here. the problem underlying all this is secrecy. there's a secret court, issues secret rulings and this is the one leaked to glen greenwald he reported on so well. that's inconsistent with our system of government. if we're going to have a debate about privacy versus security let's have it in the open, oversight of the national security agency and let's have some oversight on the part of congress. we need to oversee our congress much better because they're not doing their job so far. >> it sounds like they are doing their job. they keep -- this is legal. congress passes laws allowing administrations to look at this

kind of data. do you think there should be pressure on congress to bring this out of the shadows? >> yeah. it is congress's job to decide what's legal and when it makes bad decisions, it is up to us, actually, in the public to oversee this. they passed in the senate, dianne feinstein the leader on this, senator from california, the leader at the end of the year last year in the sleepy time between christmas and new year's, of a push to reauthorize this power that was used to now collect millions of americans' phone call information, indeed probably all americans' phone calling information. if you make a phone call, a record of that will come to rest at the national security agency. if somebody calls you, a record will come to rest at the national security agency. all of us, innocent lawabiding american citizens are under surveillance. we learned this over the last few days. let's have that debate. let's decide for real, not in the shadows and not at the last minute. let's have a wide open debate about this in the congress. >> the facts in this are murky and still a lot more we need to know and don't know about this. the records certainly seem to

live there. the government seems to be warehousing these records. in order to get access to them again, in order to investigate them further, it does seem like there needs to be some other legal step. let's just state that right now. lindsey graham, senator from south carolina, says we'd be crazy not to be doing this right now. the government would be crazy not to be using these resources. you think differently, not just from a moral sense, you think this kind of data is not particularly effective in keeping us save. >> that's right. obviously we have yet to learn how they're using this data to try to secure us against terrorists or criminal enterprises. but collecting all of the data about all americans' phone calls can't possibly be useful for link based investigation. link based. that's the idea of learning something about a bad guy and then figuring out who his contacts and relations are pursuing them to find out what they've done. this is probably used for data mining, searching through massive data to search for patterns. it works to seeking out credit

card fraud fraud. tens of thousands of it for years. you can find patterns that reflect credit card fraud. i wrote a paper on this five years ago. nobody refuted it. in the national security agency i'm guessing they're trying to come up with a way. the thing they're doing is using our private data about our phone calls and more data in a program called prism which gloms on to the major internet providers, google, microsoft, apple and more, to gather data about all of our comings and goings on-line. >> jim harper director of information policies at the cato institute, i have a feeling this debate will be going on some time and the volume will be rising in the coming days and weeks. >> i cover business and in business this what is companies do. this is what brands do, what consultants do. they want to know everything we do, everything we do and want to mine that data for patterns to try to make money on. to me it sounds like the government trying to mine that data for patterns -- >> it's in a different level, though. what bothers people like jim harper, the cato institute,

every phone call you make it appears lives in a government warehouse. it's the every part of it. >> wow. the debate on a sweeping potentially historic immigration bill begins on the senate floor. some republicans have said they think the bill has serious flaws and are sceptical about its chances of passing. four including co-author marco rubio laid out nine areas they say need to change before the bill can pass the full senate. michele bachmann leaving open the possibility of another run for the white house. in her first interview since announcing she's leaving congress, she says she's not retiring and not going silent and as for 2016 bachmann says, quote, i am not taking it off the table. a new york woman pleading guilty to a scam involving the sandy hook elementary shootings in newtown, connecticut. authorities say she posed as the aunt of a child victim and sew his sited donations for a funeral fund that didn't exist. she pleaded guilty to wire fraud and making false statements. sentencing will be later this

summer. we've been telling you about 10-year-old sarah murnaghan's struggle against cystic fibrosis and her family's attempts to get a lung, despite some of the rules that are in place in the system. a judge has ordered sarah put on an adult transplant list so she has a better chance of finding a donor, they say. word that ruling could help a second child, 11-year-old javier acosta is in a philadelphia hospital waiting for a new pair of lungs. murnaghan's lawyers are trying to get him on the adult list as well. the organ transplant group that helps set national policy will meet monday to review the situation. and ahead on "starting point" game one of the nba finals. an upset in miami. the spurs impressive. tony parker, unreal. you'll have to see this a lot of times to believe it. we'll have the highlights ahead. the russian president and his wife make a rare appearance together on state television last night. a live report on their surprising announcement up

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it was really thanks to a crazy wild circus shot by tony parker that the spurs beat the heat last night in game one of the nba finals. andy scholes joins us now with more on the bleacher report. good morning, andy. >> good morning, john. the veteran san antonio spurs continue to just find ways to win games. last night's nail biter was the team's seventh straight win in the playoffs and they have now taken the home court advantage away in the miami heat. lebron james picked up right where he left off in last year's nba finals as he had 18 points, 18 rebounds and ten assists for his second straight finals triple-double but his effort wasn't enough thanks to tony parker. the spurs' star point guard scored ten points in the fourth quarter and this is the play everyone is talking about. spurs up two, parker dribbles around, falls down, gets and bangs home the shot. that put san antonio up by four with five. hold on to win game one 92-88. >> made me go back to that play, i mean, tony did everything

wrong and did everything right in the same possession. that was the longest 24 seconds that i've been a part of. >> it felt forever too. i was like, it was a crazy play. i thought i lost the ball like three or four times and didn't work out like i wanted to. at the end i was just trying to get a shot up and felt good when it left my hand and i was happy it went in. >> game two of the finals is sunday night. major league baseball has subpoenaed fedex, at&t, and t mobile in an effort to gain more evidence against players they suspect of receiving performance enhancing drugs from the florida clinic biogenesis of america. the yankees' alex rodriguez is one of the players being investigated. yesterday a-rod commented on the ongoing investigation for the first time saying in a statement, myself and others are being mentioned in a media report before the process is even concluded. i will monitor the situation and comment when appropriate. did you ever wonder if shaq

was better at shooting free throws than a 2-year-old? well, jimmy kimmel helped answer that question last night. titus ashby, the 2-year-old youtube sensation, took on shaq in a shoot-out. john, look at this, titus dominating the competition, made eight shots in 30 seconds. take a look at shaq. still struggling from the free-throw line. he didn't even make a shot, but did give titus his big old size 24 shoe right afterwards. >> the kid is awesome, andy, but the news here is like even in retirement shaq can't hit a free throw. the guy is terrible. >> big guy. >> he's got a lot of tv shows, on tnt shows, so he doesn't have much time for that free throw practice. >> he didn't while he was playing either. sooner or later he'll get there. thanks, andy. appreciate it. on the season finale of "parts unknown" anthony bourdain samples a new adventure in congo. a preview for you. >> something with a multi decade obsession with the congo. it's been kind of a personal

dream, if you will, to travel the congo river and now for better or worse, i get that chance. we've rented a vessel and i shall dub the captain willard. all right. can you load the chickens. finding food along the way, it's anticipated, will be a challenge. refrigeration of any kind is impossible. okay. i'm psyched. my dream has finally come true. [ speaking foreign language ] >> blocked by officials. this could be months. okay. let the probing begin. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we need this boat to move now. how do we do this? >> get under way before they figure a new tax to levy on us.

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question that many have wondered a long time. is it true you don't live together? >> this is true, all my activity and work are related with publicity. with the total publicity. some like it, some don't. >> not the clearest answer, so his wife had to spell it out. >> our marriage is over, because we barely see each other, vladimir is completely engaged with his work, our children have grown up, living their own lives. so it happened that we both have our own lives. >> reporter: this breakup appearance, the first time they have been seen together since putin's inauguration over a year ago. over 13 years, dominated political life in this country. sightings of his wife have become increasingly rare in 2008, a moscow newspaper said that he planned to divorce her and marry a russian gymnast.

s putin's wife says she doesn't like flying or publicity. this has to be a problem if you are married to a man who likes publicity. despite differences, marriage lasted just short of 30 years. they have two adult daughters, and put sink sain is said to beg father and someone whom she will always be close to. mr. putin's spokesman says before the divorce is formalized, that still to come and they insist that interview was not broadcast in any way. spontaneous reaction to a journalist question. very different to the vladimir putin for so long, where he has

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our "starting point," big brother is watching, apparently a lot. think twice before you hit send. stunning new reports shows the nsa accessing our e-mails and internet activity what are they looking for? is any of this legal? outrage growing. all of the angles covered. tropical storm andrea's path. where is she heading? the latest on where the weather system is, how much worse it will get. 30 minutes, the latest jobs report set to be leased. is the economy slowing or

growing? stay with us for the high anticipated report. check out this video norwegian navy blowing up one of its own ships to test out a long-range stealth missile. full video straight ahead. i'm john berman. >> and i'm christine romans, welcome to "starting point." a lot of americans waking up, wondering who is watching them. big controversy on capitol hill. new reports that the united states intelligence agencies are tapping directly into the servers of the country's biggest internet firms. happening for years. e-mails, photos, facebook posts may have been fined. according to "the washington post" and "the guardian," nine data sites have been mined. credit card transactions, also collected as well. barbara starr has more. >> reporter: a potentially

explosive disclosure on how easily the government can collect information online. "the washington post" and british newspaper "the guardian" reporting that the national security agency, nsa, and the fbi are tapping directly into the servers of nine leading internet companies, including microsoft, yahoo! google, facebook, aol, skype, youtube, and apple. that's according to a top secret nsa presentation. intercepting data like video, photographs, and e-mails flowing online. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world. things that virtually every human being in the western world now uses to communicate with one another. >> reporter: the program appears to be intended to grab non-u.s. intercepts, many of which flow through the robust u.s. internet. one slide in the nsa

presentation explains your targets' communications could easily be flowing into and through the u.s. cnn has not confirmed the authenticity of the documents. several of the companies reportedly cooperating with the government issued denials of involvement. this follows the stunning news that a secret federal court order directed verizon to hanover phone records of millions of americans. former intelligence officials and privacy advocates say it's reasonable to presume other telephone companies got similar orders. >> if this is an open ended. and incriminate collection process as it seems to be, then logically one would expect it to be much bigger than verizon business. >> reporter: and it all leaves the administration able to explain this exchange in march. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or

hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. >> reporter: that verizon program, lawmakers say having access to that data helped law enforcement help terrorist plots from being carried out. here is the crux of it, of course. the government saying they are looking to stop terrorist plots so really collecting on non-u.s. entities and non-u.s. personnel. the internet does not recognize international boundaries. james clapper, because of all of this, has to issue an extraordinary statement overnight, publicly clarifying this. i want to read some of it to you. he says "the unauthorized disclosure of information about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks associate -- and risks important protections for the

security of americans. the program cannot be used intentionally to target any u.s. citizen, any other u.s. person, or anyone located within the united states." they say they are not targeting americans, but certainly american u.s. data falls within this net. christine. john. >> all right. barbara starr, thank you. >> intentionally, wittingly, words that pervade the entire discussion. a political angle to this. the white house pushing back pretty strenuously this morning. saying there is oversight to the program. they are saying it is necessary to prevent terror attacks, and then we are tracking all this with dan lothian at the white house. >> reporter: the white house trying to move beyond controversy to focus on the economy, push the president's second-term agenda, but it seems every day new revelations and some in washington think some of this is good in order to protect americans, others very concerned. they think this kin of information gathering is going

too far. >> this morning, president obama is waking up in california. as a political firestorm over the government's collection of phone and internet data intensifies. >> the bottom line is the united states government now has phone records and all the records of tens and tens and tens of millions of american who's have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. >> the political fallout after news that the nsa was collecting americans' phone records from verizon was quick. public outrage over privacy rights taking form online. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> reporter: a stinging editorial in "the new york times" says that president obama's dragnet and the administration has now lost all credibility. and the letter to attorney general eric holder from the author of the patriot act, representative jim

sensenbrenner, who is extremely disturbed by what appears to be an overbroad interpretation of the act. even the liberal base piled on. huffington post showed obama morphing into george w. bush. but the program has defenders. >> this program was used to stop a program -- excuse me. stop a terrorist attack in the united states. we know that. >> reporter: the white house says these types of orders, including data, not phone calls, and have been a critical tool in protecting the nation from terror threats. but some lawmakers want more answers, and attorney general holder, already under pressure for snooping on reporters on the hot seat again. >> could awe suyou assure no ph unsuede tu inside the capital were monitored? >> i don't think it's appropriate for me to discuss the issue.

>> reporter: senators asking for a full briefing from attorney general holder, the nsa, other agencies. want answers to a lot of questions to get a sense how far the programs have gone and why. john. >> again, the president wants to talk about china. a big leader with the chinese leader and this the white house wakes up to. dan lothian, the white house, thank you. let's bring in candy crowley. chief political correspond respondent and host of "state of the union," airs sunday at 9:00 a.m. president obama said the government was too intrusive in private lives. let's listen to some sound from 2007 to 2008. >> they act like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance security it is not. no short cuts to protecting america. i will also hold myself as president to a new standard of openness. transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. >> you have opponents of the

presidency. aggressives will come back. supporters will say this is not -- what this administration is doing right now, not what the president said this is going to be like. >> things look very different on the campaign trail than when you do in the oval office. not the first president that has found that out. or that has continued something that they argued against on the campaign trail. the problem for the appeared mi administration, they are getting hit from the left and from the right, although not conservatives, but more the i pe independents, the rand pauls and libertarians who think it's too much of an intrusion. it gets down to the definition of is is. where is the balance? it's simply not a conversation that the conversation really has had in any depth. partly because we don't know exactly what the federal

government is doing, clearly in the name of keeping us safe. so the conversation has not taken place and you have had a couple senators hint at it, but you know, the truth is when you say to the american people, this is in the name of safety, that carries a lot of sway, and civil liberties is a broad terminology there. will you give up this and this and get down to specifics, sometimes americans are willing to do that. keep them safe. >> we have a poll on that. and we ask if people are willing to give up some civil liberties to curb terrorism. 4 4 40% say yes, 49% say no. you talked about liberals and libertarian s libertarians, but a fairly broad

middle. people like harry reid saying everybody has to calm down. and it seems the chair and ranking members of all key committees that deal with intelligence and defense seem to be supportive of this. >> since they knew about it and approved it, yes. because they did. and but there have been other who's have known about it. who are then sworn to secrecy, not to talk with these programs, who have clearly felt that it went too far. interpretation of the patriot act has gone too far, the bush administration, and the obama administration, there is that act. you are right. there is this coalition that is someone unusual that finds this having gone too far. in the middle, these are the folks when you look at the intelligence committee, dianne feinstein and lindsay fwrgraham folks who knew about it and

apro- approved this. they say this has stopped a trust terrorist attack, how can you argue with that? >> most of the facts in this case are classify. candy crowley, thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks. more to the other big story of the day. if you live on the east coast, prepare to get wet, stay inside, cancel a lot of those weekend plans. tropical storm andrea, the kind of rainmaker the east coast has not seen since hurricane sandy. brace yourselves. the storm walloped florida. seriously injuring one woman and made its way through georgia overnight. today, zooming up the east coast, bringing with it heavy, heavy rain, flooding, and the possibility of isolated tornadoes. our nick valencia in wrightsville beach, north carolina. the surf kicking up behind him. what else are you seeing out there right now? >> reporter: hey, john.

the wind starting to pick up here in the last couple of minutes. out here since the early morning hours and this is the strongest we've felt the win and also caused angry waves to develop behind us, you can see the sun starting to creep out, trying to make it's way here, officials do expect to get between 1 and 3 inches of rain in the area, having said that, there are no evacuation orders for this particular part of north carolina. residents have decided to get out of town ahead of the anticipated wet weather. otherwise, john, decided to stick around. spoke to one resident coming here for a fun weekend, and he said no weather would impede that, stop that. you have to remember, after all, this is a -- a section of the united states, very accustomed to tornado -- i'm sorry. to hurricanes. very acomed to hurricanes. raining a short time ago,

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people to manage inventory, take care of the warehouse, and as far as we can tell from what the inspector general found, they didn't do any of that. >> reporter: and these personal spaces were hidden from security cameras by participatitions, cu, and piled up boxes. we couldn't get access into the warehouse, but epa had the private contractors who operated this building escorted out, prohibited them from coming back and began taking inventory of everything inside. not just the getaway spaces that concerned. the specks on the lower right. >> they had taken rat traps and there were rat feces through t outthe building. >> reporter: one place that was immaculate, with the updated gym. >> a computer attached to some speakers, and it appeared to be used for music. >> there was a security breach, expired passport of epa

employees with all of their identity information lying in boxes. oh and did we mention the seemingly inexplicable inventory. pardon my language, but what do we need with pianos in an epa warehouse. >> why did they have these pianos and all of this other stuff in the warehouse that we weren't using. >> the pianos at epa headquarters for award ceremonies, receptions and other functions and then moved to the warehouse. the agency said in a statement that it moved quickly to address all of these problems, and indeed the inspector general gives the epa high marks for fast response. we called in e-mail several times the private contractor that operated the warehouse. apex logistics of college park, maryland. we never heard back. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> thanks for that report. take a look at the latest weapon in norway's military arsenal.

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let me tell you what's going on here. christine romans on the phone. why? the mother of all economic reports. the monthly job reports come up in about seven seconds what we're expecting. 158,000 positions added in may. what economists expect. they expect 7.5% unemployment. the same as april. again, that is the expectation. the good news is the jobless rate is falling steadily, since it began at 10% in 2009. most states have unemployment rate below the national average. see them in green. christine romans suggesting we have news already. >> i am looking although a tweet that says that may, payroll increases 157,000. onless rate unchanged at 7.6%. a tweet from the bureau of labor statistics. let me get back on the call with the producer, you get back to that. >> according to the tweet from the bureau of labor statistics,

that would be more than we would expect. expecting 158,000. the unemployment rate, a separate and different measurement, ticked up slightly. unemployment at 7.5% according to numbers we're just seeing now slight uptick to 7.6%. christine romans on the phone right now with the bureau of labor statistics to find out what's more is going on. >> so this is what i can tell you when you look inside the data. the full press release in a minute. potentially expected better than expected. beating expectations, better than we thought. look at 175,000 overall and 7.6% unemployment rate, not as soft as some people have thought it would be, 158 was our expectation. this is a little bit better. still shows you overall that you have a labor market having trouble kind of chugging forward. trouble getting a lot of traction, this is in line with what i was telling you before. the recovery average. it is in line with the average

we've seen for the recovery. i think this is status quo, not as bad as something feared, labor market where the firings have slowed down, layoffs have slowed. seen that again and again in the weekly data. haven't seen robust hiring kick in. >> recovery that we've seen, which has been slow, but it has been consistent, this seems to indicate that this slow but consistent recovery is continuing at its slow but consistent pace. >> yes, slow but consistent. 175,000 increases is better than the 158 we thought. but are you seeing something like 150 to get going. analysts saying at 175 or 173, the average of the past year or so, it will take another five years to get back to prerecession levels. you want to see this turn in there. i will look at manufacturing jobs, a slowdown in

manufacturing jobs, consistent hiring in health care, engineering, a lot of technologied relate etechnology related fields. >> we showed the unemployment rises to 7.6%. please, we do this just about every month. explain how we can add 175,000 jobs on one side, but also seeing unemployment rate tick off. >> these will two different surveys. one is from people, where they find out if people have been hired, and the other is from companies, how many people do you have on your payrolls, sometimes you see them just slightly, government calls the move from 7.5% to 7.6% essentially unchanged. two different surveys. one of household and 7.6% is still too high. in a recovery, especial ail recovery this long, four years now, you want to see the jobless rate coming down more, but just

in 2010, i think -- 2009, 10% unemployment. come down. >> the fed set a target where he would like to see the unemployment rate before it will do some things that a lot of people are talking about. what is that target? >> 6.5%. and 175,000 jobs overall in may, net new jobs, and the government says an unemployment rate essentially unchanged at 7.6%. long-term unemployed, unchanged. 4.4 million people out of work six months or longer. that is a structural problem in this country. we have to fix that. people out of work that long it really becomes a problem for families and very hard to get back into the labor market. another number we look at. employment population ratio too low. back to 1980s levels. have to see that rise as well. big gains in retail trade, gains

in food service, drinking places. that suggests people have a little money in their pocket, spending money and creating those jobs. in general, the jobs we've been creating have been jobs at much lower wages than the jobs we lost. >> i think maybe there has been pessimism creeping into the market. some people were fearing that the jobs report wouldn't meet expectations. it did meet them, surface them by a little bit. relief on wall street. but another side of this too. not so good i think that the fed will change its course. >> what a lot of people in market are looking at. watch numbers to see what does this mean about fed's gage. is the fed pumping money into the economy? or as you start to see some strengthening or economic ability in the numbers, will the fed stop pumping money in?

maybe that could ralttle the stock market. >> unemployment 7.6%. 175,000 jobs added. more on the controversy all morning. fallout from reports that the national security agency is tapping directly into nine marijuana u.s. companies. stemming from quotes like this in "the washington post." quite literally watch your ideas form as you type. many drawing comparisons to big brother. what does this mean in the tech world? obviously, they have a perspective on this. to san francisco, correspondent there, dan simon what are people in silicone valley st-- silicon saying about this? >> we've reached out to the companies and they all said the same thing, they did not allow the government direct access to the serbers. and no ambiguity in the statement. at this point, we don't know how the government was able to

access these servers. it certainly wouldn't be the first too many a company has lied to us, but no wiggle room in the statements. a bit curious at this point. >> let's walk through statements that companies have been given that have allege edly been involve. they used words like direct access a lot. security, ined stestead of priv what are the companies actually saying. if you could lay this out in english, that would be helpful. >> sure, let's just go right to the worst. this is what apple is saying, "we have never heard of providing any government agency access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order. >> and we don't provide any government organization with direct access to facebook for data or information about d

specific individuals, we carefully scrutinize any such request for compliance with all applicable laws and provide information only to the extent required by law. we need a fuller account on how information was accessed. you hear statements and there is a disconnect. >> you know, you hear people complaining about facebook privacy settings or goggle's street cameras and the apple cloud issues, do you think this will change people's behavior? even if you turn off privacy settings. >> and all the story i do involving technology, nothing bothers people more than issues regarding privacy. will this kwauz some people to change behavior? perhaps. i will say these services and devices are so part of our central lives that i have a hard time believing that people will suddenly shut them up. we will wait to see.

people skittish about privacy typically don't use these services in the first place. younger americans typically don't really think about privacy too much, but it will be interesting to see. >> an important point between those who use them, and those who won't. ahead on "starting point," england's prince philip admitted to buckingham hospital for explore tore. >> george stroumboulopoulos, you may not be familiar with him now, but you soon will be, latest addition of cnn family. you're watching "starting point." [ female announcer ] everything that goes into a lennox system

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news out of buckingham palace. prince philip has been admitted to a london hospital for exploratory operation. max foster live in london with the latest on prince philip's condition this morning. good morning, max. >> hi, christine, just seeing

the senior press team go into the hospital. we are expecting some sort of update. the operation was meant to take place today on his abdomen. we don't have much more detail than that. so i expect the operation has taken place, and we'll get an update from the press team. what they said so far, he'll be under general anesthetic. a concern for someone headed to the 92nd birthday. they are bracing us for a long period here. same time, the queen has continued duties in her style. she comes to the hospital, the sense is that it's raising alarms, just down the road, opening the new bbc headquarters and had some fun there, smiling, so she doesn't seem too concerned at this point, but the palace certainly taking this quite seriously and asking us not to speculate about what is going on. it's an operation, and he is an old man. cnn's new late night host,

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where you at. >> soda from the northeast, and i guess from out west, it's soda. and it's pop if you are, you know, like me, in the midwest. where it's all blue. that's where it's pop. >> there is also other words mi mispronounced in your part of the country. caramel or caramel? the red states, it's caramel. where you live and mispronounce it. >> i say caramel. >> that covers the midwest and west. caramel, three syllables. >> how do you pronounce the things you snip from the sunday caper, coupon or coupon. red states rule. >> do you say roof or roof? >> roof. >> do you say creek or creek? >> i say stream or river. >> we'll continue. >> and we'll have this fight for the next couple of weeks. next, she's been a lifeline for

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brunging th bringing that magic to cnn. >> he wants to conquer all of north america. >> thank you for being here. >> what are the one thing you want americans to know about you? >> i love having good conversation. that's all i think about to be honest with you. an interviewer is like an emotional archaeologist. and you dig up bones, and understand what happened in the fast. that's how i look at it. i grew up -- cosby, george carlin, chuck d. and the clash. and patti smyth. >> no gordon light foot. seems like a slight. >> he was unaachievable. that's like saying can you become a diety, we can't. with gordon, you admire, bask in his glow, but you can't become him. >> who will we see on the show? >> everybody from martin short to whiz khalifa to keanu reeves.

>> you go riding. >> i am the one with the full face helmet. a british bike, so all the gears on the other side. had to relearn how to ride a motorcyc motorcycle. he is so passionate about bikes. >> when you talk to someone who cares that deeply, do you have to prove yourself to him? measure up? >> i don't think so. it's like being a sports fan in that it's the great equalizer, it's just you meet them at their presence. i love motorcycles and the idea of being really passionate about a second project, where you kind of throw yourself into. so with him, just two guys talking about bikes and how we love it and what it means to us and the greater context. so you never worry about having to prove yourself. two guys talking about bikes, all three talking about basketball when we went to air, right? >> a big sports fan. >> huge sports fan. covered the nba a long time.

big hockey fan. and any time miami loses, i'm other. sorry, may me. >> up late last night, which may explain why standing here under the wire here. >> wolf blitzer and i went out late. >> blitzer and stroumbo, out late last night. let's show the last-second shot, tony parker, i cannot get enough. walk me through this. >> right now, what's incredible, i think tony knows what's happening on the shot block, look at the release, just before the art comes on. perfect high board. like a gym teacher rebound. >> you know, he's not a big guy. this little frenchman lights it up in the u.s. >> unbelievable coaching. that's an example of a team who knows, veteran leadership. great coaching and know how to let lebron be lebron. >> you have interviewed the biggest names if they are big in

this country, they sit down with you. >> yeah, the only late night talk show in the country, in canada. >> they can only afford one. >> that's right. all we got. i really don't have that kin of agenda. i'm like you guys, i get on tv and enjoy the process, but i don't have to prove anything. i'm not that kin of a guy. >> i have a lot to prove. >> have you a marvel comic drawn after you, you have nothing to prove. over time more and more guests agreed to come on. in the beginning, only music guests wanted to come on. tom cruise early in the run, and he was so lovely, started to tell other people about our show, including other canadian celebrities and that's how we got more people. word of mouth drove what it is we do. >> welcome. we are so dwlad you are here, so good to meet you, happy to have you on board. the show looks awesome. called "stroumboulopoulos," i don't know how you came up with the name, but i think it will

catch on. >> super catchy. >> you have to break it into two lines on the steteleprompter. >> and "anthony bourdain parts unkno unknown" an incredible adventure in the congo. "newsroom" with christi paul starts right now. happening now in the newsroom, liberty versus security. the government is not so secretly now mining your data from yahoo! google, microsoft, phone conversations, status updates, photos, your life online. ahead, we asked how private is private anymore. also, millions of americans getting soaked by tropical storm andrea as it moves up the eastern coastline. flash flooding from florida to virginia. live with the forecast.