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out. the breakdown. what it means for you and your family. is economic recovery stalling? cnn newsroom" starts right now. take a nice deep breath. made it to friday. i'm christi paul in for carol cost tello. many of you under a flash flood warning right now as tropical storm andrea moves up the eastern coast. this is from tiype tybee island. the white caps rolling in in savannah. and emergency officials are warning residents, winds could be so strong, people in mobile homes need to consider relocating. and nick valencia in wrightsville beach, north carolina. okay, so, nick, how have you seen the storm evolve over the last couple of hours?

>> we've been out since the early morning hours, christi. seen wind come up, waves come in. angry waves behind us, and so far, hasn't been much rain. not too much of a problem. and there is a hahnful of residents surrounding us right now. leisurely stroll on the beach. i spoke to the police chief for wrightsville beach, north carolina. and he tells me that the worst of the storm has passed, at least for this area. to put this in perspective, this is an area very accustomed to hurricanes and severe weather. i have spoken to residents that aren't budging one bit. don't want weekend plans ruined at all by severe weather. the weekend may be unpleasant, but storm moving up the eastern seaboard, heading toward the northeast, new york area, but right now, things are calming down as the winds pick up here.

sun starting to poke its head out. and so far, residents don't seem to be very -- don't seem to be very unnerved by what's happening here, christi. >> i'm amazed by the people trying to surf and stuff like that. we mentioned power outages, utility companies are prepared for power outages, hope you can still hear me. how expansive have power outages been there, do you know? >> we know that there hasn't been much of an issue right now. the biggest concern for local officials are the rip current. in fact, no evacuation order issued for this area. one of the hardest hit areas in north carolina. between 1 to 3 inches of rain. good news for the residents here. wasn't as bad as we were anticipating, not as bad as we expected. the chief of police saying the worst of the storm has passed. and having said that, christi,

the storm could pick up momentum as it goes up the eastern seaboard and causes problems for the states in the eye of the storm and in the coming hours and coming days. christi. >> yeah, i see the sun peaking out behind you. you, the crew, everybody on the beach watching it. take good care, glad everybody is all right. as you know, waking up to the realization that our government may know far more about our electronic communications than we ever could have imagined. phone records, e-mail, pictures, status updates, both "the washington post" and "the guardi guardian" say that the nsa has access to the servers at top technology programs through a program prism. those being microsoft, apple, youtube, yahoo! google, facebook, pal talk, skype, and aol. one of those to first detail the

program says the goal is to make all interaction accessible to the government. >> there is a massiv massive ap that has one goal, to provide privacy and anonymity, not just in the united states, but the world. that is not hyperbole to make it so every form of human interaction, human behavior, can never be beyond their reach and developed extraordinarily sophisticated technologies and enormously expensive mechanisms in order to make that happen. >> many of those companies, just so you know, are denying the government has that access. but the director of national intelligence says this program is just part of the strategy to protect the united states from terrorist threats. james clapper says this collection is broad, because narrowing the scope would limit ability to screen for and identify terrorism communications.

clapper also insists, by the way, phone calls are not recorded and congress has been fully and repeatedly briefed on the program. so you can imagine, right, the shock and outrage over big brother. a former bush administration official told anderson cooper this is an extension of what obama campaigned against. >> it's like george bush is having his fourth term. and i praise president obama for it. i think he's a hypocrite. he campaigned against president obama -- against president bush, said it was a violation of the constitution to do these things, and i think he realizes it's necessary and he is wise to do it. >> in the latest time/orc poll, taken two weeks after the boston marathon bombing, about half of those asked were not willing to give up some civil liberties to curb terrorism. 4 of every 10 were. the legal searches of phone and

internet records have the ability to overshadow anything that the white house wants to get done. white house correspondent dan lothian joining us now. does the president have plans to address the latest scandal, dan, do we know? >> we don't know. yesterday a white house spokesman told me, you never know, the president might bring it up in some of his speeches, yesterday in north carolina and a couple of fund-raisers, but the president did not touch on this topic at all. this is a white house trying to move beyond controversies to focus on the economy, and the second-term agenda, every day, seems there is a new revelation. some here in washington believe that when you look at all of the domestic terror threats this is a way to protect americans, but others are very concerned. they think this kind of information gathering is going too far. >> this morninmorning, presidena waking up in california as a political firestorm over the government's collection of phone

and internet data intensifies. >> bottom line, the united states government has phone records and internet records of tens and tens and tens of millions of american who have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. >> reporter: the political fallout after news that the nsa was selecting phone records from verizon was quick. public outrage of privacy rights taking form online. >> you can hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> reporter: a stinging editorial in "the new york times," proclaims president obama's dragnet. 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 sensenbrenner who is extremely concerned about the overbroad interpretation of the act. the huffington post ran a photo,

showing obama morphing into george w. bush. but 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 your honor pressure for snooping on reporters, on the hot seat again. >> could you assure to us that no phones inside the capital were monitored. >> all due respect, senator, i don't think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue. >> reporter: the white house is 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.

chr christi. >> thank you, dan dottian. and the president said he is committed to open government and transparency. on white house.gov, it says we will work together to ensure the public, and he said government should be transparent, government should be participatory and collaborative. this isn't new. obama has been campaigning on this and promising transparency for years. >> the way to make government responsible is hold it accountable. and the way to make it accountable is make it transparent. democracy depends on transparency. we have the toughest ethics law and transparency rules of any administration in history. >> candy crowley joining us now. chief political correspondent and anchor of cnn's "state of the union." i'm wondering, has president

obama violated his own promise of trancesparncy? >> certainly people will say he has on a number of things. one member of the irs claiming of the any of the when asked if you had anything to do with the program that targeted conservative groups. meetings to formulate policy that were not made public. many instances in which critics have said, wait a minute, this is not at all a transparent administration when it -- when it comes to what the government is doing to battle terrorism, i'm not sure anyone expects that the -- that the fbi or the cia or the national security agency, any of them will be transparent about what they are doing to catch the bad guys. two different subjects. problems with the stories coming up, because of the breadth and depth of what's collected.

i'm not sure this issue is about the transparency of the program we are hearing through clapper who has her said here is a few things about this program that you should know. there are those who say we should know more about this program. and other who's say the reason it's secret is because we're trying to catch the bad guys. >> right. terroristic in nature. "the new york times," as dan mentioned in his piece. "the administration has lost all credibility on this issue." is there any credence to that? >> you playeded some of the tapes and we also -- the president was very critical of the bush administration for having these sorts of monitoring, mechanisms in place. it obviously -- fisa, the act that set up a court to look at what the federal government can do, give approval and appears to rubber stamp everything that was asked of it. but the truth of the matter is

presidents change when they go from campaigner to president. remember, george bush at the end of his term, his second term. i had an interview with him, and he had just authorized the bailout of the car companies, and he said this is against every free market principle i ever talked about. when they get into the office they are overwhelmed sometimes with the problem that comes at them. they want to do anything they can to fix it. that goes for national security. having said that, the country still needs to have the conversation. how far are we willing to allow to have lawmakers go? and folks on capitol hill knew about the program, as well as the white house. how far is the american public willing to go to protect america when it comes to civil liberties and specifically what civil liberties are americans willing to give up to stay safe? >> good point. when you are campaigning, you

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so glad to have you with usz. unemployment report is out. 157,000 jobs created, and 7.6% unemployment is about unchanged. chris teetine romans and steven moore with us. what's the big takeaway? >> the big takeaway, more of the same. less firing, but not really robust hiring. s this number better than expected. 175,000 better than wall street thought it would be. but not enough to make a

meaningful debt in up employment rate. the government calls it essentially unchanged at 7.6%. more about the trend. this is really important here. the takeaway here. this trend, 176,000, not really enough. not really enough -- 175,000, not enough to really pull down the unemployment rate, but it is a little bit better. you can see -- you want to see above this line. boy, i would love to see, month, month, month above this line, but you're not -- you know, we're not seeing it quite yet. >> steven, let me ask you. what does this show us about how the u.s. is handling forced spending cuts? >> actually, i think the economy is picking up steam. this was a decent report. wasn't great. agree with christine, but we see the stock market doing a lot better this year. we see the housing market rebounding. we see these low interest rates that are a real help to the economy. so this is a -- this is a pretty good report. i would agree with christine, we want to see increases in

employment to bring that unemployment down. one statistic i find troubling. you look at what you call the real unemployment rate, people can't find a full-time job and people just pulled out of the labor force because they have become discouraged, that unemployment rate, closer to 14%, and that's a big problem. >> all right. christine romans, steven moore, thank you for walking us through the numbers. good to see you, happy friday. back to the top story on secret data mining, take a look at these logos, represent tech firms tied to new revelations of sweeping government surveillance. chances are, all of these or many of them are buttons on your smart phone, home screen. three of the firms deny giving the government "direct access to their servers." however, what does that mean to your privacy? we have the editor in chief of the technology sight "the

verge." thanks for taking time to be with us. we are throwing around the term data mining, what exactly is that? >> people casually throw that around, to say we're extracting data out of something. looking at big piles of data and trying to extract patterns from the data and analyzing those patterns. >> so how is the tech world reacting to this news? >> obviously, there is a little bit of shock, some of that from the confusion of not knowing whether the companies that are named in the "washington post" report. whether those are willingly involved in this or involved in a way that is beyond their knowledge. and so -- so right now, we're trying to figure out what the real story here is. >> okay. so we were told by the administrati administration. content not being collected.

not what one fbi agent told us after the boston bombing. >> talking all digital communications, a way to look at digital communications in the past. i can't go into detail of how that's done or what done. no digital communication is secure, and these communications will be found out, conversation will be known, and it's just a question of whether or not katherine russell decides to own up to what was said prior to that information being known or after the fact. >> look this is jolting to a lot of people who are hearing that right now. how vulnerable are we, really? >> well, i mean, what we heard is the nsa is looking at meta data, call records, what numbers called, what other numbers, time of calls, things like that. looking at -- apparently more access to our e-mails, to the data we have stored on servers, whether it's google's or

apple's, being able to tap into a phone and record a conversation has not bern brought up here, and certainly to go back in the past and replay a phone call, not -- not been mentioned in any of the reports we've heard about. the prison system. but 's possible. we didn't know about prism yesterday, now we do. who knows what we'll find out today. >> or tomorrow. josh, thank you so much. >> thanks. >> editor in chief of "the verge." good to have you with us. coming up at the bottom hour. wolf blitzer will lead a debate on what's more important, national security or your civil liberties. back in a moment. stay close. woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days.

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25 minutes past the hour. a critical hearing in the gorng zimmerman case. start of the case three days away. the judge dealt another blow to the zimmerman defense yesterday. saying three witnesses cannot remain anonymous. martin savidge in sanford, florida. martin, since they can't remain

anonymous, there a fear that perhaps they might lose some witnesses? i think that's what they are worried. these witnesses know that a lot of people following this trial, emotions running high. by getting on the stand and being identified, they would be in fear of reaction to what they said, so the defense want to make sure that everyone speaks exactly what they know. they thought the anomymity would help, but that's denied. today's issue is the 911 call. the interpretation is the real issue here. one expert for the prosecution who says he hears things other people have not heard, specifically trayvon martin, begging for his life.

defense sees that as a problem. they see it as flawed and are fighting to prevent it. yesterday, we had an unusual circumstance where you had one of the defense attorneys on the witness stand, and you had the prosecution cross-examining him, and it got heated. take a listen. >> we would be asking sanctions for you all to wait until the last minute to disclose it to us. you don't think it's a fair trial for both sides? >> i'm not laughing because i think this is funny. this is far, far from amusing. >> let me ask you this -- >> we caught you hiding the information and confronted you about it, and you never gave it to us. and we called a witness today to prove that you hid that information. and then misrepresented it to the judge. >> this is a contention that the defense is making that the prosecution has not given all of

the evidence as they are supposed to do in discovery. the judge yet to rule on that matter. the big issue today will be the 911 tape. >> all right. martin savidge, thank you for bringing the latest. and the question today, does the obama administration need to come clean on this surveillance program, or does national security trump our right to know how our personal communications are accessed? the growing debate over online life. that coming up next. can acne cleansers be tough on breakouts and be good for your face? [ female announcer ] now there's new neutrogena® naturals acne cleanser. acne medicine from the wintergreen leaf treats breakouts. no parabens or harsh sulfates. for naturally clear skin. [ female announcer ] neutrogena® naturals.

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9:31 on friday morning. hope you are rising and chin sh. some of the stories we're watch negotiate newsroom. stocks on the rise. wall street opens for business and looking at the latest jobs report shows 175,000 jobs added in may.

but the unemployment rate did tick up to 7.6%. flash-flood watches in effect from georgia to maine as tropical storm andrea moves up the east coast. washington could get as much as 6 inches of rain today. all of you in new york city, could see rain fall at a rate of an inch or two an hour they say. and the investigation into the philadelphia building collapse is starting. now that the search for survivors is officially over. six people killed wednesday. when the four-story wall of a partially demolished building collapsed on a salvation army store. officials are "absolutely sure" there are no more victims in the rubble. all right. let's talk. if you are just getting on our iphone, e-mail, or thinking about making a phone call, security versus privacy, long-running debate ramping up following several reports of government surveillance on your phone calls, e-mail, even pictures, both "the washington post" and "the guardian" say nsa

is accessing central servers to top u.s. technology firms through a program called prism. some of the surveillance started back in 2007. microsoft, google, yahoo! facebook, apple, aol, paltalk, youtube. a lot of companies deny the government has that access. wolf blitzer of "the situation room" is joining us. people waking up think this is unbelievable. >> a major development. we didn't know the full extent of what was going on until the past 24 to 48 hours. a huge, huge issue. two people who i want to bring in right now to discuss what's going on. jeffrey rosen, legal affairs editor of the new republic, and jewel meyers wood, former assistant homeland security secretary during the bush administration many a statement

that the director of national intelligence, james clapper, released overnight. i'll put it up on the screen. information collected under this program is among the most important and valuable foreign intelligence information we collect and is used to protect our nation from a wide variety of threats, unauthorized disclosure of information about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks important protections for the security of americans. is clapper right? >> we can't know whether clapper is right, because the administration has not disclosed the legal memos or authority under which it's seizing this data. if "the washington post" is correct, literally millions of pieces of information is being scan. they say it's filtering out normal americans to a 51% accuracy rate. how is this consistent with the fourth amendment, where generally you need warrants? we cannot answer the questions

about the administration gives us more information. >> julie, are you ready to answer those questions? >> well, certainly -- certainly they are important questions, and i think the information that's come out over the past few days, takes to us a point, where are we ready to have a new national conversation. security has changed a ton since the patriot act in 2001. what is the government doing? are we happy with it? we have to think about how we use meta data and data mining effectively. but we have to consider the broader privacy implications here. >> "the new york times" editorial board, a stinging editorial released late yesterday said the administration, referring to the obama administration, has lost all credibility on this issue, mr. obama is proving the truism -- the truism that the executive branch will use any power given and very likely

abuse it. do you agree with "the new york times"? >> i rarely agree with "the new york times," and in this instance, i also don't agree with them. the administration went to congress, told congress what they were doing and also got a signoff from a judge. that makes this case different than the issue involving drones. but i think it's important. data analytics have changed so much over the past ten years. we need to think, are we happy with big data being big brother? are we comfortable with what the government is doing? we need a broader national conversation about that, to make sure that we're protected and to make sure that the civil rights and civil liberties of americans are also considered. >> jeffrey, you are a real legal expert. all three branches of the u.s. government signed off on this program, the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. all are part of this expanded surveillance program that the nsa engages in. >> that's truth but some of the original authors of the patriot act are having second thoughts.

representative sensenbrenner says if section 218 is being as the guardian reported yesterday to allow local, domestic and internal telephone logs to be scans from verizon, that's never what patriot act intended. the interpretation of that and the foreign intelligence surveillance act makes judges appear to rubber stamp. eliminates the requirement that data meaningfully connected to terrorism investigations and is a general fishing expedition that justice antonin scalia so eloquently denounced in his dissenting opinion on monday. he said the framers of the fourth amendment would be appalled to think the government could generically scan an awful lot of data of innocent americans without cause. the patriot act does not aswage constitutional concerns. >> the patriot act approved right after 9/11. reauthorized during the bush administration and more recently

during the obama administration. the people implementing it right now breaking the law? >> i don't think we have enough facts to know that. a judge found it was legal. but i do think to sense sen sensenbrenner's point, a lot has changed since the patriot act was first enacted. it's time to look at where are we now as a country and how can we be most effective? we have to look at meta data, think about it, but i want to make sure controls are in place. that's what i would like to hear from the administration. how do we know appropriate controls are in place, so there is not misuse from this administration. not turned into another irs scandal. we are just trying to protect our country. >> hold on a moment. i want to continue the conversation. a quick break. jeffrey rosen, julie meyers

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let's continue our discussion right now. latest revelations into what's called data mining by the federal government. jeffrey rosen of "the new rep republ republic" is with us, as is julie myers wood. not every day "the new york times" editorial page is slamming the united states, while the editorial page of "the wall street journal" is praising the president on the issue of national security. thank you for data mining. the wall street journal editorial board says we bow no-no one in our desire to limit government power, but data mining is less intrusive on individual than routine airport security. the data sweep is worth it if it prevents terror attacks that would lead politicians to

endorse a far greater harm to civil liberties. amid many real abuses of power, the political temptation will be to tie data mining into a narrative about a government out of control. such tunism can only weaken our counterterror defenses and endanger the country. they are saying this is preventing terror attacks. >> they don't have enough evidence to evaluate the claim. the government has refused to share the al go rhythms using to filter out the data and using the trust us model, saying don't worry, we're not using innocent american data. we're stopping terrorist attacks. it's possible to disclose what's being collected. and congress might be able to find some bipartisan agreement as representative sensenbrenner said it's appropriate to data mine when you believe someone is a suspected spy or terrorist, but not appropriate to sift

through data of billions of americans without some suspicion. >> you have the democratic chair of the intelligence committee, dianne feinstein, agreeing with mike rogers, republican, saying this prevented terrorist attacks and saved lives. listen to mike rogers. >> within the past few years this program was used to stop a program -- excuse me. stop a terrorist attack in the united states. we know that. it's -- it's important. it fills in a little seam that we have, and it's used to make sure that there is not an international nexus to any terrorism event that they may believe is ongoing in the united states. so in that regard, it is a very valuable thing. >> all right. julie, they want specifics, though, the critics of the program, on the left or right, they say it's nice for mike rogers, dianne feinstein or president obama to say these sorts of things, that these programs are essential to

prevent terrorist attacks, but they want specifics. should the american public know what's going on? >> well, certainly i think we've got to give a lot of weight to those in congress that have looked at this and thought about this and those in the executive branch that are tasked with protecting our country. at the same time, i think it is appropriate to have some transparency for the most transparent administration ever to give some transparency into the controls that are being used on these business rules and i think that folks would feel a lot more comfortable with this if we knew more things about the controls, how information is being protected and what business rules are being applied so at the end of the day, we are focusing on terrorism, we are preventing american lives from being harmed. >> you saw that picture on the huffington post. president obama supposedly morphing into president george bush. that was pretty startling. george w. obama.

is that kind of criticism fair? >> the obama administration has asked forfar more intelligence orders than president bush. these programs appear to not only be continuations, but vast expansions of programs that began under president bush. it's certainly fair to see that sort of continuity, just as the congress in the 1970s saw the continuity. i do thinkth fair analogy. >> do you think the president is being hypocritical, given criticism of president bush, when he was running for the democratic nomination in 2007-2008? >> he sure changed his tune. but i'm really glad he did. he didn't just dismiss it out of hand. he looked and thought, are some of these things in place in the bush administration, do they make sense to protect our country today. i'm glad he is thinking about what is best for our country

versus politics. >> he says, trust me, i know what i'm doing, i wouldn't want to do this, constitutional law professor, i privacy versus national security. what you are saying, mr. president, with all due respect, we don't necessarily trust you. >> we don't. i teach constitutional law too. i think it's disappointing that a president that understand constitutional law better than any of us would be so incensetive to the constitutional issues. trust us is never an adequate protection for privacy and this president sponsored legislation that would prohibited the very act he has engaged in, suggests how dramatically he has changed his tune. >> thank you for coming in. and former homeland security assistant secretary, julie myers wood. we'll have more discussions coming up throughout the day on

cnn. in the meantime, back to the "cnn newsroom" with christi paul. >> wolf, thank you so much. he will be back in the second hour and you will be joined at that time by former white house press secretary ari fleischer. the thin line between privacy and security between american citizens. back in a moment. ♪ even if it's so wrong ♪ i wanna scream out loud ♪ boy, but i just bite my tongue ♪ ♪ this one's for the girls messin' with boys ♪ ♪ like he's the melody and she's background noise ♪ [ volume decreases ] thanks, mom! have fun! you too. ♪ ♪ a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob?

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we want to get you caught up on the news. tropical storm andrea is a massive rain-maker. it's moving up the coast right now. wind speeds have dropped. it is hitting 13 states. the path is similar to tropical storm debby. summoned up to 2-feet of rain last year. two massachusetts residents have sued the new york post over libel over its description of them, three days of them, i should say, three days after the boston bombing. the newspaper put a picture of the two on its front page under the headline "bagmen" they said they accused the two of being bombers. the post said it did not identify them as suspects. the government says 175,000 jobs were added in may with unemployment adding up to 7.6%. cnn's christine romans show they

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a second child dying from cystic fibrosis is a step closer now to a lung transplant. this is after a federal judge thursday ordered the top transplant official to help 11-year-old xavier acosta an 11-year-old to an a.com donor. the same jij issued the same ruling on wednesday for sarah mernahan. jason carroll has been following this case. i'm wondering, there is probably a lot of people in similar cases watching this wondering what does this ruling mean for me? >> reporter: i think, first of all, this is a huge ruling for not just these two children but

children everywhere who are in need of a lung transplant or an organ transplant. basically the family now believes this puts them in the pool of adults so that they will now be able to have priority with the rest of the adults who are also in need of a lung transplant. early this morning, i spoke to the attorney who represents both of tease children and the attorney basically says this is god for children everywhere. this is good for sar rachlt i want you to listen to exactly what he had to say just less than an hour ago. >> sarah has, is very severe and her doctor testified that she would be in the top 5% in terms of severity, which means not only is she very sick, it also means when she is issued according to her severity, which is what we are asking, she is likely to get a lung. >> reporter: the big question now comes, christy, will there be a change in policy? i have a letter ear from unos, the united network for organ

sharing. this organization oversees and maintains all of these lists, basically, this letter written to health and human services secretary, kathlene sebelius, they're holding an emergency meeting on monday. as a result of this meeting, they could come up with a policy change. again, this is a huge step for both of tease children and could probably e possibly be a change in policy for all. we have to wait to see what happens on monday. >> yeah, a lot of people in this position are anxious to know how this will affect them. jason carroll, thank you so much, a great story we are following. good to see you. the next hour of in the "newsroom" begins right after the break. join me. i think farmers care more about the land

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phone calls, your e-mails and facebook account. now there are reports this hour the government is monitoring your credit card transactions. did the obama administration go too far with the patriot act? how safe is your car? do you have to worry about your chrysler vehicle? tropical storm andrea is dishing out, she's moving up the east coast. plus, he's one of the greatest basketball players ever, dr. j., julius irving caulk u talking about the finals and the new film fa spotlights

his hall of fame career. you are now in the cnn newsroom. and we are wishing you a happy friday. thank you so much for sharing your time with us here. i'm christy paul with karen costello. we are a few days into hurricane season, right? millions of people across 13 states are under flash flood warnings as tropical storm andrea drenchs the seaboard. i want to show you live pictures, too, of the wind and rain that have cancelled classes in several schools along the carolina coast and prompted warnings from emergency officials over flooding. i want to show you the radar, too. the storm is on a path north. it's expected to drop as much as 6 inches of rain in washington by the end of today. let's go right now to wrightsville, north carolina. that's where we find nick valencia. next, i see some sun. might be a good sign, right? >> reporter: well, it would be a good sign if this wind wasn't so

furious right now. we have been out here since 3:00 a.m. this morning. christy, this is the strongest the wind has felt so far. we just interviewed the chief of police here in north carolina. he said he believes the worst of the storm has passed. i'm not sure he was so accurate. we seen the waves inch their way closer towards the houses on the beach. they have since receded. the sun is trying to poke its head out here. residents are still, if you believe it, on the beach to the left of me here. there's folks playing in the water. people taking pictures. you have to remember, just in the context for our viewers here, this is a part of the united states and specifically a part of north carolina that is very accustomed to severe weather, very acuss told to hurricanes. back in the 1950s, there was hurricane hazel that ripped through this area destroying a lot of residents here. i have spoken to residents who say because of that, they're not leaving. they have seen a lot worse here.

they decided to hunker down, spend the weekend here, no matter how unpleasant the wet weather might make that weekend. folks are preparing as well as they can. like i said, the sun is out in some parts. have you clouds out in only parts. the residents are willing to weather the storm here. >> nick, hey, take good care there to you and your crew and all our people that are braving the beach. you are right, those people foe what they are doing. it's a tropical storm, it's not a hurricane. i can see, where they thai think, ah, we will sit back, take this as it comes, take good care. thanks so much. let's talk about the other big story today. the president promised transparency, as you know, we have been reporting the government is behind a program to mind data from phone records and the internet. well, the "wall street journal" now also reporting that the government is monitoring your credit card transactions as well, all if an effort to track

suspected terrorists. intelligence agencies, too, may have direct access to the central servers of several top u.s. tech companies. barbara starr joins us from the pentagon to explain it all. do we have any idea, barbara, truly, how expansive this is? >> well, i think the answer is, we do not. christy, the government wants to call it monitoring or mining, but the question for so many americans is basic, is the government snooping on all of us? a potentially explosive disclosure about how easily the government can collect information online. the washington post and the british newspaper "the guardian" are reporting that 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 online. >> 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 b.c. in the western world now uses to communicate with one another. >> reporter: the program appears to be intended to grab nonu.s. intercepts, many of which flow through the robust u.s. internet. one slide in the nsa presentation explains, your targets, communication, 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 a, 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 direct e check 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 law-makers say having access to that data helped law enforcement stop terrorist plots from being carried out. the controversy has skyrocketed so much in just the last 24 hour

to 48 hours here in washington that james clapper, the man you saw at the end of that piece the director of national intelligence overnight issued an extraordinary statement. i want to read some of it, it says, quote, the unauthorized disclosure of information about the 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. but, christy, you, me, everyone knows the internet does not recognize boundaries on the map, you know the internet is a global entity. so this is going to be a very tough problem and a lot of questions still coming. >> a strong point there, barbara, thank you very much for the update. so from the white house, let's go to capitol hill where there does seem to be a real split among members of congress to

whether this is the right thing to do. let bring in chief correspondent dana bash with us now. dana, when we say there is a split, does it appear to be an even split? >> reporter: it is unclear if it is an even split. what is fascinateing is it is not a split along the party lines at all. we heard from the top republican in the senate and the house intelligence committees all say that this is necessary to do, saying that at least one, maybe more terror plots have been filed thanks to this system, but on the other hand, you also see something that you don't see very often, talking about privacy or civil liberty issues. you are seeing those from the far right and those from the far left actually coming towing to agree that this is the wrong thing to do, that it is terrible for the government to have this kind of access to american's phone records or even

potentially internet records, listen to again one of the most conservative senators and one of the post-liberal. >> they basically said to verizon, give us your call logs. if they involve international calls, give them to us. if they involve domestic calls, give them to us. if they involve purely local calls, give them to us. we want all of them. that's a little disturbing to some of us. >> bottom line is, if we believe in freedom, if we believe you and i have the right the live our lives without the government knowing what we are doing, then we have got to have a serious dewitt on this issue and, in fact, we've got to change the law. >> now, that senator, in particular, bern if i sanders, he was against the patriot act to begin with and certainly the provisions added that allowed this to be done legally by the national security agency, by the obama administration. one thing that is interesting because this is something that has been going on for years that, congress at least those on the intelligence committees have been briefed on, we are now

learning because we know about it some of what had been going on behind the scenes in a claftd way, for example, mark udall, a senator from colorado, told his local paper he tried so hard to end this that he even went as far as almost letting classified information become public. he said, i knew the nsa was spying. i did everything but leak classified information to stop it. >> my goodness. all right, hey, dana bash, i feel like it's just beginning. thank you so much. >> reporter: thanks, christy. >> sure, appreciate it. god to see you. our coverage is continuing in two minutes. we have wolf blitzer and former bush secretary ari fleischer and national security expert jim walsh. stay close. . the u.s. unemployment rate, by the way is up, the stockmarket is reacting. may jobs numbers were released this morning. the borough of labors reports 275,000 jobs were added in may. that's more than analysts

expected. more than what was added last month. but officials say 11.8 million people are unemployed and that is a small increase from april. cnn's alison kosic is at the new york stock exchange. so how is it looking there on this news, allison? >> reporter: investors seem to be focused on the positive here on wall street. look. this report from may showing employers added 175,000 jobs. it's not a terrible report. it's an improvement from april's number, which were 149,000. here's the thing with it. it's not exceptional either. this is just average, when you look at job growth over the past three years. you talk about the unemployment rate kicking up from 7.5 to 7.6%. that's because the number of people looking for a jobs the diskournlgdz workers jumped into the fray. they're starting to look for work again. christy the problem with that is a lot of them haven't gotten a job yet. that's why you saw the unemployment rate tick higher, christy. >> can you kind of specify for us, where are we seeing the

biggest job gains? where are we still struggling? >> reporter: okay. we're seeing the bright spots. not a whole lot of surprises. the same places that continued to do well, they continued to do well. professional and business services added 57,000 jobs. includes 5,000 architect and engineering jobs. there you see the recovery in the housing market coming into play here. food service jobs, meaning restaurants and bars. we still continue to see job growth there, adding 38,000 jobs in may. sector has done pretty darn well adding more than 300,000 jobs over the past fefl 12 months. here's the problem with it. these are traditionally low paying jobs. it ain't easy paying the bills when you work at these jobs. government jobs got hit hard. the federal government lost 14,000 jobs. we know how these automatic spending cuts have been a drag on the economy. now we can see it in the numbers that it's a drag on jobs. manufacturing, the manufacturing sector lost 8,000. now, this sector shrunk in may.

it's not a huge surprise to see job losses here. this is a sector, christy, that has taken on on the chin with weak inside hitting the combier economy, with manufacturing activity contracting, it means less manufactured goods manufactured here in the u.s., christy. >> hey, allison, thanks for breaking it down for us. unindicator of the overall strejth of the economy is the picture of summer employment and temporary jobs. hospitality and leisure jobs obviously are a statementle of -- stape him of that world -- a staple of that world. thank you so much for being with us, scott. good to see you. some critics argue. >> good morning. >> good morning. some critics argue position at hotels and restaurants are the wrong kind of jobs to be adding since they're temporary and low paying. what is your response to that? >> well, the lodging industry right now is quite robust and there are ample jobs available.

i would dispute the report that they are low paying. i think that you look at the various types of jobs that are available in a hotel. they range from certainly management to the front of the house, the front desk clerks and then the back of the house, the house keepers. the food and beverage employees. so there are also a number of perks that come with those jobs like many hotels offering the ability to have a meal while during their shift. so it's not just about the paycheck, itself, but a number of perks that come with 'job in the hospitality sector. >> scott, do any of these seasonal jobs end up becoming permanent? >> certainly. i would tell you, i'm speaking to you from south florida. the summer used to be the low

season and i would tell you that the summer months in south florida represent some of the beth months of the year. we enjoy tourives coming from not only the united states but europe and latin america and when you think about latin america, it's their winter. so many of them are coming north to florida to vacation. so the seasonality element still persists, but tourism and particularly hospitality is a year-round business. you're chasing corporate travel, leisure travel, groups and conventions. these are all basic markets that the hotel industry serves. so it's a year-round business. it's 24/7. >> all right, scott furman, thank you so much, scott. appreciate it.

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>> all right. let's get out to wolf blitzer. he has a special panel that the government is collecting various information from phone and internet companies. wolf, i think a lot of people are watching thinking, how worried do i need to be about this? >> a lot of people are learning that the scope is immense, it's been going on for years. let's discuss with two guests, jim walsh, the international security analyst and research associate for security studies at mit and ari fleischer the former bush white house press secretary also a cnn political analyst. ari, this is a case where you think the president of the united states is doing exactly the right thing. i suspect you would tend to agree with huffington post which

had this picture of president obama having been morphed into president george w. obama. take a look at that. why is the president right? >> well, wolf, when you take a look at the steps he's taken to aggressively fight terror to keep us safe is much of what george bush started, it's wiretaps, keeping guantonomo opened, drone strikes. i refer to it as problem's fourth year, fourth to term i mean. i say that in a positive vain about president obama. wolf, if i thought this program was reading individual e-mails or listening to individual phone calls, i would be the first one to oppose it. that's not what it is. i think it has been widely misinterpret and misunderstood. it is much more akin to a satellite taking a picture of the river if you will. the river of information that flows into this country all the time t. river has a predictable pattern. that's what we are looking at. all of a sudden a rock is thrown into the river from somewhere else, it disturbs the postal workers changes the pattern. we want to see where that rock

came from and who that rock has touched. that's what this is about. that's how come they're collecting so much information, not about individuals, but about the flow of the river of communications. >> jim walsh, the chair of the senate intelligence committee, dianne feinstein says it's a very legal, perfectly appropriate and absolutely essential. listen to her. >> i read intelligence carefully and i know that people are trying to get to us. this is the reason why we keep tsa doing what it's doing. this is the reason why the fbi noup has 10,000 people dog intelligence on counterterrorism. this is the reason for the national counterterrorism center that's been set up in the time we have been active. and it's to ferret this out before it happens. it's called protecting america. >> do you have any problems with

this, jim? >> i do. and i want to say, i know for feinstein. i think these a national treasure. on 90% of the reasons i would agree with her. on this i disagree and with ari, the government is collecting information about who we are calling. when my children make phone calls, the government is collecting who they are talking to. it's true, they're not listening to the conversation. it hardly seems that that justifys it. if there was a federal agent, an fbi guy who followed me around, knew when i went to work. knew who i met with, didn't sit in on the meetings, they would cule that metadata. doesn't make it any less disturbing. they are following who they are talking to. what is going on here is part of it is called social network analysis, which is a fancy way of saying the government wants to know who they are talking to, what communities they live in,

whether they committed a crime or fought. i think that's dangerous. this is the tip of the iceberg. we will find out it is not just verizon the scope and duration is worse tan we thought. what's more, we are learning there is no transparency. we are seven years into it. i find owl of that troubling. >> i think that analogy could take place with the boston bombings, there were cameras following everybody, innocent people, you name it. they were watched by tv cameras. was that an invasion of our liberties and our privacys? i guess you could say it was. when trouble hit, it was because of that technology we were able to catch the killers. that's how these programs are denied to work. yes, they begin with a sweeping overreach, not aimed at any one individual or person, fought one person's children calling anybody else, but because it exists, we are able when something goes wrong to try to prevent it in the case of terror or quickly apprehend somebody,

which happened in boston. so there is a balance to our civil liberties. i don't like the fact that i have to go through a metal detector to board an airplane. i don't like the fact that for ten years i have to take off my shoes. we have to find out if we are comfort obviously to preserve our way of life? i am comfortable. i think they are safe and protect us. >> i will let jim walsh respond with that. go ahead, jim. >> first of all, it would be great to see evidence with this. senator feinstein was asked can you fame incidents that were stopped? she was unable to name any of them. we need to know if they hepp help in these cases, a terrorist attack would not have prevented, it was this and only this that would have saved the day. we can do all sorts of things if we want to stop terrorism. in other countries, i have been to north korea, i have been to iran. if someone commits a crime, they punish that person,ist imprison them and tear families and tear family's families. so if all we care about is

stopping crime, we can do all sorts of things, we don't live in a country like that. this is not about taking your shoes off. it's not about the boston bombing. that mit cop was killed two blocks from where i work. i lived through this. i'm sitting in a studio in watertown where this whole thing went down. to compare that to this is unacceptable in my view. those under surveillance cameras did not say who they were. they did not say who that were talking to or who they knew or their community was. is totally unanalogous. >> the bottom line is -- >> very quickly. >> those cameras are watching more than who did it. if you want to be pure about it, you have to shut down those cameras. it was bus of that program we were able to be successful. >> the point, we're almost out of town, very quickly, jim, i think the point that ari is trying to make is those closed circuit cameras at the boston

marathon, they were filming everybody there. but they certainly help pinpoint the two suspects who were eventually identified thanks to those cameras. i guess the argument ari is making is what the nsa is now doing with this metadata collection. they are going through a lot of stuff. they might be able to pinpoint some of that stuff and prevent another 911. a lot of folks say, you know what, if they can do that, fine. >> first of all, again, we have no evidence that that, in fact, is the case or these attacks couldn't be stopped through other information. i think this is deeply flawed. those were cameras in a public space. the government is mon torque private phone calls, your children and my children's private phone calls and tracking who their associates are. public under surveillance was not tracking names or who i was talking to and who i consider a friend or don't consider a friend. i think this is a stretched analogy. i work inner fascial security. this is what i do full time

every day and i worked and i lived through the boston bombing. i have written about terrorism. so i typed second to none in terms of concern about preventing terrorist attacks and reducing violence, but there is a way here and what i see is there has been no way. the government is given a blank check to do whatever it wants, it has been doing it for seven years, no one knows about it. we are only finding out about it now. i don't see the balancing process is, i see it as people going off dock their own thing. >> you think the government should be more transparent, let the government see this, if, in fact, mike rogers is right, he says a terrorist attack in the united states was prevented by all this nsa under surveillance, at least give us the evidence to back that up? should we be entitled to that information? >> look, i think now this is out if public and being debated. president obama has to explain it. he needs to walk us through,

this does balance civil liberties, why he authorize it and allowed it to take place, knowing, of course, this has been approved by three branches of congress, the judiciary and the executive branch. it was passed under the laws as the patriot act t. president does need to go forward and explain it. people don't know they have questions. it sounds scary. this is what a democracy should do, put it on the table, work it through the public so the public comes to a deeper, better understanding of it. >> i'm sure the president will be speak on this sooner rather than later. guys, thanks very much, ari fleischer, jim walsh. i appreciate a good discussion as always. we will have a lot more coming up throughout the day, christy, certainly, later today in the situation room 5:00 p.m. eastern as well. >> we are looking forward to that as always, thank you so much. something else i know you are watching. in light of this week's news of dangers of gas tanks and jeep liberties, we will ask an automotive expert how you can tell if the car you are driving

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>> 10:31 in the east. how nice of you to join me. i'm christy paul in for carol costello. we are watching tropical storm andrea because it's a massive rain-maker. i want to show you some of the recent video we just got in from jacksonville, florida. boy, this thing is moving up the east coast with wind speeds that have dropped, by the way. it has prompted flash flood watches. i say some, for a huge swath of the country across parts of 13 states. now, the projected path is similar to tropical storm debby, if you remember that. that dumped up to 2-feet of rain last year. so do be careful if you are if that area. you know, we had some pretty frightening warnings, didn't we, about jeep cherokees. i want to remind you, they say the design of the gas tanks in some models dating back to 1993 poses a risk of spilling gas and fire if the suv is hit from behind.

well, the chrysler group is fighting the recall for 2.7 million vehicles saying the analysis was faulty. so, let's talk to automotive analyst from new york and correspondent from aol and time warner cable news. thank you for taking time for us this morning. so let me ask you, how common is the placement of gas tanks in the rear of the vehicle as we see in the grand cheer key liberty? how many of us who don't drive those cars should by a ware? >> well, here's the thing, that was the design standard of the time. we're talking about 10 years ago, where it was very common to put a gas tank behind the axel. now, this is true in these liberties and their cherokees. however, the action nitsa is referring to is one vehicle in a million years of driving t. chances of that happening. so the cases brought to nitsa, it was a vehicle standing still when a tractor-trailer hit a

grand cherokee. caused a fire. would cause a fire in pretty much any vehicle. they are talking about skid plates under the vehicle used for offroading. it is not used for cars in the streets. so you as a consumer, an older vehicle is not built to the same safety standard as something built today. if you look at it, i think chrysler has a case. they won before in 1987 with the dodge stratus. >> you can say we can be safe from what date on? >> the fact is any car as it gets older, think about it, you have an suv and a car or a tractor-trailer, will you have bumper heights that are different. those regulations and rules have changed. when these vehicles that you are showing were built, they exceeded the national highway traffic safety administration standards. so what you need to know so if

it's an older vehicle, you are concerned about it, take it to a collision shop, if there is rust, damage, get it repaired. substructure underneath the car is what is progressive conservativing you. if you are concerned about that specific vehicle, you look at the stats from all of the vehicles built during that time period and you will find the jeep grand cherokee was on the lowest end of the fatalities. what you are showing there is something hit by a tractor-trailer. anything hit at 0 miles an hour actually multiplies by 23 times the energy. that's a lot. and that would -- i don't care if you are driving another suv, two tractor-trailers hit at that speed, there is going to be that same type of explosion. >> all righty. hey, lauren, we appreciate all the insight. thanks. >> thank you. >> well, it turns out, the government has millions of americans' phone records. it's all a part of a huge under surveillance program designed for the hunt of foreign

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>> i bet you have been having a lot of debates between security and privacy, haven you? and how much freedom should we give up to be safe? t the latest cnn poll taken two weeks after the boston marathon bombing, by the way, about half of those asked were not willing to give up some civil liberties to curve terrorism. 40% said they would. those numbers aren't much different when you break it down by age. only a third of americans over 50 would give up freedoms. number jumps to half. the assistant managing editor for cnn money, palm, we are learning this morning from the "wall street journal" that our credit card transactions are being monitored, possibly along with e-mails, phone records. so i'm wondering, you say you are not worried. why not? >> reporter: well, i wasn't worried if the initial reports

which were just about verizon phone records. i didn't particularly care if, you know the government knows that i called my wife might have finance ago, that's all they know. credit card information, obviously, a much bigger concern. a lot of people are worried about whether or not e-mails are being tracked. obviously, it is a slippery slope. i think people are legitimately concerned. i want to caution those reports on credit cards, pretty vague in the "wall street journal." so i'm not sure how they are just yet. >> i know they said it's legal under the patriot act. what about the fourth amendment here which affords us an unreasonable search and seizure, i should say? isn't that contradictory to what's going on here? >> it definitely is when you look at the letter of the law. without question, i understand people are worried. of course, that amendment of the constitution predated you know things like 9-11, i can understand why the government is interested in being able to

monitor certain pieces of data in order to, hopefully, avoid another terrorist attack along the lines of the boston bombing or even worse like 9-11, yes, there is definite reason for americans to be worried about the fact that the government is increasingly looking at more and more personal information. >> not only that, a lot of people might say, look, i don't have anything to hide, so go ahead. but you also think, what if they misconstrue my name or my conversation with somebody else who might be having something questionable or sinister going on. it's not unheard of to know other people in the government are still people. they're human. people screwing up. >> reporter: oh, definitely. there are clearly mistakes. obviously, we've all heard stories about people being erroneously flagged on no flight lists. i do think, though, some people need to take a breath and look at this in a bigger picture here. i don't get the sense the government has all tease agents

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critical hearing in the george zimmerman case under way. the last hearing before the trial starts on monday. cnn's martin savidge is there in sanford, florida. i know the judge could make this crucial ruling on the voice analysis of the 911 tapes, yes? >> right. we are still anticipating that.

the hearing is going on. it could take some time. a number of experts are expected to testify. here's the reason why. the 911 call the one where you hear someone screaming in the backgrounds, then you hear the gunshot which ended the life of 17-year-old trayvon martin. what is crucial is that the legal thinking here is whoever is screaming for help is clearly the victim in the case and whoever is not screaming must be the aggressor. is one of the issues still to be determined at trial, who was the attacker in all of this that went down? was it george zimmerman or trayvon martin? george zimmerman's defense team claims it was trayvon martin that began this alter categories. if you can figure out who is screaming for help, that would be the key t. problem is the science is very debatable t. prosecution says they got three experts that can identify the person screaming for help is trayvon martin or at least not george zimmerman. would be very detrimental to the defense the self defence of george zimmerman argument that he is making.

so they're trying to block the analysis of the 911. splikted but crucial, christy. >> very krumpblt it's the sound from the actual altercation. martin savidge, we appreciate it. the top stories are coming at you next.

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profiling the life and career of julius irving. dr. j. with us now, hello, how are you? >> i'm good, christy, how are you? >> before we get to that documentary, i want to know who do you like in the nba finals and why? >> what a game last night. let me tell you. last jump shot with .02 seconds to go out of tony parker's hand was a dagger. it's only game one. it probably will be a long series. i'm excited about seeing the adjustments. being an old nba guy, i'm pulling for the spurs. there will be some hitters out there. i'm pulling for the spurs. >> everybody's got their own loyalty, right, their own alliances. the the i know, this documentary comes out on your anniversary of the philadelphia 76ers winning the nba time. i'm wondering, when you look

back, what is your most cherished memory of that run? do you have one? >> i guess a combination of the things in the forum in l.a. after going to four finals, seven years, and losing three times in a six-year period. and it was very, very important to validate, by winning and they swept the lakers and do it in style, i'm an old rutger league playerment so style points count for something. that's probably the most precious of the basketball memories of wrapping up the championship in style with 12-1 record in the playoffs and a 4-0 record against the former champions. >> you know, as we watch some of this video with you, you were known for long hang time highlight reel dunks, of course. you are 63-years-old now, but i understand you can still dunk

'em. >> you know, i actually can. i, once a year, i like to go in the gym an test my metal. so earlier. >> just once a year? >> just once a year. the other times i go in, it's pretty much to watch my kids and grandkids play. i'm usually on the ipad while they're playing. but earlier this years ago i went in me and my friends, we got a few of my son's 8th graders together. played them full court. after we beat them, i dunked the ball three times. i said, now i'm set for the next three years, my son said, no, you got to come back next year and do it again. >> when you look at your kids and your grandcan i, do you see anything that mirrors you do you think? >> i probably inadvertently introduced them to the game of basketball. the fact that they have become passionate about it. they want to go to camps. i have a 14-year-old who wants

to go to duke university and become a duky. so i guess, you know, some of that is genes. some of it is having a little success, you know, breeds high expectations. >> wow, dr. j., you have given us all so much to watch and cheer for over the years. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. best of luck to you. >> my pleasure. make sure you watch the documentary. >> we will. thank you so much to all of you for joining us. the doctor june 10th. go make some good memories this weekend.

. good morning, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. we have a busy show ahead, to say the very least. we begin this morning with what you say and what you do and who your friends are and maybe more importantly who your enemies are. it used to be that you could truftd that most of what you went about your private life would stay that way, private. but not anymore. a secret government operation has been monitoring the phone records of millions of us and now we're hearing it goes way beyond phone records to our internet habits and who we e-mail with