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thanks for starting your morning with us. >> i've got a lot more to come on "cnn saturday morning" starts right now. good morning, everyone. i'm alison kosik. >> i'm victor blackwell. 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. we are glad you're with us. >> we begin with a new and stunning development in the national security agency surveillance of american citizens. facebook is coming forward with their roles in the national security agency requests. this is the first time we're learning about specific requests in the wake of the nsa leaker. according to lawyers for both companies in the last six months of 2012, facebook, listen to this, facebook received between 9,000 and 12,000 requests for information. and microsoft said it received 6,000 and 7,000 during that same
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time period. cnn's laurie segall is joining us by phone. tell us what this means for users of microsoft and facebook. i think what this means, we need to know for national security that these companies like facebook, like microsoft, this say huge resource that they're tapping into this information. and we're now beginning for the first time to really see some transparency. you know when facebook put out this report early this morning, late last night, they essentially said that local law enforcement uses these reports to try to help track down missing children. gang-related activity that's going to help with national security. so for the first time, we're really beginning to wrap our heads around the idea that our lives online are not completely private. they are a huge resource for national security. >> you know, there's a big implication here for other tech companies, laurie. you know, their data and their relationship with the government. tell me what that you are hearing from the people with whom you're speaking with?
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>> you know, i speak to these tech founders for a living, alison. you talk to all these folks, their m.o. is is to break things and hack and to do that. i actually sat down with the founder of reddit, and he said this is going to have major implications for entrepreneurs. listen to what he told me, alison. >> it will come up a lot sooner for founders. founders who think move fast to break things. are now going to be thinking move fast to break things but don't break the constitution. and thing this is an opportunity for us as citizens to draw a line in the sand as to what is off limits, what is still private, even in this digital age. >> and this is a conversation that silicon valley entree present nu entrepreneurs are having and i spoke to an investor who said
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this is a no-brainer that this should not be shocking. listen to what he told me. >> i would say our perspective overall as an early stage founder in technology, today there are 90 companies participating. i suspect there will be 1,000 companies to participate ten years from now. >> wrap your head around that, alison. you think about the nine companies that the nsa is reaching out to. the google, the microsofts but for decades our lives are online. what we share online, this isn't shocking. early investors in silicon valley understand that and they're investing in companies knowing that. >> makes us think twice about what we're sharing online. thank you. the man who leaked the existence of the nsa surveillance programs is get something support in hong kong. that's where edward snowden is believed to be possibly in a
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safehouse. cnn's international correspondent nic robertson is in hong kong right now. tell us about this rally this morning for snowden. how many people were there? >> perhaps not as many as he would have liked to have shown up, victor. i talked to the organizers down at the rally, it was raining perhaps that dropped the numbers. they told me they were waiting for several hundred. i would say there were perhaps 300. you know what, out of those 300, about a third of them were journalists covering the event. so really it's not a big sort of show of support for edward snowden. and you can't just blame it on the rain. just a couple days ago there was a big rally in support of -- or to highlight the tiananmen situation in mainland china back in 1989 when those students were killed. between 50 and 150,000 people showed up for that rally and it was pouring with rain. so edward snowden sort of getting, i have to say, a bit of a thumbs down from the people in
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hong kong right now. >> the people who showed up there, did they tell you why that were there supporting him? >> yeah, they think he's done the right thing. they think that he is correct to draw attention to what the nsa has been doing. they want to see him supported by the legislature in hong kong. they don't want to see him handed over. not that there is a request for his -- for extradition to be sent back to the united states. but they really believe that he did the right thing. and they want him left alone and protected. there was even concern expressed that if he is picked up by the hong kong authorities, eventually, if there's an arrest warrant, then almost by default, they suspect that whatever material he has on his computers could end up in the hands of authorities in beijing, ultimately, as well >> so, what's the status of this search? because i said at the top that he's believed to be in a safe house. where are we in this search with snowden? >> you know, we really don't know. he kind of broke his cover.
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i'm thinking about it. i mean, his most valuable asset for somebody not technically on the run, he's still a free man, no arrest warrant. his most valuable asset has got to be his location. well, he kind of gave that up by showing he was in hong kong. that was late sunday. 12 hours later, he checked out of his hotel, early monday morning here. and we don't know precisely where he is right now. but i talked to a former assistant police commissioner here. and he said, look, he's pretty sure that there will be people tracking him right now, victor. >> all right, nic robertson for us in hong kong. thank you. let's go to colorado where what's believed to be the worst wildfire in the state's history has destroyed -- destroyed 473 homes, damaged a few others. but there was hard rain friday that helped firefighters north of colorado springs get a little control over the black forest fire. it's now 30% contained. to the south there's another
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fire, the royal gorge fire, 65% contained. but there's a new fire blamed sparked by lightning in the western pat of the state. across colorado, 800 firefighters and support members are battlinged flames let's go back to paul vercammen in colorado springs. where are they optimistic or like they had at the beginning of the week? >> no, they're extremely optimistic. to the peak, 70 degrees at this time of night, unbearable temperatures, extremely high winds. the turn in the wernl is helping them out. and, of course, the unpredicted thundershowers came that dropped rain on the area and they are feeling very good about things this morning, victor. >> paul, tens of thousands of
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people displaced because of this storm. hour they coping? >> well, they're coping and get big with a little help from their friends and some cases county fair grounds. as you know from going through these neighborhoods, a lot of people have ranchettes and a lot of animals we lost in this weather. let's go ahead and listen to a woman who had a story to tell. i ran into her at the fair grounds here in colorado and she has found a place for her animals. >> he is wonderful. i take him on foxhunts. >> the black forest fire chased nancy bee and her animals to a safe house. >> it just burst into flames. and then i could see the flames so that was it. really, i'm leaving. we're gone. >> bee and her husband fled their five-acre property.
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he went to town to help his ailing mother. bee took her animals and slept here on the front seat of her truck. what is it like not knowing whether or not you have a house to go back to? >> it's ridiculously insane. i don't know. right now, i'm just trying to take care of all the animals, the 11 dogs and the 6 -- 8 horses. that's what i'm concentrating on right now. >> bee is a dog person, a horse person and a people person. ♪ once when jesus loved >> reporter: howard, her new neighborhood at the fair grounds plays gospel music, ends of hope for dozens of people and about two dozen animals. and there are a lot of people not sure if they have a house to go back to.
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>> pulvaul vercammen, thank you. >> is the weather going to bring relief. let's bring in meteorologist jennifer delgado. she's in the cnn center. what's it look like for today? >> hi. for today, we don't have any red flag warnings in colorado springs but still a lot of dry air. right now, things are pretty nice as we go through the afternoon, we're going to see that air working through and humidity values are going to be dropping. high temperatures are going to be generally in the lower 80s. now, notice, we are going to see a chance of showers and thunderstorms throughout. the problem is, if we do get some of these storms out there, we're not expecting significant rainfall. but the other problem is when you get lightning bolts out there, those could trigger again potentially more fires across parts of colorado. right now, as we talk about some of the rain, well, it's coming down right through the midwest including chicago. as we go through the afternoon, once again, a severe weather threat. slight risk. some of these storms will be producing damaging winds as well as hail. that includes chicago all the
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way down towards denver. so certainly there are going to be storms out there you need to pay attention to. on a wide er view, the northeas is looking good. and out west, shine. guys back to you. >> jennifer delgado, thanks. a second blast in two days has left another person dead at a chemical plant in louisiana. last night, a 55-year-old man was killed and eight others injured in a plant 40 miles northwest baton rouge. the plant manager insists there was no explosion and no fire. he said a nitrogen vessel ruptured. this comes just after days after an explosion at a plant 2 people were killed and 100 injured. >> more on this hour. >> here's what's coming up -- fallout from the boy scouts' decision to allow openly gay members. while one pastor kicked out a
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your plug all your components into this little thing. again, it's the size of a deck of cards. you plug in your monitor, your mouse, your keyboard. then you got a tiny computer. sounds good, right? raspberry pi expected to sell 10,000 units, so far it's sold more than a million. >> you sit here at a cubicle here at cnn? >> i used to. >> well, i sit at a cubicle. >> don't go to that. >> i've got a love-hate relationship with my cubicle. if you do, you can relate to this. the more light you get at work turns out the more sleep you get at home. researchers found this out, people who worked at an office with windows slept an average of 46 minutes longer than their counterparts. i actually sit at this really dark cubicle at the new york stock exchange. there's no light. but i sleep really well because i'm exhausted. >> i've got this terrible
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10-year-old sarah murnaghan is on a long road to recovery after getting a new set of lungs this week from an adult donor. sarah's case sparked a national debate over transplant rules. on the facebook page, sarah's mom posted a message about a new policy change. said she wanted to clear up, quote, misconceptions" about sarah's case. >> reporter: after a lifetime of cystic fibrosis, 18 months on a waiting list for a child's donor lungs, 10-year-old sarah murnaghan's chances for survival slim. >> we knew at some point she would need new lungs. we hoped it would be much further down the road but over the years, her disease has progresseded. >> reporter: friday, her parents
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spread a rule about limiting access to adult donor lungs. >> i'm scared. >> reporter: on may 26th, "saving sarah" first airs on cnn sunday morning. shedding light on optn, and a little known policy, children under 12 must wait until all adult recipients pass on donor lungs to be even considered. by monday, may 27th, sarah's story hits the home page of other news outlets. and pressure from pennsylvania's forces health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius to step in. on may 31st, she asks open to review the poses. but the secretary is confronted on capitol hill. >> madam secretary, i would urge you this week to allow that lung transplant move forward. it simply takes your signature.
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>> reporter: on june 5th, the murnaghans file a lawsuit saying the policy discriminates against children. hours later, a judge grants a temporary order that sarah be considered for lungs alongside adults. soon after this video is taken, sarah's condition worsens. on june 8th, a tube is inserted through her mouth to help her breathe. >> i'm not going to tell her she's dying. >> reporter: an emergency meeting takes place and the board grants a one-year change, allows all children to be placed on the same waiting list as adults. the family then gets a call they've been waiting for. wednesday, one week after being placed on the same list as adults, sarah undergoes a lengthy surgery for a new set of adult donor lungs. >> that donor is her hero. our hero of this story. but she wouldn't have had access to that hero if it weren't for the change. >> reporter: sarah's mother said at the start that she was going
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bottom of the hour. welcome back. i'm alison kosik. thanks for being with us this morning. here are some stories making headlines this hour. i want to show you this remarkable new video cnn obtained of the castro brothers in ohio. you're looking at the first moment the brothers were in custody, about six hours after three missing girls escaped from ariel's home. the current suspect, ariel, he's there in the center. he appears passive throughout the tape but look at his brothers, onil and pedro. they're upset. you can see one scene, onil had a physical outburst there. physically running into a glass wa

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