coming up on r t a path of destruction remains after a massive tornado touches down in oklahoma from schools to hospitals and hundreds of homes little of that town actually escaped the raffle of storm we'll have an update on the recovery from the hard hit areas. and the associated press c.e.o. calls the department of justice phone records subpoena unconstitutional he wants the obama administration to rein in the attorney general we'll have more on the concerns over the government threatening the stability of free press. and he found a security gap in eighteen t.'s web site and as actually rewarded with forty one month sentence in jail now he's in solitary confinement for tweeting about his conditions from that jail we'll speak to and your honor in highers lawyer later in the show.

it's tuesday may twenty first four pm in washington d.c. i'm going lopez and you are watching our t.v. well we begin this hour with the latest developments coming out of oklahoma that massive tornado that touched down yesterday afternoon was estimated to be at least two miles wide and was at least an e.f. four with winds ranging from one hundred sixty six to two hundred miles per hour now that's according to the national weather service the hardest hit area was the city of moore it's located in southwest just southwest of oklahoma city right in the heart of tornado alley. hundreds of homes and two elementary schools fellows tornado's path of destruction search and rescue crews worked through the night and into today they're going block

by block building by building searching for signs of life the number of dead is increasing by the hour. right now local authorities have confirmed that twenty four people are dead including nine children around two hundred thirty seven people were actually injured now president obama declared a federal disaster zone in five oklahoma counties this is the most destructive tornado to hit that region since one thousand nine hundred nine that one left thirty six people dead in oklahoma city and cost over one billion dollars in damages for a look at the path of financial destruction monday's tornado left our to correspondent margaret how will reports well here it are to see we're tracking the situation in moore oklahoma as it continues to develop let's examine what we know so far two miles that's how wide the base of the storm that ripped through moore oklahoma on monday measured in depth now to put that into perspective that's equivalent roughly to the size of twenty nine standard size football fields now that we know the size

of the storm what about its strength will that leads me to our next number for e.f. four to be exact according to the it han't fujita scale a system that rates tornadoes based on the damage they cause this storm was fast enough to rip through moore picking up cars like toy trucks most tornadoes are approximately thirty five miles an hour but according to experts this storm hit more likely to speed between one hundred sixty six and two hundred miles an hour now a forest stay near the ground for an extended period of time and this tornado touched down at two thirty six pm in newcastle oklahoma and crawled twenty miles toward the town of moore taking over forty minutes ripping up entire neighborhoods and elementary schools. lastly this brings me to this number sixteen sixteen minutes that's how long the residents of moore heard the sounds of a warning siren designed to help them get away with sixteen minutes enough time to

prepare and react to a storm of this size and what else could have been done to adequately prepare more for this violent storm well it's estimated that fewer than ten percent of the homes and more have underground storm shelters for those who heard the warning the options for adequate shelter just may have been limited well did these people have a fighting chance to escape this tragedy that remains to be seen in washington margaret howell r.t. meanwhile make lawmakers on capitol hill pas for a moment of silence today to honor the victims that died in oklahoma's massive tornado but right after that momentary pause it was politics as usual with an austerity climate settling over the beltway during the last four years money is tight in d.c. now as president obama mentioned in his address earlier today when disasters like this happen those affected will undoubtedly need a lot of help from the federal government in order to get back on their feet but as

we've seen with previous disasters be it hurricane sandy or the tornadoes in joplin two years ago some lawmakers want strings attached to those disaster relief deals that the federal government actually hands out political commentator sam sacks explains the city looks like it was wiped out by an atomic bomb the hospital it looks like the sort of a hollywood disaster movie the coming days weeks months years with the people of moore oklahoma will need most is money federal disaster relief fund here's president obama making the case. as a nation our full focus right now is on the urgent work of rescue and the hard work of recovery and rebuilding that lies ahead yesterday i spoke with governor fallin to make it clear to oklahomans that they would have all the resources that they need at their disposal oklahoma needs to get everything that it needs right away now on monday the president declared

a federal disaster for oklahoma giving those affected by the tornadoes a financial lifeline from the federal emergency management agency f.e.m.a. now thema which has been funneling money into the northeast to help rebuild after hurricane sandy has thirteen billion dollars left in its disaster funds to last the rest of fiscal year two thousand and thirteen but any additional federal funding that citizens of more may need will have to go through congress which has recently taken a new approach to disaster relief now historically federal disaster relief has never been offset by spending cuts elsewhere for example after hurricane katrina congress came together and passed over one hundred billion dollars in federal aid for new orleans and surrounding areas none of it was offset by spending cuts but already oklahoma senator tom coburn is saying that any disaster relief for his home state after these tornadoes should be offset by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget and we're talking about spending cuts we're talking about long political battles which

don't drive well during disasters when people need help right away house majority leader eric cantor played the same game when disaster funds were needed after tornadoes leveled joplin missouri. because families don't have unlimited money and really neither does the federal government but there's no question there's a federal role here to play congress will find the money it will be offset those offset efforts ultimately failed over public think congress tried it again after hurricane sandy in fact both oklahoma senators tom coburn and james inhofe worked hard to slash federal aid funds for hurricane sandy victims down to just twenty three billion dollars about thirty percent of what was requested by affected states but again those efforts failed when republicans in congress were butte by one of their own new jersey governor chris christie. for the victims to say have you jersey new york connecticut it's been sixty six days and the wait continues.

there's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims the house majority and their speaker john boehner so here we are good another disaster another debate brewing over to disaster relief with republican lawmakers including lawmakers from oklahoma suggesting that the whole disaster relief hostage until they get some austerity elsewhere and all indications are with a plan that rapidly warming that massive deadly tornadoes were not only happen again but happened with greater frequency so if centers suddenly want to rewrite the rules about federal disaster relief and they sure picked the most dangerous time to do it in washington sam sacks are to only aftermath of the boston bombings it was only a matter of days before the f.b.i. released a number of clear images of the two suspects for the public to help identify it was a combination of private and public surveillance cameras that made all of this possible and now police departments around the country are considering boosting

their surveillance systems significantly all in an effort to make the american public safer but do more cameras mean more protection artie's breaking the separatists or america david has a story. this is boylston street home to such landmarks as the boston common and copley square. but now it's home to one more fixture a memorial commemorating the three people who died and two hundred sixty four injured in two bombings that struck the city just one month ago. and as the mourning process continues for the city of boston many are now reflecting and expressing concerns for safety and security going forward do you think we need more security and surveillance going forward in the wake of the boston bombing yeah obviously i mean i mean that's the security cameras we had. i mean they did a good job by the people who did it you know and i mean still more can only help more definitely well you can't have too many security cameras but they were caught

on camera obviously what we're living in now you're looking at this you know we need security so more cameras more everything it's a call for more surveillance cameras much like the one placed here at morgan taylor which authorities say was instrumental in identifying the boston bombing suspects but it's not just this city it's a sentiment that's quickly gaining traction across the country according to a recent c.b.s. news new york times poll seventy eight percent of americans support the increased use of surveillance cameras and now police departments in multiple cities are looking to do just that philadelphia chicago and l.a. have all made a recent push to install more cameras and regularly tap into the security footage of private businesses however boston is planning to take it one step further. fishel say they will look to the n.y.p.d. for ideas police department that has a thousand officers dedicated to counterterrorism efforts alone and they say

they'll look to emulate new york's expansive surveillance network often referred to as the ring of steel boasting more than four thousand security cameras but that's not all boston police commissioner ed davis says they'll consider using surveillance drones over next year's marathon it's a buildup that mimics what was seen in the aftermath of september eleventh in fact i.m.s. research an electronic data aggregator as to means that thirty million surveillance cameras were sold in the u.s. in the decade after nine eleven but now with the prospect for increased security more and more civil liberty advocates are growing concerned the question that in the i think we should be asking. is how having more surveillance. is really going to prevent a crime from happening if someone wants to do something wrong they always find a way to do it she says more cameras won't give us more protection but that it will

mean less privacy are we really ok with the fog that we are spied on all the time constantly or perhaps as a society we should take us they beg and to end this if this is what civilization really means how will this country reconcile more security with the protection of civil liberties it's a question on the minds of many here in boston and far beyond a mere david r t. now as i mentioned earlier president obama came out today to support those people that are in oklahoma dealing with the aftermath of that tornado now all of this during while in the wake of all of this president obama has taken the opportunity to actually turn the public's attention away from d.c. scandal and toward recovery efforts and it's actually helped him whether his own political storm that has hit his administration in recent weeks but associated

press president gary pruitt is now demanding for the president to rein in the department of justice and what he described as not only unconstitutional but damaging to the idea of free press i don't know what their motive is but i can tell you their actions are unconstitutional we don't question their right to conduct these sort of investigations we just think they went about it the wrong way so sweeping so secretively so abusively and harassing and overbroad. now pro went on to say that the a.p. is already experiencing a chilling effect what potential sources and regular interviewees who are now hesitant to speak with the news agency but not everyone agrees that journalists have the right to hide under the auspices of press freedom to discuss this in more depth i'm joined now by walter pincus he's a national security reporter for the washington post hi there thank you so much for joining us so what's your take on this department of justice our recent actions against journalists well i think they're doing work to some degree they're supposed

to do when the leak important information and that is try to find out people who in effect broke the law by giving out what sensually is highly classified information in this case in the midst of. an operation going on in yemen. if it was still going on now word is national security fraud enough to justify the d.o.j. obtaining phone records or in the case of fox news white house correspondent james rosen tracking his whereabouts in your opinion well there are two things to say. in the first case in the a.p. case you have in this to gauge for or more than eight months and under department guidelines you have to pretty well exhaust all other avenues. to

turn to reporters and try to find out who their sources. are going through phone records of the supreme court. is. just to partners a person right and it's not invading privacy but supreme in phone records from phone companies. under our law. there is. one company six third party it is not invading privacy of the individual and in this case they were just getting phone numbers that were giving the content of the phone calls so that. journalists in some ways are like every other citizen. and if. they know about a crime or a. girl witness to a crime which in the case circle leak could place fighting permission to some

degree they are like other citizens to go to one complete word and testify or in the case of journalists if they want to protect their sources and they just don't answer the question. now here is greg leslie he's a legal defense a director for reporters committee are for freedom of the press and he actually says that the o'jays actions against rosen or worse off than those that were actually taken against a.p. take a listen to this i think it's more troubling simply for that fact that they used the search warrant to get very personal information they didn't just want to see who he was calling but they wanted to read all the e-mail and to do that more easily they decided to treat him like and a coconspirator someone who was engaged in a conspiracy to violate the espionage statute and that's our ages they they took it an extra step i guess beyond what we were outraged about last week so i have to ask

you what do you think of this james rosen case well i think it is. said it was a next step but it was taken in my understanding by going to a judge and explaining why they want to do it in fact of the matter is. of i don't know the exact facts. you have to understand they're trying to make a case against a person who essentially by later the war in which the reporter as i said before is a witness. and. as happens to every other citizen. this done to rosen would be done in a gordon course of events. with another citizen and i think without again

knowing the facts of the case they probably exhausted all their other sources. in order to do this now mr pinkas the hero are a seasoned journalist cell looking out the affidavit of james rosen some actions here we would characterize as investigative journalism like talking to sources and talking taking out trying to cajole them into actually talking are being viewed as criminal can investigative journalism be a criminal and in this case or in your opinion in general worth the line drawn here well first place let me tell you i have a lot of them. so i've looked into this a fair amount of time and i think. what appears and again it's only from what i've read that she. didn't do anything seriously to protect a source. you curtly time. exchanged

e-mails he apparently. they both left the state department building roughly the same time came back roughly the same time through the same intruder a very you know you're giving up your right or privacy the idea that nobody should know where you go what you're doing when you're going in and out of government buildings. and then you wrote a story two hours later but at the same time let's go back to to this a.p. records case a lot of reporters and those in a.p. and beyond are saying that because the d.o.j. is going after journalists it is having a chilling effect on the way that they conduct their investigations on the people who talk to them as a journalist do you think that that isn't a valid argument no why not they've been talking about chilling effect of the

government and just hearing what we do since water and i've been doing this for forty years. i think the thing you have to worry about is all the talk about actually we went to the bush administration. which i recited for contempt. also caught up with subpoenas in the valerie plame. it didn't chill who ever gave this highly sensitive information. to the a.p. correspondent listener months ago so. the press has been yelling chilling effects you know for dozens of decades. and people want to leak information. walter pincus national security reporter for the

washington post thank you so much for your time sir you're welcome. on now to the case of the self-proclaimed hacker and troll andrew arnheim are known as the digit to the digital world as we've he is the twenty seven year old who was sentenced to forty one months in federal prison for discovering a security flaw on eighty's website and then releasing the personal data of some one hundred fourteen i pad users to gawker but even prison bars haven't been able to keep this computer whiz off of the internet that is until now during his first weeks in prison and you have found a way to tweet about his condition through a friend who's also posting reportings to his sound cloud account talking about his experience from behind bars but when prison officials discovered what he was doing they put andrew in administrative segregation making it difficult for even his lawyer to get in contact with him and you are homers lawyer is tor our land and he

joins me now to talk about andrew's position in-depth hi there thank you so much for joining me now you just visited andrew over the weekend in prison what is his condition at the moment well seems like he's a fairly decent spirits for what they've done to him essentially right now they're holding him roughly ten by turns with one other cellmate he's allowed out three times a week for fifteen minutes to take a shower and then he's back in there he's been cut off from all phone calls he's got extremely limited snail mail contact. so i mean he's. almost in solitary confinement but but not not quite is there any indication if his tweets if his ways of reaching out to the internet using his first amendment rights were the reasons that he was put behind bars. i think that's absolutely the reason when i talked to him you know i asked and you know just

getting me fired did you cause any problems and he said no basically what he got told is that when he first got into prison they sort of put him in a holding prison in brooklyn and there's this federal prison e-mail system called truly and he was using that to send out tweets and then they cut that off all of a sudden and then he to hold so set up a way where he could call out using his phone privileges and leave recorded messages on the internet on sound cloud and they specifically told him that he was being disciplined and put under investigation for is tweeting and his sound recordings and that somehow that that was a threat to the general prison population now for those of us who don't have any experience really and a jail prison system what are the first amendment rights that we know of that prisoners actually have we do know for instance that they and many say if they are

not allowed to vote what about first amendment rights what you generally keep your first amendment rights in prison i mean there's a lot of prisoners that publish from prison. there's prisoners like publishing nazi propaganda anti-abortion publications out of out of prison the only way that they can legitimately curtail your first minute rights in prison if it's related to what's called a legitimate pain a logical interest a the safety of the general population or they can stop you if you're trying to you know commit some sort of crime in the outsider or call out hits but none of that is happening here i think basically what they're they're doing is they're they're they're throwing them an admin segregation because they don't like his speech now a lot of this case including weaves the sentence seem to be affected by your client's perceived attitude problem for instance he was tweeting from the courtroom he. well the judge profanities on the internet he expressed no remorse for what he had done and that was actually the night before he was sentence he actually said to

his fans on reddit that the next time he was not going to be quote nearly as nice when he does something now the minimum punishment for his offense is thirty three months he actually got forty one months is that justifiable given the things that i have just mentioned. i think actually the judge had a wide range of sentencing and i don't think it's medicine's was it was thirty three months i think you're looking at the the sentencing report but i don't find it justified i think really what's happening is he's being punished for being who he is which is an unpopular defend it with you know unpopular views which i don't necessarily agree with i don't endorse his views but you know i represent him as to the law not what he's saying and frankly quite often i just ignore what he's written but you know you've got a lot of people who've committed like government corruption or have lied to the f.b.i. about murders or whatnot who are doing a lot less time and we need to remember that this is essentially

a victimless crime i mean i wanted to ask you about we don't have too much time left but a lot of people are arguing that we've never committed a crime in the first place though he was charged under the computer fraud and abuse act for essentially not following the terms and conditions of eight santis website but the play devil's advocate here he did leak all that information to gawker and in this environment where all kinds of leakers are being charged do you think that this added to tork leakers is the reason that he actually was charged. i think they charged him because they just found him reprehensible in their worldview they considered him somehow as threat to the republic i don't even think that what he did was illegal i think the last tour believe written in a horribly vague and i'm not alone in that you are echlin attorney for andrew arnheim or he's the internet troll alleged self professed troll thank you so much for joining us pleasure. here's a story that you aren't soon to forget

a florida man headed to a strip club last week but instead of having dollar bills and this man waved a police badge to get in the best part is that the badge was the fake the beaver county sheriff says department says that twenty four year old aaron philip walker attempted to enter a bare ass at strip club near orlando with a badge that he had actually bought off the internet walker claimed to be an undercover federal agent and wanted to question and arrest a woman named quote mason so the bouncers allowed walker and his friend in for free the man was later arrested for impersonating a police officer sumant lee he had was party to another type of structure so that being his own right before he was put behind bars and that's now do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t.m. america for the latest and greatest information on all the stories that we cover today and a few that we just did not have time to get to check out our website our to dot com slash usa follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez and stay tune prime

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