bay area. good friday evening. i'm janelle wang. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. the nsa won a skirmish today. a bid was lost to prevent the government from destroying e-mails gathered from millions of americans. mark matthews is live with why the nsa is claiming victory tonight. >> reporter: at least for the short term. this case dates back eight years, back to a time when a technician at an at&t building in san francisco reported what he said was massive government spying on americans' internet and e-mail communications. mark sclien said it was happening inside this at&t building. he said it was happening in room 641 a, reporting that the phone company had installed a splitter on their internet cables routing everything into a nsa bank of