in the santa cruz mountains, john alston, abc7 news. >> viewers are sending us their pictures of thetorm. this is glen m. he's trying to keep the drains clear on hidden valley road in guerveville. you know crews trying to clear debris on roadways covered with water. all of the water created problems for crews in hillsboro last night after a water main broke. the break tremendously closed the road just after 7:00 and it reopened late last night. pg&e has been struggling with power outages. mere are the latest numbers. 350 customers on the peninsula are currently without power. in the north bay more than 2200 customers are in the dark, as as well as 567 customers in the east bay. the south bay is not report any outages. in the sierra it's snow slowing down travel along some of the roadways there. this is a live caltrans come raw at truck tee on interstate 80. drivers are required to carry chains on interstate 80. chains are also required on highway 50 from twin bridges to meyers in eldorado county. the snow is great news for tahoe area ski resorts. this is video sent to us yesterday by

abc7 news reporter john alston is there live and great to see such a big turnout. >> they hugged and comforted each other after the memorial ended a few hours ago. friends want to remember him for the life he lead off the field. they replayed his life in pictures and song on the wall of memorial stadium. a life that hugely impacted his teammates. >> we are going to take over the world. it was his embrace of life. >> his death has left a massive void. >> the only thing that is keeping my heart in place is the fact that he knew i knew him and that i loved him. he knew every day because i told him. >> he was a defensive lineman for cal, a 21-year-old junior from bakersfield who wanted to practice medicine after graduation. on friday he collapsed and died after a routine training run near the stadium. tonight hundreds of friends, fraternity brothers and the team members gathered to honor the example he set. >> the best way to celebrate ted is by doing exactly what he did by doing our best every single day, by being a gentle soul. >> he pushed all of us to be a better person outside of fo

john alston is live with the developing details. report. reporter: still an active investigation along highway 101 in out in view, and behind me the car that was the subject of the chase, the toyota with the front grille smashed. i. this whole thing started at about 3:30 this afternoon. police say the suspect in this car first backed into an sfpd car in san francisco. the police carlos its front grille and the air bags did deploy but the officers were not hurt. police had been following that toyota in the bay view because it matched the description of a vehicle involved in a shooting yesterday at golden gate avenue and fill more in san francisco. now, after that impact, the toyota with the three suspects inside, then took off. the chase went southbound on highway 101, with san francisco police in pursuit. they lost the car at oyster point. the chp picked up the chase through san mateo county. the chp called it off because of weather and pooling in the road. the suspect car also collided with another car on 101. no one was hurt. but the thre

john alston is live with the developing details. report. reporter: still an active investigation along highway 101 in out in view, and behind me the car that was the subject of the chase, the toyota with the front grille smashed. i. this whole thing started at about 3:30 this afternoon. police say the suspect in this car first backed into an sfpd car in san francisco. the police carlos its front grille and the air bags did deploy but the officers were not hurt. police had been following that toyota in the bay view because it matched the description of a vehicle involved in a shooting yesterday at golden gate avenue and fill more in san francisco. now, after that impact, the toyota with the three suspects inside, then took off. the chase went southbound on highway 101, with san francisco police in pursuit. they lost the car at oyster point. the chp picked up the chase through san mateo county. the chp called it off because of weather and pooling in the road. the suspect car also collided with another car on 101. no one was hurt. but the thre

abc7 news reporter john alston is there live and great to see such a big turnout. >> they hugged and comforted each other after the memorial ended a few hours ago. friends want to remember him for the life he lead off the field. they replayed his life in pictures and song on the wall of memorial stadium. a life that hugely impacted his teammates. >> we are going to take over the world. it was his embrace of life. >> his death has left a massive void. >> the only thing that is keeping my heart in place is the fact that he knew i knew him and that i loved him. he knew every day because i told him. >> he was a defensive lineman for cal, a 21-year-old junior from bakersfield who wanted to practice medicine after graduation. on friday he collapsed and died after a routine training run near the stadium. tonight hundreds of friends, fraternity brothers and the team members gathered to honor the example he set. >> the best way to celebrate ted is by doing exactly what he did by doing our best every single day, by being a gentle soul. >> he pushed all of us to be a better person outside of fo

in the santa cruz mountains, john alston, abc7 news. >> in the sierra it's snow that's slowing down travelof the roadways up there. we have a live caltrans camera at the truckee scales on interstate 80. drivers are required to carry chains on i-80. chains are also required on highway 50 from twin bridges to meyers in eldorado county. the snow is great news for tahoe valley ski resorts. this is video sent to us yesterday by northstar. elevations over 8,000 feet got close to 3 feet of snow yesterday. lower elevations got around six to ten inches. there is a lot of water this weekend. viewers are sending us their rain photos. take a look at this flooding. water filling up this field near a barn. and in sonoma a viewer sent us this photo of fowler creek on the rise. send us your weather photos at ureport@kgo tv.com. you can track the rain in the bay area using live doppler 7hd on our abc7 news weather app. it makes it easy to share photos how you are welcoming all this rain. download information is available add abc7news.com/apps. still ahead on the abc7 sunday morning news, a movement to rais

john alston has more on the storm's impact. reporter: the rain has picked up over the past few minutes and the flood waters have started to rise gradually over here. you can see water now covering this manhole cover in the street. you may see water gurgling up. you see water up to the sandbags in front of the 2:00 a.m. club here. trouble started brewing at 11:00 last night with a high tide. the 2:00 a.m. club is already in low-lying area on miller avenue. he water did recede overnight, and then another high tide came rolling in at around 7:30 this morning, and that is when the water backup was fully on, like a bad horror movie where they say, get out. the water is coming from inside the building. >> getting a reverse high drawlic effect. creek was pushing water through the storm drains, into the building, and then also all of our floor drains, toilets, and other drains were taking water on. so we were actually filling up from the inside-out, versus taking water on from the outside-in. reporter: the last night the 2:00 a.m. club

john alston has more on the storm's impact. reporter: the rain has picked up over the past few minutes and the flood waters have started to rise gradually over here. you can see water now covering this manhole cover in the street. you may see water gurgling up. you see water up to the sandbags in front of the 2:00 a.m. club here. trouble started brewing at 11:00 last night with a high tide. the 2:00 a.m. club is already in low-lying area on miller avenue. he water did recede overnight, and then another high tide came rolling in at around 7:30 this morning, and that is when the water backup was fully on, like a bad horror movie where they say, get out. the water is coming from inside the building. >> getting a reverse high drawlic effect. creek was pushing water through the storm drains, into the building, and then also all of our floor drains, toilets, and other drains were taking water on. so we were actually filling up from the inside-out, versus taking water on from the outside-in. reporter: the last night the 2:00 a.m. club

john alston has their story. >> ♪ i got the eye of the tiger ♪ >> the initial crisis was traumatic enoughst month 4-year-old jeke -- zeke was diagnosed with a rare cancer that attacked the muscle. he started chemotherapy which rocked their whole family. his father was an engineer retrieving data from hard drives at this novato company. >> he came back to work for a couple days when zeke was going to come back. he had a smile on his face and you can see the pride and see that things would be okay. >> reporter: then on sunday morning, days after zeke returned from chemo, ron died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack. he was just 43. >> his role was to keep everything calm and stable. >> the entire west marin community is stunned. >> he seemed to be fine. he seemed to be handling it fine. it was devastating and terrifying. >> this restaurant held a fundraising effort and where ron worked they are signing a condolence book. >> i will miss you, ron. >> a memorial service is set for this saturday. >> a fund has been set up to benefit the family. if you would like to help, we have a link p

john alston is live in contra costa county for us. >> reporter: this is one of the several storage reservoirs. even though customers have cut use by 17% you the utility says with the drought it is not enough. >> many gardens and lawns are going unwatered. it is bringing back bad memories of the 1977 drought when robert stevenson lost several trees. now the east bay mud is asking customers to voluntarily cut back water used by another 10%. >> we are hoping that 10% would mean we cut back as opposed to cutting it off. >> they are already conserving and they may not plan a vegetable garden for the first time in 30 years. >> i will tell you that most of the people that i know are volunteering right now. >> they want another 10% on top of that. >> i know. i know. i just think it is reminding people that it is voluntary. >> the weekend storm brought several inches of rain to the lafayette hills, but it needs to hit the sweet spot and that is the reservoir in the foothills where east bay mud gets almost all of its water. that area only has half of the normal rainfall for the season. but some feel it

abc7 news reporter john alston is there live and great to see such a big turnout. >> they hugged and comforted each other after the memorial ended a few hours ago. friends want to remember him for the life he lead off the field. they replayed his life in pictures and song on the wall of memorial stadium. a life that hugely impacted his teammates. >> we are going to take over the world. it was his embrace of life. >> his death has left a massive void. >> the only thing that is keeping my heart in place is the fact that he knew i knew him and that i loved him. he knew every day because i told him. >> he was a defensive lineman for cal, a 21-year-old junior from who wanted bakersfield whoo practice medicine after graduation. on friday he collapsed and died after a routine training run near the stadium. tonight hundreds of friends, fraternity brothers the and the athered to honor the example he set. >> the best way to celebrate ted is by doing exactly what he did by doing our best every single day, by being a gentle soul. >> he pushed all of us to be a better person outside of football.

john alston is live in contra costa county for us. >> reporter: this is one of the several storage reservoirs. even though customers have cut use by 17% you the utility says with the drought it is not enough. >> many gardens and lawns are going unwatered. it is bringing back bad memories of the 1977 drought when robert stevenson lost several trees. now the east bay mud is asking customers to voluntarily cut back water used by another 10%. >> we are hoping that 10% would mean we cut back as opposed to cutting it off. >> they are already conserving and they may not plan a vegetable garden for the first time in 30 years. >> i will tell you that most of the people that i know are volunteering right now. >> they want another 10% on top of that. >> i know. i know. i just think it is reminding people that it is voluntary. >> the weekend storm brought several inches of rain to the lafayette hills, but it needs to hit the sweet spot and that is the reservoir in the foothills where east bay mud gets almost all of its water. that area only has half of the normal rainfall for the season. but some feel it

john alston has their story. >> ♪ i got the eye of the tiger ♪ >> the initial crisis was traumatic enoughst month 4-year-old jeke -- zeke was diagnosed with a rare cancer that attacked the muscle. he started chemotherapy which rocked their whole family. his father was an engineer retrieving data from hard drives at this novato company. >> he came back to work for a couple days when zeke was going to come back. he had a smile on his face and you can see the pride and see that things would be okay. >> reporter: then on sunday morning, days after zeke returned from chemo, ron died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack. he was just 43. >> his role was to keep everything calm and stable. >> the entire west marin community is stunned. >> he seemed to be fine. he seemed to be handling it fine. it was devastating and terrifying. >> this restaurant held a fundraising effort and where ron worked they are signing a condolence book. >> i will miss you, ron. >> a memorial service is set for this saturday. >> a fund has been set up to benefit the family. if you would like to help, we have a link p

abc7 news reporter john alston is live where a person was killed. people who live there want a new stoplight. >> the speed is 35 miles an hour and the cars fly by much faster. to cross they have to press this button and this yellow light starts to flash and the traffic is supposed to stop. some neighbors say that system is no longer good enough. this is what it can be like trying to cross sunset boulevard near the fatal accident site. a woman trying to leave flowers also had a hard time getting to the other side. like other neighbors she wants a stoplight here. >> please, please, please tell people who live here, who live here. >> just before 11 sock a.m. a man -- 11:00 a.m. a man was hit near yorba street. the victim went through the windshield. three women in the toyota were not seriously hurt. the crosswalk has yellow lights that flash when pedestrians push a button. police don't know if the victim was in the crosswalk or activated the lights. denness hughes who -- dennis hughes does not even bother with the crosswalk. >> it has always been dange

abc7 news reporter john alston is live where a person was killed. people who live there want a new stoplight. >> the speed is 35 miles an hour and the cars fly by much faster. to cross they have to press this button and this yellow light starts to flash and the traffic is supposed to stop. some neighbors say that system is no longer good enough. this is what it can be like trying to cross sunset boulevard near the fatal accident site. a woman trying to leave flowers also had a hard time getting to the other side. like other neighbors she wants a stoplight here. >> please, please, please tell people who live here, who live here. >> just before 11 sock a.m. a man -- 11:00 a.m. a man was hit near yorba street. the victim went through the windshield. three women in the toyota were not seriously hurt. the crosswalk has yellow lights that flash when pedestrians push a button. police don't know if the victim was in the crosswalk or activated the lights. denness hughes who -- dennis hughes does not even bother with the crosswalk. >> it has always been dange

john alston is live in contra costa county for us. >> reporter: this is one of the several storage reservoirs. even though customers have cut use by 17% you the utility says with the drought it is not enough. >> many gardens and lawns are going unwatered. it is bringing back bad memories of the 1977 drought when robert stevenson lost several trees. now the east bay mud is asking customers to voluntarily cut back water used by another 10%. >> we are hoping that 10% would mean we cut back as opposed to cutting it off. >> they are already conserving and they may not plan a vegetable garden for the first time in 30 years. >> i will tell you that most of the people that i know are volunteering right now. >> they want another 10% on top of that. >> i know. i know. i just think it is reminding people that it is voluntary. rain toches of rain to thet la but hills, but it needs to hit the sweet spot and that is the reservoir in the foothills where east bay mud gets almost all of its water. that area only has half of the normal rainfall for the season. but some feel it is not time for another 10% cut b

abc7 news reporter john alston is live where a person was killed.e who live there want a new stoplight. >> the speed is 35 miles an hour and the cars fly by much faster. to cross they have to press this button and this yellow light starts to flash andtraffie traffic is supposed to stop. some neighbors say that system is no longer good enough. this is what it can be like trying to cross sunset boulevard near the fatal accident site. a woman trying to leave flowers also had a hard time getting to the other side. like other neighbors she wants a stoplight here. >> please, please, please tell people who live here, who live here. >> just before 11 sock a.m. a man -- 11:00 a.m. a man was hit near yorba street. the victim went through the windshield. three women in the toyota were not seriously hurt. the crosswalk has yellow lights that flash when pedestrians push a button. police don't know if the victim was in the crosswalk or activated the lights. denness hughes who -- dennis hughes does not even bother with the crosswalk. >> it has always been dangerou

john alston has their story. >> ♪ i got the eye of the tiger ♪ >> the initial crisis was traumatic enoughst month 4-y jeke -- zeke was diagnosed with a rare cancer that attacked the muscle. he started chemotherapy which rocked their whole family. his father was an engineer retrieving data from hard drives at this novato company. >> he came back to work for a couple days when zeke was going to come back. he had a smile on his face and you can see the pride and see that things would be okay. >> reporter: then on sunday morning, days after zeke returned from chemo, ron died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack. he was just 43. >> his role was to keep everything calm and stable. >> the entire west marin community is stunned. to be fine. he seemed to be handling it fine. it was devastating and terrifying. >> this restaurant held a fundraising effort and where ron worked they are signing a condolence book. >> i will miss you, ron. >> a memorial service is set for this saturday. >> a fund has been set up to benefit the family. if you would like to help, we have a link posted on our website

senator tom daschle all left the senate joined a private equity also joined a law and lobbying firm alston and bird is now another one called. he's become the face of the problem because everyone knows that tom daschle will lobby use that he meets with government officials that he meets with president obama that he coordinates meetings with legislators with policy folks and businesses from health care and energy to other sectors and he does this openly . and at the same time he does not register so given his prominence in washington d.c. you know helping president obama with this health care overhaul. associated with many different think tanks that are constantly in the news and. it different functions in the city he does all this while flouting the law you know one of the most damning things about the article is that connection to the plan to have retailers like gap skirt around responsibility for the bangladesh garment factory collapse that killed more than a thousand people the i was wonder if you could elaborate on that connection. sure we go through many different anecdotes but this i

shot by christopher quintero he spurted in that video spurred so much outrage in social media that alston's police chief held a press conference to discuss the arrest where things got even more bizarre. it's kind of interesting for a conference in austin texas lord there's a controversy in austin texas that we actually have. to talk somebody by the arm and tell him all my goodness most police are trying to get your attention or another should use capture actually committing sexual assault on duty. this is what passes for a controversial actions so as you can imagine chief asa vettel took a lot of heat for bringing up police sexual assault cases as a comparison to this case a time when it's pettiness he quickly issued an apology saying in hindsight i believe the comparison was a poor analogy and for the us i apologize so it looks like the police chief also vettel smelters doing all the running this time around anyway well boom bust is up next on our team aaron a joins me now with a quick preview erin what have you got for us thank you meghan coming up on boom bust today we have drug casey of

. -- apany that kerry i company that carries more people, alston ceo. iran, theria, ukraine. they are very in line with the u.s., they are hawkish. is pursuing tech companies for over $.25 billion, he wants to curry favor. >> he is a contradiction in so many ways. a very unpopular politician. to go after tech giants and say you should be paying more taxes, he wants to emulate them and bring some of that silicon valley entrepreneurship back to france. >> i wonder does he really? >> he needs to revitalize the economy. is saying he is pro-business, i want to push that agenda. the two do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. forou hit upon the issue francois hollande, he is trying desperately to reengage in terms of france as a destination. nowhere else in the world was there less money invested last year, according to the oecd. not destination number one for capital investment. he is going across america to tech valley to try and begin to open up the position in terms of what they want. it is about repositioning as a global statesman, business, politics, and tax. 20,zeitgeist word at

and french wheat tells low after it told investors it took a $2 billion hit related to its stake in alston. >> announcer: you're watching "worldwide exchange" bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> and a warm welcome to today's program. we're going to be an extra hour longer, three hours, because of course the u.s. markets are still to come. we're going to kick off in rome where you're seeing jules is located. they're going to ask matte matteo renzi for more time to agree on their agenda. jules, i hope you had a nice week end in the italian capital. how tough are negotiations going for mr. renzi. >> incredibly rough, ross. we are expected him to be given a mandate at 10:30 cet. there were delays in the talks. a angeleno alfano. he's talking about a german style pact here. he wants to set out the forward progress of this coalition and what reforms are going to be enacted. he, of course, broke away from berlusconi last year. since then he very much wants to protect the party support and what he does here, and this just crystallizes one of the issues that matteo renzi is going

. >>> protestors gathered outside a building on alston way in berkeley tonight where 31-year-old moorein police custody. police marched in the street blaming berkeley for her death. officers responded to her apartment after police restrained her. >>> the killing of a 3-year-old girl in napa is sparking residents there to take action. we have more how one woman wants to change the law. >> just thinking about how kay kayleigh makes her so sad. >> she shared an apartment with her mother and mother's boyfriend. kruger and warner were charged with abuse. it's unclear whether child welfare services intervened. we do know napa police came to kayleigh's police since may at least nine times. >> that's too many calls. there needs to be a law in place where police need to take action after the 3rd call. >> a three strikes you're out that would require authorities to intervene if police are called more than three times to investigate allegations of child abuse. >> to have this kind of rigid solution is just not the way to go. >> uc hastings law professor says anyone can call police to report a pro

. >> and a woman driven to take acti >>> protestors gathered outside a building on alston way in berkeleynight where 31-year-old moore died while in police custody. police marched in the street blaming berkeley for her death. officers responded to her apartment after police restrained her. >>> the killing of a 3-year-old girl in napa is sparking residents there to take action. we have more how one woman wants to change the law. >> just thinking about how kay kayleigh makes her so sad. >> she shared an apartment with her mother and mother's boyfriend. kruger and warner were charged with abuse. it's unclear whether child welfare services intervened. we do know napa police came to kayleigh's police since may at least nine times. >> that's too many calls. there needs to be a law in place where police need to take action after the 3rd call. >> a three strikes you're out that would require authorities to intervene if police are called more than three times to investigate allegations of child abuse. >> to have this kind of rigid solution is just not the way to go. >> uc hastings law professor sa

that's where abc7 news reporter john alston is live for us tonight. john? >> behind me is old mill creek that runs through downtown mill valley. a few days ago if you wantedded to cross here you would barely -- if you wanted to cross here it would barely get your shoes wet. if you dared cross here you would be swept away. the rain was welcome, but not the anxiety of living so close to a raging creek. he has an office next to the water. >> i came around 11:30, 12:00. i saw the water raging. >> so he put sandbags in front of all of his doors and raised his computer equipment a few inches off the floor just in case. >> scary when you think of how much computer equipment you can lose. >> tonight the plastic sheets cover the hillside in mill valley to prevent anymore erosion. earlier in the day a mountain of earth came tumbling down toward this mass 7 home, but stopped short of doing any damage. sunday was clean up day on miller avenue. the bar didn't get a chance to live up to its name closing an hour early after water backed up inside the building overnight. t

that's where abc7 news reporter john alston is live for us tonight. john? >> behind me is old mill creek that runs through downtown mill valley. a few days ago if you wantedded to cross here you would barely -- if you wanted to cross here it would barely get your shoes wet. if you dared cross here you would be swept away. the rain was welcome, but not the anxiety of living so close to a raging creek. he has an office next to the water. >> i came around 11:30, 12:00. i saw the w raging. >> so he put sandbags in front of all of his doors and raised his computer equipment a few inches off the floor just in case. >> scary when you think of how much computer equipment you can lose. >> tonight the plastic sheets cover the hillside in mill valley to prevent anymore erosion. earlier in the day a mountain of earth came tumbling down toward this mass 7 home, but stopped short of doing any damage. sunday was clean up day on miller avenue. the bar didn't get a chance to live up to its name closing an hour early after water backed up inside the building overnight. the c

in the santa cruz mountains john alston, abc 7 news. >> viewers are senting us their pictures frt storm. glenn m. trying to keep the drains clear on hidden valley road in guerneville. and you can see crews trying to clear debris off roadways covered with water. >>> new at 11:00 all the water created problems for crew in hillsborough tonight after a water main broke. this six-inch water main is on hillsborough boulevard and temporarily closed the road. it is expected to reopen any minute now. pg&e has been struggling with power outages all day. here are the latest numbers. more than 1,600 customers on the peninsula are currently without power. in the north bay 825 customers in the dark. 33 customers in the south bay are affected and 109 customers in the east bay. >>> and taking a live look at san francisco international airport, where airlines are still recovering from a long day of delays brought in by cloudy skies and strong winds. some arriving flights at sfo saw delays of up to three hours. departures saw an average delay of 45 minutes. dozens of short haul flights were canceled. del

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in the santa cruz mountains, john alston, abc7 news. >> viewers are sending us their pictures of the storm. this is glen trying to keep the drains clear on hidden valley road in guerveville. you know crews trying to clear debris on roadways covered with water. all of the water created problems for crews in mills borrow last night after a water main broke. the six-inch line was last late last night. pg&e has been struggling with power outages. 350 customers on the peninsula are currently without power. in the north bay more than 2200 customers are in the dark, as well as 869 customers in the east bay. the south bay is not report any outages. in the sierra it's snow slowing down travel along some of the roadways there. this is a live always tran camera on interstate 80. drivers are required to carry chains on interstate 80. chains are also required on highway 50 from twin bridges to meyers in eldorado county. the snow is great news for tahoe area ski resorts. this is video sent to us yesterday by northstar. elevations over 8,000 feet got close to three feet of snow yesterday and lower

to my left is aronberg alston and aaron mcafee who are business researchers at the m.i.t. school of management. eric is the director of the m.i.t. center for business and andrew is the principal research scientist. the two men made a name for themselves a couple years ago with their self published book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesce some emerging nervousness about the fact automation is beginning to place jobs at higher and higher levels. i followed this up with a bigger book, "the second machine age" work, progress and prosperity in a time of technology. and it's really i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is in the greater area there's a lot of tension about how the economy is changing everybody's lives and where we are headed from there. the age directly tackles both the promise of technology and some potential challenges it poses. i think both would like to start for questions, giving a brief summary of their views on what is "the second machine age" all about? >> when i heard things affected machine age got started from som

european parliament calling it a step back and already suffocating environment for media freedom alston had observers team privacy or state censorship and a look at tightening senate control has dominated headlines and tacky. the sum tax. it's that a violation of their freedoms. it's the most of us. jack is becoming a more impressive country techies positivity is being limited to the end of the film is the direct intervention in people's rights to obtain information some of the pub in omaha in a week ago i did. it's not only gets a constitutional court but also the european convention of human rights and all international conventions. it's up to shoot like that of the event techies comment as a prey of legislation allowing the telecommunications health are teachable an army of internet content the teams in violation of privacy with out than seeking approval from a judge. the government rejects accusations of censorship while critics say it's time to extend its a lady tight grip on the internet. social media sites like twitter and facebook will blindly used to all the nights nazis anti g

alston you are recognized for your five minutes and you control the time. >> thank you, mr.chairman. the recent data theft is a reminder of the challenges that we certainly face today in a digital economy. we're more aware of instant communication and e commerce. >> whenever and wherever they want. despite the many new conveniences and and technology also facilitates criminals an other serious crimes that can potential injure five more sunts. gathered from a dumpster has changed with the times about adapted in the digital economy. today indeed most transitions we conduct are transmitted or restored in a connected environment insuring every citizen has some digital footprint or profile. and that the most cyst kated criminals are successful in data.rating digital pay-off is sufficient to attract criminals. the problem will not go away. >> congress recognized the importance of having that. it is the reason that we enacted laws specifically to address sensitive consumer data that can be used by criminals for identity theft including the grand leech briley act and hipa as well. f

together and what was a very close town, alston -- often -- austin. >> hi, lucy. >> thank you.en you were talkg about laura's lack of faith after the accident, was there something that happened that caused her to find that back in her life? curious whenlittle she said she came back. i was wondering if there was something that brought her back to faith. .> i do not know do you know of anything that would have been catalytic in her life? >> i agree with you. i think that the kind of modesty she projects and the kind of privacy she shepherds means that she is not really given anything , whether it is her husband talking and witnessing her faith in a public fashion. she was raised a methodist. always had a church. it was part of community life. the comfort of that, certainly she has talked about the comfort of scripture in a way that is part of her interest in literature. i remember her aching a bible verse out after september 11. she was looking forwards to give her meaning and strength. it is probably more complicated than that. i would not presume to speak for her in that way of