the day where we check in with our web team and see what they're working on our team by producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us more hi there andrew it's not too much here but i do know that you are working or you worked on a story about something called fusion centers yeah what is that all about and why have governor romney supported them so strongly ok well clearly you don't read it if you're asking the questions but i'll go easy on you ok so it's actually here in our to america i'm sure you know if we do a lot of stuff about surveillance and data retention on a federal and private level and a lot of the stuff all gets fed to these things called fusion centers now there's almost eighty of them across the united states and they're all set up after september eleventh to kind of finally facilities were able to process all this information coming in whether it's computer history or cell phone records or whatever so part of homeland security they have a pretty big investment here in fact spent at least one point four billion dollars in the last decade through these fusion centers so

web producer andrew blake with a preview of what is trending today on our web site. also ahead on r.t. he's not homeless but for one week every year this new yorkers sleeps on the streets to raise awareness about poverty levels in the u.s. we'll track a silent pursuit and we come back. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old and just you know look through. i'm a confession i am a total get a friend that i love robyn hitchcock is like me and pretty sure. i do is kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the role that it's played. all poverty barely got a mention in last night's presidential debate many families in america though can't afford to forget about it recently released data shows that poverty rates are hitting record levels some people are are dedicated though to highlighting in humanizing the issue of poverty are to correspond to honest aasia churkin our profiles a man who goes homeless in new york city for one week every year to bring attention to their plight. new york city. a bit. of a blissful carefree time but among the picture perfect set

kids safer but is it just going too far to discuss this i'm joined now by our team lead producer andrew blake who just covered this story extensively our web site hi andrew who is said to have you here my pleasure so tell us more about these microchips. idea radio frequency identification chips and they're used to pretty regular i mean i have one of my pocket right now and if you have a new york state you know it's going to collect i mean and i don't really want to take up my driver's license and hold a flyer at that understand but we do have one in there and i use it because i was born in new york state i used to cross the border all the time i have an hour of id chip in mine just that when i cross over they know who i am and they can go and they can scan it and they can instantly pull up my file you know think of like a q.r. code that you see out of a street somewhere. in same same concept in schools you want to be able to chronicle as much data as you can about someone to justify some sort of good at least that you know it's that's what they're doing it for in the case of texas we have a s

well for more on these so-called sing rays and what they're capable of our producer andrew blake joins us now andrea nice to see you my pleasure so it seems like this has major implications for our cell phone privacy if we all use cell phones so i mean like. why don't people know more about it really can't right now because sting rays and other these devices are sensitive law enforcement gadgets they really law enforcement doesn't have to tell you everything about that they don't have to tell you why they're using of them to tell you exactly what they're doing with them and a lot of information but the actual specific technology itself isn't being released because the companies behind them they don't want to go letting their trade secrets out for everyone else to go ahead and steal so there really is just a very primitive not information that we actually know about them but from what christine just said what we do know is enough to really scare people and it's not just just you know your classic fear mongering it really does mean that the cops can drive around the city and aim this dev

well we want to talk more about this so joining me now is our team web producer andrew blake he's been covering this for quite a long time obviously these raids happened back in july and the three people who were arrested were arrested because they refused to testify before a grand jury they gave i think their names and dates and that was it and i mean that's all they really have to do and on that note the federal authorities can hold you if you refuse to comply with a grand jury investigation they can leave you locked up until the investigation is over and done with and we heard from we are right there in the video and she says she feels like this wasn't about a bunch of broken windows and that the authorities seem to even know that she wasn't at the meeting she was sure her house was raided i believe july twenty fifth is when the joint terrorism task force came in the f.b.i. several coordinated raids across the pacific northwest and they came in they looked for anarchist literature they looked for fleg black clothing which would make me an anarchist right now but at the time the sear

that was our if you left producer andrew blake and that is going to do it for now we will be right back here at eight pm for our coverage of the third candidate debate stay tuned. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch on t.v. any time. i am backstabs or welcome to the kaiser report emotion other black day for the banking industry oh wait did i say day i meant decade bank stores have been very busy crashing global markets defrauding investors missa pallies and taxpayers ripping up the elderly wrecking global interest rates overthrowing governments and sponging off the taxpayer. these ever get the sense that soft love for bank stars just isn't working stacy herbert. x. kaiser from that list sounds li

colleague david house and hear me talk about this event and break it all down r t where producer andrew blake is going on man you know a little tired from yesterday still is a really intense day it was really intense was also awesome to hear from people who the media doesn't really report on at all if the media if the government keeps up this whole trend you're never going to hear these people because they are kind of telling us that no there really is a war of whistleblowers and we're an example and i think one of most outrageous things was that the espionage act was designed for spies during world war one hundred seventeen r.k. piece of legislation and to actually charge people with this bizarre law that doesn't really apply to whistleblowers and truth tellers is that was really interesting that's one thing that you kept hearing over and over again last night where there was just an aura thomas trying to blew the whistle and an essay or david house was that these people weren't committing like necessarily crimes per se they were being persecuted for telling the truth and that was a crime an

of this country which brings me to my favorite tweet of the night by our t's own web producer andrew blake a pretty much summed it up really well he said christ i was born he's this my thoughts exactly so let's break the set. i i i i i all right so the debates well it seems like everything had something to say about it watching the corporate news channels is actually pretty funny here's a few reactions. of those uncommitted voters right we polled right after the debates tonight the results were quite convincing for governor romney it was no question that the republicans were like. they were they were language the guy got back in this thing tonight you know the democrats were on the defensive in the present should watch him ascend b.c. by last point he will learn something every night on this show the last one of chris matthews here that was my favorite yes chris we get it you're a smart guy and this and you see it could do no wrong and obama should be asking you for advice on how to win a debate and that's all was you know i said it pretty late last night and all i heard was obama won no r

severity of this and what it could mean on a larger scale i was joined by our two web producer andrew blake and i had a first breakdown what spearfishing exactly is. well you can do anything but a whole lot of nothing if you ask me the story came out yesterday that said that the eagle the washington free beacon the washington free beacon which a lot of us in the office went home what is that those notes i believe that yes yes there's a restart digger who used to work for the washington times that might actually still be employed there but so we start going through trying to find out what's this big scare that we see today because within hours it certainly hits huff po the a.p. puts it on the wire and then we start seeing new sources come in saying new things in the white house do confirm and say yes we were hit by a cyber attack or at least attempted to be hit by a cyber attack which sounds really scary that word itself attack that's a little aggressive a little aggro but spearfishing let's let's talk about that yeah it's not really that scary like i said it can do a lot but there was no cr