skydiving cameraman, brian scott, tapes the practice session.he skydivers will use the tape later to analyze the jump. >> canopy formation is multiple parachutes flying in formation. the person on the top grabs the nylon of the parachute that comes in to dock on him. he will put a foot in the line and hold that parachute while someone else and joins the formation and you'll build up a diamond or a stack of parachutes. >> it's a risky and volatile jump but 35-year veteran sky driver mike lewis embraces the challenge. >> canopy formation is a very fragile formation. >> the idea of someone grabbing ahold of your parachute scares experienced jumpers even more than new jumpers. because if they get all tangled up in your parachute, it's done. you can't use it to land. >> lewis is the point man today in charge of mapping out every detail. he knows even the smallest miscue can mean the difference between success and disaster. >> it's very much like choreographing a dance because everyone has an assigned place where they have to fly to in the formation.

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. >>> the former nsa contractor spoke to brian williams in moscow. our business reporter scottbudman deals with these issues every day. >> as we deal with more technology, we deal with more issues regarding privacy. experts we spoke to say be prepared to be more vigilant if you want to keep your data safe. >> and this -- >> it's a piece of technology that can track your most intimate details -- your health. samsung's new watch introduced on the same day edward snowden says this to nbc about the relationship between technology and privacy. >> well, it's no secret that the u.s. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people. >> reporter: he has a point. the more we use and rely on technology, the more we find ourselves sharing data. >> what you're talking about, really, is the development of an information economy. >> reporter: michelle, the chief privacy officer compares our private data to money, and says wian the companies we give it to need to take better care of it. >> if you want to get the integrity out of that information yo

the difference between pioneer run by scott shefield and parsley run by his son brian are like the differencesny junior and senior growth stocks. if you want a consistent oil company with many years of consistent yoeds stock, a steady handled on the tiller, pxd is for you. if you want the up and comer, you might want to buy parsley. i'm willing to endorse either stock. it depends on your investing style. stan in michigan. stan! >> caller: hey, hey, big boo-ya from detroit michigan. it used to be the motor city now, it is the recall city. >> only one real company but that's in the recall business. what's up? >> caller: exxon holder share meeting tomorrow. interested in my money will be safe there long term and with these electric hybrid cars. you have the ceo of fee at chrysler saying don't buy my product. in the long term is oil and gas still going to be the product that we need and is all this alternative green energy just a joke? >> not a joke. i think the next 25, 30 years it will be a gasoline based world and exxon has a 50-year plan. they're not my favorite. i but they're a good company,

throw in brian sandoval, marco rubio, tim scott. i'm throwing auout all those names.ocrats statewide of people of color. >> you put a woman of color, southerner, either southwest or southeastern, on that republican ticket, someone who's a governor who has a good, strong record. what you don't have with hillary clinton is that capacity to learn something about them because we don't know that much about them. and it is a -- it is game on. am i wrong about that? >> not if they're pro-life, right? i think that does dramatically reshape the national presidential electorate. >> i'm not so sure. >> they're not going to necessarily go for her in that case. >> sarah palin showed us as a classic example that that was an insulting thing. >> clearly we're going to continue to talk about this during the commercial break. when we come back and the tv cameras are on again, i'm actually going to talk about something slightly different. i will say this, though, still to come, the nerdland unofficial kickoff to summer. and an update on the biggest political moment to ever happen on thi

scott mcgrew. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. is edward snowden a patriot or a traitor? he sat down with brianliams for his most televised interview since taking asylum. a look at where snowden goes from here. good morning, tracie. >> they sat down for five hours and we don't pay you and you answer all the questions. a lot of questions whether he stays in russia and whether he comes back here to face charges or whether he wants to come back to the united states. >> if i could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home. >> reporter: but for now he's in russia charged with espionage. edward snowden the man who blew the cover off the u.s. government's mass surveillance program says he considers himself a patriot. >> being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country and knowing when to protect your constitution and your countrymen from the violations of an inroachment of adversaryies and they don't have to be foreign countries. they can be bad policies. >> reporter: snowden insists he tried to work with in the system complaining repeatedly to supervisors before fleeing the country

brian williams about privacy and technology. you can watch the interview at 10:00 tonight. the interception of privacy and technology is a big story. our business and tech reporter scottudman joins us with a preview. >> good evening, janell. just about every day our personal information is asked and every day we give that up willingly. so just how worried should we be? it's perhaps fitting that on the same day edward snowden decides to speak to a tv network -- >> and this is -- >> reporter: technology giant samsung introduces its latest product. a smart watch that can track your private health data. >> it's no secret that the u.s. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers than they do out of people. >> reporter: but with no many computers that are now the sizes of watches, should we be concerned? even samsung itself said yes. >> security of your data is really critical. i think we already are worried about our data that has been shared. >> we're always protecting it the way we want to yet? no. >> that's michelle, chief privacy officer of intel security. she says from tech gadgets to shopping at target, our data is being consumed and we have to pay att

scott with what is coming up on "happening now." >> edward snowden makes a wild claim in a new interview. telling nbc's brianained as a spy to work with the u.s. government. john kerry with his response ahead. former university player on trial. the former student athlete says he was defending his girlfriend and his girlfriend was drunk and fell. they call it murder. the legal panel weighs in. facebook in a fight with iran. asking to answer questions for what they call privacy violations. a live report next hour. back to "outnumbered." >> i am obviously outnumbered, but i am loving it. the near post suggest more young people are running a tab on the people they have slept with. one blogger is saying these with our good ideas for health reasons. you keep a timeline of the lovers you have had emma people understand who they were at different stages of life. do you keep a list? >> no, but i want to hear all about yours. >> i would need the cliff notes version. >> i wrote an autobiography exposing myself. i exposed many of the celebrity women i had been with, it was one of the worst mistakes. i am embarrassed by

brian williams, he turns 5. i'm richard lui with bill karins and the rest of the "early today" team. have a good day. >>> well, good monday morning to you, it's monday morning ym scott >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's check that forecast with meet i meteorologist christina loren. >> an interesting forecast to jump back into as we kick off the workweek. i can tell you off the bat, mid-tos meanwhile from oakland all the way down to san jose and 56 degrees to kick off the day in concord. here's the day, showers in the forecast for today. as we head throughout the week, temperatures are going to be nice and comfortable and then those numbers soar as we get

scotts valley police. >>> we're following some new developments about the legal trouble of 49ers' player chris culliver. brian flores live in the newsroom to tell us about this lawsuit recently filed and the connection it has to chris culliver's hit-and-run charges. >> the man who filed this lawsuit says this incident was actually pretty scary, considering that he had his family, including young children in the back of his car. as for chris culliver, he will have to play defense off the field. marc santos has filed a civil lawsuit claiming chris culliver threatened them after he followed them from a crash scene. santos took photos of this. they say chris culliver's mustang sideswiped his suv. santos says he saw what happened, followed culliver's car to a dead end street where he attempted to block him from leave, all of this while santos's wife called police and the kid were in the back seat. santos spoke with us over the phone and says this about the incident. >> we went down into the court to turn around and now he's coming with the front end of his car charging towards us. he did it about twice. and at thi

scott treatment. you're going to get the truth. joining me tonight on our rapid response panel, msnbc contributor and former montana governor, brianlso with us howard dean, founder of democracy for america. well, no one would know better than these two gentlemen. governor dean, let's visit with you first. what would happen if you were go into a senior center in state of vermont and ask seniors, how's obamacare working for you? good to have you with us, governor. >> first of all, let's -- i did laugh at rick perry, he's either really stupid or else grossly willfully ignorant because we have socialized medicine in the country, it's called the veterans administration. we also have medicare, which people like, that's called a single payer. we have these things they work. tremendous number of americans are in them. these guys bet the farm on trashing the affordable care act and they are about to lose big time because it turns out that the affordable care act not only works for people under 65, but as you pointed out, it works quite well for reducing drug costs for people over 65 and these doctors are -- these governors are already in a

scott ] feed your lawn. feed it! >>> at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee, we met an inmate who knows something about serving hard time. brianlager is serving a 90-year sentence for armed robbery and attempted murder. >> been in here so long, sometimes it seems like i was born in here. >> how long have you been here? >> i've been -- in prison, all together, 18 years. came in when he was 18, got out when i was 24. now i'm 36, going on 37. >> along with working out, there's one other way that lautenschlager copes. ♪ i was 18 years old when they sent me to prison ♪ far away from my home in east tennessee ♪ ♪ still see the tears my darling was crying ♪ ♪ as she whispered i love you said she'd wait for me ♪ >> when i first come to prison, i had a girlfriend and she was telling me how she was going to wait on me and all this. and things change. and i'm still in here. and she's gone. ♪ it's been 18 long years in this old cold prison ♪ sometimes i think it's been so alone♪ ♪ i lost the girl i love to the arms of a stranger ♪ ♪ the only home i know is surrounded by stone ♪ >> a sense of freedom, you know. it frees my mind. i'm not th

scott in pennsylvania. 33 years later. look at this. we were asking people to send us their pictures when they were kids. then where they are now. that's cool. >> brianne, he was kidding! >> thank you, steve. i appreciate it. he's kidding! >> just keep in mind. we're just trying to lighten your day. meanwhile, look at this. it's our shot of the morning. carvelle ice cream set up shop on the plaza to celebrate free cone day and getting the inside scoop -- i'm kidding, here is maria molina with a special guest. good morning to you. >> good morning. that's right. today is carvel's free cone day and joining me is scott, the president of the company. scott, why is today free cone day? >> carvel likes to kick off the summer with free cone day. we do this every year, so today from 3 to 8:00 p.m., any guest can come in and get our favorite flairs, vanilla and chocolates, and salty carmel. >> and you have more than 400 franchises across the u.s. today you're also sharing your new flavor, which is salted carmel. we have a cone here ready to go so i can try it. >> what do you think? >> delicious. this is great. so that's what you have going on today. it's also