to sort of say to myself, we tried to burn down the white house in 1812, the 32nd president was, dot dot dotust to make sure my brain was working. we refined the dose to write about so the medication works for me. i wrote about it. in fact, i did not write about. i waited until the first time i was asked. the same thing when coming out. pressn't want to call conference, saying, ladies and gentlemen, i am gay. ladies and gentlemen, i am insane. so there was a guy who does these podcasts, and he asked about my mental health, and said, how is it? i explained why. , youte a blog about it and want to tell people and you've got this condition, don't think you were cast down into the depths forever. you want to tell them that it is very serious. go and see a doctor. don't think you can laugh it off. it is that mixture of getting it across. i think of danny -- >> and utter tragedy. we can be quite devious. we can hide from our friends how we are feeling. i presented a show and there were communications where evan a two-hour show when i was laughing, but underneath my stomach is saying into my brain,

dot, dot, dot, it is not over yet. it is for that storm. we've got a new clipper coming off the lakes and between now and tuesday, the lee side of lake ontario used to that 2 to 4 on the lee side of lake erie, even here in the big cities we could see a few more inches, hartford, new york, potentially 1 to 2, maybe 5 inches but here's a look at what the last storm did. on to new york, western new york, 12, north haven, connecticut, the bull's-eye for a lot of the storm, 7.2, boston, 6, even in new york city and central park, 5. as expected so the snow that fell will not go anywhere because look at these temperatures. staying well below average in boston, new york and washington, so what fell will stay. refreeze potentially overnight and then a few more inches coming in between tomorrow and tuesday. hey, conversely in the southeast look at temperatures in atlanta getting to 60. so above average from memphis to dallas all the what i to new orleans. look at this, martin, international fall, hour by hour right now, 22 below. even minneapolis, 14

dot dot are fundamentally wrong the first inference that you've got is the. pressure that you're talking about it that orthodoxy with the european in origin what you're doing with your association of global economic orthodoxy of our time you know you know these are insults ethan's don't know what is abuse by it in here is a link to this it's the european origin if you look at what was happening in america at the time and if you look at the aftermath of what happened to it in lehman brothers you had central banks all over the world that made the decision to say they wouldn't a bank fail to say that is a european decision is simply wrong if you look at the challenges that we had across the time period where we how they put you treat deficit but nope that we could not found ourselves what i simply said is tough when a country gets to the point it doesn't good choices open source and if you look at the decisions that loads of countries have made i mean you can as i said from the start you simply cannot compare iceland in ireland but in the course the real thing would be it's in a few years time for both economy stand and i hope what you will see happen is that the forces of growth that are beginning to develop in qana me that they are going to excel or. in the coming years and i believe that our membership and participation in the european union has been a very strong force and that it ought to happen now in order to achieve that growth that you're just alluding to some economists say that our land needs to go at least by three to four percent annually to get out of this that crisis. you'll need. bright well educated workforce but on the other hand you know our land is probably the country that faces the highest ration in here i read somewhere that every six minutes one irish person leaves his country and there's been a number of status recently that show that it's not just the number the sheer number of people living but biquad of the human capital to put it crudely because people who are living tend to have higher education they're more likely to have college degrees can you really achieve that growth when so many of your best and brightest are leaving the country yes and the reason for that is that we have been true to before unfortunately. we went through an experience like this in the one nine hundred eighty eighth and the one nine hundred seventy s. i left ireland myself for six years to go and work abroad. precisely because i wanted to go off to opportunities that were not available in the dock point what then happened as we have done before in our history is we created an economy and society that encourage people to come back again of course you correctly acknowledge the fact that we have. immigration rates true our entire history but also during this part of the crisis do the part of god of course the start we have one of the highest birth rates within europe and you would probably know one of the long term drivers of economic success is the ability of a country to be above its for placement ratio notice where he says he's there and he's here is. as people begin to grow now i mean you have to wait twenty years to allow that new generation to grow up i mean the richer you growth now intraday or generation has grown up i mean if you look at the year leaving they're doing well so i am sorry not all of them are leaving that's wrong. you only are a thousand people left since two thousand and eight that's the highest level since i believe the. previous crisis of course but alongside the us. economy now has one of the highest levels of private sector job creation of any country within europe and we also have a large number of people abroad that are interested to come back home to ireland to see how they can accelerate that level of job creation and our level of kompany and technological creation but why does unemployment down. fall saw slowly i mean as far as i understand it only. down by less than one percent if you say that there is such a fast speed of creating jobs in the private sector if indeed but i think that's an amazingly. one side to interpretation to take of what's happened in ireland across the knuckles last two years because of course you're right to say the level of unemployment has come slowly to many economists are now saying down in our in and what we have achieved over the last year if we have achieved growth of this job creation as opposed to the other way around which is what normally happens. we're now seeing our economy generate jobs at around three thousand new jobs per month after going to many years of losing them by eight thousand jobs per month mr donohue we have to take a short break now but when we come back ireland has unique experience and many of the issues troubling the world today but why is it often reluctant to stake a stand well that they'll be and just a few moments. live . live. live live. live . people know me as. a mobile forty. sadly i've got no other family. i'm still looking for a good life with. my place in the world. literally have no place to live. no. chewing on the bread that you bowl with the last money you were able to beg and all i can say is get out of. there are only two possible outcomes to the situation you have to go to miami and it's all about fancy hot chicks the other option you die in the ring breathe deep breathe deeply. is on an epic journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through to see my number two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand. in a record setting trip. to. see another's face. a limp a torch relay. on r t r g dot com. welcome back to worlds apart where we are discussing our lens many gains and failures for the country's minister for european affairs. mr donohue we were talking about that i'm a gratian in our land. as you said it's a very pressing issue but europe as a whole has to deal with. broader much larger issue of incoming immigration i'm talking about refugees from africa and the middle east some of that related to the conflict in syria and in libya and i think ireland has a very unique position here because on the one hand for decades you've been receiving country and now you are once again their country of immigrants how do you think this issue should be dealt with in a broader european context that's a hugely difficult and sensitive issue the three elements to how we believe the should be handled better in the future the first one is that we have to do all we can to make sure that people are not in a position to have to leave their country and region because of the terrible violence

dot dot are fundamentally wrong the first inference that you've got is. pressure that you're talking about about orthodoxy with the european in origin what you're doing if you're associating a global economic orthodoxy at the time no no you know these are all insults easy don't know what is abuse by doing here this is going to do this it's the european origin if you look at what was happening in america at the time and if you look at the aftermath of what happened with the lehman brothers you had central banks all over the world that made the decision to say they wouldn't let a bank fail to say that is a european decision is simply wrong if you look at the challenges that we had across the time period where we should treat deficit but nope that we could not fund ourselves what i simply said is twenty countries gets to the point it doesn't good choice of opensource and if you look at the decisions that loads of countries have made i mean you can as i said from the start. but you simply cannot compare iceland in ireland but of course the real thing would be in a few years' time where we're both economy stand and i hope what you will see happen is that the forces of growth that are beginning to develop india are chicago me that they are going to accelerate in the coming years and i believe that our membership and participation in the european union has been a very strong force to happen now in order to achieve that growth that you're just alluding to some economists say that our land needs to grow at least by three to four percent annually to get out of this debt crisis. you'll need. bright well educated workforce but on the other hand you know our land is probably the country that faces the highest in europe i read somewhere that every six minutes one irish person leaves his country and there's been a number of status recently that show that it's not just the number the sheer number of people living but biquad of the human capital to put it crudely because people who are living tend to have higher education they're more likely to have college degrees can you really achieve that growth when so many of your best and brightest are leaving the country yes and the reason for that is that we have been true to before unfortunately. we went through an experience like this in the one nine hundred eighty eighth and the one nine hundred seventy s. i left ireland myself for six years to go and work abroad. precisely because i wanted to go off to opportunities that were not available in the dock point what then happened as we have done before in our history is we created an economy and society that encourage people to come back again of course you correctly acknowledge the fact that we have. immigration rates true our entire history but also during this part of the christ. that's due to part of dot of course the start we have one of the highest birth rates within europe and you were probably know one of the long term drivers of economic success is the ability of a country to be above its for placement ratio notoriously he says he's here people brittle you need to grow now i mean you would have to wait twenty years to you know allow that new generation to grow up i mean the richer you growth now introductory generation has grown up i mean if you look at the they're living there they're doing worth it sorry not all of them really if you that's wrong remember you only are a thousand people left since two thousand and eight that's the highest level since i believe the. previous crisis of course but alongside the us. economy now has one of the highest levels of private sector job creation of any country within europe and we also have a large number of people abroad that are interested to coming back home to ireland to see how they can accelerate that level of job creation and that le

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that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and check out our web site or to dot com slash usa for the latest information that's coming out of the life and legacy of the great leader who passed away this afternoon nelson mandela he was ninety five years old also follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez but for now have a great night. president obama's trust where this is called into question declining poll numbers show that americans don't have faith in their leader in chief just how far down as you fall and can we improve his image before it's too late frank luntz gives us the latest on obama's unpopularity plus p.r. strategist howard bragman and political commentator tanya acker on what the president needs to do now to regain the confidence of the american people it's all next politicking with larry. hey i marinate and this is boston here are some of the stories we're tracking for you today first up what the frak is up with these earthquakes in texas r.t. correspondent guy.

driven by old men in policy positions -- [laughter] climate, health, gun control, environments, dot, dot, dotwhere women have different views. how does your advice apply to getting more women into politics? >> yeah. i'm really passionate about getting women into politics. the book argues for women in positions of power and positions of government that are important. i happen to be in london a few weeks ago when thatcher was buried, and she was elected 34 years ago, the only female head of government in the world when elected. over 34 years, there's been 17 -- there are hundreds of countries, and that's just not good enough. i believe that if we had more women in politics, we'd have less war. >> i agree with that. [applause] so following up, question from the audience, do you think it's hillary clinton's time to lean in and win the presidency? that's what the question is. [applause] >> yes. i want hillary clinton to run. i told her, i'll tell you, and i wrote the book because my daughter, brought home a song for my kids for president's day, my daughter was 6, my son 4, and she listened to the

dot dot church i know what the there are websites call of ms and other related this incident is another one happy right now in the eastern district court on for three eastern history reaching apatow court on just down the road we're on a handful of elected activists on comprehensive what you got canteen against a bunch of anti censorship websites also on in retaliation for the soul kind of step with that broke out after which the greeks began releasing all sorts of confidential information back in twenty ten so that does happen and then he'll break now. that's happening right now that i start earlier and earlier this month i believe around a week ago on our fellow was sentenced to two years' probation and ordered to pay hundred and eighty three thousand dollars fine and thirty three thousand dollars restitution to koch industries show that the corporation run by the insurance co for taking down one of their websites momentarily within the top fifty years ago. now the challenge when greenwald who is the journalist that was working with veterans and all those ns family and is reportedly working with the founder of e bay which is the parent company of paypal on a new media venture beyond so i went every couple of weeks. that's me i didn't encounter wrote his name is pierre own mini are heat treated it whenever you think and act with the league's tactics we know more about our world through their journal and then donate the empty paypal. the man but this certain altercation considering paypal was part of the block and then expanded to start with feelings of those fines on so i wanna read and other sweet that said this transparency organization responded by saying the block it has cost with the league's tens of millions. we announced successful changes in policy and right after velocity so what do you make the business agreement and work for me on the paypal payment saying this mainly to update these ones are not. it is a bit slack given us human is a lot of players involved in this relation come down to disappear says or what you hear in the belief that there's a lot of bulky telling you there. obviously the massive taxes on corporations. but no it does raise some allotted in this interesting points about the oneness the week ok one is of additional protest ok and on who's got the money to state what can and can't work on latino. going into this paypal is looking at receiving upwards of five million dollars in restitution for the crimes of alleged crimes committed by these activists and now they're looking at receiving around eighty k on it so a lot of people were building up the stable no paypal that all the time to go out there and say no. don't tackle these kids don't open in jail and pierre recently just made a statement this week saying are you in all lighted leniency for it that people fourteen. i was hoping that you know why i plead his case of the spring over a little bit in the attention has spread and most readers know not many people talk about is the irc a weapon is randomly taking so much for filling as an adult i are out feelers to your website are good outcome for the latest on all the presents. when your dear a pro business group known as the american legislative exchange council alec has gathered for one week to discuss domestic business policy. this week has come to dc to meet somebody and was not alone. protesters gather breakouts out ahead. they did let them know that it not okay with that the day. what would it be that you would operate the wedding breakfast with them. they have not blogged every day the demonstrators demanded that alex tait out of american politics given for transparency alec allow members of the media to attend this year's meeting our team as anzacs was there and brings us an inside look at the conference. dear alex two thousand thirteen states admission policy summit in washington dc where center takers addressed the conference just a moment of the look of course is the american led to sleep exchange council a conservative pro business or decision. the breeze together mostly republican state lawmakers from around the country. the teams them up with representatives from corporations like ducks on mobile. att and pfizer. you can actually tell who's who around here. with that lawmakers were in red badges that state legislative member and corporate representatives wearing blue badges that said private sector member. now alex has often been referred to as a dating service for lawmakers and business suits together their legislators and corporate representatives are crafted in voting on model legislation that's been done behind closed door meetings little bit later this afternoon. the senators task force's new media is allowed in. there's an education taskforce there's no wind energy task force the tax policy task force is physically organized a similar way that our congress is organized into committees not once legislation is passed out of these task forces to secure it with lawmakers back to their home states for the traffic passing through their respective state legislatures to become actual loss. so basically that's how it works it's this activity that threatens for christians who argue that this organization acts as a shadow government turning a corporatist legislation enforcing elected lawmakers to pledge allegiance to corporate interests rather than their own voters back home the members here say nothing nefarious is going on. i first came down like over a decade ago. when i was in the bush administration i've been privileged to work with alec. in the federal government i've been privileged to work with alec when i was back in texas the texas policy foundation leading the tenth amendment center. and i'm proud to stand without liked it. i will tell you this my advice to alec is very very simple stand your ground looking at the conservative vendors on hand and what's on the docket includes or task force meetings. you can clearly see an agenda emerging. alec has operated largely in the shadows but the organization did release some of its priorities for this year. they re did the sensible laws are being written in voted on at the summit. although alex still keep secret which corporate interests are being hired writing. each bottle bill. present. there's that this model bill under consideration this week opposing the case ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the clean air act the proposal was supported by deep deep oil industry. or there's this bill the international relations task force that opposes regulations requiring country of origin labeling on to the grocery stores. a proposal supported by the back. plus there are model bills to weaken sector unions as well as to make the affordable care act or obamacare more difficult to implement. these are all conservative priorities. but passing model bills the cubicle was on the road is only one priority this year for alec. the other is mending fences. as the guardian reported this week. alec is facing any foreigner is in crisis. after hundreds of lawmakers and dozens of corporations left the organization over controversy created by alex supporters to your brow was in voter id laws. it's reported that alec is facing a one point four million dollars budget hole that year it has launched a new initiative known as the prodigal son project to work corporations and their donations back into the organization. but there is little concern on the faces of members in the halls around here who dined together and play in a later vote together on corporate greed was emboldened by the dysfunction down the street congress alec is taking the responsibility of governing into their own hands. and that is exactly how corporate america wants it. in washington dc the same socks are too. ask the current number one hundred city is put down their snacks allies and picked up picket signs to date. julie protests for better wage its goal the protest is to raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour which would amount to thirty one thousand two hundred dollars for a full time employee before taxes. countdown is just about eight thousand dollars above the federal poverty line for a family of four at the moment right now the minimum wage in the country is seven twenty five an hour in some states that number is much higher here but so is the average cost of the twenty eight states that the highest minimum wages. they range from eight dollars an hour in california and massachusetts to nineteen nineteen in washington. the photo washington st international airport might be the testing grounds for the future of minimum wage. the city of sea tac is the first in the street sweeper of a fifteen dollar minimum wage for last month voters passed the ballot measure that would do that. airport workers a pay raise of more than double the current federal minimum pay and the ending of this next year. president obama is addressing the minimum wage in his speech yesterday other cities might need to begin to follow suit. you know that there are airport workers and fast food workers and nurse assistants and retail sales people who work their tails off. and i still living and or billy above poverty. and that's why it's well past the time to raise the minimum wage for the real fight the war was worth it we turn onto rt correspondent marina park nine am. what began one year ago here in new york city with just two hundred employees has exploded into arguably the biggest wave of protests in the history of america's fast food industry thousands of saskatoon. it's high in the one hundred cities throughout the country how to go for a binge on thursday. nancy are based in minimal wheat and the right to due to new heights without it how the teaching of the organization spearheading this movement is called fast and well worth it. workers side that are participating in these strikes are in a way to hide in each chain restaurants mcdonald's the eighteen twenties and kfc and while the fast food industry remains of two hundred. in the dollar industry. eighteen weeks for the service of words like here's the crew the national median week is just eight dollars and ninety four cents an hour more during the year with many of that fifty plus thousand fast food workers earning than last. just seven dollars and ninety nine cents an hour in the comments below. what is fast and restaurants. tell me the live in poverty forced to rely on assistance of portland food shelters to feed their families many other fast food workers are living in shelters because they are salary can to cover their backs now even worse is that this problem is expanding low wage jobs have been accounted for the fall of the new jobs added in the so called us recovery in retail and fast food are among the fastest curly not economic sense sectors in the united states right now know what the strikers are demanding is fifteen dollars per hour and so far only one city in washington still has and that those demands. as you can see there is as significant police presence here on the scene on its very high feast day of action so far everything has remained relatively calm now in the meantime companies like mcdonald's her kicking and in twenty ten that comes out saying that a low key positions are just adding stones to better positions but reports reveal that the managerial jobs on make up just two percent of all jobs in the past the industry had five restaurants have also said that the state of minimal but we will increase costs and da forced some workers have a job that i've run the ads you can see the majority of the semester he even walked all the shop rides a white or off of the six leading weeks of quality of life. that said american jury. mom says to all of its citizens should also mention that this movement has a lot of support might get lots of civil rights groups community leaders even when you're sitting here at lax fields of law seo has voiced his support for reducing the minimum wage as you can see this is that fuel which movements in the united states taking place in day out the extent they're going from location to location and name calling them as they continue walking. reporting from the dark green up when i r t. rapper great scientists and rescue crews are desperately attempting to save the crew of beached whales. the group of pilot whales is stranded off the shoreline of everglades national park in southern florida. at least ten whales have ninety six of natural causes and four of them were euthanized. for more from florida. rt is an incline so donovan reports. the last couple of days of being very sad day this to be down here on the shoals of the southern florida on wednesday the whole the news spread out but the very large group of up to forty five pilot whales stranded themselves off the shoals of the candidates national park. marine officials tennis gods and plentiful it is trying to help those whales to get back to teach the wall says but it actually all happens in a very remote area known as the hide and to the sch this area as he stays very remote it's actually more than an hour away. well i bet it's the nearest opponent rep and obviously all the piece is called the kite to the rescue mission. and today wildlife officials say it simply no new content for the wales already ten of them have died for them was euthanized due to their pull condition but it's funny that it just takes a bold a situation that is complicating the rescue. it's actually the bells themselves many wells to simply teach themselves wants and over again and the problem now is that the remaining wales simply just won't leave because god has tried to head the wells out of the banks but it was simply impossible this loyalty is just a tree gets up scheme and study them all why would the whales come to the shadow bolt is in the first bikes. it's not likely that it was an accident because pod whales will they be and indeed the warts is its belief that this particular group several days to travel the twenty miles that separate the state borders the way they had to be hip to the shadow bolt is the in the area that they were found this different theories as to why it did that whales and dolphins these shadow bolt says it could be that there was scared off by a thread that said that they would simply disorientated all still always been scared off by an on the wall. this is me but they could be something special to complete the daily double sake of a helpful was too old and simply just just came to the shoals to die the rest of the group followed it. at the sites just to impossible to know them and the beached on the beach that we have one of these events. we just had a good normal. but it's still an enigma. as for why these whales come to show to die those aren't his neck was so donovan reporting and or maybe hope on the horizon wildlife officials say twenty and the wails of purity swimming for the deeper water. several miles north of their previou location well just one day after he blasted the environmental protection agency for not using so called sound assigned units republican congressman lamar smith of the carry on. it's the aliens representative smith who chairs the science of space and technology committee in the house criticized roles the epa said on the amount of carbon pollution new power plants were allowed to remain. this is the epa is way too slow or reverse the effects of climate change. a letter addressed to the head of the agency. lamar smith wrote the agency is a stubborn insistence on placing its judgment of biomass of that science advisers raises serious concerns that the apa is a roll making is based more on partisan politics and sound science but on wednesday a job for the stars with a two hour long hearing called astral biology the search for bio signatures in our solar system and the lines. this guy saying that is possibly just about life on other planets aren't possibility of june more than you the pope refused. what can we find hope and pray the atmosphere to the french who drive by of signatures that would indicate the presence of some form of gluten free life. what would be the implications of such a discovery. pics are now questioning the lamar smith concedes aliens as sound science but quiet change and partisan politics but danger will robinson. there is a bigger issue at hand and this one is in our galaxy are exactly five days left in the house of the official calendar year including today law makers have out of town there are several serious issues that must be addressed the most important of which isn't your father's now while hopes are high in the farm bill will be passed that allows as expected it from this conference. so with so many important issues on the table ranging from the economy through immigration. perhaps the real question here is show the maker's be searching for aliens are focusing on the issues right here on planet earth. and wanna update you on the breaking news that we've been falling former south african president nelson mandela just passed away a short time ago he was at ninety five years old. mandela has been viewed as a hero to people all around the world and was the biggest leader against apartheid. his health has been failing consistently over the past few months due to a recurring lung infection in his last in the hostel in september but was discharged and allowed to return home he was a nobel peace prize moderate and one of south africa's most beloved presidents of all time. our hearts go out to his family has made it for now from one story to cover go to youtube dot com slash rt america check our website for the latest on the nelson mandela story and follow me on twitter at meg and underscore lopez aussie about kerry. you see the world reading for globally minded people. hunters and underwriters local contact us at sponsors to any team that works out or seven at three seven seven o seven one four seven. windmill new. although welcome to new site it's like a december six and captain comanche into camp. millions of people around the world of remembering and paying tribute to the man who was considered the father of modern south africa nelson mandela has died he was ninety five. known simply as medina. he dedicated his life to the fight against apartheid and went on to become the country's first black president

i guess we're fighting for there a playoff spot and you know like hopefully we're going to make a dot dot for him everest and call friends and then play of his play offs you know like me i think we have a good chance to. win there too is the cage shell extends its expansion into the west two year old left represent one of the most ice hockey loving cities in europe and have already put their name on the map but now it's time for titles. r.t. . and all that ice hockey action brings us to the end of part one but we'll be back with more and to be a sport after the short break don't go away. to you that was two thousand and thirteen and what has made it memorable we ask in this edition of crossfire who excelled and who disappointed us what stories captured our attention because of hope or do you despair. at least sixteen percent imports came from. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. but they are territorial waters they fish they load this fish into th

dot dot church i don't know what the hell there are websites called there's another related to this incident there's another one happening right now in the eastern district courts for the eastern district region federal courts just down the road where a handful of legit hacktivist operated a similar campaign against a bunch of anti-censorship web sites also in the tell you for this whole kind of snafu that broke out after we began releasing all sorts of confidential information back in two thousand and ten so that just happened and then you know right now that's happening right now but just earlier earlier this month i believe around a week ago a fellow was sentenced to a few years probation and ordered to pay one hundred eighty three thousand dollars fine i believe in. thirty three thousand dollars restitution to koch industries big corporation from david and charles koch for taking down one of their websites momentarily with adidas a few years ago now meanwhile journalist glenn greenwald who is the journalist that was working with edward snowden all of those n.s.a. leaks is reportedly working with the founder of e-bay which is the parent company of pay pal on a new media venture so i want to bring up a couple of tweets that the e-bay founder wrote his name is pierre omidyar he tweeted whatever you think of at wiki leaks tactics we know more about our world through their journalism donate via keep a pow but this certainly also cation considering pay pal was part of the blockade that attempted to start wiki leaks of those funds so i want to read another tweet that says this transparency organization responded by saying the blockade has cost wiki leaks tens of millions we announced successful changes in policy right after the lawsuit so what do you make of this agreement and more importantly. how kind of saying this these leaks are ok these ones are not it is a bit selective but also human there's a lot of players involved here you know this really shouldn't come down to just what peter says or with julian or anyone from wiki leaks says there's a lot of people involved. obviously massive massive corporations but you know it does raise a lot of interesting points about no one is a leak ok one is a digital protest ok and who's got the money to say what can and can't work but you know going into this pay pal was looking at receiving upwards of five million dollars in restitution for the crimes alleged crimes committed by these hacktivists and now they're looking at receiving around eighty k. so a lot of people were building this up disabled you know people had all the time to go out there and say you know don't tackle these kids don't go put him in jail and appear recently just made a statement this week saying you know he won. and see for the people fourteen it was hoping that you know by pleading his case at least bring them a little bit of media attention because it's been almost three years now and not many people talking about those. blake thank you so much for filling us in and i will turn our viewers to your website r.t. dot com for the latest on all of these cases. ok well here's a question for you what's in your wallet money is of all over the centuries from shells to gold to paper to plastic in these days it's gone digital now you've probably heard of bitcoin before an alternative crypto currency that exists entirely on the internet the coins value has skyrocketed over the past year it is well beyond the general public's affordability at this point but for those of you looking to get into the newest financial revolution known as the digital economy worry not light coin has been called the silver two bitcoins gold former google employee and mighty graduate charlie lee invented the currency to correct some of the coins fly it's grown over four hundred percent the past week end it is still more affordable and abundant than coins now despite cryptocurrency is growing popularity in the public no nation has adopted this type of currency to date so far this currency is just a flash in the pan or is this the e

dot dot church i don't know what the hell they're their website it's called there's another related to this incident there's another one happening right now in the eastern district court for i'm sorry the eastern district region in federal court just down the road where a handful of legit hacktivist operated a similar campaign against a bunch of anti-censorship websites also tell you for this whole kind of snafu that broke out after we began releasing all sorts of confidential information back in two thousand and ten so that just happened and then you know right now that's happening right now but just earlier earlier this month i believe around a week ago a fellow was sentenced to a few years probation and ordered to pay one hundred eighty three thousand dollars fine i believe one hundred eighty thousand dollars restitution to koch industries big corporations run by dave and charles koch for taking down one of their websites momentarily with adidas a few years ago now meanwhile journalist glenn greenwald who is the journalist that was working with edward snowden all of those n.s.a. leaks is reportedly working with the founder of e-bay which is the parent company of pay pal on a new media venture so i want to bring up a couple of tweets that the e-bay founder wrote his name is pierre omidyar he tweeted whatever. do you think of at wiki leaks tactics we know more about our world through their journalism donate the a peep a pow but this certain also cation considering pay pal was part of the blockade that attempted to start wiki leaks of those funds so i want to read another tweet that says this transparency organization responded by saying the blockade has cost wiki leaks tens of millions we announced successful changes in policy right after the lawsuit so what do you make of this is agreement and more importantly. how kind of saying this that these leaks are ok these ones are not it is a bit selective but also human there's a lot of players involved here and you know this really shouldn't come down to just what peter says or with julian or anyone from wiki leaks says there's a lot of people involved. obviously massive massive corporations but you know it does raise a lot of interesting points about bill one is a leak ok one is a digital protest ok and who's got the money to say what can and can't work but you know going into this pay pal was looking at receiving upwards of five million dollars in restitution for the crimes alleged crimes committed by these hacktivist and now they're looking at receiving around eighty k. so a lot of people were building this up disabled you know people had all the time to go out there and say you know don't tackle these kids don't go put him in jail and appear recently just made a statement this week saying you know he wanted to see for the pay pal fourteen it was hoping that you know by pleading his case at least bring a little bit of media attention because it's been almost three years now and many people talking about those. blake thank you so much for filling us in and i will turn to our viewers to your website r.t. dot com for the latest on all of these cases. well year after year i pro-business group known as the american legislative exchange council or alec has gathered for one week to discuss domestic business policy this week the group has come to d.c. it's amazing bob it was not alone protesters gathered right outside. what they. already had that you know we're going to let them know it is not ok for them to have a private meeting but not for nothing by the media coverage of this writing legislation they have backlog every day all right demonstrators demanded that alex stay out of american politics in a bid for transparency alec allow members of the media to attend this year's meeting parties that sam sachs was there and brings us an inside look at the conference. i'm here at alex two thousand and thirteen states and nation policy summit in washington d.c. where senator ted cruz addressed the conference just a moment ago alec of course is the american legislative exchange council a conservative

-com, dot-net, dot-org, domains that frankly withhold information from the public because they don't want to needlessly concern their customers about using what's available or in some cases impact stockholders. if stockholders knew how vulnerable a particular network might be. i'm glad that we're working together to try to make this legislation, this cyber security public awareness act of 2013 just that. the two key words here are public awareness. we've looked at this long and hard to figure out where is the path that we can move forward, not just introduce a piece of legislation, but a piece of legislation that our colleagues will respond to. a piece of legislation that our colleagues will look at and say of course we need to know more than we know now about this. and through us, the people we work for need to know more. this gives us a greater understanding of the number of threats and the tools available to repeal those threats without needlessly compromising any of those tools that would be available to repel threat

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a dichotomy saying he fought for freedom and we needed democracy and freedom and got that but dot, dot, dot they still struggle here. >> i was speaking to a woman on the plane coming over here and she said mandela sold us out and i said what do you mean, he sold some of the white people out. you have an interesting remembrance of his legacy and some people are celebrating it and you see most of the nation is and sometimes they say remember and sometimes the jury is not sold on the legacy. >> one thing i heard from blacks and whites today is what south africa didn't have is a civil war and didn't have that significant blood shed and didn't have the call for revenge and in the new anc there are members and some younger who still want that, they want to take property back from whites in country and some are worried with mandela being gone less of a moderation of views. >> that is why he is a controversial figure and represents the future of anc and you see streets on the stadium and their names are being changed and some people who had english names on the streets that live for years and years

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that's right thing and would ask to read it right now for one story to cover dot youtube dot com slash rt america and check out our website art scene of commerce lunch usa. room. as y'all know the holidays are great for families to get together and sometimes on the okok it's flowing beer also great time for us to argue that everything from politics to religion what the ones we love. but if you happen to the nsa agent the cover has an official list of talking points that way you can win those family arguments for sure. yeah that's right the government is not giving as he ages lists a very corny talking points when the fire dog lake so that way they can convince their relatives over the holidays and just how awesome effective and necessary. the national security agency truly is despite all those little revelation things of mass buying by snowden has become a complete success for reasoned political social religious organizations use them stuck with their members who may not be the best debaters on the planet can defend the position of the organization will have no problem with tears again

collection program called the skeptic meeting which was to talk about problems with the healthcare dot gov dot website came a day after a federal court true that some of the nsa data mining may be unconstitutional. james stillman has more. white house ceo isn't representatives from tech giant apple google yahoo and others met with president obama to express their concern over the nsa is broad data collection progress in addressing national security and economic impacts related to authorize intelligence this was the president. was hoping to hear from directly from the ceos of these companies about these issues and concerns. the meeting came after five tech companies released a statement last week calling for reform of the nsa data collection program. the ceo has left the white house without commenting the released this single sentence joint statement. we appreciate the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance the re release last week. we urge him to move aggressively on reform let us review of its intelligence gathering programs is expected to b

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dot. >> right on the red dot. >> right on the red dot. >> i didn't hit the red dot once.round it. >> you did great. you can see why tactical teams and different military groups -- and civilians love these things. they're very low recoil and very accurate. i don't know that there would be a practical application for a full auto, but it's fun to shoot. >> newly manufactured fully automatic weapons were banned for civilians in the united states in 1986. you can still apply to get one, but even if you do, they're extremely expensive. >> how much would it be? >> probably somewhere around 15,000 to 20,000. >> expensive. that's why most people buy semiautomatic weapons instead. millions of them, in fact. >> this is an ak-47. >> they may not be automatic, but they're still extremely popular weapons. >> they are very villainized. >> this style of gun is used in several recent mass shootings which is why they're up for debate. >> ready? >> absolutely. >> depending on the magazine you use, a semiautomatic ak-47 like this one can hold up to 75 rounds and shoot up to 40 rounds per min

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submissions and the to contact the knesset on the friday you can find daddy and auntie dot finance the paloma dot com to jn one this is miss emma dean of reporting from casablanca surgeons and representatives from french company car may have said that the man who receives the company's first implant in an artificial heart was recovering well the operation took place last week in paris and came off the back of years of research and development. but still the patient is doing very well he's getting better every day i signed just before coming to see you were talking to him he's recovering. he's resting the syllables. hart assistance devices have been used for decades as a temporary solution for patients awaiting transplants but comments by a prosthetic product is designed as a long term replacement with news of the temple because as you have to understand the great advantages of biological material which was used to try to minimize clotting that's when the first suspects to another aspect which is very important is all computerized assistance it's hard to get it out in real time instead of totally

dot com or some other store dot com what they're doing is going to what's called the point of sale that moment when you swipe your credit card they're packing into the system that collects that information sending it out to some other location in grabbing your credit card information your pin number and therefore they cannot create either credit cards and walk around and shop with them as though they are you or they can go on line news and information and shop for other things. so what how when customers protect themselves from this moving forward be on target. well moving toward not only carrot cut into customer you have to think about your security even if you don't shop that i did because this didn't happen at any store. one of the things that you should do consistently is that we do was change a pin number as much as it's not a it's not easy to do it's worth doing second check your statement all the time when the bats ways that i think i can think of doing it is putting a mark on your calendar everyday at two o'clock in the call that one eight hundred number and about the id card and just follow the prompts and hear what their last five charges were. isn't there something unusual in real time even remember it. in a reported and then ate then that will be taking care of by the bank of the credit company i honestly don't want to go ahead and move on away from dean of the syntax and today the individuals that company is mine. they buy and the south. a new report from the senate commerce committee just came out and it outlines some of the data that these companies now one of these data mining companies as well thanks and seventy five thousand individual data elements on people. these include for instance whether consumers have bought a particular soft drink in the past six months whether they use laxatives or not whether they visited the gynecologist within the last year or not and how many miles a year a major riot. over the past that four week period. i need to. i personally don't even have seventy five thousand data points on myself so how did they the companies find out whether or not consumers are safe using laxatives. well i think this mis reported. yep the one thing is clear senator rockefeller is pretty hurt by what he's finding out in this report. and that is that data companies are getting information about you and not just in the on line world like oftentimes we think about a week. if you look at the past year what were you when i have been talking about making we've been talking with the online world. with this record is doing is the shelling that in the physical world. there's a lot of data being collected about you and now it's being raised with the data about you in the on line world and to every place are going sites are visiting the physical world and places are going in the island was getting my wrist into one to create in essence a profile about you withstand the data brokers are selling to marketing companies and saying you're looking for a group of people will go to st paul minnesota and shout that this one particular store and the bucket of people or they go skiing over there. let's focus on them and try to get them give me that data and that exchange happens for money and then you start getting ads whether in your mailbox to down the street we email boxes or in your on line expel its experience and you're browsing the web. we don't have much to laugh. i want to ask you to more questions. first of all how much money on our knees in mining companies actually getting in is there a meaningful way to opt out of that. won't that be the pit bottom line in the mind is that in the millions to billions of dollars that's how much money is being exchanged here in terms of opting out. that is the challenge. it's almost like you can run but you cannot hide. so what you can do is take a day that companies. i wanna know what you have about me. i want to do something about it if it's incorrect. i need to write to correct it and that's a thing but even as he went holiday is over. senator rockefeller center come back and no doubt that in a start introducing legislation to give more power to consumers than right now it's obvious they don't have. munching on founder of the assets people in the thank you so much for joining us and for the viewers some idea how to protect themselves this coming holiday season and beyond. things they didn't have to know that. well a new york city police officer faces a disciplinary trial over allegations that he performed a wrongful stop and frisk two years ago the first time that the civilian complaint review board is prosecuting officer for stop and frisk violations following its establishment earlier this spring. several long glorious stock real estate property on a barn and allegedly christian for talking back to him. that was only back in december twenty third of two thousand eleven while he was waiting for is one of the par four s eventually arrested martin and took him to jail leaving martin's car running. one claims his car was full. that was stolen after assault charges of disorderly conduct were thrown out in our barn is suing both the nypd and officer parents. with this first ever prosecution of a police officer for violations it appears opponents of the nypd is a stop and frisk policy finally have someone to fight for that and now to pennsylvania where a motorist checkpoint has got some citizens wondering why i had to have their cheeks spa the beach and downtown reading where a number of cars were re directed into a private parking lot last week the air passengers are asked questions about their drinking and or ask for a swab from inside of their mounts. local police were at the checkpoint. and while they did not take part in a stop at least once in a sense that the police presence made him feel as if the exercise was not voluntary the curtain yet has told the reading eagle quote a federal survey with local police hope violate my rights the checkpoint is part of the program under the national highway traffic safety administration in the white house office of national diet drug control policy. there are several similar checkpoints to account pennsylvania the federal money is given to a private firm which then administers the checkpoint now the idea of the plane is to figure out how a troubling car crash as the green police say the swapping is to determine whether people were on prescription drops. and that's made it for now from one story speak up or go to youtube dot com splash rt america. check the website r t dot coms like usa and follow me on twitter at night and underscore lopez all see right here at eight pm. i don't i. oh and welcome to e zine it's friday december twenty s i'm passing comanche and tokyo. militants in south sudan have forced their way into a united nations peacekeeping base. they were trying to get to see billions from another ethnic group who had taken shelter inside. un officials say there may 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dot com or some other store dot com what they're doing is going to what's called the point of sale that moment when you swipe your credit card they're hacking into the system that collects that information sending it off to some other location and grabbing your credit card information your pin number and therefore they can now create their credit cards and walk around and shop with them as though they are you or they can go online and use that information and shop for other things so how can customers protect themselves from this moving forward beyond target. well moving forward not only if you're a target customer you have to think about your security even if you don't shop at target because this can happen at any store one of the things that you should do consistently is every few months change your pin number as much as it's not it's not easy to do it's worth doing second check your statement all the time one of the best ways that i think i can think of doing it is putting a mark on your calendar every day at two o'clock you're going to call that one eight hundred number on the back of your card and just follow the prompts and hear what your last five charges were because if there's something unusual in real time you're going to remember it you're going to report it and then that will be taken care of by the bank or the credit company you know i want to go ahead and move on away from data that's been hacked and to data about individuals that companies mine they buy and they sell now a new report from the senate commerce committee just came out and it outlined some of the data that these companies have now one of these data mining companies act with facts. has seventy five thousand individual data elements on people these include for instance whether consumers have bought a particular soft drink in the past six months whether they use laxatives or not whether they visited a gynecologist within the last year or not and how many miles a year they drive over the past four week period i mean him and i personally don't even have seventy five thousand data points on myself so how do the data companies find out whether or not consumers are saved using laxatives well i think this this report the one thing is clear senator rockefeller is pretty irked by what he's finding out in this report and that is that data companies are getting information about you not just in the online world like oftentimes we think about and we if you look at the past year what we you and i have been talking about making we've been talking about the online world what this report is doing is it's showing that in the physical world there's a lot of data being collected about you know it's being merged with the data about you in the online world and so every place you're going sites you're visiting in the physical world and the places you're going in the online world are getting merged into one to create a profile of you which then the data brokers are selling to marketing companies and saying you're looking for a group of people who go to st paul minnesota and shop at this one particular store and a bucket of people or they go skiing over there let's focus on them and target them give me that data and that exchange happens for money and then you start getting ads whether in your mailbox down the street where your mailbox is or in your online exposure experience as you're browsing the web and human we don't have that much time left but i want to ask you two more quick questions first of all how much money are these data mining companies actually getting in is there a meaningful way to opt out of that. well the bottom line on the money is it's in the millions to the billions of dollars that's how much money is being exchanged here in terms of opting out that is the challenge it's almost like you can run but you cannot hide so what you can do is say hey data companies i want to know what you have about me i want to do something about it if it's incorrect i need the right to correct it and that's i think what you're going to see one holiday is over senator rockefeller is going to come back and no doubt they're going to start introducing legislation to give more power to consumers and right now it's obvious they don't he mancini gun founder of s.s. people who thank you so much for joining us and for giving our viewers some idea of how to protect themselves this coming holiday season and beyond. well a new york city police officer faces a disciplinary trial over allegations that he performed a wrongful stop and frisk two years ago this is the first time that the civilian complaint review board is prosecuting an officer for stop and frisk violations following its establishment earlier this spring officer ramon boris stopped real estate broker yannick barton and allegedly first him for talking back to him that was all the way back on december twenty third of two thousand and eleven while he was waiting for his wife in the car morris eventually arrested martin and took him to jail leaving martin's car running martin claims his car was full of it was stolen as a result charges of disorderly conduct or thrown out and now martin is suing both the n.y.p.d. and officer gora's with this first ever prosecution of a police officer for violations and appears opponents of the n.y.p.d. as a stop and frisk policy finally have someone to fight for them and now to pennsylvania where a motorist checkpoint has got some citizens wondering why they had to have their cheeks swapped it began in downtown reading where a number of cars were redirected into a private parking lot last week their passengers were asked questions about their driving and then were asked for a swab from inside of their mouths local police were at the checkpoint and while they did not take part in the stop at least one citizen said the police presence made him feel as if the exercise was not voluntary ricardo told the reading eagle quote a federal survey with local police helped violate my rights the checkpoint is part of a program under the national highway traffic safety administration and the white house office of national drug control policy there are several similar checkpoints throughout pennsylvania the federal money is given to a private firm which then administers the checkpoint now the idea behind it is to figure out how to all. boyd car crashes the reading police say the swapping is to determine whether people were on a prescription drugs and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website artie dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter at my going to underscore lopez also your right back here at eight pm. i've got a quote for you. they way it's not story. if this guy like me or that guy stead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media were pretty much on the right drugs they should. they did rather well.

the toolkit can be found at financial aid toolkit dot ed dot gov. it has details about applying for financial aid and repaying student loans. it also has documents advisers can download and information about professional development information. this is one of the measures the obama administration has taken to make the college application process go smoother. >> award-winning san francisco chef judy rodgers dies san francisco - judy rodgers, the award-winning chef-owner of san francisco's zuni cafe, has died. she was 57. gilbert pilgram, her business partner and longtime friend, said rodgers died monday after succumbing to cancer of the appendix. the james beard foundation named the zuni cafe 2003's outstanding restaurant in america. rodgers won beard's outstanding chef award a year later, beating out notable chef mario batali and others. rodgers started cooking in the 1970s after being inspired by alice waters' chez panisse, where she met her business partner pilgram. pilgram says he'll continue to run zuni's kitchen. >> a host on h-g-t-v was been

dot com or some other store dot com what they're doing is going to what's called a point of sale that moment when you swipe your credit card they're packing into the system that collects that information sending it out to some other location and grabbing your credit card information your pin number and therefore they can now create their credit cards and walk around and shop with them as though they are you or they can go online and use that information and shop for other things that was he mancini com founder of s s p d blue well are you sick of being spied upon whether it's by the n.s.a. or by surveillance cameras hidden around the world tonight president takes a look at a new contraption that allows you to escape hidden cameras. it's hard to tell just how many surveillance cameras there are in the us right now the federal government has given hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for cameras more and more cities are installing them everywhere and of course anyone with about fifty bucks and an internet connection can string them up on their own but just because it's hard to tell how many there are doesn't mean it should be hard to tell where you're in the brains of one of them and a man named james bridle agrees so he went and made something he calls the surveillance balder a sponsor is that medieval piece of armor that goes over the shoulder it was designed to protect you from unexpected unseen blows from above and the surveillance ball there is much like that you wear it on your shoulder and it's designed to protect you only what it's protecting you from is the spying eyes of on scene surveillance cameras from above the way it works is that it contains a detector which filters light in to collect and isolate the infrared lading used in both c.c.t.v. cameras when the sensor detects infrared it sends an electric signal to to transportation electrical nerve stimulation or tens pads attached to the where the shoulder and that electrical poles causes whoever is wearing this baldor to twitch sharply the technology is perfectly state in fact tens pads are commonly used by doctors to help manage pain so if you're wearing the surveillance ball they're out and about and you happen to get within range of a surveillance. by now i has this baldor will make you twit that's how you know you are be watched as bright as i was website this baltar physicalize as the policeman in the mind providing tactile feedback every time one comes under the gaze of power and turns the gentle caress of the surveillance state into a sharp reminder that we inhabit a world of overlapping unequal and often conflicting information flows right on dave's right of the surveillance folder is still a prototype and is probably more of an art piece than a consumer product but i for one think it's brilliant and perfect because when you are i knowingly being watched by someone you don't know it should make you jump a little tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the residence . and finally before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm eastern for larry king's politicking tonight's guest is david gregory moderator of n.b.c.'s meet the press and larry will also take a look at christmas in washington including scenes from the white house with michelle obama here's a snippet of tonight's interview with david gregory at the newseum. we're in the first amendment gallery. and as fit as do those that is the first amendment fair in will the first amendment is very pretty well i think that there are a lot of platforms for expression i think we have ordinary citizens who have applied forms a way they've never had before and to to reach us those of us on air those of us with big. you know broadcast platforms so yeah i mean i think you know there's a lot of debates around. in publishing but that's that's always going to be a tension about what the government things are you know secrets that must be you know maintained for security versus what the public needs to know to have a debate i mean there's no question that whatever you think about words no we wouldn't be debating the security state and the reach of the surveillance had. not been disclosed. that does it for me for tonight before the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and check out our web site r c dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez to find out what i'm doing when i'm not bringing you today's top stories but for now have a great night and a happy holidays. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

dot. there's a red dot on your card. >> how will everyone at home know how to do it? >> we jumped ahead with the instructions for you because of time. all the instructions are on the website. you'll know how to do it. the piece should be cut out on? >> you can use construction paper. you have a red dothis is for dummies. i like it. >> as you put it in position. yes, very good. very good. everybody's got it. >> this is so much fun. >> now, i want you to close the card. i have sticky glue on both sides. when i do this with kids, i call it mashing. then you open it slowly and see if the body twists -- so -- there you go. this is the body. you have to mash it a little bit more. good. if you open it up, you see a little bit of the body of the sea horse there. yes. >> okay. >> great, now. we're going to put the head on. i want you to take your head and pull off your piece of paper here. i got the pieces for you. a little adhesive. >> moving ahead. >> and you're going to put it on the left hand side there. right behind it. lay the head in. >> beautiful. mash it in she's way ahead. >> you people are moving too slow for me. >> i tried it -- >> this one goes actually -- right -- right there. now, let's take the tail. >> i like the tail. >> of course, do you. >> beautiful. we're going to put t

join the conversation at kron 4 dot come or at facebook dot com slash kron 4. merrill newman.- year old palo alto man detained for weeks by north korea -- says, that the so- called confession he made. was something he was forced to do. newman arrived at s-f-o on saturday. he said in statement on monday, the confession had been scripted - and says. he was intentionally emphasizing the awkward phrasing and poor grammar. newman says, the north koreans treated him well -- but his interrogator told him repeatedly, that if he did not apologize for alleged crimes committed during the korean war, he would be sentenced to 15- newman says. in north korea - the war is not over. and even innocent comments can mean big trouble for authorities are searching for a missing family in a wilderness area in nevada. search teams gathered monday near the seven troughs area in lovelock. the family includes four young children---all under ground and aerial teams looked for the family late into the night. the louvrethe group was last seen in a silver jeep with a black top. the search. a chilling disco

frost bank and one that is the stories you can log on to less than that of course is www dot false bank at the dot com and you'll see the latest upcoming added that carries some of which are wrapped up yesterday and peace and security. well finally got something for all you lovers of sweets out there a giant christmas time kate has been on bail. the german city of dresden is all part of the city's money and munched on fast. the huge cake was towed to the street singing course john kerry and accompanied by mocking them is a traditional christmas table sixty six acres help to me that i deserve more than four meters in the almost one year high. the metal ring around four thousand two hundred and fifty students a group of christian truth that's where the things for this addition to stick to the prospect of more headlines coming up shortly hse they showed all his old side. when we bring you the latest news from around the continent. in the country by country into. i showed on monday to friday six fifty am as claimed. all things for joining us here at tech twenty four hour maybe more this rule. the soci

dot com or facebook dot com/kron4. >>darya: i say make them all sizes but they still don't have a regular waste a regular everything. 741 right now. netflix says it fixed an issue with video streaming that affected customers in the u-s, canada and latin ice america tonight. the company tweeted at about 10 p-m eastern it was aware of the problem. about 45 minutes later, netflix tweeted everything was fixed. millions of people tracked santa claus as he made his way across the globe delivering presents to little girls and boys this christmas. still day to after christmas now. that's one of the big stories as ups trying to get those christmas packages to you today. coming up on the kron4 morning news. millions of to draw from around the world wanted to know when and where santa was coming to their town and so we're going to tell you how that tracking went and did a live without live from walnut creek. every time you see hays now i think it's another spare the air day. i figure there's a more smog. we will be right back. good. good answer. check it out. learning's fun now. yeah, back in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet to play and learn online. all we had was that franklin fuzzypants. ah, the educational toy bear. remember when the battery went out? [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abc's. all i learned was a new definition of fear. i need some pudding. yeah, there's one left. 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"norad" says it logged more than 19 million unique visitors to its web site on christmas eve. volunteers also answered 117-thousand calls from children looking for information on santa's whereabouts. an additional 146-thousand followed jolly st. nick on twitter. and nearly one and a half million "likes" on facebook. the numbers are up compared to last year. tracking santa started in 1955 when a local newspaper ad invited children to call santa but mistakenly listed the hotline of norad's predecessor. drones have been a hot topic of conversation lately. from missile strikes. to home-delivery and a drone spreading christmas cheer in san francisco's union square. let's talk weather. we have very clear conditions. a little bit breezy but for the most part pretty comments. at least there will be throughout the afternoon but we do have some overcast clouds coming man. watch out for rip currents and snicker ways if you're heading out to the beach. for the weekend, sunny skies. it will be sunny through the rest of 2013. also be dried. current temperatures 40 and oakland. 46 percent francisco. at 44 the city. oakland by the way set a record high of 67. futurecast 4 3:00 this afternoon here is the system of over cast skies. now bringing in rain or snow. we're back to having clear skies are mandated prayer to warmer. castro valley 64 and union city. 65 of pleasanton. san francisco is going to give up to 63. an 64 year high for now about all. meant to high sixties for the most part. the years eve looking clear and pleasant. the timeout is 748. good morning george. >>george: as expected we are tracking a very light to ride. i think we will see similar conditions treat the bridges experience no backups or delay is that holds true for here at the bay bridge and the san mateo bridge and the golden gate bridge and the dumbarton bridge and problem free also terrific of the approaches look good as well you'll see why we've been reporting light conditions everywhere. interstate 680 the san ramon valley problem free. looking at 680 south yale looks good to the dublin great. your ride here through the south bay problem free. and the north bay ride have stayed under 25 minutes this morning between about and the golden gate bridge. >>mark: with contract and some of the biggest stories of 2013 as we head into the new year and our coverage continues now. >>: chart redwood floors. cracked stained-glass windows street the owner of berkeley and tears. michelle obama student loans. ashton cutters market street kim kardashian car payment. the most serious celebrity car had ever. is now called francis the first pope from outside europe and modern history. the man on baseball is back. >>: of you to die, on the lockerbie excepting entry. >>: and wal-mart and east san jose. >>: and man crashed his car door. >>: it's official of the world famous blue angels will not be flying for this year's week to week-just with week and san francisco. >>: 3 saratoga high school students were arrested in connection with the alleged sexual. >>: this can happen to my daughter it can happen to anyone. >>: a terrorist target the boston marathon. >>: in your sexy and the heart of boston. >>: there's an active incident at watertown. >>: a queue was captured from his hiding place. a bolt in the backyard of the watertown home. >>: and 11 year old has been and the frost of montana's residents. >>: 8 year-old lay low faller was murdered inside her home. her family and morning. >>: please make a dramatic as surprising discovery. >>: when us 200 charged with homicide. but then a bachelorette party and a horrific death. >>: their lincoln limousines suddenly burst into flames and the middle of the san mateo bridge. five women died in the flame. >>: 5 been missing for 10 years and i'm here. >>: crying. >>: three women were rescued after being hostage for more than a decade. >>: aerial castro later found hanged in his prison cell. the house of horrors was torn down. >>darya: you remember some of those stories and a lot more coming up on the kron4 morning news. we'll have more on the year's top stories. we'll be right back. during sleep train's huge year efor a limited time,dels save hundreds on tempur-pedic mattresses. get the most highly-recommended bed in america at closeout prices. plus, get interest-free financing and free same-day delivery. why wait for the new models? sleep train's year end clearance is on now. superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ as good morning thanks for waking up to the kron4 morning knows top stories this friday, december 27th. a vote today by a-c transit workers to try and avoid a strike. we're live in oakland with an update. the family of jahi mc-math has a plan in place to move the 13 year old's body to another facility. but children's hospital oakland says, not so fast. we'll have the latest on this case. and christmas saved. how a bay area family is recovering from having their presents stolen right out from under their tree. the first let's get a check of weather and traffic. >>: a system starting to move again. a lot of cloud cover today. i'll tell you about your forecast. >>george: as we continue to monitor really like traffic. no concern for you this morning. take a look at the bay bridge. you will see just how light the bridge is on the approach. it's like that all on the bay area and for all the other bridges you'll experience very light traffic which every your direction of travel. >>darya: happening nowac transit workers are voting for a third time on a contract that looks to avoid a bus strike. their union leaders reached a deal last week. but there's a chance the tentative agreement will be rejected. a major announcement by the family of jahi mc-math, the 13 year old oakland girl declared brain dead after her tonsil surgery went horribly wrong. her family has lined up 'another' facility to care for her. but the hospital may not go along with that decision. a bay area nursing home, which has not been named, says it is willing to keep caring for jahi. but she needs a tube inserted in her throat and stomach before she can be transferred. and children's hospital oakland is not willing to perform such a surgery. complicating hopes jahi will be able to leave the hospital anytime soon. the family's lawyer has promised to fight the hospital's latest move. insurance will pay to keep jahi on life support. the family of a missing veteran is asking for help >>: is a children's hospital believes that surgical procedures on the body of a deceased person it is inappropriate. >>: that upsets me. that reaffirms what i said earlier that children's hospital is not pro-life. she is not cold hard are dry. she's a living being that need some support and if we can get in here at children's we just want to take her to where we can. because despite what ever roadblocks children's is going to put in the way we are held in and trying to keep this child alive. >>: dollars justine waldman reporting for kron4. the family claims that her blood pressure was normal and she was moving her shoulders. >>: the family of missing veteran is asking for help finding him. derek sell was last seen december 17th at s.f. general. friends say they were worried about his emotional state so that's why they admitted him. but once he checked out, he his father says he's very worried about his son's safety. if we don't get anything out of this interview other than the pain is still my face right now i don't care what happens in your case for what happened to your family members call them up and tell them you love them. it gives them a hug. nothing else matters because of something like this happens and if this is the last time i talk to derrick i know that i told him i love him. and i just want him to come home. and he's hoping someone will come forward with information. derek is a former navy seaman who is 30 years old. he's described as 6-3. 200lbs. with blue eyes and brown hair. anyone with information about derek is asked to call police. a special surprise for a bay area family whose christmas gifts were stolen from their home. this is a picture of the family out of newark. the police department raised about 200 dollars to help the family. but the community went even further, buying a carload of gifts for them and having them delivered by officers. the family woke up christmas morning to find out someone broke into their home on cherry street and took all the gifts from underneath the tree. police say the suspect got in through an unlocked so far, no suspects have been arrested. coming up on the kron four morning news. a 9 year old boy is killed in a plane crash in central california. we'll have the details on that story. plus, entering day two of u-p-s trying to get those late christmas packages to their destinations. we'll have a live report coming up. and we're watching bay area weather and traffic. live look outside at san francisco a subaru... ...are the hands that do good things for the whole community: the environment, seniors, kids, and animals. that's why we created the share the love event. by the end of this year, the total donated by subaru could reach 35 million dollars. you get a great deal on a new subaru. we'll donate 250 dollars to a choice of charities that benefit your community. it feels good to be a helping hand. thanks for waking up to the kron4 morning news. new this morning, an avalanche on a wyoming mountain has killed a san francisco man. 29-year-old mike kazanjy was snowboarding with friends yesterday afternoon near jackson hole.on a slope called "pucker face". when the mountain gave way. and buried him beneath the snow. witnesses say the ski patrol but he was already dead. the county examiner says it looks like kazanjy died on impact. a pilot and a young passenger died after their plane crashed outside a house near a california airport. it happened last night in fresno. investigators say the single-engine cessna plane hit a tree while approaching the chandler executive airport. local media reports say the passenger was the nine-year- old nephew of the pilot. here's a story a lot of people are talking about this morning. something you might expect from a christmas blockbuster. a school of carnivorous fish attacked a large group of people.as they swam in a river in argentina on christmas day. the state run media there says the fish in question is a relative of the pirahna. 70 people were hurt. including a seven-year-old girl.a fish bit off part of her pinky finger! it's summer in argentina right now. and the place where the attack happened is a popular swimming spot. swimming spot. good. good answer. check it out. learning's fun now. yeah, back in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet to play and learn online. all we had was that franklin fuzzypants. ah, the educational toy bear. remember when the battery went out? [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abc's. all i learned was a new definition of fear. i need some pudding. yeah, there's one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. we're now two days after christmas. and still, some gifts haven't made it under the tree because of what's being called a "big brown fail". kron 4's jackie sissel is live now in san francisco at a u-p-s center. and jackie. a lot of unhappy people want their packages! you can see the conveyor belts. i'm here at the distribution center my package was supposed debate today by christmas day. in fact the tracking number had said it had been delivered and it wasn't. that's the same story for a lot of people. here's video from earlier this week. it wasn't just ups. it was also fedex. one of the problem is the time between thanksgiving and christmas was shorter the shares of the timeframe to get those packages out was tougher. with the big thing let's face it it's just the sheer volume of people that are shopping online and those packages have to be delivered. fedex says they delivered almost 275 million packages over the holiday season. ups does for them is closer to 130 million. they're hoping by today will be able to catch up with a back log so even if you were expecting a press and by christmas are before christmas issue be of the door today. here at the retailers are actually cutting back and giving refunds and discounts on shipping. amazon has already said they're going to do with some kids cards that just distribute the gift cards to help with shipping costs. but they said as much as you like the discount and the cheaper shipping fee. it's frustrating. they apologized and they want to reevaluate what happened on how they can fix it for next year. >>: i don't want to say don't oxide. traffic has that light so that will help but you can see for yourself. as darya said a spare the air date nonetheless did today in a row. we can go ahead and take a look at our weather have lines as they come on. high clouds. it's what we will see later on today. and they've heard this before mid-60s and high 60s. we certainly could use some wet weather. we can actually look at futurecast 43 3:00 this afternoon and to the clouds starting to move then. but it will be moving in your brain. as they pushed through tomorrow morning. the tasting will drop and were back to our clear skies. what a good thing is we get to enjoy some warm temperatures. 68 and campbell. 67 going to be a high and san jose. we're looking for a little bit of room. 63 and san leandro. 63 in petaluma. 64 m petaluma 3 kron4 armonk 7 day around the bay forecast. ventura is togo's of 14 your evening plans. should be nice for a time now is 818. here's a george. >>j.r.: there are no delays through the san ramon valley from walnut creek as we had saw through alamo danville. of the bay bridge toll plaza of the conditions. as a check the road sensors you'll see it's mostly grain showing up. a little slowing upon the nimitz having passed high street were speeds drive down to about 50. south bay a little congestion through the downtown area but no delays because of it. and the north bay ride is the way for a southbound. we have thick of a little slowing right at the 580 march through central san rafeal on 101 southbound. >>darya:the connecticut state police will release its report on the sandy hook elementary school shooting today at three p-m. it's expected to be thousands of pages long. last month, prosecutors issued a summary of the investigation into the december 2012 shooting that killed 20 students and six staff members. the summary did not reveal gunman adam lanza's motive. lanza, who had significant mental health issues according to the report, committed suicide as police arrived. a simple question on facebook about this barbie has created an online tug- of-war over obesity and body image. the site, plus-size- modeling, posted this pic of a plus-sized barbie with the caption: "should toy companies start making plus-sized dolls?" the reaction has garnered nearly 40,000 likes and more than 2,500 comments, with many people agreeing with the premise - that barbie, a relic of the 1950s, should be reinvented and depicted in a more 1950s, should be reinvented and depigood.in a more good answer. check it out. learning's fun now. yeah, back in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet to play and learn online. all we had was that franklin fuzzypants. ah, the educational toy bear. remember when the battery went out? [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abc's. all i learned was a new definition of fear. i need some pudding. yeah, there's one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. you should strive for. eileen mcguire: barbie is no where close to a proportional real girl or woman. i think they can make a barbie closer to a real woman's proportion, but no to the overweight version!!! morgan giulianelli:. she can be thick and healthy but a double chin is not the right message. tell us what you think. join the conversation at kron 4 dotat facebook dot com slash kron 4. therefore triumphs and heartbreak that rocked the bay area after it and i were looking at some of the stories that made headlines in 2013. but a deadly accidents and a high its stake sailing competition. >>: the america's cups family grieves the loss of 36 year old sailor. kron4 gets up close and personal with the dark underside of the bay bridge. >>: this is one of the 32 routes that has broken. >>: the serial killer known as the night stalker is dead. you don't have to have done anything wrong. >>: spilling secrets critic edward snowden. the government keeps tabs on every call and the u.s. and cast directly into the central servers of nine leading internet companies. >>: naked man rampages through a bart station. the woman who was originally attacked. >>: kids over here ma'am. >>: it's a good day to be a gay american courage from the streets to the castro to the steps of the supreme court. and i now declare you partners for life. >>: me directly we r

and shouldn't be rebuilt started months after the storm when in early 2006 the green dot map was unveiled. there were dots on low lying neighborhoods that should be considered for future parks instead of full-scale redevelopmentment. the lower ninth ward was within of those neighborhoods. the message was clear, redevelopment should focus on areas with the best chance for recovery, not neighborhoods lie the lower niensds which had the highest percentage of black ownership in the nation. but there are those who are committed to rebuild the lower ninth ward as was. this woman runs a non-profit committed to rebuilding as many homes as possible. >> what would be here where you finally say my work is done? >> our work will be done when he stop getting calls from people who say i want to get back in my house. that it's not happening yet. >> reporter: with private donations lane voluntary labor she has restored over 60 homes including ula white. she says she always knew she would come back. >> i had an attitude about coming back. i had an attitude. i was like, this is where i grew up at and this is where i want t

dot-bank and dot-insurance. it may not sound like a big deal but it is a really huge deal today because everybody's bank information, insurance information travels over the dot-com network which is a really, really broad network. think about it like a 24-lane highway with a lot of people going 90 miles an hour. a lot of chance for problems on that type of scenario. this new, much more controlled domain will allow it to be more like a four-lane, well-controlled access highway so that your information will be shared in a much more traveling and much more confident aol and secure way. also, making substantial dollar investments in something we call information-sharing through fsisac which is an organization which works works to share and analyze information between institutions. what we're basically doing there is dramatically increasing capacity of ffisac to make available information to all of the 14,000 banks and credit unions around the, around the country because today the information is moving snail pace when we get it and in the future it has to move real time. so we're really happy about that. we're also simultaneously investing a lot of money in develo

behind it corruption and the adoption rate is skyrocketing and you've got oversight dot com run by overstocked overstock dot com for example who's now going to be using bitcoin in twenty four states or other retailers like amazon or walmart or a rest of these retailers will have to follow suit bits and be competitive other hedge funds will have to buy a big coin to be competitive so i see the valuation as i've said on my twitter stream the valuation a bit going to fifty billion dollars that implies a price of around forty five hundred to five thousand per bitcoin and again twenty fourteen it's not the year of what they exchange rate is it's the year of the revolution that is crypto occur. forget the price nobody cares about the price think about what it's going to get rid of jamie diamond you're not going to care about the crimes to me diamond commits because who cares it's going to be a small percentage of the global economy now let's talk about those men with guns and the n.s.a. what snowden has unleashed upon the world the tweet reads silicon valley's losses from its n.s.a. collusion could be as high as

dots. we need programs to connect the dots. >> but it didn't stop 9/11. is there a case where it did work? >> we didn't have the programs, >> i imagine there are some people who are so frightened, who are so scared that they feel that whatever the government might do including denying them their own civil liberties somehow is in order to protect them from the boogeymen who are lying underneath their bed. (vo) al jazeera america we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. (vo) we pursue that story beyond the headline, past the spokesperson, to the streets. >> thousands of riot police deployed across the capitol. (vo) we put all of our global resources behind every story. >> it is a scene of utter devastation. (vo) and follow it no matter where it leads, all the way to you. al jazeera america. take a new look at news. >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. >> in many ways, the nsa surveillance story can seem abstract. in the stream of new revelations from the snowden documents, it can be hard to grasp. sure, the government is collecting information, but what does that really mean for someone's life? to find out, we went to a meet a group of people who definitely know they're being spied on. >> after 9/11 it wasn't just the nsa that increased surveillance on u.s. citizens. here at the city level in new york, the nypd actually brought in two senior officials from the cia to help run a program to spy on its own citizens. >> the program, which was uncovered by the associated press, is targeting one community: muslims. secret documents show that the nypd is conducting surveillance of entire muslim neighborhoods and infiltrating dozens of mosques and muslim student groups. >> they visited bookstores, they visited cafes, they visited hookah joints, and of course they visited mosques... >> informants record conversations using hidden microphones, collect the names and phone numbers of congregants and even photograph them. >> they were listening for, you know, what were people talking about, how were they reacting to foreign events abroad, you know, the egyptian revolution or you know, the cartoons about the prophet muhammed and the danish publication, what was the chatter, what were the imams saying in their sermons? >> to justify this, the nypd secretly labeled entire mosques as "terrorist organizations". >> so it was total surveillance, it was suspicion-less surveillance. in other words the nypd wasn't necessarily pursuing concrete, specific leads having to do with a criminal investigation or a crime, they were really engaged in a mapping effort. >> can i get a shwarma? >> everyone is a target, and every place is fair game, including this restaurant. it was listed in a secret nypd document as a "location of concern," along with other restaurants, cafes and bakeries in the area. all of them, the nypd says, are owned by arabs or muslims. >> it's funny because some of the nypd who were doing the spying, their supervisors kept noticing that they were going to the same restaurants. so they finally asked them you know is that a real hot spot, is there a lot of activity there? and it just turned out the cops liked the food a lot. can't blame them. >> the nypd's policy when it comes to muslims seems to be "collect it all." >> no detail of muslim public life in new york was too insignificant or too trivial to record. and not just to record in a police report secretly, but to sort of retain it, and possibly to share it. >> i certainly know that i'm being surveilled. they've told me that i'm being surveilled. it's not a question for me. it's a reality. >> soheeb amin was a student at brooklyn college and the president of the muslim student group there, when it was being monitored by the nypd. the police kept tabs on the group's website, and it did the same at other colleges and universities in new york and beyond. they also had informants or undercover officers infiltrate the groups. >> i will drive myself crazy if i had to ask myself is this guy an informant for every person that i met. so i just tell myself, look, i'm not going to do, i don't do anything wrong, i don't say anything wrong, if they go after me on nothing there's nothing i can do about that. so i have two friends sitting over there who i trust but that's because i've known them for a long time. and it's probably only recently, not too long ago, that i could have told myself yeah, they're not out to get me. and i would love to think i'm being paranoid, but that's the reality. >> so it does it make you kind of paranoid about every phone call or email or text? >> it's still silly to say, but i'll read a text or email and i'll just assume there's a third party reading it. sometimes we'll throw in a joke like you know haha nypd or something like that. especially if like something political is touched on, it will be like uh, just to clarify for the third party and then we'll actually clarify. and part of me thinks we're not joking when we do that. >> this is the bay ridge neighborhood in new york. it's actually part of brooklyn and it's like a center of life for arab americans in new york city. you can see a lot of signs are in arabic. there are halal grocery stores and it's also a real hot spot for nypd surveillance. >> it seems like no institution is off limits to the nypd. police department documents show they planned to place an informant on the board of the arab american association of new york. it was part of a "terrorist enterprise" investigation. >> is there any reason to believe that something here could be a terrorist group or activity? >> if helping kids with their homework and teaching immigrant women english is terrorist activities then i guess so. i don't know, i don't think there is any reason to believe that an organization with good people, trying to do good work would be engaged in any type of activity. >> so this one of the secret documents that was leaked to the associated press. and what it does is it talks about multiple mosques and organizations and people that we know so that are mentioned in here and when i saw first saw it, so it says, it's looking at confidential informant profiles and looking for the right people to infiltrate particular centers or organizations. here we're number two. >> whoa, there you are huh. >> and that's what's so hurtful about this nypd spying program is that our own community mistrust each other. mistrusting law enforcement is one thing, we'll get over that one day, but the fact that we, our fabric of our community is broken is what really hurts me the most that people can't trust each other. you come this country because it's america, because it's about liberty and justice and freedom and our community doesn't believe that that applies to them. >> i remember we had political discussions in class that i really didn't want to get involved in. i remember i had one professor that said that if he was in iraq he'd probably be on the other side. and i remember just looking at him thinking i'd be in jail if i thought that. >> they're like listen we're muslim, don't tell us about the constitution, that has nothing to do with us. what do you mean it has nothing to do with us, you're american, it does have something to do with you. that breaks my heart when people say that, that that doesn't apply to us. of course it does, but it's hard for me to prove that based on the real-life experiences of people in our community and based on black and white documents. how can i stand in front of my community and say no, you're not targeted, you're not targets, you're not victims. they are, they absolutely are. >> there's a constant level of anxiety that actually on a biological basis can be very hazardous to one's health, there's also self-stigma, you begin to internalize the stigma and sometimes if you don't have a strong support system in your community, begin to think negatively about yourself, or perhaps your community. >> the nypd declined our request for an interview. police commissioner ray kelly and mayor michael bloomberg stood behind the programs, insisting that they don't target anyone without a lead. polls show that the majority of new yorkers think the nypd treatment of muslims has been appropriate. >> i think the "not me" effect also ties in with whether or not they believe a search or surveillance is reasonable and whether or not you believe invasions of privacy are reasonable really depends upon the extent to which you believe that certain groups deserve to have their privacy violated, those are the "others." they're not me. >> we can't let this happen to this community because if we let it happen to muslims, you better guarantee it's going to become broader and it's going to happen to some other community along the line and we're going to remember and say damn if we would have done something when it was happening to muslims, this would never have happened. right now were not there yet. >> it's always acceptable when the costs are being borne by someone else. now all of a sudden there's some awareness socially that, oh wow, the nsa is actually doing is on sort of on a universal, all-encompassing scale. right, like everyone is a subject of that surveillance. >> the nypd admitted in court that its surveillance of muslims never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation. the question of whether mass surveillance is effective in keeping people safe, is also at the heart of the debate over the nsa's programs. and nowhere is that debate more consequential than in washington dc's halls of power. >> it's been several months since the snowden leaks and the story isn't going away yet. now congress is holding a series of public hearings. today is the first one and we're going to hear general alexander and director clapper testify. >> what we do not do is spy unlawfully on americans or for that matter, spy indiscriminately on the citizens of any country. we only "spy" for valid intelligence purposes as authorized by law with multiple layers of oversight to ensure we do not abuse our authorities. >> nsa's programs have contributed to understanding and disrupting 54 terror-related events, 25 in europe, 11 in asia, five in africa, and 13 in the united states. this was no accident. this was not coincidence. that claim was challenged a week later. >> we've heard over and over again the assertion that 54 terrorist plots were thwarted by the use of 215 and 702. that's plainly wrong. these weren't all plots and they weren't all thwarted. the american people are getting left with inaccurate impressions of the effectiveness of the nsa programs. would you agree that the 54 cases that keep getting cited by the administration were not full plots? yes or no? >> yes. >> we're talking about massive, massive, massive collection. we're told we have to do that to protect us and then statistics are rolled out. if they're not accurate, it doesn't help the credibility here in the congress. it doesn't help the credibility with the country. >> 215 and 702 are shorthand for the sections of laws the nsa uses to legally justify its collection programs. fault lines asked general alexander to name a case where these programs played a key role. >> there are several cases that we put out: the basaaly moalin, with the respect to 215 is probably the best case. fbi gave that an open hearing, that's a great one to use. just think, how do you connect the dots between the foreign intelligence agencies, and the domestic? i think these are the best tools; we need tools to stop it. >> the case in san diego was about $8,500 that went to somalia? >> yeah, and i don't have the specifics, but it's open record so you can pull that up pretty easy. >> this is one of the major cases they use to justify these programs and he just told us that he didn't know the specifics of it. >> there has, to my knowledge with classified clearance, never ever been a terrorist attack in the united states that's been foiled by use of any of this information. not even once, and they've been collecting this information since right after 9/11. so, there's just no basis for it. it just isn't any use. one thing that you hear from them is that they are looking for a needle in a haystack. what they're actually doing is creating a haystack and then inserting a needle in it. >> we're here today for a very simple reason, to defend the fourth amendment. >> after the leaks, as out