most of my time is spent with this gigabit project. google did a great thing for this country when they said, we would like to buy this. 1100 communities applied. that does not mean that all of the citizens want to sign up for a gigabit, but it does mean that they recognize that this is the future. we want to lead in that future. we want that to come to our communities. one company, one city is not enough. we need a critical mass of maybe 10 or 20. with that university -- we thought university towns were the best places. >> is it economically feasible to do that? >> i'm not sure if it is economically feasible nationwide. part of what they have done very well -- and you have to give the city a lot of credit for this -- they have looked at this as a problem of how to utilize existing efforts alone the costs of the plan? the project in maine and florida and already one in chicago. can we utilize pre-existing apps to bring more bandwidth at a lower price? in the short term, that is a idea to get it going. >> what is it that you are doing t

chattanooga has a gigabit deployment. the mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel, recently put out a request for information saying the city wanted to deploy gigabit so we can be a leader or in bandwidth-delivered innovation and got a number of responses. a group i work with is working with a number of university communities to do that same thing, and we're talking to lots of different mayors who recognize broadband's not just an intertapement tool, it's really an economic development tool. and we're going to have to have bigger quantities, we're going to have to have faster, cheaper, better broadband if we want to be at the forefront of the next generation of innovation. >> host: well, you said you were in seattle, mr. levin, what do you do today? >> guest: i'm sorry -- >> host: what's your job? >> guest: that's a good question. i'm at the aspen institute, but most of my time is with this gig.u project. also when we noticed -- google did a great thing for this country, i think, you know, when they said we'd like to try this, and

to ten gigabits that's why they're building bluffdale because they have to have more storage because they can't figure out what's important so there are storing everything there so that e-mails going to be stored there for the future but right now it's stored in different places around the country but it is being collected and is that has an act and f.b.i. has you know has to be to it collected in bulk without even requesting yes the providers and then what about google you know releasing that this by annual transparency report and saying that the government demand for personal data is at an all time high and for for all of those requests in the u.s. google says they complied with the government demands ninety percent of the time but they're still saying that they're making the requests this not like it's all being funneled into into that storage what do you say to them well i would soon that that's the simple you know the source of the same data that they're already collecting. mark klein in his declarations in the court about the a t.n.t. facility in san francisco did documented th

apple introducing a new ipad with 128 gigabites of storage. market camp back over 430 billion. that's right, the most valuable company, some $12 billion more than exxon-mobil, number two. blackberry 10, the stock miranda -- morn doubled in anticipation of the phone with a new operating system. ahead of the announcement, reflected cautious, a little doubt. all praising the immigration innovation act by a group of senators, as we said earlier, including senator marco rubio. joining me to talk potential impacts on the tech industry and what it going on. the tech industry is not contactually dull. that's why the senior editor for all things focusing relentlessly. >> thanks for having me. lou: the visa, in my opinion, the bane of the technology sector because it's misused, abused, and misunderstood forever. >> yes, exactly. when you talk to tech executives across the political spectrum, all leaning republican, a devoted democrat -- lou: chamber of commerce, believe the same stuff. >> exactly. the basic argument goes like this. when foreign students

with 128 gigabits, twice the storage pace. will it will cost $800.d in at $940. they will be available next tuesday. there are also ideas that apple will unveil new changes later this year. >>> it's been three months to the day since thousands were forced out of their homes by superstorm sandy. and after a long bout in limbo, federal aid for those affected is finally on the way. the senate cleared the bill 62-42 on monday. president obama sent praises to congress for passing the $50 billion emergency relief major. the major is aimed primarily at helping areas with businesses as well as state and local governments rebuild. sandy hit the area in october and is blamed for deaths and billions of damage in price damages. >>> let's check in with hampton pearson. he joins us with that and the rest of the headlines. >> good morning. all of that is scriis contributa mixed bag. the dow is up 58 points.nasdaq is down one, s&p is up 5 points. home prices accelerated in november compared to a year ago. rising sale and higher supply of homes pushing prices up 0.6%

it doubles the tablet's current maximum capacity. 128 gigabites.that means you can store 100 dvd quality movies or 30,000 songs. i don't even use apps. the only other thing that changes is the price which starts at $799 for wifi only. it is set for release february 5th but editor in chief of "laptop" magazine tells us the timing is curious, given they are releasing their latest tablet on the 9th. apple is trying to steal a little of their thunder. >>> we are learning more about the fire in which 234 people were killed in brazil. a santa maria police department inspectors says fireworks used by the band that night were intended for outdoor use and accuses the band of intentionally purchasing the fireworks because they were cheaper than those for indoor use. he also said investigators found evidence of faulty and fake fire extinguishers. fake fire extinguishers. here in the united states, robert solomon of the national fire protection association says one reason the fire was so bad was because of the combustible acoustic material in the building. he

and you say, well, do i really need one gig -- gigabit? think about 40 how your world -- how hour world could change. there's no difference between your computer and the computer center that it talks to. they're literally in one room together. it allows all the different media that we so carefully have husbanded into this group and this group, they all go away because you can handle as many dvds as you want, all the media all dynamically and all realtime on this format. so if the technology works, and so far the results are fantastic, right? if the business work, so far it looks like it's going to be a very profitable business, it may be possible for us and others to wire the new world at a gigabit. and that's the next step change from roughly today, give you an example, your average performance is on the order of 100 times less than that. >> but i want to come back to the search. i mean, is the -- when you look at these initiatives, do you try also to bring them back to how they can make money for google? >> we don't, we have the luxury o

it may be possible for us and others to what your the new world in a gigabit and that is the next step change to give you an example of the average performance on the order. >> i want to come back to the search. when you look at these initiatives, do you try also to bring them back to how they can make money for google? >> we have the luxury of not worrying about that much because we try not to worry about these things. we have the luxury of time because the core revenue is so strong. our success in search continues and the way to think about the search is to think that search is in perfect because it gives a lot of choices. we would like to be able to give the one answer that's correct and so if again you ought to in and this is all that stuff, the more information you tell about yourself and the more accurate the result can be. the next generation will be much more targeted and we may get to the point you should be searching for >> i guess that will be our motto so here you are in the city as you walk along the streets of new york we tell you the history of the streets to the easy en