intelligence officials are on their way to washington after it was revealed the nsa was monitoring merkle. a coalition of advocacy groups is marching on the national mall to protest the massive scope of nsa surveillance. peter doocy is following those developments now. peter? >> doug, just across the street from the bureau in dc in front of union station, a substantial crowd is gathering now for an event organized by the aclu and the stop watching us coalition. a statement from nsa leak erred ward snowden is going to be read at this rally. it says, quote, we learned the united states intelligence community secretly built a system of pervasive surveillance. today no telephone in america is made without a record in the nsa and no transaction enters or leaves america without passing through the nsa's hands. representatives in congress, tell us this is not surveillance, but they are wrong. intelligence officials officials from germany will be in washington very soon to follow-up on reports that the nsa monitored german chancellor angela merkle's phone. merkle says allies should never conduct

the european council and the commission and of course press conferences from francois and angela merkle. what is likely to happen over the next few months is that france and germany will try to negotiate a new framework for cooperation on intelligence with the united states. there was that sponing press conferences overnight. angela merkle of course believes her own phone was monitored by the americans and her view the relationship with america has to change radically and she wants to see deep changes and assurances there will be a fresh relationship and in short she wants to make sure america sticks to the promise she had from president obama not to monitor her phone calls, this is reading between the loins but not that far between the lines, frankly that she doesn't want the united states to indulge in espionage because there's an expliss it threat from her and implicit threat that intelligence gathering next to terrorism is dent on the mutual trust and respect so in other words they may not get the help they need keep their borders safe unless they show toronto the european nations a

angela merkle said they monitored her cell phone and they say spying on friends is never acceptable. according to a report, the nsa listened in on the phone convo of 35 world leaders after another official gave the agency his rolodex. meanwhile, how are the relations between lemurs and the baby goats? >> the guy was holding the camera like this, yeah, go ahead. get your milk. get your milk. >> i will leave that without comment t comment. has oliver stone convinced you of anything? >> no. i am fine with nsa surveillance, let me just say that. but it is insane these people think the nsa is snooping through their e-mails. like any of them are saying, i wonder what wesley crusher is doing to night? only an actor is so vein. >> i have written a lot of fan mail about what wesley crusher may be doing. let's not be so quick to judge. >> andy, she is right. why would anybody spy on oliver stone when oliver stone himself does not shut up. >> we are missing the p oi nt. jake gylenhaal looks fantastic. he deserves a shoutout or a shower. first of all i donate to the electronic frontier associati

angela merkle dialing president obama to ask if the nsa was tapping her cell phone. and if so, germany says that would be a breach of trust and unacceptable. edward snowden strikes again. chancellor merkle's suspicions came from a germen magazine which had published leaks from snowden. >> people all over the world are realizing that these programs don't make us more safe. >> reporter: germany is especially sensitive to reports of american snooping. the country has very tight privacy laws. so much so that when google tried to street view homes, germans insisted on the right to blur or in in german -- at the white house today, an explanation. >> united states is not monitoring the communications of the chancellor. >> reporter: and leaves his friends violated. he told the french president that the nsa vacuumed up 70 million e-mails and phone calls in france just during one month last year. and in mexico, many remain angry over reports the nsa hacked into the former mexican president's e-mail. and brazil's president, well, she took a harder stance. after outrage at home,

is not tapping merkling's calls.ean intelligence chiefs are expetted in washington for answers. >>> protestors delivered a petition to congress where legislation to curb domestic surveillance is expected in the coming weeks. >>> a man tried to bring a loaded rifle on to a plane at kennedy international airport. he was arrested. police say he was boarding a flight to north carolina when officers found the weapon. investigators say he had high capacity magazines which are illegal in new york. he is being held on six count of criminal possession. >>> a crackdown on panhandling they want to ban begging for money 10 feet from city restaurants and shops and 5 feet from parking meters. opponents say this does not tackle the the right issue. >> what we should focus on is ending the need for solicitation by ending poverty. we should end homelessness if we want to address this. >> the proposal heads to full council november 4th but free speech groups argue it is too broad and could be considered unconstitutional. >>> it was an

truth of the matter is, if we're monitoring the cell phone of an ally like germany, right, angela merkle, the president should know, shouldn't he? >> erin, there are thousands of intelligence data developed every day. it's absolutely impossible to know every detail in them. when it comes to this, and you look at it, you say 20/20 hindsight. if there's something critical in that information the president should know about it. if it's collection information there's no possible way he or anybody else could know what facts are collected every day. >> which is interesting and i think it's significant. you're a republican senator sort of defending the idea he might not have known. look, spying on the world leader of another major country is just a policy the president should have been aware of. but let me ask you about this, sir. because some folks on both sides of the aisle are defending what the nsa are doing and they're defending it point blank. and one of them might surprise you. here we go. >> they also rely on a lot of the information we gather to protect themselves. >> it keeps the fren

truth of the matter is, if we're monitoring the cell phone of an ally like germany, right, angela merkle, the president should know, shouldn't he? >> erin, there are thousands of intelligence data developed every day. it's absolutely impossible to know every detail in them. when it comes to this, and you look at it, you say 20/20 hindsight. if there's something critical in that information the president should know about it. if it's collection information there's no possible way he or anybody else could know what facts are collected every day. >> which is interesting and i think it's significant. you're a republican senator sort of defending the idea he might not have known. look, spying on the world leader of another major country is just a policy the president should have been aware of. but let me ask you about this, sir. because some folks on both sides of the aisle are defending what the nsa are doing and they're defending it point blank. and one of them might surprise you. here we go. >> they also rely on a lot of the information we gather to protect themselves. >> it keeps the fren

- a german magazine reportand that e belonging to a german belonging to german chancellor angela merkleas tapped. tapped. >> ".our authorities." >> catherine: the white house is supposedly considering banning eavesdropping on friendly foreign leaders. >> catherine: it turns out that officials knew the affordable care act' was 'not' ready for prime-time. or anytime for that matter. people who worked on the website had warned the white house there were problems. as joe john's reports, the warnings came a month before the program's launch-date. >> catherine: cnn has learned that the obama administration was warned in september that the obamacare website wasn't ready to go live. in this report for the previous month transmitted to the government by one of the contractors, cgi. >> reporter:the report gave "the highest priority" to things in plain language like "we dont have access to monitoring tools" "not enough time in schedule to conduct adequate performance testing"and "hub services are intermittently the 'site's not working sometimes'. >> reporter:cgi saying back in september place to a

one thing if obama knows about it -- >> he claimed he didn't know the nsa had been bugging angela merkle for years. >> they are in an agency or oliver norths, we don't need that. >> what about edward snowden in terms of the amount he disclosed. people have a view of manning on wiki lakes. >> movies are too long. yes, i mean the -- i can't remember the guy's name. i think it's bradford who said, you know, when you keep making the haystack bigger, it's harder to find the needle. look how many people are on the terrorist watch list, over a million. how many people have security clearance, how much space we're building to house the data we're collecting. that's the big problem. we don't focus and do it efficiently. we don't do it like israelis do and greed. money leads everything. once a program starts, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger whether that's needed or not because the pigs get their snouts in the trough. it's another version of the 3,000 tanks we have sitting rotting in a field somewhere in california because even the army said we don't want these tanks. doesn't matter. we're sti

american intelligence have been eavesdropping on the chancellor's cell foevenlt this is a day after merkle phoned president obama to ask about the allegations. today she said trust between us us and partners has to be restored >> we're tied in with the us us and trust is a important part of the relationship now that has to be reestablished between us. spying among friends is never acceptable. >> she made the comments in a summit in belguim that risks being over-shah shadowed offer the allegations. >> grief counselors met with a students at a high school where a popular teacher was killed by a 15-year-old. a class mate says she heard the teacher ask him to stay after school on the night she was killed. >> reporter: between hugs, tears and lingering question. why? a beloved math teacher killed at the hands of one student >> she was just a young, caring girl with a world ahead of her. to be shaken -- taken so tragically. it's awful >> investigators say the 24-year-old was stabbed to death in the faculty bathroom near boston. they claim a 14-year-old was behind the attack. the freshman reporte

. >> reporter: the white house won't say if he knew about the merkle eavesdropping but admits damage has been done. >> we are mindful that these disclosures have caused tension in our relationships. elmar brock is part of a delegation urging the u.s. to stop spying on allies. >> i think we have to make a clear distinction between terrorists but not spying on friends. >> reporter: the e.u. delegation meets with senator feinstein this morning. on capitol hill, susan mcginnis, wjz eyewitness news. >> white house officials will meet with the european union delegates later today. in an interview the president says there needs to be additional constraints on how the u.s. gathers intelligence. >>> chris brown is out of jail. a judge reduced the charges to misdemeanor assault and ordered him released without bail. brown and a bodyguard are charged with getting in a fight with a man outside of a washington, d.c. hotel. brown is is due back in court next month. >>> an emergency landing in oklahoma is caught on camera. it skid to a stop on the runway sending sparks flying. the bottom line, the

the majority of germans said their favorite option is merkle joining up with the opposition. >>> theults of a referendum should be known by saturday. the 60-member chamber scrutinizes and sometimes delays the passage of bills. >>> the bozdyes of dozens of bosnian war victims are being exhumed. it was discovered early last month. al jazeera's course pondent is there. >> reporter: the mass grave which has been discovered last month is one of the largest in this part of the country. the mass grave continues the bodies of victims who had been killed in summer 1992. during the process authorities found the victim's watches, documents and some money. they concluded that some remains had been moved from this mass grave to another in order to hide the truth about war crimes. for the families left behind it is a hope, and gives opportunity to find a reconciliation with the past. [ inaudible ] which is now the republic remains silent. they said only they don't want to talk about past. >>> the netherlands says it will launch international efforts against russia to recover the ship of green peac

today without confirming if in fact the usa did spying on merkle or leaders, the french president ande surveillance could jeopardize their corporation with the u.s. on intelligence gathering. >> translator: we have an on going dialogue with the americans regarding both the past what's been done, but it should also and most importantly deal with the present and the future. >> translator: words will not be sufficient through change if necessary. >> they went on a offer a way out proposing talks to set groundwork and germans offering to send a delegation of experts to work things out. jim shutto. >> she said they will be sending a delegation to the u.s. to talk to the u.s. about this. in effect, try to put it behind these two countries that are close allies but the fact she's making this trip or sending this delegation over means she believes they need to discuss it and set rules going forward for what's acceptable and what's not acceptable. both sides they know they spy sometimes but clearly the extent and scale has gone too far for many of the close's allies. >> and the white house in

may have spide on the german chancellor angela merkle's mobile phone and 35 world leaders have had theirhe bbc's katy washington in washington. >> e.u. leaders stayed up until the early hours of friday morning with the latest allegations of u.s. spying activities, overshadowing everything else angry that not even allies are spared erica's prying eyes, they want -- >> for the future we have to change something here, and i get impression that the american president sees the necessity of that as well, because friendship between the member states are not a one-way street. >> there are some behaviors and practices that cannot be accepted. surveillance is being led by the american services. that it happens and given that this can apply to all citizens including a number of europe ann leaders, we need to put an end to it and we need some clarification. >> concerns in europe aren't being eased by the latest revelations coming from this man. according to a memo published in october of 2006 which was provided by edward snowden and published in the guardian newspaper, senior officials and several d

he's now angry about nsa surveillance because he doesn't like the fact that angela merkle's phone wasself, the buck stops here. i'm the president of the united states. and he needs to make it clear within the white house that it's important that the bad news get to him because if he gets the bad news then he can prevent the problems. but you know how that works in the white house, wolf, people protect the president. they don't like it to go up the chain of command to the president. and he becomes isolated. and there has to be some way as a president as a manager, you say you know what, that's not good for me, and it's not good for the country. >> his aides or other officials at hhs knew there were problems in early september. we got the document showing those concerns. but apparently nobody shared those concerns with the president. >> right. and why would the president be the last to know. we've heard in history oh, they're always the last to know. but in terms of this, 24 is an important issue to the president. if you'll recall, during the whole irs controversy, the president didn't