eyes of quite a few privacy rights advocates now the president on the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy democrat from vermont he's been around for. quite a long time now when you when the when this first bill was passed i spoke to his office a little while ago he says this is a huge victory this is a much needed progress he spoke on camera just a little while ago. three decades out in fact what effect problem americans face even greater threats the digital privacy we witness explosion new technology and the expansion of the government's surveillance powers. and i might say those powers not just in the federal government but state governments. well currently and until this bill becomes law it would be was very easy for agencies to get access to anything that's been stored on a third of server third party server for more than one hundred eighty days so that's a about six months if you've kept something as we do list as most of us do often keep emails and private communications because as we know we have so much storage so this was so much easier to be able to get what they would call an a

earlier versions of the bill the democratic chairman of the senate judiciary committee vermont's patrick leahy said the law should protect internet users by requiring law enforcement agencies to obtain a search warrant before looking at any e-mail but a new version of the bill heavily influenced by law enforcement agencies makes it even easier for the government to read our e-mails as seen ever reports the new bill would give twenty two different agencies the legal authority to read emails private google docs person to person twitter messages and private facebook posts all without a search warrant the law also doesn't even require the f.b.i. and homeland security to notify the user or even a judge at the end of last week under pressure from several privacy organizations including the american civil liberties union senator leahy dropped his support for this new law but as a right now the bill still remains loaded with intrusive provisions and it's still scheduled to be voted on by the senate later this week so what more do you need to know about it what does privacy mean really in the digital a

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i just want to stand up and put a major shout out for leader nancy pelosi and norm poland and patrick leahy. all of whom -- [applause] >> all of whom -- [applause] not just great leadership. real, deep personal commitments. and we shouldn't just thank them. we should shout their names across the land. and i actually, i do not -- i can't even consider the number of lives that have been transformed and saved by these people. and it must be millions. and people are alive because these people exist. gene sperling is here tonight. these people are heroes to me. it's a critic duty with the global citizen in mind. and you know if george bush was here. and i know his daughter, barbra is here, i would get matt dame on the kiss him on the lips. and i would give him a more sort of irish, macho sort of handshake thing. and you know, it's incredible. it's incredible what -- you know george bush, president bush's name is in the history books. it's on the forward. raised health crisis in 600 years, both sides working. if bill clinton was here at his alma mater. well, i'd just get him to make the speech. i

vermont senator patrick leahy this morning did another 180. reversed himself for the second time. in a controversy over the way police read people's e-mail. he at first said his office would craft a new law making it harder for police to see your e-mail without a warrant. this came after the fbi was able to read 10,000 e-mails between several u.s. generals and their lady friends without any warrant or even evidence of a crime. leahy said he'd put a stop to that. then under pressure from law enforcement leahy not only dropped the idea, he wrote a bill that would make easier. then twitter users got upset for that reversal. this morning, the senator said, you know what, never mind. >> ah, guess that's a politician's prerogative. >> 180/180/180. you do the math. >> the ultimate flip-flop. all right, scott, thank you very much. >>> time to check that forecast with meteorologist loren. >> a stark contrast from yesterday. we had quite a bit of rainfall yesterday, overnight. this morning, a few light showers, mostly concentrated in the south bay. this is a very big travel day. people comi