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And low key speakers in the last several generations. the 73-year-old resigned his position as a lobbyist yesterday. thats a job he held since leaving congress in 2007. this morning, less than three days remain before major u.s. intelligence programs shutdown unless lawmakers find a compromise to reauthorize them. the white house says there is no plan b if the nsa expires. this does put pressure on congressional leaders who are scrambling for a solution before sundays deadline. we have michell...

U.s. national security. key provisions of the patriot act are set to expire more than 72 hours from now. the national security agency is getting ready to pull the plug on a controversial phone data collection program if the u.s. senate doesnt act before time runs out. lets go to our white house correspondent michelle kosinski standing by with much more. michelle? >> reporter: we see the white house pushing the senate to act to keep these parts of the patriot act up and running and they say faili...

Ramadi used to house 1 million people. that would itself be an urban sprawl. >> a humanitarian crisis where the people of ramadi left with nowhere to go. nick thank you. the white house is making a big push for congress to take action on the patriot act. the law expires at midnight on sunday. if nothing is done russian roulette is being played with the security. we get more from michelle kosinski. >> reporter: the white house is making the big push urging the senate to act which it failed to d...

Dangerous sprupgsdanger ous interruptions of tracking if the key provision of the patriot act isnt extended. major intelligence program including collection of bulk phone data expires. go to our white house correspondent michelle kaczynski with much more. what are you hearing there, michelle? >> reporter: what we see, the white house making this push for the senate to act. to keep these parts of the patriot act up and running. calling failing to do so national security russian roulette. an unnec...

Have to deal with weve seen seals floating buy. birds flying around. theyre getting through it but well see what happens. >> i want to go to capitol hill where lawmakers are up against two crucial deadlines. senators are starting to smell the jet fumes on this get away friday. youre looking live at the senate floor where senators are set to take a controversial extension of the patriot act up. that would allow the nsa to continue to collect bulk amounts of phone data. the house approved the meas...

>> youd be in jail. >> certainly in trouble. i think steves point is we lived through eight years of drama. every day there was some excuse for something they didnt do. im not arguing that she shouldnt be a nominee and im not arguing she might not be president, but at end of the day, shed better clean the act up pretty quick. >> shes been talking on the campaign trail about the division between the rich and the poor and how, you know, shes going to be the candidate of the middle class. youre exa...

Its second decade members of new yorks confrontational advocacy group act up are looking for new ways to get the message across. >> as we got into the 1990s the number of our frenz within that were dying is just escalating, and, you know, we were really getting tired of metaphors, and a lot of people were using rhetoric "when i die throw my body over the white house fence." >> in 1992 with the presidential election looming, act ups activists sees the opportunity to put aids research on the natio...

>> people getting fired from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health insurance. everything. city government was also absent and kochs administration was not talking about aids publicly. >> act up is born in 1987 emerging from the powerlessness that many affected by the disease are feeling. >> act ups original motto was also its formula. anger into action. our grief after a while became anger, and we took that anger and frustration, and we focused it. >> a key part of act up strate...

Into -- >> march 28th, 1989. >> called act up. the aids coalition to unleash power. act up cofounder was diagnosed with h.i.v. in 1984. >> one of the things we realized was that writing articles or letters to the editor about health crisises wasnt getting the publics attention. we decided, yeah -- people in their daily lives. -- >> what weather a mysterious disease started spreading among gay men and intravenous drug users. >> they didnt know what was causing these cancers that cause big purple ...

Loved most. this is whats left. >> act up continues to perform acts of civil disobedience for the next few years. in the mid 1990s the group splits apart due to internal disagreements. in the end the coalition is considered ground breaking for the attention it brings to aids. >> what got the drug companies and the federal government to develop treatments that were extending lives and stopping the immediate carnage. >> by 1996 a drug cocktail was introduced that brings about dramatic improvements...