of americans television records. the government says it s moving to a more focused approach they say of trying to gather intel on terror suspects, that shift coming more than two years after the details of the program were first leaked and made public by the former nsa contractor edward snowden. molly hendonburg has the details from washington. eric, president obama said in january 2014 that he wanted this nsa program to end, and in june of this year congress agreed. but gave the intelligence community about six months ending last month to close down this program. it was edward snowden who leaked details about the government s phone data collection program which alloweded nsa to track information about americans phone calls to try to ferret out any terrorist connections. now the law requires the nsa to get a court order and then go to the phone companies to get those types of details. the office of the director of national intelligence put out a statement on friday saying, this
salah abdelsalam and his driver. been over two weeks, still no trace. it s now revealed that abdelsalam bought detonators for those suicide vests used in those attacks from a fireworks store outside of paris. finally, eric, we get word today that 1,000 people have been turned away from the borders of france amid heightened security all along that. we are looking for this happened in the last two weeks since the attacks. we are, in fact, trying to find a french translation for the phrase closing the stable door after the horses have bolted. back to you. that is for sure, greg. abdelsalam on the run, possibly in belgium still. thank you, greg palkot, live in paris. meanwhile, the radical islamic terrorists have struck at the very heart of the west. here in our country, the nsa putting an end to its collection
change in the law will help make the nsa s efforts, quote, appropriately focused and targeted. the statement went on to say, the collection of data, quote, is limited to information that telephone service providers have historically used for their internal bilge and operational needs. moreover, the government will report annually to the government and the public. the total number of orders issued under this short r authority and the number of targets such order. some republicans are already voicing concern that the u.s. needs bulk phone beta collection to prevent terror attacks and the new procedures may not provide critical information in time. i don t think it s too troubling that you would need a court order. i think what s troubling is that you re going to have to go to multiple telecom companies and at their pace search their records, which mean it s could take weeks. senator burr says it s a, quote, real mistake to take this