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0ur our thanks for that report. stay with us on 0ustide source, still to come... are the answers in our genes? scientists examine dna to try to find out why some people are affected by the coronavirus worse than others. president buharis decision to extend nigerias lockdown for another 1a days has been met with protest. police broke up groups of demonstrators who say the lockdown means their families cant eat, as chi chi izundu reports. this is not a joke, its a matter of life and death. the wor...

Been dominated by this investigation into what turns out to be completely baseless. these irregularities, these statements, these omissions were not satisfactor satisfactorily . i think that leaves open the possibility to infer bad faith. >> im a bill barr fan. i think we need an explanation for what exactly happened here. theres testimony scheduled for late next month for the senate judiciary committee, but the issue here is on one hand you have roger stone who is this sleazy figure who committ...

Mark felt -- in fact he turns out to be a complicated figure, a motivated political figure within the fbi. even at the time he was sharing information with bob woodward. were getting information thats incomplete. we know from other investigations, the russians, people acting on behalf of the russians certainly hacked into material about hillary clinton and the republicans, and yet the material about the republicans was not released. our eyes can be turned toward material that thighs foreign acto...

Taking action out of patriotic duty. i think we have to be more concerned about some of these other actors operating within the last ten years throughout the united states. in u.s. organizations, companies, government organizations and critical infrastructure, those are the types of attacks and cyber operations we need to be preparing for here, ali. >> in terms of cyber warfare, whats the worst case scenario? >> steph, theres a whole host of things that these actors did do. weve seen organized c...

♪ brian: all right. welcome to news by the numbers. hope you are dressed. first $80 million. thats how many american families are included in a massive microsoft data breach. do you know what? i didnt memorize the copy so i have to use the prompter. discovering a data base with sensitive information was stored on a server. microsoft says the data is no longer accessible to the public. next, more than $255,000. thats how much a long island railroad worker made in overtime last year alone. new y...

A number of reasons. one, hes well-known. and he is probably the least scary to some people in the middle. i think the president has two advantages for him right now. really strong economy and a democratic party moving way to the left. i think joe biden has a lane where he could -- i dont know if it is moderate but a progressive and at least a well-known fig that wont scare people with far left policies. >> and hes raising a lot of money. $6.3 million in the first 24 hours. thank you. coming u...

Bananas. giving shoppers a real glimpse at the future of retail. walmart has rolled this out already. cameras very obvious on top of all the aisles. these cameras can detect if a shelf is empty. they send a message to employee on the store and that employee can immediately go restock the shelf. walmart is saying this is a great experience for the shopper because they will never run out of food. problem is for the consumers what does that mean for your privacy at the moment walmart is saying that...

Fewer monopoly profits. boo-hoo. >> reporter: these companies also would be barred from sharing users personal data with other entities. minnesota democratic senator and presidential candidate amy klobuchar is another longtime critic of tech companies, but shes focused instead on regulating existing companies by imposing a personal data tax. so the idea being that if amazon or target or facebook decided to share it or sell it in some way, that that exchange right there should be taxed. >> it sho...

Could be exploited to spy on americans. our richard engel takes us inside one of those companies. >> good job. >> reporter: john nettles meets his customers every day. theyre his neighbors and friends. his company, pine belt telecoms, serves a community of about 100,000 in rural alabama. >> this is the heart of the system, pretty much. every phone call is made and every internet session thats made processes through one of these pieces of equipment. >> reporter: and that is the problem, because t...

To freeze irans nuclear program, also known as the j.c.p.o.a. the action would be in defiance of top national security adviser like defense secretary james mattis. >> do you believe its in our national security interests in the present time to remain in the j.c.p.o.a.? >> yes, senator, i do. >> reporter: the iran decision is also a flash point with secretary of state rex tillerson. after a report surfaced that he had referred to mr. trump as a "moron," tillerson called an extraordinary press con...