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Pennsylvania transportation department used on the roads last month alone. now, pennsylvania joins ohio, illinois, wisconsin, new york, new jersey and kansas in the search for more salt to handle the latest storm. salt producers say supplies are low, so guess what? prices are skyrocketing. speaking of bad weather, 609,586 customers still without power due to the last storm. villanova university is completely without power or heat this morning. the power company says extensive tree debris is wh...

Over the nsa surveillance programs lawmakers warning reforms must be made soon or they will take action. right now the usa freedom act is making its way through congress. that measure would eliminate the nsas bulk collection of metadata entirely if the obama administration doesnt act soon. were finding out just how edward snowden got his job was a major defense contractor, the vision that opened the door for his stealing thousands of documents. mike mcconnell said that snowden targeted the com...

Hotels main computer system. what did they say at the hearing? >> debate that would do next to prevent hackers from staying more credit card numbers. lawmakers are holding herrings and issuing press releases. beyond that its unclear whether they will actually pass a law. congress is locking at requiring retailers to protect payment data and sets fines and penalties for have to who steal the information. some credit card companies say theyll roll out smarter credit cards and payment systems, incl...

Computer too. bob was in charge of the computer system at the king county housing authority. as a government agency, bobs computer was government property so investigators seized it and turned it over to gordon mitchell, an expert in the growing field of computer forensics. mitchell copied bob duralls hard drive to examine the information on it without altering the original data. >> this is an important process where they can discover is there something going on here or is bob just a nice guy. >...

Saying the government will seek the death penalty against the one brother who remains alive. talk about a close call. a car slams into this home in southern california with a family of four asleep inside. witnesses say the driver tried to flee the scene. he was chased down. that driver suspected of dui. were learning more today about how hackers may have managed to pull off the largest data breach in history. stole credentials from a vendor and used those credentials to tap into targets comp...

Take us a little inside. whats it like? what are you seeing as far as security preparations on the ground, nick? >> reporter: its quite remarkable, actually. ive been to this town before when it was embracing itself the way it is. quite a difference when i got off the plane this afternoon. a number of people in track suits there to greet those arriving for the olympics. but as you drive in towards the town, you notice the fact that some streets are emptied. there seem to be the occasional core d...

More important, lets be careful with the information we casually hand out. im sitting at a fast food restaurant and we give you the 10% off. somebody getting paid minimum wage, is it going into a computer system? we need to be more careful. >> on our personal computers, there is virus protection. a lot of our personal banking information, passwords you have the option of saving when you log into your bank account. >> what is the big deal? im giving out my e-mail address. thats the keys to the ki...

Complaints and controversy over the botched rollout of obamacare, theres news that the white house is calling it quits and dropping the i.t. contractor responsible for the problem-plagued website. after deciding that the company called cgi federal was not effective enough in fixing the complex computer system, the white house deciding now not to renew its contract with that contractor. as for cgi, it maintains that its managers never had time to properly test the system before the october 1st ro...

Major data breach in retailers recent weeks. target also says hackers, get this, may have stolen the information of as many as 70 million more customers than they previously reported including their names, phone numbers and addresses. get out your calculator, that means roughly 110 million americans affected by that security breach at target. >> oh, boy. well, following months of complaints and controversy over the botched rollout of obama care, were now learning that the white house is dropping...

Obama care website has proven thats the case. nina, i draw your taens to the white house already yesterday put out a statement saying the administration opposes this bill because it would create unrealistic and costly paperwork requirements. really? >> that seems crazy to me. you want people -- first, they are in a bind. they need more young and healthy people sign up as we heard time and time again. you need to enhance the sense of security in the system if youre going to do that. you need to m...