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Inconvenience component. so just beginning the rim effects of the story. sgla >> and there will now be a national conversation about workplace will now be a conversation about workplace violence. and i imagine every company, their security department, their ceos, are going to stay late saying if it happened there, how can we be different. its now happened in a workplace thats as you noted, a very modern workplace with very sophisticated security that even the local police couldnt get into. >> ni...

There. and this heart of texas group was an i love texas group, but and a pro texas secession group but mostly they appear to have been anti-hillary clinton. some of it idiomaticly correct and some of it not. >> this one i dont know what it means literally by i get the point anyway. no hypoclintos in the god-blessed texas. i dont know what they mean. figuratively i get it. they also promoted hillary for prison. this was them too. hillary, stay away from texas, with the photo shopped image of her...

Apparently knew it, maybe all this reporting that were getting now would be six months further along. but for whatever reason facebook decided they wouldnt admit anything about russia using their platform until september. weve had this long delay to in terms of as a country coming to any understanding of what russia was really doing to try to influence our election. facebook finally admitted that russia was active on their platform buying ads as of early september. since then we have had a month...

This much of it, too, is that likely to change any of those dynamics? joining us is elizabeth. shes a silicon valley correspondent for "the washington post." she broke the story today on google admitting that russian agents bought ads on google platform. thank you for being here. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> let me ask you if google changes the game. i feel like im seeing the same pattern to admit this belatedly, to not be doing particularly deep analysis of what actually ha...

That actually, yeah, there was a lot of russian activity on facebook targeting our election? because if they did know about russia being active on facebook trying to affect the outcome of our election in time for that april statement, then they could have told us a lot earlier than they did. had facebook admitted what they knew about russia using their platform to try to affect the election, had they told us about that six months ago when they apparently knew it, maybe all this reporting that we...

Knew well in advance. facebook first started seeing signs of this back in june, 2016. so a while back. and then obama himself warned mark zukser zucker to look into it. the question is were they trying to wrap their heads around a new kind of attack or is there some incentive that they have to really get to the bottom of what whats going on? i think its both. look at these plat fors. theyre massive autonomied systems. the fact of the matter is they can be easily exploited. this what were seeing ...

Exploitation in online advertising to begin with. and so this is the most nefarious version of it. the truth is they were really to get to the bottom of it, even though they have the impulse to do so, they probably see that -- theyd have to show the world how exploitable the platforms are and that doesnt really serve them or their ad businesses. >> if they did want to figure it out, i guess the reason ive now started to care more and more that they do more of an investigation, now that journalis...

Election? why are we only getting it from journalists who were having to piece it together themselves? facebook page by facebook page, twitter account by twitter account. these were american companies that were used as the scene of a fairly significant crime. what explains their lack of urgency to even figure this stuff out, let alone make any kind of public disclosure that would help us see what russia did? and now that google is admitting this much of it, too, is that likely to change any of t...

Vehicles. hospital staff using their own cars to evacuate patients in some cases because this thing just came down on them so fast. there were no other options. so again, the top line news here is that there are a bunch of fires in california. theres also a very serious one burning in southern california, in anaheim, but this northern c fire just north of san francisco really is destroying whole neighborhoods in very populated areas and it happened very fast today. so were watching that story to...

Destroying whole neighborhoods in very populated areas, and its happened very fast today. so were watching that story tonight with some considerable urgency as they try to get at least portions of those fires under control. hour, we will also have update for you on the ongoing crisis in puerto rico where we are closing in on three weeks of a federal response to the hurricane there that itself is turning out to be a disaster. we had a report here on this show on friday night about our producers b...