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Its someones cell phone and on that is a u.s. number that the nsa wants to check on or fbi or whoever is going to do it. you know, does it have to then go to court to get an order to exploit that number into the data base which it already has from another court order? and thats what we dont quite know how these pieces fit together yet. >> this goes to the whole campaign promises that candidate obama made which is about being more transparent in the tactics even while keeping some parts of this s...

Get some headlines in here at 34 past the hour. the supreme court upheld the maryland law allowing police to take dna samples without a warrant from suspects that have been arrested. in a 5-4 decision, the majority argued that collecting the dna of people booked for syrias crime helps to establish their identity and is not an unlawful search. justice kennedy wrote for the majority. quote, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestees dna is like photographing. its a procedure reasonable und...

Entered into a national dna database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reaso. >> i think thats the most important unanswered question after todays decision because the federal government has the broadest statute. it allows people to have their dna taken almost no matter what federal crime theyre charged with. >> the conservative justice scalia sided with three liberal members of the court on this case, but given the subject matter it was not that big of a surprise. s...

Year. so pressure is mounting for cell phone carriers and the devicemakers to figure out a way to deter theft. san francisco district attorney george gascon wants to see a so-called kill switch on phones. >> so when they get reported stolen, they could be rendered inoperable. >> reporter: he accuses the industry of dragging its feet to what he calls a technological solution. >> every time a phone gets stolen, we go back and replace a phone. so the carrier gets to make another sale, the manufactu...

>> so then when they get reported stolen, they could be rendered inoperable. >> reporter: he accuses the industry of dragging its feet to what he calls a technological solution. >> every time that a phone gets stolen, we go back and replace it for them. so the carrier gets to make another sale tarc manufacture gets to make another sale an their profit margins continue to be. >> reporter: todays largest carriers, though, are getting more aggressive, participating in a database for stolen phones t...

Kill switch on phones. >> so when they get reported stolen, they could be rendered inoperable. >> reporter: he accuses the industry of dragging its feet to what he calls a technological solution. eve >> every time a phone gets stolen, we go back and replace a phone. so the carrier gets to make another sale, the manufacturer gets to make another sale, and their profit margins continue to build. >> reporter: the nations largest carriers are getting more aggressive. now participating in a new natio...

You know, that was when the panic hit. it was kind of like am i going to make it. >> he did, everyone did. the bridge though needs major repairs. a federal data base lists it as functionally obsolete. functionally obsolete. officials say it was safe. state and federal investigators are now looking into it. dan simon is on the scene for us in northern washington state. dan, whats the latest? >> reporter: hi, wolf. first of all, we should point out given what we saw in oklahoma, the folks in this ...

Is something that other people have been reporting for a while now. do you agree that control of drones be shifted from the cia to the military? is that something that would provide more oversight if the military was doing the calling the shots, so to speak? >> michael, its a great question. the real issue is to have the military conduct and have control of the drone strikes, the uav strikes, these armed missions that theyre conducting, really is a political move. and it provides for a greater d...

Oversee the plat to detonate the bombs on board the two u.s. bound cargo planes, he was also, they say directly involved in the deteals of the execution. the government said he took part directly and even the development and testing of the explosives placed on the planes. and while were on the subject, in 2009, a nigerian businessman walked into the u.s. embassy in nigeria concerned about his son, he said his son was being radicalized. they deemed the concern over his sons radicalization, they a...

Like a caged animal, beaten, raped and mentally abused. it seems the longer michelle was missing, the more invisible she became. when you say the name amanda or gina in this neighborhood, everybody knows who youre talking about. but nobody knows the name michelle. nobody knows who she was. why is that? >> its like we forgot about michelle. its like did she ever come back home or whatever happened to michelle. after that kind of stuff dies down, you dont think about it anymore. nobody ever wonder...