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Hes calling for 15 to 20-foot levees constructed in parts of staten island to protect brooklyn from storm surges and new dunes constructed on beaches in staten island and queens. not even the nsa knows the whereabouts of ed snowden this morning, if you believe them the man who told the world about the agencys secret data mining operation remains in hiding, so does his girlfriend of five years, lindsay mills. we dont know a lot about the woman snowden left behind but shes making it clear that s...

Offering advice to nsa surveillance leaker eric snowden. go to latin america and ask for asylum. assange spoke to anderson cooper from the ecuadorian embassy in london. assange calls snowden a hero for revealing the governments secret data mining operation and insists that president obama is not being truthful about the program. >> no one gave obama the mandate to engage in a worldwide surveillance program on nearly every person. youve seen a lot of double rhetoric, you see obama come out and sa...

The computer throws out as interesting or important. >> reporter: then as often happens, it is the interaction between cold data and live humans where the synergy takes place. it is failures to connect the dots before the boston bombings where investigators misread the data, it was a different story when the authorities had a more specific idea what to look for. they combed through countless photographs and hours of footage, not only allowing them to zero in on the bombers but to avoid false lea...

The ceo google chairman now funding the data mining operation to help elect democratic and independent candidates. what can we expect from that? stu varney is anchor of barney and company on the fox business network. wow, so thats a pretty good organization to have for said democratic and independent groups, no? >> megyn, it is very troubling. all these revelations about snooping make it very troubling that one of the most powerful people in the world, the executive chairman of google, the most ...

Google, youtube, yahoo! and five other big names. in short, a direct line into your online life. the fbi, national security agency are doing it, according to a report in the "washington post" and britains "guardian" newspaper, they have been doing it for the last six years. part of a highly classified, never before disclosed intelligence gathering program code named prism. according to the reporting it began during the bush administration but has grown sharply, exponentially, during the obama ye...

>> indeed. the last 60 minutes of the session, stocks fell hard. tech stocks fell the most. they dragged the market lower. until recently, tuck was a bright spot even on volatile days. it was the one part of the market that would steady sentiment. that may be over. facebook and nvidia are facing high-profile challenges and hurt the entire tech sector. facebook stock is down 20% from its february high. the ftc is investigating the company for the second time since its founding about privacy and d...