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Seconds before impact. the u.p.s. cargo jet crashed near a runway in birmingham on wednesday and two pilots on board were killed. now investigators are looking into whether pilot error was to blame, including if the jet was too low. some lawmakers renewing calls to reform the national security agencys surveillance programs, this after documents leaked by edward snowden suggest that the agency has repeatedly broken privacy rules. now, the nsa calls them mistakes. jennifer griffin in washington ...

Of our law makers. >> elizabeth, thank you. >> and turning now to the nsa and new reaction to the controversial secret surveillance programs. law makers on both sides of the aisle voicing concerns to the audit that revealed privacy rules were repeatedly violated and many of those violations never reported to congress and something that former governor mike huckabee said has to change. >> there has to be an unfettered way in which our elected officials are not trampling over all of the constituti...

Has more from washington. >> the may 2012 internal nsa audit shows thousands of privacy violations in one year alone. in some cases the nsa was monitoring the phone records of residents of washington, d.c. whose area code is similar to that of egypt. nsa compliance director said the violations were not willful or malicious and represented a, quote, miniscule percentage of ofth sa surveillance activity during a rare conference call by the super secret spy agency. nsa whistle-blower edward snowden...

Lead to terrorism. the tone thats coming out of the egyptian government is that this is an internal egyptian matter, that egypt has complete sovereignty over its domestic issues, it knows its country better than anyone else and it will push ahead with what it needs to do regardless of what any country tells it, especially if its the united states, which traditionally and historically had tremendous amount of leverage over the previous regime of president hosni mubarak. >> well, in that way you h...

Woman saw her reputation allegedly destroyed by anonymous government officials? >> being in the position that mrs. kelly and her husband are in today is not certainly they asked for. they came forward to do the right thing, and everything that was unleashed from that point forward was a result of the governments lack of restraint and in protecting their privacy and dignity of the witnesses and victims here. >> the kelleys attorney explains the mess started in may 2012 when a four-star general, j...

Youre looking at a united states nuclear attack submarine going up in smoke. more than a year after that fire, the "uss miami" is being moth balled because the navy cannot pay the $400 million to repair the ship. a top admiral is blaming the federal governments forced budget cuts. our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, is joining us now. barbara, tell us whats going on here. >> well, wolf, this is not the way the u.s. navy would want to lose any ship. that ship went up in -- that submarine w...

Day by day we get numbers that the countrys entering into a significant housing recovery. in some areas of the country it almost looks like another bubble. 20 large u.s. cities home prices have increased an average of 12% since last year. according to a just-released survey comparing may 2012 to may of this year. in four cities, san francisco, las vegas, phoenix, atlanta, twices are up 20% or more year to year. yet just like the overall economic recovery itself, it looks like this housing recove...

Care in jails? armor correctional health services is still holding a contract here. how is that? >> its so disturbing. this happened in may 2012, and the estate of hicks filed this lawsuit against many defendants. two so far have settled. armor correctional has settled for 800,000, and theres been another $200,000 payout by the sheriffs department, but there are still three defendants remaining and thats what were talking about here. they havent settled. is this going to end up going to trial? i...

Especially to the families of the deceased, we were not passing any kind of character assessment or moral assessment on their loved one, but given the nature of the business that was being conducted on backpage, like i said, it would have been unconscionable for us not to go public with what we knew. >> in may 2012 their hard work pays off. police arrest 24-year-old james brown in the detroit suburb of sterling heights. brown is held for several months on charges of arson and mutilation of a dea...

Chart ♪ hot blooded ♪ catch us and see. >> bill: celebrity couples, forbes magazine making a lot of money together. all right? number one, beyonce and jay-z apparently makes $78 million in a year ending may 2012. and you -- do you believe that first of all 78 million these two? >> well, probably. im sure, billy. i dont know much about him. might as well call them jay zzz he is a bit of snooze. people trying to sing like alicia keys sounds like a nice song answered starts talking >> long live...