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Law enforcement is more worried about other parts which they say leave them partially blind. >> so im left looking for needles in a haystack where the needles are increasingly invisible to me. >> expired, roving wire taps which allow law enforcement to follow a terrorist and not just on one phone. if a suspect changes phones multiple times, the tracking continues. lone wolf tracking. investigators could track a suspect without a subpoena and now will have to go to court for each case. >> if i lo...

Has this story. >> reporter: on capitol hill, time is almost up and the scramble in the senate is about to be on. >> we shouldnt surrender the tools that help keep us safe. >> reporter: unless the senate acts at midnight tonight key provisions of the patriot act will expire. >> the bulk phone program operates under this. it collects numbers dialed and how long calls lasted but does not capture the contends of conversation and other surveillance provisions set to expire, one allowing the governme...

Information, but those ways are more limited and less secret. roving wire taps on people who switch cell phones. that is used less than 100 teams a year. officials do say the patriot act is the only way to do that. to effectively and quickly track those people. especially when you consider potential isis types. and lastly, wire taps on lone wolves. people not connected to any known terror group. we found out that has never even been used before and it only applies to people outside the u.s. not ...

People who wished harm on the united states. >> reporter: thats what theyre saying. the thing is u.s. officials cant point to any one case where these programs saved the day and thwarted terror. if you look at the other programs besides the bulk data collection that are going to expire being able to collect an individuals data bank data hotel data things like that thats used about 200 times a year. officials say, yeah there are other ways to go about getting that kind of info but those would be ...

The undercovered stories of the week. first congress votes to extend key parts of the patriot act. it was a law designed to help track down terror suspects. the provisions deal with roving wire taps, access to records and tracking so-called lone wolf terrorists. in a senate debate, there were some testy moments this week between republican rand paul and majority leader harry reid. >> unless the senator from kentucky stops standing in the way, our law enforcement will no longer be able to use som...

The state releasing the names as families grow more frustrated with the search. >> thats down from 1500 people unaccounted for. the patriot act due to expire at midnight. president obama has directed the use of what is called an auto pen to sign it. the president is in france for the g-8 summit so the machine replicates his signature. the provisions of the law passed after the 9/11 attacks deal with legalizes tactics like roving wire taps and searching the personal records of terror suspects. ...

Joplin, missouri. officials under fire for the slow process of identifying victims of last weekends monster tornado. right now, 232 people are still considered unaccounted for. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan this morning for talks aimed at mending relations between the two countries following the u.s. raid on osama bin ladens compound. meantime the cia has been granted access by the pakistani government to return to that compound and conduct a bigger search. the agency pla...

Checking our top stories now, the pakistani government has ginven a cia team foermgs visit where osama bin laden was killed. they will search for hidden or buried documents. secretary of state hillary clinton was in pakistan today pushing for a greater counterterrorism effort. the u.s. is looking for the pakistanis to show theyre willing to go after senior al qaeda targets and shut down factories producing ieds that target u.s. troops. and president obama took time from the g-8 summit to sign ...

Because hes in france. this machine replicates his signature. the provisions of the law passed after the 9/11 attacks deals with legalizing roving wire taps and searching the personal records of terror suspects and some say other americans. its extended for another four years. it had to be signed. use the auto pen. >> is that the equivalent of holding your nose. >> it could have been sent to him, right, technically? had theres been other legislation where people have been able to sign it. >> aut...

malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for friday, may 27th. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan today to smooth things over with the government leaders. they are still angry over the secret u.s. raid that killed bin laden. sources say clinton told the pakistanis that american aid is on the line, unless they do more to rout out terrorists. >> today we discussed in even greater detail cooperation to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and to drive them from pakistan ...