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Meditation, and prayer help us to renew ourselves in gods love as we strive daily to become better people. >> recently in the uk an alternative christmas message was also broadcast. this year nsa leaker edward snowden delivered his. he compared government spying to the classic novel "1984" saying todays big brother is far worse than anything author george orwell could have imagined. >> a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. hell never know what it means to have a p...

Living on chips. a few months ago he had a place in hawaii. he said for me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission is accomplished. i already would be. -- ive already won. barton gelman, who has leaked some of the explosive documents last spring, spoke to snowden in person in russia last week. >> he said he is not trying to burn down the nsa, he is not trying to stop the collection of intelligence. he is trying to enable a debate in which the public can decide whether it agrees with him,...

About christmas day and lets look at the forecast. we dont have any major storms to talk about and temperatures will be seasonal for much of the country. as i mentioned santa should have no problem delivering presents to kids on christmas eve. back to you, shannon. >> we dont want anything slowing them down. thank you so much. >> know he is going to her house because she has been good this year. the cia program is partially responsible for helping columbian ep forces -- columbian force killing r...

Concerned that maybe their phone calls are being listened to, even if they were not. >> the most talked about finding in the report, which was written by intelligence veterans, including the former head of the cia is bulk collection of phone records has not made us safer. it is quote not essential to preventing attacks and could readily have been obtained using conventional intelligence means. the report came on the heels of a district court ruling monday the program is unconstitutional. a feder...

Intelligence community, but others in government and outside of government, how we might apply and incorporate their recommendations and im going to make a pretty definitive statement about this in january. >> so, what can we expect to see from the administration? peter alexander is working in honolulu where the president is vacationing for the next couple of weeks. hello to you, and tell us, what changes can we possibly look forward to with the president and these nsa surveillance programs? >> ...

Snowden. he said just because we can doesnt mean that we should. and one of the other significant points the president made is the need to help sort of bring more confidence to our international allies. take a listen to the president. >> weve got to provide more confidence to the international community. in some ways what has been more challenging is the fact that we do have a lot of laws and checks and balances and safeguards and audits when it comes to making sure that the nsa and other intell...

Folks whose job it is to make sure that the american people are protected. >> reporter: the president said hell consider changes to the nsa while on vacation in hawaii and make decisions on surveillance programs in january. in one flash of frustration the president pushed back against opponents on capitol hill who suggested they will again hold up approving increasing the nations debt ceiling. the treasury secretary has warned without an increase, the u.s. will run out of money to pay its bills ...

President obama and his family are vacationing in warm and sunny hawaii. theyre spending the next 16 days there. time for a little r&r after whats been a rather tough year for the president. everything from the obamacare website problems to the government shutdown to getting a new budget passed. athena jones is traveling with the president and is joining us from a beautiful hawaii. good to see you. this is a working vacation for him and for you. >> reporter: good morning, fred. thats right. it w...

Ice storm. across oklahoma thats where we have ice storm warnings in the purple and that is freezing rain advisories. ice storm warning for parts of michigan and then tomorrow the mess moves into the northeast. we could see over an inch of ice in these areas shaded in purple and that could be crippling for these regions where we will see ice on the roadways and on the power lines and we could be talking about power outages for weeks here. tracking it here, the temperatures are incredibly warm, r...

>> merry christmas, by the way. >> merry christmas. >> when edward snowden started leaking the information, you claimed to the american people you were already informed many of the surveillance programs. quote, my team evaluated them, scrubbed them thoroughly. we actually expanded some of the oversight. you did. you said we may have to rebalance some, there may be changes, but you concluded with, you can complain about big brother. when you actually look at the details, then i think we have stru...