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But power outages really remain the big concern as ice weighs down utility lines and nearby tree branches. although many new atlanta area neighborhoods have underground cables. theyre often connected to trunk lines that are overhead on traditional utility poles. so they still face the risk of power outages. most of the snowfall remains just north of atlanta, but as we come back to our live shot, you can see and hear the sleet coming down. thats causing icing on the roads, especially elevated roa...

Purpose -- and abuse, too. it will get abused. the federal government abuses everything. people there dont know what the especially theyre doing. have no -- dont know what theyre doing. they will abuse it. if you emnoter them and they will abuse it. >> eric: we took heat standing by the fourth amendment and saying the nsa was violating peoples privacy rights. they denied it. james clapper defied ding -- denied going it. >> when you allow the rules to be stretched and in this case, way overstretc...

Theres no excuse for it happening. when you start suspending civil liberties for the -- and abuse, too, its going to get abused. the federal government abuses everything. you have people there that dont know what the hell theyre doing and have no respect for the constitution and they abuse it. if you empower them, theyre going to abuse it. >> bob, we took a lot of heat for standing by the fourth amendment for saying that the nsa was violating peoples privacy rights. they denied it. james clapper...

Used to be we were spying on foreigners. then when they expanded under george bush to get telephone companies to give them trunk lines to tap into, it went to all americans. >> two separate things. we can talk about the phone records thing as a lock box in which no one is able to look in, youre confusing that with p.r.i.s.m. now. >> were going to take a momentary break on that and listen to a bit of sound here, this is rand paul on snowden. >> i do think that when history looks at this, theyre g...

>> you dont have to have anything. they have no one on the hook a foreigner communicated with anyone, blanket said i will take all verizon customers this period of time. >> second step, they have to see a phone call go out or come in before they can -- >> verizon and comcast, why do you think they did that? >> what are you asking? >> they took communications out of verizon trunk lines. >> because they had a specific communication -- >> would be, we can look at the document. they went to fisa cou...

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