National Security Agency collected information about americans phone records without the authority to do so last fall. It happened months after the fed said they deleted a massive database of phone records that the nsa had improperly collected going back to 2015. Were just learning about this latest incident through documents made public in a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties union filed against the nsa. The spy agency reportedly got the records under a controversial phone Surveillance Program launched following the attacks of 911. The former contractor, Edward Snowden exposed the program in 2013. It collects call records, but not the content of those calls. The Jennifer Griffin reporting live at the pentagon. Jen . The records obtained by the aclu revealed that not once but twice in the past year the dnsa overcollected americans phone records. Last june and now were learning about another instance last october which led to the nsa purging millions of phone records after realizing the mistake. The nsa would not confirm that the program could be disbanded but did say the technical irregularities that led nsa to delete data were identified and addressed. The documents do not reveal which Telephone Company was to blame. Its up to the Trump Administration to decide whether the program, which expires in december, whether to continue with the program. The aclu believes Congress Needs to take this surveillance i power out of nsas hands for good. They say theres no justification for leaving the power in the nsas hands. The Trump Administration is considering whether to shutter the program for good, shep. Shepard jen, what impact did Edward Snowden have on the program . Snowdens stunning revelation raised so many privacy concerns that Congress Passed the u. S. A. Freedom act in 2015 requiring the nsa to use the fisa court for permission to obtain american citizens call records. The compliance issues that resulted along with the changes in the way that people and terrorists in particular communicate using encrypted apps for instance has meant that the program is no longer as useful as it may have been when first started after 911. The aclu says it was never shown to be very effective. There are some indications that it has not been used for the last six months. Former National SecurityOfficials Say its a compliance nightmare. Some say snowdens revelations may have prolonged a program that was becoming cumbersome and outdated, shep. Shepard thank you. The u. S. Military reports two american troops were killed today in afghanistan. The military has not released details. Yesterday the secretary of state mike pompeo visited the capitol city of kabul where he said washington was hoping to get a peace deal done by the end of the summer. More than 2,400 u. S. Service members have died after the attacks of 911, a mom in new jersey left dead after her sons bully beat her unconscious. He says he was pushing her 1yearold in a stroller and walking with her son when the 13yearold attacked her. It happened a week ago in pasaic, new jersey. Her lawyer is just releasing they photos. He says they were walking home from school when they realized three kids were following them. Then one of them attacked. Alicia acuna has the rest of the story. Alicia . Hi, shep. That mother is now speaking to the media about that moment she says she was attacked by a 13yearold student from her sons school. She says she feels bad and sad and scary. She asked these kids not to bother her son because he doesnt bother them. You can see shes still healing from that attack. Her Attorney Says it was a bully at her sons school that did this explaining that her 12yearold son, of members san descent, was in the lunch room chanting mexicans should go back behind the wall. The attorney said that we all come from immigrants and he was threatened by the kids. The mother went to the school and the student was suspended. Later when she walked with her family, she said she was jumped. She spent two days in the hospital recovering from the attack. We have reached out to the school and the district but not heard back. Shep . Shepard what are prosecutors are saying is next for the accused 13yearold . Were following his suspension. His charged with assault according to the prosecutors office. The attorney is calling this a hate crime. It was a brutal attack raged by a child whose heart was filled with hate. The family looks forward to this individual facing the consequences of his behavior. Theyre confident that prosecutors will work hard to ensure that this young man faces justice. As of right now, the suspect has been released to his parents pending a family court appearance. This young man beat a woman in front of her 1yearold child and her 12yearold son. Left her for dead. The school has come under scrutiny because it allowed the suspect to attend school the day after the attack until the mother complained. Shep . Shepard alicia acuna live for us. The 5yearold boy thrown from a 40 football connie at the mall of america near minneapolis is still in intensive care more than two months after the attack. Thats the word from his parents. They say hes had serious complications and surgery for two broken arms, a broken leg, fractures in his face and school and the doctors have removed his spleen. The family is trying to raise money online for hospital bills. The stranger that confessed to the crime is now serving 19 years in prison for attempted first degree murder. He told police that he went to the mall looking for someone to kill because he was angry about women rejecting him. An identical twin accused of murdering her own sister and the victim is claiming she started it. Ahead, the image that shows that reportedly snapped hours before it went down. Thats coming up as the reporting continues on this wednesday afternoon. Limu emu doug mmm, exactly Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Nice but uh, whats up with your partner . Oh we just spend all day telling everyone how we customize Car Insurance because no two people are alike, so. Limu gets a little confused when he sees another bird that looks exactly like him. Ya. Hell figure it out. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Shepard a come accused of stabbing her identical twin in new jersey. She says her sister tried to stab her first. Thats according to the reporting of the New York Post citing police sources. The posts Parent Company and fox news Parent Company share common ownership. This happened in camden, just outside philadelphia. Cops say Amanda Ramirez, top left, stabbed anna ramirez early saturday. Anna posted this photo on facebook of them smiling and hanging out hours before cops found her unconscious. Trace gallagher with more. We know they were out to 5 30, 6 00 a. M. We dont know the details. Police have not said if they were drinking, partying, arguing through the night. You mentioned the photo she took. The sister anna took them. Seemed like they had a good time. The caption of the photo says you know the vibe. But now Amanda Ramirez says shes using a selfdefense defense because she says her sister tried to go after her. Police again have not released whether or not she had any wounds amanda had any wounds on her. They were saying this. Officers arrived and located the victim on the ground and appeared she had been stabbed. She was taken to Cooper University hospital. Anna ramirez has four children, four sisters and the twin and three other sisters. She was a nurse practitioner. The sisters were close. Shepard other cases like this. Yes, but rare. Another one in hartford, connecticut, a 12yearold boy killed his sister and tried to go after the mom. Said thing, they were close. One day he went after her. That case is still pending. A big case in the u. K. In 2014. Two brothers, 34 years old. They were drinking beer, smoking pot. He grabbed a knife and killed his brother. He said he didnt mean it. He broke down in court and said we were best friends. I didnt mean to do it. We would often drink and get rough. This time it just happened that i took a swing and him and caught him in the right way. I didnt mean to kill him. Shepard did that defense work . No. He spent 13 years in prison. They both had drinking problems. In california this work a 12yearold boy killed his 12yearold twin brother with a gun accidentally. The mother was taken to jail. Shepard accidently. Good lord. Poor family. Yeah. Shepard nice to have you in town. Look for you in the morning. Thank you. Shepard police have released the last known image of a College Student from utah. Some photos now from the airport Salt Lake City of mackenzie lueck. A lyft drive pick her up and drove her to a park in the middle of the night. She got in the car with somebody else. The somebody else drove off with her. Her family and friends have not heard from her since. Police say security cameras at the park where lueck were last seen were dummies meaning theyre fake and dont record anything. Tim dowd is here with us. Thanks for being here. Thank you, shepard. Shepard normally you work a case a few days and you have a gut. What is your gut about what happened here . Normally we do. In this case we just were stumped. Were not sure what happened. Shepard you know, the fact that the cameras were dummies is how manically unfortunate. Is there anything in her search history, her i mails, social media, anything like that that might give you a clue . We have quite a few leads that were following up on. This isnt the normal typical missing person with blood hounds. This is more of a digital search for a person. Were combing through the digital evidence that we accumulated and looking through her life. Shepard chief, its been widely reported and come to your attention that she may have had some friends on a dating app and that this may have been a rendezvous in a park with somebody she knew online. Can you knock that down or comment on that at all . In this day and age, dating apps are common. We want to make sure were following up on all of those leads. Were using all of those tools to follow up on any leads of anybody meeting with her, whether it was on a dating app or someone she met on a plane or someone she met at school. Shepard so you have access to her digital history . We do. Shepard if you have access to her digital history, was there a moment when she said to someone else, ill meet you in the park . We dont have that. We dont have any of that. We know she was texting someone at the airport. And were just trying to follow up on that right now. With these apps nowadays that you can secure down that are secret, you is can have different identities, its hard to track. Shepard you know she was texting someone because there a digital photo of that . Yes. Shepard if theres a digital trail, you know the owner of the phone with whom shes communicating. We sure do. Shepard have you spoken with that phone . Is that person cooperating . They are cooperating. We have spoken with them. Shepard is that a person of interest . We dont have any persons of interest right now. Everybody is in the game. We dont want to rule out anybody because we havent found any evidence that anything happened to her. Foul playwise. Just very concerning that shes missing for this long and shes just completely dropped off the grid. Shepard no sign from any of her family and friends that she was in any kind of distress at all. No sign that she would leave open her own volition that she was trying to escape something. None of that, right . Unless our reporting is wrong. None of that. We continue the reach out to mackenzie in case shes one of those people that dont want to be found. We have not heard from her. We went to reach out to her again to say, if youre out there, let us know youre okay. Shepard of course, her friends and family tell us that shes not the type to go to a park at 3 00 a. M. And meet up with somebody she didnt know. That she would have to know whoever it was. Likely whoever it was came out of that phone, came out of the digital world, not out of the physical world is. That the working theory . Thats the working theory right now. Its not like in her character to drop off the grid. 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Mr. Dulos will make a brief statement now. I want to tell my children that theyre constantly on my mind and that i love them and miss them very much. Jennifer dulos has been missing more than a month now. The man you just heard, the father, fotus dulos and his girlfriend have pleased not guilty to tampering with evidence and more importantly, hindering the prosecution. See what is happening here in investigators say cameras caught a couple matching their description driving around hartford, connecticut dumping garbage bags of stuff in trash bins. Investigators say the bags contained clothes and sponges and other Household Items splattered with the missing moms blood. The husbands Attorney Says this is a revenge suicide plot or staged disappearance. A spokesperson for the moms family calls the theories ludicrous. Laura ingle is reporting live outside the courthouse. Laura . Shep, things got heated inside family court today as three sets of lawyers argued over the contents of a psychological exam and report done on the dulos family earlier this year in regards to the couples longstanding divorce and custody battle. Fotus dulos who is out on bail, in this case has been fighting for access to his five children that he shares with Jennifer Dulos who has been missing over 30 days. His lawyer, who has talked about some of the report findings, says he needs the record unsealed to show Jennifer Dulos state of mind before she went missing. The hearing was called by the courtappointed guardian of the five children that accused the lawyer of revealing some of the contents that is considered confidenti confidential. In a hearing, the attorney for Jennifer Dulos said he was a palled that they had the report. He also spoke outside of court today. We will continue with our investigation the next several weeks. Were pursuing numerous leads. You heard us say today in court, comments that jennifer made to mr. Dulos that give us great concerns for her safety and wellbeing. Were contemplating a suicide hypothesis as an explanation for her disappearance. Over the last few days, fotus lawyer has exploited the gone girl theory saying that Jennifer Dulos may have staged her own disappearance to frame her husband. The psychological report was sealed and only available to the attorneys involved and the judge told them that they cannot talk about what is in it, shep. Shepard this fotus dulos, the father, has been trying to contact his girlfriend who is out on bail. Thats right. Weve been hearing from his attorney that he wanted clarification from the court if hes allowed to make contact with her. All the attorneys have told those two that they shouldnt be talking to each other. The attorney said he was going to get the clarification. Her attorney filed paperwork yesterday, late yesterday saying she wants no contact with fotis dulos and his attorney and wants to travel out of state while she waits for her next court appearance. She wants to spend time with a childhood friend fotis is expected back on august 2. Shep . Shepard laura ingle live with us. Thank you. Sometimes it just is what it appears to be. Thats right. Youve seen norm pattis, the lawyer for fotis dulos. Hes also the attorney for alex johns. Hes been vocal in the press. Hes been floating this gone girl theory prior to putting out the revenge suicide theory. Pattis is saying that jennifers past led to the perfect storm. Hes saying really its a smear campaign, that she had a history of substance abuse, psychologically impaired at the time that this took place and this let to this framing of her soontobe exhusband. We heard this was a contentious divorce. If you look at the facts, everything points in the other direction. Look at his background. He has a checkered background. Jennifer is on record saying shes been fearful for her own safety