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Director of national intelligence, heads of nsa and cia are supportive of an extension of those capabilities and authorities. and unfortunately, i think that there's been a little too much political grandstanding, and crusading for ideological causes that have really skewed the debate on this issue. but these tools are important to american lives. >> we have reports from nbc news capitol hill reporter frank thorpe and nbc news white house correspondent kristin welker. welcome to you both. frank, the battle lines are staggered across the party lines with mostly bipartisan support. for an extens...

Representing a district in virginia. thank you for being with us this morning. >> good to be with you. >> congressman, what is your reaction to what is going on in the senate? this is a rare and unique territory where house republicans and the white house are on the same side of an argument? >> yes, house democrats, too. the bill, the usa freedom act that ends the bulk collection of data that has been so-called controversial and not just under the section 215 of the patriot act, but under several other statutes, and not just telephone metadata but any kind of metada metadata. our central rules...

Senate republicans must decide if they will support a house passed bill that would continue the bulk collection of americans' phone records. senator rand paul spoke just before the senate break. he's vowed to block any action to extend that program beyond the midnight deadline. we'll keep you updated on this story. back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. so far our dash cam videos have shown us people whose deeds range from outrageous to criminal. but humans aren't the only ones that step into the limelight here. next are two of man's best friends...

>> lots of prayers and thoughts going on to that family today from a lot of people. meanwhile, senators are returning to capitol hill this afternoon. they need to take up the fight over extending the patriot act. key provisions of this act expires at midnight. they don't have a lot of time. debate is set to begin at 4:00 p.m. eastern, one minute after the white house begins shutting down the nsa's controversial bulk collection of phone records. now republican senator and presidential hopeful rand paul is vowing to end what he calls the nsa illegal spy program. just hours ago, he tweeted that...

>> the freedom act as i understand correctly no longer is the metadata stored by the government. it's stored by the phone companies after the six-month transition period. >> right. >> it brings up an important point and you've written about this extensively. the patriot act was written in 2001. we're now applying 2015 technology to it. back in 2001 flip phones were cool and people had beepers. things are very different right now in terms of what happens. has the law evolved, is the usa freedom act we're going to see voted on does that update it enough? >> yes, it does. remember the freedom act...