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1st and the senate will be returning to debate legislation to decide whether to renew the two surveillance tools little while ending the nsa bulk phone program as it exists. deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. in iran a group is showing off its work in a cartoon process. they are battling it one pencil stroke at a time. >> reporter: in a recent string of attack against cartoonists, it wouldn't seem if the popularity would stall. instead, a new cartoon contest is sweeping the globe and it has people flying into iran. tehran's house of cartoons stages a competition based on the theme crimes commi...

Has this story. >> reporter: on capitol hill, time is almost up and the scramble in the senate is about to be on. >> we shouldn't 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 government to seek a court order, roving wire taps for burned phones and the ability too track an american ...