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He's calling for 15 to 20-foot levees constructed in parts of staten island to protect brooklyn from storm surges and new dunes constructed on beaches in staten island and queens. not even the nsa knows the whereabouts of ed snowden this morning, if you believe them the man who told the world about the agency's secret data mining operation remains in hiding, so does his girlfriend of five years, lindsay mills. we don't know a lot about the woman snowden left behind but she's making it clear that she's struggling. here's miguel marquez. >> reporter: the man at the center of the controversy le...

Offering advice to nsa surveillance leaker eric snowden. go to latin america and ask for asylum. assange spoke to anderson cooper from the ecuadorian embassy in london. assange calls snowden a hero for revealing the government's secret data mining operation and insists that president obama is not being truthful about the program. >> no one gave obama the mandate to engage in a worldwide surveillance program on nearly every person. you've seen a lot of double rhetoric, you see obama come out and say it didn't include the identities of the subscribers but it includes their phone numbers. this is...

The computer throws out as interesting or important. >> reporter: then as often happens, it is the interaction between cold data and live humans where the synergy takes place. it is failures to connect the dots before the boston bombings where investigators misread the data, it was a different story when the authorities had a more specific idea what to look for. they combed through countless photographs and hours of footage, not only allowing them to zero in on the bombers but to avoid false leads that can waste valuable time, and the turning point came when they released the information on ap...

The ceo google chairman now funding the data mining operation to help elect democratic and independent candidates. what can we expect from that? stu varney is anchor of barney and company on the fox business network. wow, so that's a pretty good organization to have for said democratic and independent groups, no? >> megyn, it is very troubling. all these revelations about snooping make it very troubling that one of the most powerful people in the world, the executive chairman of google, the most powerful internet company in the world should be so closely tied in not only to the president, but ...

Google, youtube, yahoo! and five other big names. in short, a direct line into your online life. the fbi, national security agency are doing it, according to a report in the "washington post" and britain's "guardian" newspaper, they have been doing it for the last six years. part of a highly classified, never before disclosed intelligence gathering program code named prism. according to the reporting it began during the bush administration but has grown sharply, exponentially, during the obama years. the fbi and nsa vacuuming up your e-mails, online pictures, audio, video, by tapping directly ...