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Let telecommunications giant verizon taking heat for deliberately slowing down service speeds to firefighters battling the largest wildfire in california history. the fire crews putting lives on the line during the mendocino complex fire. and verizon apparently throttled their service to below dial-up speeds. the santa clara county fire department filing a lawsuit against verizon is beyond outraged. the department says it severely hampered their ability to run evacuation plans. >> the speed that our plan would have allowed was reduce ds to 1/200th of the speed of connection. >> below dial up, ...

Tracking. the thing you asked us about. the part we didn't ask them about is there any other way you can track us? the answer is yes. they track you every time you search. if you use the photo app, google maps on your iphone. bits and pieces of where you go is being tracked and logged. >> bill: they physically know where you are even if you aren't using their map. >> even when your phone is in airplane mode. >> julie: how do they do that? >> let's say you change your settings saying i don't want you to know where i am. is it true everytime the update of the app goes you have to reset? >> you r...

And fleischer earlier today. here's one of the flaws in that proposal. what if there's a terrorist attack? what if there's a hurricane? what if there's an earthquake and there's a need for a live briefing here at the white house to talk about what's going on in the country? those kinds of occasions do arise as you remember with ferguson. can you imagine if we did not have live briefings at the white house during ferguson for example? the question becomes does the white house control the switch? do they get to make it live when they want it to be live? there are cameras, don, as we talked about...

Margin? so you've got to do what we did back in the day in this country and help to electrify. utilities are going into places where there's a market and you're going to have to provide some sort of subsidy or floor to get everywhere. if you drive around in some of the places that beat the heck out of me, you cannot get a cell coverage for miles and so you don't -- and even in towns, you know, the president was just in harrisburg. i was in harrisburg during the campaign and after it was over i met with a bunch of people and one of the things they said was there are a lot of places here in cent...

Floor. you cannot get a cell coverage for miles and even in towns, you harrisburg.resident was just in i was in harrisburg during the campaign and after it was over i meant with a bunch of people and one of the things that they said was that there are a lot of places in central pennsylvania where we don't have access to high-speed affordable internet. we have dial-up. and we don't have kids in a lot of places who have the technical capacity to do the homework assignments that they are given. we're talking about places that are not in alaska. they are within an easy drive of urban areas. you've...