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Enormously important to the united states. >> of all the dangers that come with this really massive, sprawling surveillance state that dick cheney and george w. bush helped construct, the erosion of personal privacy, the damaged diplomatic relations, the biggest may be this. the apparatus itself is so big, it cannot be adequately overseen by the person who is the "wall street journal" reported, the president went nearly five years without learning u.s. spies were bugging the phones of world leaders. he only discovered the spying due to an internal review that started this summer. officials sai...

Cannot actually be managed. their very existence in their current state threatens epic destruction when inevitable human error occurs. that's where we've gotten with our surveillance state. it has to shrink or we will eventually find ourselves living through the surveillance version of the great crash. perhaps that's what we are seeing right now.

Immensely now. people are living in temporary shelters. counting on the help from strangers. wtbm, our affiliate is with one family. >> reporter: holding on if you only knew what these eyes saw days ago when epic destruction by storms changed lives. the sounds and sights here of those who have been hit hard, left with nothing but -- >> toothpaste. >> reporter: what they can get here staffed by red cross volunteers is support. there are families here with children like the binder family of hard hit crack city. >> all i can do is cry because i miss my house. >> reporter: it was his home, 11-year...

Knew, but we found it was not in fact the case. >> the emotion up and down, up and down there. and this was probably -- gave people a brief moment of thinking there was some good news. and mark is on the phone now. he mentioned the birmingham news. this was the day after the storm, saying "epic destruction." it sums it up. i spent a lot of time with you on the ground in jefferson county, particularly in forestdale. we talk about the emotions up and down. how are people dealing with this, three days after this tornado went through? >> well, the thing that has been really inspiring and amazing i...