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As a result of that, that means that authorities are going to have access to only the last two years of farook's phone records, but now the previous three years because they have five years in their file, the previous three years, those years in their files are now off limits. was it a mistake to end the nsa phone data collection program? >> basically what we did is we took -- i was a former federal prosecutor, i did warrants, and what we did is would go to the phone companies to get that information. rather than have all the information warehoused under the federal government. and so i think ...

More police are expected to be at the campus all day. students have been asked to stay inside their dorms. in chicago the police department expanding its body camera program amid intense scrutiny over the shooting death of a teenager that led to murder charges for an officer. six districts will get the cameras this year. they are designed to build trust for the public and to protect the citizens and officers. heather? >> thanks, lea. the nsa no longer collecting bulk data for the phone records. forcing a new debate over terror concerns. molly henneberg takes a look. >> president obama said in ...

There is a tool that helps french officials track down the perpetrators of the paris attacks. for now, there is a phone data collection program. >> reporter: new legislation forced them to remove their phone records. the post-9/11 program tracked terror suspects using so-called m metadata. after the paris terror attacks where the suspects used encrypted communications, the chairman of the senate committee told fox news sunday that limiting the usa comes at a cost. >> the united states made a real mistake when they eliminated this program where we could search foreign, known terrorists' phone n...

Of americans' television records. the government says it's moving to a more focused approach they say of trying to gather intel on terror suspects, that shift coming more than two years after the details of the program were first leaked and made public by the former nsa contractor edward snowden. molly hendonburg has the details from washington. >> eric, president obama said in january 2014 that he wanted this nsa program to end, and in june of this year congress agreed. but gave the intelligence community about six months ending last month to close down this program. it was edward snowden who...

Snowden. molly hennenburg has more from washington. >> president obama said in january 2014 that he wanted this nsa program to end and in june of this year congress agreed but gave the intelligence community about six months, ending last night, to close down this program. it was edward snowden who leaked details about the government's phone data collection program which allowed them to track information about american's phone calls to try to ferret out any terrorist connections. now the law requires the nsa to get a court order and go to the phone companies to get those types of details. the o...