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Thank you very much for coming in during the holidays. >> thank you. >> a major decision today on the government's collection of our personal data. a federal judge in new york has ruled that the nsa's phone tracking program is legal, and he dismissed the lawsuit from the american civil liberties union. the judge said there's no evidence that the government used any of the information it's collected for any other reason than investigating potential terror attacks. doug has more on this. he is traving with the president and has been with the president while he is on vacation. doug is not in hono...

Jonathan hunt is live. >> reporter: we heard two side of what is a mallty facetted debate. 'lawyers for the aclu in court asked that -- said the phone tracking program that tracks the calls, hundreds of millions of them, on american citizens and foreign citizens, amounts to what the aclu called the largest surveillance operation ever conducted by a democratic government against its own people, and they said it violates both the first and fourth amendment of the constitution. i spoke to aclu member after the court hearing today. he summed up their case. >> the constitution places limits on the ...

Few fish but that's what it's down here. >> reporter: what the aclu wants is an injunction to immediately stop the phone-tracking program. they did not get it today. no decision from the judge, and no indication when that decision will come. >> what's the government's response to all this? >> well, the government says that they are not collecting actual data from these calls. the content of the calls. they say they don't actually listen to the find -- phone calls. they don't actually record the conversations. they say they're collecting metadata, when those calls are made, who whom those calls...

Numbers tracked only 2,000 were properly vetted. the sefrps went on for three years until they were uncovered back in 2009. part of the problem was no one at the nsa understood how the phone tracking program worked. not sure i buy that excuse. but it's an interesting one. >> if you enjoyed the weather around the last couple days don't get used to it. hot temperatures on the way. >> maria molina is here with the first degree weather update. >> we are talking extreme heat. it naturally reaches dangerous levels especially during the afternoon hours. take a look at some of the high temperatures ...

Oregon, they haven't changed position. they've demanded an open debate and they want changes. but there has been a shift in the congress, shift from monday to friday. you saw senator feinstein, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee a week ago, very defensive, said flat out the program's fine. by the end of the week she was saying she may be proposing some changes to the way the court and the oversight works. i do think congress may move incrementally, if at all, but may move toward some changes in the system. >> a.b., intelligence officials are now saying that the nsa surveillance ...