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and i-90. damaging winds large hail, isolated tornadoes from bismarck southbound to rapid city. and then as we glance in toward late week, still heavy downpour. storms in the mid-atlantic and dry again in the south plains. t.j. and kayna, back to you. justin thank you. now in drought-stricken california, whole new world here, there's more water restrictions now in effect. the aim to reduce the state's water use by 25%. some communities are hoping for more than that, maybe even 36%. homeowners who don't cut back on usage are subject to steep fines. turn now to the nsa and those controversial surveillance programs as the impasse over the expired patriot act continues the senate is hoping for passage today by making slight changes on a house bill. abc's david kerley with more on what's at stake. >> now the program that searches americans' phone records has been shut down. the bulk data program revealed by former nsa contractor edward snowden one of some of the provisions of the patriot act which expired.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150601:10:47:00

>> when my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident and my two boys were very badly injured and hospitalized, one with me here today, hunter the other is in iraq, i got a call from your dad. and i didn't know your dad too well. i just met him that one time. he was the prod who convinced me to go to the senate because i had told my governor after that election the governor elect to be precise my brother did that we would appoint someone else i didn't want to go to the senate. and it was your brother who came to see me to tell me that i owed to my tee ceaseddeceased wife and children to the at least be sworn in and stay for at least six months. and when i got to the senate, he

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150601:22:58:00

biden delivered a commencement address at yale. he did not reveal bo's battle but he did speak about him. and about the tragic car accident that occurred when he first entered the senate. >> while i was in washington hiring staff, i got a phone call. my wife and three children were christmas shopping. a tractor-trailer broadsided them and killed my wife and killed my daughter. and they weren't sure that my sons would live. many people have gone through things like that. because i had the incredible good fortune of an extended family ground in the love and loyalty imbued i not only got

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150601:10:51:00

and so would joe biden. he survived that dangerous operation in 1988. he went on to spend another two decades in the senate where he became a pillar of the capitol. and on to the vice presidency where he left his mark as one of the president's closest and most trusted advisers. but we all know around this table that joe biden is proudest of the family he has built, of the grand children at his knee. and sadly that family all gathered again at a bedside in walter reed this weekend. this time to say good-bye to the son that guided joe biden through the night so many years ago to save his life. it's impossible to know the pain of losing one child. and this second time, this second drop of pain which cannot forget upon the heart for joe biden, it must be unimaginable. but joe is beau's dad.

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freedom act that would allow the programs to continue while also reforming the bulk phone collection pre grogram so controversial. sets up a vote for final passage in the senate some time midweek. that's because of some procedural rules in the senate and also amounts that could be voted on. if of course they do end up amending the usa freedom act it will have to go back to the house for them to kconsider thoe amendments. >> the u.s. patriot act enacted after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. >> our colleague spoke with a journalist who said this is the first time the nsa is having powers taken away. >> when the patriot act was enacted even in the weeks after 9/11 when the country was pretty much willing to do anything the government wanted it was recognized it was incredibly radical and extremist piece of legislation. the idea was these powers were

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150601:01:35:00

hi there i'm frances. >> referee:a. there will be no last-minute deal to keep key provisions from the patriot act from expiring at midnight tonight. the senate was able to move forward on a house passed bill that would allow controversial collection of phone records to continue. senator rand paul kept his promise to block extension of the provision beyond midnight pt too. the senate will have to wait until tuesday afternoon at the earliest to vote on the house bill. now back to our programming. ♪ so we got to the airport.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150601:09:34:00

the senate voted to pass a reform bill already passed by the house. rand paul is taking credit for delaying action on the measure and triggering the lapse. >> the question we have to ask ourselves is are we so frightened that we're willing to give up our freedoms and willing to really trade liberty for security? people here in town think i'm making a huge mistake. some of them i think, secretly want there to be an attack on the united states so they can blame it on me. the ones who say when an attack occurs, it's going to be all your fault, are any of them willing to accept the blame? we have bulk collection now. are any of them willing to accept the responsibility for a boston bombing? >> no but they'll be the first to say it's all your fault. we never should have given up on this great program. >> he created a surreal fight on

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150601:09:30:00

>> i am heather childers. it is half past the top of the hour. let's get right to the fox news alert though. even with fashionnal security on the line the senate unable to break the crippling gridlock. >> key traditions ends after sunday session ends with a lot of bickering instead of compromising. james rosen is live in dc for us with the late breaking details. good morning, james. >> good morning. as the sun comes up for americans in new york pens opinions and washington sites of the 9-11 attacks three provisions from the post 9-11 patriot act have gone sdashg. they failed to save them from a june 1st expiration date. the controversial was national security agency's phone log collection program made famous by edward snowden the ex-con tractor and fugitive opposed the congress by senator rand paul a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150601:06:50:00

at this point he looks somewhat -- >> we are where we are in part because of the expiration of this because the senate didn't pass the bill didn't really take up this issue in time. so i think the challenge here as we did get this bipartisan vote and mitch mcconnell hasn't wanted to take up the usa freedom act and he faces this deadline -- >> in fairness he was working on the president's trade authority. >> sure but he could have taken the president raised the extension a year ago. could have taken it up two months ago. we have a republican congress that is battling each other on passing the patriot act. it is a big question of why we're facing that. >> i want to pick up on that though. because we played the clip at the top of the segment of president obama talking in his weekly radio address on dangers of letting the program go dark and talked about it briefly on friday. i have to say what strikes me is how tepid he has been in his support of this.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150601:10:43:00

dwight eisenhower's own son went to war in korea. beau could have run in the senate in 2010 and he would have won, beut he chose to continue as a local prosecutor and he said because he needed to keep fighting in his state on a case involved too many abused children. beau said i have a duty to fulfill as attorney general and the immediate need to focus on a case of great consequence. and that is what i must do. but above all, beau biden was a family man. that's that's where his duty was. he was a father he was a husband, he was a son. he is survived by his wife, their two children, natalie who is 11 and son hunter just nine years old. the total devotion to family is an example beau learned at the feet of his father. to know the story of joe jo bybiden

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