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On the nsa spying program. top firms in the technology industry are trying to pressure the white house, the administration into scaling back that surveillance and making reforms to those programs. let's get more from jim acosta, live again at the white house this morning. what are you learning, jim? >> kate, one thing we're learn and we talked to several sources familiar with this meeting yesterday between the president and those top tech leaders who are here at the white house to talk about their very big concerns about the nsa surveillance programs, one thing that we did hear from a source f...

It has economic consequences beyond simply the well-being of those 20,000 people in connecticut and millions across the country who have been unemployed for record periods of time in record numbers, which is a drag on the economy. so i foresee a bipartisan effort to move forward the extension of unemployment insurance for the sake of the economy. and my hope is also that we'll correct one of the other regrets about this deal, which is the impact on retiree -- military retiree benpensions which is sag $6 billion but i think we need to look at that economic impact as well, so i think there is a ...

An all too familiar scenario. this video shot while s.w.a.t. teams secured the building room by room. >> stay in this room. >> reporter: a systematic search by police. >> on the third floor of the building they located two people down. and they located a couple of injuries. >> reporter: amazingly, operations at the medical center resumed within an hour of police clearing it. despite this being on the third flier of one of the office buildings in this very big hospital complex, the police response was very fast, about five minutes from the time the call went out by the time they got there, thou...

Meeting these tech executives put out a statement saying they urged the president to move aggressively on reform. these executives from the companies and keep in mind there are a lot of customers out there, of apple, of google, of facebook, yahoo! all of the companies that are very concerned about how much domestic spying is going on and their e-mail accounts, what they google and search online and so forth and these executives did reflect that at the meeting. >> fascinating. jim acosta reporting live from the white house thank you. still to come in the "the newsroom" a san francisco giants ...

And legal problem for the obama administration what to do no >> and as you heard earlier in the day when you and i were discussing this with ben wisener of the aclu, civil libertarians are arguing this is what happens when an open court discusses these things as opposed to a private fisa court. >> tomorrow president obama is meeting with a group of tech executives from google, yahoo, all the big tech companies who are not happy with this program either. they want changes made. the combination of this court ruling, the corporate unhappiness, some of our allies unhappiness, it certainly seems li...