Page 3 - Trunk Lines News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

But power outages really remain the big concern as ice weighs down utility lines and nearby tree branches. although many new atlanta area neighborhoods have underground cables. they're often connected to trunk lines that are overhead on traditional utility poles. so they still face the risk of power outages. most of the snowfall remains just north of atlanta, but as we come back to our live shot, you can see and hear the sleet coming down. that's causing icing on the roads, especially elevated roads and bridges, including the 17th street overpass that i'm standing on right now. back to you. >>...

Purpose -- and abuse, too. it will get abused. the federal government abuses everything. people there don't know what the especially they're doing. have no -- don't know what they're doing. they will abuse it. if you emnoter them and they will abuse it. >> eric: we took heat standing by the fourth amendment and saying the nsa was violating people's privacy rights. they denied it. james clapper defied ding -- denied going it. >> when you allow the rules to be stretched and in this case, way overstretched in the constitution, you will have people taking the ultimate path they can to get the most...

There's no excuse for it happening. when you start suspending civil liberties for the -- and abuse, too, it's going to get abused. the federal government abuses everything. you have people there that don't know what the hell they're doing and have no respect for the constitution and they abuse it. if you empower them, they're going to abuse it. >> bob, we took a lot of heat for standing by the fourth amendment for saying that the nsa was violating people's privacy rights. they denied it. james clapper in front of a senate panel denied doing it. now we know they did it thousands of times per ye...

Used to be we were spying on foreigners. then when they expanded under george bush to get telephone companies to give them trunk lines to tap into, it went to all americans. >> two separate things. we can talk about the phone records thing as a lock box in which no one is able to look in, you're confusing that with p.r.i.s.m. now. >> we're going to take a momentary break on that and listen to a bit of sound here, this is rand paul on snowden. >> i do think that when history looks at this, they're going to contrast the behavior of james clapper, our national intelligence director, with edward s...

>> you don't have to have anything. they have no one on the hook a foreigner communicated with anyone, blanket said i will take all verizon customers this period of time. >> second step, they have to see a phone call go out or come in before they can -- >> verizon and comcast, why do you think they did that? >> what are you asking? >> they took communications out of verizon trunk lines. >> because they had a specific communication -- >> would be, we can look at the document. they went to fisa court and had something like 33,000 requests for fisa, 11 were turned down. 33,000. >> did they not or...