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Your phone calls, searching through your facebook page, what is the government seeing and what is it doing with the information? kim vetter is a senior reporter with wired.com and james banford has written four books including the very first one about the nsa, including the shadow factory. so welcome. welcome to both of you. kim, first question to you. two different issues, phone calls and internet surveillance. government says they're storing this metadata in english. what is that? >> so, metadata is -- potentially we're talking about the phone records. we're talking about the calls, the phon...

>> completely huge. look, about 10, 20, approximate 0 times larger than a particular attack like this and that's a problem not just for this one company that got attacked, but a problem for everybody. they basically use the internet's equivalence of phone book, that translates numbers into names, cnn.com, wired.com and they used that system to direct lots and lots and lots of traffic toward this one site, and it is so much it's affecting everyone. >> why did these hackers do this? this is an ongoing feud between these hackers and this company that blocks spam? >> right. people don't realize th...

Murder in central america. mcafee was a consultant for lockheed back in the late '80s when he created his software company. sold the business for $100 million. he bought homes and businesses in belize and settled there back in 2008 and sunday, mcafee's next door neighbor, gregory fall, was discovered by his house keeper in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound to his head. fall, 52 years old, was a builder from florida. the two men were at odds apparently for months. earlier this year mcafee filed a complaint accusing fall of poisoning his dogs. according to a story on foxnews.com. the 67-year-...

that it is on the right track. merkel reaffirmed her confidence. we expect to hear from president obama about the drop in the jobless rate just minutes from now. the president is also going to be outlining a plan to upgrade buildings, make them more energy efficient. the administration says it will create tens of thousands of construction jobs. the president speaking about 11:10 eastern. we'll take you there live. senators trying to figure out a compromise today to extend the payroll tax cut in 2012. here's what happened. a senate blocked both democratic and republican plans last...

basketball coach bernie fine last night. a third man now says that fine molested him when he was a boy. also in a phone recording from nine years ago aired on espn fine's wife, laurie, says she knew, quote, everything that went on. we're expecting to hear from a family of a florida a&m student who died in a suspected hazing incident. they plan to announce a lawsuit against the school. robert champion was a drum major with the university's award winning marching band. 30 band members were suspended this semester because of possible involvement in hazing. big day for democracy in e...