means that there are fewer and fewer technical constraints on what we can do. that places a special obligation on us to ask tough questions about what we should do. reporter: the most significant changes affect the most controversial surveillance program, the bulk collection of american s phone records. effective immediately the nsa will need judicial approval before searching the data. the president asked congress to create a panel of public advocates to counter the requests and he asked the attorney general to explore moving the data out of nsa control, but the bottom line, the program won t necessarily end. for the nsa s most ardent critics, that would be a glaring omission. i didn t hear any lessening of the spying on americans or collecting records of americans, i heard that, trust me, i m going to put more safeguards in place but i m going to keep right on collecting every american s records. reporter: the president
here has only had 3 inches in 2013, 3 inches for the entire year. normally you get 14. that s why everything here is so brown. don? my goodness. keep us updated. thank you for that. now to the mysterious disappearance of a wall street journal reporter. david burr who covers energy issues for the journal left his house saturday evening for a walk and hasn t been seen since. some are worried his reporting could have played a role in his disappearance. alexandra field has the latest now. reporter: david bird, a married father of two disappears without his cell phone or the medication he needs following a liver transplant nine years ago. he s a strong man. he has been through he s been through a lot before. just think he s holding on. we just want him back. reporter: for almost a week authorities and hundreds of
years. you put low humidity there and then you add the heat and, don, that s why the governor is declaring this state in a state of emergency. don. i want our viewers to see this. i want to take a look at two pictures of the sierra mountains. the one on the left is last year and the one on the right is from this week. you can see how much more green and how much more snow there is on the left-hand side picture and you re on the ground. do you see a big difference there on the ground? reporter: absolutely. i m going to walk you over this way because the best description of it is just to simply take a look through into the hillside. this used to be an apartment. you can see it s completely gone now. take a look at the hills. you see how brown they are? you can see some spots of green, but normally this time of year in california, just like your satellite imagery showed, this would all be lush, green, blooming, but because there has been so little rain, los angeles
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volunteers have scoured the hills for the wall street journal s 55-year-old reporter. they ve said, quote, mr. bird is a long time reporter of the dow jones newsroom. our thoughts are with his family. bird s family is desperate to find him. on saturday he said he was going for a quick walk but never came home. we have every reason to believe that he just wanted to go for a little stroll. there s no nothing pointing to anything else. reporter: a search party numbering as many as 200 is combing trails where bird, a marathoner, likes to walk. they re searching the nearby pasaic river. this week a potential clue came from mexico. that s where media outlets reported bird s credit card had been used. a source close to the investigation tells us prosecutors at this point have not confirmed whether the card was actually used in mexico. those reports raised concerns that his disappearance could somehow be connected to his coverage of opec, the organization of the petroleum