New allegations are prompting more anger over the scope of the u. S. Deposits secret Surveillance Programs. A german news magazine, monitoring the phone of german chancellor Angela Merkel back in 2002. Demonstrators marched to wach washington and our jean meserve was there. Nsa spying should stop. Im here because of our liberal principles here in this country that should be stopped. That is. Our First Amendment our Fourth Amendment and were here to restore balance to the way our lives are been tumped up, get our sprieives back our safe space back. 580,000 signatures to the member of the u. S. Congress. It is callings for full disclosure of what the nsa ask doing, an end to those programs and accountability to those who are responsible. In addition the organizers released a statement to the man who is responsible for the current state of knowledge about nsa programs, edward snowden. That statement says in part, we declare that mass surveillance has no place in this country. It is time f
Two major allice angry with the u. S. Over spying allegations. Now they are demanding answers. Germany and france are calling for new talks with the u. S. About spying rules. Nine members of the European Parliament will travel to the u. S. To push for answers on the spy claims. German spy chiefs are planning a trip to the white house as well. Mike viqueira is at the white house tonight. [ technical difficulties ] the substance of these allegations, spying on some of americans closest allies. The president has been on the phone with the leader of france and Angela Merkel herself. But one thing officials are not doing at least not in public. They are not apologizing for what has transpired. U. S. Officials are saying the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathers by all nations. Here is jen sockky on friday. We of course will factor in the views of our friends and partners as we have those discussions with them. And continue to balance our security needs with privacy
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Whipping across the bay area toppling trees and damaging buildings and causing Power Outages. A wind advise vee in effect in parts of the bay area as we look outside. Good evening. Im ama dates. We have Team Coverage tonight and we begin with abc7 news meteorologist leigh glaser for a first check on weather and live doppler 7hd. Leigh . And as you mentioned the wind advisory was issued about 40 minutes ago for much of the bay area. Live doppler 7hd is showing the clouds that are moving in across the bay area. We do have reports of mist and drizzle near the coast. The big story is the area of low pressure that is bringing some snow already to the Higher Elevations. We do have Winter Weather advisories in affect for that area, but are you exactly rie. The wind has been a huge problem for the bay area. These are current gusts, san carlos is 37 miles an hour and 29 mile per hour gusts being reported right now in napa. Earlier this evening the Golden Gate Bridge had a wind gust of 45 Miles