and all phones go out at once, i mean all at the same time, everybody s cell service in that vicinity on all those carriers will just drop. major cell phone carriers are installing temporary cell towers in all three cities as a backup. headlines, just yesterday fantastic to see all the preparations for the pope. what a special time. just hours from now pope francis will land in washington, d.c. where he ll be greeted by president obama. his historic visit to the united states is already being overshadowed by controversy from the left and the right. joining us is fox correspondent father jonathan. is the controversy justified or is this just everybody s got opinions in america? well both. i think there are reasons to argue that he decides whether his priorities are the right priorities. what i think is amazing walking the streets this morning here in new york city people are very excited. i ve noticed the so-called little guys are even more
portable. it s portable e-commerce. and it s fast. i don t have to stand in line at the oh, you want those earrings? swipe. there you go. i m, like, thank you and i walk out. i love the convenience and the speed. i have a suggestion. okay. let s pay cash. one more thing i think you re going to love. clinton and i are apple freaks, right? apple has been working on technology where they will get rid of all the cell phone carriers and they will be your cell phone carrier. of course. it s pretty cool. basically they would switch around so that any time that say you re in new york or l.a. or you re getting bad service, they would provide the service for you and then you would pay apple directly for being your cell phone carrier. of course. so instead of at&t and verizon, and they ve been in battle with them for years. they want to cut out everybody, and i think that could be really interesting for apple. the same way they ran the record businesses out of business.
win over support of in this case it was a senate committee. they ve also been gotten into trouble for doing some spying. or some at least some investigative work into some of the members which also is not a very smart tactic. so you know and now, of course we have this the freedom the usa freedom act which is designed you know supporters say will basically get rid of the most egregious parts of the patriotic act. of course the problem with that is that does a little bit more than that. it pretty much guts the program because what it does is it takes the meta data system and this is the blind, massive system that s text messages et cetera. exactly. and it basically takes that out of the hands of the government and gives it back to the carriers. carriers. cell phone carriers. that s the case that means that government intelligence workers aren t going to have all that data at the fingertips at every
i am going to speculate it is going to be about $200, $300 with the contract. a lot of cell phone carriers, they are kind of pushing us into this, we don t need you to sign a contract but we are going to need you to pay full price fwor that phone. i would expect they would be in the $500, $600 range. apple and google is dealing with it. we have kind of been saturated with smartphones. this is the new galaxy s-5. it is a beautiful phone. it has better battery life, a faster processor. it is just a few steps above where the s-4 was. if you are sitting there using an s-4, you are going to say, i don t want to spend another $500 for a slightly faster phones. in the realm of cell phones and tim cook spoke to this on a recent call with apple, it is more of a two-year cycle. it is interesting to see that samsung is following in apple s pattern, we are going to do big
china claims much is territorial. that mernler could be worth more than $20 billion. that would leave only three major cell phone carriers in the u.s. including verizon and at&t. there could be a bid as we recall as the beginning of the year. no one won last night s megamillions jackspot. so tuesday s drawing is going to be a big one. $550 million. experts say for the next drawing the chances of being killed by an asteroid are 1,000 times better than your chances of winning the jack pot. don t let that stop you, though. well, the northeast is getting