hair out because there s one hour less. you realize what happens to a child that has to go to school? that means i have to get my kids up at six in the morning instead of seven. some advances in the event of hurricane harvey, irma and weather. last year, during hurricane harvey emery a cell phone providers found that repairing their cell phone towers took too long. fraser wireless has partnered with american aerospace technology to develop a drone that is able to provide cell phone service to first responders and the public in the immediate aftermath of the storm. the 17-foot long ground can
company. so no power means no water, no sewer. unlike here in the u.s., the cell phone providers in puerto rico rely solely on the public power grid. so communications are also very limited and the island s power authority is massively in debt. so turning the lights back on could take several months. when it comes to infrastructure, it gets worse. retaining walls and buildings are weak. in some cases, they re dangerous by years of deferred maintenance and medical facilities are underfunded and could be overwhelmed by the storm. shepard: thanks, trace. updating the top story. the feds facing another huge cleanup. we ll talk about the head of fema about response and we ll watch for hurricane maria s next month. first, anthony wiener soon to learn his sentence for sexting with a teenage girl. today prosecutors laying out how
five gun and terrorism charges and up to 50 years in prison. he s also suspected of conspi conspireing in two terror plots with syed farook that were never carried out. he will be arraigned next week. the navy showing fighters taking off against the first mission against isis. take a look. the fighter jets taken off from the uss harry s. truman to fight over iraq and syria. there has not been a u.s. aircraft carrier in the middle east since october. the troop s employme deployment7 months. changes coming to two major cell phone providers in the new year. cheryl casone is here with what you need to know. hi there, cheryl. good morning, ladies. sprint and at&t are making new
program that the court has found to violate the law. we will not consent to any extension of this program. this, of course, is the program that raised red flags for senator ron wyden who back in march of 2013 asked director of national intelligence james clapper this very very pointed question. does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? no sir. it does not? not wittingly. joining me now, deputy legal director for the aclu. it was the aclu who argued the case before the u.s. court of appeals. congratulations on your victory. thank you. all right. how big a deal is this ruling? it s a big deal. it s a great ruling. we ve been waiting for it for a long time now. it s a case that we filed right after the first snowden disclosures. this was the first program that was disclosed. this was the big bombshell one that said hey, by way, they keep going to your cell phone providers and saying give us
it s a big deal. it s a great ruling. we ve been waiting for it for a long time now. it s a case that we filed right after the first snowden disclosures. this was the first program that was disclosed. this was the big bombshell one that said, hey, by way, they keep going to your cell phone providers and saying give us everyone s call records. every day, every day they got from all the major telecommunications providers a list of, you know, essentially this log of who you called and when you called them, how long you spoke to them for and they have that for everybody, not just suspected terrorists or suspected criminals, everybody. and we challenged the lawfulness of that program. both on statutory grounds and on constitutional grounds. and the ruling today is a ruling that the program violates the statute. in other words, the law doesn t authorize the government to collect information on this scale. so it s, you know, a big deal. so just to be clear here, right, there s the