Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. Its a first alert weather day, meaning significant weather could impact the day. Coverage you can count on, first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington watching the roads and first alert meteorologist bill henley tracking all of the weather today. Whats the timing like, bill . Vai, its raining right now but its this afternoon and this evening that well see the heavy rainfall. Thats triggering a flood threat for later today. Heavy rain but strong gusty, warm winds will lead to lots of melting snow. The flood threat for poor drainage areas. This morning were seeing the first line of rain. Thats pretty good rainfall thats moving through philadelphia. Now center city is getting those heavier downpours. Norristown and phoenixville its falling at a rate of more than an inch and a third an hour. Those showers are moving to the northeast at more than 40 miles an hour. It wont last long. This is whats on the way for
Caller im with the people that think we should not be involved in another war in the middle east. Troops for us to send in when we have the iraqis saying that unless we send our people in to die for them, they are going to put their weapons down and not fight. We do not belong being the police of the world. If these people dont want to stand up and protect their own selves in that area of the world, we should not be doing it for them. Host thanks for the call. Harold from illinois. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think we should reinstitute the draft. Thatd it very strange people like romney had all of those young men and women in his family, and not a single one of them has served in uniform. Why is it always the poorest people in this country to have less to gain are always one to sacrifice . Why were they watching those tanks move in on that city, and they were dropping extensive ordinance on jeeps . It doesnt make sense. Something is wrong. Host thanks for the call. Laverne jo
They feed on each other. The f. B. I. Is complaining we are going down because of encrypted operating systems et cetera. People are taking these on because they think of themselves of living in a surveillance society. It causes the government to take on more and more sfwrusive surveillance techniques. In the absence of reform, i dont think this is going to be a helpful cycle for anybody involved. If i may, and this gets to the issue ultimately of trusting governmental institutions. That is one of the reasons we are seeing this explosion of this kind of technology, is that folks increasingly simply dont trust the ferguson with respect to their personal privacy, data and all the rest of these things. I agree, it is a cycle that needs to be broken, and the only way it is going to be broken is when folks on the ferguson side begin to understand that they need to be held to a High Standard when it comes to these kinds of investigations. What companies are doing right now is an absolutely ap
Automatically, and you are going through your world whether your smartphone or your credit card, you are doing this hundreds of times a day, maybe. All ofue is nsa can use that to establish a profile. That is a good thing. Why do you have to do it to hundreds of millions of innocent people . That is a problem. That is where i have a problem. I do not want to hurt nsa. I served 30 years there. And it is a needed capability to keep us safe, but my goodness, we need to observe the three legs of the government, the legislative process, to the judiciary, as it was always intended. We do not need to say that we are at perpetual war and can never go back to a democratic visible. We need to get away from that. And that is on the idea that theres a lot of information that is limited to the dish it to the leadership. I can only speak to what ive that is really quite only for sensitive operations. Abbotobad aid on when youre talking about the kinds of things from the surveillance nsa does, those
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