Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for tuesday, december 17th, 2013. Good morning, good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, a federal judge has ruled that the National Security agencys bulk collection of phone records of millions of americans is unconstitutional, its a blistering attack on the program. The judge ordered the government to stop collecting data and then suspended his ruling because of National Security interests. Tara mergener has more from washington. Good morning, tara. Reporter good morning, annemarie. The judge says the nsas methods may well violate the fourth amendment. Now, this federal ruling carries so much weight because its the first against the government spying program. A federal judge has ruled the National Security agency should stop its full collection of americans phone records. Saying it is likely unconstitutional. Under the nsa program, the government said, it collects and stores metadata on hundreds of millions of telephone call
Stockpile. The brits backed away from it. France supported the strategy. Three, africa, french troops are on the ground in countries like mali and the central after can republic fighting islamists and backed by u. S. Intelligence and airlift support. Four, trade ties, as part of the e. U. , france is negotiating with u. S. On an e. U. U. S. Transatlantic trade deal. If this deal were to some to fruition it could establish the largest free trade zone in the world. As the president of the European Commission tells us, calling it a quote unquote, game changer. While the french president was in town he visited montselly, home of thomas jefferson. On tuesday night he received the Royal Treatment at a state dinner in his honor. Frances president came stag to the event as he was without his longtime partner and without his latest squeeze. Question, what is driving this reproachment between france and the United States . Both of them want to deal in Foreign Policy and obama because hes pretty
Her fans this morning. Hey, good morning, everybody. Also coming up on the broadcast this morning, Kathleen Sebelius, who has become really the face of the obama care website debacle going before congress this week. Can she keep her job . Were going to talk to George Stephanopoulos about that coming up. Yeah, republicans starting to subpoena her over documents over that botched website. Also ahead, look at these live pictures out of the vatican on this sunday morning. Its yet another example of pope francis setting a new tone as he celebrates family weekend. Well have more of this event coming up in the show. But we are going to start with that wild scene at game three of the world series. Both teams storming onto the field, one in celebration and the other in anger. All the result of a controversial ninth inning call that put the cardinals over the top. So im going to frame this as a boston boy. Did the red sox get robbed here . Ron claiborne, arguably the biggest baseball fan in all
And share. Thirty if i can the island to friends or watching tv. Midterm elections only have six months away pollsters are firing up the telephone lines to get a read on how the american feels about elected officials and more importantly how expects to both of them. At this point republicans hold the majority of seats in the house of representatives the things trooper to craft an authentic in the november elections republicans are expected to hold on to the house that need fixed me to pick up six seats to win control the senate. Look at that. A new Rasmussen National survey finds that fifty three percent of likely us voters think its fair to say that Neither Party in congress is the party of the American People. It is up to forty seven percent last october overall it found that fifty two percent of republicans and forty four percent of democrats agree that neither the majority of Political Party is the party faithfully representing the American People. A whopping sixty five percent of
Gain a stronger grasp of the english language. Welcome to al Jazeera America, im stephanie si and begin this morning with breaking news out of south sudan, 200300 people drowned in a ferry accident on the white nile river and the boat was overloaded with refugees at the time. The victims of the ferry accident were civilians trying to flee from fighting in the town of molacal, the gate way to the oil fields of the upper nile region and heavy fighting is there as they attempt to seize the town. Control of the town has already changed hands twice since the conflict in south sudan began last month. The bitter budget battle on capitol hill is finally over. House and Senate Negotiators have brokered a 1 trillion spending deal and finance the government and prevent a shut do you know and its a pact agreed upon by republicans and democrats last month and the plan contains dozens of tradeoffs and Thomas Drayton has more. Reporter with the threat of another government shut down only days away, t