0 from washington, d.c., here s john roberts. it was in the u.s. capitol behind me that the age of instantaneous electronic communication arguably began. samuel morris officially opened his first telegraph line between here and baltimore in 1844. the first message he transmitted? four words from the old testament. what hath god wrought? today we might wonder what hath samuel morris brought? practically all of us generate with our computers, phones, and devices a continuous trail of electronic data. that information can be stored who knows where, analyzed by who knows whom for who knows what purpose. what does it all mean for the rest of us? our investigation unfolds as a series of stories that would have seemed unconnected a few years ago. a mysterious new spy center rising in the utah desert. an unusual sixth grade class in as i take off down the road, any number of traffic cameras record my route. frank, coming up to the toll booth here. what are we watching for? cameras, numbe
can they? claudia would ycowen reports. we are teach ago computer to go through large enough data and look at patterns and understand what they mean. gary angel is head of simphonics. that makes it one of the most experienced players in the data gathering game. a big part of what the folks do is scan the web and analyze data. it s not unlike what the nsa will try to do at the utah data center. sift through the noise and all of the world s electronic communications, isolate the fragments of troubling data then connect the dots before a threat materializes. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what do they know?
can they? claudia would ycowen reports. we are teach ago computer to go through large enough data and look at patterns and understand what they mean. gary angel is head of simphonics. that makes it one of the most experienced players in the data gathering game. a big part of what the folks do is scan the web and analyze data. it s not unlike what the nsa will try to do at the utah data center. sift through the noise and all of the world s electronic communications, isolate the fragments of troubling data then connect the dots before a threat materializes. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what do they know?
fox news report, your secret is out. it was in the u.s. capitol behind me that the age of instantaneous electronic communication arguably began. samuel morris opened his first telegraph line between here and baltimore in 1844. the first message he transmitted four words from the old testament what hath got wrought. what has samuel morris wrought. we generate with our computers phones and other devices an almost continuous trail of electronic data. that information can be stored who knows where anl laysed by who knows whom for who knows what purpose. what does it all mean for the rest of us? our investigation unfolds as a series of stories that would have seemed unconnected a few years ago. a mysterious new spy center rising in the utah desert. an unusual 6th grade class in massachusetts. an unprecedented get out the vote effort in washington. in today s world they all tied together. we begin with a visitor to my home in atlanta. (knock on door) hey, frank, john. nic
of homes and businesses. however, no reports yet of any injuries there. a massive storm system again, a deadly storm system spawning several destructive tornadoes in oklahoma, iowa and kansas. one person confirmed dead and 20 others injured. square arery thanks for being with us. what jerry what can you tell us now. we know shawnee has gotten so much destruction. what is being done now at this hour? the process going through the rubble is literally stick by stick when the tornado comes through just scrambles everything. it is a long tedious process of removing the debris, all done by ar artificial light now. crews have to be especially careful of gas lines and electric lines. hopefully those things have been cut so those are not a first quarter hazard to them but there is not a particular hazard to them but there is the potential. they go through each of the areas and home looking for light and search ising for neighbor may be trapped. with all of the searching going