Than 60 million phone lines in that country over a onemonth period. This comes as a european delegation is in washington looking for answers. Al jazeera has this report. Reporter at the white house the president ial spokesman refused to be drawn on reports that the you u. S. Tracked millions of spanish foe calls but repeated the nsa Surveillance Programs are being examined. We are doubling a review. We are mindful that some of these disclear us disclosure had tension in our relationships. With new capabilities we recognize there needs to be additional constraints on how we gather and use intelligence. Reporter tensions spiked with reports in germany suggesting president obama was briefed on the surveillance of german chancellor Angela Merkels phone in 2010 and fast tracked any information gathered correctly to the white house. In the fast few days Anonymous Administration officials told the u. S. Media that was false. And that a white house review only discovered the surveillance of Wo
Mr. Obama was told back in 2010. Germany is sending Senior Intelligence officials to washington. This morning, senator jean shehay says the nsa needs to come clean about its. Surveillance programs. The reflations from snowden and the secrets that have been revealed are doing significant damage to our bilateral relationships with germany, with mexico, with the other countries where the suggestion is that we have listened in. So i think we have repair work to do, and i think we have hard questions we need to ask of the nsa about whats really happening in this program. This morning, the chairman of the House Homeland Security had a different point of view. The reality is the nsa has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in france and germany and throughout europe. The french are someones to talk. The fact is they carried out spying operations against the United States, both the government and industry. As far as germany, thats where the hamburg plot began, which led t
We have a lot of news to cover in the next hour. We have everything from big money and politics, big fines for people who try to smuggle big money in to bart. We are going to go in depth. What is next . What can lead you to prevent another strike . How is the public reacting to all of this. Specifically what will we do . Operators who walked out on more than a dozen seniors. Bryan webb tells us if it werent for a concerned neighbor, the situation could have been much worse. Bryan, theate chris crosses a care facility shut down for two days still filled with patients but hardly any staff. It upsets me. This woman who lives nearby asked him to hide her identity after complaining about the for 20 years. She said the past few days have been the worst, so she called for help. The staff isnt over there, whats going on. Reporter when authorities arrived, they found 14 patients inside including amputees, the bedridden and mentally impaired with only two workers caring for them, a janitor and a
Hardly any staff. I cant put my head around it. Reporter this woman who lives nearby asked us to hide her identity after complaining about the care at the home for 20 years. She says the past few days have been the worst and she called for help. The staff isnt over there. Whats going on . Reporter when authorities arrived they found 14 patients inside including amputees, the bedridden and mentally impaired with only two workers caring for them. A janitor and a cook. Its kind of hard to fathom i mean you know theyre human beings here. And we just leave people behind . Reporter the patients were moved to other facilities or in with family all said to be doing okay. Authorities are now searching for the staff who abandoned their posts and their patients. And for the neighbors, thats the sickest part of all. Hopefully some people are going to have their eyes open whats been doing on over there for the past 20 years and you know its just ridiculous. Reporter now deputies dont really know ho
By 4 00 we will call it partly cloudy. Cooler for everyone, just 50s at the coast. Near 70 around the day. We will see some mid70s inland. Tonight the winds kick up and by the overnight hours a possibility of a few showers in the forecast. We will have more on that with the accuweather sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Katie. Thanks, lisa. More than a dozen people abandoned at a Castro Valley assisted living home days after the state ordered it closed. The owners cleared out, leaving 14 patients behind. We have the details from Castro Valley. Reporter Valley Springs man nor is offlimits and cleared out the Authorities Say the facilities owners left behind once this notice went up thursday. Its a terribly sad situation that people would just abandon them. We are talking about human beings. They are unable to care for themselves. They are bedridden, amputees, wheelchairs. You can see in these photos ambulances and paramedics lined the streets, taking for patients as quickly as possible