Updates of the days news. Event. Facebook says they dont know who is behind these accounts. Everyday includes russia may be behind some of the activity. Sthaf received a private briefing earlier this week from facebook officials. The committee is holding an open hearing on social media later today. Listen, this is going to be a process of companies beginning to identify areas of concern. Its important this is the start of a collaboration between government and these companies to address concerns that they have and we have about the use of their platforms. I want people that do this to have a priechls i will be introducing thursday a sanctions bill against russia, everything but the Kitchen Kichg i sings in it. It will be the sanctions bill from hell. Every other Country Sharing in
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facebook says it doesn t know. but on capitol hill they are reporting to russia him one republican vowing more sanctions. that has everything but the kitchen siveng in it. it will be the sanctions bill from hell. reporter: congress recently grilled mark zucker burg over facebook s handing of russia interference in 2016. unfortunately the process isn t per fevenlg i am committed to doing that. i think facebook wants to do that to restore confidence with investors. reporter: the white house says president trump is aware of this latest disinformation campaign and they applaud the actions facebook is taking. thanks, to peter alexander for that report. let s go to washington. a reporter is joining us. talk about the effect just 98 days or so i believe now. reporter: yes, this is interesting. what we saw in terms of the
huh. facebook founder mark zucker burg calling president obama directly. lori joins us to explain why. mark zucker beberg saws ys h picked up the phone and said he was frustrated about how they are using the internet. when our engineers work tirelessly to sec kurt we think we are doing that against predators not our government. zuckerburg does not mention exact instances but it comes days after intercept reports says the national security agency does have the ability to fake a facebook server in order to target a specific server. it was brought to life by edward snowden. in response the nsa says they use technical capabilities only
in rally north carolina you are looking at temperatures below zero across portions of new england. a nice rebound. 40 s new york city and chicago and cleveland expecting highs in the middle 50 s get out and enjoy it. we have a storm system we will be tracking over the weekend. tomorrow it could produce severe weather across parts of texas and louisiana tornadoes damaging winds large hail possible. the system goes east and colder air heather and ainsley we could see snow and winter weather across the midwest and northeast coming up. thank you maria. thank you. it is 43 after the top of the hour. the founder of facebook making a direct call to the president. why mark zucker burg is upset. tiny to the in trouble with the law? why police pulled her over and gave her a ticket. creamy chickn corn chowder.
snowfall with a foot expected especially around colorado. several inches of rain across sections of texas. we need the rain across texas. we are under a drought. we are talking about locally 4-6 inches of rain. flooding will be a concern out here. we have a sharp contrast 88 for a high in san antonio. 75 in dallas and 50 s up in the city of minneapolis. back to you heather and ainsley. thank you maria. good to see you this morning. 39 after the top of the hour. hospitals cutting thousands of jobs despite the growing number of patients. could your next trip to the doctor suffer? why does facebook ceo mark zucker burg spending 30 million on four houses? is the reason reveal next. fighting constipation