Rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside Natalie Morales, diylan as well. I love that music. Its kind of catchy. Weve been doing the drum beat for a long time. Welcome to the Alpine Village about 30 miles up in the caucacus mountains. Thats not some kind of a movie backdrop. Thats the real thing behind us. The mountains along the river, got some nice people Milling Around here. You mentioned that some of the games have gotten under way. Well be talking to some of the athletes fresh from their qualifying rounds in just a couple of minutes. And also unfortunately well have more on that security alert coming from the u. S. Government, ladies. Well, we look forward to catching up on all of that. The olympics are under way, the figure skating tonight, one of the favorite events. As you said, that top issue is this terror warning. Its a scary one. Yes, it really is. Im joined here by kyra simmons of nbc. He has more
Dollars by mining your personal data from information you give at the checkout line, you knew that. But guess what . Now theyre looking at your facebook posts and status updates. That right. So who is buying all this info . John ulzheimer, credit exper at credit sesame. Com. He joins me with details. Always great to have you on the show. Particularly on a friday, valentines day. Thanks for coming in. My pleasure. Gerri ts is so interesting to me because this has the ring i heard it all before. Didnt this happen during the subprime crisis . S . What theyre doing is compiling information on those of us who have the least that then lenders, subprime lenders, credit card issuers, c go after some o these people. What do you make of it . Yeah, we should probably stop calling private Information Private because it is really not private. Is actually very valuae. It is for sale. It is completely available. It is being aggregated by companies and sold to lenders at want to make offers tailormade
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
Midwest to the northeast. First, the storm, singledigit temperatures moving in. This from maryland tonight. The power lines turning to icicles. In philadelphia, the state of emergency in pennsylvania tonight. Hundreds of thousands spending this evening in the dark, as those temperatures now plummet. A virtual Obstacle Course for american drivers. Everywhere, power grids pushed to the brink. This sign reads, sorry, power out. Hospitals, in fact, forced to take drastic action. And now, that third storm on the way. Abc meteorologist ginger zee with the forecast. But first, gio benitez, tonight, on the black ice worries. Reporter tonight, the storm after the storm. After that winter blast dumped nearly a foot of snow and ice from kansas to maine. Freezing cold. And a race to restore power. Officials comparing the damage to the aftermath of a hurricane. Trees down for a hundred miles. Nearly 500,000 in the dark and frigid cold. Its slow, painstaking work. Watch as the workers try and pull a
The average low temperature in the continental u. S. Today was 11 degrees, the lowest of the season. And in the west, there is a hopeful sign of a possible break in the historic drought. We have a series of reports on the severe weather, and first were going to go to chip reid in pennsylvania where many foablgs are spending another night in the dark. Chip. Reporter they certainly are, scott. And heres what caused a lot of this problem. This may look like snow, but its really not. It is ice, hard, heavy ice. And that hard, heavy ice stuck to the branches of trees, even big, healthy ones like this one, and brought them down, and when the trees came down, so did the power lines. In southeastern pennsylvania, thousands of power crews, some from as far away as arkansas, are working around the clock to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes. Clarence and rosalyn watts of abington have been without power for two days. They are heading out of town to stay with friend. The hardest part