LIN: All right, new video just into CNN of firefighters on the ground, battling these grass fires near Oklahoma City. So far, 30,000 acres have burned so far. The temperatures did ease after the outbreak of fires on Tuesday, but unfortunately, it looks like there are going to be more hazardous conditions on Saturday. So it's going to be a tough weekend in Oklahoma. They have a fire ban now and a ban on fireworks. Although there will be some fireworks going off at professional locations in Oklahoma, but firefighters are deathly afraid of the situation on the ground getting even worse. Live pictures now, as the emergency management folks tell me that Chinook helicopters and Blackhawk helicopters are being sent out to do water-drops on these grass fires that so far have destroyed more than a dozen homes. All right, in the meantime, we are still covering the controversy out of the National Security Agency. And the last thing that agency wants now is more attention, especially over surreptitious snooping on innocent Americans. But now comes a public admission that the nation's premiere and formerly secret surveillance network mistakenly used the wrong kind of cookie on its Web site. I'm speaking of the tiny files that all sorts of Web sites quietly install on visitors computers acting as markers or tracking devices, applications that allow the site to recognize the user next time he or she visits. Well it turns out the NSA cookies weren't programmed to expire until 2035, violating government rules that cookies disappear when visitors shut down their browsers. A privacy activist complained. The "Associated Press" asked questions and the agency said this, quote, "Apparently an upgrade in the software used to manage the site used default cookies which were considered persistent. After being tipped to the issue, we immediately disabled the cookies." Much more LIVE FROM right after this.
Oklahoma Fires Ravage More Than 30,000 Acres