We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage of today's intelligence committee action. Here's a summary of where things stand:

• Top intelligence officials warned that curtailing surveillance capabilities would endanger Americans. However the officials indicated they would "consider" some changes to surveillance programs.

• Sens Ron Wyden and Mark Udall pressed the witnesses on whether the NSA has ever collected other information in bulk apart from phone records, such as cell site information. The question was not answered to the senators' satisfaction.

• NSA director General Keith Alexander said "I believe it is in the nation's best interest to put all the phone records into a lock box. Yes."

• New senate legislation would ban the bulk collection of Americans' phone records, limit the potential for intelligence agents to intercept Americans' Internet communications and reform the court that oversees surveillance. The senate intelligence committee plans to take up the legislation next week.

• The intelligence officials said they do not willfully unlawfully spy on Americans.

• The senators expressed exhaustion at the burden of having to try to get the virtues of the NSA programs through the public's head. John Rockefeller said "I don't think the American people are ever going to understand the Fisa court, how that works, but we do here." Dan Coats decried "this torturous exercise of having to get continuous feedback."

• James Clapper, director of national intelligence, says the NSA programs should not be measured on plots foiled but also on a "peace of mind" metric, gauging the reassurance that might come from knowing that agents routinely investigate potentially threatening plots that turn out to be nonthreatening.