worker safety, all trying to help the president win reelection lt that is according to e obama administration officials told the obama administration officials were simply acting out of political necessity. and jay carney trying to defend the delays, claiming that they werejust being thorough. >> the administration is committed to protecting the health and welfare and safety of americans in promoting economic growth and job creatio as well as competitiveness and innovation. our goal is not to move hastily, but maximize the benefits. lou: the president's press secretary and his story. and the obama administration manipulang rules and delaying regulations. to fact checking organization, "the washington post" and political fact, singled out president obama for telling the biggest lie of the year. this whopper that we heard couness times over a three-year period of time. >> if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep her health care plan. period. lou: that is not thenly obama assertion deemed as a lie. "the washington post" reported that three of the top ggest lies of 2013 along two preside

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obama administration officials promised us by november 30th the web site will be functional and as you know it has already been november 30th so the so. >> white house is now work fog the vast majority of people who are trying to use it. it can now handle 50,000 users at a time, 800,000 a day. >> they say they have lowered response time to about one second and the error rate below one percent. >> jon: oh, my god. that one percent. i don't know what that is. of course the down side is that the only error that occurs is a really bad error. hey, you did it, guys and to celebrate i got you a card, i think you will enjoy it, it says congratulations on doing the thing you should have done months ago before we lost faith in the government. [ cheers and applause ] >> congratulations. that is not to say there still aren't problems. most of the front end may be looking good, people may be able to get on and get responses, but the information coming out the back end to the insurance companies is still garbage. >> >> i am starting to feel bad for them. because my guess is that you folks, like myse

a senior obama administration official telling nbc news that the white house does not dispute that report. >>> 70 journalists were killed around the world this year. 29 died while covering the syrian civil war. >>> and deadly clashes in bangladesh leave at least one person dead. it forced them to cancel upcoming elections. today, there are reports of opponents throwing stones at each other in the second day of violence. >>> watch out manchester united because there's a new team in town. in nepal, you can call it the world's heaviest soccer match. elephants and their jockeys competed on the pitch, running around, making contact, and of course, scoring goals. they're really speedy, aren't they? hat tricks will be tough. the annual event starts as a race but became the premiere soccer competition. elephants, who knew, right? >> is there an elephant team in the u.s. that maybe we could >>> it's a time for a look ahead and a look back. a california family tries to keep their daughter on life support. 13-year-old jahi mcmath suffered complications after a tonsil operation. and the family has un

obama administration officials now admitting the records of roughly a quarter of the people who signedp on the site in october and november may have errors, big time mistakes. this month it could be one in ten. the errors involve electronic forms sent to insurers with people's information and if insurers don't have the right data they cannot complete the enrollment. joining us now to talk about it, susan, congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. good to see you. >> hi. >> for the first two months, one in four people who actually managed to sign up for obama care and that's not many, they didn't actually sign up for it. it strikes me as leading to utter chaos come january 1 when people try to go see their doctor and the doctor says, sorry, your insurance company has no record that you exist. >> that's right. there are some important details that came out of a press call from the center for medicare and medicaid late last week. one was -- the two numbers you just talked about, one in four people who signed up in beginning in october, that's still a big number of people th

and with 99 days left until the open enrollment closes in march, senior obama administration officials tell cbs news that there will be an all-out coordinated campaign to boost enrollment in january. >> jeff: jeff pegues in washington, thank you. friends and family are remembering clare davis, a colorado student shot a week ago friday by a classmate died yesterday. carter evans has more. >> reporter: as word spread that 17-year-old clare davis had died, defense-- the fence outside of arapahoe high school that was covered with messages of hope became a memorial. jamie gruber was a classmate. >> i want her to know that we love her and her family and are sending her up with love. >> reporter: clare had been in a coma 8 days, shot point-blank in her hallway, a random victim as karl pierson opened fire. students who fled were allowed back on campus to pick up their belongings. but the focus remained on clare and the hope that somehow she would pull through. on friday night hundreds attend a vigil. >> the best thing we can really do for her is to come together as a community and let her know

obama administration officials promised us by november 30th the web site will be functional and as youow it has already been november 30th so the so. >> white house is now work fog the vast majority of people who are trying to use it. it can now handle 50,000 users at a time, 800,000 a day. >> they say they have lowered response time to about one second and the error rate below one percent. >> jon: oh, my god. that one percent. i don't know what that is. of course the down side is that the only error that occurs is a really bad error. hey, you did it, guys and to celebrate i got you a card, i think you will enjoy it, it says congratulations on doing the thing you should have done months ago before we lost faith in the government. [ cheers and applause ] >> congratulations. that is not to say there still aren't problems. most of the front end may be looking good, people may be able to get on and get responses, but the information coming out the back end to the insurance companies is still garbage. >> >> i am starting to feel bad for them. because my guess is that you folks, like myself,

three obama administration officials pushed an underlying message, and that was concerned about premature regulation, to stifle innovation. >> thank you. >> very interesting. good explanation of it. >>> let's turn things over to jeff raineri for an explanation of what we can expect in the next couple of days. >> it's about the wind continuing to build up across the bay. the wind gusts from the coastal buoys as high as 45 miles per hour. and across the interior valleys, from 10 to 20 miles per hour. we'll have more on this windy thursday coming up. but i do want to take you into the sky camera network briefly. all areas dealing with cloud cover. temperatures in the north bay, in the low 50s. 49 in the east day. and 47 in the south bay. san francisco, that's the one spot we've continued to deal with the sustained winds that are ramping up. 14 to about 25 miles per hour in the past hour alone. so, again, very windy forecast coming our way as we head throughout thursday. let's take you into the microclimate forecast. sunny skies in san jose. and 58 degrees for the morning high. by the afterno

the obama administration official in charge of fixing the obamacare site.said there is a night and day difference between the health care.gov website that launched on october 1 in the one working today. wartime here. cording to the white house, a five-week technology surge has doubled the website capcity and equipment can handle 30,000 consumers at the same time. and with some good reason. this is the page that came up when our colleague peter ducey logon. a page of gibberish filled with question marks. andit's not just frustrated consumers but insurers say that they are still dealing with an obamacare mass because function ha not even been built yet. and that means the administration's goal of enrolling 7 million people by the end of march, well, that could be the latest in what has turned out to be a string of second term failures for this president. chief white house correspondent ed henry has more on what is actually different about health care.gov. reporter: president obma's aides struggled to explain whether they really met the deadline to fix health

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thaa is according to the seven current and former obama administration officials who told the "washington post" that the motive behind my of those delaysere simply political. at the white house today press secrety jay carney try to defend t delays claiming that they were just being thorough. >> the administration is committed to regulatory strategy that maintains a balance between bedecking health and welfare, and safety of americans in promoting economicrowth, job creation, competitiveness, and innovation. our goal is not to move rules hastily but to maximize the effectiveness d benefits of the rules of the complete. lou: the president said -- press secretary obviously reading from a prepared script in answering a reporter's question to my report, by the way, chief correspondent ed henry. the oba administration is accused of doing far more than manipulating rules and delaying regulations. to facthecking organizations -- we heard countless times over three yea. >> if you like your health care plan you will be able o keep your health care plan. u: and that is not the only obama assertion d

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. ♪ lou: obama administration officials report more progress with healthcare.gov.ils just about 10 percent of the me. back in octor that failure rate was 25%. government officials also say over three and a half million consumers visited the site from midnight sunday antonin today, but the obama administration still will not tell us what the november enrollment numbers are or how many people actually have insurance. insurers are still complaining that the healthcare applications that they do receive are riddled with errors. and the house energy and commerce committee releasing new e-mails showing that administration officials knew that they need to delay the health care exchange for small businesses as early as august, but it was not until six weeks later on september 26 that the administration actually announced that it was delaying the on-line portal for small business. energy and commerce committee chairman fred upton said, about that revelation, as the paper trail broadens, we see more and more evidence that the administration was fully aware. its signature heal

the obama administration officials saying dramatic improvements to healthcare.gov. the web site for millions of americans to sign on for the belt -- benefits but the site is still far from 100%. the white house says computer programmers have been working nonstop since the launch in october. they were trying to meet the president's december 1st december 1st deadline to get the site up to speed. officials said they met the goal and the system can now handle 50,000 users at one time with an error rate of less than 1%. but our news deck team ran into problems. we got what appeared to be a blank screen with a web site logo, win we scrolled to the bob of the page we got this message. the web site is overloaded. you have to wait. the white house says 375,000 or so people went to health care.gov just before non. officials admit there's work to do. >> the president believes the site has been significantly improved, and that the teams in place have worked 24/7 for weeks now to make those improvements, including significant improvements made over the weekend. but the work is n

a senior obama administration official is confirming tonight that vice president biden expressed solidarityith john paul today over china's claim to air space over disputed islands. biden met with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. they have established an air defense zone which the u.s. and japan and other allies are refusing to recognize. biden says he will raise the issue with the chinese president when they get together thursday. though he has been told to leave the country twice, president obama's uncle now gets to stay. >>> and drink on the house courtesy of your state department. the grapevine is next. ale annou] here's a question for you. if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 million? 3 million? the answer is... 3 million homes. by 2030, investments in energefficiency could help americans save $300 billion each year. take the energy quiz. energy lis here. [ alarm sound for malfunctioning printer ] [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you've learned a thing or two. [ metal clan

it's specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. >>> a top obama administration official who oversawhe building and rollout of healthcare.gov is retiring. michelle snyder served as chief operating officer as centers for medicare and medicaid services. the chief announced the retirement saying she originally planned to leave in 2012 but stayed on at tavenner's question. the site saw a surge of 975,000 enrollments on healthcare.gov for the month of december. that pushes the total enrollment sips october 1st to 1.1 million. john yang where president obama is vacationing in honolulu. you're having a better day than me weatherwise, for sure. what's the reaction been from the house? >> reporter: the administration is pointing out that michelle snyder did delay her retirement to try to get the healthcare.gov, the federal marketplace website up and running. and retired the end of 2012, stayed on a year. she has a 41 year veteran of the government. so they try to paint this as something that was coming any way. once the president said as he did in november, that the rollout was in his word as

an obama administration officials say it's working, quote unquote, smoothly for the vast majority ofsers. >> some good news. they're calling it night and day compared to two months ago when it rolled out and was plagued with those massive technical problems. now they say the response time has been lowered to one second. >> they've lowered the error rate to below 1% and 50,000 users can be online at the same time now. >> hmm. all right. if black friday wasn't good enough for you, cyber monday is in full swing. >> another shot. get your shopping done. >> beats a mall every time. >> it does indeed. cyber monday is here. and that's why millions of people are going online today to catch internet only deals that they couldn't get in stores during black friday. >> some retailers so eger to boost sales they're extending discounts through to friday, calling it cyber week. any opportunity. >> we just want your money. >> how far you want to give it. we'll extend it through till march. shoppers can get at the moment about 50% off electronics and other items. yeah, there's been a lot written abou

the obama administration officials say the website can now handle up to 50,000 users at a time at healthcare.gov. it launched in october and continually crashed as people logged on to buy mandated health insurance. >>> the national retail federation says 141 million people shopped over the holiday season but total spending is down 3% from last year. today is cyber monday. the busiest online sales day of the year for retailers. our kiet do is in san jose this morning checking the deals. >> reporter: emails have been rolling in since midnight some talking about fantastic deals of up to 70% off. some experts say many will spend up to 4 hours shopping at work online. i bet a big part of that will happen today. on this cyber monday, sure, there are good deals but how do you know they are great deals? online databases like savings.com and pricegrabber.com claim to do all the heavy lifting by pulling coupons and deals from multiple online retailers. >> take advantage of deal sites as well as online databases that congregate or help collect all that information in one place. so it really takes the hard

in current and former obama administration officials have confirmed the white house systematically delayed series of regulations to avoid controversy in the 2012 election. "the washington post" reports federal agencies were told to hold off on key environmental, worker safety, and health care rules for up to a year. the stalin met a number were either link fully postponed were never enacted. the delays were said to be really political and far more extensive than similar maneuverings by previous ministrations. the delayed roles include standards for cleaner gasoline, lower pollution vehicles, and federal protections for bodies of water. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to the latest about the national security agency. on monday, a federal judge ruled the nsa's full collection of americans phone records "almost certainly" violates the fourth amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches. u.s. district judge richard leon described the nsa's activities as "almost orwellian." he wrote --

. >> that's how obama administration officials described healthcare.gov after the live -- two monthsfter the website went live the. they are cautiously managing expectations. we just heard the crucial information about sunday's deadly train derailment in new york. the conductor was going 82 miles per hour as the train came into a 30 mile per hour zone. that critical curve. jo than marchttin joins us. jo jonathan, have you been able to physically see the curve in question that we are talking about here? >> reporter: from -- sort of, i would say. it's sort of hard to say with the bushes here we have been able to see sort of the vantage point. even governor cuomo said it's sort of a tricky curve. as we heard the folks from ntsb say that, 30 miles per hour, that is the limit around the curve. so to hear that this train was going 82 is shogging but it also echoes what some of the witnesses and some of the people on board were saying, that the train was going way too fast. so not many people, i am sure, surprised to hear that it was speeding. but to hear just just how much. >> jonathan, we

this is a "washington post" story that quotes seven current and former obama administration officialsctly just think tanks and other officials. these are people working inside the administration. jon: and the article makes the point. "the washington post," by the way, is a paper that has been generally offering favorable coverage for the obama administration up until now but the paper points out that in the bush white house, for instance, they didn't find the same level of delay in basically telling the nation bad news or enforcing bad news. >> yeah. part of the response by the administration is that basically, the administration's approach to regulatory review and consistent with long standing precedent across the previous administrations and fully adheres to federal rules. essentially everybody does it. we're just doing what everybody does. but the "the washington post" in this reporting says it's not done like this. some examples, it was more than 200 days delayed and they thought that talking to these former and current officials that this is very, very long time and clearly polit

an obama administration official says the website has new life.pthe health and human services department met this weekend's self imposed deadline removing 400 bugs from the site. the project needs to prove itself to insurance customers. major garrett is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning norah and charlie. troubleshooters from google microsoft and other companies was brought in to fix the website. two months late the white house says the website is far from perfect but at least usable. the administration says its poorly designed health care website is operating 95% of the time. that looks good compared with this fact. one full month after obama care launched healthcare.gov was only available 43% of the time. the department of health and human services says error rates meaning website freezes and failures is less than 1% now. response time is how long consumers wait to perform a simple task have declined from 8 seconds to less than 1. jeffrey, the specialist, told reporters on the conference call that the website is on the mend zwlchlt we executed hundreds of soft

senior obama administration officials today denied today's designation of multiple companies and individualsly working to aid iran's wmd programs and to evade the existing sanctions on that country was deliberately timed to sway lawmakers against imposing new sanctions. top aid to secretary of state john kerry argued on capitol hill today, once again that the slapping of fresh sanctions on iran by the u.s. congress so soon after the west reached preliminary agreement on curtailment of iran's nuclear program would bring all the pioneering diplomacy to a screeching halt. >> if we indeed say, well, we didn't really mean it, we'll now impose additional sanctions that you will all have to live with around the world our partners are likely to say, wait a minute here, you're changing the rules. >> reporter: in iran senior leaders heralded the nuclear deal granting the islamic regime to right to enrich uranium the very activity that half a dozen union resolutions demand that iran halt completely. the current deal only tells them to reduce the current levels, not suspend it. $7 billion of relief from

you still have obama administration officials urging people to access the website during nonpeak hours, so morning, evening and weekends and and you're going to be seeing this month how these web site repairs have fared. this is an anticipated period of heavy use for the website as a lot of people sign up, trying to get insurance in place by january 1st. carol? >> all right. plea yanna keilar reporting live from the white house this morning. thanks. still to come in the newsroom, crews uprighting the cars after a deadly commuter train derailment in the bronx. investigators are busy trying to figure out what went wrong and if speed played a role. the #1 prescribed topical testosterone replacement therapy increases testosterone when used daily. women and children should avoid contact with application sites. discontinue androgel and call your doctor if you see unexpected signs of early puberty in a child, or signs in a woman, which may include changes in body hair or a large increase in acne, possibly due to accidental exposure. men with breast cancer or who have or might have prostate ca

what's the obama administration saying about this report? >> reporter: well, officially and on the record, the white house is not making any response or any comment on this report. the reason for that is there's an ongoing fbi investigation into the attack. but in some corners of the white house, this report has got to be welcome news because there have been two conflicting theories for this attack. the white house saying that this was a locally grown attack, that it was spontaneous and reaction to a youtube video that had mocked or insulted the muslim religion. but on the other hand, the republican critics of the administration have been saying this was a well-coordinated, well-planned attack by al qaeda and that it was to commemorate and mark the anniversary of 9/11. on that point, "the new york times" seems to be supporting the administration's version of events. and the author of that story, david kirkpatrick, talked to that point when he appeared this morning on nbc's "meet the press." >> i've talked to some of the people who i believe were lead perpetrators. it's j

a senior administration official of the current obama administration told us last week , we asked the same question, damage? he said, i have been incredibly impressed by the judgment and care you would expect from a great news organization. white houseenior official said on september 9, i have not seen anything you have published to date which has risked the lives. there are different views about this page and listen with respect to the views you have given. >> you disagree with them? >> it is impossible to assess. no one has given me specific evidence. >> the information you have contains the names of individual security officers. this has been sent around the world, sometimes paid for by "the guardian," added these names are of our security officers, people who are there to protect our country, and that is how you have damaged the country. those without security clearance have been able to read these things, know who they are, possibly know where they live. that is the damage that you have done. >> first of all, we have never used a single name. i think, is the crucial bit. we have

the newspaper story also questions republican accusations that obama administration officials tried tof contention have been whether the attack was planned. whether it was sparked by an anti-muslim video. and whether al qaeda was involved. according to the article, quote, "the reality in benghazi was different and murkier." than the video depicted. the times adds that the attack was neither "meticulously planned" nor "spontaneous." four americans died in the attack at the u-s diplomatic compound. one california mother couldn't believe her eyes. check out this photo from manhattan beach. you can see the shark swimming in the wave just feet from her children. because the family regularly visits the beach she told them it was. a dolphin. back in november a paddle- boarder reportedly saw a great white in the same area. the department of fish and wildlife is warning swimmers to avoid sharks when the see them. they believe warm water and food bring them towards the shore. in los angeles, two men were able to escape after their plane crashed in between two buildings. the single engine cessna

. >> the senior barack obama administration official said the release was a result of contact betweenhe u.s. and pyongyang. >> a kooub scrp boy caught in a -- cuban boy caught in a tug of war speaks out saying he's happy for his cuban upbringing. >> translation: i have lived happy in cuba for 14 years, let there be no doubt. whoever is interested in this, i'm happy living in cuba. >> elian gonzalez made the comment whilst attending a student conference in ecuador. the first time he left the country since being handed back to his father. he does not forgive his american family for trying to keep him in the u.s. >> the los angeles city council is thinking with new laws in relation to e-cigarettes. >> electronic cigarettes are so popular they are all that this store sells. no tobacco for smoke. it's called vaping. >> it should be viewed as a good thing. it's a step in a smarter direction. >> it was a smart move for him. i tried patches and guns. this is the only thing that worked. >> these cigarettes can deliver nico teep and the active ingredients of marijuana. they are catching on with

next, remarks from another obama administration official. ericsson seki spoke at an event focusing on better in space when returning from active duty. >> thank you all very much. i'm very honored to be here at the not euro conference here. let me thank general barry mccaffrey for his many years of leadership in uniform and government and today in business. he and i have known each other for a long time, from our days as youngsters at west point. and so i would tell you without question barry mccaffrey is one of the best combat commanders to have come out of my generation of soldiers. [applause] my thanks as well to wes huddleston, your ceo for inviting me today. let me acknowledge judge robert russell. [applause] i still remember vividly my visit to your courtroom in 2009. and it is good to see you again, judge. other members of the judiciary, drug court professionals, drug mentors who make these courts innovative and successful, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, we all know, you better than i, that we are guiding my new mentor. mo

leading up to its weekend deadline to get the site working, obama administration officials assure thelic that the vast majority of users would-be able to use it. 80% oft majority means users. the site is able to handle 50,000 simultaneous users. that was the goal for october 1, the day when five times that many try to access the site at once. there were less visible issues. officials are having trouble with files that transfer enrollment information to insurers. right but not encouraging that the obama ministration extended the date by which people have to apply to get coverage. that is risky. insurers will only have 8 days to work out the logistics of a rolling those signing up late this month. the opinion of the washington post as we go to our first caller. pat is in texas on the independents line. pat, go ahead. say, i i would like to retired last year and i worked for years. we had computer programs. we had the old system in place make0 days in order to sure it worked correctly. i am not surprised with all of on the website and that they are having problems. i wish people would un

. >> the obama administration official said gunshots were fired before four americans were held at a checkpoint in libya. libyan soldiers took the personnel into custody and they seemed reluctant to stop, because local militias crowed the checkpoints. if they were afraid of being robbed, that's a reason they didn't stop. the four americans were released friday. >> a burial for lebanon's finance minister killed in a car bomb two days ago. mohamad chatah's casket was carried to the burial site, next to the mausoleum of saad al-hariri. saad al-hariri was assassinated in a bomb blast in 2005. security was tight. rula amin has more on the funeral from beirut. >> the body of mohamad chatah and his body guard killed in the car bomb were buried under that white tent. the funeral is over. the after math and the fall out of the assassination are unfolding. today we heard from the former prime minister, a leading member in the future movement and the coalition that is anti-syria. he said they are not going to kill anyone in the retaliation, but they'll resort to peaceful protests to liberate -

obama administration officials were struggling to explain how this he would find a way to keep dealing four years late, the u.s. is planning its own exit from afghanistan, 12 months from now, by the end of 2014, hamid karzai announced his plans to leave office, too. another afghan president will be elected next year. the big question for both sides before they both leave, is how many troops the u.s. will leave behind. the u.s. has offered to leave around 10,000 troops in afghanistan as a security force. karzai can't seem to make up his mind. first, he said that afghanistan's grand council of elders would have the final sign the security deal, but once they signed off on it last week, karzai himself still wouldn't sign. and a coalition air strike killed a 2-year-old afghan boy, karzai called the u.s. oppressors, said that that was the reason he wouldn't be signing. national security adviser susan rice says if karzai doesn't sign soon, they will have to plan for a future with no american troops in afghanistan, zero. a very recent precedent for leaving a country with no security forces le

generally they think it's not helpful -- and the obama administration officials have said before that they will not negotiate with al qaeda terrorists over weinstein. that doesn't mean they're not making significant effects using significant resources to try to find individuals who have been kidnapped and are believed to be overseas. >> martin, really quickly, peter just alluded to it there. what is this administration's policy, what's been the track record on handling kidnapped americans? >> well, as far as the families of the kidnapped americans, it's not very good, but the american government said that negotiating with kidnappers only encourages them to take more. so the policy is no negotiations, but however, they said they'll go after and find them wherever they are. it's more retribution or revenge against the kidnappers and trying to find them through secret means. but actually paying ransom to the kidnappers, it's not an american policy because it would encourage more kidnappers. on the other hand, it's an attempt to stop more feeling it's worthwhile to kidnap americans. >> we

the federal government, and that agency interviewed more than a dozen senior agency officials in the obama administration who confirmed it all. it seems reliable to you? >> absolutely. this is an administration may be amateurish when it comes to policy, but as an expert political player, they encourage people to get political over christmas and thanksgiving and politicize sandy hook to deny they're politicizing regulations would be absurd. of course they are. >> yesterday the obama administration bragged they had dramatically cut the number of errors. in today's "new york times," insurance companies are quoted as saying that sutter nonsense. they say obama officials are overstating the fixes and this exchange is still riddled with mistakes. yet more deceptions from the obama white house? >> of course. this is a white house that for the past month has been trying to tell people we'll fix the website and everything will be okay. so they fixed the user interface elements, but the behind the scenes stuff, the accounting mechanisms, the accounting mechanisms, the database, they're still broken. you can get on

if you asked the obama administration officials whether or not that has been accessible, they will sayyes. whether they are able to take senior and mid-level al qaeda leaders and terrorist figures efield, so to speak, yes. but as far as these attacks we respond future radicals, i agree with that as well. these attacks have gotten a lot of attention, they're used as examples by the groups like i othersup -- al qaeda and as pieces of propaganda. -- it doubly be can be, and shorn in a certain likely can be a very effective recruiting tactic. it is a double-edged sword, so to speak. subject,'s take that afghanistan, as we talk about the u.s. drawdown, are there plans to keep drones in afghanistan? do we know anything about what the strategy is going to be? guest: this all ties back to the bsa, adding that that -- getting that taken care of. the bilateral security agreement. if that does get locked into place and these follow-on ,greements are taking care of the american troops in the country after 2014 could be taking care of drone operations. if that is not on the table, i do see the sort

obama administration officials say this is a common sense response to heavy website traffic. the administration says this all proves that a lot of people are looking to enroll. >> most of the time when we think of the phrase crowd sourcing in high tech or businesses on line, we think of it as a kickstarter project to help people with films and gadgets. crowd sourcing is being used to provide essential health services through cries on loin. we report. >> at the community hospital in they pap, up to 500 people come for treatment every day. people here say the hospital has been a god-send, services free and also refers complicated cases to other hospitals and covers the cost. >> the hospital doesn't just cater to locals. >> we have people from all over the far west who come here for the services, even from far flung districts. >> the hospital was built after three medical students i don't mean the u.s. saw a dire need for health care services in this region. back in the sufficient, they started an n.g.o. and raised funds to oh he a health center here. over a decade, that has gro

look, when you see jeff zeins coming in, phil, these are former obama administration officials so they'remaintained that independence, being part of the obama orbit but not directly inside. and so he's going to be able to bring that perspective, those fresh ideas, and the experience of having worked in a crisis mode at the white house and been around for a really long time. that's something that's really missing in there right now. >> coming up on "morning joe," andrew cuomo has a powerful background and name i.d. he may also have no enter interest in running for president. >> i don't believe that. >> mike allen explains that in the political playbook. but first bill karins -- do the sop pit. if they said wear a coat, don't. >> get your swimsuits ready. >> exactly. >> i think he'd just like to wear a speedo. here's bill. >> there it is. you guys never dispoint me. good morning, everyone. not being disappointed if you're looking for snow today from d.c. all the way up to southern new england. but for everyone that has to drive to work this morning it's coming in right during the rush hour.

: al qaeda has released other videos with weinstein with which he appeals to the obama administration. but u.s. officials say their policy is not to negotiate with al qaeda. and al qaeda's attempt to use him as a bargaining chip makes it situation difficult. >> the demands is the man responsible for the 1993 bombing of the world trade center. >> wine seen the said he thinks of it every day. >> i would like to ask my family not to give up hope. unless you continue to try to get president obama and his administration to actively that you are soos, we may never see each other again. >> thursday the state department said it is trying to verify that video. but that weinstein should be release asked especially at this holiday season. don? >> thank you very much. appreciate that. i am joined now exclusively by a close friend of warren weinstein. she is the only person outside his family that weinstein mention in addition letter he recently send to the media asking for help. thank you for joining us. when you see your dear friend in that video, what goes through your mind? >> i'm overwhelmed. i think it is a ter

beginning in 2008, under the bush administration, and continuing under the obama administration, the nsa targeted senior israeli officials, according to snowden -- now, again, this is according to his documents -- u.s. and great britain intercepted e-mails belonging to the offices of then prime olmert and the defense minister. there's real anger here since the u.s. and israel have a close working relationship but the secret is both sides have long spied on each other. israel and american officials have operated under the assumption they're being monitored by the other. the former head of israely intelligence said today he wasn't surprised at all by this spying. >> every empire makes decisions in order to in a way buy or get information, even on the friendly states. i hope that they didn't find too much. >> if anything this latest revelation has renewed calls in israel to release jonathan pollard, former navy intelligence official. sentenced to life in america for spying for israel and suspected of passing information to other countries as well this. latest revelation is unlikely to force america to release pollard so it'

the november 30th deadline, self-imposed deadline to fix the embattled obama care website, healthcare.gov, administration officialst the site is finally performing well. their characterization. they say that up to 50,000 users can now logon at the same time with fewer errors being reported. >>> and finally, remember those famous beards boston red sox sported throughout the world series. one is worth a lot of money. david ortiz's trimmings were put up for auction. they were sold for over $11,000. >> what? >> that's a science experiment. we may want to avoid. ron, thank you. >>> turning now to the story of two teenagers so close people said they were like brothers. then one of them was killed, buried alive in fact, and now two years later, police have charged his best friend with murder. >> reporter: this morning, 21-year-old thomas liming, seen here in a high school photo, sits behind bars accused of murdering his own best friend, kyle underhill. underhill's death shocked a quiet long island community. the 18-year-old graduating senior disappeared that november. days later, police found his beaten body in a marsh b

administration officials say president obama will attend mandela's state funeral and is expected to deliver remarks. live in washington danielle nottingham, now back to you. >> thank you. as the news spread today a few folks here in town have made their way down to the south african embassy to pay their respects tonight. we have the story live from there. >> reporter: you saw at 6:00 the crowd a little bigger now, more and more people started to come out to pay tribute outside the south african embassy where the statue of nelson mandela that was dedicated here in the you see more people out here. we've seen the entire spectrum of people, people of all races and ages and backgrounds, couples come out, mothers and fathers bringing their children out here, some folks actually in tears, a lot of folks at a loss for words. so we've really seen a good mix of just about everyone, people out here laying flowers down, setting candles up. we've seen folks taking pictures. 1 man told me he actually grew up in south africa, born and raised there. he's now a resident of the states. he said we lost a gre