0 to take the mantle of just reporting. >> fantastic, thanks, chris. have a great day call of you. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com happening now in "the newsroom" terror in the sky. >> i thought i was going to die and that's what everybody on that plane thought, that we were all going to die. >> a southwest plane in a harrowing descent, plummeting almost 30,000 feet. >> he says, we're going down. >> reporter: a conversation between a pilot and his flight attendant broadcast to the entire cabin. this morning southwest tells its side of the story. also, ads pitching obama care, college kids doing keg stands, flirty girls talking about getting birth control, and then there's this. >> you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor, lower premiums for everyone! >> reporter: is this really the best way? plus -- markets on a roll, your 401(k) soaring. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. i'm carol costello, thank you so much for joining me. time is running out for the white house to try to fix one of obama care's biggest blunders, i'm talking about the inability of millions of americans to keep the health coverage they already have if they like it. top administration officials are headed to capital hill in a few hours to try to hammer out a possible fix. tomorrow house republicans plan to take a swing at that. in its first month fewer than 27,000 people signed up for health insurance through heal healthcare.ghealth karcare car care.gov. jim acosta and chris frates join me from washington. good morning to you both. jim, first of all who is going to this capitol hill meeting and what potential fixes are they going to talk about? >> reporter: dennis mcdonough chief of staff will be headed to capitol hill to meet with senator democrats who are nerve bus what is happening right now. you mentioned those people losing their insurance plans despite the president's pledge, if you like your plan, you can keep it. in terms of potential fixes, with he know last week the white house started talking about administrative fixes but all along officials have been telling us they've been open to legislative fixes and one potential proposal that is gaining momentum at this point is a bill being advanced by louisiana senator mary landrieu, up for re-election next year we should mention, that proposal would allow those consumers to continue buying those plans that they have right now, as long as they keep up with their payments, they can keep those plans. it is unclear as to how long all of that would go on but the insurance companies would not be able to cancel those plans, so it would provide some relief to those consumers. there's another proposal over in the house advanced by republican fred upton that would basically allow the insurers to continue selling these plans that the obama administration says does not meet obama care standards. the white house, it's interesting to note, carol, the white house has sort of been saying no, we don't like the upton plan but they haven't been saying that about the landrieu plan, which is why i think you're going to be seeing those officials talking with senate democrats about that proposal later today. the white house, by the way, has said that the president will come up with a fix for some of this "sooner rather than later" so we're going to be seeing some news on that front i think in short order. >> he's got big problems to fix, because chris i'll pose this question to you. 1 million people in california have already had their policies canceled, so how does the president fix that? >> well, carol, that is a big problem for the white house here, and what you have is an insurance commissioner in california who i talked to yesterday i posed to him that question and he said there's not a lot that he can do. he has no ability to make the insurance companies bring those folks back, but californians are lucky. they are able to use a state exchange, where they can go in, it's been working better than healthcare.gov, the federal exchange and they can sign up for insurance on their state exchange so for those 1 million californ californians who have lost their coverage because they've been canceled by insurance companies officials tell me they should go to the exchanges, it's working better than healthcare.gov, the federal exchange and they may be able to get some relief through that avenue. >> but they're still not, but will they be able to keep the plan that they had that they liked? they won't be able to do that even by going through the state exchanges >> well that's right, carol, that is the political problem here for the obama administration. they promised americans, if you like the plan you have, you can keep it. that certainly will not be the case for at least 1 million people in california and and more people across the country and that is part of what jim was talking about, how do we mix this for democrats like mary landrieu in louisiana and other senator democrats in republican states this could be a political liability for the president. we see poll numbers out from gallup, 55% of people disapprove of health care reform, that's worrying to a lot of democrats who are up for election in november. >> all right, senior white house correspondent jim acosta, cnn investigative correspondent chris frates thank you so much. an alarming wake-up call along the florida coast as a 35-foot sinkhole opens up underneath two homes. earlier on cnn, one of the homeowners said he knew sinkholes were a possible problem, and he was working with an insurance company to try to get it quicked. they were working on the house to get that sink hole fixed, we're back and forth with the insurance company, they just wanted to do a droughting fix. after the incident, we decided well we're scared to sleep here, let's get it fixed the way the insurance company wanted it and they started two days ago and, well, that's the result. >> the sinkhole keeps growing, no injuries reported, luckily, not yet. we're in trouble, we're going down, imagine those words echoing over your plane's loud speaker, coming from the pilot in the cockpit. it's exactly what passengers say they heard this week, just as their southwest airlines flight into raleigh-durham went into a nosedive. heather walga from wtvd has the story. >> -- that i was going to die, and that's what everybody on that plane thought, that we were all going to die. just by one word of the captain. >> reporter: shelly was on her way home from tampa when the southwest flight took a dramatic drop midair. passengers went into panic mode, she was trying to help the first time flyer next to her clutching her chest. >> i'm thinking oh my god she's going to scare himself into having a heart attack. >> reporter: she said passengers reached for their cell phones and she typed this message to her daughter. >> i love you alyssa, listen my plane is going down. >> reporter: minutes later the boeing 737 leveled out and went on to make an emergency landing at rdu. >> the last words were "thank you for hanging with us." >> reporter: in a statement southwest says flight 3426 experienced a maintenance alert as they were on descent into rdu. the captain declared an emergency and descended the aircraft to 25,000 feet were the alert was resolved. throughout the remainder the flight was normal, landed uneventfully and not met by emergency vehicles. abc 11 learned the alert went off due to irregular cabin pressure. according to flight stats it took crews just one hour to fix the plane before it went on to baltimore. wells says the terrifying ordeal has her thinking twice about flying with the airline again. >> you think of your kids, your family. i think they just could have handled it a little bit differently. >> as you heard, passengers are quite upset over what happened. here is part of the statement southwest airlines e-mailed to them. it says, as the flight was awaeching raleigh-durham the pilots observed a loss of normal cabin pressure. in the response the captain made the appropriate manuality adjustments and began the descent a little earlier." the e-mail continues "during this time as the captain was communicating his plan with flight attendants he inadvert t inadvertently activated the p.a. system in the cabin. we sincerely regret any confusion caused by the relay of information." southwest is giving $ 00 vouchers to passengers so they can "have better air travel memories." a runway key to getting typhoon relief into the philippines is now operating 24/7, planes had only been able to land the attack low ban because of a power outage. u.s. troops on the ground installed runway lights and beacons so aid supplies can be delivered now around the clock. still to come in "the newsroom" a convicted murderer was set to be executed today but now the child killer wants to donate his organs. after the break why the ohio governor delayed the lethal injection, an unprecedented move and what happens now. 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