0 >> she is among those who will testify this wick on capitol hill as congress investigates. the website will be fully functional by the end of november. >> could be serious tongue lashing going on when she appears before congress this week. steve sen -- steve centanni, thanks etch have. the woman in charge of the obamacare health care exchange website is expected to testify in front of a house committee on tuesday. her name is marilyn taviner and she is expected to face tough questions about why the website wasn't ready to go by the october 1st deadline even though she testified just weeks before the launch that it was on track. now republican lawmakers want to know if the white house made any decisions that may have stalled the system. joining me now is jaime weinstein who is the senior editor for "the daily caller." morning, jaime. >> good morning to you. >> let's talk about the kind of questions that taviner might get asked and if you think she will be forthcoming with her answers. >> i don't know if she will be forthcoming, but the question many lawmakers on the hill want to get to the bottom of is the change that supposedly took place just weeks before the october 1st deadline for the obamacare exchanges that made people register before being able to see the health care packages and the prices. >> basically just to oversimplify it, but basically you coobt -- you can't just go window shopping to see what might or might not work for me. have you have to sign up for an account first. >> you have to sign up and make an account. a lot of the contractors who have been on the end of tough questions by lawmakers have blamed this last-minute change for some of the problems with the obamacare's website. lawmakers on the hill want to know who made the decision. was it someone in the white house? lives, not just in france and germany, but in europe. >> the white house says, quote, we are looking at these programs to ensure that it meets the standard that the president has laid out and we are going to continue to confer with our allies through our regular diplomatic channels to address the concerns that they have raised. but, one democratic senator concluded this morning the obama administration has quite a bit of repair work on their hands. >> i think the revelations from snowden and the secrets that have been revealed are doing significant damage to our bilateral relationships. >> the former vice president dick chain -- dick cheney says it is unfortunate snowden gave up information that is now hurting the united states, but intel gins gathering -- intelligence gathering is nothing new and has helped the united states in history. joy thank you. police make an arrest in the terrifying accident at the north carolina state fair. ride operator timothy tutterow has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon. a ride called the vortex may have been tampered with compromising critical safety devices. on thursday the ride began to move as people were trying to get off the ride. five people were injured and three are still in the hospital and now police say there could be more arrests. it is not even halloween yet, but winter weather could play some tricks and be a treat for skiers as well in the rock chee -- rocky mountains. a couple feet of snow could be headed this way. janice dean is live in the fox weather center. >> i like the silver lining. the skiers will love it. let's look at it across the board. we are dealing with potential of showers and thunderstorms across texas and louisiana. it is not a big deal. we are not expecting severe weather. we are looking at scattered showers and snow showers in parts of the great lakes and new york and up toward maine. again not a big deal. this thing will be a big deal as we head through the next couple days. our low pressure center is coming out of the rockies and that is going to give us the potential for feet of snow. we have winter weather advisories for montana and parts of wyoming. 6-12 easily and some areas could get isolated higher amounts and wind gusts in excess of 50 miles per hour. we could see blizzard watches and warnings. look at all of the snow we are going to see. yes, the skiers are going to be excited. man if it comes on halloween that's not fun. we will watch this develop over the next several days. as we head into the early workweek, this could potentially become an area of severe weather. not only snow, but we could see some large hail and damaging winds and even isolated tornadoes for the central u.s. especially heading into wednesday. back to you greg and arthel. still in the weather department. it has been nearly one year since superstore sandy hammered the northeast. well, the community of red hook, brooklyn was devastated by the storm. when the storm was over folks there quickly received a helping hand thanks to historical oil tankers that was parked right on its shore. brian yennis is live with more. >> built in new york city, the mary a whalen once carried it through its ports. few have ever heard of the 613-ton tanker. that was before she stood up to superstorm sandy. tied to the docks off brooklyn's red hook neighborhood you will find mary a whalen, engineless and home for the last 18 years. >> it is rough. there is no central heat and no flush toilet. >> she owns the ship and is the head of a nonprofit bedding that -- betting that it is the key to transforming the waterfront economy. and she wasn't going to let superstorm sandy get in the way. >> she was a symbol of preparedness and resiliency. >> as they slammed new york city, she convinced her colleague to join her aboard. >> the boat was on top of the pier and toppled over. >> they wore these life vests the entire time they were on the mary whalen and sometimes crawling on the floor to make sure they didn't fall over board. >> it was scary at times. they said to go back at it and make sure we are secure. >> preparation kept the whalen from becoming the john bgodell that washed ashore on staten island. which was at first a mission, was a recovery. they started one of the command centers in an art gallery. >> we provided electricity and recharging access to fema and coordinated the electrician work and set up free legal clinics and a few community meetings and made the space available for other things and it was a safe place. >> the port side command center stayed open for a month providing hundreds with recuff reinformation, all -- recovery information all thanks to a forgotten ship and her determined leader. >> she survived. >> the white house has honored port side new york and continue to aid survivors of sandy while working to prepare the community for future storms. >> great story. thank you. well, a second suspect is now under arrest and lock down orders have been lifted at indiana university in bloomington. the latest on the early-morning stabbing that put the entire campus on edge. plus, the justice department is setting the stage for a likely supreme court test of president obama's approach to national security. the doj says he does intend to use now information from one of its nsa controversial surveillance programs against a terrorism suspect. our legal panel is here to weigh in.