Revelations about u. S. Surveillance programs, the hearing took place as lawmakers considered new legislation that would limit the nsas ability to gather information. Randall pinkston joins us at capitol hill. What happened in those nsa hearings today . Well, tony, the hearing ended an hour ago after an unusual three and a half hours technique. The members of the House Select Committee on intelligence complimented the work of the National Security agency which as you know are under fire since the revelation by former nsa analyst Edward Snowden that revealed documents that showed that they had been listen together phone conversation or scooping up the phone numbers of conversation of american citizens. The director of National Intelligence said that the information was gathered legally, and the content is only available to a handful of people. Everything that we do on this program is audited 100 . On the business records. 100 . The da data is kept separate frm all the other data we have
Northeast and people are still dealing with insurance claims to clean up of Hurricane Sandy estimated to be around 65 billion. U. N. Officials confirm an outbreak of polio and syria the first in 14 years. There are ten confirmed cases, most of those tested are babies and toddlers. Last week the u. S. Launched a campaign to immunize 2. 5 million children against polio and other diseases. Those are the headlines here on al jazeera. Real money with ali velshi is next. Weve all heard if you like your plan you can keep it. Not so fast. While millions who already buy their own Health Insurance are sick over what obamacare could do to their bottom line. Just in time for the holidays one expert said the consumer landscape is the land mediocrity. And im ali velshi, this is real money. This is real money. Join our live conversation for the next half hour on twitter at aj real money. Close to a month in and the roll out of obamacare insurance agencies is off to a very bad start. To all those who
Agencies is off to a very bad start. To all those who tried and using the governments website an apologizapologycharged with set. Wto the millions of americans who shop and want to enroll for healthcare coverage i want to apologize that the website has not worked as well as it should. Reporter that was Marilyn Tavanner on tuesday. On wednesday health and Human Services director Kathleen Sebelius will be appearing to do the same. Cgi, the main contractor developing the website may have warned the Obama Administration that it wouldnt be ready to go live on october 1st. Either way this is what we know as of now. It needs until the end of november to fix the technical glitches on healthcare. Gov. Two months after the launch. All right, so now what we have to figure out is what happens after that. Its not really about the launch thats the most important thing. What the issue is what people are going to end up paying. To compensate for the delay the penalty maybe a good thing. I dont. What d