[Unidentified Female:] Now that's fun. And if our site keeps freezing, we're also provided links to other helpful websites, such as Kayak.com, where you can purchase airline tickets to Canada and buy cheaper prescription drugs.
[Poppy Harlow, Cnn Correspondent:] All right, but you won't hear many laughs about this at the White House, that's for sure. That's where we find our Athena Jones. Athena, good morning.
[Athena Jones, Cnn Correspondent:] Good morning, Poppy. You're right, this is not a laughing matter for the folks in the building behind me. Now, the Department of Health and Human Services is stressing that this is a provider issue, but really it's just one more big headache for the administration about Obamacare. Jeff Zients, the man the president put in charge to fix the Healthcare.gov website, said it will be running smoothly by the end of November. But this other this next big meltdown that we're seeing now is raising questions about that.
[Jones:] Another major stumble for the problem-riddled website Healthcare.gov.
[Kathleen Sebelius, Health And Human Services Secretary:] It's better today than it was on October 1st, but it's a long way from perfect.
[Jones:] Visitors to the site late Sunday couldn't apply for health care coverage. A vendor for Verizon, the company running the website's data services hub, quote, "experienced a failure in a networking component." That service connects Healthcare.gov to the IRS and other databases used to determine eligibility. The company says they're working to fix the problem.
[Vivek Kundra, Salesforce.com, Vice Pres. Of Emerging Markets:] What you're seeing here is a gap in innovation and a gap in execution.
[Jones:] Plagued with technical issues, Healthcare.gov ridiculed on late night
[Tv. Unidentified Female, "saturday Night Live":] This site was only designed to handle six users at a time.
[Jones:] "Saturday Night Live" mocking Kathleen Sebelius.
[Unidentified Female, "saturday Night Live":] Consider using our low-res website, with simpler fonts and graphics.
[Jones:] Responsible for overseeing the website's implementation. And the pressure isn't letting up.
[Sen. John Barrasso , Wyoming:] She's already, as of "Saturday Night Live" last night, the laughing stock of America, so she's lost considerable credibility.
[Jones:] New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen urged an extension of the March 31st enrollment deadline.
[Sen. Jeanne Shaheen , New Hampshire:] So we can make sure we get as many people who want health insurance able to enroll and be able to be covered.
[Jones:] The administration says that mandate won't change.
[Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary:] We're way still early in the process.
[Jones:] The president promising
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States:] We've got people working overtime, 247, to boost capacity and address these problems every single day.
[Jones:] Now, Verizon says they're working to fix this problem, but we've got no word from Verizon or from HHS on just when it will be fixed. Poppy.
[Harlow:] And, you know, Athena, if people go to the website, what they notice is that this image of this woman sort of became known by some as the Obamacare girl, right there. It's not there anymore. Is this even a bill deal? Does it matter? Or was this just a strategic change to help people with the enrollment process put something maybe more useful up there? What does it matter? Because everyone's talking about it.
[Jones:] Well, she did get a lot of attention. People wondering what it feels like to be associated with this site that's not working well at all.
[Harlow:] Right.
[Jones:] Well, CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is managing this site, says that they wanted to change this site to show this more useful information. If you log on now or try to log on, go to that home page, it will show you the various options for signing up for health insurance. There's an icon of a phone and an icon of various people you can call to speak with and papers. So, it's showing you the different ways you can sign up and so they use those icons and they placed the picture of this woman, who maybe she's happy about it. Who knows. Poppy.
[Harlow:] Right. Yes, we haven't heard anything from her, right?
[Jones:] We haven't heard. People have been trying to track her down. Our own Jeanne Moos was looking for her.
[Harlow:] Right.
[Jones:] But now she's no longer going to be seen when people log in. And maybe that maybe that's a good thing for her. Poppy.
[Harlow:] Yes, certainly a small detail in the midst of everything else that's going on with that website. Athena, thank you. Appreciate it.
[Jones:] Thanks.
[Harlow:] Tracking top stories. A manhunt is underway for four inmates who escaped from an Oklahoma jail. A county sheriff says the men broke a lock on a hatch above the shower, moved through a crawl space, knocked out a cement block and then reached an unlocked door.
[Sheriff Gene Cain, Caddo County, Oklahoma:] Anytime you know anybody who breaks out of prison or anything you're going to say they're dangerous. We're not for sure there're armed, but you've got to you've got to think they might be. We know they wasn't when they left. You know they wasn't when they left but we don't know what they picked up after.
[Harlow:] Three of the escapees had been convicted of drug offenses. The fourth was waiting to go on trial on a gun charge. Meantime, a Spanish newspaper says the NSA collected data in Spain from 60 million phone calls over a 30-day period. The newspaper reports the calls were not recorded, but phone numbers, locations, and durations of calls were taken. One of the authors of that article, Glenn Greenwald. He first reported on documents leaked by Edward Snowden for the British newspaper "The Guardian." And Wall Street, there you hear it, the opening bell, opening for the week. Investors hoping for a record run to carry on. Hoping it has some legs. The S&P; 500 hit an all-time high on Friday. CNN chief business correspondent Christine Romans with us in New York. You know, Christine, I keep looking at these numbers and think just what a big divide there is between 71 percent of Americans in our poll last week who said they think the economy is poor, and all of the gains and all the wealth being accumulated in the market.
[Christine Romans, Cnn Business Correspondent:] Yes. You're absolutely right. And, remember, about half of Americans are not invested in the stock market.
[Harlow:] Right.
[Romans:] They feel it 100 percent through their jobs. So that's what the big disconnect is all about. But for investors, for workers who have a 401 [k] in their at their company, wow, what a great year it's been. Now, today you've got a little bit of a pullback from those records last week, but I want to show you, Poppy, how far we have come this year because these year-to- date numbers are really, really good. The Dow is up 19 percent this year. The Nasdaq up 31 percent. The S&P; 500, now that is the average most likely to reflect the stock portion of your 401 [k], up 23 percent. Last week we had a terrific week for some tech stocks. Many of these that I'm about to show you are household names. They are widely held stocks. We're going to be hearing more from some of these tech companies this week. Apple reports its earnings after the bell. But look at Amazon. Google up just a fraction. But look at the price of Google's shares.
[Harlow:] Wow.
[Romans:] Poppy, they're above $1,000 a share.
[Harlow:] Yes.
[Romans:] Microsoft up about 2 percent. It was a terrific week for stocks. No surprise for me this morning that you're having a little bit of a pullback. It's all going to depending on the earnings. And one last point quickly. A lot of this has to do with the Fed.
[Harlow:] Sure.
[Romans:] Many people say the Fed is not in any kind of business to be pulling back on its stimulus to the economy. That means stocks like it. They have been going up for some time.
[Harlow:] Right. Yes, we'll talk more about the Fed and the policy in the 10:00 a.m. hour with you. But I want to talk about this not strategic, petroleum reserve, strategic gasoline reserve. This is a move being made in New York one year after Sandy, right?
[Romans:] It would be the first state to do this. You have heard of these big, vats and vessels full of oil in the Gulf region that are America's strategic petroleum reserve.
[Harlow:] Right.
[Romans:] Well, this would be the first state this would be New York having a gasoline reserve on Long Island. It's about a $10 million pilot program here, to make sure that what happened last year doesn't happen again. Four days after Sandy, as you well know, Poppy, 60 percent to 65 percent of the gas stations were not working. They were either not working because they didn't have generators that could pump the gas, or they literally did not have the gas. There's already been one pilot program to make sure that you're getting generators to some of these smaller gas stations. This is the next step to make sure that there are supplies available. Andrew Cuomo wants to do this. Again, it's $10 million on the front end. No state has done something like this before. But when you think about New York and where it's situated and how this just happened a year ago in recent memory, a stronger storm or a storm of a different path could do the same thing all over again. Try and prepare. Poppy.
[Harlow:] Yes, absolutely. We'll see if it if it makes it through and what happens. I vividly remember those lines. All right, Christine, thank you.
[Romans:] You're welcome.
[Harlow:] Still to come, several people thrown from a ride at a state fair, terrifying. A lot of questions about was this really an accident. One man is now arrested. We're going to tell you what he's accused of doing and why more arrests may be on the way.