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0 catch and would be the end of the story unless a sneaky sea lion is lurking off camera. you see that? he or she stole the show, as well as the fish. the cameras were filming the cooking show chef on the water. thanks. that does it for this edition of ac360. thanks for watching. early start begins right now. spying on america s friends. what did the president nen what is he going to do about it? the new plans this morning that could dramatically change u.s. intelligence operations.the new could dramatically change u.s. intelligence operationis he goi? the new plans this morning that could dramatically change u.s. intelligence operations. a frantic manhunt. two inmates who broke out of a oklahoma jail back behind bars but two more on the loose this morning as we learn more how they made their daring escape. that is a community very concerned. a major milestone of recovery nearly one year after superstorm sandy. what a year. good morning. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. so many people perplexed this morning is it really possible the u.s. was eavesdropping on ally world leaders for years and president obama didn t know? no one told him? phone conversations from u.s. friends like german chancellor angela merkel. the administration insists the president did not know. now he is ordering a full review of the nsa surveillance operations and the foreign relations fallout. here is more from our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. reporter: president obama would not confirm the nsa was spying on the phone calls of u.s. allies like germany s chancellor angela merkel. the national security operations generally have one purpose and that is to make sure that the american people are safe. i m making a review to make sure what they are able to do doesn t necessarily mean what they should be doing. reporter: senior administration officials tell cnn president obama did not know about the nsa surveillance of merkel and other allies until earlier this year. when he found out he ordered a stop to some of the programs. the democratic chairman of the senate intelligence community dianne feinstein usually an ally of the white house says that is not good enough and wants a total review of all u.s. intelligence programs. here is one explanation former vice president cheney gave cnn s jake tapper. we are vulnerable as was shown on 9/11. you never know what you re going to need when you need it. the fact we do collect a lot of intelligence. that intelligence capability is enormously important to the united states to the foreign policy to defense matters and economic matters and i m a strong supporter of it. reporter: jim sciutto, cnn, washington. our thanks to jim. healthcare.gov is apparently off life support this morning. the obama care website back online after suffering a nationwide network outage over the weekend. later this morning, testifying at the congressional hearing will be an administration for the medicare and medicaid services. 325,000 people have now been able to sign up for private insurance through obama care state-run marketplaces. cnn has learned health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius missed an extended deadline set by house committee to turn over documents about the healthcare.gov website and could trigger a congressional subpoena from republicans. lindsey graham is trying to hold up all nominations for federal positions until the outpost in benghazi appear in congress. they say they sent someone there on the night of the attack. the white house is accusing republicans of playing politics with the issue. secretary of state john kerry may travel to egypt in the coming weeks we hear. it would be his first trip there since president mohammed morsi was ousted by the military last summer. ties between washington and cairo have been strained since then. the u.s. recently withholding $260 million in cash aid and military weapons pending egypt s progress on democracy and on human rights. they are picking up the pieces this morning after one of the most powerful storms in years, which has battered great britain and western europe. at least 13 people were killed. pretty amazing pictures here. hundreds of thousands left without power. paralyzing storm forced the cancellation of trains, planes, ferries on monday because of winds reaching hurricane force. look at that! crazy, right? you don t usually see this type of thing in western europe. they get it once every 20 years or so. gusts of 99 miles per hour were reported south of england this is in belgium here. clearly the people there not used to it and not sure what to do but you can see the power of the storm. great everybody was helping each other. you can t get across the street. it was throwing people all over the place. probably not a good day to be out on a bike ride. or holding an umbrella. there is cause for celebration here on the east coast. one year after superstorm sandy. ellis island is back and pope. ameri open. yes, we are shy a little bit on exhibits and artifacts, but we are not shy on character at all. that guy david lusinger is retiring to congratulations to your retirement. it happened on the statue of liberty birthday. happy birthday. i forget to say happy birthday. for more is indra petersons in. it was devastated by the superstorm and then scorched by a fire last month. reporter: it is already hard to believe it s been a storm since this devastating storm. this storm affected a hundred million people. i brought up a satellite view to remind you how large this storm was. we are talking about extending from maine down through florida and even extending all the way back through michigan. that is the massive size of this storm to remind you about 5 million people lost power. hundreds of thousands of homes were impacted and, of course, superstorm fashion it was about the timing. it had a nine-foot storm surge and it combined with high tide so we talked about a record breaking 13.88 storm surge really when the two came in and enundated the area with water. this morning, i m standing in front of the jet star roller coaster used to be and it was torn down in may. no longer do we see that symbol of this iconic pier here this morning. to my right they are rebuilding and it s going to take some time. the good news the boardwalk is up this morning. the bottom level of casino pier was open the summer to slow, slow business this summer. you can tell they will continue to rebuild and try to build another roller coaster and it looks like next summer hoping to have it open but may take another year. the good news 90% of the businesses are open. i want to talk about the impact, what it was. sandy came and completely perpendicular to the coast and that is the reason that storm surge was so high. i want to take you into some maps across the country. we have another system that is important to talk about. big system bringing heavy snow today from wyoming and in through colorado and portions of nevada. you re looking at the storm system makingity way through. about 10 inches of snow possible. good news for ski resorts. a good 10 inches possible there and good news for opening season here for a lot of our local resorts. the system, unfortunately, is going to clash. the cold air with the warm air in the south so we have a severe weather threat today in through portions of texas. that same system will make its way to the east so anywhere from the ohio valley into the northeast it looks like we will be looking at heavy rain for halloween. tough to say. yikes. bummer there. amazing pictures behind you of just one year ago. today, so much devastation. thanks so much. coming up next, manhunt. two inmates who escaped an oklahoma jail captured and two more on the loose. chris brown set free from jail after getting a big break in court. i ll say. plus, it is time for the morning rhyme. tweet us with your own original verse. it can be about anything. the #early start and #early rhyme and we will read the best ones on the air in the next half hour. 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