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Cell, malcolm? think of it as two people or perhaps a larger group? >> no. i think you need to think of them as a cell. just based on the intelligence received overall. one thing that we need to consider here is the organization that is now isis, the islamic state, is not just a bunch of young, amateur yahoos coming together to take parts of iraq, a hybrid of everything that we have ever fought between 2003 and 2011 that was al qaeda and saddam hussein's intelligence agencies with extensive, decades long operational intelligence and agent handling experience come together with foreign national...

Welcome back to "new day." here's a look at your headlines. president obama is sending up to 300 military advisers to iraq to help slow the aggression of isis militant. he says combat troops are not an option. however, air strikes are not ruled out. now isis fighters are taking over a chemical weapons complex from the saddam hussein era. hundreds of tons of potentially deadly toxins are inside, but officials say they are likely contaminated. russian president vladimir putin has spoken with his ukrainian counterpart about a peace plan for eastern ukraine. ukraine's president reportedly called...

Target of 800,000 by the end of november. a health and human services spokeswoman says the health department cannot confirm these numbers. we've always anticipated that the numbers would be low and increase over time. the main culprit? the bug-riddled obama care website, a problem that the president has said he would take care of himself if he could. >> i wanted to go in and fix it myself, but i don't write code, so -- >> reporter: the sign of the site's technical problems that there were concerns with healthcare.gov before its launch. this internal memo released by house republicans reveals a...

>> one of the trade-offs of launching the exchange rather than waiting until a later date, could other officials include these private security controls? >> i would say, senator, the standards have been set out security controls were met. he mentioned and two tests. that is why i think administrator chose to authorize a temporary authorization to operate and not a permanent one. because you cannot permanently authorize an authorization until you have entire system. we knew we had features in the system which we had chosen not to apply from the outset.

You go to tab 2. while you're looking, i'll read. dated september 27th. and it is to marilyn tavenner. there are inherent security risks with not having all code tested in a single environment. finally, the system requires rapid development and release of hot fixes and patches so it is not always available or stable during the duration of the testing. secondly, the security contractor has not been able to test all of the security controls in one complete version of the system. and if you look in the first part, which is most troubling at all, it says due to system readiness issues, the securit...