11/18/13 Hundreds of thousands of people were without power and hundreds were without homes across the Midwest on Monday after powerful storms wreaked havoc in three states.The worst damage appeared to be in Illinois, where six people died.Gov. Pat Quinn declared seven counties a state disaster area, including Tazewell County, where a tornado left parts of Washington, Illinois, in ruins."Devastation. Sadness. People that lost everything," is how Washington Mayor Gary Manier described the scene to CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." 11/19/13 A newly disclosed report indicates that officials in the Obama administration and the Department of Health and Human Services received warnings from a private consultant group. that the federal online healthcare enrollment site could potentially fail to function properly for the October 1 launch date.The an*lysis by McKinsey & Company was requested by the White House. It identified various problems with the exchange, including limited testing time and resources before the launch, and found that call-in centers wouldn't function properly if the website malfunctioned. 11/20/13 White supremacist serial k**er Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Wednesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final requests for a stay.Franklin has been on d**h row since 1977 for the murder of Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue in St. Louis. He's been blamed for a total of 22 k**ings between 1977 and 1980 in a bid to start a race war.