What we’re watching Tuesday

Healthcare

• The House Ways and Means committee holds a hearing on the healthcare.gov website situation beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will testify. We’ll carry it live on the Rundown.

• News that thousands of Americans are having their individual policies cancelled continues to roll in.

Surveillance

• President Obama is said to be considering a ban on spying on leaders of allied nations.

• The Washington Post reports that Obama did not learn of surveillance of allied leaders until a summer briefing.

• Top intelligence officials will testify in a House hearing at 1:30 p.m. ET. We’ll have live video in the Rundown.

  Sandy One Year Later

• A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for 4-year delay in increases in federal flood insurance.

• Residents of Jersey Shore cities and Staten Island plan to light up the coastline with flashlights and candles at sundown.

• Subway rides are free today for people in hardest hit sections of Brooklyn and Queens.

• Related: Watch Miles O’Brien explore how New York is preparing for the next big storm.

Syria

• WHO confirms 10 cases of polio in Syria, and is investigating 12 more possible infections.

China

• Police now suspect car crash that killed 5 on Monday in Tiananmen Square was a suicide attack, possibly carried out by Uighurs.