user: QUES: A COMPLETION PROBLEM. 

Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can't determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect. Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they've signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren't taking their word for it. In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can't afford. 'They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!' a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield.

It's unlikely that a valid insurance card would have changed

ANS: Maria Galvez' fortunes, however.


QUES: A COMPLETION PROBLEM. 

(CNN) -- The mysterious visitor stands in a patch of scrubland in Somalia, surrounded by Islamic militants wielding AK-47s. His face is covered by a white-and-red headscarf; he is slim and seems young. But there is something puzzling about him: His skin is fair, and when he speaks in an audio recording, his English is near perfect and spoken with a North American accent. The militants -- belonging to Al-Shabaab -- say his name is Abu Abdulla Almuhajir (the foreigner). And they say he is an envoy from the al Qaeda leader, Ayman al Zawahiri, thousands of miles away in Pakistan.

Almuhajir has turned up in the desolate scrubland, they say, to offer

ANS: al Qaeda's help with famine relief.


QUES: A COMPLETION PROBLEM. 

By Tom Mctague, Mail Online Deputy Political Editor Vladimir Putin would welcome Scottish independence because it would weaken Britain, the outspoken Education Secretary Michael Gove has claimed. Mr Gove said a break up of the United Kingdom would put Russia in a 'stronger position' to dictate to the world. He claimed Britain was the 'second principal beacon of liberty' in the world and its break up would weaken the West. Education Secretary Michael Gove said Britain was the 'second principal beacon of liberty' in the world and Scottish independence would leave it weakened The Tory Cabinet minister, who was born in Edinburgh and raised in Aberdeen, said a 'Yes' to independence vote would be cheered among Britain's enemies.

'It is

ANS: Gove's Tory government which has been caught out trying to enlist Putin's support to oppose Scottish independence - just as they have been going round the world briefing against Scotland.'


QUES: A COMPLETION PROBLEM. 

(CNN) -- A soldier suspected of fatally shooting 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday is not dead as previously reported by the military, the base's commander said Thursday evening. A civilian officer who was wounded in the incident shot the suspect, who is "in custody and in stable condition," Army Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told reporters. "Preliminary reports indicate there was a single shooter that was shot multiple times at the scene," Cone said at a news conference. "However, he was not killed as previously reported." The suspect, identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood around 1:30 p.m., Cone said.

"I thought I was more worried about her going over to Iraq than here, just doing training in

ANS:

assistant: Texas.