What's wrong with Yahoo! video? And why does Yahoo! keep behaving like a "Yahoo! pop up!"?

When I click on a headline that links to a video, a window opens and remains blank. I sent Yahoo! a quiery regarding the problem and received a rather dubiuos reply that assured me that Yahoo!'s engineers were "furiously" working to solve the problem.

Additionally, there is an annoying "popup" character flaw in Yahoo! which causes Yahoo! to "pop up" and become the unbidden active window. Is this a "byte of beta" run amuck?