have found out our employer either cannot afford or cannot receive the healthcare you have grown accustomed to. the specific reason we are here today is a narrow part of this committee s oversight and legislative authority. it s in fact to examine the failures of what should have been an i.t. success story. nearly $600 million, 3 1/2 years, is larger than kayak ever dreamed of having to set up their web sites. it s larger than e-bay spent in the first many years of a much more complex site that auctions in realtime millions and millions of products a year. we are here to examine a failure of technology not because the technology was so new and innovative, not because this was a moon shot, not because we
comfortably handling at present, about 20 to 25,000 current users. sock okay. so it is fair to say, and i will paraphrase on day one, october 1st, at the launch, some amount greater than 1100 which was experienced on september 30th, closer to the goal set on september 30th which they thought in documents the committee received, they could get to 10,000 simultaneous, on day one, october 1st, when this site launched the site was capable handling somewhere more than 1100 but somewhat less than 10,000 simultaneous users, certainly not the 50,000, 60,000, or 250,000, that simultaneous tried to use the site is that correct? there may be a matter of confusion here which cms may be better positioned to clarify. okay. because i believe that the 1100 number was for a particular unit of capacity. okay.
as opposed to entire system but i will defer the problem there was a front door and that unit of capacity was limited by the front door. and i think, i come out of the i.t. world and i come out of the tech world but the american people can understand you are only as strong as your weakest link. if you have a bottleneck causes people trying to get through the site, not to be able to do it, not timeout, that bottleneck what determines it, since on day one, only six people got to the end, i think that for the american people, understanding the whatever the capacity is today, the capacity was insufficient on day one. isn t that correct? so, sir, just in interest of providing most accurate testimony i can i only want to know on day one was the capacity sufficient? i can t speak to the numbers you are talking about but clearly on day one, clearly on day one the system was overwhelmed by volume.
bill: i haven t heard that before. 500 fraudulent web sites? estimated 500 web sites trying to steal personal information so they can exploit that. it s very important if we are going to move forward number within that it gets figured and number two that we secure this information that s personal to the american people. bill: the post reports 20,000 to 30,000 attempt at one time. that s when the system reaches capacity. the contractor who built the site they succeed in fixing 6 out of the every 10 problems they come across. here is the president in the city of dallas, texas. listen careful live. the website is already better than it was at the beginning of october. and by the end of this no we anticipate it is going to be working the way it is supposed to. and folks are working 24/7 to
the desperation as the mother s voice as she tries to find her family. the minister said the less you have the closer you are to god. we wish them well. we have a lot to talk to you about this morning on america s newsroom. we have two big hearings set to get underway on the troubles obamacare website. the house homeland security chairman, they are taking on the countless security risks that playing this site. the chairman of that committee is going to be with us moat away. bill: also a cracked window. how did that force this plane to make an emergency landing that ground 200,000 passengers. martha: he spent 10 year behind bars for a murder he did not commit. ryan ferguson s stunning steery. i didn t know this morning i would be standing here tonight.