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Night. 10:24. dogs coming on the red eye. >> elmo is a german shepard who will work as a drug detection dog in the jail. 11 deputies have gone through the application process to become her handler. now colonel jim previtera and his senior staff must decide who will be chosen for the most -- much coveted job. >> these people need to truly understand -- >> this is your life. >> -- what is going to be expected of them and what theyre going to have to do. >> imagine all the dog hair. >> theyre going...

Problematic obamacare website which is down again. >> been down all morning. >> thousands of applications have been filed during early enrollment but that have apparently disappeared. peter doocy is live in washington with the latest. peter, any clue where these are? >> somewhere lost in cyber space, tucker. at one point in mid october 15% of everyone who thought they had already signed up for coverage at healthcare.gov didnt because of a technical error at the back end of the website that basic...

Started the application process and simply need to choose which option theyd like to have. so some 3 million americans today we can say will have health security, something they did not have before. clearly americans want health security and theyre signing up for health insurance under the affordable care act. like the american people, democrats want to make sure the health security law works. we dont want to shut it down. and so now on the issue of hopefully no more shutdowns, we want to be abl...

There is no definition of what it means to be enrolled. each state is reporting the numbers the way they see it. there is no uniform definition on what these numbers actually mean. has someone paid a premium? do they have an actual id number from an insurance company? a lot of whats being called enrollment, there is simply people going through the application process to a certain point but not actually effectuating it as some of the reports say. when will we know some sense of what real numbers ...

>> the announcement today that response rates are under a second, error rates are under 1%, 90% of the time the systems stable. it can handle 50,000 users, 800,000 visits a day, if thats the case, then thats good news. >> you never get a second chance to make a first impression. the first impression here was terrible. and i think it is going to be an unfolding disaster for the president. jon: joining us now, john mccormick, a staff writer at "the weekly standard." john, the president has promise...

Ripped off. >> gregg, now, i think i can agree with cal that we would like to have this web site work more like twitter and facebook, but i also think the media has been a little bit irresponsible in really ginning up the fear around security issues. were not entering information that is sensitive into this application process unless you think youre -- >> your social security number is not sensitive? no, no, no, gentleman -- jehmu, your social security number has to be entered in. thats not sens...

Traveling. all the major airports should be just fine. as i mentioned on saturday, still a little chilly great lakes up until the northeast. its not until sunday that we get a little warmth sneaking to the east coast. t.j., back to you. we turn now to the airports and those security lines, nobody likes them. they may be getting a little smaller because the tsa is ramping up on its precheck program. certain travelers will get the opportunity to go through security thats reminiscent of the pre 9...

A real struggle. >> reporter: casey wian, cnn, los angeles. >> despite all the problems, there are in fact success stories as well, with obama care doing exactly what it was designed to do, get people >> reporter: today case and justin arent insured. come january 1st, that will change. >> i recently changed jobs, so i took a contract position, where i dont have benefits. >> reporter: keeping up that previous insurance would have cost $1500 a month. too much. she tried private insurers, but the a...

Resistant her whole life to taking a government handout, government assistance through the form of medicaid, you say effectively just forced to do it. >> absolutely. i mean, literally, the website didnt give her an option other than medicaid. and, you know, when we sat down and went through the actual application process, we were on the phone and going through it, on the website, there wasnt even a point to click cancel or opt out or anything. i mean, literally just the results showed up. it sai...

Fixed so people can actually log on, actually enroll. and they believe in the long run the laws going to work. right now its hard to see that light at the end of the tunnel. patti ann: ed henry, live at the white house, thanks. >> reporter: good to see you. jon: word today that the obamacare web site is improving with thousands still unable to complete the application process online. but the a number of states are using their own systems, and those exchanges are said to be doing well. so well, i...