deep into damage control over the problems with the rollout of the website. what s the latest? reporter: damage control is right. the president tried to pivot to a new issue today, immigration, but the questions about the obama care website woes continued to dominate. the white house is trying to answer those questions with the help of regular briefings for reporters by the center for medicare and medicaid services, the folks who are managing the federal government s website. cms reveals today that nearly 700,000 people have submitted applications for health insurance, and they have handled 1.6 million calls at the call center. we also learned from cms that it was a quote, business decision to defer this window shopping feature on healthcare.gov. that s the feature that would have made healthcare.gov a lot more like the amazon type site the president promised. cms said they wanted to focus first on the application processing feature of the site. that of course wasn t working so well