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Computer code that could download 70,000 records in four minutes over the internet no hacking required. we will see kennedy and other experts today on the hill. as far as healthcare policy is concerned the hill newspaper is now reporting that 50 more regulations tied to healthcare are on the way in the next year. keep your eyes open in the next few days for new celebrity ads. magic johnson report recorded a spot talking about the importance of insurance for athletes and encouraging people to enr...

The website working. >> cms, the governments stake holder, how many people do they have working on it? or what do you theyre doing in order to try to get this deadline met by november 30, thats just coming up in five days? >> its coming up pretty soon, and there are a few hundred people at this point working on it. among the people working on it are the employees of cgi who had been working on it this summer. to this day, not all the computer code that cgi is writing is working perfectly when it...

As i understand it, the negotiations of whether theres going to be more thats owed hasnt taken place. theyre working more on getting the website working. >> cms, the governments stake holder, how many people do they have working on it? or what do you theyre doing in order to try to get this deadline met by november 30, thats just coming up in five days? >> its coming up pretty soon, and there are a few hundred people at this point working on it. among the people working on it are the employees o...

Computer code to fix this. should they just possibly scrap the whole thing and start again as some in congress have suggested? or no? >> youre absolutely right. there are some who say shut it all down, start all over. thats the way to solve it especially after this weekend. but the administration basically says no. considering this website has already cost more than $300 million. and parts of it are working despite all of these troubles. so the white house has now put one guy in charge, jeffrey ...

And effectively everybody in the chain was saying, no, somebody else was in charge of this part of it. thats why its hard to pin it on one person. >> and do they try to pin it on a person no one heard of? or do they say the buck stops at the kathleen sebelius level? thats going to be the big question. it gets worse. its not like lets just go untangle the web. which in and of itself would be very difficult to do. theyre saying you might have to start from scratch. rewrite millions of lines of com...

Charge, including the president, who, as his own officials now say, was unaware that this tangled mess was building down here. so the problem in finding who to blame is to say somebody had to be responsible. and effectively everybody in the chain was saying, no, somebody else was in charge of this part of it. thats why its hard to pin it on one person. >> and do they try to pin it on a person no one heard of? or do they say the buck stops at the kathleen sebelius level? it gets worse. its not li...

Centers for medicaid and medicare centers would hire computer services to make it happen. and voila, there is your fully functioning website. but it appears there was a political as well as a practical side to this effort. as the policymakers dreamed up things for the website to do, programmers werent always in the loop to discuss if it was possible. furthermore, you saw a few more of the big companies hired being grilled on what went wrong. but there were dozens of subcontractors down here runn...

Fleming, louisianas family doctor of the year and ez e-al he manual, a former health care policy adviser to the obama administration. then onward. >> you look fired up to make the next push, to make sure we get immigration reform done. >> his legacy law entangled inside a half billion lines or so of computer code, the president pushes immigration reform. tone deaf or spot on politics? and election days loom in new jersey and virginia. what 2013 will tell us about 2014. our political panel sorts ...

Slide hidden in computer code saying "you have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting on this system." well, the mere suggestion outraged democrat frank pallone. >> information is required in the application process and why is that? because preexisting conditions dont matter. so once again here we have my republican colleagues trying to scare everyone. >> will the gentleman yield? >> no i will not yield to this monkey court or whatever this is. >> thi...

>> so you guys are going to work together to read the instructions, build your app. >> reporter: were in the heart of oakland, sheltered in a school in the same neighborhood where girls about the same age are prayed upon by pimps. these african american girls are training to write computer code. >> im positive one of the girls from the program in the next 20 years will be one of the people we read about in the paper. >> reporter: her goal to supply silicon valley with a stream of new talent. >> ...