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>> got in about 9:20. and im still here. >> reporter: it looked like election day, as the vp visited the enrollment center in washington and made a last-minute pitch on the talk show hosted by celebrity chef rachael ray. >> any young person listening, if you dont need this for your peace of mind, do it for mom, do it for dad. get health coverage. do it for mom. >> reporter: deadline day brought an obamacare surge. by noon more than a million visitors to healthcare.gov. but even notice there were...

Have been tweeting out photos of long signup lines, but the final rush has not been smooth. healthcare.gov went down this morning and was offline for hours. by 8:00 this morning, it went back online. you can see here the countdown clock on the white house website has a bit of a glitch with numbers in the wrong boxes. it says we have 15 plus days, not hours to go. then again, maybe thats not a glitch. maybe this is the extension there that gets you to april 15. well ask phil about that in a minut...

Glitches. wendell goler has that part of the story tonight. four years after the president signed the affordable care act, the final day for enrollment arrived with computer problems reminiscent of the websites rollout last fall. a bug took hours longer to fix than the scheduled early morning maintenance window. a last-day crush of people trying to enroll overloaded the website in the afternoon. and another glitch on the white house countdown clock told people they had another two weeks left t...

Close enough to the pingers assuming that the penk pinkers are working. >> and the juice, the battery life for the pingers more or less is 30 days. correct? >> im glad you said more or less. because its like your computer water battery. sometimes it goes longer or shorter than predicted. this idea of a countdown clock is not correct. i had add that the faa has recently revised the standard and in the future, the pingers will be required gur raduration days. this will be slowly phased in over the...

United states and others will not recognize that. and in vague terms there are threats of sanctions. what those sanctions would look like, we dont have the details right now. a six-hour conversation that secretary kerry had with his russian counterpart, but in all that weve heard, really not much action coming from russia. only assurance from vladimir putin that no action will be taken until this vote on sunday. so again, the countdown clock begins. well keep you posted on that. if youd like to ...

Really more worried about the farm products and the crops and getting to and from school and all of the problems weve had this winter all across the nation, particularly now in the south? >> i think thats a good cautionary note. it reminds us that while were all excited about this speech and you have a countdown clock and well be talking about it all day and after, most americans arent sitting around the table or at the water cooler saying, i cant wait to see the state of the union speech. they ...

Chamber just that. more to come in breaking news at the bottom of the screen. reid wants votes on several judicial nominees about wrapping up and threatening to play scrooge and keep members in washington until christmas eve. ba hum bug. make they can catch a ride with fat saint nick. i said it. enough of me ruining my tv career. let me bring in luke russert on the hill with the latest. >> reporter: that is one of the top five intros ive ever gotten. well done, my friend. theres not a lot of sus...

Functioning at its very basic levels. that, we think, is a step in the right direction. that, we think, gives us some confidence. that brings some normalcy back to our government. i want to take a moment to thank senator murray. shes a tough negotiator. shes fought hard for her principles every step of the way. i want to commend her for her work. all will be placed upon our budget websites by the end of the night. with that, id like to offer senator murray. >> thank you. well, for far too long h...

Ready to go. they knew this was coming for a couple of years. interesting exchange back and forth on kathleen sebeliuss response to the chief of staff having a countdown clock and then basically rolling their eyes oh, boy micromanaging. which really seems to put emphasis more on kathleen sebelius not only was she not ready but she was resentful of people that were suggesting that she be focused on the launch date. >> pretty good reporting over the weekend. there will be more to come. they face a...

Many years, maybe still is, if they watched his confirmation hearings there were signs that perhaps he wasnt -- >> lots of signs. >> up for it. >> you get into this rush, one you want to get a republican in your cabinet, to say we have diversity of ideology. everything youre seeing with chuck hagel frustrations expressed in that piece any republican that worked with him could have said these are the frustrations youre going to have. like some of the health care stuff. >> what about sebelius? seb...