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With more. peter, how many consumers are still having problems with the site? >> reporter: heather, right now, it is about one in 10 but for all of october and november that error rate was about one in four, much higher, and much more complicated because that means a quarter of consumers that think theyre all set to be covered by january 1st might not be. >> important to note that errors could also encompass a range of things from duplicates to technical information displayed or conveyed imprope...

Im just simply pointing out it isnt fixed and there is still a 10% error rate. you talked about the fact that the government sends a34 enrollment forms to the insurers, which tell them how many people have signed up, who they are, all the information. but it trns out that some are just left off entirely. isnt it the facts, a possibility that perhaps tens of thousan thousands of people who they think they signed up may end up on january 1st without coverage? >> when we did the medicare part d und...

Charge of the exchanges, the federal exchange for a solution to the mess. people think they have the coverage. they dont have the coverage. the insurer has a botched form. it doesnt have a name so it cant call the person to tell them, it didnt work for you. here was the answer. >> but youre not saying everyone should call. youre not suggesting urging them strongly despite the fact you are talking about a potential one in ten error rate going forward? >> i would encourage any consumer with a ques...

A.m. >> whats clear is she wasnt telling the truth. she didnt say this happened. the prosecution had evidence of that and didnt hand it over. >> reporter: we asked the district attorney to tell us why but he wouldnt comment. anderson was removed from death row but serving life in prison for federal drug charges. between 19 90 and 2012 there were 14 people exonerated in new orleans, the highest per capita of any city in the country. statewide the number jumps to 35. when there is that clearer ror...

On it, the states key witness contradicts her story, even gets the time of the murders wrong saying it was daylight. the shooting occurred at 4:00 a.m. >> whats clear is she wasnt telling the truth. she didnt say this happened. the prosecution had evidence of that and didnt hand it over. >> reporter: we asked the district attorney to tell us why but he wouldnt comment. anderson was removed from death row but serving life in prison for federal drug charges. between 19 90 and 2012 there were 14 pe...

Solved, working great. go on and enjoy. >> yeah. and they were saying they had the back end fixed. they were telling people in the call we heard that the 834 problems were fixed. there was one social security bug that they fixed. >> right. >> and 80% of its fixed. the error rates on enrollments that came through on monday have just as high end error rate as enrollment did three weeks ago. >> so its not fixed? >> no, no. most of it isnt built in the back end yet. no reconciliation system built in...

Of the day young people will come in as they did in the massachusetts reform. >> the technical issue is what we have tried to simplistically call the back end, which is where insurers actually make sure that the people who sign up, that they have the information, that they actually are covered when they go to the doctor, they get their reimbursement. still tbd on how thats going to work? >> yeah, were still tbd there. this is the ability for healthcare.gov to correctly transmit the information a...

>> thats putting a lot in. that was the president on offense very much so today after weeks of dealing with negative headlines over the websites problems. the president now spends the rest of the month, were told, touting the benefits of the new health care law. urging americans to get in and enroll. the numbers so far this week have been encouraging. a million people visited the website just yesterday. and the error rate was fairly low. according to "the washington post," the website processed ...

Place at some point anyway. thanks so much, fred pleitgen in damascus. you can have problems with the communications and stuff so that shot wasnt perfect, but it was great to have him there. >> now for some other news making headlines. today marks the second day since the healthcare.gov website overhaul was completed. an obama administration officials say its working, quote unquote, smoothly for the vast majority of users. >> some good news. theyre calling it night and day compared to two months...

Tell us, what does an improvement look like? >> reporter: well, according to the administration, an improvement would look like the website being able to support as many as 50,000 users at one time. they say that is their goal by midnight tonight. as you pointed out, they say theyre close to that goal. i just smoke with an administration official who reiterated they are on track to meet that benchmark. but tech experts continue to work around the clock to make sure that actually happens. preside...