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The white house of dumping bad news right before the holiday. but just to give you a sense as to what theyre talking about earlier tu care today announced that they were delaying the online enrollment feature on healthcare.gov for small businesses for one year. what that means is those companies would have to buy their coverage for their employees offline through insurers or through insurance agents. now, officials had hoped to get this portion of healthcare.gov working this month. as a matter o...

Officials caution that businesses with fewer than 50 employees arent required to punchs this. it just makes it available. john boehner seized on this as well as other republicans, saying the president should use this opportunity to delay implementation of obama care until all of the bugs are worked out. of course, all of this comes three days before the target date of november 30th to have the website working for what they call the vast majority of users on healthcare.gov. they said theyll hit t...

Month. thats now not going to happen. officials caution that small businesses with fewer than 50 employee said are not required to purchase insurance under the law. the law just makes that enrollment available. as you mentioned, house speaker john boehner seized on the news and said the president should use this opportunity to delay implementation of the entire law until all the bugs are worked out. >> no republicans lining up to comment, but aside from the latest delay which is a failure to mee...

Healthcare.gov. this is not the first delay for this category of consumers out there for small businesses. this it is something that was announced also in late september that this feature on healthcare.gov love delayed till mid-november. now its late november apartment federal government is saying this thing is not ready for another year. small businesses will have to enroll for coverage knk offline. they cant do it online for the moment. but yes, this is yet another problem for this white house...

And all that is making travel home for thanksgiving difficult. thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled because of that weather. and for those of you deciding to drive, well, thats no picnic either. were keeping an eye on all of it for you. shannon travis is in pittsburgh. alina machado at the airport in atlanta, margaret connly at laguardia airport in new york and jennifer grey at the weather center in new york, as well. lets go now to shannon travis in pittsburgh. ive been looking at...

All flights are getting it in on time. >> thats good to larry. any of us in that position, you always feel like youre on your own. no one cares when youre delayed or stuck on your plane. thats nice to hear. >> they forgot about us. >> i wondered, they see a plane delayed, do they will have the ability to send another plane? how do they make it better? >> well, theyre jackying different resources from place to place. you know, when they have a cancellation, theyll put planes in areas where they c...

Websites working and people can go on and sign up, that their personal data wont get transmitted correctly to insurance companies. insurance companies need that data to enroll people and when i talked to officials in the insurance industry, theyre telling me that that information is coming across. its inaccurate, its duplicative and in some cases theyre not getting it at all. >> okay. that sounds like a major problem to me. does that mean people who thought they were insured when they signed up ...

Drive people to the site. the goal is to make sure it doesnt crash. administration officials expect as many and possibly more visitors than when the exchanges launched october 1st. they say the system will not work perfectly starting sunday. it will operate it will operate this time around. wendell goler at the white house. the goal is not perfection yet we learn of another delay in getting and its getting swift reaction on the hill. the hill is following the lead of national independent busines...

Administration to have say about the accusation that it is lying sf this zeal a crucial topic in this country and moments ago, .with the state department spokeswoman. what does rhetoric like that make you think about this deal? >> reporter: well, one, i would encourage anybody to go look at the actual agreement and the plan that is on our website, that has been provided that the white house has sent out. the state department has single it out and anyone can read for themselves. a common practice...

Weve got a few inches in this region. of course, the other question is, how much will this and whats happening now affect whats happening out there? weve been on this road for most of the day, watching the traffic jam. its been sparse was cars. the cars seem to be going slower, but it has been moving fairly steadily across the region. weve been talking with transportation officials here in allegheny county about how the road conditions are. they tell me they have over 60 trucks out there salting...