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Just about 17 minutes past the hour. its time to check our top stories. in southern california, 500 firefighters are battling a 1,000-acre fire near santa clarita. one structure is burned. a neighbor community is under a mandatory evacuation order. tornadoes ripped lieu the mid-west on thursday. you are looking at a destroyed home in garland, arkansas. nine people were reported injured in that state during yesterdays storms, including two struck by lightning. in money news, it soon could be ha...

Recent example. weve put together initially an application form for signing up for participation in the exchanges that was initially about 21 pages long. and immediately everybody sat around the table and said, well this is too long, especially you know in this age of the internet, people arent going to have the patience to sit there for hours on end. lets streamline this thing. we cut what ways a 21-page form now down to a form that is about three pages nor an individual for an individual. a li...

Mr. obama said that didnt go over well with the folks having a tough time selling obamacare in the first place. >> immediately everybody sat around the table and said, well this is too long, especially in this age of the internet, people arent going to have the patience to sit there for hours on end. lets streamline this thing. weve cut what was a 21-page form now down to a form that is about three pages for an individual, a little more than that for a family, well below the industry average. >>...

Deadlines and benchmarks. ill give you an example. a recent example. we put together initially a -- an application form for signing up for participation in exchanges. there was initially 21 pages long. immediately, everybody sat around the table and said, well, this is too long. especially in this age of the internet. people arent going to have the patience to sit there for hours on end. lets streamline this thing. so weve cut what was a 21-page form now down to a form thats about three pages fo...

Says they get five million job applications a year. they can only hire a fraction of those. there is a glut of workers for these jobs. there are probably a lot of people saying, i would be happy to have the job. whether it is a union or not. there is not a lot of nation-wide support for this. >>gregg: it is $5.50 above minimum wage. the workers there at walmart that are non-union have reject the unions when it is put to a vote and their turnover rate is way lower than the industry average. >>gue...

Failed. that is the report from federal prosecutors who sued the mortgage giant for fraud. the feds say theyre seek damages and civil penalties from the bank for more than ten years of misconduct and thats a quote. wells fargo denies all these allegations and in a statement, a company spokesperson says many of the issues in the lawsuit had been previously addressed with the department of housing and urban development, goes on to say, wells fargo is the leading federal housing administration lend...

start." nice to have you with us. im ashleigh banfield >> and im zoraida sambolin. its 5:00 a.m. here in the east. lets get started. attorney eric holder to be held in contempt in congress. yesterday the members of the government oversight and reform committee voted along party lines to recommend citing him for contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents from the botched fast and furious gun operation, documents that are now off limits to republicans, and everyone else, be...

Washington times" of results from the 21st national airline quality rating survey which is going to be fully released this morning. guess whos on top in terms of best customer service? southwest. lowest complaint rate of 16 airlines. and only one of four airlines to have fewer complaints this year. delta, the worst complaint rate, 65% higher than the industry average. complaints overall, are up 28% this year. but amazingly enough, only an average of only 1.2 complaints every 100,000 passengers. ...

Every aspect of the relaunch party, from the invites to the decoration and the gift cards. >> so then this is the gift card? >> yeah. this is the discount card for press and vips. so we need to talk about whether you want -- are you happy with the thickness and all of that stuff? >> reporter: she doesnt want to settle with the industry average. whens been seen and done. >> does the job. >> more options. >> reporter: she wants her team to think outside of the box. >> i would rather have nothing t...

Having to pay a record $1.7 billion in criminal and civil fines for immediate care fraud, which is why bill ma mccollum was saying he was serious questions about character, integrity and honesty. how do you answer that to the florida voters when they look to you and say how did the company you ran wind up paying $1.7 billion for fraud. >> my republican opponent brought that up and it didnt work because people care about jobs. they know i did a great job, started that company from scratch. $125,0...