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Question is, how do you operate a salvage operation that will get you back on track. >> reporter: mendelson says so far the total enrollment is about 150,000 at both the state and federal levels, but more than half that, 80,000, came from just california, meaning the federal marketplaces are way behind. >> you have to run through the system well over 200,000 people per day for those 23 days in december. so is the web site really capable of handling 200,000 signups just to cover the individual ca...

Fans getting an early christmas gift. anchorman 2 is released early. the sequel will come out december 18, two days earlier than planned. experts say the studio is likely trying to get a jump on other holiday releases at the box office. shades of thor. ron burgundy here. >> four full days, thats how long nbc went without airing a single story on obamacare. now even as millions of americans continue to lose their insurance plan and face skyrocketing costs, the mainstream media digging in for a ...

Behave with their customers. >> for the folks who are watching right now, theyre confused, who needs to really deal with this entire signup process. >> as far as the signup, and again the website part of this, its really people who dont have insurance now either because they cant afford it, maybe because they have a pre-existing condition and also for people who have chosen not to buy it. they can afford it but knowsen not to buy it. its that group of people. right now the estimates are about 15...

Bit. there are questions about the program, skepticism about the program, even from people who support it are worried about the implementation. the focus on defunding obama care to where we have that 16 day government shutdown in an odd way deflected, turned at attention somewhere else. that doesnt mean in the six weeks to six months head, the secretary, the president, the entire administration face a huge challenge in trying to prove theyll learn from their mistakes and get this right. >> what ...

>> our own wendal goler live at the white house with what actually happened. hi, wendal. >> reporter: hi, gretchen. the presidents goal is to keep people from writing off obama care with problems with the website. during the shutdown they didnt get the attention they should have. now theres a spotlight on them. with the president needing nearly 1 million signups a month to hit the target, the president says the other parts are works as they should. >> the product, the health insurance, is good. ...

For, you know, security questions, but the page just wasnt populated. so there is some sort of technical glitch and it was not working. >> by midday the president and his critics were weighing in. >> like every new law and product roll out there will be glitches in the signup process along the way that we will fix. i have been saying this from the start. and were going to be speeding things up in the next few hours to handle all the demand that exceeds anything that we had expected. >> in a syst...

To be glitches in the signup process along the way that we will address. >> obama care ready for customers, that is, if you can manage to logon. the first thing that went through my head, somebody should do something. i didnt want to be a hypocrite who, you know, just tweeted about it. a real life epee-wielding superhero. a fencing coach springs into action when he sees two crooks robbing a couple on the street. a dramatic re-enactment. welcome to "early start." im zoraida sambolin. >> and...

>> there are going to be some glitches in the signup process. just a couple of weeks ago, apple rolled out a new mobile operating system. and within days, they found a glitch. so they fixed it. i dont remember anybody suggesting apple should stop selling iphone or ipads. >> i had a meeting less than a year ago out in california with one of the original founders of google. he told me when they first came online, oh, did they have problems. they had problem because too many had people wanted to us...

Every law and product, there will be glitches in the seenup pseenup -- signup process. there have been times this morning that the site has been running more slowly. the reason is because more than one million people visited health care.gov before 7:00. >> the president rebutted critics that say any glitches on day one meant the program was doomed to fail. >> consider that just a couple of weeks ago, apple rolled out a new mobile operating system. and within days they found a glitch. so, they fi...

>> and then on the third page, it asks for security questions but the page just wasnt populated. theres some sort of technical glitch and it wasnt working. >> reporter: by midday, both the president and his critics were weighing in. >> like every new law, every new product rollout, there are going to be glitches in the signup process along the way that we will fix. ive been saying this from the start. and were going to be speeding things up in the next few hours to handle all this demand that ex...