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Visitors to the site, 250,000 calls into the call centers. tuesdays numbers were also high. the administration says theyre doing everything they can to help their folks who that he had the best efforts to sign up for health coverage, but werent able to finish the prod by midnight last night. those folks will still be able to get help through a customer service representative, and get coverage that starts at the beginning of january. state exchanges have also seen big jumps in traffic. call you a...

That they would have to let people know if there was a breach in security. but they decided not to include that, right? >> that is correct. and we knew that all along that all of the information we were receiving from places like government accountability office were telling us this was not going to be a secure site. and it is a large concern that the federal government requires the private sector and most of the state exchanges to do just as you say to notify someone should they be a security b...

Tonight, they are going to be able to enroll in coverage through the help of a customer representative to do so by january 1st. this is an accommodation they say they are making for folks who are making their best faith effort to sign up. now, i should say that state exchanges have also been seeing a jump. colorado was a record day of sign-ups on monday. connecticut saw twice the number of sign-ups they usually see on monday. in california, 27,000 people signed up for coverage on sunday alone, b...

Get it by january 1st. this afternoon, however, a slight delay was announced by the white house. the new deadline will be tomorrow at midnight. the white house said the move was to accommodate high demand. on friday the president announced the number of people signing up for health care plans has dramatically ticked up this month. half a million people signed up on the federal exchange in the first three weeks of december alone. hundreds of thousands more signed up in state exchanges. and we fou...

You guys do and republican and democratic governors alike got to balance their budgets. they got to run the schools. they cant run up massive debt. they cant push off the issues. you talked about being for something instead of just being against something. you caught my attention a couple of weeks ago when you came out and you thought -- you said it was a bad idea to shut down the federal government over obamacare. >> right. >> why? >> i have real problems with obviously obamacare and i laid it ...

Well t. good fuse is we are told the wounded u.s. troops have recovered enough to the point this holiday season they have been able to call home and talk to their families. kate. >> all right. barbara, thank you so much for that. the clock is ticking now for millions of americans to buy health insurance plans under obama care. a critical deadline is today in order to have could havage beginning january 1st. president obama said on friday more than 1 million people have enrolled from federal and ...

Thats for the voters to decide, people to decide. the republican criticism is predictable. my big thing on this is, see if the president can turn the democrats anxiety down. this is one step that helps him. its not enough. there will be more questions, trust me. >> whats the deal with the numbers? the numbers are up in enrollment. were not hearing about it. tell us about the numbers and tell us why im not hearing about it. >> one of the reasons youre not hearing about it is seasonally you have d...

The administration is announcing yet another change, a last-minute change to the rules this as state exchanges, the ones that have been working well, they have seen a surge in signups. cnns chief national correspondent john king is here with the latest. a couple of different things happening. lets first talk about this latest change, john, to the rules of obamacare. this is applying to folks who had their plans canceled. now the administration is saying theres another plan you didnt have access ...

Ways for americans to get care. so lets look at those rising numbers again. here are all the federal enrollees. you see in blue. then people getting covered from participating state exchanges. and then all the new medicaid coverage, now 1.2 million people total headed for coverage. it doesnt matter whether they go through door number one or door number two or whether they use a website or the telephone or a local navigator guide. what matters to them, and to a lot of us who care about the uninsu...

Have not been notified yet. >> let me go to story number two, washington state. someone signs up for obamacare and says, heres my bank account information, take the money out at the end of december. then they fine the money has already been taken out of their bank account. >> it has happened in washington state, and one of the state exchanges. so, remember, that 17 states, including the district of columbia, are running their own state exchanges, and the president has been telling everybody that...