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Monday deadline. this coming monday to get health insurance. chief national correspondent jim angle explains why. >> reporter: the president was forced to back down after the backlash over this statement which even democrats say was a lie. >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. >> reporter: the president back tracked and asked state regulators and insurance companies to extend those policies ultimately until 2017 but many companies only extended them until the ...

Atmosphere works in waves where it dives down across the nations midsection. and keeps the cool air in place. a seesaw effect reaching across the northwest. that keeps the heat wave going across washington, oregon, nevada, many spots in the 90s. a couple of spots in the triple digits. this pattern will not be holding that heat as we head forward in to next week. in particular, they will be spreading back out. major warmup will come in to the northern plains. reena and devin, back to you. >> than...

Of those cannabis consumers hit the road high? colorado state patrol just started keeping track of the numbers. since january, marijuana-related duis have accounted 10% to 15% of total dui citations. >> obviously alcohol is more readily available and more people that use alcohol. >> reporter: yet pot problems have emerged with marijuana edibles. especially with people eating too much too soon. then getting hit hard with the psycho active side effects of thc. >> its a slower onset but it lasts lo...

>> no idea. would it be two. >> the whole thing. >> reporter: the whole thing. you think this is one serving? >> yes. >> my guess is probably potent, maybe four. >> reporter: it is. there are ten doses of marijuana in this bar. >> thats a lot. >> reporter: this is actually ten doses of marijuana. >> oh my. thats terrible. >> yeah, i just thing it takes a level of education to the consumer so that people are using them responsibly. >> reporter: adults arent the on ones ending up in throb. the chi...

Consumers hit the road high. colorado state patrol just started keeping track of the numbers. marijuana duis have accounted for just 10 to 15% of dui citations. >> yet pot problems have emerged with marijuana edibles, especially with people eating too much too soon and then getting hit hard with the psycho active effects of thc. the issue has state regulators considering new rules for packaging and labeling. >> the industry is small enough and nimble enough that people can adjust without hiccups...

Premium. you have to pay the premium to be enrolled in health insurance and we dont in how many of those who signed up were previously uninsured. >> some of those state regulators say all the changes thed a membership straition has made has made the law confusing and difficult to enforce. >> reporter: we have brand-new numbers on the irs targeting controversy. who do americans think is behind the scandal? bill: millions of americans in danger of credit card fraud. details on another security bre...

>> reporter: the president claimed victory at every turn, including on cost, but analysts say the insurance industry has a different view. >> when you total this all up, thats why youre seeing an 11% to 12% increase on average. again, its not medical costs going up. we know medical inflation has been relatively kept in check in large part because of the slack economy. these are just insurance costs going up. >> we had the opportunity to express our concerns not only with the web site, also with ...

Flexibility for the ohio consumers. >> it was problems in the early days and sign ups are looking up and well get into phase and work together? were there any specifics for the viewers to understand what is next in all of this. >> we talked about 2015. and talked about the problems initially with the website and the presidents belief that parts of it are fixed and should be better in the next enrollment period. we had an opportunity to express concerns with the website and proposed regulations t...

Some safety for the iftiforcati the properties. >> you have to get the sand somewhere and dredging it offshore is really controversial. its habitat for a bunch of things, from kracrabs to lobste. state regulators dont want it taken from the beach. so its a real commodity here. theyre digging it from inland sources and theyre trucking it home and it goes out to sea again and theyre trying to get more of it. any time theres a sand, a navigational dredging project going on, theres like a long line ...

Not like this was happening in the middle of the night. this has all been above board, all known to the s.e.c. and all known to state regulators, and i think its a mistake to retroactively criminalize something that you said was okay going on. >> all right. >> looking for scalps that were in clean daylight i think is probably a mistake. >> zachary, thank you very much for joining me. we have new details this morning about what may have led army specialist ivan lopez to go on that deadly shooti...