Page 7 - 231000 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Let's switch gears here now and talk about the white house, which released the latest obamacare enrollment numbers this week. 3.3 million people have now enrolled, which is about halfway or so to the cbo estimate of 7 million by march 31st. what do you think? would you bet on with two months to go it's going to happen? not even two months now. >> right. no, just a month and a half. i don't know if we'll get to 7 million, but i think the new estimate is that we'll get close to 6 million, which, given the onset of the program and all the problems there i think is remarkable. and if you look at t...

Out. this may be somewhat revised away, but i think the continued problems of labor force participation, that's the weakest part of the job market, the long-term unemployed and people getting discouraged. i think we got to address that issue. you know, even as we start to turn a corner, we've got to address that issue. >> we certainly do. and doug, just to give it some perspective, they revised the job creation number from november. originally they said 203,000 jobs had been created in november, now 231,000. they say that's good. one month, as a lot of economists say, don't just jump to conclu...

Necessary to protect life or property. each of the affected agencies and by my count there is almost 150 of them, were required to submit a contingency plan to the white house office of management and budget. >> i think most of the people in the decision-making positions were not around or were not making the decisions back in '95. so i think it's a new experience for most of the agency heads. >> at the department of housing and urban development, for example, roughly 4% of the workforce remains on the job, including 40% of the staff at ginny mae, the mortgage agency. at the department of home...

Now. diplomatic backlash for beyonce and jay-z. they celebrated their fifth anniversary in cuba last week. now lawmakers say the couple may have violated travel restrictions to the communist island and they want a government agency to investigate now. tourism restrictions began in 1959 me whe castro took power. the obama administration lifted some of the restrictions last year. not the end of this story. so stay tuned. star trek fans, eat your heart out. this phaser rifle carried by captain kirk on the uss enterprise is now in the hand of the highest bidder. the rifle went for, get this, you...

One happy trekky this morning is the proud owner of captain kirk's. played by william shatner and the phaser was estimated to go for $50,000 to $100,000 and it sold for $231,000. the holy grail of baseball cards goes for a whopping $2.1 million at an auction yesterday. the 1909 honus wagner card is 1 of 50 in existence. the buyer is anonymous but a welty investor and baseball fan. the rutgers university basketball scandal was one of the tough to stomach story lines this week. that didn't stop "saturday night