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Obamacare and the exchanges, and the white house is asking everybody, be patient, problems persist for americans trying to sign up for health insurance online. we sent fox business network's gerri willis online where she's been all week, haven't you, gerri? [laughter] >> that's right. bill: and byron york joined us on day one, fox news contributor, on tuesday morning, and you were doing your own research, too, byron. we'll get to you on that in a moment and also the waiver issue. but, gerri, what have you found out in terms of raw numbers for people who are online or signing up? >> all right, ...

I'm sure you can fill in the blanks. lady gaga tweeted her support for the affordable care act. saying it's time to get covered. >> the california health insurance exchange has corrected the number of online hits it received during tuesday's rollout of its website. because of an internal miscommunication, instead of 5 million hits, the actual number little less, 645,000. a lot less. >> checks for alaska residents come in today. since oil was discovered in alaska, they receive money from the alaska permanent fund. this year it's 900 bucks. on the tonight show, jay leno did a joke about two stor...

[ male announcer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu/knowhow. ♪ >> good saturday afternoon to you. coming up the very latest to blizzard of 2013. the storm has left six people dead, and 645,000 without power

The story, the legacy will be how widespread the one-foot was and how widespread the two feet of snow was and to have half a million plus without power? it's just -- i hope that the plow crews will go first and right behind them will be the power trucks. they need to get into these locations. >> absolutely. 645,000 customers without power across the northeast. i don't know about you, bill. i remember i had no power for a week after sandy and i could see my breath inside my home and that was fall. >> that was chilly, but this is winter. we need to worry about the elderly. they rely on other peo...

Lobbying republicans before the 2006 vote. it hasn't lobbied since. fed ex is considered a heavy hitter on capitol hill. it spent more than $645,000 on republicans just last year. >> and you know, ed, the bill you cite, bad enough this prepayment thing. but it also proscribes the postal service from getting into any kind of other line of business. >> limit their business. yep. they limit the scope of what they can do to operationally compete. >> that's right. >> and you know who it's going to hurt, congressman, you know this, i know this, tell our audience. it's small businesses in rural ameri...