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>> swayed my opinion. let us know what you think. back to this. 40 hours away from obamacare kicking in. brand new obamacare numbers out this morning. this just days before the health care plan goes into fekd january 1st. peter doocy is on the scene. >> hi, peter. >> hi, mike, juliet. the big number is 1.1 million. that's how many americans rolled in between launch day on october 1st and the deadline to get covered by new year's day, which was december 24th. and there was a huge spike in interest towards the end be of that open enrollment. 975,000 of the 1.1 million were in december and hhs ...

Calls it a welcome surge. athena jones has more. >> reporter: hi, rosa. after a ddisasterous roll-out, is working much better. according to hhs more than 1.1 million people signed up for health plans via federal exchange between october 1st and december 24th with nearly a million of those, 975,000 coming in the month of december alone. now those numbers don't include new medicaid enrollees and they also don't include the numbers from the state-run marketplaces. but many of those have also seen a surge in activity in recent days. and the pace of enrollment on healthcare.gov is also picking up. ...

Application, seen their options, been able to compare apples to apples, the health plans available to them. and then selected their plan. so that's really about the final step. >> okay. i want to get your reaction to the numbers here in terms of the most up to date ones we have on the enrollment here. about 106,000 people have selected plans on the federal marketplace. about 975,000 so close to a million have applied and have been deemed eligible but have yet to the select a plan. so when you look at all the problems we've had weigh in on where you think these numbers are right now. >> well, i...

Taken away and now you're being asked to choose something new that you are told is better. the encouraging thing is you had -- >> the 975,000 people enrolled and those are the 975,000 who most likely didn't have healthcare. i think these are good numbers and as you point out we are only 30 days into something that should be and hopefully will be on the books for a very long time. romney care when it first rolled out, how many people signed up in the first month? it was like a hundred. >> right. >> also we look back at medicare part d which was on the national scale of re-engaging our social co...

They really tell us because he says the encouraging number is the 975,000 who were determined eligible for marketplace enrollment, but they haven't chosen a plan. so we're in the early throws of a rollout, glitchy.gov which is the website. >> that's good. >> you like that? >> it's really health care.gov. >> you can buy and #that. >> they've got the problem with the rollout and it's the website. >> this is a tangible issue with the actual policy that people are upset with. so there are two different avenues that we have to run parallel here to discuss because there are people that are up in arm...