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Jenna: some new fallout over obamacares we learn some insurance companies have found a loophole in the law allowing many people to avoid its effects for almost a year. jim angle's live in washington with the details taking a look at this story. jim? >> reporter: hello, jenna. well, yeah, there's one thing the administration hasn't been publicizing about obamacare, there is a way for millions on the individual market to avoid signing up for most of next year. listen. >> so if you start your coverage or renew your coverage before the end of the year, you can have at least another 12 months of co...

Not sure because this is very new -- democrats are not going to allow that to happen. >> a.b., let's talk about the time line here and what we will probably see happen over the next 36 hours, maybe 48 hours. what are we looking at here and the likelihood of a shutdown now versus just a few hours ago before this plan was revealed, likelihood much higher? >> much higher. senator harry reid said time's up. putting pressure on the house to pass the clean version of the senate continuing resolution. and they basically said the ball's in your court, you have to pass a stopgap funding bill, fund the ...

Break moment. so how can we go forward and have a resolution to this? well, senate democrats today brought out their own countdown clock to a government shutdown, trying to put more pressure on the house republicans because the senate democrats will be able to pass what they will call a clean cr. so glossary time for everybody. continuing resolution to fund the government. so an extension of keeping the lights on and everything operating and clean because it wouldn't have any of those sort of christmas tree add-ons of other issues. that's what senate democrats want. that's the simplest solutio...

$7.50 per passenger. some of us don't check bags. some of us don't make changes. that's the average. reportedly, the industry would like to get that number up to $20. so you can see they're really gunning for the add-ons because we are not okay when the base ticket price goes up. when you see a flight, and it says $400, you think no way. if it says $300, but they sell you $100 in other things, we seem to be okay with that. they almost have no choice. >> it's interesting, though. i was doing a comparison. you mentioned $400, american airlines, and you put up spirit, and you know exactly what i'...

End of that and they'll end up taking more in total benefits, in particular associate security, than they would pay into the system in the near term. so their argument is in the long term you have an imbalance. act wares say in the short term it will help the economy and social security. >> the bill is being written up and this where we get the ad addons, congressmen get a pet project added so they vote in favor of the bill. do you know of any addons we can alert our viewers? >> i don't know we'll get that many specific add ons. this is not like health care where you give somebody treatment fo...