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Care. even ahead of today's christmas eve extension to the obamacare sign-up deadline, there has been a surge of traffic on federal and state health care exchanges, and cnn's athena jones has been following it from where the president is vacationing in hawaii. >> reporter: that's right, a lot of last minute shoppers, both the state and federal exchange, healthcare.gov, both exchanges have seen a big jump in visitors as folks scramble to sign up for coverage starting january 1st. health officials say that monday was a record day for healthcare.gov. the federal exchange had two million visitors ...

Tonight, they are going to be able to enroll in coverage through the help of a customer representative to do so by january 1st. this is an accommodation they say they are making for folks who are making their best faith effort to sign up. now, i should say that state exchanges have also been seeing a jump. colorado was a record day of sign-ups on monday. connecticut saw twice the number of sign-ups they usually see on monday. in california, 27,000 people signed up for coverage on sunday alone, bringing the total of the last several days to 7,000. in new york, which has also extended the deadli...