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Kristen welker is at the white house for us. less than 11 hours to go now. what is the president saying about these challenges with the obama care website roll out? >> well, alex, the president's trying to strike a confident tone, if you will, telling barbara walters that ultimately he thinks he's going to be on the right side of history when it comes to this health care law once they finally fix all of these glitches. at the same time, some top officials here really trying to down play expectations. you have hhs secretary kathleen sa peelious blogging on friday that folks should log on during...

Republicans said that was deliberate. this was all kind of rolled out around the holidays so that nobody would pay attention. but we are paying attention. and as far as we know, we are on track to do what their goal is. but remember, their goal is to get it working to the point that they can get 50,000 people online at the same time. and if it goes over that, that's where the issues could come up. remember, back in october they had over 200,000 people. they couldn't get on. what they've done is created this kind of virtual waiting list or waiting line where people would register and just get t...

Is on track to meeting the goal of november 30th, which is only five days from now. one of the things that josh earnest, the deputy press secretary said in a gaggle of reporters on air force one, one thing that he did say is that the tech team working on the site has boosted its capacity so about 50,000 concurrent users can be on the site at one time and they've reduced the error rate. this is interesting, brooke. one thing they also did to control the flow of people going into the site during points of heavy demand, they have added a queueing system. you go on the slight, it's sluggage. it le...

Medicine case services which manages the site they managed to bring the error rate down to 1% from 2% last week, and 6% a few weeks ago. fred? >> thanks so much, athena. so will the president's mistakes on obama care hurt his chances are getting other key legislation through congress? i put that question to cnn's wolf blitzer. >> the president is trying, he wants to get comprehensive immigration reform, got it done in the senate. the house speaker, john boehner, the republican majority of the house, they're not taking it up this year. we will see what happens next year, election year, mid term...

Alive. >> yeah, and that, shep, might be a bigger hole to climb out of, pardon the pun, than what you have described here, in fact the post goes on to site, the specific case of one man, i think he lived in utah and the social security administration said he was dead, he said no, i'm very much alive. they ignored all of his pleas about this until he finally went to social just office in utah and said i'm alive. they gave him a piece of paper who said sign this and it said i'm alive. the trouble is, social security compiles this death master file but all of the -- it is very, very accurate in t...