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0 thanks for watching us here on "new day." we hope you have a great day and a great way to continue it right now is with ms. carol costello. take it away my friend. >> i certainly will. have a great day. thank you so much. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com happening now in "the newsroom," terror on the track. >> confetti, pelting all of us, pieces of it were all around of us. i was literally, literally thinking that my life is over. >> pieces of dario franchitti's car rain all over them. also shutdown showdown, day seven. >> my goal here is not to have the unite...

Enrollment, not building great government exchanges. we've got to get people into the ranks of having insurance. not only is it a good thing for obama care but morally it's been a good thing. i'm critical of government. i want everything to get people enrolled in a reliable way to be at work here. >> gary lauer, ceo of e-health, thank you for joining me this morning. >> thank you, carol. what we see today, partial government shutdown. now the impact is being felt by some 800,000 federal workers being furloughed today. that price tag is pretty steep. their absence will cost our economy about ...

>> thanks, guys. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. good morning, everyone. i'm carol costello. thank you very much for joining me this morning. most of our government is shut down. lights out, doors closed, tops down, at least for now. i'm going to start far away from pennsylvania avenue and begin in main street. instead of hearing words like brink, catastrophe, revolt being spewed by our government in washington, i want to start with the facts. fact number one, congress will still get paid today. in fact, the average lawmaker will make $669 just today. that's nearly 3 1/2 t...

I think that any time you're implementing something big, there's going to be people who are nervous and anxious about is it going to get done? until it's actually done. we have a great team in place. we are pushing very hard to make sure that we're hitting all of the deadlines and the benchmarks. even if we do everything perfectly, there will still be, you know, glitches and bumps and that is pretty much true of every government program that's ever been set up. here with us now is margaret carlson of bloomberg news and dr. zeke emanuel and gary lauer of ehealth insurance.com online

0 congress to behave. to get the congress to do what he wants them to do it's called leadership. he thinks he can do his thing from the balcony and everyone else will follow along and now how it works and dana millbank and howard fineman wrote the same thing. did the president admit yesterday that he couldn't get his agenda through congress, he is a lame duck? >> the backdrop of this is the gun debate, the inability to get something through the senate and what happened is sequestration and the air traffic delays, the quick fix that he did not want but sign any way. he did knitted the 60-vote h...