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Just about 17 minutes past the hour. it's time to check our top stories. in southern california, 500 firefighters are battling a 1,000-acre fire near santa clarita. one structure is burned. a neighbor community is under a mandatory evacuation order. tornadoes ripped lieu the mid-west on thursday. you are looking at a destroyed home in garland, arkansas. nine people were reported injured in that state during yesterday's storms, including two struck by lightning. in money news, it soon could be hard finding a subaru. the "wall street journal" says strong demand for some of the popular suvs cou...

Recent example. we've put together initially an application form for signing up for participation in the exchanges that was initially about 21 pages long. and immediately everybody sat around the table and said, well this is too long, especially you know in this age of the internet, people aren't going to have the patience to sit there for hours on end. let's streamline this thing. we cut what ways a 21-page form now down to a form that is about three pages nor an individual for an individual. a little more than that for a family. well above the industry average. those kind of refinements we w...

Mr. obama said that didn't go over well with the folks having a tough time selling obamacare in the first place. >> immediately everybody sat around the table and said, well this is too long, especially in this age of the internet, people aren't going to have the patience to sit there for hours on end. let's streamline this thing. we've cut what was a 21-page form now down to a form that is about three pages for an individual, a little more than that for a family, well below the industry average. >> reporter: the form requires tax records and withholding statements because income determines ho...

Deadlines and benchmarks. i'll give you an example. a recent example. we put together initially a -- an application form for signing up for participation in exchanges. there was initially 21 pages long. immediately, everybody sat around the table and said, well, this is too long. especially in this age of the internet. people aren't going to have the patience to sit there for hours on end. let's streamline this thing. so we've cut what was a 21-page form now down to a form that's about three pages for an individual. a little more than that for a family. well below the industry average. so thos...

Says they get five million job applications a year. they can only hire a fraction of those. there is a glut of workers for these jobs. there are probably a lot of people saying, i would be happy to have the job. whether it is a union or not. there is not a lot of nation-wide support for this. >>gregg: it is $5.50 above minimum wage. the workers there at walmart that are non-union have reject the unions when it is put to a vote and their turnover rate is way lower than the industry average. >>guest: so, some things are going right at walmart. everyone would like to have another $3 or $4 an hour...