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Hi dou doug, what is happening the state exchanges right now? >> there is no better than the state that we are standing in right now. don't let this fool you. take for example, carole andrews, she was forced, to resign on december 6th, after the botched health care roll out here. hawaii health connecter received $200 million to set up the exchange. the website cost $53 million. the contractor, cgi the same one that set up the federal exchange. the state senate fpresident waed them not to use cgi.

Rollout and state exchanges. >> take hawii, this island paradise has seen a lot of trouble when it comes to the rollout of the exchange. carol andrews who is the director had to stepdown after the failed rolled out. they received $2 million to set it up. website was $53 million. cgi was the contractor. and they were said not to hirethem because they botched a website. only 257 people have coverage from the exchange. oregon's story is similar. a lot of people that signed up

Takes a few days to come through the exchanges and make their way over to the insurance companies themselves and of course, it's a holiday week so that could be a little bit delayed. that same source, though, said the shift from monday, december 23rd to the new deadline earlier this week of midnight on christmas eve isn't likely to have made a big impact on the number of applications they see coming in. i should tell you that administration officials have said as recently as last week that they expect there could be some problems that people face come january 1st, thinking that they signed up,...

Been talking about the big traffic on healthcare.gov, well, state exchanges saw big jumps in numbers. i want to share a few of them. connecticut had more than double the enrollment on monday. 6700 people signed up. colorado had a record day. california. 103,000 people enrolled between friday and monday through cover california. so just a few of the constituents we're getting from the states. >> proof that we journalists are not the only ones who work best under deadlines, thank you, athena. 100,000 homes are without power in michigan. wintry weather has slammed the state, taking out power li...

The birth of christ and live out what he taught us, to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, to feed the hungry and look after the sick, to be our brother's keeper and our sister's keeper. athena jones is traveling with the president. she joins us live from honolulu. good morning, athena. >> reporter: good morning. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. there is a bit of good news for president obama this christmas day. lots of people are signing up for obamacare, more than ever, but i don't know if that says very much. but you tell us more. >> reporter: what we have learned over the last...