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Well t. good fuse is we are told the wounded u.s. troops have recovered enough to the point this holiday season they have been able to call home and talk to their families. kate. >> all right. barbara, thank you so much for that. the clock is ticking now for millions of americans to buy health insurance plans under obama care. a critical deadline is today in order to have could havage beginning january 1st. president obama said on friday more than 1 million people have enrolled from federal and state exchanges. but a new cnn poll shows that support for the health care law is at an all time low...

That's for the voters to decide, people to decide. the republican criticism is predictable. my big thing on this is, see if the president can turn the democrats' anxiety down. this is one step that helps him. it's not enough. there will be more questions, trust me. >> what's the deal with the numbers? the numbers are up in enrollment. we're not hearing about it. tell us about the numbers and tell us why i'm not hearing about it. >> one of the reasons you're not hearing about it is seasonally you have different state exchanges. if you're in california you're covering this, if you're in kentucky...

The administration is announcing yet another change, a last-minute change to the rules this as state exchanges, the ones that have been working well, they have seen a surge in signups. cnn's chief national correspondent john king is here with the latest. a couple of different things happening. let's first talk about this latest change, john, to the rules of obamacare. this is applying to folks who had their plans canceled. now the administration is saying there's another plan you didn't have access to before. what's behind this? why do this now? >> this is, kate, why i say obamacare is in the ...

Ways for americans to get care. so let's look at those rising numbers again. here are all the federal enrollees. you see in blue. then people getting covered from participating state exchanges. and then all the new medicaid coverage, now 1.2 million people total headed for coverage. it doesn't matter whether they go through door number one or door number two or whether they use a website or the telephone or a local navigator guide. what matters to them, and to a lot of us who care about the uninsured crisis in our country, is that they get covered. this is progress. but it's not like everyone ...

Have not been notified yet. >> let me go to story number two, washington state. someone signs up for obamacare and says, here's my bank account information, take the money out at the end of december. then they fine the money has already been taken out of their bank account. >> it has happened in washington state, and one of the state exchanges. so, remember, that 17 states, including the district of columbia, are running their own state exchanges, and the president has been telling everybody that these state changes are running better than the federal exchange. they're working very well there....