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With the latest. reporter: is it working? that s the big question this weekend. new word from him, he took his family shopping at a washington bookstore. but hhs officials said the site is performing well with low overall error rates and response times despite heavier than usual weekend traffic. and one expert we talked to sees improvement, as well. signing on right away, you saw a distinct change? absolutely. even going to the site. you can tell, it looks much smoother, more like what you see high capacity websites look like. reporter: the administration has said the website should be able to handle 50,000 users at the same time, double what it once could. and overall, more than 800,000 users per day. this website is going to get fixed and we are going to be signing people up. front page headline saturday drew sharply different ....
Crowd to get shopping advantage. let s go to black friday and the early retail estimates look pretty huge. shopper track says sales were up a whopping 6.6% over last year with shoppers spending more than $11 billion. that s the biggest black friday every. foot traffic in stores was up more than 5%. we have more on the fantastic start to holiday shopping. reporter: across the country, the weekend shopping spree continues full force. you doing christmas shopping? at a washington bookstore, the first family was in the act. it was particularly strong on-line. according to core metrics, black friday internet buying jumped 25% over last year. a whopping 39% on thanksgiving day. it s getting bigger and bigger every year. about 60 million dollar $60 billion is going to be transacted on-line this year. analysts say it s driven by the search for the best possible deals. i m going to be spending less ....