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Showed the two men dressed in identical robes but the pope wore a cape during his visit. americans are getting an extra few hours to sign up for health insurance. the white house changed the deadline to midnight after the healthcare.gov web site was hit with a last-minute rush. here's abc's chuck segerson. >> reporter: last-minute stymied americans and procrastinators flooded the government's health care website on monday. over a million of them attempting to beat the deadline for getting insurance by the first of the year. >> i'm here to get health insurance because i have had some difficul...

It is a joke. of course very famously now there have been all the website delays, and there's also going to be -- and this was announced late yesterday -- there is going to be a six-week extension where people are going to have six extra weeks to get the insurance before the penalty kicks in. extraordinarily says the white house says this has nothing to do with the website failure. but there was confusion because the law reads you've got to be covered by march 31. or do you simply have to be signed up by march 31? they're going to give you six extra weeks. you simply have to be signed up by ma...

Wall street's wondering if washington can really get it together, those worries expected to dominate wall street today. yes it's week two, the dysfunction has dragged on a lot longer than wall street ever expected, and we're seeing the sweat really forming on investors' brows because we're about a week and a half away from the debt ceiling. wall street you wonder, is washington listening? i don't think so. >> alison kosik, thanks so much. website delays and glitches hinder the rollout of obama care. the white house is hoping the experience for millions of americans will be a bit more user fr...