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The total number. you said pretty -- a high irpercentage than most people have report. what about the number of people signed up who previously had insurance and not new people being covered? >> unfortunately, most states don't ask that so we don't have a good number so far of it. what we do have is the gallup poll, the last few months, begun asking people are you insured or not and we have seen a steady drop over four months now to under 16% to over 18%. it does seem to be having an impact on the uninsured rate. i mean, i think the important point is that we really are able to have a website ...

News yesterday. dr. zeke emanuel is joining us and cancer doctor and best selling author david agus out with a new book, "a short guide to a long life." talk about the book coming up. first, do you believe the 6 billion number and how significant is it? >> the best website is aca sign up.net. the guy is a web developer in mitchell and has been the most accurate person so far. his prediction today is 6.78 million and it's in that range. and about 82, 83% of those people have paid for their premium and you can be sure the insurance companies will chase those other 18%, 19% carefully because th...

>> of course, and that's exactly while the administration is trying to punt everything into 2015 and 2016. >> zeke emanuel was on another network this morning, and started off talking about, he was obviously one of the architects, if thought the primary architect of okbamacare talking about where this was heading and where this was going. this was the conversation. >> notice with this big surge that david was pointing out before we came on, no problem with the website. it's actually working. so that's a, i think, another real surprise, that they have the website working mechanically in terms o...

Administration are putting out today are true and accurate, give them the benefit of the doubt, the rosiest possible scenario, and there are many reasons not to do that given the recent track record of numbers coming out, you have to ask yourself to what end. what good have we done? we still haven't had the back end of the website fully built. we had millions kicked off their own plans involuntarily, many others who were not able to see the doctors they preferred. millions thrown out of medicare, who may or may not have been eligible before, but we don't know if they're newly eligible or not. ...

Glitches. wendell goler has that part of the story tonight. four years after the president signed the affordable care act, the final day for enrollment arrived with computer problems reminiscent of the website's rollout last fall. a bug took hours longer to fix than the scheduled early morning maintenance window. a last-day crush of people trying to enroll overloaded the website in the afternoon. and another glitch on the white house countdown clock told people they had another two weeks left to sign up. not quite true, though officials say if people are trying to enroll and they don't make ...