>> obamacare off line. for the second time in two weeks the website shuts down for repairs. and the man hunt is on for two convicted murderers who walked out of florida prison thanks to forged paperwork. and take a look at this sky, not a bird or a plane but rather a lunar eclipse. quite a spectacle for stargazers around the world. >> hello and welcome to al

jazeera america i'm morgan radford in new york. for the second time in two weeks millions of americans who want to enroll in obamacare are being put down on hold. the health care website will be on hold this weekend so they can fix glitches. native spanish speakers can still enroll on the phone or in person. meanwhile all across the country, critics have been very vocal about the affordable care program. the glitches the health care website has crowned. but down in georgia, their irritation runs much deeper. robert ray tells us why. >> after 20 years working for financial advisory firms,

cessily wells thought it was the right time to open her own business. >> my clients i told them to wait until november and december because i knew there were going to be glitches. >> she is talking about healthcare.gov, the website that was supposed to allow individuals the opportunity to sign up. but that's riddled with software glitches. >> they weren't ready for an october 1st rollout. the long term implications, this will be a distant memory. >> welch, she finds relying on the federally designed website frustrating. >> i am fully registered, my application has been sent in. i am now able to see a button that says view your eligibility results. i can't get past that but done right now. >> do people in georgia have any specific assistance in navigating through this process.

>> in reality, no. people have their personal advisors, i'm working with friends and family but there is no one in the state of georgia, i think there's a role called navigator. the state of georgia has approved six people. that is not realistic right now. >> governor nathan diehl has said to the federal government, i don't want your money to expand medicaid. >> i think part of it was not wanting to appear supportive of a policy of the obama administration. >> and that decision is hardest felt here. grady hospital one of the few places in atlanta that the uninsured and the poor come for medical care. >> so under the affordable care act, we stand to lose $43 million a year. >> administrators say operating grady is a break even situation.

fj state legislators don't solve the health care law, in order to benefit from them states need to be fully on board with the forecast -- affordable care act act. without being on board, potential outcomes: >> there would be a huge loss of we would end up with is increased prison population and increased homeless. there is not an upside to the decisions we made. >> welch has decided as a consumer to wait it out. >> it could be a significant cost savings. if it was a movie ticket or something else, they wouldn't avoid the hassle. i have seen people standing in line for iphones.

>> robert ray al jazeera atlanta. >> experts say the site has at best a month to correct its problems. if it doesn't it may not meet its target enrollment goal of 7 million people by the end of march 2014. the news on obama hasn't been that bad. melissa tells us about more positive experience. >> on october 1st, paul went online to buy insurance. it took some time and effort. he shopped around and looked at different plans and what each had to offer and then: >> and it says i've completed my application. >> paul will have insurance starting the first of next year and it will cost him $1 a month. with a few clicks, his life has changed. >> without it i wouldn't be able to do it. the policy that they're offering me is worth $500 a month. and it's -- i would call it a disaster policy in case i broke

a leg or had a heart attack. it would cover major expenses and i wouldn't lose my life savings or my house. >> california made a firm commitment early on to obamacare which has meant a smooth arer launch with more time to set up its websites and systems. people here are enrolling. some waited years ago decades to get health care. the goal is to set up a million californians by the end of the first year. dana howard at covered california says public support for the new exchange. >> do the numbers and when you good onto coveredca.com and you do the shop and compare and you put in your information and you see what you get back you realize that this is going to be good. >> getting a kind of message out to millions some of them skeptical of change and others simply very confused may be the biggest challenge.

the country's health system already difficult to navigate is coming with a penalty that americans buy health insurance. the changes are a relief. paul considers himself a typical middle class american not somebody poor but a beneficiary of obamacare. >> i didn't have health insurance, i had it in the past but the premiums went up and up and up. i finally had too make a decision, go i eat or do i have health insurance? i really wanted to be covered in case of emergency. >> his messages to those uncertain about covered california is simple. go check it out and decide for yourself. there appears to be at least one believer. melissa chan, al jazeera,

sacramento, california. >> both men let out of prison by mistake, able to walk free with the help of some fake documents. robert ray tells us how. >> police say these are the latest photographs of joseph jenkins and james walker. they used forged documents to get out of prison. they posed for the new pictures because after they got out they reported to the sheriffs office in orlando, they registered at felons to appear less suspicious. the sheriffs office says there's reason to believe they are still there. >> it is certainly frustrating for all of us who work in the system, for me as a law enforcement officers, there are murdered persons in this community so we want to bring them back to justices. >> walker and jen cen jenkins hn

serving sentences about 200 miles away. >> even the judge was impressed. >> i haven't seen anything like this. you have to give them an a for being imaginative. >> while the search is going on the state is investigating the state. one question, was it an inside job? >> they had to have an insider, a person that could slip this document into the paperwork chain and that opens up the question they could have had things slipped in for years. >> florida corrections officials are adding extra checks to prevent a repeat. in the meantime, they're facing questions about how two men who never were meant to be free walked out of the prison. >> the bart system's unions went

on strike, the second in just four months. the union said it would end the strike if the agency would send the working portions of the contract into arbitration. bart officials rejected that offer, saying they would only agree to send the whole contract. >> bart would welcome an end to the strike. union leaders letter though is simply a repeat of the same unacceptable offer they made at the bargaining table yesterday before the union leaders ordered workers to walk off the job. a strike is a serious and regrettable action that affects hundreds of thousands of people. bart wants to negotiate and put an end to this strike but only when union leaders are ready to make significant changes to their proposal. >> meanwhile a bay area economic institute estimates the strike will cost the area $73 million a

day. a girl who was run over by an emergency vehicle which was responding to the san francisco crash back in july, in an interview with the l.a. times the family's attorney says the incident was completely avoidable. meanwhile a prosecutor announced friday that the firefighters who struck and killed her will not be facing criminal charges. he says the firefighters was unaware of the girl's death at the time and the cause of the asian boeing 777 crash is still under investigation. >> we're tracking a new typhoon, francisco, developing in the south pacific. this storm is going to come near japan again. japan still recovering from ty feun foon wipa, as the storm

starts to track towards the northwest and make its way towards japan, we expect it to encounter wind sheer which will weaken it in addition to cooler water, losing energy. we expect it to take a very similar track as it turns and curves up the northern coast of expwrajanuary april. we don't need more rainfall for japan but it's rain here with the warm temperatures, it's hot weather and dry weather we're talking about in australia. this is where bush season has been getting going and it's been a hot dry forecast potentially to be a dangerous one. the forecast for australia sounded like the united states ban in june and july. we've seen the numbers tick upwards, new south wales report

nag they have about 95 fires last check. they had certainly closer to 100 the day before. you can see we have a number of fires out of perth. any minor wind shift is going to bring some difficult breathing conditions to parts of that state of new south wales. for the united states, winter weather in fall. cold air coming down from canada, diving down, it's a cold morning for us, places like st. louis over to rapid city probably doesn't want to see too much rain too soon. snowy cover, yesterday we had most of our snowfall over wyoming and colorado with a few ski resorts opening up.

hard freeze in places like kansas and even oklahoma, that's how far south that cold air is going. temperatures below freezing, most of the midwest going to stay mild along the coastline, especially in the east, cold air, and incidentally we have now peefnl got snow goo is around the state. >> the best views of a partial lunar eclipped, which lasted a little over four hours. the next shadow of the moon dipping behind is not expected until next year. and still ahead on al jazeera, stay tuned because we have the latest news for you. uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories?

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>> president obama has made his pick for the head of homeland security. jay johnson is the pen pentagons former lawyer. counterterrorism expert best known perhaps for setting the legal framework for drone strikes. he also played a key role of ending the ban on gays in the military. >> and today i'm proud to announce my choice to lead them. a person i have admired for years, mr. jay johnson. >> thank you for the honor and the trust you have placed in me to carry out the large and important responsibility as the secretary of homeland security. >> johnson set the nomination was unexpected but when he received the call he just couldn't deny the offer.

the worst diaspora, four and a half million are displaced within their own country. in a desperate search for safety, syrians have fled to turkey and 800,000 of them have fled to lebanon. >> more than a thousand people a day in lines to register as refugees. this is the bekkar valley where in some towns syrians now outnumber the lebanese. when the war started these people were welcomed but not any more. a lebanese woman said she suffered outright hostility. >> when we come here they insult us, isn't it enough for someone telling me bee deserve worse than chemical weapons? >> a another sign that how

desperate this has become. they should be in an atmosphere different to this. no dignity here and a desperate situation. a passport, and md can mean a bag of fresh beef. but a growing number of people no longer qualify for food handouts. this is one of them. >> i stand here for hours trying to get plate. touch my chiend, she has a fever. >> then this man vents his anger at the roadblock. there is still some 4,000 families but it isn't enough. >> we try our best, with all these people that wait till the end of the day if we have meat left we'll give them. >> most of these people returned

to building without running water at rents they cannot afford. rabi and ali said they would rather be at home than in the fighting. r afntionbia break down. her disers does the translating. >> if she is sick she is the only one that can take care of the children. >> like hundreds of snows in these makeshift settlements. they are helplessly inadequate. the dryness will soon be replaced with winter in the buckcar valley. every day the numbers increase, what prospects do they have? no one here has any hope. >> al jazeera's andrew simmons

reporting from lebanon. a city without water? in about zimbabwe is cracking down on people who don't pay their water built. sowm benning reports. >> this is an average kitchen in zimbabwe's twol still hirare. tackling the water crisis was one of the campaign promises of the government. the city council wiped off dues, but many can't pleak the fill payment. >> yes they discekded my water after i paid from like $80. are the pr. >> reporter: it is a common

problem. creeping infrastructure and lack of capacity means it can bearable neat half of what the contractor needs. >> people who did in the want to settle their bills on time or at all. >> it's one of those carrot and stick that we are using, so we shurn soundless opportunities. if. >> sold treatment plants like this one and $144 million loan from a china bank. as the city begins to decommission plans to rehabilityd the is bank,. >> they must improve on

treatment. >> i'm -- >> away water here in column quk can't even clean the napies for our young children. >> with nearly three quarters of the population naibl to, al jazeera. >> and just ahead on al jazeera america, how parking tickets preventing from hirm buying a new home. ftc we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainment industry there. next. home.

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new jersey governor chris christie says the decision should come from the voters not the court. new jersey now becomes the 14th state to allow same sex marriage. the nfl lost a coaching legend friday night. former houston oilers head comb bum phillips died at the age of 90. flips was known as patrolling the sidelines with his trademark cowboy hat. meanwhile tributes are also coming in for former house speaker tom foley. he also died at his home in washington. he was 74. former president george h.w. bush said he was a wonderful representative. >> the white house reopened, 16

pennsylvania will start giving limited tour, but the gardens reopen next weaning. the secret service stopped tours because of sequestration budget cuts. you probably think not paying parking tickets can also affect your ability to borrow. >> about two years ago omar would park his car here every thursday when he played basketball with his friends. he said the traffic cops were brutal when it came to the meters. >> if my time would expire at 7:00 p.m, at 702 i would come out and he's driving away at 7:01. funny thing it was always the same guy. >> same guy or not he racked up over $100,000 i100,000 -- $100 0

in tickets. >> worst case scenario i would register my car in d.c. which i wasn't planning on doing at that moment and i was wrong. >> omar was wrong because registering his car was the least of his problems. last year he went to apply for a mortgage, he believed his credit score was in the 700s. >> i was like 105 points because of the parking tickets. >> unpaid parking tickets are considered debt. when they can't collect, they turn it over to a collection agency and they report it to collection burrows. >> it is the presence of that unpaid collection that has a negative impact. >> that impact can be big.

>> one single unpaid bill hurts your credit score by 50 to make 100 points. it's a shock because it's a one time event, so that's why even small bills like library bills or parking tickets really do need to be handled promptly and on time. >> due to this experience i definitely pay attention to everything that has to do with my credit. the neighborhood i started looking at, the houses went up significantly for the next three months. that's where i still don't have a house anymore. >> stacy tisdale, al jazeera news. >> that will do it for us, thank you for joining us.

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