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inches in the mountains and forecasters predict another two inches. it is good news for the skiers and ski resorts. makes you happy when you show that staph. >> have yourself a good woke week. >> america's news headquarters is next. i am bill hemmer. here is the mist row anchor. >> i made it. what d did you say about me. >> i said the chair is empty now but there will be a mystery anchor. >> hey, everybody. i am a rthel neville in for a liston camerota. insurance companies say it is major and straining the ability to handle the small amount of
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people who signed up. molly has more. arthel and bill, good afternoon. the insurance companies are not sure who is signed up. they are getting botched information from the obama care web site. more than a dozen health insurance companies are reporting that it is riddled with errors. blue cross and blue shield has had 50 enrollries and had to hire temporary workers to deal with all of the inaccuracies. and some applications are incorrectly listing a spouse as a dependent child and aetna, it is harder to get people to come back and sign up. it is not off to a great start.
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>> it is important to remind folks that even though the challenges are there. progress is being made and people are enrolling cross the country. >> the health secretary service reassured members of congress that everything would go smoothly and now the house has asked her to come back and testify on october 24th and explain what went wrong. >> certainly in the very least, they were not accurately informing the congress. >> knowingly so? >> i don't know if it was deliberate or not. but certainly in the signature issue of the president so, you would think they would have tested or retested it before the roll out and they promised it would work on october 1st and it has not worked. >> secretary sebilluous has not
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agreed to come testify. gop law makers say if the secretary has time to go on political sta satirist john stewart's show she could have time for congress. >> thank you, molly. >> who is reporting on the exchanges? the numbers are paltry. we have cries, how are you, sir in >> living the dream. >> me, too. i have numbers here. 23 in south dakota, five in iowa, 0 in alaska. that sound right? >> well, it doesn't sound good. it sounds right because we've seen nationally an estimate of one percent of everybody who tried to get enrolled or signed up, that went on the health
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care.gov web site made it through the waiting and ended up creating an account. and you will have low numbers. delaware had one. delaware is a small state but not that small. alaska has five. not 0. >> that is a 500 percent increase. >> some of the head lines are stunning and some of them, the administration expected half million to enroll in the exchanges. and that has not happen, what now? >> here's the problem. this law, if it is all it ends up being a subsidies for the lower mitted class people to buy health insurance it is expensive. americans are againerous people. should we subsiddize health insurance fine. but the way the president did it was in partnership with biggest insurance companies. the consequence of having people
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the president promised to show up to 53 insurance don't buy because the web site doesn't work and the products are unacceptable and that there is data corruption. insurance for people who have insurance already will go way, way up. not just the jumps that we have bottom out of the system and the difference is where americans are okay with paying billions to consider middle-class folks versus the sky rocketing their own. >> there is a political price. ma rco rubio said all hell will break loose when more people find out about this. what is the potential political price unless it is corrected? >> moms are the ones. why the mothers who spend most of the time focused on the
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issues and now employers will talk about employees getting dropped and changes. women voters are the swing of the swing. and now when it comes to republican chances and midterms, they need women and they need to close the gender gap. if it is a disruption and they see their family finances curator as a consequences of the law, there will be hell to pay for the democrats. >> what is the defense here? troubled obama care web site was not tested a week before launch. it doesn't make sense. the white house defends it how, chris? >> they say it is the republicans fault and if everyone would get behind and say it would be great, it would be better and all of that stuff. it doesn't really wash.
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once the president embraced obama care, he said it is obama care he said kwh he run for reelection, it doesn't matter what the republicans do. it is his baby. >> apple spent 150 million for the iphone. this could be 600 million before you log on. and chris, stierwald there in washington. >> you know, chris said women are the key to obama care. women are the co. >> thank you very much. >> he said that or his wife did. >> going to kansas, a law maker is pushing for obama care navigators for background checks. republican state senator citing reports that a kansas navigator had an outstanding arrest warrant for a unpaid arrest
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warrant. they do background checks and only for felonies and person-to-person crimes. the state senator said it is not enough. >> meanwhile kathleen sebillous. and shedding light on how her agency spends tax dollars on a conference. the conferences in 2012, covering 135 of them. and averaging 416,000 per event. and head start research conference in the grand hya tt said to cost $1 million. and context right now. money spent by health and human secretary exceeds what the irs blew on conferences in 2010 and 2012 over three years including the training parody that we all watched.
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fox news alert on a manhunt for two convicted killers. they had been sentenced to life and the search underway as authorities are scrambling to make sure no other inmates were mistakenly freed. another alert for you now. disturbing video from the mall attack in kenya. the footage captures the attackers hunt them down. people are pausing before they realize that the threat is real. and move back in the store and run for their lives. sometimes they fired randomly. and one terrorist appears to be talking on a cell phone as we wondered in an a pandoned store. and one point surveillance video caught them taking time to pray. more than 60 men and women and
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children were killed in the siege in nairobi. the al-qaeda affiliated terror group claimed responsibility. >> this is the same terror group behind the mall attack calling for the killing of u.s. citizens. live in washington. cathrein what can you tell us about this >> the capture of a l- libi is a lightning rod for jihaddist after his capture in five of october. there are new calls to kidnap american citizens in retaliation for a l- libi's capture and jihaddist are said to be called to act on their own. there is no need to consult
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anyone in kidnapping an american. the white benghazi rebels is hosting threats to sabstage gas pipelines and kidnap americans. the analyst said the threats should not be dismissed. >> the calls are most likely credible and we know senior al-qaeda leadership we have seen the call for holding americans. >> fox news asked the state department if they would revise the worldwide caution. >> i know there is a range of reports, but i haven't heard of specific new concerns. but i will check with hem. >> the u.s. embassy in uganda is under a threat warning. the al shabab may attempt a similar attack to the attack on the west gate mall.
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where gun men took control over a three day period. they are evidence that the al-qaeda affiliate al shabab is taking a more aggressive posture. >> thank you very much. >> the president saying that washington has to get its act together. should that act start with him? >> and he looked in the camera and admitted he killed a man driving drunk. should he get the court's mercy? patients who evacuated veterans hospital. and they were forced to stay outside for hours. we'll tell you why. when you have diabetes like i do,
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hospital in indianapolis after a suspicious package prompted an evacuation early this morning. many were told to wait by the emergency room entrance. it was determined that the suspicious package was not a threat. can president obama hit the re- start button here at home or will we? steve laser host of making sense of steve hasser. gentlemen, hello. matt? i don't know. i was thinking about the press conference and statement about washington getting its act together. what did you think of that? >> it would be nice for him to take on a leadership role and bring people together as he promised running for president. and try to solve the big problems that are going on with the debt, with the economy, and
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with obama care. >> steve, what will he do? >> he has to strike and come up with a deal to a rert the crieses for happening again. i think the president's position is more difficult. he has a popular boost from the way things transpired, he has two negotiating partners instead of one. is this policy acceptable to the tea party wing or established wing of the republican party. his position has become more difficult. >> you think so. i think you are the first person who talked that way. >> it is easier to negotiate with one instead of two. and those folks who are inclined to work with the president will find their own positions te newous. the tea party folks will primary anybody who voted for the shutdown ending and punish
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anybody from the leadership. >> they may talk that way. and talking and acting are two different things. matt, what about that? >> i agree with steve. a lot of people say obama won this fight? what did he win? he is in the mitted of the policy debacle with obama care. people are upset with the failure to deliver on the promises, he will have to start delivering and one of the promises was bringing people together to get things down in washington. we are more partisan than we were under george bush. >> does he have that it capacity or desire? >> he does. he has to concentrate where there is consensus. it is a equipmentive environment in washington. we disagree to the cause.
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i think there are three areas that the president can make progress. i mentioned the economy and budget and make progress on the farm bill and one of the surprising things that you are going to see next year. >> here we go. >> now that republicans accept the fact that the health care reform bill become law. i think they will work together to improve the law. it is not perfect and i don't agree with how bad republicans say it is. but there are improvements to be made. >> where is he going to give on that? you saw the round of 16 days. there was no budge. >> i think it is a matter of health care reform law. i have played around with the web site and it is good for folks making less of 400 percent. and you are making less than 60,000 it works well.
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it doesn't work well for folks making more than that. >> take off on that before we go. >> i think carrot top fan page is more sophisticated than the obama care web page. he needs to have the secretary sebillous to come up and explain what is wrong. i do agree with steve, there are people in the republican party who would like to make it work for the american people. and that's what it is all about. >> all of us would. either that or get rid of it. >> thank you, gentle men. >> coming up. international inspectors and syria declared chemical weapon sites and difficulty to get rid of the word's horrendous weapons in the middle of a civil war. and a store opening doors on
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last year jc penney waited until black friday to welcome customers to kick off the holiday rush. >> and just over a month ago, we were on the brink of a military conflict with syria. they are inside of the country and working to destroy the stock pile of weapons. the syrian war is going on and they were under the control of the syrian government. jennifer griffin live with more in the pentagon. >> reporter: right now in damascus, there are 27 inspectors from the office of prohibition of chemical weapons. they a ratified october 1st. they have had car bombs outside of the hotel and faced mortar fire twiechlts they have visited 11 of the 20 declared sites.
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they have one month to make syria chemical weapon's facility inoperable. they have a tough road a head of them to avoid attacks like the summer that left 1300 civilians dead. they are starting to destroy some of the delivery systems for the whelm whelm weapon systems. secretary of state john kerry hopes to arrange a piece conference in the end of november. when president assad spoke to fox news. he thought he would be able to stay in power by getting rid of them. >> can you tell us if you have chemical weapons or don't you? >> we joined the treaty, last week, it means that we have them and we said that. >> so as far as the american people you will agree that you
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do have a stock poil of chemical weapons. >> that's why we joined the international agreement. >> reporter: if assad reneges there are u.s. navy destroyers. and they will need a ceasefire to get to seven locations controlled by the rebel oppositions. >> thank you for that report. an endangered bird taught to fly by president putin. the crane was air lifted. it was in siberia without the flock. putin dressed up in a white suit last september and piloted a hand glider. i did not remember that actually. he was directing the bird to fly south. and it was identified and
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belonged to putin's flock. i can't even make that up. >> who just said a flec. that was the best one. >> and coming up. new concerns about obama care, the technology used to create the web site. it is outdated. >> you think? two convicted killers walk out of prison and no one stopped them. where are they now? plus the hunt for a street artist that inspire in and outrage others. >> it is great. he makes people stop and look at art. at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. some are giant. some not so giant. when managing your weight, bigger is always better. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant
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>>'s bichl morning for the bay area after bart rail and subway workers go on strike and force them to hunt for extra buses or ferries or battle the mile long back up in the bay bridge. strong earnings sending goaling past a thousand a share today. goggle had never passed $928 since going public nine years ago.
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and pope francis is letting go of his harlo to benefit the poor. he was given the bicycle in june in the celebration. i love that. >> the italians will bit on that. >> there is a bonus and's flask attached with holy water. nblessed by the man. >> and the italians will bid. reel raise money on that. manhunt for two florida convicted killers. they areroamming fro. phil keating has more on on that in miami. >> reporter:roamming free and presumed to be armed and dangerous and nothing to lose. once they are apprehended they will go back to prison until the day they die. they are pouring upon thousands
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of documents just to make sure this doesn't happen again. charles walker walked free. he was serving a life sentence. and joseph jenkins escaped his life sentence for a 1998 murder. they got out of prison with fake release documents that appeared to be signed in the case of the anthony murder trial. in reality that never happen. >> if this had come cross my desk. i would have asked my judicial. why would they be signing this. >> reporter: the convicts had outside help. and somebody downing the system meant to deliver justice to the system. like the widow of joseph
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jefrngin's. >> it is scary with him being back on the streets. if he don't come after my family. it is possible he will cull someone else. snrs and florida governor rick scott weighed in on this case. before i state investigation gets underway to determine how it happen and how to prevent it from happening in the future. top priority is getting them found and returned behip bars. >> phil keating on the story. technology that was used to build the obama care web site is outdated. the white house is working a round the clock to get it fixed. we'll have carl rosenburg. and la rs la rson.
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good to see you. simon, i will start with you. is this a political ball and chain terror the president? >> if it goes on weeks and weeks and months and months, of course. it is essential to the roll out of the health care law. it is one piece of it. and some of it is very successful so far. but you know, they have to get this fixed and with the state exchaefe exchanges. they have to fix the central one or it will affect the politics of the is she. >> you are talking about technology that is ten years old. ni don't think anyone is defending what happened so far. it is inadequate and needs to be fixed as soon as possible. >> la res. is this an opportunity for the republicans to regain footing
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that they may have lost in the government hut down. >> people are listening, republicans and conservatives said it was a disaster for consumer and beyond the political points tis a ball and chain for the president and republicans are going to be critical. it is not only gaining a edge. it is a meltdown. and suggestions are that it is juch a glitch or bumps in the rod the way president described benghazi, it is a meltdown according to the folks who write computer software. i don't write software. it is fatally flawed. and so this is just one piece of obama care, it is central to the obama care design that consumers can go somewhere and get a real comparison and which one fits
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and offers me the best economic deal. without the computer piece of it, it is a failure. >> let me bring simon in there. you hear what lares are saying. you think the patrons of the business will have the patience to try again? >> we'll find out. the key thing is. the next major dead line for this. if you want to get health insurance. remember the exchanges are for people who don't have health insurance. for people who have it. they don't have to worry about preexisting conditions. and this is for people who don't have health insurance. and they have to put money down in december to get it by january. >> hang on my question specifically is. do you think the folks who tried with failure, will be patient
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enough to try again? >> i think they will. the way the system works, you don't get registered in the system until you write your first check which is in december. the big important day was middecember anyway. >> you are saying that october 1st came and went and it failed? >> no. i said if it is get fixed in the next few weeks it will stay on tracked and we'll not talk about it sucks months from now. but if it doesn't we'll have problems. >> there is a lot of criticism and a lot coming from the gop side. hang on here. how do the republicans critize the affordable care act without personally lodging these criticisms toward the president? >> they can't. it is the president's baby.
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it is called obama care. it is not just a few problems. it is a melt down. and look at what the tech experts are saying. they need a minimum of 2 million people to sign up. and if they don't get that it is it a giant drag on the treasury. they were project being 7 million and they claimed 250,000 right now. but at this point without the ability to sign up, they will not get 2 million and it goes under water in red ink fast. >> simon go a head and close it out. >> i don't think it is ideal. i think if they get it fixed it will be on track. if not, it is going to be a bumpy winter and spring for obama care. >> thank you. police are trying to find
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a street artist. finding hip is not easy. greg has more on that. >> bill, who is this guy? is he a artist or vandal? >> arguably both. secretive and no one knows what he looks like. he's in new york city and spray painting social commentary with stencils. and all the way evading police. but he has ledgions of fans. admirers flock to look at the original. . >> we like it a lot. we have been to the musmu soum. >> this is a street vendor ya wning there and selling the canvass a 60 bucks a pop each.
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some respects say they are worth 20,000 and buyers had no clue and the vendor had trouble pedalling them now. >> i will buy you a new door at home depo today. . i would be glad to happening it up. >> $400. >> not everyone is a fan. mayor bloom blom said it is not his definition of art. he calls it defacing property and a crime. and a masked spannedle tried to -- he was pushed to the ground. >> beauty is in the eye of beholder. brat pit and angelina jolie shelled out millions for banksy's work. >> we are in the wrong biz.
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we should do the stencilling. >> we'll not be on the air tomorrow. we'll be doing free painting ourselves. >> i have done stencil in my day. >> and the pakistani tone who survived an assassination attempt by the taliban getting a royal invitation. and the prosecutor pushing for the maximum sentence for a man who confessed to killing a man on line. >> when i get charged, i will plead guilty and take full responsibility for everything i have done. fighting constipation by eating healthier, drinking plenty of water, but still not getting relief?
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plus arnold swartsnegar could be angling for a white house run. and he will have to make changes. an incredible video of a teacher going off on her class and dropping a ton of f- bombs. >> i love the tease. thank yougretchen. >> and big meeting for malalameeting with the queen. she gave the queen a copy of her bock. she was shot in the head by the taliban while going home. and she lives in england and became the youngest person nominated for the noble peace prices. >> and an ohio man who confessed to driving dunk and causing a deadly crash is said to be sentenced. the prosecutor is asking the judge to give him the maximum.
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and he admitted he was drunk when he got behind the wheel and killed a man. >> the an dell i start wu. leniency or the max in>> thank you. i think in this case we have to look at it for what it is. we have a person who took responsibility for their actions and owned up to what they did. in a case like that, leniency should be given and besides the fact he took responsibility, he used this unfortunate incident to warn others against the dangerers of making bad decisions like drinking and driving. >> how do you so it >> you base sentences on who they take responsibility after the fact it is a slippery slope. you base it on the crime and other factors and whether or not
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he agreed to testing. his blood alcohol limit was twoes the limit. and that should go into the sentencing. nattacking the attorney hat off. what if you were the family of the 61 year old man who is dead? >> that is a difficult question and one that i asked myself as i thought about the case. however, when he owns up and takes responsibility up front and takes the , seeks the maximum. they take away the insintive.
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>> considering what andell said and the whole idea of him being responsible by taking responsibility is that a good point or balonnie. >> true taking responsibility would be getting a driver. and knock off bar hopping. the fact driver. the fact that he takes responsibility after the fact may weigh in but it shouldn't be the primary factor. >> thank you to both of you. >> there is a piece of movie history that could be junked unless a very important person steps in. who you gonna call? >> i like that ride. ♪ (announcer) at scottrade, our clients trade and invest exactly how they want. with scottrade's online banking,
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now for your 411, a new push to save a piece of movie history. fans stepping into keep the famous "ghostbusters" ambulance. >> this is one of those movie props that the fans aren't letting go down easily. it was one of the movie's biggest stars. who can forget danny akroid going into the ambulance from the movie seek quell. the ecto 1 a is reportedly ready to be scrapped. since then it has sat on a back lot who you gonna call?
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>> as with any classic movie franchise you can count on the fans. they have launched a campaign by starting a petition requesting sony pictures to sell it to the group for scrap value. if it is a success the next step will be to raise money to restore it. apparently time hasn't been so kind to the cadillac. it was stripped for parts and struck by a vehicle while it was parked leaving it with a broken windshield. this is one of three cars used in the filming of the movie. we have reached out to sony pictures who apparently have no comment. which is a shame. a lot of people care about the vehicle. >> it is a clunkker then.
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bit of that you will be entitled. it will be your birthday. happy birthday. >> i had a good time. >> thank you very much. george thurogood is going to take you out. have a great weekend. bye-bye. >> thank you so much. bill and arthel, hi, we are awaiting president obama's announcement that he is going to nominate johnson as the next director of homeland security. others, might like that. he must be confirmed by the senate.
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