and rebecca adams discusses a survey that finds nearly 3 million americans who applied for medicaid under the affordable care act. they're still waiting for applications to be processed. and details on the annual report on redundant federal programs. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> tomorrow on our companion network, c-span 3, we take you to the center for strategic and international studies were discussion of international relations. join us for that at 1 a.m. on monday. and examining the security along the u.s. border with officials from u.s. customs and border protections. the u.s. office of special counsel the national border patrol council. at the end of a four-day trip to europe, president obama attended ceremonies in normandy commemorating the 70th anniversary of world war ii d-day invasion get at the ceremony that took waste at the normandy american memorial, -- took place at the normandy american memorial, he spoke. this is about an hour and a half. >> ladies and gentlemen,

some of the last words of a 22-year-old rebecca adams said to her sister before rebecca went missingeeks ago. she disappeared along with her two young daughters, her boyfriend and her dog and now the fbi is joining a massive search in southern alaska. we have a former assistant director for the fbi joining us from ft. worth, texas. how do you begin with a thing like this? >> you begin by putting their life back together. you look at everything that they have done. you look at their bank records. you look at their toll records. you look at everything you can get off their phones if you can find it or at least use records and you interview everybody that had association with the children, the boyfriend, the mother, the family, to get some kind of clue as to what's going on here and frankly this sounds not all that promising for a good result. we can hope for that but to completely disappear and not talk to your family at all, one of the things that is key to me is they took children and didn't take their car seats. >> they didn't take anything. >> it doesn't sound all that good. there'

host: joining us is rebecca adams, the associate editor of healthbeat. we have the applicants on medicaid, on the waiting list. the question is, how many americans are waiting for medicare coverage and according to your survey, it was 2.9 million americans. of 41 2.19 americans out states. 41 states got back to us with numbers. medicaidse are applicants that are applying for medicaid under the regulations of the affordable care act? guest: this is those people who applied for traditional medicaid, since 1965 and also those who are part of the group that gained coverage because they became newly eligible under the affordable care act. is the biggest reason behind this waiting list of nearly 3 million people? guest: it boils down to technical problems and a surge in applications, we have higher than usual volume, and where we found this problem is in the states that had technical problems with their websites or relied on healthcare.gov. host: there was another report healthme out from kaiser about the same issue and the headline was medicaid applications p

host: joining us is rebecca adams, the associate editor of healthbeat.have the applicants on medicaid, on the waiting list. the question is, how many americans are waiting for medicare coverage and according to your survey, it was 2.9 million americans. of 41 2.19 americans out states. 41 states got back to us with numbers. medicaidse are applicants that are applying for medicaid under the regulations of the affordable care act? guest: this is those people who applied for traditional medicaid, since 1965 and also those who are part of the group that gained coverage because they became newly eligible under the affordable care act. is the biggest reason behind this waiting list of nearly 3 million people? guest: it boils down to technical problems and a surge in applications, we have higher than usual volume, and where we found this problem is in the states that had technical problems with their websites or relied on healthcare.gov. host: there was another report healthme out from kaiser about the same issue and the headline was medicaid applications pile

we will also hear from rebecca adams on the federal program's redundancy. and send us an tweet and weigh in on facebook at 7:00 eastern time. years, c-span brings public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house fence, briefings and conferences and offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the u.s. house all as a public service of private industry. we are c-span. created by the cable tv industry and brought to you by a public -- brought to you by your satellite provider. like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. harryate majority leader reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell testified on capitol hill this past week on a constitutional amendment in composed in response to the decision on campaign finance reform will stop in the court's most recent decision in april, the justices ruled five to four it was a violation of free speech to limit an individual's total contribution during election cycle. in this one hour and 45 minute portion, the two senate leaders provide contrasting vie

it drew hundreds of people including rebecca campbell hoist the president of the abc owned stations, and our general manager, and president, bernie prazenica. >>> adam joseph with word of some thunderstorms moving in and across the the area. >> glad it is quiet this evening for the big ball in town, and now those storms are coming through and quite colorful on the radar. as we look at double scan live through the state of pennsylvania, northern parts of the delaware, near wilmington, getting rocked by a couple thunderstorms right the now and as we go to double scan closer north of the city, throughout mess of the berks county, lehigh valley, bucks county, and southern montgomery county and northern chester county there is a area that has a steady rainfall at this point with 19 lightening strikes. they are hit or miss here or there. no severe weather, but we are dealing with ponding on the roadways since it has been raining for an hour or two, in those locations. further south approaching center city, try right now there but not much longer. as we track this thunderstorm near media not severe but decent amount of lightening strikes, 22 here, heading