we heard remarks from vice president biden and secretary sylvia burwell and sally jewell. this is about an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the special assistant to the president for native american affairs. [applause] good morning, everyone. welcome to the white house tribal nations conference. today is a very special day for all of us as we reflect on the sixth conference. it is just as important today as it was in 2009 in building the administration's policy agenda and setting the direction for the next year. year after year we have them together to renew, and is

we heard remarks from vice president biden and secretary sylvia burwell and sally jewell. this is about an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the special assistant to the president for native american affairs. [applause] good morning, everyone. welcome to the white house tribal nations conference. today is a very special day for all of us as we reflect on the sixth conference. it is just as important today as it was in 2009 in building the administration's policy agenda and setting the direction for the next year. year after year we have them together to renew, and is president obama says, polish the covenant chain. our chain of friendship has become brighter and stronger during this administration through each of these gatherings. i want to make note of one invaluable change this year in the program decides the venue here at the capital hilton. we are excited to have the white house generation indigenous youth ambassadors join us from 36 different native nations. where are the native youth ambassadors? [applause] they bring brightness and an important voice and

the incident was reported to health and human services secretary can the sylvia burwell and others upnd down the chain of command. as for the possibility of anyone else coming into contact with the material, cdc says a handful of others who entered the lab have been contacted. they will be assessed for possible exposure. but only the one technician is being monitored. the cdc does not believe anyone outside the lab could have been exposed. >> the cdc tells cnn the lab tech is still not showing any symptoms. lab has been working on a project to try to determine how long the virus remains viable on a dead person because so many people in africa contract ebola after handling a body. >>> sheriffs an investigators have conducted new interviews in the mysterious death of a teenager in the u.s. state of georgia. kendrick johnson was found dead inside a rolled up gym mat at his high school nearly two years ago. investigators say they closed the case but this month they interviewed about two dozen former and current students according to records, johnson and a former student had a confrontatio

you heard ron and i and tom frieden and sylvia burwell and others say not in a cavalier way that it is highly unlikely -- you don't say impossible, because you never say that in biology -- highly unlikely that we would have an ebola outbreak of any significance in the united states. the reason is because we have a health care system that won't allow that to happen. so one of the things that is so important for the world to realize, that we will end this outbreak in west africa in collaboration with our west african partners. but this would be a terrible thing if we let the opportunity go by without saying we need to then leave an infrastructure there, or the beginning of a direction to an infrastructure, to not only prevent ebola, but what about malaria? what about tuberculosis? there are things there that can -- i wouldn't say easily, but that can be addressed just with a modest turning of the knob. it is amazing how many people who we are following that we want to make sure they don't have ebola that have malaria. it really hits you right between the eyes that malaria is taken so for

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell says 1.9 million new people have enrolled in the health insurance of 6.4lace, with a total million consumers today. she made these remarks today at a news conference where she provided an update on the open enrollment period, which ended december 15. >> good morning. when it comes to the affordable care act, my focus is on access, affordability and quality. today, i want to speak with you most about the substance on access and affordability, with an update for you on open enrollment in the federal marketplace: through december 15th, approximately 3.4 million americans had selected plans. about 1.8 million renewed their coverage and about 1.6 million signed up for the first time. last tuesday, we began the process of automatically renewing the vast majority of consumers who chose to not come back to the marketplace by december 15. i'm pleased to announce that we completed re-enrolling nearly all of these individuals by december 18th. approximately 2% of people were unable to automatically re-enroll because they had discontinued plans or who

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you've heard ron and i and tom friedman and sylvia burwell say, not in a cavalier way, that it is highly unlikely -- you do not say impossible, because you never say that in biology. highly unlikely we would have an ebola outbreak in the united states. the reason is because we have a health care system that will not allow that to happen. so one of the things that is so important for the world to realize, that we will end this outbreak in west africa in collaboration with our west african partners. but this would be a terrible thing if we let the opportunity go by without saying we need to leave an infrastructure, or the beginning of a direction to an infrastructure, to prevent ebola, and what about malaria? what about tuberculosis? there are some things that can be addressed just with a modest turning of the knob. it is amazing how many people who we are following that we want to make sure they do not have ebola, that have malaria. it really hits you between the eyes that malaria is taken so for granted and yet it kills close to 700,000 people each year, almost all of which are african b

[applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome the secretary of health and human services, sylvia burwell. [applause] good morning and thank you all for being here. very happy to be here. we have a strong contingent. we have doctor yvette, william sparks who is with us and it's our commissioner for the administration for native americans. we have stacy who many of you know as well as lives clark from the office of intergovernmental affairs. we are hearing full force a reflection of the importance of our relationship and the many broad range of issues that we all work on together and for those of you that i am meeting for the first time, this is a few of you had the opportunity to meet with the staff i want to take this opportunity to tell you how much i do look forward to working with you to help the folks throughout the indian country obtain the building blocks of healthy and productive lives. i have the opportunity to work towards these goals when i was leading the wal-mart foundation and the work we did with the tribes during my time at the bill and melinda gates foundation i had the ch

the hhs secretary sylvia burwell was prompted notified as well and the lab that opened up the ebola willficials are sure it is safe around they can figure out how to make sure this never happens again. leland? leland: we know the cdc had problems with these kind of things before. peter doocy, live for us in washington. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. leah: obamacare keeping busy signing up more than a million people for health insurance in a week. december 15th was a major deadline for when most states could sign up to choose a plan and get coverage by january 1st. as of last week there were 6.4 million enrollees. 70% of them were reenrolling and 60% of those were auto enrolled for plans they purchased last year. joining us is a reporter for "the hill." kevin, nice to see you. >> well, merry christmas, leah, thanks for having me. leah: thanks for being here. in the second of three major obamacare deadlines 6.4 million americans signed up, more than a million in a single week but you say there is more to this story? >> well, if you take a closer look at the numbers you've got to reme

the incident was reported to health and human services secretary, sylvia burwell, and others up and downact with the material, cdc says a handful of others who entered the lab have been contacted. they will be assessed for possible exposure, but only the one technician is being monitored. the cdc does not bereave anyone outside the lab could have been exposed. joe johns, cnn, washington. >>> turning now to the latest on that massive hack at sony pictures. doubts are growing that north korea was actually behind it. and now two leading cybersecurity firms are raising serious questions about that. the fbi claims that the malware used in the sony attack is similar to malware used by other attacks by north korea. but security experts tell cnn that the same malware was leaked a long time ago, and could have been used by hackers anywhere in the world. now, at least, one potential suspect has emerged. a woman code named as lina, who according to one cyberspexpert, worked for sony for several years. north korea says it has nothing to do with the hacking, but no uh now is fuming over the release o

an investigation was launched and and an investigation to sylvia burwell and others up and down the chaind. as for others cupping in contact with the material, cdc says a handful of others coming into the lab have been contacted. they will be addressed for possible exposure. but only one technician is being monitored. the cdc does not believe anyone outside the lab could have been exposed. joe johns, cnn, washington. >>> and the toll that ebola has taken on three west african countries there have been almost 19,700 cases in liberia, sierra leone and guinea since the outbreak began. more than 76 hundred people in those countries have died from ebola. >>> still to come, you want to see this one. a homeless man is given $100 and then secretly records. he walks into this liquor store. however there say surprising twist. you have to see this one, it's coming up next. >>> $100 handed to the homeless man. and then camera's secretly recording how he would spend that money. >> yeah. and it's a great story. alison kosik has got the outstanding results. >> reporter: when youtube star josh famous for