upton here in a few minutes on "gma live!" >> have a great day, everybody. is this flu shot necessary? sally sweet bandaid! anything else i should know? here's a thought, try scoring more points on the other team. okay. even a warrior can get sick. kaiser permanente reminds you to get your flu shot this season. >>> good morning. i'm eric thomas. skies have been fairly gray throughout most of the bay area this morning. how long will it last? meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >>> probably till about noon like we've had all week. it will keep temperatures outside of the east bay valleys well below average, in fact, only 50s along the coast, low 60s into san francisco, mid to upper 60s around the bay shore and 70s heading inland. the south bay, north bay, east bay valleys. accuweather seven-day forecast, high clouds, sunshine, slightly warm they are weekend. sue? >>> all right. still winding down out there, although the usual suspects are jammed. we have an accident in san jose. this one is southbound 880, still jamming things there. and a new accident cleared out of lanes, i should

s unwavering commitment to working collaboratively with cms to improve the consumer experience. >> thank you. mr. slavitt? >> chairman upton, ranking member waxman, and members of the committee, good morning. my name is andy slavitt, and i am group executive vice president of optum, a business unit of unitedhealth group. optum owns qssi, one of the contractors working on the online healthcare marketplaces. i am here today to discuss our work on the data services hub, a project that was the subject of much interest. the data services hub is a pipeline that transfers data, routing queries and responses betwea different -- en a marketplace and data sources. specifically, a consumer interested in purchasing health insurance goes to the web portal to fill out forms and select a plan. the consumer provides the marketplace with information such as citizenship, which must be verified. the data service hub directs queries to various sources, such as databases, that can verify that information and send it back to the marketplace. as a technology pipeline, the data services hub does not determine the accuracy of the information, nor