0 congress should pass a budget that cuts things we don't need and closes wasteful tax loopholes that don't help create jobs so that we can free up resources for the things that do create jobs and growth. building new roads, building new bridges and schools and airports. that creates jobs. >> meantime, republicans are doubling down today on the problems that be have plagued the obama care website with senator dan coats of indiana delivering the weekly gop response. >> too many americans still cannot even access the online exchanges and for the few that have, their experiencing sticker shock. the president told us that obama care is more than a website. i agree. it it is more than just a website and the problems run far deeper than a few technological glitches. >> well, the white house released a progress report late friday on the website fix saying it is improving with users now waiting an average of less than a second for pages to load compared to eight seconds in the first few weeks. teams are working to improve the application process and increase system speed and efficiency. another round of fixes is planned for this weekend. in fact, i'm taking a look at a note being told from 9:00 p.m. tonight till 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, the website will be down and it will be fixed at that point. highway the online fixes may be coming, there's damage to the program's image. that has yet to be repaired. how will proponents win back support for the fledgling health care program. >> joining me paul tomko who sat in on the hearings this week about the troubled launch. welcome, sir. thanks for joining me. >> it's a pleasure to join. >> you if we have house republicans threatening to subpoena the white house to get enrollment numbers, this is all happening after the oversight committee said on day one of the launch, six people enrolled. a day later it was up to 248. can the house force the obama administration to release updated numbers? >> well, i think that the administration has said all along they'll do a month's worth of data at a time. i think the important thing here, alex, is to understand that when we rolled out medicare part d when massachusetts did its health care, universal health care system, they had similar delays. there were peaks that april came well into the open enrollment and certainly part did was not without its bugs in the system. the idea is not to point a finger of blame but extend a hand of help on behalf of congress. let's get together and get this thing running. people want to embrace the benefits of the act. i hear it more and more. look, i've been asked to vote 46, 47 times over to repeal the affordable care act by the republican majority in our house. they have wanted to destroy this opportunity for our americans to have health care benefits since its inception. and it's time to really get to work and get the system running. >> representative tomko, is there an educated guess as to what the numbers may be when they're released officially in number of years ago in the early '60s. >> may i ask you before i let you go about the budget talks on the hill? there's been talk of the elusive grand bargain on spending taxes and entitlement programs. given the month we had in october, is expecting a grand bargain like expecting a unicorn sighting your backyard? >> well, i will suggest that the tone was not good during the government shutdown and the near hit with the economic default. but i believe with a bipartisan outcome, alex, where democrats produced 198, all of us in house voting in favor of reopening government, avoiding the economic key fault and going to the conference table naming the conferrees. i believe that there was a bipartisan spirit that brought us to the table hopefully that will continue, but it needs to be bold and balanced. it needs to include revenues and it needs to do belt tightening and closing loopholes as the president said, that just don't create jobs. we need to invest where we must after cutting where we can. >> okay. i'm going to call it bold balanced and bipartisan. b cubed. thank you very much. >> there you go. it's great to join you. >> thank you so much. let's go now to the weather. residents in central texas are cleaning up after heavy rinse and flooding. that storm prompted dozens of emergency rescues. dylan dreyer has the latest on this. that's kind of a ms. >> they saw about 12 to 13 inches of rain in parts of texas. that was through wednesday and thursday. then it moved eastward yesterday as we saw. now, temperatures areal cooing off back behind the big front. 47 degrees in kansas city, chicago only at 43 right now. still warm up and down the east coast. temperatures top out in the mid to upper 60s. tomorrow is when that colder air is going to settle in. we'll drop to 48 in boston and 48 tomorrow in new york city. looking at boston with the rally going on for the red sox world champions today, great day for a parade. tomorrow 48 degrees. we'll stay in the 40s till the middle of the week in the boston area. we do have rain still with that cold front. the same one that was affecting parts of texas and the eastern half of the country yesterday. now it's moving through parts of central and southern florida where we're going to see most thunderstorms this morning. but we're into this and. we're also looking at scattered showers and lighter rain, especially in and around the xwraks. it's dying down as it moves into western, northwestern pennsylvania and parts of western new york state, as well. there's not a whole lot of snow with it. it's not that cold in the great lakes region. we are seeing a bigger system affect parts of the pacific northwest. in fact, seattle and areas up and down the coast of washington state, even in the northwestern oregon could end up with wind gusts up to about 60 miles per hour with several inches of rain. today we're looking for temperatures to start cooling off, and then tomorrow, even though most of the country is fairly sunny, temperatures mainly in the 40s. >> dylan drier, thank you much. up next, counting the lost meals from food stamp cuts and a fascinating tidbit from a new political page turner on why president obama couldn't stand golfing with president clinton. the end. lovely read susan. but isn't it time to turn the page on your cup of joe? 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