this is one of those diseases that is undertaken. not many want to fool with it. it affects hundreds of millions of people. it s a disease caused by the sting of a black fly that breeds in rapidly flowing water. it has affected millions in latin america. it can take the victim s sight. since then we have treated 174 million times in latin america and across africa. thanks to the efforts by the carter center, river blindness has been almost wiped out in latin america. to go to villages and see them a flikted in a horrible way and know that disease doesn t need to exist there because it s been eliminated in richer countries top. start a treatment program and go back later to see the disease is gone. the people have a totally
i know how to eat it. i don t cook it. i m more of a stuffing kind of girl. all right, the hunger games let s talk about that. the sequel broke box office records for november. it opened with $161 million and now it is on the list of top opening weekends of all time. at number 5 on that list, the dark knight rises, then hunger games catching fire fourth. harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 is third. ironman 3 is $174 million and the avengers had the biggest opening weekend ever, an astonishing $207 million. coming up we ll take a look at an inspiring film opening this weekend, mandela, the long walk to freedom. we ll talk with the director and the woman who plays mandela s wife next.
sir, good day to you. you made a lot of news in memphis. why did you do it? well, i just wanted to share this message with the secretary that, in fact, she s done such a poor job of designing this website that i don t want her designing our medicaid expansion in tennessee as well. what was the secretary s response when you gave her that book for dummies? she didn t respond immedia immediate immediately. i think she was confused. when she realized what it was, she tried to get rid of it. it was caught on camera at that point. how long did she have it, sir? probably just a few seconds. i didn t think anyone in the room had noticed at all, but my point was to get that message through to her as quickly as possible that this is that she s done a poor job at designing this website, very poor job. senator kelsey, is it very possible that the answer lies in the pages of that book? is it possible that somebody at the website read that? maybe there s a button they could push or a p
site crashed two times this week. kathleen sebelius said the website has cost $174 million so far and more probably to fix it. starting today $5 billion is cut from the food stamp program. that means less grocery money for millions. the cuts will vary by family but this is typically a family of four getting 668 a month would lose about $36. food stamp benefits were raised during the recession and temporary increase to the program and that expires today. in 2007, 26 million people were using snap as they call it, supplemental food benefits and compared that to almost 48 million now. 15% of the american population is using government assistance to help feed their family. $36 a month is going to hurt some people. people who work for food banks are upset about these cuts.
costs. what are we see? reporter: secretary sebelius puts the price tag at about $174 million so far, others put it closer to $300 million, but now numbers on how much it cost to set up the state exchanges, too, and the price is actually very hefty when you start looking at that. to start with, every state out there, except for florida and alaska, received a state planning grant, even if they did not plan to purchase in obama care, just to study how it fits into and affects state government it is. the bottom line, more than 53 million sent to and spent by the states. next, many of states that were considering full parts paition in obama care needed even more money. committees, research and so forth beyond that initial level. that was really costly. now we re talking about the first step coming up to $1