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focussed on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. a small residual force limited to training afghan fighters and counterterror operations. under the president s plan. 9,800 u.s. forces next year, half that by 2016. embassy security only in the afghan capital as president obama prepars es to leave offic. mr. obama s proposal stops short of the full withdrawal he promised voters in 2012. we ll have them all out of there by 2014. reporter: worried about a repeat of the blood shet thshed followed the pullout from iraq. commanders pushed for 10,000 troops. the top general in afghanistan cautioned won t beep perfect. you are not willing to state whether it would be an increased risk or not. there would be increased risk. reporter: in a statement, three gop senators called the president s plan a monumental mistake and triumph of politics
nation s longest war. the bottom line is, it s time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. reporter: a small residual force will be limited to training counterterrorism operations and there will be just 9800 u.s. forces next year. about half that by 2016. and embassy security only in the afghan capital as president obama prepares to leave office. mr. obama s proposal stops short of the full withdrawal he promised voters in 2012. we will have them all out tlf by 2014. reporter: but worried about the repeat of the pullout from iraq, u.s. military commanders pushed for a minimum of 10,000 troops and that plan, the general cautioned, will not be perfect. in a statement, three key gcop
shaker, 20 apartments south of los angeles were initially red tagged and then cleared but six homes were deemed structurally unstable displacing a couple dozen people. a lot more clean up and worried about more after shocks coming. reporter: on saturday a 4.1 after shock. even while scientists were in the middle of an earthquake briefing we re having an after shock now. reporter: after shocks continued to erupt. the last 20 years is one of the quietest periods we ve had. that s not true for 2014. reporter: could it mean the big one is on the way? we have never found worldwide a pattern of building up and then you get the real big earthquake. that s not the way earthquakes look like. most are random. reporter: not a gentle reminder for californians to get prepared. amazing.
that s a hell of a start for people. reporter: quite a difference from the confident predictions last fall before the rollout from health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. i think it looks like 7 million people have signed up by the end of march 2014. reporter: the non-partisan congressional budget office stuck with those numbers until just recently when it lowered it from 7 million to 6 million but the vice president is the first to mention a number as low as 5 million, suggesting growing doubt in the administration. in its report of signups through the end of january, the administration claimed 9.6 million total, 3.3 in the federal and state exchanges, another 6.3 million in medicaid health care for the poor, but a non-partisan health care firm says the number of new signups in medicaid, the only ones made possible by obamacare, is much lower than 6.3 million. it s about 1.3 million to 1.8 million. people who are new to the program. the rest are part of the regu