Forced to find a differently mode of transportation after the second transit strike this year. We begin tonight with the story that was at the heart of the government gridlock that finally eased this week. The Affordable Care act, and the rocky rollout of a crucial part of it. Since the health care websites launched on october 1st Many Americans have been unable to sign up through the Health Insurance exchange offered by the federal government. And as of this week, theres word that the Health Care Exchange technical infrastructure. Even though theres been challenges enrolling through the website, people are enrolling across the country. Off the past few over the past few hours, the white house has been tweeting enrollment numbers. In kentucky over 10,000 have enrolled in health care coverage. In washington state, nearly 9500 have enrolled and in two weeks more than 100,000 californians have started health care plirgses through the applications through the obamacare marketplace. The fed
The unusual reason people are hunting for buried treasure. Good morning. Welcome to alJazeera America. Im stephanie sy. A serious case of commuter chaos, Bay Area Rapid transit workers walked off the job, striking for the second time this year. The train shutdown is inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of San Francisco area commuters. Intense talks between management and employees broke down after the two sides couldnt reach an agreement. We are live in San Francisco with more. Good morning, lisa. Does San Francisco have a backup plan for all these commuters, or are people scrambling for rides this morning . Good morning, stephanie. Well, the backup plan starts here at the bay bridge. Most of the 400,000 people who use bart every day to commute to work are expecting to use this bridge. Car pooling is encouraged, and there are casual carpools where people jump into cars together and cross this bridge, but certainly this is the most likely place those commuters will end up. There are al
, to Aljazeera America. Im stephanie sy. A frustrated president obama is expected to address the nation today about his Signature Health care legislation, the Affordable Care act. Hell tell the American People that the problemplagued federal website is unacceptable and layout a plan to get it back on track. Major technical glitches that have plagued obamacares Health Care Enrollment website have proven an embarrassment to democrats and giving republicans more ammunition to criticize the plan they vow to get rid of. I will do anything and continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obamacare. Nearly 500,000 applications have been filed through the exchange program, but no figures on actual enrollments have been released by the government, whose own Congressional Budget Office says 7 million should be enrolled within six months. Health and Human Services Officials Say changes are being made to file on line bugs, tweeting health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebe
Rolled out and some would say four weeks of problems. Those exchanges being blasted by everyone from the president as former press secretary to the president himself. All of them admitting the online exchanges proving to be an embarrassment to the program. Mike viqueira joins us, what can we expect to hear from the president at 11 25 this morning 123,478 you hit the nail on the head, an embarrassment, someone needs to be fired. The healthcare exchanges rolled out october 21st. And a large part is due to the part that the system was overwhelmed. Thats the line that the white house stuck with, and 19 million unique visitors have visited that, but precious few have been able to get through. There is political criticism, not only from people trying to get Health Insurance from these exchanges but insurers, as well. Code writers say the architecture of this site is grossly inadequate and we can expect the president to address some of that today. The president will talk about the fact that h
Preventing default. Now its up to the congress to move a budget while the president moves other parts of his agenda. Libby, no easy task, the deal calls for congress to come up with a budget mid december, december 13th, which is a friday. Is that an omen in reporter heres the deal, theyre going to be looking at a smaller and modest proposal. Were not talking about the grand bargain. We know theyre not setting themselves up for automatic failure and theyre far apart with the process. On the table, the sequestration. And we look at the cuts and more are scheduled to kick in in 2014. Theyre across the board and this committee will try to change those around a little bit. We heard from the two cochairs, patty, and paul ryan, democratic contender from last year. Heres how they framed whats to come. Chairman ryan knows im not going to vote for his budget. And i know hes not going to vote for mine. Were going to find the Common Ground. We want to look for ways to find Common Ground to get a b