process, but until it s 100%, i m not going to be satisfied. elizabeth, as you know, they had two or three years to get that website ready, spend hundreds of millions to do is. the president himself is clearly frustrated and ringry that it s not yet ready i want it s interested. on october 1st he came out and said, you know what? new programs, new web sites have glitches. he used as an example the apple ios7. it had a glitch and it got fixed quickly, and it wasn t a big deal. people were saying this is not a minor glitch. this is a big deal. so it s interesting to hear him say two weeks into the process, you know, that yes, this is a, you know, a substantial problem that needs to be fixed. that isn t the tone of what he said in the beginning. all right. thanks very much, eleads bicohen reporting for us. culling up, once again we re awaiting a senate vote to end the shutdown, extend the debt
$24 billion, and they ve now downgraded the estimate of the economic growth in the fourth quarter of this year. they earlier thought it was going to be 3% economic growth. they now think, because of the uncertainty of what s about to happen in january and february, and people are going to be reluctant to hire, big business or whatever, they now think it could be closer to 2%. that means jobs. that means a lot of money. it does. and when you re talking about jobs, 2% economic growth is not going to be churning out a whole lot of new jobs. and when you talk to business leaders, they are really worried about these budget battles, one after another, wolf. even though we ve gotten past this countdown clock, there will be others ahead. when you look at $24 billion, for example, think of that has a natural disaster, hurricane shutdown, i ve been calling it, right? self-inflicted, self-inflicted. washington made this mess. you can get over that kind of economic damage from a natural disaster