opportunity to distinguish ourselves from the other party on that. it s timely you re talking about that. because the president is going to be speaking about foreign policy just about ten minutes from now. you re also talking about boosting private sector job creation. i m going to lump in number three with that, which is reducing our national debt. again, these seem to me to be issues that not many republicans within the party would be in disagreement about. no. maybe we could argue about how to get there. but the reality is, there are so many duplications of federal programs. 47 different federal job training programs, over 40 early child education program certainly we could get rid of some of the duplication. i think if you look at some of the waste, there would be a widespread agreement on what to do. and people would get excited about voting republican and excited about voting for conservatives. so you have three more. achieving energy independence and development. that s
what s the latest, bill? reporter: well, it depends on who you talk to, wolf. frankly. we re now about 72 hours since that huge chunk of mountain detached and came roaring into this valley. we re set up here in darington on the west side. beautiful landscape here. gorgeous cascades. but this has been sort of the one little gathering spot out in front of the darington iga where you see the banners, home made banners to pray for the 530 slide victims. that s highway 530. first responders, thanks for everything. and the information, it s really kind of sad, because there is not a lot to go on. a sheet of plywood with a map of the area. that was taken out so they know which properties were there. now that big number that you ve been reporting, we now know, of course, 14 fatalities. 176 unaccounted for. they think that number is going to come way down. those they may be some duplications, as well. maybe folks who people think might have lived in that area,
problems that the exchanges are having because they don t have enough young and healthy people. so they hope, are you saying, will get more of those young and healthy people into the exchanges? that s right. the enrollment figures the administration released this week sbhoed 3 million sign-ups so far. how many of those are real sign-ups and duplications or people who haven t paid yet remains to be seen. but the demographics of the exchanges, they need to be 40% younger and healthier people. what we re seeing is only about 25% in that group. wow! what about the legality of this. yeah, right. a small detail. a lot of people including us argue that if you look at the statute, there is no, it doesn t say, impose it in 2016. not after the end of 2013. it is not in there. you can study all those words in obamacare and not final those words. you can t find the legal
over time. this is related to the problem the exchanges are having because they don t have enough young and healthy people. this they hope will get more of those young and healthy people into the exchanges? that s right. the enrollment figures the administration released this week showed about 3 million sign-ups so far. how many of those are real sign-ups and duplications or people who haven t paid yet remains to be seen. the demographics of the exchanges need to be 40% younger and healthier people. we are seeing only about 25% in that group. what about the legality of this? right. small detail. a lot of people, including us, if you look at the statute, there is no, it doesn t say impose it in 2016 not after the end of 2013. it s not in there you can study all those words and not find those words. you cannot find the legal authority for this.
occasions. we want to respect the 30% even though it doesn t exist and we believe it puts us back where we were ten years ago, even though today it s much more competitive than it was ten years ago. joe, jump in. i think a lot of people watching will be surprised to find out two leaders in the industry don t actually operate in the same geographic areas. that is an eye-opener, first of all, this morning. secondly, the shareholders seem to be supportive of this too. brian, talk about why both sides of this deal are so excited about it. good morning, joe. the reason, i think, is that because we don t overlap, we have to do many of the same things, so there is a lot of duplications. and there is, therefore, tremendous synergies, more than any deal that comcast has ever been involved with. we think conservatively a billion and a half dollars that can go to be the benefit of the shareholders. in this case, 23% of our stock