will be able to shop for insurance coverage each day. it is a dramatic improvement from the problems users experienced since the site s launch on october 1st. key lawmakers reacted on today s meet the press. the question is, are we going to work together to fix these problems, and there will be additional problems, or are we going to do what our republican colleagues want to do, continue to try and sabotage the entire effort, even though they don t have an alternative. yes, we have to fix it. we should be working together to fix it every day. the security of this site and the private information does not meet even the minimal standards of the private sector. that concerns me. i don t care if you re for it or against it, republican or democrat. we should not tolerate the sheer level of incompetence securing this site. well, let s go live to the white house where nbc s kristen welker has been following this developing story. kristen, lots of opinions today. what are you hearing f
there s a natural roller coaster in any presidency. you know, depending on events, it s much too early to write him off at this point. emily, your thoughts? looking at his second-term agenda, the two big items really are immigration, where he s already cut a deal or sort of found republicans in the senate that he could work with. the problem is that house republicans really aren t going to budge on that issue. they re taking a very different approach than the senate did. and also, the other key part of his second-term legacy would be on environmental issues. there he s totally bypassed congress, recognizing that he s just not going to find support in congress for this. and he s gone right to the epa. that s where those regulations are being worked out. so i think there s a recognition that republicans, you know, on the immigration part are maybe not going to give him the big signature achievement that he was looking for in a second term. whether that gets all worked out remains unc
with regard to the commute tomorrow, it looks like there s no way those tracks are going to be open for the hudson line commuters there with metro north, right? reporter: yeah, and i think the mta is still figuring that out. if you look down here, you can see there are two sets of tracks. it was on the outside, the southbound tracks. those look like they re damaged. obviously, the rest of the train is still blocking some of that. the northbound appears, at least in area, to be clear. so there s a possibility maybe that they would be able to work something out with north and southbound trains. again, they need to figure it out. for now, at least, it s closed. and it s going to be definitely a difficult commute with diminished service at least tomorrow. no doubt. okay. nbc s kristen dahlgren at the scene. thanks so much. the other big developing story today, the obama administration releasing its progress report on healthcare.gov following its self-imposed deadline to make that sit
did you see any of the injuries? yeah, actually. a couple people were hurt badly right in front of me. when the dust was starting to settle a little bit, literally, the woman in front of me, she was bleeding from her head pretty bad. let s go live to nbc s kristen dahlgren at the scene. i know with regard to what the ntsb will do. they ll look at black box. they ll try to determine all sorts of things from a technical standpoint. but you ve got to think that gentleman we just heard from who says he s a 30-year rider regularly, a commuter on this train line, they re going to talk to people like that too and get anecdotal evidence, won t they? reporter: absolutely. i believe they ll be talking to as many people that were on the train as possible. they already investigators have been talking to the train s conductor. he was also injured, taken to the hospital. he s believed to be in stable condition. according to new york city s police commissioner, they have already started int
here s the former health care adviser to president obama on meet the press. clearly, just like google and facebook an the internet sites are constantly tweaking their site, constantly improving them, this one still has a ways to go, but it is certainly working reasonably well. and joining me now, washington post reporter emily hile and msnbc analyst jonathan alter. and with a welcome to the both of you. i ll start with you, jonathan. is the obama administration starting to turn a corner on the rollout? i think it would be very hazardous to answer that question in the affirmative right now given what everybody s been through in the last couple of months. the truth is that none of us, and that includes even the code writers, you know, and software experts, none of us really knows how much this system can bear in terms of the traffic. they re saying 50,000 at a time. they re going to have to bear more weight than that as we move