Code, as many as 5 million lines of code that need to be rewritten. Experts say it could take weeks to help all of us noncomputer nerds, the healthcare. Gov contains 100 million lines of software code. Large banks about a fifth of that. So a major undertaking indeed on something that is too big to be allowed to fail. Peter alexander is at the wougs. What is the white house going to do . Reporter toure, thats a good question. The president s strategy today was to try to create a pretty good distinction between the website and the Health Care Law. Of course, to keep with his own metaphor, this idea of a shopping store, grocery store, if you will for a lot of people, the website is the like the sliding doors, that is the entry way to best understand the law. Thats why this has been so taxing to the white house. It should be spending his Political Capital on budget talks, not trying to defend the obama care website. One of the things to focus on over the next several days and weeks is exac
The house and republican have left town. The negotiations between the president and speaker have fallen apart. You cant legislate with yourself. Republicans have bent over backward. We wanted an agreement, but we had no takers. Washington scrambles to avert the fiscal cliff. President obama has asked the congressional leaders to meet at the white house today. If they cannot reach a deal, the economists warn that could trigger another recession. Are they going to avoid a fiscal cliff, eric . [ laughter ] as Stormin Norman has died. He commanded the u. S. Led International Coalition and forced Saddam Husseins forces out of kuwait. Some of the same states are bracing for yet another round of snow. More than 14,000 longshoreman plans to walk out on sunday. If the strike happens, were going to be in trouble. For the second time this month a man has been pushed to his death in the path of a new york subway train. So many crazy people are running the streets. An uninvited guest came to a picn
Life of a Migrant Worker through their parents eyes. And the challenges faced for a better life for kids. Hi there. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im thomas drayton. A massive search and rescue mission is underway for the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger plane. More than 10 countries are involved. Authorities cant pinpoint where the jet went down 10 days ago. Two men boarded flight 370 with stolen passports. They were listed in interpols global data base, but Security Officials never doublechecked the list. Tickets were purchased with cash in thailand. An iranian man bought the tickets, but that has not been confirmed. In this age of heightened security, how did passengers with stolen passports get on the airliner. We look at some flaws in airport security. Its hard to believe in this day and age people can board planes with stolen passports. Importantly it happens a lot. Kuala lumpur never checked to see if the two passports were, indeed, stolen. Last year people boarded planes a b
Serious and lifethreatening weather conditions are expected as early as tomorrow evening from outer banks to new england. New york, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia and North Carolina plus the district of column yeah have already declared states of emergency. A Tropical Storm warning is in effect for parts of florida. Well have more updates on sandy later in the program. Right now i want to turn to politics. This, my friends, is 26. 86. 26. 86, not a hunl amount of money. Certainly not enough for a spiffy new iphone 5. It will get you plenty of itunes downloads. Not enough to take the whole family to the movies, but you could probably treat yourself to lunch at applebees. Imagine that 26. 86 compounded every second. That is 1,611. 60 a minute. Thats 96,696 an hour or 2. 3 million a day. Suddenly 26. 86 doesnt seem so modest because 26. 86 is how much both candidates combined are spending every second of every day this election cycle which is why on thursday, we cross a milestone in ame
Of rain in 24 hours. All my babys thing, everything i own is gone. Look at these rainfall totals again. Five inches in central park. Drivers were at times surprised by the roads turned rivers right in front of them. Its been about five difs nonstop one breaking weather story after the other. Today is the day we all just say what just happened. And we begin with the calm after that crazy spring storm. A slow mover that hit everyone from the midwest all the way out east north to south. Twisters, torrential rains, once in a lifetime flooding, weve seen it all. In baltimore this afternoon engineers are still trying to determine the Structural Integrity of this road that buckled sending cars and mud tumbling 75 feet to the train tracks below. We heard a very large boom. Two seconds later the house swayed kind of like this. I think of a sinkhole, i think of florida, not baltimore. Everyone was safe there but weve seen at least 30 deaths from the storm system mostly in tornado alley. Two peop