Austin, texas, werent there to buy gifts. Theres a policy number and then theres a member i. D. Reporter they were there to Purchase Health insurance through a federal exchange with the help of staffers through a local nonprofit. The group insure Central Texas signed up more people on monday than all of november. The past few days its been very busy. Well probably surpass the day. Reporter there was a mad dash in virginia and on online. More than 1 Million People have visited healthcare. Gov. By 5 p. M. , about five times more than last monday. Some users were told to wait here when they tried to logon or to read their email so they could be notified when demand flowed. The administration announced the 24hour enrollment extension at midday but warned you should not wait if youre aiming to get coverage january 1st. You should try to sign up today. Complicating matters, some of the 14 states that run their own exchanges announced their deadlines would not be slipping. Insurance companies
Issues in play. Cate . Reporter frank and anne i have some new information for you. The Court Appointed doctor just reveled hi findings. Revealed his findings. He said that mcmath met all of the criteria for brain death. Now dr. Paul fisher from Childrens Hospital was appointed by the judge yesterday morning. Later that afternoon, fisher ran the series of tests on jahi to detect brain activity. And blood flow. Unfortunately, the medical condition of jahi by the statute you mentioned she needs all of the meets all of the criteria for brain death. Reporter the family sat in the front row stoic and stone faced after hearing the results. Right now the judge and lawyers from both sides are hearing testimony from a dr. Shanahan from oaklands children hospital. Now he was the first or that doctor was the first doctor who declared jahi legally brain dead. 13yearold mcmath has been on life support for 11 days after complications from a tonsil surgery. The judge ordered the hospital to keep her
Times of the year. At least five people were killed by flooding in kentucky where high winds also took a toll. There was also flooding in neighboring indiana and as far east as vermont. In the midwest, winters First Official storm brought heavy snow. Snow and ice knocked down power lines in oklahoma, which caused numerous house fires. We just go from one house fire to the next to the car wrecks. Do what you can to protect yourself. Weve already had one incident of a house without a smoke detector. The storm also knocked out power to nearly half a million homes and businesses from michigan to new england. When they get one line repaired, now another branch is coming up. So theyre not catching up. Theyre not gaining any ground. When they think they even got one fixed, another goes down. The weather caused travel delays on the roads and in the air. By last night over 700 flights had been canceled and over 7 thousand delayed. In the midatlantic and northeast, folks were Walking Around in t
Erica we do have a spare the air alerts in effect for today. No wood burning is allowed. We will see a hazy sunshine as we head into the afternoon. Ill have a look at that with their 7 day around the bay coming up at 715. George for our top story today. The 49ers and fans closed the chapter on candlestick. At least for the regular season. And did so in dramatic fashion. Heres aerial video courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. Thousands upon thousands of fans showed up to bid farewell to the stadium and the memories made there. With more on the big good bye to the stick, lets go live to kron fours Jackie Sissel. Last nights game was a farewell for the regular season at least but what way to end it and the remaining minutes of the game and 89 yd Touchdown Interception return for a touchdown to steal the victory ended propelled the 49ers into the playoffs. Sandy, 70,000 gravid 49 or face falls. They started lining up early. This was a 36 times theyve been on monday night
Season. And did so in dramatic fashion. Some tell your liking up to 48 degrees and 45 right now and sunnyvale. Sunny conditions as we head into the afternoon. We do have clouds and the forecast as we head into the weekend. Of the bread and other 7 day around the bay coming up at 615. George like traffic around the bay as would be expected as the day before christmas. Nonetheless real if youre commuting. Interstate 580 and highway 4 through the east bay. Typically have the traffic there is not the case this morning. Marin county with a 24 minute drive time from the bottle down to the golden gate bridge. Lets talk about our top story. Candlestick park. The niners closing out the final chapter of regularseason play and they did it in hard stopping fashion. Heres aerial video courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. Thousands upon thousands of fans showed up to bid farewell to the stadium and the memories made there. With more on the big good bye to the stick, lets go live t