obamacare. obamacare has some serious problems here. and the enrollment, the only way for obamacare to solve its problems is for the enrollment to increase dramatically. the administration claims the reason for the lower projections, more employers than expected are still providing insurance to their workers. therefore fewer americans need obamacare. we haven t seen that kind of reaction from employers on nearly the scale that was predicted by the biggest skeptics the affordable care act. that i think is another reason why there are fewer people who harn to the marketplace for coverage. most who fail to obtain insurance next year will be subject to a penalty. $695 or 2.5 of their income. whichever is larger. critics argue those penalties are still too low to force potential customers to buy insurance. thank you. america s longest-serving astronaut is getting out of the house. scott kelly took his first space walk today. kelly has spent more than a year
after one student became infected. school officials tested 140 students and the tests came back positive for 45 students. they ve decided to test all students. let s turn to the space odyssey, shall we? the first of three space walks ended safely this afternoon as astronauts worked to fix the cooling system. it took five and a half hours. they ll head back out on monday to install a new ammonia pump and if all goes well, they could take christmas day off. jay, this was fascinating to watch, but it was amazing to see how quickly they worked. i think even nasa was amazed at how quickly things were getting done. how far ahead of schedule they were. they sure did. they thought they d be out there six and a half to seven hours and were out there five and a half hours as you said, t.j. and everything went real well. they did part of monday s space walk today. they took the faulty pump, moved
that is assigned every single day on a rotating basis to cover the president, to be in the motorcade. it s actually kind of fun to drive along with the president no stoplights, right? reporter: not usually. sometimes they do depending on the mission or the event. even when he goes golfing as he did yesterday for five hours. he slipped out, the first time in memory a president has done that. presidents always hate to wait for the press, by the way, slipped out to see one of his daughters play soccer uptown here in northwest washington. everybody is back on the same page now as far as we understand it. okay. well, i think it s a good thing ep got to sneak away and watch his daughter play. i m just saying. mike viqueira, thank you. two astronauts got an early morning start on the space walk today. this is the second in three days to replace an old storage tank. the ammonia tanks are part of the space station s cooling system, the one that they re removing today has been up there