line. the national zoo here says that because they were shut down for the 16 days, they missed out on some 85,000 to 95,000 visitors. those are real dollars that they can t get back. that s just a beautiful facility. it s free. but of course, they make their money off concession and things like that. if you ever get a chance to go to washington, d.c., everyone, go to the national zoo. it is worth it. you can see what the pandas why don t they name pandas things like ralph and pete? it would be so much simpler. renee marsh, many thanks. still to come in the newsroom, the obama care website cost a whopping $400 million. but tech experts say they need millions more to fix the website s problems. that s next. [ female announcer ] the best thing about this bar
move forward. okay. so the house will hold a hearing next week on these glitches, the websi website s problems, as you said, are well-documented. what else are we going to learn from this hearing, besides, you know, the exchanges aren t working well? what else will americans, some of whom like this system, what will they learn from this hearing? well, i think we need to understand again, to go back to very basic things, what have you been doing the last three years? why where did the money go? why were you telling us only a few days prior to launch that all systems were go, everything was on track, this was going to run beautifully. did you not there is a point either you pure incompetencies, or you knew it and didn t let it stop. but the administration went out, as you recall, probably a couple months ago, and said all big businesses and corporations are going to get a one-year delay. so the question might be, did you guys know something was wrong ahead of time and you were
and all of its problems. now she s the main target of republicans, calling for her job. secretary sebelius has had three-and-a-half years to alaunch obama care and has failed. could the health secretary be the first victim of the obama care website s rocky rollout and julian assange the subject of a must movie called the fifth estate estate. but assange calls hollywood s version toxic and wants the world to know why. that s all new with the next hour of newsroom. ido more with less with buless energy. hp is helping ups do just that. soon, the world s most intelligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy.
fired. it s launching a petition on the rnc website to make that happen. there you see it. joining me now is sean spicer, communications director for the republican national committee. good morning, sean. good morning, carol. great to see you. nice to see you too. the white house says sebelius has, quote, the full confidence of the president. but let s just say, president obama changes his mind somewhere down the line, and let s her go. then what? well, i think if you re going to spend three years and hundreds of millions of dollars having a rollout occur like this and go so poorly, then something needs to happen. what the bigger problem is, that where you come in and say so what, if you can t handle something like this, that s a top priority and bungle it so poorly, can you do the other things that probably are more routine? and this really calls into question the accountability and the leadership that s going on over at hhs in terms of not only our taxpayer dollars, but the
often government hasn t adopted many of those yet. and if they haven t properly load tested the website, it s quite possible that they can be overwhelmed. reporter: a lot of complaints said maybe they weren t using the latest technology. and as mark zuckerberg says, move fast and break things. let s translate that over to the government. obvious times you ve got budget con strachbts and a lot of cooks in the kitchen. often times it just doesn t go as planned. but hundreds of millions of dollars is a lot of money. isn t there in silicon valley too? reporter: absolutely. twitter was one, two, $3 mill n million. and even know, that website is working. and now when you look at obama care s website, people are upset that they can t sign up for