News this morning. A hurricane warning is in place in the bahamas as Hurricane Matthew gains strength in the carribean. Haiti is getting hit by the storm right now. The eye of the storm is producing life threatening rain, wind and a storm surge as it marches through the carribean. The category four storm is packing winds of up to 145 miles an hour. Some areas could see as much as 40 inches of rain. Us forecasters say its too early east coast could be impacted. Right now, pensacola, florida is welcoming hundreds of people forced to evacuate their native cuba. First les krifaton joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Daytime highs remain below normal again tuesday under sunny skies. The system that pushed the cooler air into pressure by the end of the week which will take us back to seasonal temperatures. Before then a few weak systems will help develop breezy conditions wednesday evening into thursday morning. Ready to square off for the Vice President ial debate.
Some of the contractors who built it are going to have some explaining to do. Were going to bring that to you live in just a few minutes. First we explain just how we got here. Lawmakers will be ready to pounce today at the first of three hearings to probe the glitches on the federal Website Health care. Gov. House republicans long opposed to the penaltys Affordable Care act are expected to grill the definiteliors of the system. The rollout is nothing short of a debacle. On wednesday, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with c. E. O. S of Insurance Companies at the white house. The initial high jam of users clogged the system, which failed early testing. The Vice President of the company that built the website will say today the Obama Administration acknowledged the website was not tested enough before going live. We did not expect or anticipate the scale of the problems that has occurred. Thats on us. Some democrats claim the investigation is political and the go
We, too were ready to process on 101, had done extensive internal testing of our processes and systems, and our first awareness of difficulties with the hub was 101, or the portal, im sorry, on 101, when we attempted to do key entry. So you didnt test it prior to october 1 . No. Ness. No sir. As we evaluate the problems with this website, i think its important that we focus on the facts. My republican colleagues have been predicting that Health Care Reform would be a disaster for three years now and every time theyve been wrong, they said insurance rates would skyrocket, in fact, theyre lower than predicted. They said Health Care Costs would sore, in fact have grown at a record low rate. They said medicare would be undermind, in fact, its stronger than ever and seen years are saving billions of dollars on prescription drugs. What we need to do is separate the facts for us to reach a determination here. Some have said that fixing the website would take six months to a year. Others have
To how one gets to a closing guantanamo . I dont think it is that complicated once we decide the we are going to do. The argument been would be we will never really she because there is a risk if we release you. Thats not good criminal Justice Policy and i dont think its good counterterrorism policy. Everybody else down there that we determined for whatever reason we cannot release or weve tried and convicted them we will housing in the United States. There are many, many Public Policy arguments over the course of my great that a frustrated me. Its amazing how people lead to incorrect conclusions and then the same irreversible. But the notion that we cannot hold dangers people safely in the United States to me is patently absurd. And yet, it drives the debate. The reason that we have not close guantanamo, keep in mind, it wasnt some big liberal goal, gates, john mccain, george w. Bush said we should close guantanamo. Why havent we . Well, ill skip the political argument for the moment
With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to defend the laws of the u. S. I have heard some unfortunate things on the other side. They said we have to do everything in our power to prevent obamacare. Obamacare, get rid of it. Our friends on the other side have forgotten that. I hope they will continue to forget it. We have a chance to see to it that the American People get health care as a matter of right, not financial privilege. I am very frustrated, at least as frustrated as anyone else in this room, about the problems facing healthcar