official telling nbc news about 476,000 insurance applications have been filed through the obama care website. that figure is the number of people who have stopped on the site, not though purchased plans. meantime, president obama expected to address problems with the website at a health care event at the white house tomorrow. treasury secretary jack lew talked about the glitches on meet the press. i think there s no one more frustrated than the president at the difficulty in the website. there are people working 24 hours a day, around the clock. hhs has said it s going to be putting out information on a monthly basis. hhs has got plans to fix this, and it has to fix it. it has to be done right. well, former secretary of state hillary clinton and senator ted cruz rallied crowds at separate events on saturday. cruz was the featured speaker at gatherings in austin and san antonio. clinton spoke at rally. the whole country is watching this election. watching to see wheth
we ll talk to him. today exclusive, brad pitt opens up about his new film, his family, and hitting the big 50. i don t know, i m busy right now. i haven t thought a lot about it. that s today, wednesday, october 16th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning. i m savannah guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. remember 24 hours ago when it seemed we might get a deal. there was optimism in the senate but that was so yesterday. overnight everything came to a halt. and the deadline is looming ever closer. that s right. this race to end the shutdown is today s top story. let s get right to peter alexander at the white house. peter, what can you tell us? reporter: good morning to you. most americans are asking themselves is it over yet? i just spoke to a top republican senate
back here in the united states. the flights have now row assumed aresumed atlos angeles internatl airport. police are trying to piece together why a man opened fire at check point. 3. the suspect was subdued at one of the gates but not before one of the tsa agents was killed. brian joins us with the latest. they briefed us in the last half hour. he had enough ammunition to kill everyone in the terminal. he had a cache of ammo with him they have not given a number but it s big. the shooter is from new jersey. it s a little sketchy he may have been living in los angeles but he was from new jersey. have police been able to stitch together by talking to eye witnesses what the motive was in all of this? they are not confirming to us, he seems to have been targeting tsa agents. he asked people if they worked for the tsa and letting them go if they were not. the police and fbi are not confirming to us that he had something against the tsa. zpl. the tsa officer who wa
high speed rail. california is moving forward with a project that will create jobs and connect los angeles and san francisco. how do you convince kids to stay in class? in alaska a school district is trying what some call bribery. we ll take a closer look. clues clues [ music ] across the united states over the past 24 hours there has been deadly shootings in new york, rowley north carolina, houston texas, hollywood california to name a few. when there s a shooting in a place with a lot of people and major security it will get a lot of attention. that was the case at los angeles international airport. a tsa agent was killed when a shooter opened fire at term nal 3, and ran towards a gate before being subdued. brian rooney is at lax and has the latest. the airport is reopening to a traffic jam. nothing took off or landed all day long at lax. 700 flights were affected. in the last couple of hours we learnt a few more details about what happened today. conversation cell
hello, welcome to al jazeera. i m morgan radford, live from new york. parts of los angeles international airport are still closed nearly 24 hours after a deadly shooting rampage. police are trying to figure out why 23-year-old suspect paul ciancia whipped out an assault rifle, killing a tsa agent and wounding several others. investigators are following leads suggesting that paul ciancia had antigovernment sentiment and was targetting the tsa. brian rooney has more. cell phone video obtained by tmz caught the moment when panicked travellers at los angeles international airport ran for the door away from the gunm gunman. police identified the gunman as paul ciancia, and he pulled an assault rifle out of the bag and targeted employees of the transport security administration. fired 20 yards away from the escalators. he s looking down, shooting multiple shots. i want to say 10 or 11 - 10-plus shots shooting towards the escalator. airport officers followed paul ciancia