and so, that being said, there are a number of negotiations that are going on not only at 1600ennsvania avenue b upon capitol hill as we speak. so hopefully we will be able to find some consensus. reporter: you re a modest man but you basically have veto power over this, don t you? i have one vote. my card has a picture on it. it doesn t belong to me. it belongs to the people of western north carolina. that is truly what motivates reporter: can the president or speaker pass this without your support? i m one vote. i can tell you at this point, we re trying to get another 30 to 40 votes that are currently in the no category to yes. once we do that, i think we can move forward with passing it on the house floor. reporter: congressman do you agree with some of your colleagues voting for the bill in its current form would be worse than doing nothing about obamacare? i think at this point, some of the provisions in here do not lower health care costs enough. certainly for
reporter: as millions of people flooded the system, the government web site for obamacare health care.gov temporarily broke under the strain. the main page went from apply now to this: please wait. and then for a time the system went down. please try again later it said. and this is the web site used by 34 states. several states running their own exchanges also had delays. in washington state, the web site closed down. administration officials said the federal site was overwhelmed by 2.8 million visitors a number they never expected. white house senior advisor david seamus said the problems drew an allout response from web site technician at the department of health and human services. we expected a slow rampup and what we saw today was an overwhelming response that exceeded even what we ve seen in medicare in any given day. so it was a good start. we identified problems. tomorrow s going to be better. reporter: despite the delays and inconvenience, the white hou
promised to fix. reporter: as millions of people flooded the system, the government web site for obamacare health care.gov temporarily broke under the strain. the main page went from apply now to this: please wait. and then for a time the system went down. please try again later it said. and this is the web site used by 34 states. several states running their own exchanges also had delays. in washington state, the web site closed down. administration officials said the federal site was overwhelmed by 2.8 million visitors a number they never expected. white house senior advisor david seamus said the problems drew an allout response from web site technician at the department of health and human services. we expected a slow rampup and what we saw today was an overwhelming response that exceeded even what we ve seen in medicare in any given day. so it was a good start. we identified problems. tomorrow s going to be better. reporter: despite the delays and inconvenien
with scott pelley. pelley: good evening, the long-awaited opening of obamacare was accompanied today by the long-threatened closing of the federal government. we ll have complete coverage of the government shutdown in a moment. but, first, americans began shopping online today for health insurance on those new state exchanges created by the affordable care act. there were major problems. all over the country. web sites were slow or crashed all together, leaving a lot of folks angry and frustrated. the president noted that by 7:00 a.m. more than a million people visited the main web site health care.gov. that gives you a sense of how important this is to millions of americans around the country. and that s a good thing. and we re going to be speeding things up in the next few hours to handle all this demand that exceeds anything that we had expected. pelley: we have a team of correspondents covering the historic rollout of obamacare. first, wyatt andrews with more about
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