reporter: what a huge talent, right? what a loss. our best to his family and friends there. absolutely. all right. 8 minutes past the hour. just in to cnn, president biden set to address america s critical shortage of semiconductors just hours from now. the center piece of his proposal, a brand-new $20 billion plant in ohio. jasmine wright has the latest from washington. what do we know about this plant, jasmine? we know why the president is so focused on semiconductors, right? this global snag in global semiconductors shows how it has left us out in the cold in terms of producing them here. reporter: that s right, christine. it comes down to supply chain for this administration because when there are problems, when there are those shortages, that is something that americans directly feel. so, of course, it makes sense that the white house focuses on this, especially as the president battles his lower poll numbers. so today and part of that rollout effort, we will see the p
health exchange web sites on the first day they were open something like nine million people by friday. by this weekend the main federal state covers 36 states and others had been taken down for maintenance in the off-peak hours, adding additional capacity to deal with unexpectedly high volume and also fixing some design issues that made the site glitchier than it need to be. this week, health secretary kathleen sebelius promotes the rollout, to encourage people to sign up for insurance coverage or learn what their options are under newt law. the rollout this week will include an event at heinz field in pittsburgh with the steelers owner and some retired players, and other steely mcbeam, they re doing enrollment fair at heinz field people can learn about their options and sign up for health insurance. this thing echos the rollout effort in massachusetts from five years ago when the boston red sox and fenway park were a big part of the publicity effort in that state to get massachusetts
others had been taken down for maintenance in the off-peak hours, adding additional capacity to deal with unexpectedly high volume and also fixing some design issues that made the site glitchier than it need to be. this week, health secretary kathleen sebelius promotes the rollout, to encourage people to sign up for insurance coverage or learn what their options are under newt law. the rollout this week will include an event at heinz field in pittsburgh with the steelers owner and some retired players, and other steely mcbeam, they re doing enrollment fair at heinz field people can learn about their options and sign up for health insurance. this thing echoes the rollout effort in massachusetts from five years ago when the boston red sox and fenway park were a big part of the publicity effort in that state to get massachusetts residents to seen sign up for health insurance under romney care. nobody really calls it romney care, but in massachusetts it is
it was members of congress and reporters. that s what explains all the traffic. millions of people went to the health exchange web sites on the first day they were open something like nine million people by friday. by this weekend the main federal state covers 36 states and others had been taken down for maintenance in the off-peak hours, adding additional capacity to deal with unexpectedly high volume and also fixing some design issues that made the site glitchier than it need to be. this week, health secretary kathleen sebelius promotes the rollout, to encourage people to sign up for insurance coverage or learn what their options are under new law. the rollout this week will include an event at heinz field in pittsburgh with the steelers owner and some retired players, and other steely mcbeam, they re doing enrollment fair at heinz field people can learn about their options and sign up for health insurance. this thing echoes the rollout effort in massachusetts from five years ago whe