2. President Obama hosts top House Republicans at the White House Thursday as they look for ways to end the government shutdown.

3. An Associated Press-GfK poll shows 7% of Americans say that somebody in their household tried to sign up for insurance through health care exchanges. That could mean more than 20 million people. Of those that tried, three-fourths report problems.

4. And a dozen people got stuck for about two hours when their roller coaster stopped in Orlando, Florida. A computer glitch is blamed for the problem at Universal Studios.