President obama now finds himself compared to presidt george w. Bush as in the problemsith the Health Care Plan have become president obamas kaina. Hes now apologizetwice for breaking the promise to americans that they uld keep their Health Insurance. And tonight an increasing number of his own democrats are saying this proposefix isnt good enough. 39 of them sided with republicans in a vote on a bill which s another attempt to kill obama care today. We begin here tonight with Nbcs Kelly Odonnell on capitol hill. Reporter the biggest defection of the yeafrom inside the psidents own party today. The bill is passed. Reporter 39 democrats, nearly 2 of their caucus, joined with publicans to change the healtcare law to try to let millions of consumers whe Health Insurance has been cancellekeep their plans. West virnia democrat nick grayha voted with republics. How would you grade the administrations handling of the this . F minus. Reporter hat low . Yes. Iant to welcome the executives rorter one day after the president suggested his fix, he called insurance executiveto the white house to fige out hoto make it work. Urging Insurance Companies to restore cancelled plans for one year, and waiving quirements that the pla cover more medical services. Whawe are going to be dng is brainstormingn how do we make se everybody understands what tir options are. Reporter the obama fix also requires cooperation frostate inrance commissioners. Many are angry about being asked to change the rules now. The cost and burden on inrance companies is gng to be massive. Whogoing to ultimately pay for these . Its consumers. Reporter t house gop bill that passed toy goes beyond the president s x and would permit Insurance Companies to keep selling pns that dont me new coverage requirents indefinitely. And to any customer. Democrats say that wld gut the benefits in the health care la ngresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultz says the fix will work thgh the president cant force insurance mpanies to go along. Thats y the president rolled out the policy yesterday that allows ople who want to keep their plan to keep it. But we also reporter it dont really allow yes, it does. Reporter itasking. It allows people that want to keep their plan, if they like it, they can. Reporter se of the insurance executiv called the meeting with the psident oductive. While the white house suffered a loss of confence today, many House Democrats told mthey had feed even more defections. Brian . Kelly odonne after another fun day on the hl. Thanks for starting us o tonigh lets goo david gregory, moderator of meet the press in the d. C. Bureau. Pele start tossing around hurricane kaina comparisons and thats bound tleave a mark. Yh, and the white hou doesnt like it. You can imagine why. It only goes so far if you are talkg about competence of an administration or the abilit fogovernment to handle a really big project. Maybe there is some comparison. But itrobably stops there. Thbottom line is that the present has negative attributes aut his competence and his own credibili. Those are trenlines that are going down. Frankly i liken it more the ir war. That was life and death. This is t. Its tally different. Whent comes to an issue through which everything els will be judged, i think thats the compariso to t previs admistration, one they are trying to fight through now. David, well beatching the discussion sunday on meet the press. David grory from washington tonight. Well, its now been one week night since typhoon haiyan became the most powerful storm ever to hit land. Of course we have now se what it did to the philippines. As of tonight, more than 3,6 peoplere dead. 1,200 missing. Close to 2 million peopl displace thk of all the schools destroyed. Sadly one week later,o many people are still waiting for help to reachhem. Night dr. Nancy snyderman is with a team of israeli doctors who ecialize in flying in to helphe hardest hit populions on earth. They did it in haiti. Tonight theyre at work in the philippines. Reporter israelis re here foone reason. They have come to set up a m. A. S. H. Nit, but where are they . The israelis just picked up people from a philippines chper and there is a convoy headed this way. Are the raelis in that building . Es. Reporter the israelis ose a hospital thawasnt in such bad shape it needed roof repair. They came yesterday, made the repairs and they are alrea seeing the first patnts, all within 24 hours. Though damed this will serve as headquarters and house 60 israeli doctors and nurses. As they always do, the strike team comes totally selfsufficienwith enough medical supplies, food and water. Why come to the philpines . Ecause its a sense of helping your brothers wherever they are. So it doesnt maer your age, yourolor. Reporter the team isetting up high tech system to track each patient. But becae there are so many people waiting, patients are idenfied with a slip of per and a nuer. A week into the cris, the medical problems are dehydration, diarrhea, respiratory illnesses and many ses of fever in chilen. Oh, hes hot. Everyo has fevers today. All the children are hot. Its hard en your baby is si. Reporter the town remains as the storm left it a week ago. Buildings stroyed. The watesystem broken. And its brutally t and humid. The stress shows on everne. Young and old, the sick an those who just wanto be chked. Moreeople than they can handle. How do you bridge the gap and still depart . You give at you can and th you go. We cant stay forer. Reporter three hours old. Congratulations, mom. Even in this desperation there is hope. A healthy baby has been born. His name israel. Dr. Nancy snyderman, nbc new bogophilippines. Reporter this is har smith in tacloba friday morng under a withering sun the line to ceive a meager ration of rice stretches for ocks. How much will yoget . Two kilos of rice. Reporte is that enough to feed a family . No. Reporter ut it is food eyre here for. Anger inhis heat would be a waste of energy. Yet when the food showed up,ll hell broke loo. Crews still roam the neighborhoods, clecting and tryingo identify bodies. The workers e dutiful, respectful. [ crying ] reporr their work is nowhere near done. Ill here under the most cruel rcumstances, you see many people repeating the ritua of daillife. A woman bathes her child. A mother nurses hebaby. Why would you wash clothes unless y knew you would need them tomorrow . This iwhat hope looks like. Its supply is not limitles this aftnoon we went back to check on mecon sans. You love this place . Yes. I lo this place. Reporter we met her last moay. She and her extended family are still where weeft them alive, but not well. Dead bodies there. Reporr still . She and the 50 peoe she lives wi cleared space to sleep. While th have received some aid, its raly enough. God gave us Second Chance to live. To do ings. God gave us e courage to live, to fight. I dont want to d my life because i dont want to die li this. Reporter shend her group arare sick and tired. Ey tried joining thendless line at thairport and concluded it no use. Week ago she was prang to suive the typhoon. Now, her prayers he changed. Lord, please, dont do this to us. Dont let usie like this. Reporter harry smith, nbc news, taoban. A weeks worth of dness from the philippin. A headli today out of china. The government there saying it is easing on the onechild policy that for more than three decadehas restricted most couples to having only a single child. Its also resulted in boys far outnumbering gir in the populaon. Couples can w have a second child if one othe parents is an only child. There have been exceptions in the past, especially in rural areas where ey need the population. Ck in this country, there is a drama unfolding in suburban detroit gettg National Attention now. It involves a young, unarm woman who was shot in e head d killed in the midd of the night. This case is also irring up racial tensions. Our report tonight from nbcs kevin tibbles. Rorter the funeral oa detroiteenager held a week ago today. For 19yearold ranisha mcbride, killed aer being shot in the face in the middle othe night on the front steps of a home in suburban dearborn heights. Recving a 911 call from a le. He tnks he just shot somne on a porch. Reporter police we on the scene at 4 46 a. M. Somebody is down on the porc reporr today, 54yearold theodo wafer was in court charged with her murder. According police mcbride rked at ford and had smashed into another vehicle with her car at 12 57 a. M. Witnesses say she wander away om the scene, nearlyour hours later she was dead fm a shotgun wound just a few blocks away. In the days llowing protesters gathered comparinger death to the Trayvon Martinase. Today her family said she was likely seeki help. Iant imagine in my wildest drea what that man feared from her. To shoot her in her face. Repter a toxicology report show mcbride was nearly three mes over the legal aohol limit for drivg. And that she had traces of majuana in her blood. While michigan dsnt have the same stand your ground law use the Trayvon Martin se, theodore wafer could claim selfefense. He has to show he was in fear, that he thought she was breaking in, that she was a danger to him d his home. Reporter one activist said mcbriddoesnt want her famy to become a matter of race. A nearly 19yearold girl might be in a milar situation. That should brinus together as a community to demd justice and not separate us at all. Reporter kevin tibbles, nbc news, icago. Stl ahead for us tonig, growing concerns about kids playg football. What more and more parents are now doing and ying as one of the greats of e nfl opens up about the dangs for kids. Late there were a lot of batman sightings in San Francisco today. That was the point as an enti city mobilized to grant a wish to young boy. Its ouraking a difference report tonight. Jonath martin surfaced today. He arrived at a meeting with the special nfl council to tell his side of the story in the bullying scandal that briefly enveloped the Miami Dolphins he remains out of football, a man withoua team, as confusing details have come out. He ce before cameras andaid hedike to continue his career in the nfl. For nfl fans, this bei friday night means sday is tting closer. Well be watching as we do every week. But lately and very slowly, watching the ge has chged in varying degre. For a lot of us o played and loved the sport s because of what we now know about the heavy price paid by veterans of the game, many eering mental old age while in their 40s. Now another nfl great is speaking outbout the toll of head injuries. Ron mott is in wt orange, new jersey under the friday night lights. Good evening. Reporter good evening to you. Its the mountneers and the soarg eagles tonight. Well hear a lot of cheering. There will probably also be woied parents because on every play there will be a little bit of violence. In football, the hits just keep coming and the warngs are sounding louder than ever. One of the games legends, retired quarterback brt favre told toys matt lauer the hard hits have aected his memory. Wn you start forgetti things that are so obvio, they should be so easy to rember, thats sca. Reporter he concern reporter he concern over head injuries in particular pushed my parents to throw the flag, pulling or keeping their sons off the field pop warner, the nationsargest uth Football Program says nearly 10 fewer kids ar playing an just three years ago. In a statement to nbc news, pop warners execuve director said there is no hard data that links rticipation numbers with the fear of concussions. For the dell judasamily near chicago football is in the dna. 17yeard scott plays despit two concussions, s does nineyearold anthony. Sister made is a cheerleader. Nervous every time they snap the ball. Nervous but hopeful hell do what he needs to do to do his posion well and protect the people hes protecting and himself. Reporter football has a long story of producing lg lasting aches and bruises and sotimes more serious consequences in missoi a high school player, chad stover, died thursday, two wes after suffering a brain injury in a game. In suburban atlanta, another high school pler died after breaking his neck during a preseason scrimmage. Even favre questions if he would let hison play now if he had one. I would be real leery of him playing. In some respects, im almost glad dont have a son because of the pressur he would face. Rorter americas game may be tackling its biggest challenge yet. We reached out today to facebook followers and one ofhem said ey will not allow their son to play saying his life is not a game. Another parent who support football says it needs to be playedmarter. Brian . Ron mott, a ftball veteran himself on the jsey gridiron. Ull want to see matt lauers full conversation with brett fae. Its a revealingonversation. It will air mondayn today. We are back in a moment with something a lot of people dont know aboutne of the most famous pieces of clothinin modern american history. A ory by the New York Times is getting a lot of attention fowhat it says about the iconic chanel bloodstained suit we saw wo by Jackie Kennedy 50 years a next week when her husband, the presiden was assassined in dallas. She famously wore it on the flight back to d. C. Few people kneits been preserved in a vlt in the National Archives ever since. On orders from heroul surviv, caroline, not to be displayed til the year 2103. Spking of carine kenned she arrived in tokyo today as u. S. Ambassador to japan. And diyou know upwards of 10 of a the electricity in this country comes from Nuclear Reactor fuel thats been salvagedrom old russian atom bombs . Over the last 20 years, 20,000 russian waeads have been dismantled. The last shipment is on the way to the u. S. This lite known program was caed mega tons to megaatts. Its actually helped control utility prices in this count. This is a big one. Mount nabong has towered over donesia since the eah cooled but now e volcano is active again. The vertical explosion is breathtaking. The inial blast sent the plume two miles into the air. Its alreadyed to thousands of evacuations and has affected aircraft navigation as pnes cann go near the air spa containing the ash it remained dormanfor centuries befo first erupting the years ago. Nothere is no telling w much bier this gets. Volvo says the new web ad for a line of trucks is absolute real and was recorded in one te. Thats probabla good thing for the actor Jean Claude Van damm taking nothing away from a hec of a spl he performs here. We have since lened there were safe cables in place to prevent pas of mr. Van damme from being scatteredn the highway had something go terribly wrong. We dont know what this says out our country but mcdonalds is adding a third drivethru window at thousands of restaurants to cut down on waiting time and prevent instances when they ask you to pa in the waiting areand then hand carry your order out to y. So we have that going for us. When we me back, one little boys superhero dreamnd the city that made it come true. Mang a difference, brought to you by new oxytrol for women. Finally hereonight, it appeared for a while earlier today like an entire america city transformed itsf into goam city to grant a wh to a 5yearold boynd would be superhero. We get our making a difference rert from nbcs joe frr in san frcisco. Reporter to fully undetand why the streets of San Francisco you have to go y up there. Reporter feelore like the chaotic smokefied alleys of gotham city, you must take step back. Reporte and listen to the story of a boy with perhero strength. Going to be batman. Reporter y get to be batman . 5yearold miles scottpent the majorityf his young life battling a vlain named leukemia. He beat an awful disease. So that mas him a hero to me. Reporter typically shy, the young cancer survivor comes ale wearing his batman costume. Because hes myavorite perhero. Reporter in fact, he always dreamed of becoming the ped crusader. [ cheers ] reporter today the makeawh foundation made that dream come true. It just mak me so happy that he gets to go and be the hero that he is. Im bman reporter riding shotgun in a lamborini turned batmobile, poce escorts guide miles through a city transformed in his honor. First batkid is rushed to help a damsel in diress who is tied to the cable car tcks. With an assist from his mentor, batman, miles saves the day to everyones delight. Hes so cute reporter but there is no time to rest. The riddler is robbing a bank and batkid icalled to foil the dastardly plans. I closed the door on him reporter eve step of the wa huge crowds meet batkid. Some3,000 complete stranrs all packed into downtown San Francisco, thankto social media. When i was a kid i wanted to do it. Hes getting to it which is pret awesome. Reporter even thpresident had a message for batkid. Way to go, miles way to save gotham. Reporter and t San Francisco chrocle printed a special edition highlighting how miles saved mascot from the clutch of the penguin before finally receiving the key to t city, leaving no doubt on is day good has truly triumphed er evil. Hes batman. Batm always wins. Eporter joe fryer, nbc news, San Francisco. Well done, san ancisco. How great ishat . Thatsur broadcast on a friday night. And for this week, thank you for being here with us. Im brian lliams. Lester holt wille here with you is weekend. Weof course, hope to s you right back here on monday night. Inhe meantime, please have a good weekend. Good night. You jt saw the story of transformed into a full blown its not over ye right now at 6 00, the journey of how the batkibecame king of San Francisco aleast for this day. Good eveng, thanks for joining us. Im raj mathai im jsica aguirre. Mor on that story in a mome. First, i apologize, what san joses polic chief said today after we exposed the department played a numbers gameith statistics. Misleading the publiabout how gangrelated homicides a down. Our Investigative Reporter broke the story earlier this nth. It continues to unfold. That absolutely right, ra and ss. No one from t San Jose Police department would go on camera to talk abouthe inaccurate coarison of gang Crime Statistics until now. In a candid interview, the chi spoke opey about the mistakes maid, changes toome and a pledge to bring transparency to the department. This departmen and community is important to me. Rorter acting police chief Larry Esquivel wants you to know hessorry. I apologize to our citizens. Our apogize to our politicians. To we dont wan to hide. Reporter apologizing for telling the pubc gangrelated homicides are down re than 40 coared to last year. When in reality, the department doesnt know that. Becauset was comparing appl to oranges. Our instigation sparked outrage from citynd county leaders. Someone should hav said, you know, these numbers dont necessarily refct the yeoveryear drop