Thank you steve. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our dc members and or guests. It is wonderful to be here at the Detroit Economic Club. Organization is long attracted some of the nation his most distinguished thinkers and innovators. It is my privilege to introduce todays participants. Well engage us to the capitated rating discussion about the future of healthcare. The may begin by introducing our guest speakers, someone who ive known for monday years and consider him a mentor and a friend. Scott promises the president and ceo of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National federation the source 36 independent communitybased and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield companies. Including Blue Cross Blue Shield of michigan. The Blue Cross Blue Shield system through his federation of insurers, covers one out of every three americans. I think this is the very important statistic. What else does this frankly. It serves every zip code in the united states. In every zip code in ame
Here. 1985 the Kansas City Royals were trailing two games to nothing against the st. Louis cardinals. They came back to win that series in seven games. Fastforward to 1986 the new york mets were trailing two games against the red socks and they of course came back and beat the red socks and werber world champions. Once again tonights game so big and a must win game for the mets. We are live at citi field, ernie back to you. Ernie we want to repeat that 86 you just described. Thus we are all looking at for duke rape thanks a lot. Check it out. No doubt about it that stands are confident their team can come back and win the series but they arrived early to citi field wearing their lucky mets gear read the plays that made no secret of the fact that they feed off the energy of the crowd and the fans we spoke with tonight. Very confident. Games at citi field and we played great over here. If we were down 20 then i would have my doubts but i think we will use be doing really good. Im confide
In fact, the city had recently censured wysocki for abusive behavior toward employees. Mr. Wysocki frequently crosses the line with his interactions with members of our staff. I think it was purely political act. Reporter he says he doesnt have anger issues but some voters say he should lead by example. As the leader you would think hold on, lets go about this professionally. Reporter in santa rosa, im da lin, kpix 5. Now, the mayor says no action will be taken against the councilman but that contracted bus driver is in trouble. The city says as a professional driver, he should have de escalated the confrontation. Santa clara voters about to get a sample ballot in the mail that wont be much help for the november election. Entire races and candidates are missing. Len ramirez joins us live from san jose with a look at this major ballot blunder. Len, how could this happen . reporter well, you never know when people are programming stuff in, things could get left out. And that appears to b
Stopped. We know how to do this. And we will do it again. Federal Health Officials say they are monitoring about 50 people at risk of ebola because mr. Duncan. 10 are considered high risk. Other patients being isolated and evaluated for ebola in washington, d. C. New at 5 00, the family of jahi mcmath says there is proof she is alive. The 13yearold oakland girl was declared braindead after a tonsillectomy 10 months ago. Kpix 5s linda yee says today her family and their lawyer revealed their evidence. Very good. Oh. Reporter the young girls mother insists the videos prove she is regaining her brain function. Move your hands. Move it more. The neck, is functioning. And now we kn parts of brain are function. We think this. Has potentl to gain more function. Certainly hopes. No guaran, of course. But its all jahs mother needs to try g her daughter back from the w jersey facility that has cad for her since january. i want to see her back in california. Cries. Im so homesick. I want to come
By midafternoon, the worst was cleared, but crews fear more rain next week could bring more problems. The ground is saturated, the hill saturated and the place slid today onto the road, look like they have the potential to keep sliding if the rain keeps coming. Reporter not far away, Lake Cunningham park, the storm left its mark, too. The pumps have been running for the last 30 hours, pumping out water from what looks like a lake, but really is a meadow. Rough rs thats right. This is normally a meadow and picnic area. Crews saw all the flooding this morning and realized they wouldnt be opening and there were downed trees, too. We made the decision rather rapidly to close the park for the safety of our patrons. Reporter jessica ramano had been hoping to see the storms aftermath. Everythings more dramatic and intense and adventurous up in the rain. Reporter perhaps too intense for visitors today, but they say they understand. Yes, for the best, for sure. Reporter now, Lake Cunningham par