Activities. The german chancellor Angela Merkel called president obama about complaints that the u. S. Was monitoring her cell phone. I can tell you that the president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the chancellor. The u. S. Greatly values the relationship with germany on a broad range of issues. Reporter what more is the white house saying about all this . Reporter well, not much, really. This came as something of a surprise today. You notice the phrasing that jay carney used, there is not and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor Angela Merkel. When we followed up with a National Security spokeswoman said she could not go any further than what jay carney said leaving the possibility that at a kind of surveillance really has raised the hackles of the German Government and the chancellor Angela Merkel has happened in the past. This comes on the heels of a number of allegations. It seems like another day, another ally
Took out every single word and took that little short bill and expanded that by thousands of ages, my copy was around 2,500 to do and it had nothing with military or veteran home buyers, had nothing to do with that. They inserted health care that we have found out since is costing more and if you like your doctor, youre going to lose your doctor, if you like your insurance policy, good chance you may lose it, fortunately, not everybody is losing their doctor, but the promises have been badly broken. It turns out those people, including the head of this administration, were just flat wrong when they said, you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, if you like your insurance, you can keep your doctor. For example, theres a story here from Kaiser Health news applebee gorman, julie date october 21. Wont read the whole three pages. But it points out that health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consume
Nimitz freeway at hayward. An earlier supreme accident still backing up the traffic of the way up to 238 and slowing down the ride heading down to the nimitz freeway. Darya thanks a lot george. So first it was bart we got through that and now ac transits turn. Kron4s will tran is live in downtown oakland to tell us about this threat of a strike. Mark well if he doesnt step and we are looking at the right to strike if youre an ac transit bus driver. Because it does expire at midnight tonight. For we saw kron4 and ac transit is to so many writers as far as a. C. Transit without the bart each day 180,000 people ride ac transit and is so important to many of them because they can hop on board because bart does not work the overnight hours to lay solely rely on the buses to get around we have a chance to talk to one of the riders. Heres what he had to say of the importance of the buses being available. ill probably have to ride my bike a judge will look at the proposal. The governments requ
Healthcare. Gov. New effort to fix the sites problems may be starting to work. The files coming over from the site are now accurate. Earlier today, House Democrats gathered in the capitol for a briefing for health and Human Services officials on the problem. Health republicans will receive a briefing at some point. Meantime, secretary sebelius will head to phoenix to visit a call Center Tomorrow and shell testify before Congress Next tuesday. Last night she responded to reports that the administration before the site launched. Do you know when he first knew there was a problem . I think it became clear fairly early on, first couple of days. Not before october 1st, there was no concern to the white house or hhs . I think we talked about having testing going forward. Nbc news chief White House Correspondent and political director chuck todd joins me now. Quickly, to clarify, politico is saying that some of these Industry Experts or sources, a lot of these people have been unnamed as you
Site, that was the administration aegs description, they insist the president didnt know about the problems nlg after the rollout. Do you know when he first knew there was a problem . Well, i think it became clear fairly early on. The first couple of days not before that though, not before october 1st . There was no concern at that point in the white house or hhs . I think we talked about having testing Going Forward and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in a fiveyear period of time we probably would have taken five years. We didnt have five years and americans who rely on Health Coverage didnt have five years for us to wait. Down the street on capitol hill, republicans of course are trying to cash in on these glitches. Theres problems with the website, but i would argue the problems go much further than that. How about the report over the last couple of days of the hundreds of thousands of americans who are finding out that they are going to lose their corage