in this situation. health and services secretary kathleen sebelius says the administration is looking for some way to help people kicked off their plans who do not qualify for government assistance. they re not eligible for subsidies so they re not seeing, you know, a price break in the marketplace. and figuring out who exactly they are, where they are, some will be small business owners. some are individuals. and what ways there can be to look at options for solutions is something that s under discussion. but there is no specific option right now. saying people are finding themselves in this situation because of assurances that he made. as for the website, secretary sebelius says it should be functioning, quote, much more optimally by the end of this month. on the heels of that apology, president obama is now pitching bipartisan support for parts of the affordable care act in hopes of making his signature
consumers. google has made big inroads there with its android devices that range in price. the new phone could be good news for others buying older models on the cheap. if you ve been looking for an iphone, you could get a price break but the iphone 4 is expected to be discontinued. shareholders want a smig. see how it goes. a new study out talking about vacation time. it s interesting. recent data show a company would rather give you vacation days than sick days even though workers are less likely to take all of their vacation. maybe that is why they want to give it to you. the bureau of labor statistics says a worker with a year under their belt offer 10 paid vacation days a year and up from eight days 20 years ago. that same worker the data shows would get ten days of paid sick leave and down two days in that same period. the longer you stay at a company the stingier it is with the sick days. 20 years of service to a company used to get you 17 paid sick
meteorologist dylan dreyer. just in case you re wondering, not every sweater at goodwill is that s good to know. another interesting story coming off the shores of lake michigan. we have ice boulders showing up on the shores. take a look at that. looks like a totally change, alien concept here, but it s actually pretty normal. it s when the sheets of ice break off on the frozen lake michigan and then get tossed around in president wthe waves rolled over and turn into these ice bolders. the dogs like them too. we are going to see a little bit of snow around the great lakes. nuisance snow over the course of the next couple days. that includes the weekend. little more intense through central and northern new england, especially over the weekend where we could end up with about 3 to 6 inches of
i heard it s be the blend. we re getting ready to switch to the summer blend and this is why. is that a legitimate reason here? you know, normally in past years it would. there s a certain time of year where that s happening. but what s really happening here, the refining industry is doing what the airline industry is doing and that s reducing capacity really massively. we lost over a million barrels of refining capacity just to shutdowns over the last year now. why would they voluntarily do these shutdowns? believe it or not, they weren t making enough money for themselves and they decided to get out of the business. i m fearful normally i can tell you why, it has to deal with cutbacks by opec. war issues. this time, it may be different. this time we may not see the price break in coming months that i d expect to happen because of demand at the pump. with the refineries off of the
norman. our chad myers tracking it all from the severe weather center. what can you tell us? it looks like it was in norman, oklahoma. it was about 3/4 miles north of the stadium. through downtown and out towards the east of the city and up toward the lakes that are off to the east. the storm is still moving along i-40. we don t believe there is a tornado anymore with it. the storm mass stopped rotating. right in the middle of norman, this storm was rotating enough that a funnel came down, created a tornado and has created damage. there are calling for some barricades to stop people from driving on some of the roads. they are calling for some started saying there are minor injuries and areas of structural damage where roofs are off the building all together and off the apartment buildings. another storm out near chickasha. don t see anything rotating on it yet. we have spotters out there. we are watching all this. this person, vern carlson, driving, looking for the stor