this morning on early today, health care detectives. a new way to fight insurance fraud, bounty hunters. a surprise announcement in the case of a man trying to extort millions from david letterman. an suv goes off-roading letterman. an suv goes off-roading during a high-speed chase. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello and good morning. i m lynn berry. and today we begin with high-tech bounty hunters. in his push to overul the nation s heating care system, president obama is laying out a new plan to crack down on billions of dollars of waste and fraud. under an executive order signed yesterday, the white house will call on private auditors to rule out simple billing mistakes to full-scale thievery. it allows the auditors to keep a percentage of the recovered funds. last year alone, an estimated $54 billion was lost through medicare and medicaid payments. this has bipartisan support. supreme court chief justice john roberts is questioning centuries
the driver of that runaway prius. listen. ok, how fast are you going? 80 something. you re going 80 miles an hour. 81. and it s still stuck? yes. on route 8 in san diego. more on that call coming up straight ahead. what it means maybe for your toyota that you re driving today and our slogan comes to us from jasmine in maryland. the sun comes up, the bacon s frying, it s time to have fun with steve, gretchen and brian. what was that, brian? i was saying somebody just emailed me another slogan which emphasizes gretchen. we love a million of them. it s really good. can t do that. stay away from those. let s get to the headlines this morning. his prius accelerated out of control hitting 94 miles an hour on a california freeway. this morning the national highway traffic safety administration and toyota itself is investigating why james sykes car started speeding up on its own and a new 911 call details the terrifying ride. put the car in neutral, sir? no
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from the first local station with news in high definition, this is the 9news now. hello and welcome to 9news now at noon. i m jc hayward. president obama is hitting the road again. he is trying to drive home his healthcare reform package. joel brown reports while the president is demanding quick action, there is gridlock in congress. president obama is making one final push for healthcare reform. he s visiting a school in st. louis. his second campaign style trip this week. as he pressures congress to pass legislation in the next eight days. the president will focus today s speech on cracking down on fraud, before he leaves, he ll sign an executive order to track down medicaid and medicare fraud. the auditors will use technology to catch cheaters. but the president still faces an uphill battle as he twists arms to get a healthcare reform bill passed before he leaves for asia. he needs to get americans on board. they don t want it, it s that simple. the president is tr
surgery. he is 91 years old april 11th. and the surgeon was my old surgeon. and wayne eissum did it again. we know he ll be up and about and ready to party because when he came out of surgery, he sank new york, new york. here s anderson cooper and ac 360, anderson? tonight the strange story of eric massa got even stranger. why did the congressman resign? some of his own answers include cancer, inappropriate language, a white house plot, rahm emmanuel in the shower and a staff tickle fight. what s the real reason? keeping him honest tonight. also ahead. a runaway toyota on a busy freeway speeding over 90 miles an hour. tonight the frantic 911 calls, and they will hear from the man who was at the wheel and who almost died from it up close. later, he fancied himself a lady killer, turns out he was. bachelor number one on the old show the dating game. turns out he was responsible for murders, one, two, three and more. crime and punishment tonight. first up, think