0 remember you get to 100 miles an hour, it becomes a hurricane. 235 miles an hour we're hearing. now we're looking at the pictures now, the wind is already blowing. we'll try and find out more about this. we have kathy novak who's in manila. it's tough to get communication out of an area like this. we believe she's on the phone. can you hear us? can you hear us? >> i can hear you. i'm not sure if you can hear me. it's starting to get rainy and windy where i am here in manila. i'll keep talking and hopefully you can hear me. i can only imagine how bad it is down south where the winds are the hardest. we're starting to get a few more pictures on local television, the scene facing the people down south throughout the day. trees have been uprooted, debris flying through the air. we heard fishermen telling local media they've lost their boats. an incredible picture of a large barge that's turned on its side. and there were people on board that lost their lives. the communications have been cut off for so many of these reasons. several areas were hit very hard last month. people having difficulty getting information, even as far as what's going on there. we heard of people being evacuated. the evacuated centers themselves have had to be moved. it's a fluid situation. as i say here in manila, it's very loud here. >> all right, kathy, we'll let you take some cover right now. if this is the tail of the storm, it's only worse to come. we'll check back in. this is unprecedented scientifically and also from a human perspective. >> absolutely. >> we'll keep watching this. it's just the tail of the storm. about a half hour from now we'll get perspective and keep you up to date with this storm. they are calling it a super typhoon. we've not seen one of this combined strength before. >> people throw the word historic around a lot. this actually is. this is reality the philippines is facing right now. let's get back to washington. president obama saying he's sorry. in an nbc interview, the president is apologizing to americans. the response to what people call his broken promise that people could keep their insurance plan if he liked it. his team is looking at a range of options to try to help and he's confident the site wit be even better by the end of the month, in his words. athena jones is following the story this morning. >> reporter: the president is heading to new orleans to talk about the economy. but he's still dealing with the fallout over healthcare.gov and the news that millions of americans are getting these cancellations letters from their insurance companies because of obama care. president obama is apologizing to americans losing their health insurance under the affordable care act, despite his frequent promises they'd be able to keep plans they like. telling nbc news -- >> i am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. >> reporter: about 5% of americans buy their insurance on the individual market and some are losing their plans as insurance companies cancel policies that don't meet tough new obama care standards. >> we weren't as clear as we needed to be in terms of the changes that were taking place. i want to do everything we can to make sure that people are finding themselves in a good position, a better position than they were before this law happened. >> reporter: the president said most people getting cancellation letters will be able to get new plans at the same price or cheaper on the new marketplaces. he stuck to his latest promise, that the healthcare.gov website will be fixed by the end of the month. >> it's better than it was last week, certainly better than october 1st. i'm confident it will be even better by november 30th and the majority of people will be able to get on there and enroll. >> reporter: obama's apology come as a bipartisan pair of senators filed legislation thursday to delay for a year the fine to be levied on people who don't buy health insurance by the end of march, citing the problems with the website. west virginia democrat joe manchin and illinois republican mark kirk say this common sense proposal simply allows americans to take more time to browse and explore their options, making 2014 a true transition year. now, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius will be in atlanta today where she'll announce new regulations requiring insurance companies to treat mental illness like any other illness. i should tell you, this rule -- these rules were put in place back in 2008, this requirement that insurance companies treat a mental illness like any other illness. they've been waiting for regulations on how to do so. that's what we'll be hearing from kathleen sebelius today. >> athena, thank you for the update. let's talk more about this, the interview and what it means going forward with john king, joining us now. what do you make of the president's interview, the apology and also what more he is saying about obama care and how they're trying to fix it. does it help the administration's case? >> we'll see by watching the senate democrats. as athena just noted, joe manchin is part of one piece of legislation that would delay the penalty for not signing up. mary landrieu is among those pushing a new law and the house republicans want to do this as well, forcing the insurance companies to re-issue the policies that have been canceled and there are more and more proposals coming. what the president is trying to do is slow the panic among his fellow democrats. we know republicans want to make more runs at changing this law if not getting rid of this law. the problem for the president is democrats in the senate who are up next year, ten and perhaps even more of them now deon madding changes. the president said his team is trying to fix some things. those democratic senators want to be able to go home in this tough political environment and say i force the president to change the health care law. this is just the beginning. the apology is not going to stop it. >> john, let me ask you something. you looked at the transcript of the interview. he didn't say the words way deep into his answer. he kept getting pushed in that direction. i understand why any reporter would want that sound bite. it creates headlines and buzz. he was not apologetic, he said there are real reasons we made these decisions, we are trying to fix these problems. he had real reasons for things. how much is this playing into the politics of the situation versus him just staying the course of what he believes. >> you make a fascinating and important point. the president did not fully apologize. if you go back and look at the time line, the president essentially said if you're mad at me, i'm sorry, however, we think we were right and i think in six months or a year you'll see that this was a good law. that might be the case. the problem is, the problem of the moment. you have the competence question about the rollout plan including the website and the credibility on the side that the president said consistently, not once, not twice but dozens of times if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period. chris and kate, the administration was told it knew in the summer of 2010, as it started to write the regulations that as many as two-thirds of the people in that insurance market, as many as two-thirds of them would lose their plans. that was in 2010, the summer. remember the campaign in 2012, more than two years later, the president was sticking to this, when mitt romney was criticizing him and saying you'll lose your doctor, your plan. he was saying, no, you won't. his own people on paper were telling him that almost two-thirds could lose it. he was saying no, you won't. >> what should the president do about the latest move by house republicans? they'll move next week to follow up on what they said they were going to do, that does just that, calls his bluff. is that x booing the president in? it appears on the surface that it's going to make the administration like disingenuous if the republicans say we're trying to fix it and they're not letting us. >> that is the problem. speaker boehner saying mr. president, thanks for the apology, now prove that you mean it. let's change it for these people. that's on the republican side. that's important to watch. they want to do this on the senate side as well. the democrats are more worth watching at the moment. the only way the president can push back against the republicans is if he knows the democrats have his back. survival is the strongest instinct the in politics. those senators on the ballot next year are running for a six-year term. they want to be in office long after president obama is gone. when he says be facial, give me time, their answer at the moment is sorry, mr. president, no. that's the dynamic. the president himself in that interview said we need to make some changes, my team is looking at that. he has now opened that door. >> isn't that the problem, though, is that you finally get the president if you are the opposition party into a position where he's saying, yes, we have to fix these things. now it's seen as a sign of weakness. this is what you say you want it, he says it, now it's a sign of weakness. the white house is paralysis by analysis. you're left with the same problem, john. the question becomes, this bill they're going to put forward on the republican side may be in both houses, hey, you get to keep your plan. who does? what plan? what if your plan stinks? what if they're going to gouge you on price the following year? now you'll put a band-aid on it that may make you bleed more. if you play to the politics do you wind up losing what is really important? >> isn't there potential it could ruin the law that was passed? >> that's one of the white house concerns, whether you agree or disagree with the law, their concern if you start changing the rules you give more people to sign up, for example, they need the healthy young people to sign up. they wanted the new regulations to make the plans broader to get the coverage they insisted that the president insisted you would get under the new law. every change you make, you factor in what does it do to the law in general. this debate, even if they pass new laws next week or tonight even you'll watch them roll out, watch them be impacted and lick you're seeing here, when you make such big changes you get some things wrong. this has become the all-consuming debate in washington. from a political standpoint and a policy standpoint. if you're the president of the united states, it's not just what is happening but when it's happening. this is a dangerous point during his second term. he did not close the door with this partial apology. >> great to see you, john, thank you so much. >> thank you. a lot of news we're following this morning. good morning to you at home. making news, new developments out of talks on iran's nuclear program, there are signs that a deal could be close. iran's chief negotiator telling cnn a breakthrough agreement could happen today. secretary of state john kerry has changed his plans and is now joining the talks in geneva. a state department official says he'll help narrow any differences. last month's government shutdown cost the can't big time to the tune of $2 billion. new government report says that was the value of time and productivity wasted when 800,000 federal workers could not report to duty. that's just part of the equation. another 500 million was lost in related spending, that includes tourists who canceled trips to other sites, among other slowdowns. a wisconsin girl missing for nine years has been found in mexico. connie mccallister was 16 when she disappeared. she is 25 now. she claims her boyfriend drugged her and took her to mexico against her will. mccallister met an american missionary who contacted police in wisconsin and now she is hoping to move her family to the u.s. twitter's first trading day, quite a big hit, the initial public offering price was $26 a share but by the time trading ended that stock surged more than $70 to nearly $45 a share,ing abouting one of the internet's most valuable properties. a story now that may restore your faith in humanity. a tennessee mother and daughter on vacation in daytona beach, florida, walking on the beach find a purse that has $13,000 in cash and thousands of dollars worth of jewelry inside. what did they do? they turned it over to the authorities who tracked down the rightful owner in maryland. so on this friday, we show you, there's goodness. >> who has $13,000 and jewelry in a purse? >> i don't. just for the record, if i leave my purse i'd still like it back. it's not going to have jewels and $13,000 in it. >> if there is you and i are going to be hanging out quite a bit more. >> a lot of intrigue there. karen mcginnis, in for indra petersons. boy do we have weather on the watch this morning. what do we know now? >> the temperatures are about 20 degrees cooler this morning than they were yesterday morning. very mild air out ahead of that cold front. now that the cold front has moved through, we'll start to fill in with that much colder air coming in from the west and the northwest. we start the morning out with 30s and a few 40s here and there. along the eastern great lakes you're seeing a little bit of snow, not a lot, just flurries. some areas may see a rain/snow mix. temperatures across the midwest in the 20s and 30s. we haven't seen the coldest air yet as you would expect. certainly lake-effect snow, especially across the eastern great lakes enaskeding from rochester to buffalo into syracuse. maybe a few light snow flurries expected across the upper ohio river valley as well. well, temperatures will bounce around a little bit, going into the next several days. but after that, another funnel system will move through and by late in 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