arriving. the first helicopters flew in from uss geoge washington bringing food and water bo make of the more devastated area of leyte island. also seeing philippine government s effort beginning to get up to speed, although there are terrible bottlenecks, european television reporting several miles of back logs, ferries to leyte island, in tacloban itself the mayor complaining he couldn t get any trucks locally and a shortage of fuel. pledges of aid pouring in throughout the world, japan, made its biggest overseas deployment since the second world war. australia, britain, even china upped its offer, originally they came up with a $100,000 offer, which was ridiculed even in china s state press. that s been increased to $2
president from accomplishing anything and willing to derail the economy just to do that, there are efforts to continue to kill the affordable care act are pretty apparent. debbie wasserman schulz, thank you. in the philippines, critical help from the u.s. military finally arrived. uss geoge washington anchored off tacloban overnight. a total of 5,000 u.s. sailors and marines in the region as aid continues aid workers continue to face challenges getting supplies to survivors of the the typhoon killed 2300 people and left others homeless. ian williams joins me from manila. ian, this is finally the cavalry arriving, the george washington. they have to mobilize and get to remote areas. reporter: that s right. there is a hope, andrea, this is
next year and keep them from voting for something that is different from what the president proposed but along the same lines, trying to address the problem that the president identified today. i mean, it s possible that you just say you just don t even engage on that vote and you determine to focus on the senate to avoid getting some bill that you just find unacceptable. susan paige, what a day. very, very interesting stuff. that does it for us for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what s next on news nation. tamron, a lot of news here in washington. it s a big day, right? good things going on. at least conversationwise. thank you very much, andrea. developing news, as mentioned. president obama tries to make good on a promise, announcing just a short time ago that if people want to keep their insurance policies, they would have some options now on the table. will this be enough to calm the stressed out member ss of his o party?
it would appear that seeing a woman director of the cia is no longer a question of if but when. ann curry, nbc news, washington. as ann curry reported women at the cia have risen to prominent roles in the last decades. a half century struggle. the real cia is not exactly homeland. you said you were an important man. you said you had information about an attack by abu nasir. i have information. prove it. because unless you do, i won t protect your family. the agency has still never been headed by a woman. last year after finding only one-fifth of all the officers promoted in the senior intelligence service were women, cia director david petraeus asked madeleiine albright to examine. found they failed to sponsor women officers which directly
work if people give it a chance. the insurance trade group said the insurance industry is going to need more fixes to prevent consumer harm. this is not going to work. got an e-mail saying premiums set next year based on the assumption consumers would be transitioning to the new marketplace. so if fewer, younger, healthier people aren t there, premiums will be increased, it will be harmed. this is a difficult year as we transition to the open market with a pooled risk. having said that, it would be helpful if republican colleagues would work with us to try to fix this for american people instead of trying to score political points. i know how sick people are with washington trying to make people look bad rather than getting to the table and compromising,