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Louisiana. Hurricane laura could spring the storm surge that has not affected the gulf coast since Hurricane Katrina in 05. Lets get to katie beck, who is live in lake charles, louisiana, in the direct path of this storm. We were talking about 45 minutes ago, and it was really starting to ramp up. Bill cairns was just telling us in your area, amazing wind gusts of over 130 miles an hour. You are certainly seeing that. Reporter absolutely. That explains why several of the windows have blown out i...

Friday . Are wearing white sneakers. Usually he wears shoes with matching shoelaces for his tie. But today you have sneakers on. That is how we know it is friday. There they are. There they are. Lets get to the stories from around the world. Chiquita is rejecting an unsolicited takeover bid. Chiquita will stick with its planned purchase of an average competitor price. Credit card data may have been stolen from june to july at supervalu. Car that wentc for a classic price. A 1962 ferrari sold for...

Disadvantage me. Even if im four times more expensive, you cant charge your members more to go to my hospital than you do other hospitals. This is antitiering preventions in contracts and it prohibits fair competition. We have to do something about this. Could you repeat that for everyone, so if a provider or insurance carrier chargers us more, we cant charge our members more . Thats correct. Not every contract has this prevision, but many of the biggest Hospital Systems in the state have antiti...

Purposes here, the cpi is not bad because basically you want to measure what are the input prices that providers have to pay to deliver the services and that includes wages and other things that they have to purchase as input. Now, what this slide doesnt show is improving in quality and the mix of patients thats being seen. Theres some evidence that the population is getting sick overtime. Im unable to control over that here. This is an issue that affects us as a station and as a state, and the ...

Information, but it would take complicated out rhyme to see what the best choice is. The various stakeholders in the industry that are prevy could work together. Its unlikely that it will lead to transparency. They may be a need for government to step in. The city and county of San Francisco could facilitate Price Transparency in a variety of ways. The city and county could require that health plan maintain robust and quality tools. Second it could ask its Health Plan Partners to work toward eli...

We have a lot of values associated with San Francisco where were willing to pay higher wages to workers in our city because we believe in that. How do you think about the differences and maybe its part of a melting pot but i like to get your perspective. We could measure all those differences so we can do analysis that shows differences in prices, how much is due to the cost of living and thats factor prices inputs, but the more general answer is a competitive market, you know, will protect cons...

Associated with San Francisco where were willing to pay higher wages to workers in our city because we believe in that. How do you think about the differences and maybe its part of a melting pot but i like to get your perspective. We could measure all those differences so we can do analysis that shows differences in prices, how much is due to the cost of living and thats factor prices inputs, but the more general answer is a competitive market, you know, will protect consumers to insure that the...

Through hawaii water. They ripped up farmland there. Maria molina is there. She is tracking the extreme weather for us for the holiday. Good od morning. A big weather picture out there across portions of the midwest and eastern u. S. And also in the plains. A wide swath looking at the storms moving on through. The problem is the front that stretches from portions of the plains to the midwest that provide the focus for a lot of showers and heavy rains to fire up. We have flash flood watches in ef...

The most democratic states in america where people never thought i was going to win once, let alone twice. As my oldest son said to me after the president ial race was over, he said, you know, dad, im disappointed. He goes, but youve had a pretty good career. Hes proud. Hes okay. Hes okay with it. And so am i. No matter what happens next. You mentioned bush 41. I was up in maine on monday. I saw him. And i interviewed jeb. And you and i both worked for george w. Bush. Can you understand how the ...

5 30 tweeting this. Obamacare is imploding, he writes. Massive subsidy payments to pet Insurance Companies have stopped. Dems should call me to fix. Sandra john roberts is live on the north lawn on a busy friday. John, how much does this change obamacare . It will likely change it a lot. The president appears to be throwing a hand grenade into the middle of the obamacare Insurance Markets by announcing he will end the 7 billion in subsidies to health Insurance Companies that participate on the s...