Of americans taking stattens. Doctors are asked to consider more factors like smoking, high blood pressure. And family history. They are asked to diagnosis regardless of levels. The state Legislature Passed the bill in hawaii for samesex marriage. It will boost tourism by 217 million. Those are the headlines. Consider this is up next. Get the latest news on lines at aljazeera. Com. Desperation is growing by the hour in the philippines five days after enduring the terrifying typhoon. Survivors are struggling to get food and water. Consider this, with so much death and destruction, what is happening with the hampered relief efforts. Is bill clinton undermining the white house on health care . Well look at the building tensions in the Democratic Party over obamacare. Is the new face of alcoholism female . The surprising number of women who are struggling with the bottle and its terrible consequences. Welcome to consider this. We begin with obamacare, and the issues that are happening in washington, d. C. , because obamacare seems to have become obama scare for the democrats. Right now, the numbers of people participating in the Affordable Care act are well below expectations, just over 49,000 people have signed on through the 12 state based exchanges. Around 3 of the enrollment target in those states. Perhaps 40,000 to 50,000 have signed up through the federal government. Meanwhile, 440,000 signed on for medicaid through obamacare. Its a huge imbalance that tilts the program toward delivering more Subsidized Health care which would drive up the cast for most other americans. President obama is pressured to make changes, so americans who want to keep their Current Health insurance will be able to as he promised they could on the campaign trail. The latest nudge came from former president clinton. I permanently believe, even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what theyve got. An illinois senator dick durbin agreed in part, telling cnn, we need to look at the political reality and be open to constructive changes that will make this law work better. For more, im joined by bill snyder,. A a busy day on the obamacare front. Bill, how unusual is it for a former president to criticize a sitting president of his own party as bill clinton today and how much has it hurt the president to have his popular predecessor call on him in effect to keep his word . This is embarrassing. Clinton has made a few criticisms in the past, saying something about the president paying too much attention to the polls on syria, but this is, i think a great embarrassment to this administration. Some people think bill clinton is trying to help or boost his wifes chances in 2016, but i think he really is trying to save this president from what could be a a very politically damaging episode. Look, Many Americans believe this president did not keep his word. In fact, the latest poll indicates that for the first time ever, a majority of americans say they do not believe president obama is honest and trustworthy. That is a crisis. President clinton is trying to save him by saying you have to deliver what you promised. Interesting take. Its also senator durbin, michael, this is the president s former senior senator in illinois, a very, very close ally of the president s. He said the president should declarify who could and couldnt keep their health plans. At the beginning, he should have been clearer back then and now hes talking about taking another look at the law. When youve got bill clinton and dick durbin taking these positions, what does the president do . Its hard to believe that it was just about a month ago to the shutdown happened and everybody thought it was going to be glory for the dems, obamacare was coming up its an interesting point about dick durbin. Now that obamacare launched and the website had problems and as bill you said, the enrollment is so much less than expected, the u. S. Senators are now trying to make sure they keep the senate going into the 2014 election. They have other fish to fry, not just going after obama. This is the first time weve heard publicly the president speak about president obama since double down came out, the book last week, where there were perhaps some unflattering things said about bill clinton, alleged to have been said by president obama. There is this history. I dont think you can ignore the fact that there was hillary care before obamacare and in 2016, Hillary Clinton is going to run for president and this is the biggest booster. Dianne feinstein said shell co sponsor a bill allowing people to keep their insurance indefinitely. Senator of West Virginia working on delaying fines. Weve got democrats who are endangered next year in their elections who have gone to the white house and called the approximate the to task on all this. Is there something brewing within the Democratic Party on obamacare . Its called terror. Whats happening i guess democrats are terrified about what could happen to them next year if theyre suddenly on the defensive about the whole health care plan. There are two different, unrelated problems, one is the president is seen as not having kept his word and the departments are determined to pass some kind of law that can uphold the president s promise to let people keep their plans. The second is that the enrollments have been embarrassingly low. They need 70 times more people to sign up to this plan by next year in order to make it work, 70 times as many people. What will happen if they dont get snit premiums are going to skyrocket and theres going to be a huge wave of protest that may be the end of his signature policy that represents his legacy. There was a piece on forbes. Com that argued that obamacare is endangered, michael. Do you think thats the case . I think its certainly too early. Of course, its a provocative piece for forbes to write. Its too early to say that. The senate is looking at what the white house response has been to the in efficacies of the rollout, and saying listen, the white house does not seem like theyre trying to solve the problem. We have to solve the problem and we have to i had before the house. One of the most important pieces is the uptown legislation in the house. The andrews legislation is a response to that. So feinsteins signing on saying we dont want the republican proposal in the house, we want to make sure that the senate sticks at this is the one that comes out of congress. At the same time, the White House Bill is making a lot of noise saying were not going to change obamacare. Well, they better. Thats what bill clinton is saying, you to have change this. He has to do something to keep his word. If not, friday youre going to find a lot of democrats voting for the republican plan in the house. It can pass without democrats, because the republicans have the majority and almost all will vote for it. Theres a danger that it could pass the senate and then the president really will be on the spot. Congress will have passed the law that number one would try to keep the president s promise, but number two, open up the preexisting Health Care Plans, which are much cheaper, to anyone that wants to sign up. The upton plan would allow anyone in the country to sign up for those Health Care Plans that do not meet the requirements. What do you think is going to happen . Did the president hurt his cause by apologizing, or did it come too late . They doubled down for a while, Valerie Jarrett tweeting that the promises were true and he qualified things and finally came out with a full apology. What have it was came too late. It didnt necessarily have to be an apology in the beginning, but i think america and the departments and americans wanted to see the president take control of the situation. It didnt happen. The websites not working, we are going to figure this out. Im really annoyed, pissed that this isnt working. You didnt see that in the president. He had to apologize. Bill may know better than i, but theres not a great deal of present for a president apologizing mid stream like president obama did. And its always after watergate, the bay of pigs, that i hear president s apologize, this is in the middle of it, but not seeming like mr. Fixit there. I think that they have to get involved with the senate here and you have to see better messaging. I think democrats everywhere you ever once in a while will say i wish the people who ran the campaign would run the white house. Theyre able to message and this white house has been proven not to message very well. President s are not inclined to apologize, but in this case it was inadequate. People believed the president didnt keep his word. What he has to say is im going to keep my word. That is what clinton is urging him to do, i made a promise, im going to keep that promise. Keep the promise, thats what he must have do. Look forward to having you back. Thanks for joining us tonight. We turn now to the philippines, and im sorry, we have a problem with our connection with the philippines. Well try to get to the philippines in just a moment. Right now, we will take a break and coming up, a shocking report raising concerns about ethanol. Why this green energy may not be so great for the environment. A singer goes missing in russia for three weeks. Drug related violence in mexico is spreading to areas once thought to be safe. Ill tell you more, coming up. What do you think . Join the conversation on twitter and on our facebook and google plus pages. Every morning from 5 to 9am Al Jazeera America brings you more us and global news than any other American News channel. Find out what happened and what to expect. Start every morning, every day, 5am to 9 eastern with Al Jazeera America. We turn now to the typhoon ravaged philippines where more than 10,000 are feared dead and hundreds of thousands have lost their homes. As the situation gets more dire by the day, officials are on the defensive over relief efforts. The military is on the way with food, water and medicine, but general paul kennedy heading up relief efforts for the u. S. Says time is running out. I need the rest of the world, the International Donor community to mobilize to help the filipinos in their hour of need. A week from now will be too late. Im joined by craig leeson in the northern philippines where relief supplies are did you meaning in. Thanks for being back with us today. I know the improving weather has got to be helping. How desperate is the situation . The weather is the one ray of sunshine literally that is happening here with this relief effort. There is incredible amount of supplies coming in from the international community. The u. S. Has donated 20 million to this particular effort. There are 22 countries involved. The philippines government itself is bringing in particularly here in the central part of the philippines, that was hit by the strongest part of the typhoon, theyre taking supplies from here into tacloban, the capitol of the province where weve seen most of the devastation. Once it reaches the ground, they are having problems coordinating the distribution of that. The reason for that is most of the government officials, police and services that usually you work in these local municipals were victims themselves. Its having to be done from manila with a Central Command unite here, so what were hearing, theyre saying theyre just flying sorties and wherever they see survivors waving with, they drop in and drop supplies. Some say that its becoming too dangerous, as soon as they drop on to the ground, theyre enveloped by people desperate to get some food, creating a problem for those who are actually delivering the raid. We heard reports that convoys on the ground have had issues with people jumping them and sauling they will. Ing tacloban, a teacher spoke about how some students are liesing their minds from hunger, from losing their families. The food and distribution situation is so bad that even at the airport where supplies are coming in, they dont have water and food. Well, weapon at the airport for most of the day yesterday, watching and talking to survivors, as they came in. There are three Philippine Air force c130 working on a rotational basis, while they can, while theres date hours. Theres no tower in tacloban, they cant light the airport there. Theyre being in the as i could, survivors traveling straight to the Military Hospital on the base there. They are filling the circulars with rice, sanitation devices, a with body bag. Also, a group of people, most survivors from tacloban trying to get back on those c130s to go back. This is courageous, because may not have been traumatized but what theyve seen and witnessed. They are saying that their families are without food and water and becoming so desperate that the only way for them to survive is if they had back here, gather their own supplies and take them back in. Thats a remarkable situation, given were hearing so much about how much relieve is actually supposedly going on goethites terrible to see these pictures and hear the stories. The filipino president said the death toll officially is 2,000. Hages it will rise. Have rescue workers and doctors made much headway into getting into the worsthit areas . Well, what you have to reeled is that a lot of the injuries down there are not only just what occurred in the typhoon and many concerns are that those who sustained injuries then, thats six days ago, those injuries are going to start causing major problems. They have to do with lacerations, mainly of the limbs, breaking of the legs, and the tibia, and those sorts of things are going to cause infection, which is going to be very difficult to treat, because they dont have tetanus injections and those sorts of vaccines that they need. We spoke to a doctor yesterday, who flew back here to sabu to collect suit yours and bandages to take in himself. Hes operating from his own house, patching up people on his own. His house has no roof. It was lost during the typhoon. He is there all by himself. Up until yesterday, he was using flyers from his tool box, because he didnt have the necessary medical equipment to do that. We hear those who are going into the correct plagues with medical designations, but we are talking many thousands of people in need. Its just terrible. Im sure there are a lot of heroic efforts and the big u. S. Effort is probably still a day away. We thank you for joining us with that report. Back in the u. S. , a bombshell report released today is raising serious questions about the ethanol were pitching into our cars and the damage producing that he got national is causing the environment. The secret dirty cost of obamas push. It has lost to millions of acres of land, polluted the Drinking Water of hundred was thousands of americans and may have added to greenhouse emissions. Is ethanol, something that was supposed to abcornerstone moving toward Green Energy Economy turned instead into a environmental disaster. Joining us now is deanna capiletto. Thank you for joining us. Its a very powerful piece. In 2007, theres the ethanol mandate that george bush signed into law and it was supposed to put more gas into our cars. He made he got national a huge part of his 2008 campaign. How did this go wrong . I think it went wrong because obviously within the allow was complex, these are complex requirements and what the administration did when they implemented the law signed by president bush, was it actually modeled for what was going to happen. The model is a prediction, we found we were wrong, whether thats the price of corner, how yields will respond to corn prices going up. We looked at what was happening in reality, six years after this mandate was greatly exponded and extended. Lets go down some of of the things at issue here. One is because of he got nat coming in and more demand for corn, the price of corner skyrocketed, leadings to meals that the animals eat, so that has raise the prices of the livestock and the corner people consume. Big problem there. If we focused on the environmental repercussions, we started this project, examining the cost of green energies. All energies come with cost with that we talk about the cost of oil, gas drilling with hydraulic fastening, coal mining and burning coal for power. People dont like to talk about the consequences of track lighting. What he got not did when it sold corner prices, when you put in place a market that is taking 40 have the corn club, thats a huge new market for corn has led to high corn prices. Farmers make money to survive and they planted corner. 15 million for acres of corner since this mandate was passed in 2007. Some of that was land conserved by the federal government. Now, but it being farmed, its exactly the opens. Absolutely. We looked at land that was put into conservation through a reserve program, followed crop lands. That was cropped 1015 years ago. We also examined virgin land or anywayive grass land. We found over the period of the mandate, the reserve Program Members have been come out and been cropped. Is that all corn . No. We can say that corn is on some of that land and thats in part because of the ethanol mandate. We looked at virgin ambulance and analyze where there was grass in 2006 that they came corn, soybeans, the new cropsing into into gasoline in 2013. The mandate was supposed to reduce our relevance on fossil fools fuels. Fertilizers are made using natural gas. Ethanol production i guess adding the greenhouse admissions . Bottom line is, you cant make the determination. The science is not there. In order to compare a farm to wheels analysis of ethanol to a cradle to grave analysis of oil is a very complex thing. Were using fertilizers made with natural gas. They are applied to crops our analysis looked at how much gasoline is used on farms, since theyre telling and going back and forth for the crops, greene is used up. What we are saying is and theres a lot of debate on it, we really dont know whether its better. Theres a lot of scientists that says right now, current today, its probably not. Will it be better coming 2022 . Maybe. Its a really hard thing. Another consequence you raised with respect to fertilizers is since there have been more use of them, were in danger of pollution. We are applying less fertilizer per acre or per bushel of corner produced. The virtue of increasing Corn Production so much, 15 acres mo