We begin with president obamas healthcare plan, and his new pledge to fix it. He says he is responsible for the flawed roll out, and in an about face, he says americans can now keep their plans for up to a year, but it still doesnt solve the problem with the website and the mounting pressure from his own party. John, it really was a remarkable appearance by president obama. He was contrite, he was apologetic, he took the blame, and proposed a fix that are plaguing his new healthcare law. Thats on me. We fumbled the roll out on this healthcare law. The president denied he was aware of launch tests that warned of disaster. I was not informed exactly that the website would not be working. I dont think im stupid enough to say this is going to be like shopping on amazon or travel losty, a week before the website opens if i thought that it wasnt going to work. With millions seeing their existing policy canceled the president proposed a fix. Insurers can ebbing tend current plans that would otherwise be canceled into 2014, and americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to reenroll . The same kind of plan. But there is no guarantee insurerring will offer the old plans. In a statement, the industrys top lobbyiest slam the proposal. It wasnt good enough for republicans either. They took turns on the house floor telling fails of canceled coverage. Nearly 25,000 nevadaians lose insurance. Of greater concerns democrats threatened to defy mr. Obama. Face as tough reelection in deep red louisiana. The president s announcement this morning was a great first step, and we will probably need legislation. To make it stick. Late thursday, mr. Obama spent top aids to try to calm nervous democrats as eroding support threatens the agenda. It is legitimate for them to expect he to written back some credibility on this healthcare law in particular. And on a whole range of these issues in general. Even as he shouldered the blame, he inch cysts in the end, his Health Care Reform will work. On a big gain, which the game is not over. And john, tomorrow in the house of representatives the first vote on a republican plan that would not only allow congress supers to buy their old plans have access to those old plans but it would allow insurance policies to sell them to new customers and the fix would go beyond just the one year 2014 that the president has proposed. It has been a long road for president obama. Promises were made, but the challenges were enormous. We will have universe salt lake healthcare in america. If you like your plan, and your doctor, you wont have to do a thing. If you have Health Insurance, you like your doctor, your plan, you can keep your doctor. Now is when we must bring the best ideas. Of both parties together. And show the American People that we can zillion do what we were with sent here to do. Now is the time to deliver on healthcare. If you like your current insurance, you will keep your current insurance. I completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of americans. Particularly after assurances that they heard from me that if they had a plan that they liked they could keep it. Ultimately, im the head of this team. We did fumble the ball and what im going to do is make sure we get it fixed. The Insurance Agency has to be willing to play along, and extend coverage to people they have already dropped. Insurance companies are already raising some concerns. Keep in mind, we are talking only two to 3 of the population, but thats still millions of the people. This disstabilizing the marketplace here, and we may see a premium hike as a result of it. So do companies have to reone people that they have already dropped. This is sort of the gray area, what wasnt discussed during that press conference. The decision is essentially been pushed only by state commissioner whose review rates. Thats usually a lengthy process. So to get that done, may be a tall order. It isnt also clear whether these commissioners are onboard, if the old price will be grandfathered in, or whether the new price gets included. So relatively a lot of questions here. Will we be able to see this reflective right away or not. Thats the interesting thing about this. One of the signature parts of the Affordable Care act, is ending insurance discrimination. But the ban based on preexisting seasons hasnt kicked in. So that means those that proposed able to get Health Insurance without obamacare, may actually be the healthier ones. So now if they dont have to join the exchange that means more sick people could be joining. So that really raises the risk for insurers when you look tat all the old and sick people that maybe couldnt get in before, and that could jack up prices as insurers basically renegotiate and look at new risks. We will be asking, thanks very much. In the philippines it is exactly one week since the catastrophic typhoon, the death toll is staggering. The rest skew and relief efforts overwhelming, and for the survivors the aid is still trickling in. Paul has made it so sebu city and he joins us live. Paul. John, i am here right outside the city itself. This is the hub on the military side of the airport. You request see some philippine is australian ships behind me. They have been looking loops back and forth, taking aid back out, bringing evacuees back, we saw a few hung go by here. You mentioned also the death toll, john, theres been a little confusion this morning the number we are being told to go with now, from the Philippine Government is 4,460. Thats the official count right now. But we are hearing also from the mayor skying that theres 4,000 dead in his town alone. So these numbers still very fluid, obviously as more and more people are found, and people trickle in who have been missing these numbers are always changing. The big news here, right now, is that the u. S. S. George washington american air contractor Carrier Strike group is just off the coast, starting to fly in a lot of supplies. 21 helicopters on that ship alone, more than 80 aircraft. A huge relief capacity there. Right off the coast of the province. Paul i know you have talked to some evacuees what have they told you . Thats right. We spoke to some just as they got off the plane, all they had were the things they were carrying. The clothes on their back, maybe a few small possessions. We spoke to a family that they felt very porchal that they had relatives in man nip la. And two young children, they survived the storms spending, most of their time in the Mormon Church where the roof was blown off, but the walls provided enough support they said they lost their home, everybody they know has lost their home. People really struggling. Feeling grateful that they survived but wondering what has taken so long for aid to arrive. John. All right, paul, thank you. And for more on the disaster and the relief efforts we turn to craiglessson, he is on a boat on his way to baton island, the first to deliver aid to this isolated place, just north. We have spent the night. It is a relief supply ship that is heading up to the typhoon ravages islands off the northern tip. This ship is packed with food, and water, and even Building Materials as you can see here. So that the people on these islands can stop the process of rebuilding their lives. Its being set up there by a local government. And its been organized by a Rapid Response unit. A local civilian volunteer group, and all of these goods have been donated either by the government our by private individuals. And one of them has already been up there and told thaws the island has been 95 destroyed. People are living up there without any shelter is very little food and water. And the medical condition up there is quite dire. One of the main problems is diarrhea and pneumonia, particularly among the children that have no clean water and no shelter. Craiglessson on the boat in the philippines, in a few minutes ago i spoke with the brigadier general, he is the commander relief operations in the philippines and i asked him for a update on the relief efforts. So the office of disaster relief, informed me, that we have generators that are in bound. On the aircraft today that will allow the city to reestablish its power, now i am not saying thats on a strict time line, lit take some effort to get that in place. But to you that will translate into the Philippine Government taking Civil Authority back, and trying to provide services from their end, rather than being provided by the community. That is a positive development. The other development is we have outlying cities that have reported in, they are in bad shape. In many cases the reports are a couple of days old, we just received a report that the second largest city, looks like they may have their own city water restored today. So we pushed folks down there to check those sources to make sure that nothing is contaminated. To me thats huge news. The other development is last night, we opened the airfield, 24 hour operation, and thats huge. Last night we had ground convoys arrive. And the Security Forces and do the break down and distribute them out into the neighborhood in a more remote location. So we are seeing this huge surge of effort all kind of together, right about now, what we have been doing since day one, you are seeing it very very robust effort today. As well, theres a big Navy Presence that just arrived. Tell us about how that is helping too . They bring a number of shifts. Hundreds of thousands of pure water. They have containers that they can pump the water into, that we can distribute that into the outlying region. They have search and rescue, they can to to places that we perhapses can not get to, and make contact with these stricken populations. They have transport aircraft, they can fly in, they have already flown into the air force base. And so the George Washington is a huge capability. Kind of an arrival of the cavalry so to speak. Thank you for the good news. Thank you for the information and bringing us up to date, we appreciate it. My pleasure. Good evening everybody. We are looking at a tropical depression now, they didnt really gain enough strength as it made its way over the south china sea, but for a tropical depression, this is going to jump anywhere between five and eight inches of rain. So you he so some rain over the next day. Thats not the only thing. As it is pushing over here towards india. Sew with will be watching this very carefully, the rain is beginning sri lanka will also be effected by this storm. And also over towards somalia, we were looking at this particular storm, as a cyclone making land fall. Now, its very rare that somalia see as storm actually since the mid 1960s. Only five storms have made land fall in this region. Over 100 people died because of this, they received a years worth of rain just in two days across h region. Of course, here in the states we are looking at an atlantic hurricane season. Kevin, talk later, thank you. President obama choice to lead the Federal Reserve says theres more work to do. Janet yellen told senators today she committed to promoting a strong recovery. She says she will do whatever the necessary to get the one back on track. This is a virtually unprecedented situation. And we know that those long spells of unemployment are particularly painful for households imposed from great hardship, and costs on those without work. On the pages, of those who suffer these long unemployment spells. On their families. So i consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery. Fixed Mortgage Rates also increased. The market is responding to the plan to maintain the feds economic stimulus. Next, Barbara Burkes mission, my interview with the former first daughter on her life and passion after the white house. On Al Jazeera America change the way you look at news next, go deeper on the nations top stories with america tonight a fresh take on the stories that connect to you. Investigative journalism thats engaging, powerful, thought provoking. Theres nothing but hopelessness. Its either kill or be killed. America tonight, right after live news at 8 and 11 eastern. Welcome to Al Jazeera America im john seigenthaler, and heres a look at the headlines. Al Jazeera America, theres more to it. Global initiative that is changing one life at a time. In a moment pi interview, but first this report from michelle kerry. These athletes are taking their passion for sport about h,v awareness to prevention. By grass root project, its founder from grass rooteds soccer. Which started in africa over ten years ago. The program is proven to be a huge success. Using sports as a tool to educate and mobilize communities to stop the spread of h,v. Now that same idea is being implemented here in the u. S. The hiv rate in d c is the high nest the u. S. , and its just a very little known fact, but its a really great way that the curriculum has been brought from a global setting but we are also addressing using it to address the health need in the u. S. Former first daughter is cofounder and ceo. All with the goal of addressing health and equity in the u. S. And in africa. I think it is important that we are teaching them about the choices they can make, and they can overcome the peer pressure. I think the program is very helpable because it helps a lot of us understand. The program delivered two months of activities and discussions. But being able to recognize that the problem is here and is broing and we are taking those steps to prevent it, and hope the people that do have it is amazing. I think more than one Sexual Partner can put you at greater risk of getting hive. When we are working with middle school youth, we are getting to them before they are engaging in risky activities. These College Graduates are grateful to know they can help provide information that will help them make great decisions later in life. Barbara bush visited al jazeera today, and i asked her show he got involved. I got involved in Global Health when i was in college, i was really interested in social justice issues and equity issues and when i was 21, in 2003, the president s emergency plan for aids relief, and at that time it was the biggest policy initiative to provide antiretroviral drugs for People Living with hive. So i ended up going on a trip to east africa, with my father. We went to five countries and i witnessed the launch and at the time it was a huge crisis, hive was. And i remember landing and seeing hundreds of people waiting in the streets that looked like now they looked like skeletons at the time, and it is hard to remember these graphic images, and i saw this huge inequity, and people were waiting for drugs that we had in the wrights, and that we had in more wealthy countries and they didnt have them purely because of where they were born. So i think i saw the need. To solve this huge challenge like hive. Hiv. So i decided to go back to college and study as much as i could, and a few years later i met other people my age, and we were all pretty obsessed with solving Health Challenges and realized that we werent the only ones. That thousands of young people want so solve the issues that exist. We are providing an opportunity to serve. We change them on system change and policy change, and we connect them so this is the beginning of their career. Requested followed that didnt have medical backgrounds they wanted to think through how can they serve more people, in a way that they can understand, and act on the Health Issues that they have. We have follows that are architects. They have been working with help, and what they have done is rethought health clinics. Tuberculosis is a huge problem in rwanda. If somebody walks in and has t. B. Everyone is exposed. And our architecture has figured out how to change how air flows through hospitals and more lives are saved or changes. And later tonight, more of my interview, and the roll bill clinton has played in her Global Health mission. Thats at 11 00 eastern, 8 00 pacific time. The buying and selling of Elephant Tusks is a 10 billion business. They have begun destroying a huge stock pile of illegal ivory. Went to work in the Rocky Mountain wide life refuge outside denver colorado. Six tons of confiscated illegal ivory was turned to dust, to send a message to the world that selling tusks from slaughter elephants will not be tolerated. We cant do it we are the second largest market of ivory in the world that is legal. And unless we get control of our own markets how can we in good faith ask china to do the same. By doing this we are taking the first step. Much of the ivory illegally traded in the word, heads for china and other countries the fish and Wild Life Service has been collecting confiscated ivory and soaring it at this warehouse outside of denver for 20 years. Ayery is trading at such a high value on the black market, that there is sufficient incentive for traders to move even small piece pieces and what that means on the ground, is not just hunters removing an occasional single elephant, it is poachers taking down a whole heard. Wild life experts say much of the illegal poaching is carries out by terrorists organizations that traffic in ivory instead of drugs. It is a high profit low risk crime, where individuals can make hundreds of thousands of dollars millions of dollars onle feint ivory or rhino horn, in a very sport period of time, and in a lot of countries they wont face jail time. We have a choice. We will either be witness or solution to an unfolding ebbing lodge cam disaster. Wild life advocates i Say International enforcement needs to be stepped up or elephants will go exist. One elephant is dying every 15 minutes. Thats 30,000 elephant as year. Just by simple math, in less than ten years elephants are gone. The time is yesterday. Some of the remains will be saved to build a memorial. Other culturally and historically will be saved for schools and museums. Now ritchie is upset. Yes, he wants to ge