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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 in our hotel. Weve seen street signs just tossed down the road. If you hear those loud noises, thats ...

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 more than 38 million. That is the most a car has ever sold for at auction. No word so far on who bo...

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 antitiering preventions. They say you cant disadvantage any of my hospitals that you contracted for. They ...

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 people thats speaking in this room has a lot of that background and data that you look at. From my p...

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 eliminating gag clauses from providers in they prohibit the health plan from sharing information with t...