now at noon major changes announced by president obama to address one of the top concerns of the new healthcare program. after days of not being able to reach his family in the philippines a man with bay area ties heads to the typhoon's devastated area to make a difference. thousands of job cuts coming to lockheed martin, how many are expected here in the bay area. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now.

this is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. >> good afternoon, i am tori campbell, it was a signature promise of obamacare, if you like your health insurance plan you can keep it. but it turned out not to be completely true, so today president obama announced a change, he says will help him keep that promise for everyone. ktvu's justin gray is live in washington, the president had to respond after facing growing criticism from within his own party. >> reporter: yeah, tori, the president says millions who got cancellation notices in the mail are owed an apology by him. he says even more than that, they deserve the ability to keep their current healthcare plans. >> if this letter makes more promise for us, that we don't need at this moment. >> the letter says due to the

affordable care act gloria's health insurance care is cancelled. >> i don't know what is going to happen. >> they don't know who to trust. >> this came on us like a ton of bricks. >> i think it is fair to say the roll out has been rough so far. >> facing credit simple from them the president announced a change to the act allowing people who received those cancellation notices to keep their healthcare plans for one year after all. >> to those americans i hear you loud and clear, i said that i would do everything i can to fix this problem and today i am offering an idea to help do it. >> they scheduled a vote on friday, he says that won't change it. >> when it comes to obamacare it is clear the american people simply can't trust this white house. >> republicans and even democrats in congress aren't satisfied with the president's proposal. the house has scheduled a vote

on that republican plan on friday, live in washington, justin gray, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. house democratic leader nancy pelosi says democratic lawmakers agree the troubled roll out of the healthcare law must be fixed and will have a proposal for the house to vote on tomorrow, however she conceded the republican lead house will likely defeat it. >> we will have a proposal for our members to vote on something on the floor tomorrow that addresses the problem, it is a fix. with don't have a likely hood of passage. >> pelosi is not giving details but says it would reinforce but not compete with president obama's plan. for more details about the healthcare policy changes and to see extended excerpts of the president's speech this morning go to ktvu.com and look under hot topics. we are learning of an

officer-involved shooting at a children's hospital in wisconsin, milwaukee county sheriff's offices say this morning police responded to the neonatal unit of the hospital where there was a report of a wanted felon in possession of a firearm, they arrived to find him holding a baby, when they approached he put it down and ran, they opened fire when the turned toward them in a threatening manner, he is being treated for injuries described as non-life-threatening, no one else was injured. now to our continuing coverage of the typhoon in the philippines last week. they carried out their first mass burial of victims, that comes as the aircraft carrier uss george washington arrived there to deliver food and other aid. you are about to meet a man on a mission, both for his family and others in the philippines. it took several days for steven carpenter to hear from his family there, including his

pregnant wife. now he is on his way over. brian flores caught up with him at san francisco international airport to find out how else he is helping. >> these are gloves, yeah, i have a variety of gloves. >> packing more than clothes and toiletries, he is on a mission. >> i was worried beyond belief. >> he grew up in oregon but was on a trip when the typhoon hit. he didn't know if they were alive until then. >> right then i realized i am going to the philippines and pull them out, that is my responsibility. i have to. >> the original plan was to have the baby in the philippines, although he works there, the benefits offered considered his wife's pregnancy

a pre-existing condition, things were working out fine until the typhoon hit, luckily she caught a plane and got out. >> they prioritized her, thank god, i never felt such relief in my entire life. >> there is also that website where he has been able to raise money for others, things like antibiotics and others. >> i saw what happened and it was flattened. >> he plans to stay to help others but more importantly bring them back home to the states. >> if you would like to help log onto ktvu.com, we have posted a list of additional resources on how you can send aid or donate to help the victims of typhoon haiyan, look for the hot topicscestion. lafayette police are looking for a man who robbed a

bank there this morning at 10:00. several nearby schools were locked down during the search. police used a dog to help in the search, witnesses didescribe the robber as a white man in his 20s wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses and a long sleeved blue button downed shirt. we just checked with the california highway patrol and interstate 80 in pinole has re- opened all lanes of traffic this follows an accident that snarled traffic all morning. it is a story we brought you live after it happened, at least one lane was shut down before then. a big rig driver told chp he was cut off as he was exiting a road, he says he swerved and hit an abandoned car before tipping over. he was okay but the truck filled with 25,000 pounds of frozen food for trader joe's

created a complicated clean up. >> basically we tried to upright the vehicle with the contents of the actual frozen foods inside but because it is now getting warmer the contents of the food is basically dethawing. >> that made the contents heavier so crews first off- loaded the truck then flipped it over, the morning commute was heavily affected as people slowed down to look. lockheed martin is cutting 4000 jobs nationwide and shuttering some of its offices in the south bay. ktvu's janine de la vega spoke to the company about just how many jobs this will affect here in the bay area. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, more than 6000 people work here at the sunnyvale campus, which is its space systems division. now we are being told by lockheed that 4 buildings here will close and 200 employees will lose their jobs. lockheed martin says it is eliminating a total of 4000 positions in part because the

federal government has cut back on awarding defense contracts and it needs to operate more efficiently. at the sunnyvale location assembling and testing is done for a number of critical national security and space programs, which include communication, infrared surveillance and missile defense, the ceo and president of lockheed issued this statement, saying," reducing our work force of dedicated employees and closing facilities are among the most difficult decisions we make. in the face of government budget cuts and an increasingly complex global security landsscape these actions are necessary for the future of our business and will position lockheed to better serve our customers." some near by businesses like this restaurant told us they have regular customers from lockheed and it would have some impact. >> it will, a little bit. there is 200 people, mostly they meet twice a week, sometimes lunch, sometimes

breakfast, that would definitely see a little down and it is sad news to hear. >> since 2008 lockheed martin has cut its capital expenses and reduced its work force by 20%. it currently employees 116,000 people, no word on if those being left go are managers, engineers or support staff. we have just been told that it is a cut all across the board. reporting live from sunnyvale, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. we have new information this noontime on an outbreak of illness at a stanford dorm tire, santa collar county public health officials say it appears norovirus was the likely cause, as we told you last month 62 students who live at florence moore residence hall became ill, 7 had to be treated at stanford hospital. the university says it moved quickly to sanitize the hall which kept the virus from

spreading. health officials say frequent hand washing is the best defense against norovirus, which is most common in the winter. an entire town evacuated. we will tell you where this firey explosion occurred today and what officials believe caused it. plus some lingering fog, ktvu's mark tamayo will be here to tell you when and where the strong winds are expected. patrol officers in san francisco getting a new high tech device to fight crime. what advantages it will give officers on the streets.

a small town near dallas, texas, was evacuated today after a pipeline exploded and sent flames and a plume of smoke high into the air, firefighters in the town of milford are letting it burn itself out instead of fighting it. it is expected to burn for 24 hours, no injuries have been reported and flames have not damaged homes. officials say the pipeline is owned by san ramon based chevron and there is no word yet on what caused this explosion. a congressional committee this morning grilled the head of the transportation security administration about a critical report on one of the tsa's anticipate terrorism programs. the government accountability office concluded that the spot program, which has been in

effect for seven years and at a cost of nearly a billion dollars, has not proven itself effective. spot is designed to weed out terrorists by watching people's behavior as they wait in screening lines, some members of congress say it should lose its funding but the head of the tsa says that would be a bad idea. >> what i can envision is there being fewer passengers going through those, increased pat- downs, longer lines and more frustration by the traveling public. >> that same hearing is slated to take up questions about screener safety after the deadly shooting at lax. a california lawmakers father is dead in an apparent home invasion robbery in los angeles, police say the victim was 78-year-old joseph gato, the father of mike gato, his sister found the body, she had gone there to check on her dad

after she had not heard from him. police say the home had been ransacked and he may have been interrupting a burglary when he was shot. a new report from the fbi shows how bay area police departments are doing at solving crimes, san pablo had the most success, solving 92% of its homicides, san jose was 66, san francisco 44%, oakland 35% and richmond had the worst rate when it comes to tracking down killers with 30%, the fbi says the gap is due to many factors. the san francisco police department is arming its officers with high end smart phones to help fight crime. the department just began rolling out the phones to all 1600 of its patrol officers. the phones allow officers to pull up mug shots and access statewide criminal data bases from the field and police say

they will be especially helpful to officers working on foot. >> so he comes back with a possible arrest and we are able to use the phone to pull up a mug shot to actually confirm that he is wanted out of the city and county. >> all patrol officers should be equipped with the smart phones by the end of the year. oakland police are looking for a plan accused of breaking into cars in the downtown area, the driver of this acura is suspected of numerous car burglaries and theft. he led them on a chase after they witnessed him break into a car, he got away but police did catch his partner. three tesla employs are recovering today after being hurt in an industrial accident at the tesla factory around noon yesterday when hot metal spilled on to those workers, one of the workers has already been released from the hospital. he and another worker expected

to make a full recovery, however a third employee suffered bad burns to his hands, tesla ceo injured them in the hospital last night. cal osha is investigating the accident. power is just coming back on in hayward after an overnight outage, the cause of the outage happened here after a van crashed into a power pole just after 1:00 this morning. the crash knocked out power to 5700 homes and businesses in the area and the driver involved in the crash was taken into custody on suspicion of dui. the palo alto city council is set to consider adding new stricter rules to its already tough smoking ordinance. right now it is illegal to smoke in parks or within 25 feet of public entrances. the new rules would ban smoking outdoors, downtown on university avenue and side streets as well as the california avenue business district. city leaders are concerned about the dangers of second

hand smoke, some residents we spoke to say they support expanding the ban. >> just walking up and down here university avenue here in palo alto, 25 feet is definitely not enough, the smoke carries, you can smell it from more than 25 feet away, if you can smell it you are breathing it in. >> the city council is set to consider that on monday. >> well, dense fog across a good portion of the bay area this morning, impacting visibilities, that fog beginning to lift and as a result the dense fog advisory has been allowed to expire, here is our live camera toward mt. diablo and high clouds pushing into the region so today the overall headline after the fog will be cooler than yesterday and the winds picking up later on this afternoon into the evening hours. you can see here on the satellite this is the loop over the past three hours, you will notice the low clouds and fog near the immediate coastline, also that band of high clouds, so if you are not in the fog

give you an idea here with that higher band of cloud cover pushing into the region so we will continue to have that, hazy sunshine and fog lingering around the coast and bay, with that fog san francisco right now only 55 degrees, san jose currently 60, santa rosa 56 and fairfield 64 degrees. for today here is our live camera, in fact first we will show you will the headlines, those are your forecasts, and those are your temperatures during those times. this is the source so today it kicks in and tonight more of a breeze with gusty winds

approaching 30 to 35 miles an hour and gusty winds strongest around the coast and the bay as you can see for the coast and the hills especially above there and much cooler than yesterday and continues into the weekend. here is our wind forecast color, the brighter colors link up with them but you can see they do pick up as you see with those setting up the fire danger goes up for those areas so keep an eye on that, no red flag warnings but still keep an eye on that tonight and tomorrow morning. temperatures cooler, those are your temperatures in those areas and here is a look ahead, your five-day-forecast with your weekend always in view, breezy conditions into friday morning, your weekend dry but cooler, upper 50s and lower 60s and by tuesday a slight chance of a sprinkle tory, here, as far as long awaited significant

rainfall not in the picture just yet, in fact the rest of the month some of the models hinting it could be dry but of course, that could change and hopefully it will. >> yeah, hopefully it will, thank you. drivers are warned but delays there as crews prepare for the opening of the 4th bore this weekend, only one bore in each direction will be open between 10:00 tonight and 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, then final work begins friday night until at least saturday morning or as long as necessary. drivers on highway 24 between arinda and oakland should expect 30 minute delays, the new bore is set to open sometime between saturday and monday morning. and today another fire drill is scheduled for inside that new bore, this is video from a drill conducted earlier this week. the goal is to make sure the new tunnel is safe in the event of a fire or other emergency. back in 1982 the caldecott was the scene of one of the

deadliest tunnel fires in history, 7 people were killed in a chain reaction crash involving a gas tanker. a major road problem in one san francisco neighborhood, we will tell you where and what officials say is causing it.

an optimistic outlook for holiday spending for macy's sending the stock markets pack to record levels but disappointing evening from sysco has its stock down, the dow up 50, nasdaq up 5 and s&p up eight. a federal judge has tossed out a classact suit against google books, google scanned 20 million books to create the world's largest digital library, the author's guild wanted $750 per copyrighted book but the judge said google was not violating copy why law because it was not copying the books for people to raid, rather creating a word index to help people find books. the construction work there has caused a problem, people living in the area say rats have been swarming the empty lots there, the rats are bold enough to come out in broad daylight but residents say the rat problem is really bad at night, construction projects can cause prodents to flee into surrounding areas, coming up at 5:00 thieves strike second harvest food bank but they didn't steal food, the key item suspects took that will stop the food bank from reaching those in need. thank you for making ktvu your choice for news, we will see you the next time news brakes and always here for you on ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter and facebook, thanks for watching, have a great day. send comments to comments@captioncolorado.com captions by terry james, caption colorado, llc. to thosuffered in silence...

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