live it from bay area aetna's station and this is kron4 news. >> campus security was high on alert. graffiti found on the campus last month marked today as a day of violence. they tell us what the diversity is saying and what is being done about it. >> dozens of vehicles and cops of but maintain a heavy presence across the uc santa cruz campus. there are three beagles and the patrol outside social science buildings were the threatening graffiti was found on the men's bathroom wall. they say that there are not sure what or who was threatened. the decision to alert students was based on recent shootings in tucson. >> their graffiti is more threatening than what we normally get. it was really an act. for us to say let us be cautious and form a community about this. the tragedy in tucson it reminded us and we're conveying to the campus community is that safety is everybody's business. in the end people need to report information they have. >> students are urged to report anything suspicious and decided it for emergency on campus on notification of and to move around in groups. it would

three other companies aetna, anthem blue cross and pacificare have all agreed to put off increases for 60 days while the state insurance commissioner reviews the plans. he has the power to block rate hikes if the company spends less than 70% of premiums on medical expenses. >>> well, the healthcare reform act was supposed to revolutionize care for children but there is a catch. on the consumerwatch, julie watts with why it's leaving some kids out in the cold. >> reporter: when corinne turned 19 she was kicked off her family's kaiser health plan and had to get her own. then healthcare reform passed allowing kids under the age of 26 to stay on their parents' plans. and corinne's dad evan couldn't wait to move her back. >> want to be a savings until i bring her back to a better plan. >> reporter: it would have but kaiser refused to let her switch citing a pre-existing condition. corinne was recently diagnosed with cervical cancer. >> insurance companies got very tough on pre-existing conditions in the last 10 years. >> reporter: insurance advocates say depending on your health plan adding

aetna, anthem blue cross and pacificare have agreed to put off their rates until the commissioner reviews the plan. it can be hiked only if the company spends 70% or less on premium expenses. blue shield premium will go up on the prices march 1. >>> president obama went on youtube and let people all around the country ask him questions. grace lee on the questions bay area students asked. >>> reporter: >> the best possible chance... >>> reporter: reaching out to americans, the president offered to answer questions from anyone through youtube. the competition was fierce. out of the 140,000 questions submitted, only 15 were chosen. that included three students at kip king collegiate a charter school in san lorenzo. >> it hasn't hit me yet that obama has actually seen our video and has actually seen me talking about education. >> i don't know, but he said like we won and we got picked like 15 other videos like oh, like i didn't even know what to say. it hasn't hit me yet. >> i was so excited. it's like a dream. i never thought i would be in this situation. >> i started dancing around. i was e

companies such as anthem blue cross, united health care, health met, blue shield of california, cigna and aetna provide coverage for acupuncture and chiropractic treatments. i believe that the medical cannabis movement is now where acupuncture was 15 years ago. the shambala healing center is poised to provide a high quality, holistic alternative and complimentary health care in the art of the mission. its organizers are people who are deeply committed to the well being the neighborhood and its residents and who understand the area's culture and needs. for this reason, i fully support the shambala healing center's application and urge you to approve this highly worthwhile project. please feel free to contact me with any questions. sincerely, sharon, licensed acupuncturist. thank you. >> commissioners, good evening. philip lesser, mission merchants association. this is the first time i have spoken on behalf of a medical cannabis dispensary and the way i got roped into this one is i got a telephone call from al shawa in august. al and i have known one another for 25 years. he was my tenant. yes, l

aetna and blue cross pacific care putting planned increase on hold with people with individual policy. blue shield announced it will raise premium on nearly 200,000 californians. for some rates will climb by as much as 59 percent. those rates go into effect march first. >>> more sign of mentaling that silicon valley is recovering. google is launching the biggest ever hiring drive and then there's construction. david lou reports from san jose. >> vacant office space is a clear by product of the economic downturn in silicon valley but real estate analyst say a sudden up take in activity of business expansion and new start up. big reason is renewed venture capitol activity. they made 21.8 billion dollars in investment last year up 19 percent from the year before. also the first increase since 2007. silicon valley start up got 8 and half million dollars. that's 4 times more than new england the second place renal for investment. hiring translates into demand for housing. and there's good news on that front, too. san jose mayor chuck reed told business leaders at breakfast event that permi

aetna and anthem blue cross and pacific care are putting raises on hold.it will raise premiums on 200,000 californians. for some rates will climb as much as 59%. >> 6:16 now. you mentioned the possibility of flight delays because there's fog out there. mike, did you have a chance to check. >> yes. 36 minutes at sfo right now. three-quarter mile visibility. could be a long duration event through the morning hours. tough go if you have friends coming in there. tough go for traveling. the fog as we talked about yesterday more widespread. hazy down the embarcadero. how to dress this morning. how about upper 30s to low 40s in the east by valleys. around the bay shore we have upper 30s to low 40s but oakland, san francisco and half moon bay mid to upper 40s. monterey bay, we are all over the place. mid to upper 30s. louisville -- where did that come from -- gilroy, watsonville, santa cruz and -- i'm thinking louisville slugger. partly cloudy and cooler today. showers likely saturday evening and more so sunday morning. that's the biggest change in the forecast. d

billion in subsidies to our for-profit health care industry, the equivalent of a bank bailout bill for aetna cigna, wellesl wellesley. and we are watching barack obama hand these corporations exemptions because they don't want to ensure chronically ill children. i spent enough time in seminary to tell you that we can only define these kinds of institutions as institutions of death. they make their money directly off of human suffering and pain and death. including the deaths of children. it is legally permitted in the united states to hold sick children hostage while their parents frantically bankrupt themselves trying to save their sons or daughters. that is what corporations do. and the failure of the liberal class to stand up on behalf of the week and the sick, to challenge the perverted idea that nothing is sacred, that everything is a commodity. human beings are commodities. the natural world is a commodity, which corporations exploit until exhaustion or collapse means that is to is essentially cannibalizing not only our country, but the planet. and it is not accidental that the environ

that first edna covered and cigna said it is not as this -- that first aetna covered and cigna said it was not necessary. so i had to continue to fight with cigna, and through the appeals process and all the things that were there for me to do, and they denied it and denied and denied again. my doctors had conferences with them. de approved it, and then when they're office would follow through to have it build, they would say, no, no, they should never have to prove that. denied. so, through shame and speaking out in public constantly about this evil practice that the insurance industry seems to have, i shamed them into covering it. but, fortunately, in that time that we went, the year and a half i was fighting with cigna over this, the manufacturer of the human growth hormone that aey received --they have bridge program set up. necessary or not, what do you do? they actually have things in place. so not only are we subsidizing the insurance industries, so are the pharmaceutical companies. granted, they are not all free of guilt, but at the same time, i am very grateful to eli lilly fo

jones has now notified aetna, anthem blue blue cross and pacific care.m to delay pending increases while he examines paperwork submitted to his office. >> a vallejo family is demanding to know why police are not investigating a pitbull attack on their ten-year-old son. >> police say this is not their investigation. this is a pitbull attack. this is an issue for animal control. take a look at the kid who was attacked by the pitbull. the ten-year-old he says he was attacked monday a block from his house. a man was walking his dog and let the animal off the leash. it took off, came at him and tore him up. police don't have a report and routinely refer such matters to animal control. animal control allegedly told the family they can't investigate without a police report but apparently that's not true because in the vallejo tiles herald they're talking about their investigation it's moving forward. they've identified the neighborhood dog as peanut and looking to talk to the owner of the dog about this. the investigation's going forward maybe not at the speed

they had a financial services division, as did aetna.they got rid of those to focus on health care. you never heard of wellpoint out and now they're the top to play. my point is this been enormous change and evolution in health insurance industry. that will continue. and i think a lot of these big companies will decide that they can make money in other ways. cigna, for example, has a big international presence and it makes a lot of money by selling supplemental products in countries that have a nationalized health care system, but they get so problems like cancer insurance as they do in china. i think that we will seek -- they will look at other ways to make money, and five years from now, certainly tenure so now i think the landscape looked very, very different. >> thank you very much. >> we've been talking about the reform agenda with respect to increasing access to affordable care for as many people as possible, and how that counters -- encounters the profit-seeking notice of the insurance industry. but another key aspect of reform ha

an them blue cross, pacific care and aetna will delay their rate hikes. that will give the company time to go over the proposals. blue shield of california is the only one that says it's going ahead with its rate hike. >>> the red cross is blaming this week's snowstorms back east for a major drop in the national blood supply. they say the storms have forced the cancellations of blood drives and kept a lot of donors inside at local. with more winter storms on the way, the red cross is urging people give blood as soon as possible to leep get those supplies back up to sufficient levels. >>> today we'll find out how much snow has fallen in california. in a few hours the experts will measure the snow at phillips starks 90 miles east of sacramento station. they surveyed it last month and said there's twice as much water has normal for that time of the year. it's been a really dry month. we haven't seen any precipitation since january 13th. california does get up to 60% of its water from the snow pack. >>> the girl scouts are going back to basics. they're discon

first aetna covered and significance in a said not necessary, it's experimental. we aren't going to cover it. we don't care what the previous insurer did, we don't feel it's necessary. so i had to continue to fight with cigna and appeals process and all the things that were there for me to do and denied, denied and denied again. my doctors had conferences with them, they approved it, and when their office would follow through to have it filled, they said, no, they shouldn't have approved that when they spoke with you. so, denied. so through shame and speaking out in public constantly about this evil practice that the insurance industry seems to have, i shamed them into covering it. but fortunately in that time in the year and-a-half i was fighting with cigna, eli lilly has a bridge program set up. the insurance industry doesn't want to cover these expensive drugs. necessary or not, what do they do? they have things in place. we are subsidizing the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industries are also. granted they aren't free of guilt, but at the same time

this is the aetna parking garage. this snow is up four and a half stories.news including a serious story from former vice president dick cheney in an exclusive interview with nbc's jamie gangel he predicted that president obama will not win re-election. >> i think he embarked upon a course of action when he became president that did not have as much support as he thought it did. that once he got into the business, for example, of health care reform, expanding the size of government, expanding the deficit, those were all weaknesses, as i look at barack obama. i think he'll be a one-term president. >>> mr. chain also talked about the portable heart pump he wears after five heart attacks and said he may have to make a decision soon about whether or not to have the transplant. >>> federal law enforcement officials say that they have reams of videotape capturing the tucson shooting spree that killed six and wounded 13 including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. officials say the tapes recorded on multiple cameras leave no doubt about who was doing the shooting. >

that first aetna covered and insignia said no, not necessarily. experimental. we will not cover it. we don't care what the previous insured. we have looked at and we don't feel it necessary. so, i had to continue to fight with cigna. went to the appeals process and all the things that were there for me to do, and he denied, denied, denied again. my doctors at conferences within. they approved it, and then when their office would follow through to have a built they said no know they should have never approved that when they spoke. denied. so through shame and speaking out in public constantly about this evil practice that the insurance industry seems to have, i shame them into covering it. but fortunately in the time that we went, i don't have that i was fighting cigna over this, eli lilly, the manufacture of the growth hormone that we receive, they have a bridge broke and set up. the pharmaceutical industry knows the insurance industry doesn't want to have to cover these expensive drugs, so necessary or not, what do you do? they actually have things in place. so not only are we subs