her individual anthem blue cross insurance premium is about to about up nearly 25%. that's an extra $296 per month just for her. her husband's rates will also hike up about 24 heard -- 24%. >> a 25% increase. i felt like i had been kicked in the stomach. i could hardly eat. i couldn't sleep. >> reporter: we asked blue cross why the sudden change. the spokesman said "a rate adjustment is necessary to cover increasing medical costs and assure the viability of our individual business." >> i found myself at midnight asking the question why isn't the insurance commissioner protecting us? judge report we getting help with this? >> reporter: the state insurance commissioner, dave jones answered. he says he wants the power to stop unreasonable rate increases, but right now he does not have the authority over insurance companies. >> consumers who buy their policies in the individual market have seen double-digit rate increases year after year. >> commissioner jones says he is trying to get the veto power in order to prevent excessive rate increases. he's tried in the state le

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays for some costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >>> developing news in palo alto. police on the hunt for a man they believe broke that eye woman's apartment. >> it happened early this morning at hawthorne and high a few s from university avenue. the woman woke to a stranger -- stranger who had broken into her bedroom. katie marzullo is live at the scene. >> reporter: police have cleared the scene. the yellow crime tape that was up all morning was a scary sight to neighbors who are already concerned about a series of similar incidents here. it was not a

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forome costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> it's really nice. everybody else has the same diseases. ♪ >> when you are in the hospital, whatever is going on with you, the camp is there for you even throughout the year. even it's something to look forward to, these five days you can be normal. >> you don't have to feel different there. i feel like i'm in my own world. >> taylor foundation has helped more than 35,000 children have fun! build confidence, break down stigmas. >> what do you tell people when they ask you about it. >> and make new friends so that each can say there are others -- just

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays for some costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >>> good morning. student demonstrators shutdown a street over tuition did hands. >> terry mcsweeney joins us live at mission bay. >> reporter: the regents are meeting in this building behind me. a short time ago, a number of people in the room there, not necessarily students, disrupted it they came up and started shouting, the regents were cleared from the room. protesters were told to stop or they would be he courted out they left on their own. -- it is not just inside, they are making noise outside too

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forme costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> the white house says president obama had a tense meeting with cambodia's prime minister this morning over human rights. the stop after emotional landmark visit to myanmar, now marching towards democracy. lisa stark reports. >> reporter: president obama became the first u.s. president to visit the country of myanmar in a quick stop over that included meetings with the president and a nobel peace prize winner who spent years under house arrest. thousands of burmese filled the streets as president obama joined by hillary clinton paid a personal call on

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forome costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> right now in san francisco ocean beach closed north of fulton public works crews are cleaning up a raw sewage spill all related to the storm the discharge came from a manhole cover that overflowed. the area has to be cleaned and sanitized. traffic along the great highway is not affected. >>> happening now, u.s. interior secretary ken salazar is visiting a controversial oyster farm. next week salazar is expected to announce a decision on whether to allow the company to continue operating there. its lease is set to expire at the end of this month. the

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this family that we spoke to is powerless and feel they are at the mercy of anthem blue cross which therofit margin last year. >> there in the stack of mail was an anthem envelope saying, open immediately important information about your plan. >> reporter: inside, it was very bad news for jan, a local pediatrician. her individual anthem blue cross insurance premium is about to go up nearly 25%. that's an extra $296 per month just for her. her husbands rates will go up 24%, meaning together them pay an extra $528 a month in february on top of what they're already paying. >> a 25% increase. i felt like i had been kicked in the stomach. i could hardly eat. i couldn't sleep. >> reporter: we asked blue cross why the sudden change? the spokesman said, quote, a rate adjustment is necessary to cover increasing medical costs and ensure the viability of our individual business. >> i found myself at midnight last night asking the question, why aren't we getting help from the insurance commissioner? >> reporter: he answered saying, hets

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announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forome costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> today i'm talking to one of our favorite tv doctors. he is up what he calls tough love. he has a message for how the rules of life are changing and what you need to do to stay in the game. i'll ask him a question right from the headlines -- why do men cheat particularly powerful men? that is later here on katie. >>> coming up at 4:00, children's safety equipment company announces a major recall of trauma beds after a baby's death. and we're going to hear from jim harbaugh with an update how he is feeling following surgery. >> kristen: you'll be feel

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forome costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> coming up at 3:00 on katie, sharon osbourne. and at 4:00, a new way to turn clothes into cold hard cash. at 5, just in the nick of time 23 million dollar lotto winner comes forward her fortune we'll hear from her. those stories and more later today. >>> you can claim maybe a furry frnd. >> welcome back. we are here with anita from the east bay spca. nice to see you. >> always nice to see you. >> you have a growth on your leg. [ laughing ] >> no, actually just -- >> she got a little more relaxed during the break. >> this plump pumpkin is genie. you w

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forsome costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll.

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays fore costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> judge judy the toughest talking judge on daytime tv today she is on katie. she admits using an old school cell phone and never using a computer. >> they said how could you have a website? i said i can talk and somebody else can do it. i learned how to do the ipad which is friendly to a brain like mine. but i've never i'm happy to say in myselfy years turned on a computer. >> wow. is that like an ahh, good or like wow! >> and i'm alive! >> that's judge judy on katie at 3 p.m., right here on abc7 >> at 4, goodwill shopping for a deal many michael finney

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announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forome costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>omg up on katie, magic johnson, kathy ireland and karim abdul jabbar. >> then at 4:00, the san francisco man charged with practicing medicine without a license back in court today, we'll hear from some of his victims. at 5 a good samaritan in the south bay comes to the rescue of two women and their puppy caught in a mobile home fire. those stories and more today. >>> still plenty of rain. one last look at where the rain is. >>> good morning. we are looking at heavy rain in hayward and fremont now. you can see yellows right here, niles boulevard and ba

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays forsts original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> cominging up at 3:00 on katie -- at 4:00, largest study on men and multi-vitamins. those stories and more later today at 4:00 and 5. >>> disney and abc are making today a day of giving. >> hollywood stars, abc news personalities all answered the hotline including barbara walters and katie couric. >> call now to donate. >> you can text abc to 90999 to give $10. disney is kicking off things with a two million dollar donation to the american red cross. samsung is matching contributions up to three million dollars. >>> quick look at other famous folks who hav

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. >>> anthem blue cross is looking to raise it's premiums 18%.hey are the largest for profit health insurer in the state. the marge on its business is less than 1% and they expect to lose money next year. >>> a wal-mart store is closer to becoming the east bay's wal- mart supercenter. they ruled the city council was correct in approving expansion without looking at environmental issues. >>> in afghanistan a new report is laying blame for the collapse of cobble bank. men at the bank and their cronies got rich using $861 million in fraudulent loans. cobbal bank was also run like a ponzi scheme. executives had two sets of books. one for regulators and one for themselves. >>> a search of the gamut factory where 112 people died in a fire has revealed the american companies they were making clothes for. items for disney and wal-mart were all made there. although it was not always with direct permission, sometimes it was through intermediaries. >>> the high price of real estate now includes parking spaces. investor are actually buying them off in hong h

. >>> anthem blue cross is looking to raise it's premiums 18%.are the largest for profit health insurer in the state. the marge on its business is less than 1% and they expect to lose money next year. >>> a wal-mart store is closer to becoming the east bay's wal- mart supercenter. they ruled the city council was correct in approving expansion without looking at environmental issues. >>> in afghanistan a new report is laying blame for the collapse of cobble bank. men at the bank and their cronies got rich using $861 million in fraudulent loans. cobbal bank was also run like a ponzi scheme. executives had two sets of books. one for regulators and one for themselves. >>> a search of the gamut factory where 112 people died in a fire has revealed the american companies they were making clothes for. items for disney and wal-mart were all made there. although it was not always with direct permission, sometimes it was through intermediaries. >>> the high price of real estate now includes parking spaces. investor are actually buying them off in hong hong.

announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cross and found an affordable medicare plan that pays for some costs original medicare won't. now they can keep making memories for years to come. choose from plans offering protection from high out of pocket costs plus include prescription drug coverage with your monthly premium. get the freedom to keep the doctors you already trust. if you're eligible for medicare we'll help you find a plan that fits your needs. call or go online now to get answers. you only have until december 7th to enroll. >>> we are starting a little chilly around the bay area today but by the afternoon should be fairly nice some partly cloudy skies. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. but you won't believe what kind of weather we're going to see this weekend. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and we're just getting an alert that traffic lights are out off the golden gate bridge heading into san francisco. police are out there directing traffic. we'll have much more on what this means for the morning commute coming up. >> liz, something new over at uc-berkeley could cau