. >> secretary calder own. >> reporter: part of the reforms would have targeted a new car service called uber, which allows customers to get a ride by calling the smartphone app. they wanted to create a flat $15 base fee evening the playing fold with cab drivers. >> and we're a world-class city. the aim of the bill is to establish a world-class stakes -- taxi industry. >> reporter: cheney, though, quickly punted the idea that peaking a fee on uber after several council members expressed support for the service and being flooded in some cases with 5,000 e-mails from the customers. >> uber does come east of the river without hesitation. when someone called uber, they are there. >> reporter: others on the council vote thought uber represented competition to the d.c. cab industry that is in place here and that the company enjoys an unfair advantage with the cabdrivers. >> what this company is doing is having a great dent on d.c. taxi drivers. >> reporter: in the end, all sides got a little of what they wanted. the district will subsidize the cost of the cab -- devices and the uber car servic

through the camp in coalition, local, state calder's -- in the camden coalition, they are working tobetter provide care for camden city residents. the floor is yours. we look forward to your comments. >> thank you, governors. i am a family doctor and i am here today because i spent my career taking care of medicaid recipients and i do not think we're getting our money's worth. i want to show you evidence of that and talk about ways we can do it better. about 10 years ago as a medical student project i have a young person work with me for the summer to collect patient-level data from three local hospitals. this is the billing data that they used to build the state or bill insurance companies. and we got raw patient data, the name, address, date of birth, admission, charges, receipts and insurance status forever city resident. the word for this is called an all-payer database. people never get a hold of information like this. this is locked behind walls within hospitals or at a state or federal level or with insurance companies. what i learned from the data, what is stunning about how

. >> reporter: travel writer simon calder says london's noble pass is actually a drawback in the olympicsesence. >> the highway system is, frankly, a disaster. it was based on a plan originally put in place by the romans 2,000 years ago, and much of it hasn't improved very much since then. >> reporter: so, disruption is inevitable, especially with more than 16,000 uk troops deployed for security as well as hundreds of extra police. commuters have been warned to expect delays, or better yet, avoid them by staying home, advice that has infuriated some london cab drivers. >> they're going to gridlock the streets and not let us get around, and then they've got the affront of an absolute bear fight to say the olympics are good for me and for london. well, they're not. >> reporter: but the run-up to these games has already added festive touches and brightened the mood in a city that has needed a lift in this radius of rainy summers. now, i'm standing in a rare dry patch this morning, but literally, the rain has practically not stopped. people are so fed up. however, a bit of good news from the