. >> united healthcare makes a big announcement. where those jobs are headed, coming up. >> we heard a loud boom and the whole building shook. i immediately thought it was an earthquake. >> but it wasn't. find out what caused this massive blast and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests at a tennessee hotel. >> a whole new round in a feud between the city comptroller and mayor over a new phone system. the >> more than 300 new jobs are headed our way from united healthcare. the announcement came down this afternoon. the jobs will support their newly acquired health division which provides medicare plans to chronically ill and underserved patients. the new hires will increase the work force by about 10%. to under 50 employees will work in a program that uses outreach workers to assess people in their homes and the rest will work in a pharmacy counseling program. >> supporters of the dream act which will appear on the november ballot are launching a new campaign to explain to voters to help the passage. they are ramping up plans

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our united healthcare plan, we're required to meet language access requirements.re than one-third of our members are bilingual. the requirements as more than 10% of the county's population, if they do not have english as their first language. we will be providing a four-page summary of the benefit guiding chinese. in terms of the budget overview, -- of the benefit guyed in chinese. in terms of the budget overview, 2011-12 is $169,000. if you look at the proposed budget cuts, hhs is predominantly funded through worker recovery. 60% is general fund and 40% is non-general fund. we have since i've been in this position been understaffed. we propose no decrease to our staff, but also because we are taking an open enrollment. in terms of the budget cuts, the increase of 136 -- the increase in our budget of 2.1% represents increases it to only existing salaries and benefits on department work orders. there is no increase in projects or funds in our budget. the second year at 2.6%, again, represent increases to all the existing salaries and work orders and rents that we a

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best prepared you have identified united healthcare. unh. what makes you anticipate this company has the business mod told quite frankly profit. >> the united health is a diversified bellwether it is over $100 billion in revenue it has exposure to the commercial employer market which is impacted to the downside f you will, by these exchanges and obama care but is also very nicely levered to the growing government markets of medicaid, which will be expanded post obama care, the dual eligibles which are eligible for both medicare and medicaid, and then the medicare product itself, skinnier-- seniors are aging into medicare elig able, particularly with the demographic. >> tom: like the diversified revenue there i have to move on for the one you said ill-prepared, wellpoint, wlp, just under 30 seconds here, what makes you think this business model isn't ready. >> they have a gate deal of exposure to the commercial marketsing particularly the retail individual market and. they are not growing as well in the growing government platforms that i bro

united healthcare committed to the law today.g children to stay on their parent's plan till 26 and no life time dollar limits but they will not commit to keeping children with preexisting issues till 18. >>> nasa's latest mars rover is on schedule. it launched in november and headed to a crater and will collect samples to determine if the environment could have been suitable for life. scientists are working to fix a problem with the drill that will bore into the surface. right now it might contaminate the examples. >>> a teacher honored by president obama. a math teacher in san francisco is among 97 teachers who will receive the award for excellence in math and science. all the teachers will get $10,000 from the national science foundation. >>> apple showed off new hardware and software today, what was included and what was not still ahead. >> and back here in a couple minutes, highs from today were warm but there are big changes, the winds and the fog and temperatures are coming down. how much cooler for your tuesday. bp . >>> t

. >> united healthcare has a big announcement today.have some explaining to do. >> let's talk about that we're name in a moment. first, whether or not president obama's health care law is overturned by the supreme court, united will continue to offer coverage to young adults. the exception is those involving people with pre-existing illnesses. customers can keep children on their plans until age 26 and get free preventive care without facing a lifetime benefit limits. not news you want to hear if you fly united internationally. the air carrier is raising the fee to check in a second back on some interest of flights -- some international flights to $100. high jet fuel costs are pinching its bottom line. groupon wants to name your baby. it's offering a deal right now to name your baby for and. they say it relieves a parent of having to name the baby themselves. >> i would not do that. >> $750,000, i would take. t>> adam caskey is shaking his head. >> it is not a burden to name your child. it is enjoyable, to have that choice. >> then you

united healthcare will still offer coverage of adult children. the supreme court is expected to rule sometime this month and perhaps even today. gas prices are down and nickel this week to an average of $3.54 a gallon. the highest prices are in the west and the lowest in the south. crude oil prices have been falling mostly because of the european debt crisis. mortgage payments are not as high a priority anymore. automobile loans are, followed by credit cards. that's because people need a card to get to work or to look for a job. it was a good weekend for hollywood. madagascar 3 debuted with $60 million in ticket sales, even more than the original movie seven years ago. if i am paula faris. have a great day. >> time to check traffic and weather every ten minutes if. >> let's start with lisa baden. >> looks pretty good. no issues around the beltway. 66, your comes the volume. 95 is stop and go northbound from stafford to get to the marine base. we will take you upstream, more our neighbors on the road northbound. up to the pentagon is working nicel

united healthcare you man in a and aetna say children can still stay on their parent's plan until theyn't set lifetime dollar limits on policies or cancel policies except in case of frauds. why are these companies being so generous? maybe to make them look good. house speaker john boehner tried to edge around this, saying, quote, today's announcement is a remind that are sensible healthcare reform does not require the massive government takeover in washington democrats' law. but come on, the companies wouldn't have promised these concessions if democrats hadn't passed the law. now if the court upholds the individual mandate and companies start covering all pre-existing conditions people may like the if you have an opinion, you better back it up. >>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix. >>now it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. >> eliot: on the day that president obama's favorite banker testified on call toll hill. mitt romney by a money slide including to politico's sec filings, mitt romney'

today, the country's largest health insurer, united healthcare, which serves 36 million members, said it would uphold several provisions even if the court overturns the law. aetna and humana followed with similar announcements this afternoon. for more, we turn to susan dentzer, editor in chief of the journal, health affairs. she's an analyst for the "newshour." susan, remind us where we're at right now. not all the provisions of the affordable care act have taken effect. but which ones have and which ones have proved to be popular? >> the ones that united said today it was keeping and that other insurers echoed are exactly those that have already gone into effect. first of all, for example, coverage of certain preventive measures. mammographies, colonoscopies without any cost-sharing or copayments or deductibles by individuals. coverage of dependents, adult children, up to the age of 26 another very popular provision. most insurers have already implemented. in addition to that, a requirement that there be a very expedited, very clear appeals process. abolition of life-time limits on i

in the meantime, the "washington post" reported that united healthcare is poised to make major changes no matter what the court rules. the company will even some of the changes in place including allowing children to stay on their medical until they are 26. >> the premise to the president's bill is that washington knows better. >> but the group family's usa a strong supporter of the healthcare law says this law -- says this law stands on firm legal ground. live in -- live in washington, scott macfarland, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> governor brown is proposing a major overall to the california work program. the proposal calls for ending benefits for two adults after two years instead of four. payments to child care would also be reduced. the state has a $16 billion deficit. >>> 7:17. we will, the -- well, the presidential campaigns of president obama and mitt romney just produced new commercials that target latino voters. now, the democrat' super-pac, they are launching $4 million campaign. this would benefit the wealthiest americans at the expense of other working families. >> and then mi

. >> let add another winner in irian venturi and united healthcare >>rob: even if the supreme court knocks kids if they did not have to. the be dependent coverage for adult children up to age 26. i am happy for united help. >>justine: probably back here this morning and at the 5:00 news in probably back in that time. rob will be back at that time. >>james: it is warm to hot. there are lot more '70s on the map. there is 78 and fairfield 79 in antioch. it is quickly approaching the 80 degree mark. 71 in san but cisco 68 in oakland. 75 in san jose. let's take a quick tour of the area beginning with the south bay. you can see a lot of nineties. any east bay where lookit loaded mid-90s in the seven valley and upper 90s for the delta. set cisco, a downtown kobe 78 degrees. san francisco's downtown will be 78 degrees. the weather will change somewhat as they go to the next couple days to march we should have a sea breeze and the temperatures should be a slight bit lower. it will continue to cool on wednesday there is the and friday but on the weekend was the temperatures going back up to the 97 w

and what the affordable act does, it requires everyone to get healthcare so they have access to hospitals like united medical center. >> the hospital held a summit on stress and health disperties. advocates are concerned that it will help address both. >> in d.c., bruce leshan, 9news now. >> the affordable care act pays states to expand medicaid to everybody below 133% of the poverty line. it mandates everyone else buy insurance, but it also offers help to people without enough money to pay for it. >>> we want to take a second and clarify a mistake from last night's edition of 9 news at 7:00. during an interview, we told you about an abc news washington post poll on how american voters view the healthcare law. but our graphic had the members reversed. here is the correct add version. it shows 55% voters have an unfavorable view while 37% like it. >>> healthcare groups offered free medical screenings today in district ward 8. it was also taking place at united medical center on southern avenue. one focus of the summit, keeping stress to a minimum. studies have shown stress can make other medical condi

the washington post today reporting that united healthcare is planning to keep some parts of the affordablerules sometime this month. united officials plan to announce today that they still won't charge co pays for preventative services. they will let young adults stay on their parents' plan until age 26 and keep the appeals process in place. and will honor restrictions and pulling coverage when someone gets sick unless there is a fraud. these are low-risk. this doesn't say anything about whether or not they will cover people with pre-existing conditions or do anything about the issue of skyrocketing insurance premiums. we are back after the break. stay with us. we will see you there. ♪ current tv, it's been all building up to this. >>bill shares his views, now it's your turn. >>i know you're going to want to weigh in on these issues. >>connect with "full court press with bill press" at facebook.com/billpressshow and on twitter at bpshow. >>i believe people are hungry for it. i have the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking

healthcare. if you add that to bush v. gore and citizens unitedost powerful partisan courts i think we have ever seen. yeah. >> yeah. it will be interesting if something else happens, if court decides to uphold it, imaginelymagically, you would find the positions changing but that would be a counter argument to the idea that the court has become too political and the only concern was deciding policy on a partisan basis, but, you know, i have no idea what the court's going to do either but certainly based upon the arguments very few seem to expect a wholesale. >> the at atlantic.com is where you find her work. follow her on twitter. we love her twitter handle handle, @molly esque if you please. have a good one. come back soon. >> will do. >> i will be back and tell you what the president is up to today. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> this is the bill press show t spitzer. >>that was mitt romney showing once again his fearless fear of taking a stand that helps make him all things to no people. en [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> radio meets television the bill press

and what the act does, it requires everyone to get healthcare so now they have access to hospitals like, united medical center. >> the hospital held a ward 8 summit on stress and health disparities. advocates are convinced that the supreme court decision will help address both. >> in d.c., bruce leshan, 9news now. >> now the affordable care act pays states to expand medicaid to everyone below 133% of the poverty line. it mandates everyone buy insurance, but it offers help to people without enough money to pay for it. >>> folks are searching for shade and hopefully drinking plenty of water out at congressional country club in bethesda today. mike and derek mcginty are over the 18th green in the shade, but boy, still out in the heat. hey guys. >> we are sweltering just a bit. we have the community towel, but it's a little rough here. topper shutt may not want you to know this, but he's not the only meteorologist here. the responsibility of a guy named stewart william. he has been doing that job for 18 years. >> his primary concern is lightning. he's using all the various computers and forecasting

we don't have a good healthcare system in the united states. i think we're in a situation where a lot of your help depends on why you leave, how much you earned and what you look like and your current health. i think a lot of families need more peace of mind and deserve secure, affordable, reliable, high quality healthcare. if the court decides to strike down the law, we're going have a major setback building the system that we deserve. >> there are a lot of americans against this, doctor. 28% of americans will be please deemed the affordable care act unconstitutional. the mandate forcing someone to buy health insurances is unconstitutional and what do you say to those critics? >> what i would say, the individual mandate and insurance mandate has taken up a lot of attention in the political arena and what is important are those provisions of the law that provide piece of mind. this law is going to extend insurance to millions of americans unable to afford it through no fault of their own and the law is able to train more primary care doctors in

healthcare stocks were down. but others saw quite a boost today. >> you know, it's interesting there was a real split in performance. insurers, some of them etna, cigna down today. united bit. hospitals got a big boost here. hca holdings. tenet healthcare. hospital stocks seem to benefit because their debt will be lowered by the benefits of this bill, shep? >> shepard: gerri willis from the biz live in d.c. tonight. thanks. court watchers have said for weeks that justice kennedy would be the swing vote here. everybody thought that, it seemed. but in the end it was the conservative chief justice john roberts who swung the court in the president's favor. some observers say justice roberts handed the white house a big boost in this election year. john roberts claims he pays no attention to politics. and back in 2005, at his confirmation hearing justice roberts said judges are like umpires. umpires don't make the rules. they apply them. >> nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire. i will remember that it's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat. >> shepard: by the way, it's the second time in just days that the roberts-led court upheld this admini

healthcare? to get away from socialism in the united states and they want to move somewhere without universal healthcaretheir choices are limited. this map shows the u.s. is pretty much the only developed nation without it. so, have fun moving to mexico crazies. just be careful when you cross the border to i am great back. mmigrate back. >> when the supreme court issued a decision cnn and fox news: here to show you every cringe-inducing moment of misreporting is brett erlich. shhh! bretts talking now. >> the supreme court decided on healthcare today. the decision: basically the individual mandate was upheld. so that's exactly what fox and cnn reported. right? not so much. >> it appears as if the supreme court justices have struck down the individual mandate. >> the individual mandate cannot be sustained under congress's power to regulate commerce. that means the mandate is gone. >> 0, that's so wrong. how can that be? after all, you did read through page 1. so for a few excruciating minutes, the millions of people watching fox and the dozens of people watching cnn were misinformed. now, for the people w

laughter ] well, the united states supreme court in the hotly contested 5 to 4 decision has declared that carlie ray jefferson's call me maybe is the song of the summer. also no healthcare states supreme court did what none of us expected, justice anthony scalia revealed that the whole time he has just been four racoons in a black garbage bag. the united states supreme court surprised many analysts today when justice samuel alito announced he will be stepping down from the bench to become the bass player for iron maiden. >> bret: that's it for this "special report" fair balanced and unafraid. >> shepard: wildfire explosion tonight on the fox report the massive blaze that jumped containment, doubled in size and forced tens of thousands of people to run for their lives. >> this a firestorm of epic proportions. >> my dad called me and said there is flames a block from your house right now. >> shepard: now it's threatening more homes and the u.s. air force academy. and from fires to floods. >> this used to be elm street just four days ago. >> shepard: tonight, florida is drenched and for some the worst could be on the way. and these children were home alone when burglars br

laughter ] well, the united states supreme court in the hotly contested 5 to 4 decision has declared that carlie ray jefferson's call me maybe is the song of the summer. also no healthcaretes supreme court did what none of us expected, justice anthony scalia revealed that the whole time he has just been four racoons in a black garbage bag. the united states supr

greatest tax increase on the middle class and at the same time we are going to destroy the healthcare system in the united states. what romney said was correct. the supreme court did not say this is good law. they did not say it is good policy. in fact the chief justice makes a statement toward the end of that opinion that it is not his job to protect citizens from elected officials that enact policies likes that. that's the job of the citizens of the united states. and i think message will be heard. but a bad day for could be could be conservatives today. >> he said the court is left to interpret the law and they don't have the expertise or to make policy decisions. and those decisions are entrusted to our nation's elected leaders who can be thrown out of office if people disagree with them. it is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices. now before i go to you, i want to give you the question ahead of time. has the president been onest with the american people on how he sold this bill? because he repeatedly said it was not a tax. let's go to the videotape. >> un

greatest tax increase on the middle class and at the same time we are going to destroy the healthcare system in the united states. what romney said was correct. the supreme court did not say this is good law. they did not say it is good policy. in fact the chief justice makes a statement toward the end of that opinion that it is not his job to protect citizens from elected officials that enact policies likes that. that's the job of the citizens of the united states. and i think message will be heard. but a bad day for could be could be conservatives today. >> he said the court is left to interpret the law and they don't have the expertise or to make policy decisions. and those decisions are entrusted to our nation's elected leaders who can be thrown out of office if people disagree with them. it is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices. now before i go to you, i want to give you the question ahead of time. has the president been onest with the american people on how he sold this bill? because he repeatedly said it was not a tax. let's go to the videotape. >> un

the supreme court of the united states has upheld the president's healthcare law, a major media player, and a big, big healthcare player, thousands of workers, nonplussed by awful that. rupert murdoch and his company carry on. that will do it here. bill: neil cavuto thank you and our colleagues at the fox business network and our chairman rupert murdoch there. while watching the news unfold business wise stocks are lowered by triple digits off about 160 points and we started seeing the selling as soon as the decision came down from the supreme court just about an hour ago. speaking of the court our analysis and understanding continues as our coverage rolls on on this historic day. good morning, everyone, i'm bill hemmer live in new york. i want to go quickly back to our panel, megyn kelly, judge napolitano, juan williams also with us here in new york. we are trying to go through this and sort through what we know and what we think we know. megyn you first. >> reporter: it is highly significant that the court upheld the individual mandate. that will become a political issue but that was

united states repeals obama and replaces obamacare. >> reporter: the court has already voted internally on the healthcare issue.ces can land do change their minds -- and do change their minds. these supreme court rulings are issued each monday. the last monday is june 25th. mitt romney has mentioned at least four times in the past 24 hours healthcare. clearly, that's what we're going to hear a lot about leading up to this ruling. >>> well, coming up now, the next story we're going to move on to -- betty white. she made an appearance at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. she was in town for a speaking engagement at the smithsonian but took time to say hi to the president before he left maryland. >>> budget cuts that forced the city to close fire companies. >>> plus, the must packed item health officials say you should put in your luggage before you leave for your summer trip. >> if you're out there on the roads, one accident after another. be very careful. this is what's ahead on world news with diane sawyer. >> dangerous radiation. how much are you really exposed to these days? you'll be surprised. tonight the new infor

there are several healthcare cases and arizona v. unitedich requires police officers to check on the immigration status on anyone who makes arrests. we continue watching the scene at the court. >> how is it going ? >> all right. how about you. >> no health care today? >> there will not be a health- care decision this morning. the other decision is in the arizona v. united states case on the arizona law requiring that police check immigration status of anyone who they arrest. justice kennedy announcing that decision. just is kagan -- justice kagan -- the court found it was improper for a lower court's to enjoin section 2b. a major part of the arizona law invalidated by the court. this is the ninth circuit decision that was affirmed in part and the second and only decision from the supreme court today. there will be other decision days this week. we will be there until we know the outcome of the health-care decision. we'll take your reactions once the results are known. >> we will end our live coverage from the supreme court on this monday mo

healthcare and the president's plan to require everyone to have insurance. >> there's been no other serious effort to cover the 32 million people uninsured in the united states. this is a format to include the quality of care and to reduce costs. >> this clinic is already made possible by local and federal dollars from elected leaders sold on universal healthcare. >>> the house is also expected to vote tomorrow on whether to hold attorney general, eric holder, in contempt of congress. it stems from the operation known as fast and furious. the failed government plan put guns into the hands of mexican drug cartels. >> we are facing a potentially devastating disaster right here. and we are well prepared and working through things. >> out of control wild fires are scorching parts of colorado tonight. in what some say is the worst fire season in the history of that state. authorities have evacuated more than 32,000 people from their homes outside of colorado springs. but walden canyon fire doubled in size since this time yesterday. thousands of residents near boulder are on stand by to leave their homes in case that wild fire gets worse. >>> a falls church man wh

to change that. >> we remember what a bloody mess that whole battle was in the united states congress over the healthcareican people want is to relive and replay that whole battle. i mean that's just insane. you want to see the great, great difference between members of congress and their different reaction on the news yesterday from the supreme court this photo, if we can show it with nancy pelosi and john boehner, it's an actual photo, not photo photoshopped standing side-by-side on the floor yesterday when it becomes clear that the news is the affordable care act has been upheld. look at the big smile on nancy pelosi's face. look at john boehner. >> look at that sour pus. >> looks like he sucked on a pickle. >> so mad. >> it looks like he is about to cry. >> well, he probably was. >> but the other big news yesterday -- i would love to get your thoughts. many of you taking advantage of it and some people -- millions of americans could not get healthcare otherwise for a whole variety of reasons except for the affordable care act. and the new rules and limits it places on insurance companies. tell us abo

set of strides both in its own credibility and in having the united states join the other industrialized countries which have universal healthcare, i think it is a great day for the country, for the constitution, for the court and for john roberts personally. >> rose: okay. but suppose the court had said, we are striking down that provision, the individual mandate but we are upholding the constitutionality of the rest of it and separating that from the rest of the healthcare? >> well for one thing, when you read the joint opinion by justice scalia, alito, thomas and kennedy, you see that they were going to destroy the entire affordable care act, that is, they understandably said that it was not an easy judicial task to separate this one strand from the rest of the law. the obama administration had conceded if you get rid of this mandate, which is the center piece of the law it is very hard to make the requirement that people with preexisting conditions and sick people be covered without discrimination. and when that goes, the dominos begin to fall, so the real choice was not between eliminating one little part of the law and com