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 With hundreds of injured people including pregnant women, children and the elderly in need of help, the few doctors in the Philippines say they are only dealing 1 with more serious cases at the moment. A run-down single story building in ruined airport in Tacloban has become the main medical facility for victims of Typhoon Haiyan which struck the Philippines as devastating 2 blow last week. All massive international aid efforts have been wrapping up. NPR’s Jason Beaubien in Manila reports logistics of getting aid to those who needed are staggering. 

 
The international aid community has geared up a massive machine to get aid into the people that have been affected 3. You are getting contributions coming up from all over the country, a lot of these come here to Manila, the problem however is then getting it out to people into the field. We are still hearing there are huge road blocks from debris 4.
 
The official death toll 5 from the storm now tops 2,300 but it is expected to rise.
 
The White House believes a bipartisan bill that let people keep their health coverage 6 would be a bad idea. NPR’s Ari Shapiro reports the administration is promising 7 to offer its own proposal soon.
 
President Obama is under increasing pressure from its allies to find a way that let people on the individual healthcare market keep their insurance as he has promised. Democrats 8 in the Senate are offering a bill to let people keep their plans but White House Spokesman Jay Carney says the proposal would have harmful consequence, allowing insurance to continue offering subpart coverage. Still Carney says the status quo is not ok either.
 
The president has instructed his team to come up with options for him to review and you can expect decision for him and announcement from him sooner rather than later.
 
Carney would not elaborate on what the White House is alternative proposal might be or when it will be announced. Ari Shapiro, NPR News, the White House.
 
In the latest sign, the immigration reform may be dead for now. House Speaker John Boehner announced today he will not be holding former compromise talks on the measure. There is already clear the Senate. Boehner is insisting the House is focused on piecemeal 9 approach and he declined to say whether lawmakers will consider any legislation this year or whether the issue will slip to 2014. 
 
The idea that we are going take up a 13,000-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in that.
 
Senate bill passed in June which shrank the US border protections which is providing a pathway to citizenship 10 with estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally.
 
Last month partial government shutdown couple with some steep government’s spending cuts hurt a lot of people but one benefit appears to be a big drop in the federal deficit 11. According to the Treasury 12 Department, the government’s shortfall total around 91.6 billion dollars in October, down 24% from same period a year ago. Spending also fell because of the shutdown and due to across-the-board spending cuts earlier this year.
 
While record heights on Wall Street today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the broader S&P both closing at record high today. The Dow was up 70 points at 15,821, the S&P 500 rose 14 points at 1,782. 
 
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A sentencing hearing for Boston mobster Whitey Bulger came to end today without the court hearing from the defendant 13. The 84-year-old Bulger dressed in orange prison jump suits at passively as well as some of the individuals accused of killing 14 described them as sociopath and ask the judges in the case to sentence them to life in prison. Bulger was convicted in the August in a broad indictment 15 that also accused him of racketeering charges, extortion and money laundering 16 during the 1970s and 1980s. 
 
A Cleveland Jury has reached a verdict in a case of former fugitive 17 Bobby Thompson who allegedly ran a fake charity to help Navy veterans. The jury’s decision will be announced in the morning, Thompson charged with bilking donors 18 in Ohio and 40 other states as much as about 100 million dollars. Kevin Niedermier of member station WKSU has more.
 
The five-week trial included testimony 19 from people whose identities Thompson allegedly stole and ream of documents. Prosecutors 21 say support record tempering money laundering and thief charges. Thompson did not testify and his defense 22 result in without calling any witness. In closing arguments, Prosecutor 20 Brad Tammaro reminded that the Jury about what was found in Thompson’s position when he was captured in Oregon last year after two years’ on the run.
 
He had multiple ID cards, fake ID cards along with him with the names of multiple people all real people with their personal information on it and his picture.
 
The 67-year-old Thompson faces up to 80 years in prison. For NPR News, I am Kevin Niedermier in Cleveland.
 
LivingSocial, the online daily deal website not so social for the second day in the row, will extend outrage 23 that left customers unable to log onto the site. Users who try to log onto are greeted by message reading LivingSocial is temporarily down for maintenance. Company says it does not believe any financial information was compromised.