live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> our father who art in heaven. >> prayers were the only comfort for a man in washington, illinois when a massive twitter came this close to his home he was lucky to have survived. there were a series of deadly midwestern tornadoes. >> one confirmed death in michigan has pushed the death toll to seven this morning in the rash of tornadoes and storms that hit the midwest. the worst hit was in southern

illinois where neighborhoods were turned into scrap piles. we are in hard hit washington, illinois. >> every belonging, shredded, all across the unable. >> this is what the house looked like after the tornado came through. these scenes were repeated across five states in the midwest at 81 reported tornadoes touched down yesterday. there was a chilling path of destruction, leveling homes, crashing through a busy starbucks in indiana. >> we couldary the glass shattering. we came out and...the building was gone the. >> 60,000 football fans at chicago's soldier field were sent rushing for cover.

>> further south a tornado creating the most terrifying moments of lisa and her son's lives. >> we covered up with the mattress. i was hold are her tight. >> in washington, illinois, onee of the hardest hit. the severity only sinking in. >> we need all the help we can democrat. >> six reported deaths were in illinois including one in the town of washington. search-and-rescue teams are looking for anyone who might still be trapped beneath the rubble. >> tv news anchors found themselves potential victims of the fierce tornadoes. >> i hear things right now. we may need to take shelter ourselves right now. >> we do. >> we need to go off air. >> be right back. >> let's go!

>> they were pretty calm considering how terrifying that was. this broadcast from whoi in peoria, illinois, theyized though had to stop telling children to take shelter and take shelter and everyone at the tv station did the same the at united states is promising additional aid as the number people left homeless by typhoon haiyan grows. the philippine government says more than four million people have been displaced by the disaster up from 900,000 last week. nationwide the death toll from the typhoon haiyan is at 4,000 with 1,500 still missing. there is fear some islands have not been reaches ten days after the disaster. this morning, the united states is pledging an additional $10 million in aid. at the main airport in tacloban water and rice are ready for distribution. >> so much devastation and certainly grab the attention of the world. people from all over, including in the bay area, are doing what they can to help the victims of

the devastating typhoon haiyan. we are team up with the american red cross to collect donations for the relief effort. our anchor, eric thomas, is joining us with help at the philippine hotline. eric? >> that is "7 on your side" offices with red cross volunteers here and we have red cross volunteers in the next office over and nine or ten of them are ready to take your donations which is the best way to give. they have plenty of these sheets to take credit, debit or checks. let's come over and tell you the phone number is 415-954-7621. i will talk right now with woody from the american red cross. tell us, what are we doing in the bay area? >> most importantly, we are raising money and that money we sending to the broad cross in the philippines where they can effectively use it to buy determine and other aid.

they have quite a strong red cross there, 500,000 volunteer, and a through paid staff so they very well equipped but they needs the funds to buy material. >> when people here first think of sending, water, clothes on things. >> it is commendable sentiment but the problem is getting things like that, bulky and heavy and shipping them to the region is time consuming and expensive. the other advantage to sending money over there and having them procure things locally it rebuilding the regional economy. in the immediate disaster area, the economy is in rush state but in the surrounding areas there is stuff that can be purchased. >> another question for you, the american red cross hasn't sent a lot of people or teams to the philippines to help. why is that? >> again, the broad cross in the philippines has a very good staff. we have sent approximately ten

people over with specific expertise including telecommunications and disaster assessment and things of that nature which is usually what the red cross societies do. we do not want to send morever and burden the infrastructure when people there can do the job. >> thank you very much for the information. we will do this from 11:00 this morning until 11:35 this evening. the number is 415-954-7621. you can doll and make donations, pledges, for the philippine relief effort. it is a very worthy cause and the volunteers are here all day to help you out. back to you, ladies. >> there is no way to say it too much so we will let you know again that our abc fundraiser to help victims in the philippines will go until 11:35 tonight and you can make donations by calling 415-954-762

thank you very much in advance. there are more details at abc7news.com. >> developing news: bart and union members are meeting over a highly controversial glitch in the labor contract over family leave. this was what ended the major strike, this contract. amy? >> bart management tells me this is a meeting to see what it would cost to give bart employees a paid family leave which is an item that is in the country contract. however, after months of negotiating that contract, bart management is now saying that the paid family hobby is in there by mistake and the board through wants bart's general america to go back to the unions and fix this mistake. no one is saying what will happen if they cannot agree on what to do creating fear there

could be another strike and trains can step running again. the unions say the deal is continue. it is signed. they do not want to renegotiate it. a statement was released that they have someone at the table at this meeting today at one of their numbers experts but that doesn't mean they are interested in resuming negotiations. they have that person there to check the accuracy of bart's methods. >> happening now, a state senator subcommittee is holding a hearing in san francisco to lock into how the california public utilities commission can improve safety oversight of utilities. the hearing is chaired by peninsula state senator jerry hill. a report released by the panel criticized the commission's lack of progress on safety since the 2010 pg&e gas explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in san bruno. silicon valley is fighting the

growing problem of child sexual abusen at intent. matt is at the santa clara county sheriff in san jose. >> i finished one a one-on-one interview with the santa clara county sheriff. she said as a mother she fines this to be particularly turning. she is happy google is stepping up efforts to filed online child pornography. the google c.e.o. says that his company has team up with microsoft to develop new state-of-the-art technology to tackle the problem. he said his company has put 200 people to being would on the problem the past three months, fine tuning the google search to prevent linking from child sexual abuse material from appearing in results and showingen whattings from google and charities at the top for 13,000 inquiries making sure that the abuse is illegal and offering advice where to get people. the sever gave us an interview and says the we sex crime tax

force has arrested ten people for child pornography this year and that is just the beginning of the investigation most often. >> the may yes clinic did a study and it shows that 76 percent of the people who view child pornography have also molested a child. so we very often when we are doing child pornography cases, we often find the victims. >> google is testing a new technology to identify illegal pictures when they appear on the systems. when they identified they are tagged with a digital fingerprint and all copies are immediately removed from the when. as for the sheriff, she is going to reach out to google to see how they can partner better to stop online child pornography. >> coming up, the new close calculator hitting a big snag. >> and a mother's antics on the road that forced the new mexico

police to pull out all the stops to stop her. >> the embattled toronto mayor says the media is to blame. >> a hotline is open now to give to the victims of typhoon haiyan with operators of the red cross standing by

>> the door. the door. the door. >> a wild and controversial scene caught on police dash camera after officers tried to pull over a 39-year-old mother of five for speeding in new mexico. the video shows officers smashing windows and firing shots at the woman and her five kids in the van. she took off not once but twice and was arrested. so was her 14 year old son for attacking an officer. the officers are under investigation. did officers go too far or were they justified in firing? we want to know what you think? go to facebook/abc7 where you can sound off. >> tonight, toronto's embattled mayor rob ford is taking his career to the next level. he admittedded to smoking crack cocaine, buying illegal drugs, and driving after consuming alcohol is launching a new tv career with his brother.

ford nation will debut in canada tonight. ford has apologized about questionable behavior says he never lied about smoking crack, he says the media failed to ask the right questions. he spoke to cnn. >> he said, do you smoke crack? are you a crack addict? >> no, i don't, and i am not a crack addict. have i? yes. i didn't lie. i haven't smoked crack in over a year. >> quite the role model. ford is refusing to step down despite the fact that the toronto city council voted to strip the mayor of power. >> major oops for the leading organization with guidelines for lowering cholesterol were released along with a calculator to help the doctors assess patient risk and treatment. "new york times" is reporting that the website calculation may overestimate a person's risk and could mistakenly suggest millions of candidates for staten drugs.

two professors associated with the website indicated that problems a year ago and, again, before the new guidelines were released and this triggered turmoil at the american heart association this past welcome end in dallas. >> study suggests taking birth control pills could affect your eyesight the researchers found women over the age of 40 were more than twice as likely to get glaucoma after taking the pill for three years, one of the leading causes of blindness. it is not known if birth control pills are a direct cause but if you have been on the pill for several years you should be tested. >> mike nicco is enjoying being in the world and he is on the roof. >> it is cool. thanks to the cloud cover you see. the cloud are getting thicker. we have today to get ready for our first significant rain since september 21. i will tell you when it will get here. which commute it will affect and

how much rain will drop. >> local scientist with a lot riding on the local mission to mars. >> abc is teaming up with the red cross to donate for the typhoon haiyan victims. you can

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our hotline is open if you would like to help the victims of typhoon haiyan in the philippines you can recall right now at 415-954-7621.

we encourage you to dough anyway. >> engineers and scientists are excited about latest mission to mars by nasa. the spacecraft launched from cape canavaral the last half hour. more than half of the instruments aboard were build in a laboratory at cal. they want to figure out why mars lost the atmosphere as they believe it once had oceans and rivers and an atmosphere similar to earth. it could give us clues about our planet's future. >> we her something new about the weather? >> yes. things will be changing. >> we were joking it seems like "next week" we have a chance of rain and then it falls apart. this time, it will not do that. we will look at live doppler 7 hd and you can see the first signs of our wet weather. you can see the lowering clouds as we look to oakland and the winds are blowing from the northwest and that is going to keep our temperatures in check today. along with the cloud cover, rain

up to vancouver from crescent city. we will get our chance, though. the fog has lifted and all of us are just cloudsy on live doppler 7 hd. we will talk about what will happen if you stepping out right now. it will just see increasing clouds, you will need a coat as the temperatures are in the mid-to-upper 50's and cooler around santa rosa and napa at 52 degrees. at mount tamalpais you can see the multilayers of cloud cover that are moving in ahead of this system which has pretty good moisture but you have to get the energy to come through and tap it and push it out. it will do that tonight. gathering clouds today and we will be dry with temperatures getting up close to average in the low-to-mid 60's. our first way of rain is tonight through tomorrow and we will have light rain with that and then the rain will become more intermittent for wednesday and thursday. the system then stalls on top of it. here is our temperature for today. we still have a couple of hours of warming with the cloud cover out here and we will have

temperatures in the upper 50's at half moon bay and san francisco, richmond, vallejo, to clear lake and cloverdale and the rest of us possibly hitting 63 in fairfield and antioch. tonight, you can see the rain in the green hitting the north bay as far south as san francisco and temperatures in the mid-40's up north and rain-cooled air there, and the rest of us are in the upper 40's to mid-50's. well look at what is going on upstairs, the system is pretty mature looking system with clouds tabling off to the lower left-hand side of the screen so it has a little bit of a tropical connection, not much, but a little bit. here is the rain. it will arrive tonight. that secondary low behind the main low, that is what will come law and bring us another chance on wednesday and thursday. midnight, already starting to rain up north as we head to the morning commute, 7:00, we through 9:00, you can see the best chance of rain is still up north and the rest of us are

getting light rain and then we will all get rain during the day tomorrow and during the overnight hours wednesday through the morning hours, tuesday through the morning hours, wednesday, and you can see it becomes more intermit. on wednesday and wednesday night into thursday morning it almost falls out as the wind comes from the north. .25" to .5" of rain and maybe less in the south bay and maybe 2" in the north bay mountains. seven-day forecast show coolest tomorrow and wednesday and this week help the sun comes out and the temperatures warm above average but it will be tough if the commute. we have not had rain in 56 or 57 days. the streets will be slick in the evening commute. hope you are prepared. >> before we take a short break, abc7news.com and the broad cross are teaming up to raise money to help the victims of typhoon haiyan which is the typhoon that hurt the philippines. if you would like to donate call

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coming up at 4:00, a family disagreement goes public. the war of words over same-sex marriage between the daughters of former vice president dick cheney. at 5:00, the island in the philippines named "san francisco," which was demolished but no one died. the man being called a "hero." >> speak of the philippines, our abc7 fundraiser to help victims this runs until 11:35 p.m. you can call 415-954-7621 to make donations. 415-954-7621. we hope can you contribute. thank you

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