and picking up speed, drenching rain is expected to create deadly mudslides in this devastated island nationresidents in the camps are ignoring warnings to leave the area. >> the earthquake robbed million people from their homes. so being told to evacuate to leave what little they have again is nearly too much to bear in one of haiti's tent cities. chaos erupted when aid workers tried to evacuate them before hurricane tomas hits later today. they are on most severe storm warning, expecting up to a foot of rain that could trigger deadly mudslides just above the tents. >> hundreds eventually left their tents, relocate to go an abandoned hospital and shelter but even haiti's president the government doesn't have enough places to move everyone. this woman asks, they told us we have to move but where? they expect half a million people will need immediate assistance. >> we have 17,000 and another 8,000 coming in so that is enough for about 125,000 people. >> but roads are still impassable, still full of rubble ten months after the earthquake. because of that tomas seems too much, as to, too close.

hurricane thomas is lashing the island nation is ravaged by the massive earthquake nearly a year ago. closer to home, we will bring you the overnight movement in the tightest elections throughout the country. we have new numbers and details and we'll check that. it's friday and laura is gone and i say the guys break out the video games. >> that's a fantastic idea. play xbox on the news. >> we're should. it will be fun. >> i dreamed about days like today. we will get a chance to do that. that is outstanding. let's get to the forecast. a little cool with 50s and 60s and golden gate bridge with thick fog. 61 degrees in hayward and areas that have enough of a breeze that keep the lower part of the atmosphere stirred up. you will run into it and a southwest wind. high clouds on top of it. patchy dense fog and a mixture of clouds and sun. we should not see 85 degrees. tomorrow is the first system and may toss sprinkles around, but sunday looks to be the wetter half of the weekend. clearly we have clouds spilling in and high pressure starting to give ground. mid-and high level moisture out o

in this country and around the world, but fiji water is pulling out of fiji, the south pacific island nation that is the source of their product. the company said it's closing its plant after the government said it would impose steep new taxes on the water company. >>> we're back in a moment with a look at how this nation today remembered a very funny man. >>> well, let's see if spiderman can rescue himself from this one. there was a meltdown on broadway last night for the most expensive broadway show ever produced. "spiderman the musical" has cost an estimated $65 million to produce. the music was composed by bono and edge of u-2 fame and last night, before a preview audience, it melted down. cables broke, one actress was stranded, suspended on a wire above the audience for several minutes. the play stopped cold several times. the producers say, however, they'll get it all fixed and the show will go on. >>> a shocker from the folks who hand out the oscars. the academy awards in february will be hosted by the actors james franco and anne hathaway. one "l.a. times" columnist says tonight the

officials say it will soon be expanded to all tourist resorts in the island nation. >>> in india, preparations are under way to celebrate the festival of lamps on friday night. one of india's oldest festivals, it symbolizes a victory of truth over falsehood. traditions ask that on this day, hindu prince returned to his kingdom after killing a demon to express mr. happiness, people lit lamps and candles on the rooftops of their houses. >>> hi there. time now for another world weather update. there is much to discuss. let's begin with our satellite shot over east asia. very calm skies as we enter our friday night and saturday across much of china, in towards korea as well as japan. high pressure here, but that's also going to allow for much cooler conditions into the weekend. also an area of low pressure moving through northeastern china, some amounts of light snow for parts of mongolia. around this high there is going to be quite a bit of a push of moisture in towards southeastern coastal parts of china, taiwan, especially in the philippines. and let's not ignore, of course, our tropical depres

government is not performing fully, and the money promised by the international community to help the island nation has been slow in coming. driving from the capital for four hours northwards, we reached the northern region where the cholera outbreak originally started. this area was flooded when the hurricane passed off the coast of haiti earlier this month. i am in a town called rubatat, when the hurricane hit, the nearby river flooded over and the water came up to my, around my knees. since then, the people tell me the cholera epidemic started being reported here, too. the neighborhood is in extreme poverty with no proper sanitation, no access to clean water. children walk barefoot among garbage and in dirty water. a breeding ground for cholera. a hospital here receives a constant flow of patients suffering from severe diarrhea and high fever, cholera-like symptoms. patients are overwhelming for this small hospital. they are being treated on stretchers in the courtyard or in corridors. the number of treated so far is over 1,000. 15 of which have passed away. >> reporter: the cholera epidemic has

sixty five years after their handover the tussle to define the islands national identity still goes onthis crossed a period here if you years ago when the russian orthodox church parish on the island of secret. after decades of seeing its population window they are and is now in the midst of a baby boom. we have the highest birth rate in the entire region there are many kids here and parents bring them to be baptized and living standards are quite decent nowadays. he's just a few hundred meters from the church attic a human motor is teaching japanese at a local school in health class seven greater sit alongside their parents and many of them getting a job in japan is their best shot at lifting their families out of poverty are classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year i'm hippias sometimes it seems like and with my family again. this is precisely why the president came here to tell the locals that russia has not forgotten about them and while the regional officials tried to paint a pretty quick church roads and crumbling infrastructure betrayed the island's f

1967, the president's mother remarried an indonesian man and moved with her son to the pacific island nation. >> i learned to love endough nearbia while flying kites and running along the patty fields and catching dragon flies, buying from the street vendors. >> reporter: next up a summit with world leaders in south korea where the focus will be on the global economic recovery. karen travers, abc news travel with the president in jakarta. >>> five minutes after the hour at six, ravens leave to play in atlanta tomorrow night. and ray rice has about, what, 80,000 friends on facebook and he tweets. and the tweet that you received yesterday from ray raised a little questions here. really, it was on monday that ray was stopped by a baltimore county police officer in the parking lot of the game stop store in owings mills because his tinted windows were too dark. sent out a twitter message saying "just got pulled over for my tints smh that means shaking my head. but gave the officer an autograph for his son and he let me go. now the post on twitter made it seem he got special treatment from the off

1967, the president's mother remarried an indonesian man and moved with her son to the pacific island nationxt up for president obama, a summit of world leaders in south korea where the focus will be on the global economic recovery. >> thanks to karen traverse. >>> the mystery off the coast of southern california may have finally been solved. experts say an airplane, most likely, left the trail of smoke and not a missile as some had suspected. pentagon officials were stumped by it and no one in the department of defense was able to explain where it came from. but they do say the nation was never in any danger. >> good news. >>> just south of there, nearly 4,500 people are literally stuck in the middle of the ocean after their luxury cruise liner broke down. the carnival "splendor" lost power after an engine room fire early monday. >> now all those on board can do is wait as the ship is slowly dragged back to port in san diego. diana alvear has the details. >> reporter: vinita and rob, good morning. talk about a party pooper. these poor passengers had their conga line cut short monday morning

they were sailing from the island nation last october. the pirates boarded their yacht.were taken hostage and health for ransom this weekend. private donors including some in the somali governme paid up to $1 million for there are release. they are thin and exhausted but otherwise okay. >> i love my wife. i love my life. >> desperate to see our families and friends. so happy to be among decent everyday people. >> the chandlers spent 380ays in captivity. it i believed the piratesre holding many other hostages and more than 20 vessels for ransom. >>> when news4 at 4:00 continues, sarah palin's realit show premiered last night. we'll look at what it could mean for her political future. >>> plus a controversial alcoholic czink now banned in another state. >>> the wegman's gros grocery chain. no one was expecting what they saw in a store yesterday. deer. two of them. a buck chased a doe and her fawn into the wegman's store in buffalo. the trio ran through store before jumping out the window and bounding off. the damage they left behind is said to be considerable. that superma

drenching rain is expected to create massive flooding and deadly mudslides in the already devastated island nationg to recover from the massive earthquake. they are urging of homeless residents to evacuate to higher ground but many are refusing to leave fearing they would lose what few possessions they have. >>> it's 6:50 out there and check in with mike. >> i said weekend. absolutely. it's going to be a tough one for those folks in haiti has it has intensified in the last 24 hours. you can see how the clouds have become more organized and spinning faster winds are up to 80 miles per hour. wind is going to problem that rain. when you get half foot or foot of rain on those mountain sides they are going to let go. let's take about what is happening at home. you can see some of the fog hanging around especially as you look from vollmer peak back to san francisco. that is signal that some of us will be significantly cooler and rest of us is warmer than average. visibility is about a mile. most of our temperatures in the 50s. fremont the holdout at 50. three things i want you to know partly sunny today

this retirees were sailing from the island nation on their yacht when it was commandeered.s had initially sought a $7 million ransom for the couple captured in october of 2009. more than $400,000 was dropped from a plane in june, but it did not result in their release. so, in recent days, somali's transitional government and a somali community in britain agreed to make a further payment. the couple told the bbc they were beaten once in captivity and were promised they would be freed several times. >> happy to be alive. anxious to see family and friends [ inaudible ] >> reporter: despite an international flotilla of warships and aircraft, pilots can't to crowell the ocean. some estimate that somali pirates are holding hundreds hostage in more than 20 vessels. >> fox 5 news. >> what a story. harrowing ordeal for them. back here at home, we can see changes. it is more gray and cool outside. >> rain mostly tomorrow but i know a lot of folks are heading out to fed eck and we can see the stadium beginning to fill. >> you see his hair. >> it is inflating because of the humidity th

jon: north korea's envoy to the united nations says that shelling incident, north korea lobbing shells at a south korean islandscussed between north and south korea and not by the u.n. security council. no surprise there, of course, the united nations headed right now by secretary general ban ki-moon who is originally from south korea. he has said this is the most serious provocation between the two nations since the end of the korean war. we'll keep you updated. jenna: well, right now the u.s. supreme court huddling behind closed doors meeting to decide which cases to hear. one of them, a gigantic class action lawsuit against walmart of all places. and this is covering hundreds of thousands of female workers. what's this all about? is shannon bream is live for us from washington d.c. shannon, what's at stake here exactly? >> reporter: walmart is arguing this class could include up to 1.5 million female employees and claims could run into the billions of dollars. the retail giant argues there is no way a class action of this size should have been approved or certified because they argue it violates the rules o

1967, the president's mother remarried an indonesian man and moved with her son to the pacific island nation>> i learned to love indonesia. while flying kites and running along the paddy fields and catching dragonflies. buying matzo from a street vendor. >> reporter: next up for president obama, a summit of world leaders in south korea where the focus will be on the global economic recovery. rob and vinita? >>> secretary of defense robert gates is telling us that he still expects to resign sometime next year. that confirmation came from an exclusive joint interview that gates as well as secretary of state hillary clinton did with our own cynthia mcfadden. they also spoke about their powerful alliance and whether clinton could one day take over the top job over at the pentagon. >> we didn't get the memo of how we were supposed to be diametrically opposite on everything. >> i think that one of the great strengths that hillary brings to the job of secretary of state is as spokesperson for the united states. around the world. and that's not the role of secretary of defense. >> for her part, clin

how much more devastation can this island nation take? to go along for the ride. that's all this weekend right here on "today." >> she gets to go flying with the blue angels? >> i flew with the thunderbirds. >> i rode a subway. >> oh, man. >> the blue angels are amazing. >> 7.5 gs in the blue angels. >> i just did it two weeks ago. let's talk about the weather. >> let's check it out, we'll show you for your weekend, we have got rain on saturday, sunny and mild weather through the gulf coast, then sunday marathon morning, it's 38 degrees to start off, right around 3:00, 49 with winds out of the northwest 12 miles an hour, then sunday, sunday, we have got more rain in the pacific northwest with the mountain snows and leftover lake-effect snows in the great lakes, sunny and mild in the >>> view of the golden gate bridge, see the fog has broken up in spots but still mid and high level clouds over the area and variable clouds, mix of sunshine the story of the day, mostly 60s and low 770s from mounta mounta mountainview. south bay, low 70s. ear

the storm bearing down on the tiny island nation.horities there have urged over a million refugees to go to safety. but as you know, most have nowhere to go. >> a desperate situation for so many people there. tomas is now a category 1 hurricane, with winds of 80 miles per hour. it's certain to cause flash floods and mudslides, making a bad situation there much worse. we'll get to that. >>> we also have a medical breakthrough for the first time. researchers may have found the test that can detect the deadliest cancer when it's still treatable. researchers stopped the trial so everyone can get the procedure. >> this is huge. >>> and we're cracking the code to the s.a.t. a high school student tells us why his investigation has unlocked the secret to that test. >> big news for a lot of high schoolers taking the test tomorrow. >>> we're going to begin with breaking news. we'll go live to haiti in a moment. first, jim sciutto is in havana with the latest on the plane crash overnight, killing all 68 aboard. jim? >> reporter: good morning, f

hundred protesters stoned a united nations patrol and blamed them for bringing cholera to the island nationlet's go port-au-prince. ivan, the violence in haiti, you and i were talking about this yesterday began earlier in the week. your seeing an uptick in the violence? >> reporter: i think it's safe to say that the violence has sfra spread from the northern city to the capital now. i'm watching about 20 boys, young men hurling rocks right now at the entrance to the base for united nations peacekeepers. we've been watching here for some time now young men trying to set fire to the posters of a campaign candidate for presidential candidate for upcoming elections. we've seen them hurling rocks at police and u.n. peacekeepers and blaming them for the worst cholera epidemic to hit this island. according to some medical experts in more than a century. >> we mine me again, ivan, as we look at these pictures, i saw how close your camera guy goes to the smoke and fire. remind us again why they are so angry these people, you would think they would be happy u.n. is there, extending this helping hand,

experts over there have had the jawbone, now, keep in mind where the jawbone was found on the island nationago today by american tourists on the northwest section of the island known as palm beach. and, hotel row is there, the big hotel prompts most tourists stay in there, this was found on the southern end outside of the phoenix hotel. and, that is a mile south of the holiday inn beach where she and her friends stayed back in '05 and further south, from the swampy area that was a focus of the search back then. forensic analysts i have spoken with say within a matter of a day or hours, you should be able to tell with dental x-rays whether the jawbone is human or animal and, with dental records, which they have, thanks to the fbi e-mailing her dental records over there on wednesday, they should really be able to come to a conclusion, and we should know sooner rather than later. bill: joran van der sloot is behind bars and if you find out it is her remains is it enough to charge him in a case like this? >> reporter: that is a good question. he has been arrested, twice. over the past five-and-

. >>> the heaviest rains in 18 years have flooded the island nation of sri lanka, and officials say thatd weather have left some 36,000 families homeless and submerged the country's parliament in four feet of water. the government says it is taking immediate steps to help those affected. >>> in alaska, the dramatic write-in vote count is under way to determine the winner of the last undecided senate race. it is looking pretty good for write-in candidate lisa murkowski, and the unofficial count shows her getting 98% of the vote so far and her gop challenger joe miller getting 4%. miller has filed a lawsuit to throw out the ballots that murkowski's name is spelled wrong. we will watch it closely. >> she was a write-in candidate and he had a regular ballot as well, so it is closer than those numbers would seem to suggest, but she is certainly almost getting all of the write-in ballots and she was the only write-in candidate, and this is going to continue for some time, and we will watch it closely, alina. stand by for this, alina, because you will want to see this. "the situation room" gets

the cornish island together with three other pacific islands was taken over by the soviet union sixty five years ago but the tussle to define its national identity still goes on. these cross appeared here a few years ago soon after the russian orthodox church opened its parish on the island of katon to dicky to phoenix population window on and is now in the midst of a baby will almost all of his with the highest birth rates in the into a region where lot of young people of servicemen. their living standards are quite decent nowadays there are many kids here and parents bring them to be baptized it's wonderful to have children on the island. building the church is part of the russian government's effort to raise the living standards of the korean island beach here means reinforcing national identity. all but the band and in the nine hundred ninety s. the audience saw a large influx of japanese charities and officials trying to persuade the locals that they might be much better off if the on and on their japanese administration says you know us and if we get the oil is bark we won't move the russians who live there we know how painful it