tina kraus reports that knox who served four years in prison has not returned for this trial. >> reporter: raffaele sollecito made a plea to give him back a real life. he and his ex-girlfriend, american college student amanda knox are facing the third trial for the 2007 murder of british student meredith kercher. an expert testified that the dna on the knife prosecutors claimed was the murder weapon belonged to knox, not the victim. that backed up the claim that the knife was a regular kitchen knife. italy's high court ordered a third trial saying the acquittal was full of contradictions. amanda knox is not in court. she told british tv she's too scared to return to italy. >> i was already imprisoned wrongfully. >> he said knox was his first true love and he did not take the accusations seriously at the beginning. >> there'll be another half dozen hearings before the verdict in january. >>> frightened passengers and crew evacuate a plane after a fire at montreal airport in canada. you can see people sliding down the emergency chute while flames and smoke billow through the air. a luggage

tina kraus, wjz eyewitness news. >> wow. those are the littlest things there, folks. if you would like to help, the red cross is one of the agencies taking donations. you can give them a call. 1-800-red cross. you can also go to the website, which is redcross.org. >>> a beautiful fall day across head -- maryland today. lots sun on this mild thursday. meteorologist tim williams is live at the inner harbor, with the wjz mobile weather lab. but we begin with bob turk, updating our conditions. bob? >> quite a hard day to decide what to wear, when it starts off below freezing, and goes up by afternoon. high clouds at 56 now. the dew point is about as low as you ever see it. 12 degrees. 52, ocean city. 43 the cold spot in oakland. 57 over in cumberland. and we have a 15-degree increase in temperature. right now, from where we were yesterday. 20 degrees warmer in cumberland. and 10, warmer in -- d.c. this morning, however, we bottomed out at 25 degrees. so it went from 25 to about 58 this afternoon. that's rare for this part. country. just really amazing change. and looks li

tina kraus, wjz eyewitness news. >> our complete coverage continues. wjz is live in whitemarsh. mike hellgren has more on local relief efforts. hi, mike. >> hi, kai. as you just saw, the need is so great. and so many people are opening their hearts hearts and their pocketbooks. you can see here, some of the donations that are coming in from people right here in maryland who want to help out. some of them have been personally touched by the disaster in the philippines. >> reporter: from the air, you can see entire towns that typhoon haiyan leveled in the philippines. sonya neumeier is one of maryland philippine, her hemtown is gone. her almost 90-year-old mother now lives in a shelter. >> the more i watch television and look at the damages, the worst off i get. >> reporter: but the retired army nurse is determined to turn her grief into action. >> you feel helpless. you cannot control what is happening. you can only control what you can do. and the only way i could really affect them is to do this fundraising event. >> she's not alone. at the river of life international church in

tina kraus, wjz eyewitness news. >> if you'd like to help, the red cross is one of the agencies takingdonations. call 1-800-red cross be or go to red redcross.org. >>> a scare in the air. a southwest pilot makes this statement on the loud speaker. >> he said we're going down. and everybody is looking around, like, is this a joke? is he serious? and then when he felt the nosedive. >> reporter: his passenger says the flight from tampa to baltimore, with a stopover from raleigh to durham, took a 27,000 foot nosedive. she said everyone pulled out their cell phones in an effort to reach loved ones. moments later, the plane went on to make a safe emergency landing. southwest said the plane had mechanical issues. >>> tonight, u.s. airways is investigating an incident on a flight from philadelphia to long island. a blind man and his service dog were kicked off the plane last night after a flight attendant asked him to control his dog. as ko im reports for wjz, other passengers protested, forcing the cancellation from the flight. >> albert and his dog, doxology, are back home. >> she got very a

tina kraus, wjz eyewitness news. >> and you can help the victims. catholic relief services isic taking your donations right now. call 1-877-help-crs. or log onto their website, crs.org. >>> here in maryland, we're dealing with our first real winter blast. it's a cold wave for downtown. sales season is wrapping up in grand fashion. probably not the conditions this crew was expecting when they docked at the inner harbor today. >>> live look outside now. how long will these chilly temperatures stick around? wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. meteorologist chelsea ingram is live in quarry lake with the wjz mobile weather lab in baltimore county. but first, bob is updating our temperatures. hi, bob. >> these are temperatures that are really pretty normal for january, not november. in fact, the normal high is around 40, 41. we're at 38 now. only 25 in oakland. 40 in d.c. 39 in easton. and 38 in ocean city. the dew point way down. this is a very dry, cold, canadian air mass. 13-degree dew point. wow. temperatures right now, running 17 degrees

but first, let's go to tina kraus for the latest on the devastation. >> reporter: the typhoon damaged or destroyed more than 23,000 homes. displacing 600,000 people. many of the dead remain unburied. this woman says rescuers have not come back in days and asks, why haven't they returned to recover the bodies? severe food and water shortages are adding to the crisis. aid organizations, like the red cross, and team rubiconare beginning to arrive. local doctors say they're running low on medicine. and more u.s. military help is coming. >> we're going to go as fast as we possibly can and get there as soon as we can to help people in need. >> reporter: the george washington strike group is on its way from hong hong kong. and at tacloban's airport, c130 cargo planes are flying in food, water and other supplies. but with tacloban in ruins, many are still waiting for help. tina kraus, wjz eyewitness news. >> and wjz complete coverage of the devastation in the philippines continues right now. investigator mike hellgren is live in whitemarsh with more on maryland's filipino community and how th

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tina kraus, cbs news. >> the potential accord is a decade in the making. it comes after the recent election of a more moderate president in iran. >>> the news just keeps getting worse for front toe's embattled mayor rob -- toronto's embattled mayor rob ford. after he admitted using crack some new video emerged showing him using threatening words kill and murder. it's not clear who was the object of his wrath. the release of this video has him apologizing again. >> [ bleep ]. >> i was very, very inebriated. it's extremely embarrassing. the whole world is going to see it. you know what? i don't have a problem with that, but it is extremely embarrassing. >> despite growing calls for his resignation mayor ford is refusing to step down from office. >>> did jimmy kimmel's halloween candy prank go too far? >> and would you let a stranger sleep on your shoulder >>> back on 9 most of us are a little protective about our personal space, but a commute other a new york subway did something nice for his fellow man. someone snapped this picture of one stranger allowing