amanda works for the american red cross. so, what is international humanitarian law? nternational humanitarian law, also sometimes known as the geneva conventions, are basically the rules of war. >> and what's happening today? >> today is something that we call "raid" cross. it's a series of simulations that teaches young people about the rules of war. so, the idea is that there are two opposing armies -- one, the haddarian army, and the other one is the deldarian army, and they've been in conflict for a long time. the point of having two separate armies is the way that we can show simulations with prisoners of war and humanitarian workers and indiscriminate weapons. >> can i join in? >> absolutely! >> so i joined the group haddarians, and we got ready for the things to begin, which they did, with a bang. >> everyone up! let's go! let's go! stand up! get up! >> so, the first simulation that we do is called "prisoners of war," and what we do is we sort of surprise the students. they're not anticipating it. we take away their rights to food and water and the ability to c

on, it is difficult to know what the red cross' role is. >> it has been confusing.the latest i read, they said they have not authorized the convoy and it is not related to them. and also the negotiations with ukrainian government are not entirely clear. yet again everything has been cleared with ukraine. then again, ukrainian sources say ukraine refuses to let the convoy crossed the border. wants the truck to unload their aid at the border and taken on by other means, using the red cross or ukrainian forces. russia has refused. so when it reaches the border it will be tetense days and hours. >> is there a deteriorating situation in the east of ukraine? >> definitely. the government would do well to try to take care of that. it is admittedly hard, given the situation. the insurgency needs to be dealt with. at the same time especially if ukraine is successful, then it has to -- it would be better to try to help them in all the ways they can. so in that sense, i am happy there is an agreement with the red cross and western powers to do something about the situation. >>

the red cross in kiev says they are not aware of the russian convoy. there's concern about how to get the supplies to people who need it and what could happen if the convoy comes under fire. for more, cnn's will ripley joins us now live from ukraine's capital kiev. and will, this is a real concern, isn't it, when you're seeing the red cross doesn't know anything about 20080 trucks in this convoy. a lot of fears about this. talk to us about reaction because we understand the french foreign minister has responded. >> the response is already coming in. this convoy, while nobody disagrees that people in eastern ukraine, especially luhansk, need this type of help, what's concerning is about how russia appears to be going about it. you mentioned the french for minister. i want to read a tweet he just sent out within the last hour or so. he says, "sending a humanitarian convoy to ukraine from russia, this is not possible except with the agreement of the red cross, could be a cover-up." the reason he's saying this isn't possible without agreement with the red

so the red cross highlights a necessity to fix the situation and urges all the sides to. not use the weapons. non-selective character and to. not allow attacking civilians objects or people such as a hospital was transported and the fact that those objects are shelled can be seen through the reports of your colleagues. on the side. markets churches gardens schools state. that happened recently a stadium was damaged. and i believe that the military experts understand that better than all of the present here including me that. is not just excused by the. wrongful shooting or some accident we have also studied the recent reports of the special o.e.c.d. monitoring mission which. they say about the. deteriorating humanitarian situation in the southeast of ukraine it is linked with the calm but actions that continue it is linked with the airstrikes on houses and other facilities utility facilities of donbass. from the i.c.r.c. and from there always see the council of europe. from the un humanitarian institutions from the leaders of many states there are calls to continue the ai

the red cross trying to make things better for those hit hard by the quake. >> absolutely are. i'm here at the -- excuse me, the cross walk church here in napa where the red cross is set up. it's also where seven on your side is set up. let me show you what's going on. we brought in some of the most important experts about disaster relief, insurance,Ñi and any connected issues, and they're here for you. you can come down up to sev:00. they're answer your questions or text us or go to facebook or e-mail us and we'll get the questions answered. tim, you're the regional director for the red cross. you're doing a great job. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> i have carol schuman wrote on my facebook page, what does the red cross do? food, water, what? >> right, so carol, the primary mission of the red cross in disaster is simple, mass care. we're the lead in sheltering and feeding the affected population. we do so with partners like cross walk. they're great. we got here early yesterday morning. we'll be here as long as we need to, but primary, feeding, shelteri

convoy are not be allowed to cross the ukrainian border they say it hasn't been certified by the red cross at the same time the ukraine security council has made a decision on which border crossing the convoy will be received earlier moscow and kiev reached an agreement on the relief mission which is supposed to be led by the red cross the yearly three hundred trucks of aid are now heading to eastern ukraine from russia and we'll be bringing you more details as they develop here on r.t. international. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and severe water shortages in colombia sparked clashes there were arrests and injuries as grounds demanded the government do more to tackle the crisis drier weather and heat waves have been causing increasingly severe droughts some areas have gone almost a year without rain colombians are also angry over high water taxes bad infrastructure and the contamination of supplies. and in town search is underway after hundreds of prisoners escaped from an overcrowded jail on the outskirts of haiti's capital three hundred twenty nine inmates

the american red cross is collecting donations if you want did give where you live t "red cross" to 930999donation. we will have continuing coverage of the napa earthquake and a photo gallery of the damage tips in preparing for the next disaster. >> officials in san jose will meet to discuss what can be done on a local level in response to the drought. officials will consider adopting a resolution declaring a water short average potential new limits on watering lawns and lend scrapes making it early to water each day between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. however, residents using recycled wastewater with be exempt. there is a hearing on a rope alibi pg&e to raise gas rates approvalling the increase of $8 a month. pg&e wants to raise gas pills by an additional $1 billion costing each customer $5 a month. they say pg&e is using fears after the explosion to justify the rate hikes. >> the 49ers are ripping up the field at levi stadium with the sod torn up. again. there will be a new field this weekend with a different grass. sod was replaced on thursday after flavors kept tripping. this were more cop

update now to our breaking news story came says it will reload the aid being brought by russian on to red cross vehicles ukraine security officials are refusing to allow the russian humanitarian truck convoy to cross the ukraine border world affairs journalist neil clark joins me now live for more on this thanks so much for being with us well you know it's a tricky situation here it looks like main problem is that it doesn't one russia crosses border. so how can the aid then get to the people well it's interesting isn't it that yesterday we heard that there'd be an agreement between russia and the cable this aid convoy but then of course we heard from the e.u. and the u.s. they were very much against this thing warning about it being a method of russia illegally invading the country we have the usual neo conservative russia of the voices saying this was a fact or invasion by russia quite a bit of christly and so i think that what's happened is that there's been phone calls made from the e.u. and from the u.s. to the cable car it is to change their position or die hard on this which is a great s

well, the red cross set up a shelter to help them.our team coverage for you this morning, tara moriarty is out there to tell us about the help the red cross shelter is providing. good morning, tara. >> reporter: well, things have definitely simmered down here at the shelter on first street. yesterday, it was really packed, about 250 people came here to seek help after the earthquake. folks are milling around. >>> getting ready. salvation army arrived within the past hour and is getting ready to serve breakfast to the earthquake victims. eight people are inside this shelter at crosswalk community church. one of them actually has a baby. the shelter opened less than six hours after the earthquake first struck. most of the people who spent the night were renters with no insurance or family in the area. one family we know is from the napa valley mobile home park where the fire destroyed their home. a red cross spokesperson said some have little or nothing left. >> people are very rattled to varying degrees. people have varying degrees of

give says it's ready to receive moscow's humanitarian aid but only if it's handed over to the red cross nearly three hundred trucks are heading to the russia ukraine border as part of the relief mission. brussels by the fact now that russia has banned e.u. food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans to get alternative supplies from latin america. secure gas and rubber bullets the u.s. police response to grounds demanding justice for the killing of an armed black teenager by a missouri cop. in a national coming to life in moscow with me marina joshie ukraine is ready to accept humanitarian aid from moscow but not on a russian trucks cave says a cargo should be handed over to the red cross and the borderless now get more from our team are due caution of on this. well it's a mission that was earlier agreed by cave in moscow so what's happening now. well of the two ukrainian top officials said the time is needed for the international red cross which is contribution to this moscow initiated mission to establish where exactly the aid should

derek shore is live in front of the red cross. darren, we're talking about food and water and all of the other necessities. >> reporter: that's right. we are told from the red cross that they have received a flood of calls and e-mails right after the napa quake. everyone asking how they can be prepared and realizing they weren't as prepared as they thought they were. take a look at some of what the red cross is showing us today. this is an example of one of those emergency kits. you can see it is fully marked and inside there are plenty of rations or some food and some other items, including emergency ponchos. out here, very important. a water bladder, including a flashlight here. they say you need 72 hours worth of rations just in case of an emergency. even more if you're in a rural area. and staffers hearsay just because the quake already happened doesn't mean it's not good to prepare for the next one. >> we always get an increase after a disaster and an emergency and interest in preparedness. i think after loma prieta, everyone

and as for these red cross shelters, a lot of people are trying to bring food. they don't want you to you do that. if you want to help, the best bet is to give a monetary donation to the red cross. live for kpix 5. >> were any of those people injured at all? >> reporter: i'm sorry, injured? >> were any -- >> are you asking about injuries? >> anyone in those homes injured?. >> reporter: there were minor injuries, bumps bruises, and laceration but none of the people we spoke with last night sustained serious injuries. you did hear one woman say the tv fell on her had. >> let's switch gears and head to vallejo. the cities there have been at least 41inglys that have been damage -- 41 buildings that have been damaged. this building has been red tagged. if you look on the roof, the adjacent building has a brick wall and bricks came crashing into the lower floor. there are no injuries but the public works department shut down the entire block and they're waiting for sunrise to come up before they complete their inspections to make sure the entire area of safe. we have

a few over six hours of negotiations with russian border control the international red cross spokesperson for us said that both russian and ukrainian governments have agreed on the humanitarian aid from russia will be delivered to war torn eastern ukraine adding though that they still remain two major challengers one is of course security concerns directly to trucks carrying humanitarian cargo or he's expected to travel through red cross will be waiting for war insides to give them guarantees that the kind of on will be safe with another challenge and this is maybe even more important he's a convoy cannot start moving until it's checked by the red cross and the red cross is hardly waits in ukraine to give them green light to start inspections the aid convoy from russia has been stuck with the russian ukrainian border for almost three days already one of the major reasons behind that he is that he has had too many questions to moscow brigades in the congo itself and its route accusing morse code but it is trying to use the humanitarian corn boy as a pretext to send troops and weapons to su

red cross is here assisting those displaceed. it was the middle of the night. they are doing a good job. >> i checked on the numbers, 23 people, from seven families and two pets. no one was hurt. no firefighters, no residents. the gas station had a lot fluids including oil, that mixed with the water and spilled on the ground. the department of public works and environmental health is on the seen to work on the clean up fire investigators will investigate when the sun comes up to determine the cause of the fire. >> the latest on the south napa earthquake. inspectors have red tagged 70 building. 200 have yellow tagged. this will be $2 million in federal funds to repair damaged roads. the earthquake caused streets to crack and put stress on bridges. 208 were injured and one is in critical condition at queen of the valley medical center. repairs are repairing 90 water leaks. it will take a few more days before the water service is restored to the entire city. >> mayor is asking for help from the federal government. the city began fencing off downtown last night so

. >> without the red cross, i wouldn't be here talking. i'd still be without hope. >> right now at 11:00, relief agency as stepping up, helping people with little or nothing left. we're still feeling the impact of the south napa earthquake. good evening, and thanks for being with us. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. aftershocks continue to rat typical napa area as kids prepare to leave the chaos behind and head back into the classroom. >> tonight we're getting a clearer picture of the elaborate and ongoing effort. we have multiple live reports. let's begin with terry mcsweeney who was there on-site as the congressman toured the red cross shelter. terry? >> reporter: and what the congressman saw, michael thompson is the red cross teaming up with the salvation army here. already they have taken care of thousands of victims of sunday's earthquake. and these two organizations are vowing to stay here until they're no longer needed. >> it's in shambles. >> reporter: that's how crystal describes her home here in napa. and that's why sh

humanitarian aid but kiev and the west want to know exactly what is on board and insist on having red cross meet them at the border. lauren bacall died at the age of 89. she became an international star after acting alongside humphrey bogart, who became her husband and she went on to win an oscar in 2009. we are going to start with that news just coming in. france has announced that it is going to supply weapons to iraq in the coming hours. that decision was announced from the president's office and is said to be in agreement with baghdad. weapons will be given to kurdish fighters. the president said the situation in iraq requires the mobilization of the international community and recognizes that france was willing to play an active role. they have been battling an extremist groups -- the extremist group isis for many months now. the u.s. has launched airstrikes to try to limit the advance of isis. and they have sent 130 troops to try to assess the situation. we joined -- we are joined from herbal --erbil, a northern iraqi town. we have just heard that france will send weapons. has that ne

then the red cross must distribute it.ight now, the red cross says it doesn't know for sure what's in those trucks. cnn's will riply is covering this from kiev. >> reporter: there is great suspicion about this russian convoy due to arrive in eastern ukraine. 280 trucks that left moscow and have been driving on the a area in conflict with hundreds of thousands of people who have essentially been cut off from the outside world for more than a week now. people who desperately need humanitarian aid. right now they have no power. they have no water. they are out of medical supplies, and they are running out of food. there are concerns of disease, especially in luhansk, which has been under barrage of artillery fire for days now and the situation is getting worse in donetsk as well. the russian convoy you would think would be a welcome thing but the new ukrainian government has one thing on their mind when they look at the white trucks barrelling toward their border the annexation of crimea and think it could be a secret ploy to

and the red cross is frankly way to ukraine to give them green light to start inspections the aid convoy from russia has been stuck with the russian ukrainian border for almost three days already one of the major reasons behind that has that here too many questions to moscow regarding the congo itself and its root accusing more but it is trying to use the humanitarian corn boy as a pretext to send troops and weapons to support n.t. here farces in eastern ukraine we have to say though that for all of these time the location where two hundred eighty trucks are currently parked was open to media and many journalists including our channel have visited the location this is my reports from there. food water medicine as well as warm blankets and sleeping bags welcome relief at a time of despair. this russian convoy has hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid destined for eastern ukraine and its help that sorely needed four months of and to tear up the ration has their towns and rooms more than two thousand people dead and many without clean water to drink. but a whole ritual which are more. which.

have the red cross saying it hasn't been agreed. there is an awful amount of confusion. it is humanitarian aid, if it is indeed humanitarian aid -- there have been some doubts about what is inside there is a really awful humanitarian situation going on at the moment. >> at potentially humanitarian catastrophe -- when vladimir putin says a potential humanitarian catastrophe, we can take him at his word? >> it depends on who you blame for that catastrophe. kiev says it is putin's fault in the purse lace for -- in the f irst place for prompting the uprising in eastern ukraine. if you listen to what moscow says, then what we are seeing is a really unpleasant and aggressive movement by the ukrainian army to win back this territory involving the shelling of civilian populations. who is to blame? there is no doubt there is a serious -- the death toll has doubled in the last two week.s. over 2000 deaths in eastern ukraine since the violence began. whole cities without running water. these are -- this is a very grave situation. >> shaun walk

>> at the love officials because a lot is going on, the fire and red cross is helping people who are displaced and public works and environmental health. this was a gas station fire that spread to two apartment build ings. clearly the muni trains running and we can see the fire damage. on this side of the street, the red cross is working furiously to help the 23 people who are displaced, in are still in this muni bus waiting to be taken. it has been hard to get them to shelter because this are not enough hotel room but the red cross said they found a place to go but it is down by the airport. not 8:00. but somewhere to rest their head. look at this video the fire broke ought at 12:30 in the bodyship of the gas station so it burned inside there and spread to the apartment and it burned on the inside of an apartment building on ocean avenue and only the exterior of a building on san jose avenue but that building sustained water and smoke damage inside. speaking of water, the water the firefighters used flushed chemicals from the bodyship to the sidewalk and beyond. >> the fires and rec

tonight -- the red cross evacuation center remains open at the crosswalk community church. for people in need of assistance. the napa county red cross says, more than 200 members of its workforce have been helping those affected. kron 4's j-r stone shows us the center. another busy he evening here in malaga that is where the red cross set up you look off into the distance and you can see all the water outside the has required 1600's supplies you consider all the food that has been distributed so far about 300 meals have been served at this locationthe people of napa have showed there many utility problems in the homes has just been very hard i haven't been able as a pass for 35:00 in the morning i just want that to happen again and very scared for my family and for everyone in napa we are unable to use the appliances and our house and has just totally messed up our schedule and given the posttraumatic stress disorder there's so many people in need of water here in the napa area 90 people have slept at this location ec's and said the since sunday many of the stands at spoke

. >> where the red cross has set up an evacuation center. vick? >> well, this church is near highway 29 near the shopping outlets if you will. this is one of two shelters that the red cross has set up, the other one in valetio, and you can see people registering for the central, maybe some of them for sheltser. there are 30 families who registered, 83 people total. this is woody baker cohen, a veteran red cross public affairs spokesperson. i've seen you on many of these disasters, woody. thanks for being here with this quick interview. first of all, this shelter started this morning, right, as a play to get food and water. but then morphed into a shelter. how did that come about? >> it started the way they usually start. we open up an evacuation center, a place where people can go that have been displaced, get food, something to drink, some information about what's going on. we had health services workers for people with minor health problems or chronic problems, some mental health workers for the crisis. people came in, trying to figure out what

. >> where the red cross has set up an evacuation center. vick? >> well, this church is near highway 29 near the shopping outlets if you will. this is one of two shelters that the red cross has set up, the other one in valetio, and you can see people registering for the central, maybe some of them for sheltser. there are 30 families who registered, 83 people total. this is woody baker cohen, a veteran red cross public affairs spokesperson. i've seen you on many of these disasters, woody. thanks for being here with this quick interview. first of all, this shelter started this morning, right, as a play to get food and water. but then morphed into a shelter. how did that come about? >> it started the way they usually start. we open up an evacuation center, a place where people can go that have been displaced, get food, something to drink, some information about what's going on. we had health services workers for people with minor health problems or chronic problems, some mental health workers for the crisis. people came in, trying to figure out what

, the red cross could then drive those supplies into the battle zone. we already know they've set up a base camp. this is new information as of last night. there are about 60 red cross volunteers who have been able to set up a preliminary base of operation where they're handing out medical supplies, food and water. they're hoping those convoys will be able to continue to safely get in there, even as the fighting in the area continues to intensify, natalie. >> right. as you say, civilians have also been killed as rioting intensifies. do we know which side appears to have the upperhand right now? >> reporter: obviously, both sides will be putting out their own pieces of information. if you take a look at the bigger picture and see what's happening, we know the rebels are outnumbered, 50 thoi ukrainian troops have the city of donetsk cut off. the supply lines that many thought allowing weapons to be smuggled in by russia, those are cut off right now. russia continues to deny smuggling was happening. two top rebel leaders, both stepped down yesterday, which

of course by the red cross. now, we spoke positive to two of those people, father and his teenage daughter, who say they were rescued, just in t rescuers. i want you to hear what they had to say. listen to this. >> i mean, blessing we're alive, blessing that the police responded fast enough to get us out because mean i didn't smell the smoke. if nobody got here, nobody called anybody, i would have burned to death. >> not a lot more to say than i'm just real thankful that we got out alive. >> reporter: they sa the rescuers helped them get out alive, that's their job, but also we heard that multiple reports of fire alarms inside both their unit and in the hallways not working. we're work to go learn more about that situation here. obviously they had no prior warning before police and firefighters got on scene and were able to rescue them. harrowing rescues this morning, again, one person injured, with minor injuries, taken to the hospital. but that's it from upper dublin, steve patterson, cbs-3, "eyewitness news",

others went to one of 30 temporary red cross shelters including hilo high school. where more than 100 people spent the night. jessica and liam andrews came with their 2-year-old daughter chloe after wind gusts shook their home. >> we just didn't want to feel frightened overnight so we decided to come in. better to be safe than sorry. >> reporter: sometime on sunday julio will pass. bigad shaban, cbs news, hilo, hawaii. >> it's the first tropical storm to hit the state in 22 years. when will iselle be gone and julio arrive? first alert meteorologist erica grow is tracking both storms in the weather centhat's right and we are going to see those storms both impacting hawaii in just a span of a few days. and for the state of hawaii, to get impacted by a tropical storm in the first place, is really really unusual. as you just mentioned andrea. back here at home we're looking okay this weekend we're going to watch a few of these showers and some heavier cells of embedded rain to our southwest make their approach toward us. but in the meantime, we are in the clear just so

agency that's working together with our private partners whether eventually ma or our friends at red cross or the neighborhood groups that are formed to communicate with each other or religion us community to check in with the agencies and ask for help and preparation clearly who our business you community they all have to be as educated as we want them to be its important i'm constantly remind by ann she put together a beautiful and informative sf 72.org we go through this you can't miss anything we're trying to train people we're a great country we're also sunshine have to be prepared and alert but also when you go through this the fear of being a victim of earthquake is lessened we can manage our preparation every better it's important to remind everybody and autonomy our own city but your sister and brother university campuses they have to do their part the lifeline council it's important we get all our utilities converging with each other with their emergency responses it's important. having said that, as you may have heard we did a immediate invest up to napa to look at the damage an

we've also heard russian trucks are not certified by the international red cross.re's confusion about what is going on. what seems to be clear is that this is heading towards the ukrainian border border to the where there's humanitarian crisis in the making. 250,000 inhabitants of the city of luhansk have been without water and electricity nine days. russia could use a humanitarian convoy as a pretext to send it's own troops in. we've been hearing that from officials including may tonato. we're watching it closely as it makes its way to the border. >> david we'll leave it there but be back as it changes. >>> the world health organization ruled experimental drugs can be used to try to stop the spread of ebola in west africa. more than 1,000 people are thought to have died in the outbreak. it comes as doctors in spain say a priest that contracted the virus in liberia has died. he failed to respond to treatment. both deaths are in liberia, guinea and sierra leone. our bbc correspondent is with us. people are alarmed to hear there's a death in europe. they are sanction

the red cross was here, but according to the city manager, they cleared it once it became their services were no longer needed. the yellow tape continues to surround the building, and we have seen crowds grow to more or less check it out for themselves. this is highway 29, and you can imagine the effect it's caused on traffic. there's another piece of information i want to share for you. there's a new e-mail address for any incidents around the nappy quake. if you have any issues at all, go to our website and see the e-mail address to e-mail your concern. that e-mail address is established for the citizens of vallejo is earthquake2014ci at valle vallejo.us. that's on our website. >>> and meanwhile, in napa, cleanup is under way and inspectors hard at work. they have red tagged 49 buildings. that means too dangerous to enter. more than 100 more have been yellow tagged. 208 people treated for injuries at queen of the valley medical center. 17 are still hospitalized and one is in critical condition. utility crews are making progress. power has been restored to all but really a handful of pe

now, some of that money will also go to the red cross to help in the recovery. the city of napa has just released new damage estimates. city leaders think damage to privately owned structures, both homes and commercial properties, $300 million. that doesn't include damage to public buildings or infrastructure, loss of business or general economic losses. but surely, slowly, problems get fixed. >> nbc bay area's bob redell is le live near napa where crews are repairing a water main there. bob? >> reporter: good morning janelle and scott. we also got new numbers with regards to the water line repairs. a significant progress report. you might recall that 6.0 t temblor busted roughly 30 lines. they hope to knock out another 30 here today. back in the neighborhoods, people are cleaning up and some are still waiting for their pets to come home. many cats are still missing and until a few moments ago, there were four dogs still separated from their masters, but that number dropped to three this morning when chloe, the 14-year-old black lab, reunited at the napa county

this is under the auspices of the international committee of the red cross.he icrc met with reps from both countries to discuss terms of this operation. russian media report that a russian humanitarian convoy of 280 trucks carrying food, medicine, and power generators is on its way to ukraine at this moment. but some western leaders including u.s. president barack obama are warning russia not to use this mission as a way to send in more troops. nato's secretary-general says they're watching russia closely as well. >> there is a high probability, we see the russians developing the narrative and the pretext for such an operation under the guise of a humanitarian operation, and we see a military build-up that could be used to conduct such illegal military operations in ukraine. >> let's go ahead and discuss that could that was just mentioned there. will ripley as you see joins us live from the ukrainian capital, kiev. what more do we know about this russian-backed effort to get aid into the east of ukraine in addition to the fact they've got troops it's understo

details were we're mad so it is absolutely legal now that this is a humanitarian convoy and red cross has also sad that they are about to send its own humanitarian aid to ukraine but later back to you maria thank you very much artie's maria for national reporting that people living in the two key cities in kiev as military sites are being told to leave their homes ukraine security forces say they're preparing a major offensive to retake lugansk where local militia warned of massive counter attacks. this video from a town in the lugansk region apparently shows the aftermath of recent shelling it's a residential area that appears to have been struck for residents in these regions areas sold is a daily threat which ukrainian forces and local militia blame on each other. international rights groups and a journalist organizations are stepping up the pressure over the disappearance of a russian photographer in ukraine the european security watchdog insist under a stand in it was working for the ria novosti news agency should be released on disappeared a week ago while covering the conflict

. >> reporter: good morning, tam, the red cross has been called to the scene here. 8 units were in the buildings that was on fire. the red cross is trying to determine how many people need assistance, one person was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, we don't know her condition at this time. firefighters are on the scene you can see them in the back of the buildings, you can see the damage that remains after the fire this morning. firefighters were called before 2:00 a.m. to the woods apartment complex on the # hundred block of west lincoln drive in ambler upper dublin township. when firefighters arrived they could see the flames from the outside of building. the resident was on the balcony, people could hear her screaming. eventually she went back inside and rescued by firefighters. one man across hall woke up to banging on the door. >> we were sleeping police told us to get out, the building were on fire, we were the opposing unit to where the fire was. from what i could see they are pretty much destroyed in my unit now, i don't know, we were just moving tomorr

-- red cross, which russia said it agreed this with.ording to the ukrainian red cross, that convoy cannot come over the border until that fighting is over. >> you talk about fighting ending, you mean ukrainian takeover of the rubble outfitters. >> i guess you could interpret it as that because ukrainians thatrefused a cease-fire the separatists suggested the other day. it is easy to understand why they would do that because ukrainians have surrounded the separatists. they are holed up in these big cities and it looks like the end is up to them. so why would they agree to a cease-fire? a kid be great if russia is part of an international aid system. this would be great for the market. this could be fraught with lots of trouble. we saw fighting with russian and ukrainian forces. we are not there yet, but that would be bad news. >> thank you very much. "on the move" is over. follow me on twitter. >> making putin pay. the u.s. wants moscow not to use aid trucks to send in troops. contract -- the ukraine conflict could hurt business. welcome

>> reporter: it's moving slower than the red cross expected. they were saying it was expected to arrive overnight. now they're saying the first half of the day. it could be in a matter of hours, errol. >>> southern china and parts of taiwan has forced the closure of some schools. >> let's go to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. pedram, this is very severe. give us an idea of what people are dealing with. >> as far as southern taiwan goes, rosemary, you may recall a couple of weeks ago we were talking about a gas line in a southern taiwan city. the sewage system has been overwemd with the explosion that injured some 300 people. it took 30 lives with it. this rainfall coming down upwards of feet in a matter of a couple of days really prompting issues in this area. footage with brand new flooding taking place. historic amounts of water for some of these areas where they're adapt to being able to take on water, but when you have a damaged sewage system, certainly a lot of things going to go wrong, and that's exactly what's been happening over this

the red cross is assisting five families that's ten people and a dog. one woman is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. there's quite a bit of damage from the overnight fire. firefighters were initially called before 2:00 a.m. to the woods apartment complex on the 700 block of west lincoln drive in ambler, upper dublin township. when firefighters arrived at least one apartment was on fire. they could see the flames from the outside of the buildings. the resident from the apartment was out on the balcony. eventuallily she went back inside, she was rescued by firefighters. neighbors say the flames were fierce. >> flames were bad, i'm telling you what, they were shooting out from the side and up, it was just like like a volcano. it was bad. >> reporter: back here live, now that it's getting brighter. you can get a look at the debris from the fire overnight. the fire was largely concentrated in the end unit. firefighters say they were able to minimize the fire from spreading, but there's smoke in other apartments. 8 units in this apartment bu

and then ukrainian troops take over with the red cross. importance of text, that the rebels are losing. subtext, thatnt the rebels are losing. he is scrambling for some solution. worse case scenario, if the ukrainians had a definitive victory over the rebels, then you have a flow of ethnic refugees across the border into russia and then pruden has no leverage in ukraine. then that russian population is not part of the uke -- the equation anymore. to be easy, but that is what spruce and -- what pruden is most afraid of. is equipment there is probably overrated. the russians have demonstrated they can get equipment out across the border without doing it in this way. this is much more about pr, about changing russia's image, about drinking -- breaking european sanctions. a flip remarkade that russia is not well known for its humanitarian assistance. >> what happens when they stop a convoy at the border? >> the question is really simple. why not just have the red cross come in and inspect every truck and let them go through? >> that may be wha

and the red cross is currently waiting for ukraine to give them a green light to start base inspection hole though it was agreed that this inspection will happen here at these checkpoints. firing a hand just to remind you from the ukrainian side it is under control of anti government forces healthy the convoy is stuck on the russian ukrainian bullet or. at the moment when people in eastern ukraine in desperate need of practically everything and this question we carry is food water medicine as well as well blankets and sleeping bags but cannot start moving here had too many questions to mosco accusing russia of using humanitarian convoy as a pretext to send weapons and troops there too since an antique here front is in eastern ukraine where we can say that the location where two hundred eighty trucks are currently poverty and restore region several kilometers from where we are now from the borders has been open to media and in. many journalists have visited this site and they were able to look at what is inside the tracks including our channel and many other channels both russian and po

the red cross has developed an app to help you keep tabz on friends and family when a disaster strikes you have loved ones who live far away, this is something that could provide comfort and peace of mind. ahead at 4:00, we will talk with someone from the red cross about how it works and how it can help you. >>> another beautiful day today. yesterday, lots of sunshine after the rain and the cloud cover we saw on saturday. we will be heating up as we go into the next couple of days. we are watching cristobal, which is going to be affecting the east coast of the united states, even though it's not going to make a direct hit. the holiday forecast, that's within the seven-day period. we got to get into that. we are at citizens bank park. conditions are great for baseball. going to be pretty good for baseball the next couple of days. 84 degrees, it feels like 84 because the humidity is not all that high. winds northeast at seven miles an hour. it's warmer than it was at this time yesterday. saturday, only 74 degrees for the high. sunday, 83. today, so far 85. tomorrow, 88. then on wednesday

the red cross is pitching in to provide critically need a. if you would like to give where you live you can make a ten dollar donation by texting "red cross," to 90999. >> we will have continuing coverage of the napa earthquake and a photo gallery of the damage and tips on preparing for the next disaster. you can get breaking news alerts by following us on twitter at twitter@abc7newsbayarea . there is much more ahead including a fire that breaks out next to a san francisco gas station and the definite stating impact. >> good news for northern california residents chased from their homes by a much larger fire. >> the lights on the bay bridge are off after unspecified issues. caltran says they are trying to figure out the source of the problem. you can see there are long lines at the bay bridge toll plaza. look at the backup. it extends west. the backup on 80 goes all the way to cu tting boulevard cross ing into san francisco and the backup on 580 steps to park. drivers are urged to find another option or considering different transit. >> inves

with me now on the phone is regional executive director of the american red cross tim miller. tim, are you there? >> yes, thank you, judge. >> first of all let me thank you. when we lost our home in a flood the first time we had food in a couple days was when the red cross came through. thank you for what you do. you are now as i understand it in one of the two most affected areas, how have you assisting people who have been displaced? >> the red cross is focused as we are 365 a year the immediate needs the effect of the pop lyings. we are taking the lead on helping the affected population. >> when you talk about sheltering the population, we are hearing that there are buildings that may not be jet condemned that may suffer from an aftershock or is that building we just had a reporter will car in front of if the roof comes down i mean then there is going to be even more damage. how many shelters are available to people and how many people do you think need them? >> we will shelter as many as we need. we are in contact with napa county and vallejo. we are at a church. they are

the red cross says it has no information on what the trucks are carrying or where they're going. key details on this steve. the big question is will these trucks be able to cross the border? >> that's right. we know what's left moscow or left russia, 280 trucks packed with humanitarian aid. russians say they put sugar, grain, sleeping bags, electricity generators, water baby food into trucks. there was an orthodox priest to bless it before it was sent off earlier today. it will take between two and three days to reach the border with ukraine. as you say, it's unclear what's going to happen then. ukrainian officials have made it clear they are not going to let those trucks over the border. they say that it's not going to happen. they say this is not been certified by the international red cross. they say the aid will have to be transferred to red cross vehicles. a short while ago bbc spoke to russian emergency ministry coordinating the convoy. they said we're not planning to cross the border. yes, indeed all that aid will be transferred to other vehicles. the ministry said it was i