Swept across several midwestern states. A major cell developed in Central Illinois, near Washington County. It passed south of chicago before travelling to michigan and indiana. The three deaths are in Washington County illinois. There neighbourhoods were reduced to rubble. Debris is scattered through the region. We have amateur video as it moved through the state. This is taken at long point. Chicago, 50,000 fans were told to take cover at Soldier Field. The match resumed. Diane eastabrook is in illinois. I know you are from that part of the state. What are you seeing there . Not a lot at this point. We just got here. Its very dark. The city cordoned off the area. A curfew was put in place at 6 00 pm. They dont want people walking around. Theres destruction, downed trees and powerlines, theres 100,000 customers in the area without power. This tornado ripped through here about noon, ripped through peckin, peoria, illinois. We know 40 people were treated for injuries. Six of those people were serious injuries, head injuries, broken bones, bruises that sort of thing. About 13 people were treated and released. We think two others were admitted to a hospital with a little less serious injuries. One of the big problems in the area is so many people today have cell phones and cell service is not good in the area. A lot of cell towers are down. I was talking to friends and family that were trying to get a hold of people, who were living in the areas hit were unable to get a hold of them because they couldnt raise them be cell. That may have been part of the problem, with so many people coming into the area and flocking to the area. There were traffic jams because they couldnt get a hold of friends and family by phone. So, talk about what is happening tonight. Do you get the impression that crews are out there searching for survivors . They are they are not. Actually, i just talked to someone from the townsville county sheriffs department. They dont believe anyone is trapped in homes any more. They are in the midst of a cleanup effort. That is good news. Diane eastabrook live for us in Washington County, illinois. Thank you for your time. The National Weather service set out a team to assess the destruction in Central Illinois. Major damage has been indicated in that area. Ernie goche is the metrologist in charges and joins us from lincoln illinois. Lets talk about the survey teams. Are they out. Have you heard back from them. What have they told you. Now we had our first survey team return from the area. They showed found a lot of damage. It did turn dark before they got a total assessment of that. We are going to send out another team tomorrow, and determine exactly how wide the storm was. We have a good idea of how it was destructive, a lot of homes destroyed. We still have a lot of work to do yet to assess what to do rating and see how long the path was, how wide it was, and things like that. Can you talk about the severity of the damage. When we talk about tornados, the kind of damage we see gives an indication of how powerful it was, and how strong the storms were. Yes, a lot of times in storms like this the winds can get up to near 200 Miles Per Hour for the strongest storms. Right now the damage that we see now is probably not of the maximum intensities. We are looking at that to see exactly how strong it was. We have quite a bit of damage in those areas. A lot of homes destroyed. And we still need to take a good look to get a good estimate of how fast the wind speeds were in the storms that hit today. The picture we see are devastating. It looks like homes knocked from their foundations. We are not talking roof damage. You are right. We have seen a lot of amateur video and a lot of tv crews show the damage and pictures showing that the damage is extensive. It needs we need a little time to go out and get a good cataloguing of what the damage looks like, and get a good idea of how extensive it is. Talk about the warnings before the storm hit. We new the system was coming through a day in advance. Do you get the impression that people took the warnings seriously. Yes, we have been told everyone heeded the warnings quite quickly. We did have Storms Prediction Center in northern oklahoma had a high risk of tornado prediction forecast for today. We have been highlighting it, and all of our products on the website for the past two or three days, and so i think that really helped to alert people so they were aware of when the storms when the cloud started to come in, that they were ready to take cover. I am curious to know how much advance warning people got. Its one thing to know a dangerous storm system is moving through, but another to have reports of a tornado on the ground. That is a thing. We try to do that when we get confirmed reports of tornados on the ground and put them in statements and warnings, because it tells them exactly, you know, that there is something on the ground. I believe in this case that really made a difference because we did include that in our warnings. Any idea when we might have an idea of the rating of the tornados. Right now, it will be midday or Something Like that. Well send people out, starting at 7 oclock in the morning, as soon as it gets light. It will take time. Theres a bit of substantial damage. Without question these were powerful tornados. Thank you for your time today. We want to turn to rebecca. The storms are not over yet. No, they are not. The good news is that the risk of a tornado or potentially damaging tornado is diminishing. Well see some watches continuing through midnight. The possibility that ernie was talking about, a strong likelihood of tornados is diminishing. The National Weather service put a big focus on making sure that we are a weatherready nation. Today is an example, as we track the storm, powerful storms developing in missouri and illinois. 77 tornados predicted. Here is the band as it moves across illinois. We are freezing it in the area of red box. Thats where we had the two reported tornados, and as the system moves gradually to the east, they started to strengthen and we started to get tornado reports and wind reports, eventually into ohio, including missouri. The storm was strong. Wind reports stretch all the way to the dakotas starting today. We knew the big storm system would occur and we knew there was a high risk for tornados, even in nova scotia, because we had several things combined to make sure this was a strong system. These are the it storm reports. The orange indicates the wind reports. Note the cluster of red dots. Thats the cluster of the 77 tornados reported today. The National Weather service will be busy looking at those, measuring how long the tornado will be on the ground and how wide the rotation was, and it looks at the damage did it take out a small shack in the backyard or an entire block of homes. Well see information coming in over the next week or so. Now the location of the storm system tracking over central michigan. Strong thunder storms continuing. Hail coming in, but the shift is going to wind. We have got powerful winds on the way, 60 Miles Per Hour gusts in parts of ohio, so well continue to track the storm through the hour. Theres a lot of major areas for sure. Cincinnati and philadelphia getting a hit. Appreciate it. Well watch the storm throughout the night. Well have more later. Well turn to other news in the philippines, where aid is reaching areas devastated by typhoon haiyan. 4,000 were killed when the super storm hit a week ago. President Benigno Aquino is about to begin his second day in the region. His government has been criticised. Blocked roads made it difficult for hebb to reach the victims. We are joined by craig leeson in cebu. Do you get the impression that aid groups have finally turned a corner here . I think that is right. We are seeing a lot of that aid, as we mentioned yesterday, bulging into tacloban. Thats where the epicentre of the disaster was. Its coming in here first and shipped on the hercules c130, they are taking aid in and bringing the elderly and sick out. What the u. N. Is saying now is 13 Million People have been affected by this storm. 4 million of those displaced. That is a lot of people to try to look after. That is why this International Relief effort is important to the people of the philippines. The United States has been incredible in the amount of generosity of the people and the deployment of the navy to this part of the world. The u. S. S. George washington is off the coastline providing support by helicoptering in supplies on the seahawks and the osprey. They have the vertical capacity to take off and land, which is what they need in the areas, because debris is widely spread. That shop has a capacity to produce 400,000 gallons of water a day, which is what is needed in the area. Thats the main problem. The water there is contaminated and theres no access to it. Thats causing problems. Diarrhoea, disease, and the like particularly amongst the children. Talk about, if you can, the president of the philippines staying in tacloban, making a point to try to scale back on some of the criticism hes been facing. Thats right. Well, the president has been touring the area for the past two days. He wants to be seen to be actively engaged in the problem. There has been a great deal of criticism. A lot has come from the refugees. People in remote areas, such as Bantayan Island off the northern tip, where we visited several days ago and geyan. They, up until yesterday were not receiving aid. That is a problem. That was nine days after the storm. If you can imagine spending every night in blackness because theres no power, no sanitation. They had limited food. And they thought that theyd been forgotten about because most of the aid was going to tacloban, at the epicentre of the storm. That is truly miserable to think about. Craig leeson live in cebu where hopefully more aid is making its way to remote areas he was talking about. 70 of flights carrying food and water are able to land in cebu where craig was. Some of those in cutoff areas is waiting for help. Paul beban joined the Australian Air force on a trip to taytay and met a woman desperate to find her family. Theres not a second to lose as Australian Air force troopts pack the c130 with food and supplies. Its full of aid workers, and supplies, and a young Woman Holding back tears. As the plane descends into the landscape, she is overwhelmed. Her name is delia pagatpatan. Hundreds here are desperate to leave. But delia pagatpatan is desperate to get in. She has not heard from her family in more than a week. Shes terrified of what she may find in her home town. What is your reaction seeing this . Devastating. My emotion is. Heading east towards the ocean, a panner am e of destruction strolls by. We arrive in a wasteland rubble and splinters. All that is left of taytay. Once a bustling seaside ham let of 500 families, its hard to imagine anyone could live through this. Then a shout. Thats your brother. Its her older brother fausto. Amazingly somehow everyone is here. Delia pagatpatans entire family is alive. This is my brother and my youngest brother. Tears of relief and joy. But the struggle is far from over. Faustos house is barely standing. Delia pagatpatan wants her sisterinlaw, who needs medicine, to evacuate. I am worried because theres no hospital. Delia pagatpatans family and other survivors want to rebuild their town and lives. There are no jobs and no money. Food and fresh water are running low and the aid will not last forever. In the aftermath of the typhoon, the only thing that people really have in taytay is each other. Great to see the reunion in the philippines. In colorado two are dead and 20 hurt in a mining accident. It happened 270 miles southwest of denver. There are no details about what caused the accident. A county spokesperson said the two miners who tide were trapped. All but two have been released from the hospital. To central russia where a boeing 737 crashed while trying to land. All 50 on board were killed in kazan. Peter sharp has the latest. The shaky footage taken on a mobile phone shows what is left of the wreck of tatarstans plane. 46 passengers and six crew were on the plane when it crashed it burst into flames. There are reported that it made a second attempt to land and the pilot was new to the aircraft. There were high winds, cloudy skies, temperatures above zero. There are no signs of what caused the plash. It had flown 720km coming from moscow. There has been a number of deadly plane crashes in russia. The last in december, saw a russian n russian made tupalev career off a run way into a highway. Five were killed. A yak service plane crashed in yaraslavl. The crash was blamed on pilot area. Others have been attributed to poor crew training, lax government controls, run down airports. Authorities in kazan will search for clues as to what caused the crash. Frances president Francis Hollande is in israel for talks with Prime MinisterBenyamin Netanyahu. He landed today. On the top of the agenda irans controversial nuclear program. France assured israel it would fight the easing of economic sanctions against iran until it was clear it would end its Nuclear Weapons program. Mike hanna from jerusalem. Its a large french delegation arriving in israel. There are nine ministers and the president. There are a lot of economic and strong ties. Central to the discussions in the course of the day into the evening will be the issue of iran. Benyamin netanyahu, the israeli Prime Minister thanked the french president for what he described as his intervention in the did you suggests in geneva, where france objected to a deal on the table. Many believe stopping that deal. Benyamin netanyahu continues to insist that not only should sanctions not be lifted, but should be intensified against iran. Hell look for support. Its the beginning of an international campaign. Later in the week Benyamin Netanyahu will travel to russia for a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. Once again expressing sentiments to the russian president , then a meeting with the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry, returning to the region after an acrimonious visit. Central to the discussions will be the issue of iran. Later more on the iran nuclear talks. And an investigation a drone that malfunctioned and crashed during it a u. S. Training exercise. And why many are seeing red over the black pete tradition in the netherlands. Conversation welcome back, officials are trying to figure out why a drone malfunctioned off the coast of california. Crews used the drone to check radar tracking system. Its done on a regular basis. The ship was damaged. Its at port in san diego, investigators will work out what went wrong. In the netherlands there has been protests over a festival schedule in the run up to christmas, around a darker called black pete. It has critics seeing red. Phil lavelle has more. Black pete is controversial but is a crowd pleaser. Thousands of families lined the streets for the sinterklaas para parade, a dutch festival that comes before. Black pete is a naughty helper. Children paint their faces to look like him. It keeps youngsters happy, but not the campaigners, claiming this is a symbol of racism, a throw back to slave trade. This season of unity is decided. The number of protesters out on friday was small, swallowed up by the crowds. Online 30,000 backed a call for black pete to be abolished. Compare it to the 2 million who want him to stay. Theres little chance that black pete will go anywhere. We are from holland. We want to keep it. Ask someone not from the country do you think this is racist . Absolutely, no question. It seems obvious its race. You dont find it offensive . No. No. I like it. I have children, i do it. I have children. They like it. They do it at school. Sinterklaas and black pete have been part of dutch life. Generations paint their faces black so they can look like black pete. Look at the crowd theres a notable reduction in the number of faces painted black. People want to keep the tradition, but dont want to be accused of racism. Compared to last year, most children havent paint their faces. Black pete is almost 200 years old. If the crowds get their way, therell be a lot of life left in him yet. All righty, time for the sports headlines. Broncos head coach may be on the leave. Lets see. Including the stunning upset win over stanford usc won five of six games since ed orgeron took over. Hell have competition if he hopes to remove the interim tag. The school interviewed jack dal rio. Hes leading the broncos while john fox recovers from heart surgery. He starred at usc and earnt all american status as a lion backer. Whether in the midwest suspended a contest during the bears came. Fans evacuated from the inner bowl stadium. Rain and wind caused concern. It resumed and once under way the bears won in overtime. The final race of the trace in homestead formula, Jimmy Johnston is the dominant driver, winning a sixth nascar. He stayed out of the trouble, avoided accidents and finished ninth, with six titles. He trails Richard Petty and Dale Ernhardt with seven. Those are the headlines. Also ahead three killed in powerful tornados across the midwest. We have our eye on it. Diplomatic talks on Irans Nuclear program. Israel is doubtful a resolution can be meant. Well talk to experts in the weekahead segment coming up. And welcome back to al jazeera america. Im Jonathan Betz with the top stories. There were no survivors in a russia plane crash today. All 50 on board were killed as a boeing 737 was trying to land in kazan. There were reports the plane made a second attempt to land when it went down. In the philippines president Benigno Aquino is about to begin a second day touring the region. The government is under fire for its handling of the disaster. Nearly 4,000 were killed when it hit, millions have been displaced. Five people are confirmed dead