Announcer world news now weather brought to you by delsyum. Pop in the drum of any machine. To wash any size load. It dissolves in any temperature, even cold. Tide pods. Pop in. Stand out. A new report is raising red flags over pg13 rated movies like transformers. The report says pg13 movies are more violent than rrated movies were back in the 80s, and that is leaving parents more confused than ever. Abcs david wright has the story. Reporter shoot em up blockbusters like the first of the die hard movies or the original terminator used to be rated r. Ill be back. Reporter but their modern day sequels pg13 even though you now get more bang for the buck. Researchers at the university of pennsylvania looked at the topgrossing movies of the past 60 years from cinderella. Did you ever see such a beautiful dress . Reporter to the hunger games, watching in particular for the level of gun violence. Our conclusion is the rate of gun violence in rated pg13 category has gone up three times since it started. Reporter in 1985, the average pg13 movie had less than one shooting per hour. In 2012, nearly three shootings per hour. Sex and swearing will still earn an r rating, but gun violence more likely to be rated pg13. A top grossing rrated film today will have less gun violence than a top earning pg13 movie today. Reporter the Motion Picture industry declined comment. And others suggested that hollywood is feeding a culture of violence. Gun violence may have increased but in real life Violent Crime is at an alltime low. David wright, abc news, hollywood. According to the study, the violence in pg13 is up but the same is not true for r, pg or g rated. So no connection with the bloodshed in the cartoons, which is reassuring. Thank goodness for that. The sex and swearing, i can understand why that would be the rrated category. Why not the violence . Why is violence able to slip through . I never understood the barometer and some people complain about the ratings. Especially for filmmakers, it doesnt make sense and even for parents the consumer doesnt understand if i am sending my kid to a pg13 theres no sex scenes, but full of shoot em up violence, i dont want my kids seeing that either. Just stick with the x movies. Coming up next, the insomniac kitchen. When the midnight munchies kick in, theres nothing more comfortable to reach for than good old carbs. So were making noodles next. In the next halfhour, forget the coffee break. Lets take a nap. Meet the boss that encourages it. You are watching world news now. Announcer world news now continues after this from our abc stations. Nap. Meet the boss that encourages this is your computer. Lets go on the internet. Lets go. Ok. Shes going to love me all over again now. Jamaica, here you come here we go. Ha ha good job. All right. Ill always love noodles almost as good as whitneys version. Man. Who doesnt love noodles and what is better than a bowl of noodles in the middle of the night . Theres nothing better. You are so nasty. Amanda van allen met an expert noodle maker for this edition of insomniac kitchen. Reporter hey insomniacs, were here at taos new location where their asian cuisine matches the atmosphere. Welcome back, insomniacs. We have a great treat for you today. As you can see over here, we are rolling noodles at tao in their brand new location in the meat packing district. So you have a specialty here. Yes, we do. The chicken chow mein with handful of noodles. Handpulled noodles. He was a handpulled noodle specialist and handpull ed noodles. This is what we use for the chicken chow mein. Can i touch it . Absolutely. Oh, my goodness. He pulls, stretches and hangs it until it gets thinner and thinner strands. Oh, yeah. Put some more, pull stretch and bounce and slap it on the table. This is the worst noodle ever in the history of pulled noodles. So, yeah. This pot looks really hot. Seems like it all cooks pretty quickly. Very quick. Very quick. Those are finished already. Finished already. Make sure theres no water. We add the noodles over there. Everything gets mixed up in it. Dont burn yourself. Not today anyway. Reporter so of course, my favorite part of the whole is eating, right . Reporter always is eating. Ladies first. Reporter thank you. Really excited to see. Hard work, right . Excellent, excellent job. Not bad, you did a good job. Reporter i worked really hard. You did. We will give you a christmas bonus. This is what i really miss about being back on the overnight show, the grub from tao downtown. Man, this is delicious. All of this is good. We dont know the names of these things. We know it is delicious. I can tell you that is probably mongolian beef and it is delicious. Chicken dish here. Fried chicken. Thats your favorite. Some other chicken dish here. That looks like noodles but we are not sure. All right. Some other chicken dish here. That looks like noodles but we are not sure. Voting it product of the year, better homes and gardens best new dishwasher detergent, and now it has the Good Housekeeping seal, giving finish quantum more honors than ever before. Finish quantum delivers amazing clean and shine, which cascade actionpacs just cant do. Take the finish shine challenge and see what it can do for you. All right. Welcome in to the mix. Every year, theres one date that really gets everybody going. Whether it is one, two three, depending on the year. Two, three, four. Follow me here. 2003 im seeing a pattern. Took me a while. It happens to be 2013 and that means that the day today is one that everybody will be very excited about it. 111213. November 12th, 2013. And heres the deal everybody wants to get married. Nationwide an estimated 3,000 brides are getting married today. That is a 722 increase from november 12th of 2012 because that wasnt so exciting. People want to be able to tell their grandkids that is the day they got married. They like it as an anniversary. It is also global kindness day. Is it because it is a special date, is that why it is an International Time yeah. I have done my act. I showed up. Check. Im done early. You have been kind to your fellow human. Indeed. You look wonderful tonight. Check. Were done here. And get this in china they have a singles day. It was yesterday. It was monday. Basically saying, hey, you dont have anything going on in your sex life, come and shop. It is like retail therapy. It is huge there. In the first six hours, customers spent 1. 6 billion on chinas Biggest OnlineTrading Platform and 8 billion by the end of the day which compares to 2. 3 billion on our cybermonday here in network in america. So folks in china who are single are shelling out bucks. Thats incredible. Singles day. Where the singles are treated nicely. Single and ready to mingle. So we now have the official list that is out of the top 20 words used in 2013. This is by the global language monitor. We are talking about words that were used on the web and the number i dont know if they can be words. Really. The number one word is 404. What is that. Reference as a Technical Glitch on the web. Yeah, i get it. Technical error. The second most used word is fail. That makes sense. Kind of transferred from twitter to everything else. Right. Surveillance drone deficit rounding out the top five. Yeah. In the News Business we recognize those words. Really do. All of that. How about puppy. I wonder where puppy ranked. I love this time of the year. Had to get to this story here. There is a church, the illinois Christian Science church, they have discovered from the air it does take on a distinct shape. So now a spokesman is now coming out to say i didnt like this design to begin. I will leave it to you what it looks like. Considering the size of that thing i can tell you why so many people are hung up on it. Minds can achieve anything. We make sure they get to college. Federal student aid provides more than 150 billion dollars in grants, loans, and workstudy funds. To make College Possible for anyone with the mind to get there. Because if given the chance, minds will do great things. Federal student aid. Proud sponsor of the american mind. Learn more about money for college at studentaid. Gov. This morning on world news now, fight for life. Survivors of one of the worst typhoons ever demand food, water, shelter, medicine, as the u. S. Military pledges a massive show of support. Under investigation. With alleged ties to terror groups, they were given government contracts using our taxpayer dollars. Abc news investigates. Team nightmare is what the chairman of the dolphins calls the scandal involving two of his teammates. Where the investigation is headed now. No way. Beyonces refusal to audition for a highprofile, very profitable role. Whos revealing the bombshell coming up in the skinny. This tuesday, november 12th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Any reason to show beyonce. Welcome. Makes me happy to be here. Welcome back to our one an only rob. Boy have we missed you. Had have you been up to . What have you been up to . Weekend work with gma, david muir some and the world series. That was great. Im hanging around doing my thing. You survived out of boston. Those people were partying hard. I was jealous. You know you partied a little bit. Little bit . Im not going to comment on that but it was good. Also good to be here and see the old gang. We love having you back. I have been back like 40 times since i left. But it is good to be back. Checking on your baby. Making sure my boo and little peanut is doing all right. It is a joke, guys. Just a joke. Happily married. Not my kid. Yet. Playing. Serious news to get to this tuesday morning. A desperate scene is playing out in the hardhit area of the philippines. Thousands of survivors swarmed the airport in tacloban simply trying to get out. A few hundred people made it aboard arriving c130s. More than 3,000 people have been camping out waiting. Our coverage begins with Gloria Riveria in tacloban. Reporter we joined the chopper heading to the devastation. Home after home shattered. Families now living in rubble without food or water. Relief cannot come fast enough. This is why. New images of the monster up close. American storm chaser jim eds witnessed the moment of impact firsthand as it crashed ashore. At one point, jumping in to a Swimming Pool to dodge the deadly wind. Hurtling debris flew the air. Others clung to their roof. Rescued families floated on mattresses. Waves smacked the coast as a wall of water pushed inland, reaching 20 feet high. Obliterating every structure in its path and launching these tanker ships into the town. The city of tacloban in the bulls eye. Estimates with the death toll at 10,000. An 18yearold american simon kuzman was there with a local host family. Apparently like 50 little kids got swept away. Its just horrible. Reporter theres little here to help these survivors. People taking what is left in this nowleveled supermarket, hoping its enough. Fears of what is coming next is on every face. Were told there used to be a road through what is now that destruction zone. Now the concern is the smell of gas in the air. Thats from vehicles like this one on their side or upside down. You see these everywhere. We made our way through the shattered streets to the airport. This was the airport before. This is it now. Gloria riveria, abc news, tacloban. Like a wasteland, like a bomb went off. Incredible the images coming out of there. You can imagine this is the beginning of years long recovery. The u. S. Allocated 20 million in assistance, but every little bit counts. If you want to help, go to our website. Theres plenty of places you can send money to. If you want to send it to the philippines red cross, they have resources there or unicef to help the children and their families, you can send money there. Do any little bit you can. The images are so heart breaking. You almost want to reach through the screen to see how you can help. Amazing how little they have. I remember being at this desk live on tv a couple of years ago when we saw the first images of the tsunami in japan and realized what an awful tragedy it was and we havent seen images like those since. It is a complete loss, and death toll unknown, unthinkable. The same images because we cant get to the most remote areas. That is coming and will be just as sad. Keep it here as we continue to cover this disaster. For details on Relief Charities visit abcnews. Com, and of course look for updates from the storm zone both on america this morning and coming up later this morning on gma. Federal officials arrested a North Carolina man for trying to join an Al Qaedalinked group in syria. Court documents claim that Basit Javed Sheikh posted messages on facebook and communicated with an fbi informant about his interest in fighting with jihadi militants against syrias regime. He was arrested at the airport as he departed for lebanon. He faces 15 years behind bars if convicted. Lawyers are meeting for a status conference. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties union tried to argue the boston bombing suspect was being treated unfairly in jail. A judge threw out that argument. So the aclu will not be allowed to attend todays hearing. Now we turn to the troubling results of an abc news investigation. U. S. Government contracts awarded to companies with alleged ties to terror groups. The very same groups that target our troops. Heres abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross. Reporter with Americans Still being attacked every week in afghanistan. Ied, ied reporter the u. S. Government has worked hard to find out who has paid for the continued and deadly insurgent strikes. Only to discover that among those connected to the terrorists were companies also working as contractors for the u. S. Government. According to these two lists, produced by the military and the commerce department. U. S. Officials say the companies have already received about 150 million in u. S. Taxpayer money over the years. Its like the United States government subsidizing the taliban, al qaeda, the Haqqani Network. Those groups trying to shoot and kill our soldiers. Reporter among them a Road Construction company that the u. S. Says is partly owned by a leader of the Haqqani Network. Blamed for an attack on the u. S. Embassy two years ago that killed 16 people. The Company Denies any ties to terrorists. Sensitive military documents obtained by abc news claim the profit, approximately 1 million to 2 million a month, flowed the Haqqani Network to finance its activities. Im an oldtime prosecutor and my hair stood on end. Reporter an abc news investigation found that despite pleas from commanders in the field, along with congress and the inspector general, pentagon lawyers have refused to formally block those companies from receiving u. S. Contracts. The reason they have given us is that its not fair to these contractors that the evidence that we presented this is the evidence collected by the United States government, is classified. Reporter the pentagon cancelled a scheduled interview with us on the subject. So we went to ft. Belvoir, the military office that deals with the issue. Brian ross with abc news. Where a top official said it was a question of due process and using classified information that the contractors cannot see. Well, there are certain regulations have to be followed, due process regulations. Reporter even with groups connected to terrorism . Well, that gets into dockets i cannot discuss. In fact, im not allowed to talk to you unless i have the permission of the department of the army. So id have to end this interview at this time. Reporter in a statement to abc news, the u. S. Army says it has extensive vetting procedures and most of the companies on that list did not receive army contracts. Most, they say, a far cry from all. Brian ross, abc news, new york. Some adventurous driving to show you now starting in china. A woman apparently missed her exit and did what every smart driver would do, she put it in reverse and slowly drove backwards in the wrong direction. She did that for a mile, most of it not even on the shoulder. Possibly the worlds worst driver. What do you think . Yeah. Loss of words here. Yeah. At least she was driving slowly. Real careful. Good for her. And then this. From an already snowy part of russia. Cars all over the place on the icecovered stretch of road. Were told this happens there every year. Many drivers caught unprepared. Most not even having snow tires on yet. I think it is time to become prepared if it happens every year. There they go. Yes. All right. Moving on from todays world commuter news, a lot of drivers back here in the u. S. Ought to be thinking of snow tires about now, too. An arctic blast is blowing from the dakotas to western new york state. And in many places like these pictures from southern minnesota it is delivering snow. This morning in minnesota could be the coldest there since last march and frost warnings are posted as far south as north cadillac. Is that a little minnesota accent . Minnesota. I dont do it really well. Thats right. Wasnt my best impression. Thats okay. Thats the mornings big weather headline. A chilly start to the day for a big stretch of the eastern u. S. A few inches of the white stuff could accumulate in michigan all the way across to buffalo. Rain and snow kentucky to North Carolina. Showers in south florida and also in the pacific northwest. L. A. Will be at 74 today. 92 phoenix. Dallas 49. 44 memphis. Chicago 34. Washington, d. C. , 43. Old man winter is beginning to wake up a little bit. He is starting to blow. Like a 25degree drop by the time we leave the studio it will be 25 degrees. It is 50 right now. Did you bring your big coat . I did. You are good at easy math. I was a math major. Heres an incredible story for you. A rabbi and his wife bought a desk on craigslist and it cost less than 200 bucks. They had to take it apart because it didnt fit through the door. While doing that, they found a bag containing 98,000 bucks behind the drawers. Turns out the money was the inheritance of the original owner of the desk. She forgot where she hid the cash. The couple called her and said the most important thing in life is to be honest. I hate when i misplace my 98,000. It happens all the time. Get upset if i lose two quarters in my pocket. Im like, man, come on. How does this happen to someone . No w