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The central philippines before sweeping west toward vietnam. And it is still packing destructive wind. This is not over yet. Abc News Reporter Chuck Silverstein reports. Sustained wind of 147 Miles Per Hour typhoon screamed the way across the philippines. Heres gust whip wave so high they rock the barn like a toy. Plunge the craw natural angry waters only the life jacket kept the head above the waves. Long enough to be plucked from the klouchs of the sea. The super typhoon packed whipped gust up to 2 35 Miles Per Hour. Faster than any u. S. Storm. Whenhe wind sped do go up the damage does go up expo tension nationally thats why we are talking catastrophic damage. Waves as high as 19 feet. Miles of power line mangled and dangling an millions in the dark and out of touch. Nearly 750,000 people pull up stake and in one case the whole house flee the path of the storm. Some werent by water and some started off on foot. Others ended up that way. Evacuee cramp shelters where they waited out the storm. Tl we feel safe here said this woman. Even if it is Evacuation Center we are okay. One saving grace typhoon moved through quickly. It has spared the island one of the major danger to floodin flooding. Thats where most of the fatality occur. Now heads west to vietnam. With potential for more devastation. Chuck, abc news new york. Well nearly half million filipino americans live in the bay area and of course many of them are anxiously awaiting word from relatives in the philippines. Bay area relief group asking for help as donation begin to pour n. About filipino channel in redwood city if channel has foundation asking people to donate money to help the victims. Also be relief drive for people affected by the typhoon this sunday from 10 00 a. M. Until 2 00 p. M. At rnc motor car on El Camino Real in san bruno. This event organized by project pearl. More information at abc 7 news. Com under see it on tv. The storm is still a threat. Abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian tracking it closely. Hear to give us an idea where it is now. Let me give you a look at the image on the radar. Storm has passed through the philippine as you know. This is where it was 24 hours ago moving through the east central fill pains and of course it was category 5 storm when it first hit. Its now out out of the south china sea. Exited the philippines leaving extensive damage behind now category 4 storm. Maximum sustained wednesday 130 Miles Per Hour gust to 160 Miles Per Hour and now it is moving rapidly west ward towards the coast of vaet am in. Expected to make land fall tomorrow as category 2 storm then quickly move in land and weaken by sunday morning to a Tropical Storm but it has devastated portions of the fill pens and still dangerous storm and could wreak havocwhen it hits vietnam tomorrow. More later. Okay thanks very much. 300 firefighters battle brush fire in lake county. Fire burned 1 good 50 acres destroyed one out building and threaten dozen other structure in the area no. Road closure or evacuation at this moment. Now 30 percent contained. Fire which break out just before 2 this afternoon is burning east of highway 29 near the town of lower lake. Fraternity at uc berkeley suspend tonight because of concerns about hazing and drinking. The final straw huge party this fall on this campus on chaning way at this from a tevrnlt laura from Fraternity Row in berkeley. Reporter motto is men of principle but the men of the this fraternity without a chapter at uc berkeley fravt ternt National Organization decided to close it for failing to clean up its act in terms of hazing and under age drinking. Uc chapter was supposed to reorganize police itself but in an email the students parents alumni beta National Secretary wrote this behavior ultimately culminated this fall in Unauthorized Party that also disregarded all form of reason and required risk mappingment. Beta members still living at the house would not comment. Things have increased Alcohol Consumption and under able drinking specifically. Reporter jays open pwlngs to another fraternity at cal. I think a lot of it comes down to leadership within fraternity in general because every from a certainty has their own executive committee. They have leadership and its berkeley. Smart kids here. A lot of people are intelligent people. Poor decisionmaking. We found a limp body of passed out students being lugged out of frat house. Reporter thursday our i team showed how binge drinking at cal out of hand not just at fraternity but dorms. Apartments. Other police where is students party. If not guiding them then what do you expect . Reporter but this student says the immediate why and Uc Administration shouldnt just focus on binge drinking but what ladies to it in the first place. Some of the peer of mean going through tough things that nobody is highlighting. And the fact that this is getting more attention than the struggle is a little surprisin surprising. Reporter as for bit a that it a pie the students who live there can stay until the lease expires. The cal chapter can apply for reinstallment but not before 2013. This is 7 news. Antioch police want to hear from anyone who saw an attack on 2 librarians. Happened yesterday just before 3 00 oclock at the Antioch Community center. Police say 21yearold Kenneth Johnson assaulted the workers took a wallet attacked pay the run who tried to intervene. Officers arrested johnson after he took off running noyvrp is going to be okay. All victims fine. Police hope witness will come forward to learn more about what happened and it will shake their investigation. San jose police look for this man chavez of loss gattoes who they say held up 2 people at again point and stole the dog. Happened last month after police say he answered a posting on ebay. They say he met the sellers. Asked if he could hold this 9 week old pomeranian then instead of paying he pulled out a gun and demanded their car. Seller jumped in the car and quickly took off. Police say the man left with the dog. Several east bay school show support for teenager litton fire and prosecutors are pursuing now is a hate crime. 18yearold luke flesh man was wearing a skirt on board ac transit bus when investigators say 16yearold Richard Thomas lit the skirt on fire. Police say thomas told them he did so because he is homophobe ick. Today teachers at the area school tied rainbow ribbon around bus stop pole to show the support for sasha. In berkeley the classmates at the hay school tack part in tl wear a skirt for sasha day. You know everyone is very upset of course. Sasha closest friends are extremely upset. But its obviously something we have never had to deal with before. Its pretty bizarre. Students at Oakland High School where the suspect is a student holding a if you said raising drive to support sasha. The teenager is recovering at San Francisco burn center. Well the need for help is greater than ever this holiday season. They wait for hours to deal with the sacred heart give away they arrived at 3 in the afternoon. More than 150 volunteers registered students who will be able to pick up the food and toys before thanksgiving and christmas. Having to choose between essential. One of the reasons why we give out food is we never want people to choose to not feed their children. We sing praises to sacred heart and to others that donate to the community and helps me so much to have something that is tradition over years for thanks giving dinner. Sacred heart needs more donation of toy and food and if you can help please go to our web site and click on see it on tv. All right. We have a lieutenant more ahead for you this friday night on 7 news at 9 00 coming up pig running amuck and over money people spent on the yards. Uses to see it turn out lick this. New image obtained by 7 news reveal what google really has in mind for its mysterious barge on the bay. And weekend is here spencer has the weather. All right dan frontal system approaching the bay area with hint of written fall but will it written . I have the accuweather forecast in just a moment. Thanks spencer. Possibility of life on so many planet. Billions of them in the milky way. Remarkable discovery made by astronomer at uc berkeley and his colleagues. I have a chance to talk with him today and you have that him today and you have that interview as 7 news we learned theres a big shake up at San Francisco General Hospital after Lynn Spalding a patient went missing for two week only to be found dead in the stairwell. Now theres an investigation into how this happen. Heres 7 News Reporter vick lee. It may look good on paper. It is may appease people at certain level in government or in city hall. But harris the low pressure for Lynn Spalding family is not appeased by the sheriff shake up. Resignment come on the heel of the sheriff News Conference this week when he apologized for his department slow and shabby search for the 57yearold woman. Spalding body was found october 8 in locked hospital stairwell 17 days after she disappeared from her room. At wednesday briefing he promised to make thorough review of Hospital Security. Assessment will include resources to provide 247 Law Enforcement services. We learn today that 4 people have been transferred out of the Hospital Security unit. Civilian dispatcher 2 senior sheriffs deputy and one sergeant. The unit now unthe command of captain reports directly to him. 2 add until lieutenant. 2 sergeant to compliment 3 others still ther there. And 2 new senior deput deputy. Hospital Security Unit xrised of 28 deputy and institutional officers will now have a total of 31 members. Harris says this is just changing personnel and not real reform. You dont change the protocol and if you dont have the people that make sure they do these people do their jobs. Its no different than it was before. The shake up is more for look than it is i think of any real substance. The Sheriffs Office tells us there will be more staff changes next week. Abc 7 news has also learned that federal investigators have been at the hospital all week conducting their own probe. They are from the agency that controls the funding of medicare and medicaid to hospitals. They can fine even shut counsel hospital if they find problems that arent later fixed. Vick le, 7 news. Wild pig continue to cause all kind of problems in san ramone. Just today they were seen trotting through a gateed community and in another neighborhood on west side drive they keep destroying lawn look at the daniel. This week yard assault marked the tenth time the front lawn west side drive have been torn up. Hired tra trapper has already captured 12 of these nonnative pig in san ramone but the problem persist. Homeowner have given up trying to repair the lawn. They hope a rainy winter can repair them but always looks like a piece of equipment has done that kind of damage. Wild pig believe it or not. New details tonight about the mysterious google barge docked on Treasure Island we keep trying to get answers for you. Documents revol that when it is con it will feature dint sails and move from port to port. 7 News Reporter lillian kim is reporting now from Treasure Island. Artist rendering dont seem to disappoint. People we talked to giving the google barge a thumb up. I think pretty cool i think it will give sort of a new look to the bay. Document submitted to the port of San Francisco say when done the barge will be a quote unprecedented artistic structure. Sales rim necessary interest of this. The 250 foot long floating studio will be moore add various spots in San Francisco bay for month at a time. To be used as interactive space where people learn about google product. Show case. Its a floating museum. For google t. Scifi stuff and what better way to get attention. Proposed location include several San Francisco pier Angel Island National Park in rich mon. The barn may also travel to other west coast port but when exactly is anyone guess. Port of San Francisco says google hasnt even applied for permit yet and work at Treasure Island appears to be at standstill. Then a question of interest. If they build it will they come . It looks interesting. Its probably enough for me to decide to walk down here more often. Usually when on this pass path im exercising thats my focus im not trying to stop and relax or anything like tha that. Despite what some people may think now the pwaeshing of the barge promise its unique addition to the waterfront. Open Treasure Island abc 7 new news. If well find out sooner or later. Caltrans begins demolition of eastern span of the bay bridge next tuesday. Crew begin by removing 1400 pet of the upper deck of the cantilever section that will take about 6 weeks. Next year crew will take down the steel involves kuving cutting it in half. Entire demolition take 3 years and cost 240 million dollars. But compared to that brand spanking new span next door, nice to get rid of that eye sore. It will be. Spencer is here with the weekend forecast. I can not believe its almost mid november. I know. Unbelievable. This mild weather just keeps going on and on. Lovely. We have mostly clear skies. At this hour with few patches of low clouds near the coast. Thats all we see overhead just patchy low clouds near the coast. View of the moon. Clear view looking across the bay under clear sky 53 degrees in San Francisco and mid 50s mid low 50s in oakland redd with city and a Half Moon Bay which is the cool spot at 50. At least on that the cool spot how about these readings we look from the east bay hills camera westover the bay 45 santa rosa and napa and novato. Set going chilly up in the north bay and 50s mid 50s fair field concord and livermore. On we go to live view from the sutro tower cam are looking out over San Francisco again under clear skies. We have mainly clear sky overnight. Mild day ahead this weekend. Partly cloudy a little bit cooler on monday veterans day but then we get mild weather again by the middle of next week. Satellite radar composite image show same pattern all week long and continue right into the weeken weekend. Big ridge of High Pressure dominant weather feature in our weather picture at the moment. No big changes coming this weekend but well sea some cloud bumping up against excuse me the coast line on sunday. Heres our animation starting tonight going through tomorrow that is sunny day and into sunday then you see the low clouds pushing up to the coast late sunday afternoon. But still going to be mainly sunny day then as we look even further ahead farther ahead we have cold front approaching. Late sunday see cloud increasing on monday which is veterans day and if theres enough moisture left as the front breaks up we could see sprinkle or 2 early tuesday painly in the north bay but looks like its basically going to be sunny dry day on tuesday. Rain expected to evaporate with chance of rain figuratively. Over tonight tonight mostly clear sky chilly conditions up in the north bay valley. Low pressure cping in the upper 40s santa rosa and napa. Again few little patches low cloud near the coast but mostly clear sky inland. Generally low temperature mid upper 40s over tonight then tomorrow sunny once again and mild once again in the south bay. See High Pressure ranging from low to mid 70s. 72 at san jose. 74 at morgan hill. On the peninsula, high will range from 67 at san mateo to 70 at palo alto. 71 at mountain view. Mid 60s on the coast and pacifica and a Half Moon Bay. Downtown San Francisco 67 degrees tomorrow. 65 in sunset district. North bay on the coast low to mid 60s inland we see 74 at santa rosa 73 nap a. East bay high 70 at oakland. 72 fremont. Inland east bay 74 walnut creek 74 livermore 74 at fairfield and heres the accuweather 7 day forecast. Mild weather through the weekend. Just few grows cooler on monday no big change there. Happy veterans day. Tuesday maybe sprinkle or 2 early in the morning then clearing by midday and sunny mild wednesday thursday friday pattern changes little over next 7 day hard to believe this is the weather in mid november. Maybe even at thanksgiving. 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