Looking into the cause of a crowded amtrak train traveling from washington, dc to new york to derail in philadelphia killing at least six people and injuring dozens more. We are in philadelphia where the train went off the tracks. Hello kristen we got the updated number of six people who have been killed. And updated number with eight still in critical, condition as investigators try to understand what went so terribly wrong. Mangled metal train cars reduced to rubble, the scene in philadelphia after the northbound amtrak derailed overnight. Suddenly the car just popped and there was a moment chaos and a moment you are not sure if this could be it. Mayor of philadelphia spoke at the crash site. It is an absolute disasterous mess. Never seen anything like this in my life. Many were able to walk east train, some walking to local hospitals. We know that investigators from the National Transportation safety board are currently en route from washington, dc and we have learned that security and the f. B. I. Are watching the situation with all signs pointing as an accident. We will have continuing coverage on air and online with continuing coverage on twitter abc7newsbayarea. Now the latest from nepal where searchers are sifting through the rubble will lapsed building looking for survivors for the magnitude earthquake. Searchers are also looking for a missing United States marine helicopter and the crew that went missing while delivering goods. The death toll is 82 from the earthquake more than a thousand people have been hurt including sunnyvale resident who jumped from the second story of the orphanage he runs there. I did not think about me or anyone but my family just thought about the children inside the building, i do not want them trapped. Our reporter is the only bay area reporter in nepal right now. He is following bata and other volunteers. We will hear from bata next hard hour from katmandu. Relief efforts are needed now more than ever and you can next nepal 930999 or call the red cross. Pg e wants to be president reaganed if and when the next big one hits here. The Utility Company is holding a Training Exercise today to test how well a response to a simulated magnitude earthquake 8. 5 on the fault. They want to see how the employees react to electrical and gas coverage. Oakland is holding off on plans if a controversial Surveillance Video system at the port. For now. According to the San Francisco chronicle, officials are still ironing out proposed restrictions for the domain awareness there is. A vote was postponed with plans to be reworked. The center is funded by Homeland Security and would consolidate the existing cameras and Mapping Systems under one roof. Opponents say the center would violate privacy rights. The warriors try to retake the lead in the series against the grizzlies. They will do it at home in front of their fans after overcoming bigtime challenges. Our reporter is at oracle arena with the preview. Amy . Yes kristen. There is a lost spirit in this coliseum, in the stadium. You is seen the tshirts. Have you seen spirit sleeves . They will hand out these sleeves. The first 2,000 fans who check in on facebook get spirit sleeves. They are very comfortable. They want to make sure the fans are covered in blue and gold. Big gale tonight. The series is tied at 22. Warriors are looking to take the lead in the series tonight. They beat the Memphis Grizzlies on monday night and the coach spoke yesterday about his teams passion. This is a unified group. Sometimes they care too much and try to do it on their own. When you care about your teammates and want you to win for them you try to save the day and it is more about trusting everyone and letting it happen rather than forcing it. The game tonight is sold out. We are finding tickets online and they are available. If you want to come tonight there is a lot of stuff for you when you get here tshirts, flags, thunder sticks and these new sleeves. Arent they cool . Big gale tonight. Home Court Advantage is important for the warriors. After tonight they head back to memphis. The sleeves look great. We are the home for the nba finals with all the exciting action beginning on june 4th. Keep posting your pictures and votes online with fan picks on air and at abc7news. Com. Use dubson7. You can post to social media and we will find and share them. Facebook announces today they plan to enact a 15 an hour minimum wage to any contract worker doing business with the social media giant. Contract workers who tend to the grounds, serve food or 18 phones will be paid at least 15 an hour. Facebook will require they get 15 days of paid leave and 4,000 for paid parental leave. The company said it recognizes the gap between low online come workers and those in the booming technical sector. If facebook does it others will follow. It was windy and cold. Now we check with mike on the impending rain. Breezy yesterday. To windy. Not so much today. Morning, to you. Sunny side is 49. Bayview is 52. The mission at 50. Looks like glen park is 53. 47 in santa clara and saratoga. Petaluma and pacifica at 48. We have 50 in walnut creek and palo alto and 61 in pleasanton. Usually sit breezy here around San Francisco as we look from the roof camera. Today we will see increasing clouds so himmed sunshine 66 to 72, inland east bay now for the coast in San Francisco, clouds and 54 up to 59 and around the rest of the neighborhoods sunshine and not the brit of the day, 60 to 67. It will be dry during the daylight hours. Headed to tonight, light rain develops. It turns over to showers and possibility of a thunderstorm and isolated downpours. A lingering chance of light rain early friday morning and we see increasing sunshine. Warmer through saturday. The rest of the weekend is coming up and a look at rain. Leyla . We have Clear Conditions in san jose. That is 87 right near julian street, a few cars dotting the roadways is southbound side is empty at this moment because of the winds we have c. H. P. Issued high wind advisory for the bay bridge and the san mateo bridge. Keep both hands on the wheel and any highprofile vehicles that could sway a bit. Slow down the speeds as you head down the road. In the east bay travels along northbound 680 are slow. You could have extra volume from danville to highway 24. When you get on to highway 24 to lafayette and orinda you are at top speed through the caldecott tunnel, and before castro valley, tracy to dublin 580, 25 minutes. Highway 4 antioch to concord is 14 minutes and san rafael to San Francisco is 19 minute commute. 4 39. The terrorism into San Francisco from the north bay could be a challenge at the end of the month. The doyle drive replacement will be finished but for complete the project the roadway to the Golden Gate Bridge will close from 10 00 p. M. Thursday may 28 to monday june 1st at 5 00 a. M. The weekend after memorial day weekend. Lane changes need to be configured and connect the foot way to the parkway. Cool in the face of danger a girl would want facetoface with an intruder and helped police nab him. A move to give the bay area more pedal power. Stay tuned. Covering novato, oakland sunnyvale and all the bay area this is abc7 news. Welcome back. 4 42. A bicyclist is in the hospital with life threatening injuries after a Chain Reaction crash in San Francisco. A car and a taxi collided at 6th and folsom and then a vehicle slammed into the bicyclist. Ed rider was taken to the hospital with no word on the cause. A body was found at a historic San Francisco theater has been released without be charged. The 48yearold rosenbloom is remodeling the great czar these december and woke up in the theater on sunday and his friend was dead next to him he was arrested but police now say there is not enough evidence to charge him. Police identified the decease the at 31yearold fordice and said drugs could be to blame. State attorney Kamala Harris and Janet Napolitano will announce efforts to address Sexual Assault on College Campuses rising by 50 percent near california campuses in 2013. 80 percent of campus attacks are never reported. The announcement is held in los angeles at 1 00 oclock p. M. We have a story of a very brave little girl in antioch who helped police cash an intruder hiding in her home. We meet fouryearold girl. He appeared in the back of the house through the door. The mother ran out with her infant son. But the fouryearold remained inside while the intruder went from room to room. He went to my room. And then to the crib and then he went to the closet. When police arrived, the girl told officers exactly where he was, hiding in the closet, after a brief struggle they arrested him. He is identified at 21yearold lopez. The suspects mother said her son did not mean harm but was having a mental breakdown. He lives two houses down. Harm or not, the familiar say it was a terrifying situation who she disagrees. I was not scared. I am glad she was brave and she did not overpanic. She is only four. She was real poised. One little girl helping police in a big way. In antioch for abc7 news. A competent of the metropolitan Transportation Commission is taking up a proposal this morning to expand the Bicycle Share Program to more cities in the bay area that brings the number of bikes from 7,000 over the next two careers. Most bikes are in San Francisco but would expand to include oakland, berkeley and san jose. The committee will discuss a Pilot Program on the peninsula too, to include palo alto and Mountain View and redwood city that will be funded by a bikesharing company. A lot of bicyclives already so i cant see why it would not work well. Now a look at the forecast with mike. Afternoon commute is okay, plus it is not so breezy as yesterday. Just a little more cloudy and mild when you step outside. If you are riding your bicycle today it will be easier than the past couple of days. The fastest wind is 15 Miles Per Hour at sfo and concord is ten and fairfield at 13 and everyone is less than ten Miles Per Hour. This is how it looks from the east bay hills camera, big story today beside getting ready for the rain tonight and the showers tomorrow temperatures are below average, and even slightly cooler than yesterday because of the lack of sunshine and five to nine degrees. We should be in the 60s and 70s but instead we will be in the 50s and 60s and 14 hours and den minutes of daylight are possible and we are not going to get that much. Not with partly sunny sky in the south bay and money 60s with cupertino and san jose at 67 and we are partly sunny on the peninsula with mid60s if the most part like yesterday, palo alto is 67 and millbrae is 59 the cool spot and the clouds along the coast are another brick day for you and temperatures are running in the mid50s to upper 50s in Downtown SouthSan Francisco, sausalito, mid50 with clouds around bodega bay. Sunny in the valleys and mid60s for the most part, possibly up to 68 in cloverdale for the warm spot. Along the east bay shoreline 63 to 65 and 62 in richmond for the cool spot. As we move inland mid60s in the San Ramon Valley and a few low 70s fairfield and antioch and brentwood where we will see probably the greatest drop in temperatures compared to yesterday. It will be another mild night with temperatures mainly in the lowtomid 50s and since we talked 24 hours ago all the models are trending much more dry which is unfortunate. They are pushing the bulk of the system to the south loan the big sur coast. As we head through the afternoon, clouds will thicken and you will see a spotty shower and tonight, light rain will develop and it will be out there and not showing up well on the model and the scattered showers and the possibility of thunderstorms develop in the afternoon and early evening and fall apart. If you are caught under one of showers you could get quarter to half an inch of rain. If not, it will be. 1 to. 25 of rain possible. 70s return on saturday. We start off with the Golden Gate Bridge and a zipper truck in view and it is making its trek northbound. It is headed in the northbound direction to expand southbound lanes. Be careful if you are just waking up and about to head out the door to San Francisco or leaving the city you make sure you stay away from the center lanes for now. In other parts of bay area, benicia has a serious crash involving an overturned vehicle with possible injuries involved westbound 780 and South Hampton road you can see already we are starting to see delays pulling away from 680. If travels take you between benicia and the carquinez bridge give yourself extra time. It will cause a jam. Right now 680 southbound from walnut creek to dublin is 15 minutes and 101 southbound from santa rosa to San Francisco is 51 minutes and it is clear through 9 santa cruz mountains. Happening today, a state Senate Committee discussing relief options for students impacted by the sudden closure of Corinthian Colleges including all the ways to help the students transfer to other programs. 16,000 students attended the school run by the colleges, which tried to sell the schools but said government regulators made the sale unattractive to possible buyers. Verizon wireless and sprint customers could be entitled to a refund. Refunds could be on the way for verizon and sprint customers. The wireless giants agreed to pay 158 million to settle claims taking unauthorized charges on the bills but you have to submit refund claims online. Facebook is behind a huge shift in the world of publishing, with nine Media Companies including New York Times are published articles directly on to facebooks news feed. Skype is bringing star trek to real life with newly released translator life helps people video chat in different languages by providing real time translations right there on the scene. The previous view version is available for ends 8. 1 users. We should have known. Those are the tech bytes. Have a good wednesday. How about beer or wine with that latte . New menu items coming to starbucks in the bay area. Two College Students give a young boy an incredible gift, a hightech creation that makes his life easier. Stay tuned. High god. Whoa. Amaze video from the big island of hawaii, a tourist visiting the volcano captured a volcanic explosion that caused a crater to partly collapse located in the larger summit which has been drawing crowds at night. Lava has not been visible from the rim since 1974. Hayeswhite will not leave for london, two weeks ago we told you the London Fire Department was trying to recruit her. In a statement she tells abc7 she is declining for all the right reasons, my heart is in San Francisco, my family comes first, i have a mom who is 90 years old and i love my department. Starbucks will offer beer wine, and small plates in some stores part of the recent roll out of the starbucks evening program, the store at 9th and irving in San Francisco will begin the program in june. The company has applied to sell alcohol at 13 other stars around the bay area and the new menu items are available after 4 00 p. M. , the concept has been pitched in other areas as well, including seattle, of course the headquarters, los angeles chicago, and washington, dc. Now a check of both and traffic. Neither commute is affected by the rains right . True, or the game at the cove with first pitch at 12 30 62 so it will be cool. The flow around san diego and los angeles, and 89 in palm springs and lowtomid 70s through the Central Valley and 54 in lake tahoe. A winter storm watch starting tomorrow morning until 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow and up to a foot at highest peak. You could need some chains tomorrow. Well watch it. Leyla . Starting off with the san mateo bridge and we do have high winds in the san mateo bridge cog the bay bridge but traffic is filing nicely between hayward and foster city in the eastbound direction there are no delays. A murky picture though, as you make the track over the water. It does not appear there is too much limited visibility. In benicia we have an accident a serious crash involving an overturned vehicle on the passenger side westbound 780 at South Hampton road, the delays have dissipated but c. H. P. Crews are on the scene in a moment. Researchers say boys are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. For every girl diagnosed with the disorder four brings are diagnosed. More boys participated in the study than girls so they tend to have a great understanding of how boys are affected. The study found girls and boys have different objections of fibers in their brain suggesting big gender differences if how the brain works. The study is published in journal of molecular autism. Graduate students helped a boy hold a ball using a robotic mechanical glove. He was born without any fingers on his right happened so two engineering students worked to egg to construct a glove using a 3d printer. I cannot describe when he put it on i was immediately overjoyed and overwhelmed. It was a very exciting day. Julian since he met dr. Burger has been asking each day, when am i getting my hand so it is a dream come true. The 3d printer produced the glove in eight hours and cost less than 100 to make. You can see from the ball handling skills he is on his way to become a Little League star. High five. Very cool. We are following breaking news in the south bay where four people have been killed in an accident and we are at the scene with what police say led to the crash. Berkeley wants do make it harder to buy tobacco in the city and momandpop stores say it will drive them out of business. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning at 4 59 on wednesday. Thanks for waking up early and joining us. I am eric thomas. I am kristen sze. I am here with leyla gulen and meteorologist mike nicco. It is cloudy this morning. But not foggy. Good news there. Here is what is going on as far as the roof camera. Breezy in San Francisco but that is the exception. Temperatures are milder this morning on the day planner at 51 to spree and as we head to noon it will not be so breezy but temperatures are held down because of the clouds at 56 to 62. They will remain drive through 4 00. By the evening hours another chilly one at 54 to 62. Notice it is dry through 7 00. Tonight, though tomorrow the wet weather comes in. Is it a pr