storm closely as would you expect. what's it look like at this moment. >> picking up intention ty right now. here's the live doppler showing lots of moisture in the atmosphere. beginning to hit the ground in many locations in the north bay and over the east bay right now. just a few minutes ago we were seeing only few/100ths inch of rain being recorded in locations up in the north bay. now in just the last several minutes we have seen that increase to over 1/10th inch in some location so over much of sonoma county, napa county, marin we see light to moderate rainfall developing now. what has been just light fall earlier beginning to intensify. the heaviest activist still well to our north. crescent city and moving swiftly in our direction. here's a satellite radar composite image showing the funnel system bringing stormy weather over the next several hours we see some pretty ferocious storms moving through the bay area. i'll have complete details on that and look at the time line for you a little bit later. >> thanks a lot. >> cal-trans has closed 3 roads in advance of the storm. highway 4 over the past and highway 89 over monitor pass and highway 108 over sonora pass. now if you would like to share the pictures of the storm we would love to see them. send them to you report.abc 7 news.com or e-mail us at you report at kg o tv.com and complete coverage of the effect of the storm in the morning of course in the morning news program l starting at 4:30 am. >> get back to more weather a little later on the hour. want to move on now. to other news. >> looking for answers and searching for some kind of resolution. family and friends are gathered in east palo alto tonight. city leaders figure out what to do after a 6-year-old girl was killed hit by a car in a crosswalk last week. john is live at council chambers in east palo alto with more on the story. >>reporter: the city council is in the building behind me. still discussing what they might want to do and also getting some community input. city officials said they had made changes at various crosswalk around the city but that there is room for improvement after this most recent fatal accident. last wednesday morning 6-year-old little girl was killed as she crossed bay road near gloria way. her mother was just a few feet away. teacher miss white parker going to work at different school was driving the car that hit the girl. and back in april we found 9-year-old boy was struck and injured at that same intersection. well tonight the city council talked about the possible improvement like putting stop signs as well as blinking lights at the crosswalk like the one you see here few blocks from the fatal crash. one resident here tonight it was even gathering more than 400 petition signatures calling for the city to make improvements. >> i was hit by a car in front of my house when i was 5 years old coming home from school and it touched my heart to know that this little girl will never see her adolescent years or her adulthood go on to college. >> combination of probably enhancing some of the structural designs, traffic designs here and enforcement and definitely increase education. >>reporter: chief davis says that that has been an active and troublesome crosswalk since january police have made 62 stops their handing out 19 citation. mostly for failure to yield to school bus and pedestrians. detectives are still investigating the case. they say they have identified 20 more possible witnesses in last wednesday crash. they will be talking to them and then in a week or so they will present the case to the da office for possible prosecution. the chief tonight answered criticism as to why police did not arrest the driver right there at the scen scene. he said they didn't have the evidence and if they had arrested the driver they would have had 0just 48 hours to present the case to a judge and they did not have the evidence they feel they needed at the time. of course the da will decide whether or not the driver is prosecuted. live in east palo alto, john alston, abc 7 news. >> thank you very much john. >> san jose police department reeling from the news that current officer and recently fired officers were arrested for stealing money from a scholarship fund to put kids through college. officer mark and former officer manuel face felony grand theft charges. they were the chapter president and treasurer of the local latino peace officer association. police say the 2 men stole 120,000 dollars over 4 years time. investigators didn't want to believe it at first. and the national association called it embarrassing. >> we were hoping it was just going to be one of those things where they were good at raising money for charity but really bad at accounting. but the more we got into it and the more bank reference we lacked at the worst it looked. ultimately led to the arrest of these 2 individuals. >> personal level we are devastated. long time to establish a local trust in the organization and policing. the money is hard to come by. no. 1. and we are giving out money to the community. pretty much betrayed. >>reporter: association is now bankrupt. police say officer was taken that custody this morning when he reported for duty. manuel was booked into jail later. both on charges of felony grand theft. >> abc news has learned that the u.s. attorney in san francisco is once again going after property owners who have pot clubs as tenants. specifically they appear to be targeting those clubs close to schools. vick lee with more on this new federal crack down. >> many he owner this medical marijuana dispensary in the back of a cafe here in the mission district. the pot club is half block away from the san francisco friend school. in fact there are several other cannabis dispensary near friends and 2 other schools. declined to be interview but confirmed that the owner of the building received a letter from the u.s. attorney last week. it said there is a marijuana dispensary operating in the building within prohibited distance of a playground. that may result in criminal prosecution, imprisonment beings fines, forfeiture of assets. 7 news has learned that the same letter has been sent to many l other pot clubs operaitng northern california. the u.s. attorney office declined to be interviewed. but spokesman told us they are targeting dispensary that are operating within 1,000 feet of schools. attorney represents pot club owner and landlord. he believes the government is waging a quiet campaign against his client. >> they are not you know, kicking in doors and taking people to jail. but they are creating a climate which is making it nearly impossible for medical cannabis collective to survive. >>reporter: the attorney says as the major back and regional bank stopped doing business with these dispensary. for instance they can't open bank account and irs no longer allows them to write off business expense. bottom line is simply this. even though the state allows dispensaries to operate, any kind any type of marijuana is illegal as far as the federal government is concerned. abc 7 news. controversial police surveillance system in tiburon paragraphs critical to nabbing several burglary suspects. last year tiburon placed camera on the 2 main roads leading into town as we reported. they record the rear license plate as cars enter and leave the city. well, last nature the system identified a stolen plate within minutes of a burglary in nearby belvidere. police located the car and pursued suspects and eventually arrested them in san francisco. police chief says property crime has gone down about 30 percent since the camera were installed. >> staying in tiburon another moment. unusual crime. someone deliberately cut the nets holding thousands of baby salmon and released them into the bay. the fish were part of a joint project between the tiburon salmon institute and high school students in petaluma. carolyn tyler has the story. >>reporter: 40,000 salmon used to swim in these pens. 17-year-old greg says they were his babies. he and his classmates at this high school in petaluma were responsible for every stage of their lives. >> yes. we took care of them. we spawned them from mother and father fish and raised them from before they were even fis fish. >>reporter: it was collaborative effort with the foundation and tiburon salmon institute. whose motto is em powering today's youth to save tomorrow's salmon. the students raise the fish for several month ins a hatchery at school. and then transferred them to prepare for a release into the bay. some time between yesterday morning feeding and today someone deliberately cut the ties that held the fish in the net. >> sad state where you can't raise fish to give back to the wild and without somebody vandalizing the project. >>reporter: fish were going to be released this month. but not this way. every year the students have a ceremony to say goodbye to their babies. now they have been deprived of an event that celebrates their hard work. >> everyone can say we need to do something but we are the kids throughout doing it. we restoring the creek, restoring salmon population and helping the environment. >>reporter: investigators believe that someone in a boat just pulled right up over there and committed this crime. the executive director of the institute says no to speculation this could be an animal rights group because after all the salmon were being nurtured and then released. by the way, the fish are wearing tag that the students put on them. in tiburon, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. more to get to here this evening. tragedy for tourist celebrating her birthday in new york. coming up. latest on helicopter crash in new york city. >> plus. dust storm not rare in arizona but this one took especially bad toll today. one person is dead, at least. >> also at east bay bart station tonight. two million dollar disabled access ramp missing one thing. 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[ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. >> she will celebrate her 40th birthday died in new york city east river today. rescue crew on the scene minutes after the private chopper went down near 34 street in mid town. her body not recovered for 2 hours. she was trapped in the back seat along with her friend and model. now those 2 women were revived and now in critical condition. her father and pilot in the front seat and said to be okay. family is friends with the pilot. witnesses saw the helicopter in some sort of mechanical distress before it crashed. in arizona at least one person is dead and 30 car pileup that police are blaming on a blinding dust storm. the pile up is there in the center of the screen if you can see i it. the crash happened on interstate 10 northwest of tucson this afternoon. police say at least 15 people seriously hurt when the dust storm hit reducing visibility to near sear. right now the interstate is closed in both direction as emergency crew ferry the injured to hospitals. back here. bart has a boondoggle than its hands tonight. according to california watch a unit of the center for investigative reporting bart has built a two million dollar disabled access ramp at the station in lafayette. only one problem. it is incredibly inconvenient for the disabled. about the people it was built for. heather has the story from lafayette. >>reporter: sarah hall helped developmentally disabled people learn independence on transit. she and her customers have been using the new zig zag two million dollar lafayette bart station wheelchair ramp since it was completed in april. it connects the station with a paved trail on the south side. but it does not connect the wheelchair with the southern parking lot. there are no curb cut out like these on the other side of the station and no handy cap parking spots in the 117 space southern lot. >> i think that really to l meet ada accessibility we would want to include para transit parking in this lot as well as wheelchair accessible parking right up front which we don't have. there are not even curb cut into the parking lot. >> it's true we don't have cut out in the parking lot now but we heard from people and we are going to complete a cut out within 6 months. it's not anything that is compliance issue. it's just listening to our customers and responding. >>reporter: bart spokesman says upper parking lot takes care of compliance with its cut out and handy cap parking a total of 27 spaces for the combined 1528 spaces at the lafayette lot. >> bart is in compliance and in fact we have more parking spac spaces for the disabled at lafayette station than are required. >>reporter: disability rights attorney says he would have to study the station more closely to confirm ada compliance. for now bart word goes unchallenge unchallenged. abc 7 news. >> all right let's go back to the weather and serious storm coming in. spencer is tracking it for us. >> wet weather is here and get whole lot wetter later tonight. especially during the overnight hours. live view from the high definition mount sutro camera out over san francisco. there is many light not measurable but light rainfall in san francisco at this hour. most rainfall at the moment is up in the north bay and moving over towards the east bay as you can see here in the live doppler 7 hd. several locations up in sonoma county and in napa county right now reporting more than 1/10th inch of rainfall. picked up some intensity in the last 2 minute minutes. so we'll see some very intense activity a little bit later. right now the highlights. heavy rain. wind. and possibly thunderstorms will accompany the system overnight. we have a winter storm warning in effect for the sierra and showers possibly continuing into thursday morning. so we have quite a mid week of active weather coming our way. here's satellite radar composite image of the approaching cold front bringing the storm and of course very powerful jet stream guiding the storm in our direction. jet stream flowing along at 1 80 miles per hour. not only fueling intensity of the storm but making the move rather swiftly. 11:00 o'clock tonight we'll have expanding wet weather by midnight we'll see some very heavy storm activity pushing into the north bay. perhaps pockets of heavy storm activity in other portions of the bay area. again heavy downpour. strong gusty winds and possibly even some thunderstorms. but the front moves through very quickly overnight. by 5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning beginning rush hour the front will have moved past the bay area. we have some scattered trailing showers but nice break in the active weather behind the frontal though wet pavement at that hour. then later in the day tomorrow about midday or early afternoon we see another area of more organized storm activity possibly l thunderstorms. that will sweep through in the afternoon hours and possibly affect the late afternoon early evening commute then later tomorrow evening into tomorrow night another break although could be some showers that will trail into thursday morning. rainfall total we project by 11:00 o'clock tomorrow night. up to possibly 2 inches in the north bay mountains down in the other lower elevation north bay up to inch and a half. up to inch of rain can fall in the peninsula, east bay under inch and south bay up to inch and a half in the santa cruz mountains. meanwhile in the sierra. winter storm warning in effect from 11:00 o'clock tonight until 11:00 o'clock tomorrow night up to a foot of new snow there above 7000 feet. 8 inches of snow at 6000 foot levels. chain requirements likely. bay area low pressure overnight mainly in the mid 50's and tomorrow much cooler than average day for this time of the year and certainly a we wetter one with high pressure only in the mid 60's for the most part tomorrow and here is our accu-weather 7 day forecast. so the stormy weather tapers off on thursday. we have at least partial clearing late in the day on thursday and then friday through tuesday sunny and mild within land high back in the low 80's by sunday. upper 70's on the bay and upper 60's roon on the coast. quite a change in the next two days. >> intense. sounds like it will move through quick. >> yes it will. >> thanks very much. >> coming up here next. no steve jobs and no i-phone 5 but apple new did he advice means you can talk to your phone and it answers you back. >> and distracted driving crack down. where police arrested a man using his lap top writing counsel answers to a radio quiz and drenching coffee all at the same time. while driving. and drenching coffee all at the same look, every day we're using more and more energy. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the 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it happens there you can just know it is happening everywhere else. we are all more distracted it seems behind the wheel. sky when we continues here tonight. amanda knox arrives in seattle this evening where she hold as news conference on her murder acquittal in italy. >> also tonight. tsa gets a smack down after one of the agent gives a pat down to a breast cancer patient. >> also ahead here tonight. local doctors use breakthrough technique to repair broken bones that otherwise might not heal. another half hour of news begins i am a face unclogger. i am a nose coach. i am a throat untickler. i am a human cough suppressant. and i am the sniffles worst nightmare. i am a target pharmacist. ask me about cold and flu remedies. >> good evening once gechbility as you may have heard apple introduced a new i-phone today but not the one that everyone was expecting. no i-phone 5. instead a supervised up version of the 4. as business and technology reporter david lou explains, the big changes are on the inside. >> in the first test of the post steve jobs era new ceo tim cook convince analyst and media that apple isn't skipping. >> i love apple. >> speculation rampant new design for the i-phone there wasn't. apple unveiled i-phone 4 f. all the changes are on the inside. from a faster processor chip to hire resolution photo and video. the killer feature is voice recognition from a company apple acquired called with verbal command to all kind of questions. >> what is it correct time in the moscow? the time in moscow is 11:58 p.m. >> it read text message and transcribed and send e-mail. it will enhance game play with more detailed background and more realistic image but for the style and design consciencey dispony. >> they were hoping for the 5 for something more revolutionary. this is more revolutionary few people disappointed. >>reporter: apple also announce plans to release new version of mobile operating system on october 12. along with launch of the new cloud service also on the 12th. cloud will allow users to store the music, video, photo, book and other media on a el server. it will make them available to any apple device a person owne owner. also price cut for older i-phone model. current top of the line i-phone 4 will be 99 dollars. >> that's going to attract whole new segment to the apple they haven't been able to attract before. 3 gs will also help no cost whatsoever. >>reporter: apple says is that a third wireless carrier will now carry the i-phone 4 s sprichbility sprint joins at&t and verizon. older i-phone model will get price cut. 4 will be priced at neighbor dollars. and the 3 gs will be free with two year contract. in palo alto, david lou abc 7 news. >> and new san francisco ordinance requiring cell phone company to disclose radiation levels is on hold. for the time being. wireless industry obtained court injunction blocking cell phone right to know ordinance. industry contends the first amendment protects them from having to spread false or controversial messages that they don't agree with. earlier this year the world health organization said that cell phone radiation possibly, possibly pose as cancer risk but admitted there is no hard evidence of that. city attorney says the industry is trying to keep people in the dark about vital health information. find out how much radiation that your cell phone emits go to our web site and look under see it on tv. transportation security administration is apologizing to san francisco bound breast cancer survivor for an airport pat down that she calls humiliating. lori went through a full body scanner at new york kennedy airport when it detected the metal tissue expander implanted after her mastectomy. she was pulled aside for pat down but an agent refused to get out her medical card that information about the prosthetic. tsa says the card would not have spared her a pat down but it would have been done privately instead. medical news now. there is new hope for people who have suffered damage to their bones either from severe break or infection. surgeon at san francisco general orthopedic trauma institute have figured out a way to regrow entire sections. that story tonight from health and science reporter carolyn johnson. >> you see all the scars he ha has. >>reporter: they aren't pretty but attorney rick is grateful to have a healthy leg at all. during an earlier surgery to correct an arthritic knee his bone became infected with the dangerous bacteria mrsa. >> so very concerned that i might lose my leg. might lose my life. >>reporter: after several follow-up treatments the bone was still revving to heal. rick was eventually referred to dr. yahoo orthopedic trauma institute at san francisco general hospital. >> so we needed to basically take this piece, hold it somehow then clean this up. >>reporter: in other words, remove a significant section of bone. dr. yahoo team then replaced it temporarily with a bacteria killing bone cement. technique refined in just the last few years. >> in the bone cement we put a very high dose of antibiotics and that antibiotics then dillute in the area of the bone cement where we put it. very, very high concentration of antibiotics in that area. >>reporter: after killing the bacteria and removing the cement, the leg was left with a gap. but by placing specialize hardware of guided by computers dr. ia had a says surgeon at the institute are now able to close gap as wide as 12 inches. >> body is amazing thing. body can create a membrane and that membrane will have all the protein and the stem cell you need in order to create new bone. >>reporter: in extreme cases like patient in this x-ray, doctors will partially severe sections of bone on either side of the grab slowly pulling them together with hardware. placement bonnie grows in behind. eventually creating a bone bridge that joins in the middle. >> the idea is to give the person a functional leg. leg they can walk on. leg that is the same length as the other leg. >>reporter: in rick's case the procedure was simpler. small section of bone from another part of his body was transferred into the gap allowing his tibia to grow new bone around it. >> the bone is completely filled in. can't even tell that he had any issues there. >>reporter: it has been a long slow process but rick believes full recovery is still within reach. >> my goal is to get back and play hand ball and able to carry my clubs on a golf course. >> carolyn john son reporting. because of the bone ability to regenerate doctors say that even long sections of replacement bone will eventually heal functioning as normally as the bone that they replaced. >> san benito county officials call on congress to reopen a popular off highway vehicle recreation area which. we told you couple weeks ago about the clear creek recreation area closed because the epa found dangerous levels of naturally occurring asbestos in the soil. but state officials and off roaders have yet to identify a single case of asbestos related cancer or illness of any kind. county supervisors therefore vote dad to ask the feds to reopen the clear creek and designate its 70,000 acres a national recreation area. american amandy today knox is back on u.s. soil tonight after spending 4 years in an italian prison. she and her family landed in hometown of seattle late this afternoon. 24-year-old was 43 ed yesterday after an italian appeals court threw out her conviction amid doubt about dna evidence in her roommate's death. she thanked everyone who helped her win her freedom, very emotionally. >> say thank you to everyone who believed in me. who defended me. who supported my family. pi just want my family is the most important thing to me right now annie just want to go be with them. >>reporter: prosecutors insist knox was among 3 people who killed 21-year-old meredith and they plan to appeal yesterday's court ruling. if they are successful it could set the stage for an extra diagnosis battle over returning knox to italy. well as the news continues, white house first. in charm of the president's pad. new person making sure the frig at the white house is stocked with first family's favorite foods. 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[applause]. >>reporter: among those in the audience today dock's doctor and wife who has a p hd but in anthropology if you could change one thing about your us what would it be. >> i would give him the power to bend time so hi more time with him. >>reporter: maybe that will happen by a few extra minutes any way. at the lab nobel lawyer yet get better parking spaces for for get about the prize money. from lawrence berkeley lab in beforecly, wayne, 7 news. >> charming guy. new jersey governor christy ended week of speculation today and announced would he not join the republican field of presidential hopeful looking to unseat president obama. christy explained how he still has unfinished busy in the garden state. >>reporter: i made this commitment to my state first and foremost. the people sent me to get a job done and i'm just not prepared to walk away. . i know not everyone agrees with my decision. but my loyalty to this state is what it is. >>reporter: christy spent only 20 months in office and being elected in 2009. many in the tea party movement wanted him to run. they admire christy for slashing taxes and taking on powerful public employee unions in new jersey. well the white house is about to get its first female usher. angela reed is general manager of the ritz carlton in arlington, virginia and now run the household staff at the white house. she's only the 9th usher since 1885, pardon me. and the first woman to have the job. the last usher left this year to join the department of homeland security. well meanwhile the battle to save the old oak tree here in the bay area. up next. decision on whether so-called granny tree will get to see its 151 birthday. >> plus the dog that may just 151 birthday. so i got this new job last week, but their health insurance doesn't cover my kid's pediatrician. which is not cool. she was so fantastic. she had this sock puppet that she would use to explain exactly what she was doing and why she was doing it. i just wish there was someone to explain to me how i'm going to find another doctor like that. [ male announcer ] we know a good doctor is hard to find. we have some of the largest networks in california so you can choose one that's right for you. blue shield. sz old oak tree near menlo park will get a tunnel built underneath so a water pipeline project can proceed without chopping the tremendous down. it's part of upgrade to the aquaduct and has had a lot of protest. the tree is roughly one 50 years old. san francisco public utility commission will pay about 200,000 dollars more to dig beneath the tree's roots. so at least it will be spared. santa clara teacher now one of the best supplied classroom anywhere in the country. >> oh. my. is you are really going to make out. >>reporter: pretty cool. office max donate the 1,000 dollars worth of school supply to the teacher today. fourth grade teacher is one of thousands teachers collect selected for her extraordinary work with the classroom. that was her award. well done kare karen. bravo. >> let's go back and update the forecast. serious storm moving in. spencer tracking it of course. >> you are right. it's a serious storm. becoming more serious by the moment. live doppler 7 hd shows wide expanse of light moderate rainfall right now and many locations up in the north bay have received up to 2 tense inch or more of rainfall. santa rosa has over two-tenths inch so far. clover dale two-tenths inch and napa county quarter of an inch and becoming steady and steady in the nighttime hours. 11:00 p.m. animation. midnight we see very stormy weather spreading not only across the north bay but pockets of stormy weather through other sections of the bay area as well. front moves through quickly. 5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning break behind the front but may more showers to follow later in the day. high pressure only in the 60's tomorrow. here's the accu-weather 7 day forecast after this little midweek bout of stormy weather taper off on thursday. sunny and mild conditions with remainder of the 7 day forecast period. temperatures bouncing back in the low 80's inland by sunday. before that we have quite a storm brewing. >> looks like it. thanks very much. >> well there ace new top dog in basketball. his name is petey. check him out. last year pete star entered a video showing off the volleyball skills. this year trying his hand actually his nose at basketball. by wait that is a special basketball that is soft on his face but watch pete go. look at this. wow! 2 right there. want to see a 3 poin pointer. >> i just hope a scout at the warriors is watching this vide video. >> absolutely. >> not only that but with the lock outgoing on it may petey and 9 of his friends. 5 on 5. run of the court i tell you that. the way things are going with the lock out. baseball the yankees in a do or die game in the opening round of the play offs. curtis says we will in the opening round of the play offs. curtis says we will live. all basebal >> coming up tonight at 11. we all will have to eat but some eat less when in the presence of the opposite sex. the new study explains what is going on there. >> video of the monster tree that fell in the sierra. timber. there it comes. those stories and more coming up in an hour over on channel 7 at 1 11:00. >> but larry is here. a lot of baseball. >> tree falls in the forest. >> camera is available. we will show it. >> after struggling first 3 games of the play off series against tampa bay beltre had meeting of minds with his hitting coach. meeting that went very, very well apparentl apparently. they figure we are cruising but rangers close them out today. won 3 straight games. beltre one man wrecking crew. first at bat at the game. that's deep and that ways out. a little trouble for the cameraman rounding third base and he's going down and going down hard. that is tim burke. >> that hurt. >> yes. beltre dude are you all right? in the fourth. opposite field off jeremy. solo homer. here it comes. there it goes again in the seventh. beltre is a bad man. seventh player in play off history to smack 3 homers in a game. rangers get 4 solo homeers and beat the ray 4-3 and take the series 3 games to 1. >> first couple games l pitching was really good. couldn't get nothing but today l it changed. came over the plate. i wanted to help my team to win. >> tigers try knock the yankees out with a win tonight in motown, michigan. born and bred jeter had other ideas. drive to center. that ball is in. heading for home. in safely. martin safe. 2 nothing new york. what a night for former tigerer curtis. had 2 amazing defensive plays in the sixth. we call this full extension. to rob johnny. yankees would explode for 6 runs in the eighth inning to leave no doubt. daniel just a bit outside. yeast steal above and tie the series 2 games appease game 5 back in the bronx. johnson and williams headed in the right direction. game 3 arizona ncaa and milwaukee. all gold smith lead in the first. struck out 6 after 7 innings. this is a hit. solo homer. brewers only run of the game. killed the giants. you see. shawn mark throw the glove up in the air. owe knew it was gone. oh, wel well. watch it. oh, brother. like a softball game. d-backs brewers won. milwaukee still has a series lead. phillies st. louis. somebody in desperate need of a tree. all right. ben francisco pinch hitting a 3 run shot in the z.all the scoring the phillies would get in this game and that was all they needed. in the eighth bases loaded for the cardinal. greg inning ending double play. and then in the 9th it's 3-2 phillies. brian terri 4 for 4 and not 5 for 5. grounds out to end it. win 3- 3-2. series lead. to footbal football. huge test for the cal football team visiting oregon. this is special espn thursday night game this week. now last season in berkeley the bears were able to keep the duck from running completely wild. tight defensive struggl struggle. cal slowed down oregon no huddle attack with some well timed muscle. i must go down now. i'm acting. now this is at night on the road. going to be a new experience for quarterback zack. he's fired up. >> big time. worldwide. everybody will be watching us. going to be a big game. especially there. loud right on top of you. tl it's bowl basically so we have to communicate well. that will be key. shut them up early. >>reporter: how about stanford. won 12 this a row. beat ucla on saturday. and andrew crazy one hand catch like that and stanford dropped in the a p this week down a notch to receive. what's up. cardinal host colorado on saturday. the coach payed no attention to the poll. >> we don't even talk about ranking. i didn't know until somebody told me 10 minutes ago but for us we concentrate on how we play and our style of football and the fact that we do what it takes to win football games. don't go for statistics or rankings. >> gor inform win. how goodies andrew. >> qb thing doesn't work out he could be a receiver. >> that's 7 news. for all of us here thanks for watching. we appreciate your time. hope to see you again in one hour over on