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Then they tip off a brand new season. Just one hour later the indians take on the chicago cubs, game one of the world series. The feeling right now in downtown cleveland, it is electric. Reporter yes, it is. Everybody is pumped up. We are all over downtown cleveland right now as crowds gather around gateway practice va plaza. We will kick it off with Hakem Dermish live inside the biggest night in sports history in cleveland and the ballpark is buzzing right now. Fans have filed in both from chicago and northeast ohio. It will be rocking tonight with red for the cleveland indians. What will it feel like for game one . Well, i want to know, what is this all like . This is what he had to say. Game one . This is the pinnacle of trying to get to it throughout your career. To get to the big leagues is a dream come true, to play in the big leagues for a few year, but ultimately to win a championship. When you come out in game one and the instructions happen, that is when you really realize it is real. You feel the energy of the crowd and the october briskness of the air. It is just different. This is where you want to be if you are a player. Reporter you are pumped up, bill big time. Reporter how do you see the series playing out . It will be a great series. I hope it goes 7. These teams are two great teams. Seeing the great characters in this hall, in this series, i think it goes 7. I am not sure how it will play out. I think if i had my gut feeling, i would say the cubs in 7. But anything can play out. Indians, they wiped out to red sox, the blue jays, so i dont want to say it could not be the indians in 7. Reporter i have the indians in 7. Jason kipness, he rolled his left ankle while playing in toronto. It is heavily taped. I asked him how does the ankle feel. He says i am holding up. I am looking forward to playing in game one. Game one of just over two hours away here at Progressive Field. All right. We cant wait, hakem. Here is the deal. Everyone wants in on a little bit of the action tonight. Everybody, whether it is the cavs or indians, Everyone Wants to be right there. John kosich is there in the middle of Gateway Plaza where the fans have came to congregate tonight. Reporter i wanted to be here for sure. I got here a couple hours early and it is still not real for happening. The world series is going on. The cavs are getting their rings. The gates have hoped and the fans are making their way to Progressive Field, into the q. Thousands of people wanting to be a part of this. Two years ago when lebron returned to cleveland it was palpable, the excitement. This takes you to a whole different stratosphere tonight. There is why there are so many clevelanders wanting to share in this experience and see the jerseys for the cleveland indians, the cavaliers and fans coming down that want to share and be a part of this monumental occasion for cleveland and soak it all in. The great thing about all that is going on, you look up and see the blimp in the sky. Two of them are circling around, adding to the atmosphere. And our own jon rudder has a great view of those. He is up in airtracker5. Jon . Reporter yes. John, we will give you an aerial alternative view to what you were just showing everybody. Here is home run portion. In. It is an incredible seen from airtracker5. People are in their seats several hours before the first pitch. Everyone is streaming into all the gates that have now opened up Progressive Field about half an hour ago. Here is a little video of a concert with the fans before the cavaliers game in a video i took. And check out all the planes. I counted out 50 planes and some are st i talked to the pilot and there are four or five planes still on approach. One runway is shut down even to accommodate all the air traffic at the airport. Kristin, all this traffic coming in. How are things looking on the roadways for this evening . Well, jon, we are seeing improvements i am happy to report an i zoom on out of Progressive Field. We are looking better on 90 westbound. Before we were looking at a back up to east 55th. Lets talk about 77. We used to see the delay all the way to harvard. Now into the city is what i am seeing, really, not too bad. 77, the northbound lanes at the right hand side of the screen. 20 minutes ago we were stop and go. What an improvement we are seeing. Hopefully everyone got out there early. I am happy to give this traffic report, rob and danita. Reporter well, once all those cars get downtown they will be dealing with a sea of people. Repo something else. We have the newschannel5 Jonathan Walsh out in the title tracker to give us a wave out there on the city streets. What is the taste right now, john . [ laughing ] reporter well, guys, i am at prospect and east 4th. Let me show you what we are dealing with. All kinds of people out and about. You said a sea of people . Yes. We have seen perhaps a great lake of wine and gold and it is all good here in downtown cleveland. We have so many people coming through. Yes, you can see they are trying to wave us through, the officer. Now he is stopping us. He wants the fans to get through. It has been quite chaotic. It has been hard to get around. You have to be aware if you are coming downtown, be aware that there are so many people here, there and everywhere. And really, everywhere you look there are people. Reporter all right, jonathan. Thank you. It is coldkold cold koldowth eerdshk oldow theerdsh cold out there. I am backing him up. He through in for the tribe wife from switzerland. I mean, come on. How great is that. This is awesome. Lets go quickly to the current temperatures. The chill is on. We have temperatures generally 47 to 50. We are right around 53 degrees at our studios at 30th and euclid. Downtown it is 51. We will drop. It will be in the 40s through the ball game tonight. Wherever you are going outside, make sure you bundle up because the temperatures will fall rapidly, especially inland in the 30s again. In fa, tonight will be around 33 degrees by tomorrow morning. Rain showers over toward chicago. It is raining in chicago, leon bibb raining. I dont know. Tomorrow some of that rain may make it to cleveland. Hopefully not inside for the game. So, tonight we will see the temperatures falling to the 40s and eventually 30s. A chilly night but i am confident, confident we get the win dians get out of here making friends everywhere we go yes. Oh, my goodness. He may be the lead story tonight. Reporter all right, as sports fans here in cleveland, we have seen the hard times. We have been there for each other, but now we are celebrating good times. True to the rally together mantra. You see it everywhere you go around town this week. They go above and beyond, and they do so to thank indians rookie pitcher ryan merritt and his fianci. Just this afternoon his fiancis mother took a picture outside her house and sent it to mike cairns and said Mike Brookbank and said 96 the 100 delivered last week. Yes, fans found the wedding registry and started spreading it around. The fans bought up everything on the registry they will have to open up another registry so friends and family can get back in the fun and get them something for their wedding. That is cleveland. That is right there. They are one big family. We want to celebrate their love. It is great now, the other thing tonights equation, we talked about the indians. Now lets talk about the cavaliers. The nba champions start hair season tonight. What start their season tonight. What are the chances the indians world series Opening Night and the ring ceremony are both on the same night. We have andy live at the q. Andy, we will see the ring and the team will raise the championship banner actually from the rafters tonight. Have been waiting for this for so long. It will be emotional. Reporter it is already emotional. You are talking about getting rings. We are standing here on the baseline. There is a couple standing right over here. Show everybody your new ring. They just got engaged while we were doing the ryan merritt story about his wedding registry. What a night tonight. All kinds of rings going on around town. The cavs and knicks, the ceremony is at 7 00 and the and another cool story. There is good synergy between the indians and cavaliers. Lebron james sent over to the entire team beats headsets to the indians, a gift from lebron james. They run about 380. Check them out. Lebron taking care of the indians and a jersey was sent over to the cavaliers. Compliment each other left and right. Not too long ago lebron james was a huge yankees fan. Now he talk about about the indians. They have to turn the page once the banner goes up in the air and start thinking about another championship. We were fortunate enough to be part of a championship team. It is not like i am wearing it like a wedding band or things of that nature. Be part of another ring ceremony and have a ring from the archives. As far as the esthetics and things of that nature, it doesnt matter. Reporter and while being champions is a great thing for the city of cleveland, once the ball goes up in the air it is looking toward the championship. This year the team has made that very clear, especially to the guys. You just heard it in lebron. What a great night to be a clevelander. Back to you. Andy. Thank you. Well, he just signed with the cavs a week ago but jr smith is excited to get back on the court and aim for another championship. Our sitdown interview with him, coming up. Lets take a live look at Gateway Plaza right now from high in the sky airtracker5. Newschannel5 at 6 00 comes right back to cleveland, ohio, this year the indians are keeping an eye on the prize and remembering where they came from. Here is more on what newschannel5 elauren smith will be thinking about tonight. Reporter jr smith reached the top of the mountain. Jr, what is going on out there. You just jacked up another 3 from 30 feet and hit it. Reporter he never forgot who helped him every step of the way. My parents, my family. Spots in my life and if it wasnt for them i would not be able to get out of bed. Reporter now with a new season about to begin tonight, the championship banner will be raised and the team will receive their rings. At the end of last year when you won the championship, you were pretty emotional. Do you think that emotion will come back . Sure. It will be an extremely special moment. It is something you obviously cherish for the rest of your life. Reporter but this moment wasnt summit of basketball but more about saying thank you to those that helped him on his journey. He says he will give his ring to his father. Will you keep it or give it to somebody . No, i will give it to my parents. It is only right to give it to them. Reporter how have they been so instrumental in your career . This is reason i play, because of them. My parents have supported me from 3 years old to 31. The name i have on the back of that is why i am there. Reporter will the ceremony give him a chance to honor those what motivate him . It is not only that but the beginning of a new mission. As soon as this is over we have to prepare to defense the crown. Reporter lauren jones, newschannel5. Glad that jr is official. Now there is no question about it. This has been clevelands year. It is clevelands year after suffering tried and true, the fans are here. You uncovered an unbelievable story about one true indians fan . Oh, yes we stopped by willoughby today at the manhattan deli. When we were there we noticed a table that could have the biggest tribe fans in all of cleveland. Oh, my goodness. [ laughing ] reporter meet carrie, joe, lucille, donna, flora, emily, anna and lynn, all childhood friends, all from cleveland, a friendship spanning seven decades, be you among the face, quite possibly the biggest tribe fan in northeast ohio. Earrings, shirt, pin on the vest. Reporter from the top of her head to feet. I have my omar socks on i have had since 1995. Reporter the indians have held a special place in lynn georgians heart. My dad and i used to listen to the game in the back of the yard in the summertime. This one, i am really pumped. I remember listening to the last World Series Game with my dad. Reporter there is a certain warm and fuzzy feeling in the air these days. Between the cavs and indians, it is incredible. People are very nice to each other. It is like this is the season to be jolly [ laughing ] reporter you can call it christmas in cleveland. I am feeling like we are going to be winners [ cheering applause ] reporter i love that attitude. You cannot look and not smile. Religion tells me everyone in her religion tells me everyone in her liven tells me everyone in her religion tells me everyone in her family is a huge tribe fan. You know what i noticed, there were two empty seats at that table. I think we are ready. I think we are very much ready. We are ready for tonight or next year, whenever this will be. Mark johnson, how are you . Tonight. Reporter you know, i did not put enough lotion on to keep from drying out in this cold weather as danita did a Facebook Live illustrating the need to make sure you are properly clothed. Yes, silver people. Lets talk. I have a very short amount of time to talk weather. Lets get right to it. Here we have it. Temperatures are chilling down. It is 51 downtown. You will be in the 40s, 44 in euclid, 49 in bed today, 47 in richfield, 50 in North Royalton to hopkins. 50 in mentor, kirkland 47. It doesnt get warmer as you head south, folks. 40s to lower 50s. 55 the high today. 59 is where we should be. No rain. 43 as we nailed it. That is the average low. 28 on this date in 1982. The record low is 80 in 1963. Okay. Dry tonight with clouds in and out. The rain showers minneapolis to chicago. We will try to hold them out of here until the end of game two tomorrow evening. Game two, Pay Attention to the latest forecast tomorrow afternoon and evening. Of course, good morning cleveland tomorrow morning at 4 30 and i will have the latest tonight at 11 00. 40s, mostly cloudy, could chilly and dry through the evening hours downtown. Inland area, temps will fall back to the 30s. A low tonight of 38, frosty and cold with a few clouds. Tomorrow, why not . 52 and same story. The clouds thicken. The rain is late. Lets try to hold it off until akroncanton tonight 33. Wow 51 tomorrow. In the sevenday forecast, well, we dont get a lot warmer until saturday when i think we could see highs near 70 degrees. A couple of showers thursday to friday. A few showers for the weekend. Should be warm for halloween we will be right back. Welcome back to title tuesday. It is no secret that lebron james and dwyane wade are really tight buddies but will they let Something Like a little indians world series come between them. No doubt about it. There is a little friendly wager talk. He talked about the bet yesterday. By the sounds of it, they still dont have anything set in stone just yet. Drinkers so we will probably go to he has his own wine, too, so he probably will figure that in or, i dont know, we both have kids. We will figure something out. Reporter all right. 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