On the ground. Nasa reported 100 favorable weather and no technical concerns on takeoff. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. We will continue following that story from nasa as well as the major story locally. That is the countdown on for game six of the world series between the giants and the royals. First pitch is a little over an hour away. Sky 7 hd is live over San Franciscos civic center and it is packed because they have got a giant viewing party that will hopefully end in celebration later this evening. The first fans started arriving more than 12 hours ago. That is dedication. Those are some diehards out there. If the giants win tonight in kansas city, they will be bringing home the championship trophy for the third time in five years. We have Live Team Coverage in kansas city. Lets begin with abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman. Wayne . Reporter these fans have been here 12 hours in advance. This place is festive. Downtown is festive. All we know is in the next two nights at this stadium there will be baseball history. Might be tonight, might be tomorrow night. Theres a lot of baseball history around this city. All you have to do is walk around. Historic 18th and vine in kansas city, when will Bert Harrison sang about it he wrote the lyrics right here in the heart of the place. If you are a San Francisco fan visiting the world series, this is a mustsee and you can wear your colors. People have been really friendly. They have been really, really nice. I dont think we would wear this hat in dodger county. Reporter laura and john, when they passed through the neighborhood this morning, had history on their mind. And no place in kansas city has more of it than the negro leagues baseball museum. Ask the man who runs it. This is america at her worst but also america at her triumphant best. Reporter in the years before the game integrated, negro leagues offered an alternate baseball universe. Visitors can find it here in multiple dimensions. The bats, the balls. The uniforms. It touches a special place when i get to see it and put hands on it. Reporter thats michael carr from ft. Worth, texas, who coached Brandon Finnigan of the royals in high school. Black or white, doesnt matter anymore. You can say the glass is half empty or half full. Segregation represents the worst time in American History but also represents the best time. Reporter if you are looking for Historical Context you will find it here. The first colored world series. They called it that. It took place in kansas city 90 years ago this month. The hilldale daisies versus the kansas city monarchs. There is one other historical parallel you might not like. The daisies had a two game lead going into the end of it. The monarchs would win that world series. Know how they did it . They had to win the last two games to win the world series. We are hoping a little history might be on our side. Reporter in baseball they say its never over til its over but this chapter of the game is. One other note. In kansas city, everybody talks about the fact its been 29 years since the royals won a world series but they conveniently forget that kansas city monarchs who won the Negro League World series 25 times. Thats a lot. We know somebody over here who spent some time with kansas city fans, michael shumann. You were playing on their hospitality today . A little bit. Before we get to that, my grandfather was a fullblooded indian and had to play in the negro league as a man of color. Played over ten years. People in the midwest according to my wife, who is from here, are very friendly. I thought to myself lets go out among the fans and see or play lets make a deal. I heard people from the midwest are very friendly. Im wondering if you would trade your ticket today for something in San Francisco. Maybe the Golden Gate Bridge. Reporter how about we are planning to paint it blue this year. Reporter would you guys be willing to give me your tickets . If theres a money machine that can make money, maybe. Reporter we have a place called the exploratorium. No. Reporter Fishermans Wharf. I dont think you need tickets to that, do you . Reporter you have been in San Francisco. I was going to offer you two tickets to alcatraz. That was really cool. I guarantee i want to go back. I could not see it enough. Even though my friends left me. It was really cool. Reporter something about prisons that appeal to you . No. Reporter im having no luck with royals fans. I have a couple giants fans here. Where you guys from . From philadelphia. Reporter philadelphia . Giants fans from philadelphia . How does that work . Hes got the connection. Reporter okay. Family friend. Reporter okay. Hitting coach. Free tickets to golden gate park. It has to be more than that. Thats not enough on the table yet. Reporter golden gate parks free. How about tickets to Fishermans Wharf . You pay my college tuition, we have a deal. Reporter lets see. We got this really cool place, two free tickets to explorato rish rium. Im guessing thats free already. Reporter i cant do this to giants fans. Go, giants. Reporter tickets are going from 300 to 600 on stub hub according to a lot of fans. Every royal fan i talked to guarantee that this team can win two straight here at home. Reporting live at Kauffman Stadium in kansas city, im mike shumann with Wayne Freedman. Back to you guys in the studio. Thank you. Finally, he ditched that blue jacket. Nice to see you in a suit for a change there. Reporter ill have the blue jacket on coming up later. Dont worry. Mike found some giants fans from philly, they thought he was a royals fan because hes wearing the blue abc 7 news jacket. Hes trying to blend in, i think, in k. C. He doesnt want to call attention to the fact hes from San Francisco. Until the parade. Then he will. Stay with abc 7 news for continuing world series coverage. You can follow shu on twitter and Wayne Freedman as well. Hundreds of fans are gathered at San Franciscos Civic Center Plaza right now to watch game six of the world series on the jumbotron. We are taking a look at them now getting all excited. Its meant to be a Family Friendly event. No alcohol will be sold or permitted during the broadcast. People planning to attend the event are encouraged not to drive to the area. Instead, take b. A. R. T. Or muni to civic center station. Some fans arrived 12 hours early to get good seats. Obviously our living room isnt big enough to bring all the fans to our house. The energy here is so much more alive. We wanted front row. Remember the world series celebration from two years ago . Rowdy fans set fire to a bus and trash cans. San Francisco Police are getting ready to keep any celebrations this year from getting out of hand. Tonight, police will increase patrols by 20 after the seventh inning, especially in the mission district. Broadway and king street. Police are also asking city agencies to pick up garbage that can be burned before the game. Picking up all things that could possibly be burned so that theres no potential fuel out there. Muni is prepared to switch to gas buses. Any buses that are on electrical lines can work around any crowds. The chief says he doesnt want to jinx things but his department is also getting ready for a world series victory parade either thursday or friday. So for folks that are out at viewing parties in the bay area, or maybe folks who are in kansas city, we have probably a couple forecasts to be concerned about with Spencer Christian, who is here with the accuweather update. Its mild here in the bay area but the giants might get a chilly reception in kansas city. Lets go to the maps. Playing conditions at game time, which is roughly 5 07 p. M. Our time, 7 07 kansas city time, clear, chilly, temperature of 55 degrees at the start of the game and dropping throughout the game. Thats like a july Weather Report here at at t park. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd. In the bay area, clear skies, sunny from this view looking along the embarcadero from the rooftop camera. Currently 67 degrees in San Francisco. Low 70s at oakland, san carlo, san jose. 74 morgan hill. 66 at half moon bay. Check out the blue sky over the Golden Gate Bridge. 76 in santa rosa, low to mid and upper 70s at napa, petaluma, fairfield, concord and livermore. As we look towards mount diablo, the forecast calls for mainly clear skies tonight, little chilly in the Early Morning hours in the north bay, but warm in all locations tomorrow afternoon under sunny skies. Ill have your halloween forecast in a few minutes. Thank you, spencer. The utah couple accused of a Deadly Northern California crime spree that left two sheriffs deputies dead made their First Court Appearance this afternoon. 34yearold marcel omo marquez his wife janelle were arraigned on 14 felony charges, including two counts of murder for the deaths of the two officers. Another deputy and civilian were injured. The suspects also face multiple carjacking and attempted murder charges. They did not enter pleas today. The memorial for a cupertino teenager is growing today after he was fatally hit by a truck on mcclellan road yesterday afternoon. The 15yearold was riding when the truck struck him, killing him at the scene. Officials say the driver didnt know he had hit the teen and is cooperating with investigators. Today, extra patrol cars from the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office were out keeping an eye on traffic. Anything to make the kids safer. Whatever it takes. We have so many schools here. We are actually looking after thousands of children by making some minor changes. Residents are looking for a solution to the areas congestion problem and an online petition at change. Org was started yesterday and has almost 200 signatures. It demands an immediate modification of the road usage for trucks. Hundreds of napa earthquake victims can begin applying for federal assistance starting tomorrow. Fema began setting up booths at the napa quake Relief Center today. Staff members will provide inperson help to individual homeowners as well as renters. The agency announced last night that earthquake recovery aid is available under the individuals and households program. About 1,000 private Property Owners in napa have been waiting for fema to determine whether they will be eligible for those funds. B. A. R. T. Is holding an open house today to gather feedback from some of its riders. They are asking passengers about the idea to redesign the embarcadero and montgomery stations. The redesign aims to ease overcrowding especially during commute times. B. A. R. T. Is also considering safety, access, appearance and the overall Customer Experience at the stations. To give your feedback, visit b. A. R. T. Gov and clinic on the survey link. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, her ebola is gone and shes going home, but a texas nurse has an Important Message about ebola for everybody around the world. Lost and now found. Band instruments that vanished near at t park suddenly reappear. The story behind their discovery. Plus we already picked out hey, hey, hey. The honesty of kids. New after 4 30, the world series secret that the son of jake peevey left slip. This is 101 in san rafael. Oncoming traffic heading into san rafael on the right side, headed back towards the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco and moving nicely at this hour in both directions. Hey john,whoa k it out. Yeah, i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv. And the tablet worked just fine. But i wanted to see if the phone would work as well. So i shrunk sharon. Every channel is live just like on tv. But its my phone. Its genius. Shh im watching tv. Tiny sharon is mean. Im right here. Watch any channel live on any device around your home. Download the xfinity tv app today. The second nurse infected with ebola was released today from a hospital in atlanta. The centers for Disease Control and prevention have issued guidelines for returning Health Care Workers but many states are choosing to follow stricter guidelines. Abc News Reporter Marcy Gonzalez has more from new york. Im so grateful to be well. Reporter with no trace of ebola, amber vinson is now heading home. The nurse infected while treating a man who died from the virus in dallas discharged today from the hospital. This is a day for celebration and gratitude. I ask that we not lose focus on the thousands of families who continue to labor under the burden of this disease in west africa. Reporter the World Health Organization now saying at least 5,000 Health Care Workers are needed in west africa to battle the ebola outbreak. As the debate continues here over how those people on the front lines are treated when they return home. We dont want to discourage our Health Care Workers from going to the front lines and dealing with this in an effective way. Reporter nurse kaci hickox came back and was forced to stay in a tent outside a new jersey hospital for three days even though she had no symptoms and tested negative for the virus. Her civil rights were violated. Reporter she is now in isolation in maine, one of nine states instituting some type of quarantine for returning Health Care Workers. Going beyond the cdcs updated guidelines which only call for high risk people to restrict their travel and public activity and monitor for symptoms. Now the only ebola patient in the u. S. Is dr. Craig spencer who is still hospitalized here, listed in serious but stable condition. Marcy gonzalez, abc news, new york. We have great news to share with you about a story we first told you about two months ago. This is about the 16 missing band instruments that belong to students. The bands entire instrument container simply vanished from a parking lot at at t park after the students played the National Anthem on august 25th. The students thought somebody had stolen them. Turns out that was not the case at all. Today, the band members were reunited with all of their prized instruments. It turns out a homeless man who collects cans at the park found all the instruments that night and he was holding on to them we are told for safekeeping. His friend googled the name of the school on the container and found abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedmans original story. He got in touch with the school and late today, those instruments were returned to the kids. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee was there and spoke with the band members. We will have that story coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00. That is great news. That is. Really is. Lets turn to Spencer Christian to find out about our accuweather update today. Things are looking great here in the bay area right now. As you can see, blue skies, sunny skies all around the area. So mild, warm in some spots. Heres live doppler 7 hd. You can see just how clear our skies are. Hard to find even a little patch of clouds right now. On we go to the lovely view from the mount tam camera. We will take a look at the forecast features. Sunny and warm tomorrow, even warmer than today. We will be haunted by rain on halloween. It will be mainly dry and mild this weekend. I will show you why we will be haunted by rain. Satellite image shows one rain maker to our north producing wet weather up in Washington State and oregon and in the northwestern corner of california but this is not our rain producer for the bay area. Its this second system, this cold storm that will be moving in for halloween. Lets start our forecast animation thursday night at 11 00. By 5 00 friday morning, we will see that cold front beginning to sweep through the bay area with a wave of rainfall reaching from north to south down through the central part of the bay area. But by late morning hours, by midday, notice how the front will have passed through with most of the rainfall moving with it and there will be some trailing showers behind the front which indicates that we may have mainly dry conditions for trick or treaters in the Late Afternoon and early evening hours. Rainfall totals, we project will be no greater than half an inch to an inch in the north bay mountains by late friday morning, most lower elevations will see anywhere from a tenth of an inch to about three tenths of an inch. In the san rafael valley, maybe only five hundredths to a tenth of an inch. It will get wet here a little bit and it will be wintry in the sierra friday afternoon into saturday. We expect several inches of snow there in Higher Elevations as this will be a colder system moving through. Snow levels will drop to about 4,000 feet over the sierra by saturday morning. Significant travel delays are possible so if you are going out that way or heading back here from that way, you might want to be sure you have your chains ready. Back to the bay area overnight look for clear skies, cool conditions. Lows in the north bay valley, cool with lows in the mid to upper 40s. Low to mid 50s elsewhere. Then tomorrow, sunny and warm from coast to inland. We will see highs in the low to mid 70s on the coast, upper 70s to near 80 around the bay and low 80s inland. Heres our accuweather seven day forecast. We will have rain early friday, halloween, giving way to showers later in the day. Might have pretty good conditions for trick or treating friday evening. Saturday morning, theres a slight chance of rain or showers early but mainly sunny afternoon. Sunnier and mild on sunday and monday. Mild fall afternoon on monday. Looks like the start of next week will be mainly sunny and mild. Lovely days ahead. A little tricky on halloween. Larry and ama . Thank you, spencer. Up next, getting across the bay is about to get a lot easier for the next few months. New after 4 30, a consumer app challenge. 7 on your sides Michael Finney tells us which apps will help you track recalled products. Giants fans across the bay area have been sending us fan pictures. Check out little brielle. She is ready for game six. We want to see how you are celebrating the giants where you live. Email your photos to us. A band known for its wellplanned videos are back at it. This is okay go from los angeles. Those scooters you see them riding are actually electric unicycles. They are made by honda. Heres where the video gets interesting. Straight up in the drone, those unicubs are not yet available in the u. S. They are pretty cool, though, as is the choreography in this video. This has had more than three million hits on youtube in just a matter of days. The song sounds pretty good, too. Lets listen. How many rehearsals do they have to do for that . Its one continuous shot and the video is five or six minutes long. They actually shot it in japan. In a world of short Attention Span theater, i was locked in. I have to go back and look at it again. Very very cool. Its a big new day for a Water Taxi Service in San Francisco. Today, tideline launched its brand new 40 foot boat that will offer service between San Francisco, marin county and the east bay. If this sounds like a ferry, the company insists that it is not. Tideline is an on demand service and takes passengers to any of several authorized landing points on the bay on a per fare basis starting at 35. Call us with as much heads up as you possibly have. We do prefer a days heads up. Tell us the time you would like to go, how many people in the group, one way or round trip and we will get you to your place. Tideline started a year ago with a six person boat but the service has been around for years. In fact, sf water taxi. Com has been in operation for 15 years. Just ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, the email slur that warriors coowner is now having to clarify. What the nba is saying about it. Also, the battle in the crowded mayoral race and one thing the lesser known candidates have going for them. The dangerous lava flow on hawaiis big island. Its just a matter of feet now until homes are gone. The countdown is on. We are now about half an hour to game six of the world series between the giants and the royals. If you couldnt be in kansas city, many fans are outside San Franciscos civic center for a huge viewing party. This is video from sky 7 hd. Hopefully this will end up turning into a celebration later tonight. The giants in k. C. With a chance to close things out. It is young versus old in the pitching matchup tonight. The royals are going with their 23yearold rookie fireballer, ventura. The giants will counter with 33yearold jake peevey. Ventura got the better of peevey in the royals game two win. Should peevey falter early tonight, could madison bumgarner, the giants star who has already won two games in this series, could he possibly be available out of the bull pen . Listen to the skipper. I have already talked to madison. He says listen, if you need me, im good to go. Im ready to go. So hes already come in and told me that. Hopefully hes not needed. Hes had one day off so we will try to get this done without him tonight. You want to take advantage of the moment and right now, we have a lead so we want to come in here and do whatever we cannot to give them any i guess glimmer of hope. You just want to kind of take it away from them early. If we can do that we have a good chance of winning. Got to score early. That is the key. I would be shocked if bumgarner pitched at all tonight. Maybe one batter at the moment. He gave the royals no hope in game five. We will see if peevey can do the same in game six. We will find out soon enough. The coowner of the Golden State Warriors is apologizing for an email he sent out where he unintentionally used the word hoodish, if thats even a word. He was responding to an email praising the franchise for having five International Players on the roster. He listed hoodish as one of the languages he planned to learn. Heres exactly what he wrote. Im taking Rosetta Stone to learn hungarian, serbian, australian, swahili and hoodish this year. But its nice. He later responded and said he intended to type the word yiddish, suggesting it was an autocorrect mistake. The nba has spoken with him regarding the email and says they do not plan to take any action against him. Election day is just a week away. In oakland, 15 mayoral candidates are vying for voters attention. A Voting System will make for a rather lively campaign but those who receive the little attention cried foul today. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live in oakland. Reporter well, much of the attention here has been focused on those candidates that are listed higher in the polls, for instance. The city mayor and several other candidates today, eight of the lower ranked candidates held a press conference to say hey, what about us. Einstein the canine candidate may have the loudest bark but with just eight days to go before the election, these eight legitimate candidates dont want their message lost in a noisy oakland mayors race. We just arent getting any coverage by the news media. This is supposed to be one of the most important races in california. Oakland deserves to hear from every single candidate, not just one or two or the top seven. Im probably one of the most qualified candidates for mayor. That includes the current mayor. I am completely opposed to the influence of money in politics locally and nationally. And im the only one conservative in the race. I have asian backing. Reporter this press conference was their way of getting some of the attention, especially when the current mayor and other frontrunners know how to grab headlines on a daily basis. We all agree on measure z. Reporter the crowded field is both a blessing and curse of the system. There are no fewer than 15 candidates. Even long time politicos say they are confused. I encourage everyone to go to youtube. Nobody understands it. Everybody that i talked to says to me okay, chief, explain this to me. Reporter for these candidates who barely register in the polls, their message has a lot to do with oakland abandoning whats comfortable in city politics. We need change in oakland. We need people to start running oakland. We need the machine politics to stop. How can they be so visual and were not . Tell me that. We have a voice. Reporter its a concept even einstein seems to understand. In oakland, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. You can read about all the races and propositions in next tuesdays election with our abc 7 news app, free to download on google play or apples app store. We have more information on abc7news. Com apps. Developing news from the state of hawaii. We are just getting word that a river of molten lava has made its way into the small hawaiian town of pahoa on the big island. The river of asphalt black lava has slowly snaked through empty land for months. It has just burned down a shed on the big island and is now covering the yard of two homes closest to the volcano. Those residents have left that area. Abc News Reporter Emmitt Miller has the latest. Reporter a glowing river of molten rock carving a path toward the center of pahoa. Swallowing sheds, whole roadways and closing in on the fleeing villagers themselves. We dont know what were going to do. Its really scary. Reporter even scarier, at a temperature of more than 2,000 degrees fahrenheit, the lava only needs to get near a home to ignite it. As seen from above, one structure on the edge of town is already in flames. This trail of lava has been spewing from the mount kilauea volcano since it erupted in june. It traveled 12 miles since then, at times speeding up and fanning out to swallow parts of the hillside. The lush town of pahoa is directly downslope. In the 1990s about 200 homes were destroyed by lava flows from kilauea. The last evacuations came in 2011 when one home was destroyed and several others threatened. Officials say there is no way to stop the lava but they are wrapping power poles with concrete rings to offer a layer of protection. If the lava crosses highway 130, it would isolate the region from the rest of the island, cutting off an access and escape route for thousands. Big island Officials Say they are providing the residents with closure by allowing them to watch their homes being destroyed. Their despair is unimaginable. Emmitt miller, abc news. Police in denver are stepping up their search for a 53yearold man who vanished during last thursdays broncos game. 53yearold Paul Kitterman is pictured here with his stepson jared. At halftime, his first ever game at Sports Authority field. Jared told police he went to the bathroom and when he came back to his seat, his dad was gone. Ajared and his friends alerted authorities after the game and launched an all out search. So far, nothing. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. It wouldnt make any sense for him to go anyplace. Seemed happy, happy to be at the game. Got flyers, we have missing persons report and i just cant help but think something bads happened. Stadium and Denver Police have reviewed hours of Surveillance Video but there are no clues at this point. Kitterman lives on a ranch about 100 miles from denver. Family members say he only had about 50 on him and did not have his cell phone. For him to vanish they say is completely out of character. Coming up, the royal mistake made on the air in kansas city. Plus, giants pitcher jake peevey has a big game ahead of him tonight. But his son may have let his secret out of the bag. Im Spencer Christian from the east bay hills camera, we see bright sunny sky and there is more of that coming our way. The accuweather forecast is in just a moment. At 4 36, another live look at the afternoon commute. This is the san mateo bridge. Really backed up here on the lefthand side of your screen. This is oncoming traffic. Very slow going heading back into hayward. On the righthand side, folks heading from the east bay to the peninsula. Thats moving pretty well. Someone has some explaining to do. An ad from Dicks Sporting Goods aired during game five in kansas city congratulating the royals for winning the world series. What . I know. Telling k. C. Fans to head down to their stores to pick up their championship gear. Obviously a huge mistake. The series was tied two games apiece at the time it aired. Then the giants went on to win game five. No comment yet from dicks or the tv station that aired it. We have received a lot of comments on our facebook page. You can join the conversation at facebook. Com abc 7news. Hopefully they jinxed it. Thats right. One giants player has been thinking ahead planning on splurging if the giants do win the world series. Yes. During his News Conference yesterday, giants game six starter jake peevey was asked about the duck boat he bought for his family to celebrate last us years world series win and asked if he had anything planned if the giants win it all. Check out what happened. We kicked around some options on memoribilia possibly to take home to commemorate this if we can we are fortunate enough to make it happen. Trolley car. We got im going to i will get into that if and when this thing happens. I think we already picked out our hey, hey, hey, hey i like how he whispered it at first. Then he went full on. That was wyatt there. If you are wondering, a replica San Francisco cable car with wheels costs about 160,000. Jake peevey can afford it. He made 14. 5 million this season, due to make 15 million next year. I think they could buy a couple. You have the duck boat and the trolley car and you need the whole building just to house his world series memoribilia. Incredible. Spencer christian is checking our weather and whats ahead for us. Things are looking great here in the bay area and will remain that way for awhile. Heres live doppler 7 hd. We have sunny skies and gloriously lovely weather all across the bay area right now. Lets look at the National Weather picture for tomorrow. Most of the country will experience calm and dry weather especially in the central part of the country and across the Southern Tier states. Up along the atlantic coast, may be a little bit showery and over parts of the great lakes and the pacific northwest, of course, once again, showers near seattle and portland tomorrow. Across california tomorrow, look for mainly sunny, dry and mild conditions with the exception of the northwestern corner up around eureka will it will be cloudy and showery. Here in the bay area, we will have really warm weather for this time of year. Sunny with high temperatures ranging from low to mid 70s at the coast to upper 70s, near 80 around the bay to low 80s inland. As we approach the end of the week, friday being halloween, we can expect cloudier, cooler weather and theres a pretty good chance of rain early in the day on halloween. Right now we are sort of straddling the fence on when that rain might taper off. Looks like conditions for trick or treating friday evening might be pretty good. Larry and ama . Im sure spencer will keep us posted throughout the week. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, go out and vote. The creative way one university is making sure people get to the polls next week. Plus, the newest employee coming to a san jose Hardware Store. How it could improve your shopping experience. Im 7 on your sides Michael Finney. The government goes after at t. The very best apps to alert you about product recall. The party is over. Again. At the halloween house in riverside just days after kevin judd got his 12000 light display up and running, the city shut him down. The plug was pulled two years ago. This year he moved it to another neighborhood but the noise and crowds forced police to shut it down again on sunday. In our nations capital, the question looming is will republicans end up with control of both houses of congress. Abc News Reporter Karen Travers takes a look from washington, d. C. Reporter one week before election day. Republicans are cautiously optimistic they will have a big night. They need to pick up six seats to take control of the senate and right now, numbers guru nate silver puts their chances at 63 . A new poll from abc news and the Washington Post explains why the midterm landscape is so bleak for democrats. More than twothirds of americans say the nation is seriously off on the wrong track. 60 say they have little or no trust in the federal government to do whats right. And in a bad sign for democrats, 63 of americans say they believe the ability of the federal government to deal with peoples problems has worsened since president obama took office. Despite all that, the white house tried to project confidence. The vast majority of Senate Democrats are caring about how important it is for congress to be advancing policies take benefit middle class families. Reporter president obamas Approval Rating is just 43 . Thats a big reason why the Democratic Candidates in Key Senate Races are keeping him at a distance. Instead hes appearing mostly with gubernatorial candidates. These are not the kind of races that will actually determine whether president obamas agenda goes forward or not. Reporter republicans may have the edge but there are still enough wild card senate races to keep things interesting and keep democrats chances alive. Karen travers, abc news, washington. Womens magazine cosmopolitan is sending a party bus with models to North Carolina State University next week to take students to and from the polls next tuesday. The bus is part of a contest won by the university and the latest in the magazines effort to get into political coverage. Guys may be voting early and often to get on that bus. This year, cosmo endorsed ten candidates in North Carolinas races. You may be surprised who will be ready to greet you when you stop at a popular Hardware Store this holiday season. Hello, i am the orchard store robot helper. What are you looking for today . One of two robots lowes will be testing at its Orchard Supply Hardware Store in san jose. The company post,0ed this videof its new team member. The robot responds to people and can help identify and track items down. It also speaks spanish. The new rebots are expected to make their public debut in three weeks. See how it responds when i say i want one of those round things. See how that works out. Consumer news now. Hundreds of dangerous products are pulled off of store shelves every year but often people dont even know about them. The Consumer Products Safety Commission held a contest to find the best way to alert customers with mobile apps. 7 on your sides Michael Finney tells us who won. Isnt it a great idea . This has the potential to really spread the word when theres a recall. The Consumer Product Safety Commission named four winners of its challenge to create the best product safety app. The agency presented the award today to the winning developers. Their apps each have ways to alert you about recalls. Among them, the apps will send emails about dangerous products, let you scan a bar code to see if that item was recalled and compare your email receipts against a recall list. These apps can only help further efforts to get consumers not just to be aware of but to respond to recall announcements. Parents, children and other consumers will be safer because of these apps. Each developer won a prize of 1,000. Their apps can be downloaded for free. I posted all the information you need on all the winners at abc7news. Com. Just check out 7 on your side. Serious charges leveled against at t. The federal government sued the Telecom Giant saying it misled millions of smartphone customers about their data use. The federal trade Commission Says at t sold customers unlimited data plans that failed to warn them that if they use too much data, at t would slow down their data speeds. The fcc says some customers had their speeds reduced by 90 . Thats a practice i told you about before called throttling. At t tells me its been up front with customers all along notifying them in billing and press releases. I will have more on this story including my interview with the attorney who brought this suit in San Francisco, tonight at 6 00 on abc 7. Used to be you would go to a restaurant simply because you liked the food. Now restaurants are using technology to lure customers, especially millenials. Taco bell unveiled an updated mobile app that lets diners order and pay with their phone, then waltz in to pick up the food. Outback steakhouse will have a new tool that lets you claim a place in line at any location in the country. Starbucks is updating its mobile app to make it even easier to avoid a line. Mcdonalds is testing an app to let you order food at any restaurant in the world. Waiting in line it seems could soon be a thing of the past. Well see. Up next, Water Conservation at its finest. The big announcement today on a bay area golf course. Coming up new at 5 00 it feels amazing. Such a nice thing to do. It really is. Lots of hugs and kisses after one man did the right thing for students whose instruments went missing after performing at a giants game. Plus, how detecting cancer could one day be as easy as popping a pill. Customers have already met their conservation goals two months ahead of schedule. Eight billion gallons of water have been saved since january. The announcement by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission was made of all places at a golf course. Abc 7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez tells us why. One, two, three. Reporter teeing the ball in pacifica was a memorable event for these government officials who have much to say about conserving water. We are saving about 15,000 gallons a day right here. Thats about five and a half million gallons of Drinking Water per year. Reporter cue the sprinklers. The park is owned by the city of San Francisco and is now irrigated using recycled water. The waste water is treated here at the water recycling plant in pacifica. Two other golf courses near lake merced also use reclaimed water. The recreation and Park Department is the citys main consumer of water but this year has reduced its overall water consumption by 15 . When you see, you know, water where you shouldnt, you have to keep in mind that our irrigation system is some of our Irrigation Systems are more than a century old. Reporter it will take more money and time to upgrade the system to make it more efficient. The drought is on everyones mind. The San Francisco Public Utilities commission announced it had met its 10 voluntary conservation goal for the year. In fact, the puc says it has about two years worth of reserves. However, if we dont receive any more rain, we are going to have to be a little more strict and maybe go higher than 10 and maybe not go voluntary, be mandatory. Reporter a mandatory 20 conservation rate would have an impact on the pucs budget because fewer people would be paying for water. Rates could go higher. Meantime, the state drought has increased the risk of floods. The California Department of Water Resources manages and protects californias waters. To date it Trained Personnel throughout the state to react quickly to flash floods. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Thank you for joining us for abc 7 news at 4 00. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. Abc 7 news at 5 00 begins right now with cheryl and dan. A nasa rocket explodes seconds after launching. What this means for the International Space station. Plus students on alert after a crime spree at cal. We will show you where its happening. Plus lost and now found. The incredible story of how some bay area students got back their missing instruments. And waited a lifetime to get here. It was an honor. We are live in kansas city with another side to tonights world series. A frightening scene in the skies over virginia just a couple of hours ago. The launch of this commercial rocket, the antares goes terribly wrong. We have liftoff of antares. Its Third Mission to the iss. Main engine at 108 . That was not supposed to happen. Antares exploded moments after liftoff. It happened just before 4 00 our time. After the explosion, the rocket fell back to earth and burst into flames. The unmanned supply ship belongs to the firm Orbital Sciences corporation. It was carrying 5,000 pounds of cargo destined for the International Space station. Tonight, nasa believes no one was hurt in that explosion. The extent of the damage appears to be limited to facilities. The fire is now out. Officials at nasa are surveying the damage. Thanks for joining us. Im cheryl jennings. Im dan ashley. Now to the other top story. Tonight it is all about peevey pandemonium and police. Pitcher jake peevey is about to take the mound to start for the giants. Pandemonium is hoping for as many people to pour in for a huge viewing party in San Francisco. And police are prepared in case those celebrations become too rowdy like they did a couple of years ago. We have Live Team Coverage. Abc 7 News Reporter Carolyn Tyler at the jumbotron in San Francisco. Wayne freedman and mike shumann are in kansas city. Mike, lets start with you out there. Reporter tell you what, guys, its exciting. You can feel the anticipation in the air. Im a little worried about this stat. Eight of the last ten teams in the world series that came home trailing three games to two have walked away with the trophy. Of course, the royals are going to have to win both of those games and they are the little team that could. They have been the Cinderella Team not even picked to make the playoffs. They swept their way into the world series. But the giants are the more
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