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KGO ABC7 News 900AM October 28, 2012

Live from the kgo Broadcast Center this, is abc7 news. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Im Carolyn Tyler. It appears this morning that a magnitude 7. 7 earthquake that struck off Canadas Pacific coast last night hasnt done any major damage. Pacific tsunami warnings have been downgraded. The powerful undersea earthquake struck the Queens Island area last night. It was followed by a magnitude 5. 8 a aftershock. It was felt in alaskas southeast communities, but most of the energy was sent to the southwest toward the hawaiian islands. The first tsunami waves to the islands were smaller than first predicted. Geologists say the largest wave so far was measured on maui at five feet. Thats only about two feet higher than normal sea levels. Since then all warnings and advisories have been cancelled and the evacuated coastal residents in honolulu have been allowed to return home. Experts are still warning people on the islands, though, to stay away from the waters edge for several more hours. California was initially under a tsunami advisory, which was cancelled after waves in the Pacific Northwest were measured in just a few inches. This is one of those days to check with your airline if you are flying at sfo. Four of todays flights have been affected by the tsunami situation. One arrival from maui was cancelled and one departure is delayed. One arrival from honolulu is delayed two to five hours and a departure for honolulu has also been delayed. Hurricane sandy is also affecting flights from sfo this morning. United airlines has cancelled 33 depart first. 33 for east coast destinations. Virgin airlines has cancelled five flights. No Flight Cancellations out of oakland for san jose. Massive flooding and Power Outages are predicted on the east coast. In new york city they are closing schools, even shutting down the subway system starting tonight. Abcs randy hit is in kill level hills North Carolina with the latest on Hurricane Sandy. Normally i dont get that nervous, but not feeling that good about it will knock down trees and power lines. We should not underestimate the impact of this storm. Sandy is expected to run right into a cold front and that will super charge it. This could set historical precedence if it develops along the lines that the american models are indicating. That kind of power could launch four to ten foot storm surges in vulnerable areas of washington d. C. , new jersey and new york. If it would strengthen unexpectedly or change its path it could do a lot of damage and you could be at risk. Thats why families all along the east coast are boarding up, stocking up on food and water, generators and batteries and other supplies. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Bracing when sandy strikes. Sandy is already reeking flush havoc on travel. Flights have been cancelled. Abc news, North Carolina. Lets check in with lisa argen for the latest on Hurricane Sandy. Good morning, everyone. As sandy intensifies, the storm expands and thats what we are look at right now. Very heavy rain from maryland through North Carolina. And a buoy off of North Carolina indicated the wave height of over 30 feet. So we are looking at this storm coming together, kind of more offing and turning into more of a winter storm but it is still expected to be quite large and the tract between new york city and washington d. C. Some of the potential impacts will be 40 to 75 mileanhour winds from boston, washington to pittsburgh with 4 to 8foot storm surge, 5 to 10 inches of rain, and with the high tide definitely some beach erosion. We will watch that for you. Back home with some hazy conditions and a little bit of a sea breeze now, temperatures will be a little cooler at our beaches, but overall once again above the average, low 80s, and then we are going below average as we get into another wet weather maker come midweek. Details on that a little bit later. Carolyn. All right. Thank you, lisa. The big story in the bay area, the giants just one win away from clinching their second world series in the past three seasons. Tonight in detroit the giants have an opportunity to sweep the tigers and win the world series for the second time in three years. Last night the giants pitchers shut down the tigers to go up 30 in the series. They are the first team to do pitch consecutive shutouts sinces 66 Baltimore Orioles good it to bodgers. Larry beil has the highlights coming up in sports in about 20 minutes. Tonights game is being played in detroit where the giants could wrap it all up. Bay area giants fans can watch on the jumbo tv screens outside city hall. We are joined live from Civic Center Plaza. They have done this with the world cup soccer matches and now this. Very popular. Yes, carolyn, and very exciting. Right behind me right any the jumbotron is being set up. Game 4 will be shown as giants cheer on their giants hope for a potential world series championship and a potential fourgame sweep. Lets take a look at video we have from just about an hour ago as the jumbotron was just arriving. A dozen or so stage hands began setting up this quarter Million Dollars screen 30 feet wide, 17 feet tall on a 40 by 40 stage. Get this, apparently it costs anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 a day to rent 24 stage and screen. And all across Civic Center Plaza you can see giants fever, flags flying above city all haul. Take a look at this other video from about four hours ago. Giants fan ronny was the first giants fan out here to snag the best seat in the house in front of city hall. He and his brother had been here since midnight. They are staying awake with the help of books, pizza, gatorade. He said standing here overnight and all day today is a ritual he and his brother started two years ago and they hope it works this year. For 2010 and it was good luck. We end up winning. We are diehard fans, weve been since little kids so weve come to do it again. Well, they are likely not the only fans coming to do it again. We have video from two years ago when the giants last world series win was broadcast right here in civic plaza. Thousands celebrate the the World Championship and an even larger crowd is expected to pack into todays game because the giants are up three games to none, of course. Its the added drama of this potentially being the final game of the world series, and it has San Francisco police preparing. If it does go originals weve taken steps to work with all the merchants around the ballpark and weve been fantastic. We want people to know, hey, dont drink and drive k thats on any weekend but be respect full of people, be respectful of other fans, be respectful of the police. We really want this to be a fun celebration when the giants bring this home. Well, the celebration here in civic center plaidsa is an alcoholfree event. The mayor is encouraging giants fans to wear orange and black, display signs, flags, support their Hometown Team and the San Francisco mayor ed lee and detroits mayor, dave bing is encouraging people to leave their rivalries on the field. You can see they are still trying to get it up to the height where it will be for the viewing this afternoon. And still the first two fans, they are still the only two people here but i think its safe to say it will fill up quickly. Get down here early. Live at Civic Center Plaza, abc7 news. Thanks, kera. The mayor said for those who cant make it down there to Civic Center Plaza, he is urging them to go to publics and restaurants to help give them an economic boost and thats whats happening for south bay businesses. They have been hit hard by the National Hockey league lockout. Reporter nick smith talks with Business Owners who are grateful for the giants world series appearance. Dont let her fool you. Shes more than a princess, shes a giants fan. The San Jose Sharks have lost the rest of their november schedule because of the nhl lockout. Twelve games, 7 at home, are cancelled. Other vents are booked to fill it, but no hockey means a hit to the bottom line. You can add them up dollars for dollar. On a game day a owner said he sees up to five hundred people come through his door. Ice over 10,000 that we stand to lose or win when there is a sharks game. But there is a bright side, and they are wearing orange. A bar that usually houses sharks fans wearing teal was a sea of orange and black. The giants went to the motor city and tack game three from the tigers and these fans cheered through every inning. Going without hockey all through november, theres challenges for sure works we are fortunate to have bay area baseball right now. With the giants one wane way from becoming the 2010 world series champions, fan fever means every seat in his bar is taken but as the series ends, its back to the drawing board. It means regrouping with some Financial Decisions that need to be smarter. A total of 326 regular season nhl games have been cancelled. In san jose, nick smith, abc7 news. Take a look at the games ahead. Game four today at 5 07. If a game five is necessary, it would be tomorrow in detroit. Then if a game six is needed it would happen back here in San Francisco on wednesday, which also happens to be halloween. Giants fans are still uploading some memorable pictures showing their team spirit to our ureport page. Take a look. Alyssa sent a photo of their boys pumpkin carving project. Looks like they are celebrating their love of angry birds and halloween. This is giants pitcher tim lincecum, a carving. You can send us your fan photos at ureport at kgo tv. Com. Or share them with us on our facebookk÷m page. Orzouu twitter abc7 hz p 7newsbayarea. Abc caa5yw help you share your giants pride. Like us and click the giants logo at the top of the page. That will take you here where you can choose to share any of nine badges to show your support on your facebook wall. Coming up, the election is now just nine days away. Fine out what president obama and mitt romney are doing as they start the final push. Also, Police Investigate a deadly shooting in contra costa county. And accused of killing two children in new york, where their nanny sought help right before new this morning in contra costa county, Oakland Police are investigating a Fatal Shooting that occurred just before 2 00 this morning. Police responding to shots being fired. Found a man who had been shot several times near the intersection of main street and hill avenue. He died at a local hospital. More details this morning about that nanny accused of killing two children in new york city. She has no criminal history but did recently seek psychiatric help. The childrens mother found the two and sixyearold kids stabbed in the bathtub on thursday. They were fully clothed. They died on the way to the hospital. The nanny had also stabbed herself several times. She is still alive, but investigators cant question her yet because of wounds to her neck. Two teenagers were injured when they were hit by a car while walking along a sonoma street yesterday afternoon. The 14yearold boys were in the crosswalk when they were struck by a 92yearold man driving a car. One of the boys suffered a possible skull fracture. The other had minor cuts and bruises. Sheriffs deputies say the man did not see the teens. Speed and alcohol are not considered factors in that accident. 33 new Fire Department new recruits in san jose begin training tomorrow. It will be the largest numbers of recruits the city has ever trained at one time. The previous record, 30 set three years ago. An 8. 6 million grant provided by the federal Emergency Management agency is going to pay for the new firefighters. The recruits about bring the department back to 683 firefighters, just shy of what the department had four years ago. Our meteorologist lisa argen is joining us now with a preview of her accuweather forecast. We have some fog out there. In fact, ocean beach is fogged in right now. Everybody else enjoying a lot of sunshine. Were talking about two to five degrees of cooling coastside while we stay warmer than average today, but stay tuned because the second half of the week is look different. Ill explain coming up. Thank you, leaguesa. Also ahead, the punchers on the giants shutdown the tigers offense again. Now one win away from another championship parade. Larry beil has the highlights coming up in sports. This morning people on Treasure Island are being asked to boil their tap water until tomorrow. Its a precaution after a water main break friday night. Crews had it plugged and returned toilet and hydrant water to the area early yesterday morning but the pipe still needs to be repaired. Little league teams are being warned not to drink from mountains at any of the baseball fields on the island until the water is tested tomorrow just to make sure its safe for drinking. So they will have to bring canisters or Water Bottles or something pause its going to be a warm one out there today. Pretty pleasant. It will get warm toward the east bay valleys, but otherwise we are average. Not what you expect for the last gasp of nice autumn weather we are having. As you look outside, this is lake tahoe. Temperatures now is 32 degrees. Dropped to a low in the mid20s this afternoon. They have the freezing fog once again, and from vollmer peak it is nice and sunny. A ridge of High Pressure continues to hold throughout the day today, bringing that mild air. In fact, we will look for this to weaken as soon as tonight. Thats going to bring a return to some more typical weather. We want you to give a sense of how large these two systems are, how big this one storm will be. Feeling the impact from Hurricane Sandy from North Carolina all the way up to boston. So thats over 800 miles. So this thing is more offing into a second storm that keys one massive event that continues to impact over 50 Million People with the possibility of 40 to 70mile an hour winds through washington d. C. , boston and pittsburgh, 4 to 8foot storm surge, 5 to 10 inches of rain and the lunar high tide that will create more beach erosion. So many things going on here, all expected by overnight tomorrow into tuesday. And locally we are looking at the clear conditions, but the low clouds and fog have come back to the shoreline and that will make an impact in the form of a light sea breeze throughout the day today. We are still expecting the mild temperatures coastside. But you are cooler than yesterday, 56 in oakland and down by monterey bay, upper 50s for you with a very nice afternoon ahead. So with this ridge of High Pressure in place, our little rainmaker not only stays to the north now for the time being, but for the next couple days. We will be looking at the changes ahead. You will notice with 5 degrees of cooling at Half Moon Bay and San Francisco this morning, you get the idea theres a couple change offshore. From daytoday we will lose maybe two to four degrees starting tomorrow. But patchy coastal fog and the sunny and mild event this afternoon. Heres a look at that ridge of High Pressure as it keeps the storm track to the north it will weak spend shift to the east. That happens tomorrow. That will allow for the cooling, the numbers to come out of the 80s and more like the 70s for monday and tuesday. Today, then, 63 in the northern sierra with 75 in big sir and still mild early on but later the temperatures will begin to come down after 3 00. 73 in the city, 76 in oakland with 80s east around concord and livermore. 82 in gilroy. Its been chilly, another cold one tonight with breezy conditions. Winds picking up to ten to 20 miles an hour in detroit with the cloudy skies. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Coast will feel the sea breeze today and some fog. Then by tomorrow upper 70s warmest locations. Low 70s on tuesday, and then the rain favoring the north bay, maybe a halfinch or so by the afternoon to evening hours so i think a lot of the trickortreaters will be okay. East bay, south bay, not experiencing any rain. So maybe just north of the golden gate. You have to watch the forecast as it changes. So if we had to have a game six back here on wednesday night . It would be kind of touch and go. It wont be a heavy downpour. The rain looking like its kind of fizzling. All right. We dont think we are going to have to anyway. Lets check out sports this afternoon. The raiders are in kansas city to play the rival chiefs, and tonight in detroit, as you know, the giants have an opportunity to sweep the tigers and win the world series for the second time in three years. Last night the giants pitchers shut down the tigers to go up 30 in the series. Heres larry beil with the highlights in this mornings sports. Good morning, everybody. The giants have taken a stranglehold on the tigers in the world series. The giants blanking the tigers again last night. That was game three. Becoming the first team since the 1966 Baltimore Orioles to throw backtoback shutout the world series. The giants loose and relaxed in detroit. Hunter pence leading the way. Getting pumped up for game three. Giants havent trailed for a single inning in the whole series. Second inning, off the wall pence scores from third, giants take the 10 lead. Later in the second. Crawford, line drive center field, Austin Jackson misplays it a little. B

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