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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm October 30, 2014

A crowd in the thousands is glued to the big screen. Hanging on every pitch of the deciding game of the world series. Kpix 5s ryan takeo is in the middle of it all. Theres excitement right now. But youve learned there s concern about what could happen if the giants win. Thanks ryan theres a smattering of orange in the middle of the sea of blue in kansas city tonight. Several giants fans made the trip, hoping to watch their team win the world series in person. Some even brought bottles of champagne to celebrate should the giants win. Its gonna be good. It s gonna be a great game in really doesnt get any better than this game 7 of the world series no sport has an event like that. This was the last game seven in the world series. In 2011, the cardinals beat the rangers in st. Louis. The home team has won nine straight game sevens. The last time the road team did it. 1979. Well get another update on the crowd at civic center watch party. And Dennis Odonnell live in kansas city a little later on. Now playing out on a tv screen near you one of the nastiest political fights in the bay area. With just six days until the election. Big bucks are pouring into a tight Assembly Race in the east bay. Our phil matier is here to tell us why. Phil . sot ad 3 00 15 tim sbranti fought parents to protect his union matier vo hes being called a union boss matier vo Catharine Baker at College Meeting she is being called the pawn of a conservative billionaire sot 00 24 attack ad 3 who is trying to buy the election for his and picked candidate Catharine Baker matier vo welcome to 16th state Assembly Race which thanks to a blitz of tv ads is being watched by the whole bay area like it or not. matier vo in the republican corner lawyer baker sot 00 41 baker i oppose bart strikes my opponent supports them i oppose high speed rail. matier vo in the democratic corner teacher tim sbranti sot tim sbranti 13 33 i think the biggest differences is the record of accomplishments. matier vo ad video sbranti points to his years as the mayor of dublin baker points to another of sbrantis jobs. sot 00 57 baker hes also head of the California Teachers Association political, arm which has fought some of the education reforms we need in california. matier vo mug of munger sbrtanti counters by pointing to bakers biggest backer conservative, Charles Munger who has pumped a million and half dollars into the fight and he doesnt even live in the district. sot sbranti 18 10 you have someone who is essentially trying to buy the seat. matier vo, ad video to which baker shoots back sot baker 01 19 i think every imaginable Public Employee union in the state is backing my opponent sot 2 35 matier thats a lot of money. Baker it is but it pales in comparison with what the seiu and cta and so many o have put in matier vo and so isides have even booked times sot baker 00 35 it presen ss fans in the 16th a. D. Su the Fairmont Hotel prop 45mont hotel in San Francisco. And they had a special delivery. Inside. Some of the big names in the Health Insurance industry were having a dinner. The protesters claim the Insurance Companies are trying to defeat prop 45 so they can drive up costs. Their response . They attempted to have buckets of manure delivered to the dinner. The hotel didnt let them in. Another endorsement in the oakland mayors race. Former state Senate Leader don perata announced today hes throwing his support behind port commissioner bryan parker. The latest kpix5 poll puts the stocktonborn Business Executive in fifth place, in the 15candidate race. But with the citys ranked choice election system. He still has a chance. New at 6. A looming education crisis in oakland. Half of oaklands Public Libraries could shut down next summer due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit. Kpix 5s da lin says it s not the people you think. Who would be hurt the most. Most of that surplus will be used to hire more cops. But the Library System is in a financial crisis. With 8 out of the 16 branches on the chopping block. Pkg script about 100 students from two adjacent schools make the trip everyday to this east oakland library. Their schools dont have one. For many low incomes kids, this branch is their only access to books. Which eight branches will face the axe. Itll soon be a lot quieter around lake merced. Coming up why a gun range is being forced out. Leaving behind decades of tradition. Its internet history. The bay area link to the earliest pages from the World Wide Web. weather tease weather tease weather tease and another live look from chopper 5. The World Series Watch Party underway at civic center plaza. The crowd hoping the giants can win it all. A longstanding gun club in San Francisco is being threatened with eviction. Nts a gun club in San Francisco is being threatened with eviction. The San Francisco puc wants the pacific rod and gun club by lake merced to close it make room for a multimillion dollar cleanup. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman on the battle over history and environmental restoration. Reporter the pacific gun and rod club could be taking the last shot in the city of San Francisco and they are unhappy. For years San Francisco wanted to clean up the land which it leases to the club. From all the lead shot and clay pigeons that were used by the pacific rod and gun club for decades. Reporter that stopped in 1994. More modern ammo and targets arent toxic but this fight is. As tolerant as the city of San Francisco is, um, people are shooting guns and i think for a lot of people thats just a nonstarter. Reporter board member Michael Emory came here years ago when his son who has add found the sport of skeet shooting and turned his life around. Im right there. Reporter 81yearold ray brooks has been coming for longer. This is the 1939 National Skeet shooting championship. Reporter which was held when ray was 12. He has been coming ever since shooting and hanging out with pals. Thats why this is now an Historic Site meaning some buildings will have to stay when cleanup is complete in 2017. Were committed to running an open public process to look at all potential uses for the site which could include the pacific rod and gun club coming back. Reporter they dont buy that. A 15 or 20 million cleanup of this property was really meant to close this club down and get rid of us without saying were getting rid of a gun club. Reporter its a long fight. The latest shot fired the Public Utilities commission has made the final vote for clean up. The gun club has a contract for december and the next such club is 40 miles away. Mike sugerman, kpix 5. The gun club was invited to reapply when cleanup is finished. A person walking on the train tracks near the Oakland Coliseum was hit and killed by an amtrak train this morning. Capitol corridor train was going from sacramento to the Oakland Airport when it struck the person about 8 30. None of the crew or eight passengers on board was injured but trains were singletracked near the collision causing delays until midafternoon. In the wake of a deadly collision involving a big rig and teen biking to school, cupertino residents are now petitioning to keep the trucks off that road. Specifically, they want to implement a curfew that would ban big rigs from roads near schools during School Commute hours. The petition already has more than 5,000 signatures. The Monte Vista High School student was in the bike lane on mcclellan avenue when he was hit by a gravel truck on monday morning. Barts new Oakland Airport connector is just about ready to roll and we got a sneak peek today. The Driverless Cars are propelled by cables and run by a network of computers and cameras. Bart will be testing the system over the next few weeks. Passenger service could begin by thanksgiving. The threemile track runs along hegenberger road. They will depart from the coliseum station every 4 minutes and tickets will cost 6. Theres something new on the net today you probably didnt even notice it. Html 5. It hit the web. It has been 15 years in the making. And experts say it allows for seamless integration. The biggest difference is with video. It will allow developers to build it in websites. This means that you will no longer get an annoying popup asking you to download a plug in to watch something. New at 6 00, some of the earliest pages from the World Wide Web are back giving us a look at the internet in its infancy. On the first websites right here in the bay area, kpix 5s john ramos shows it to all of us. Reporter back in 1991, scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center wanted an easy way to Share Research so physicist tony johnson and his colleague paul kunz went to france to learn about a new idea called the internet. We both immediately thought of ways we could use it in our own work. Reporter kunz came back and posted a list of scientists and their writings. That index as simple as it appears was the countrys first website and the birth of the world website web in america. Were you saying what have we created . Not immediately we we first started but very soon within the first year of starting the web yes. Reporter a project called stanford way back has brought the early websites into public view. You can see the progression of Technology Including the very first moving graphic on the web, this spinning screwdriver. So when people saw that, did they go oh, thats cool . Yeah, back then. Reporter in the basement at the labs archive there are documents from when the World Wide Web was considered a project and one day jane got a call that they had found an old computer in kunzs office. It has a label that says its historic. Do you want to come look at it . Ill be right there. Reporter this is it. The computer that started it all. The first server to carry the internet in north america. So yeah, i still get goosebumps anything about it, yeah. We saved it. Reporter while no one can predict where the internet will take us, here they are preserving its past. In menlo park, john ramos, kpix 5. If you would like to view the stanford way back project there is a link to it in our website, kpix. Com, links and numbers. Detecting cancer early could be as easy as taking a pill. In the google moon shot project the company is creating a pill that could find malignant cells. It would contain small particles that would find cancer in the bloodstream. Particles would be able to report what they found to a wearable device. The hope is it to get the pill to doctors by the next decade. Particles falling from the sky in the form of liquid a liquid we havent seen. Lets see google do that. Its going to ruin my sons halloween. You know what, theres maybe a little bit of good news. Lets hear it. Okay. It might let up for halloween night just in time. If it doesnt, halloween day. He is a little kid. Is that what happens . Its a daytime thing . Then youre in trouble. Lets look at coit tower and a little gauze of high clouds against what is left of the sun as we approach the end of what was a Beautiful Day in the bay area. Boy, it really got out there. 82 degrees at morgan hill. 80 at hayward, 79 degrees in San Francisco and concord 79. Fremont 78 degrees right now. You see everybody is very close. When you see 79 this late in october in San Francisco, man, its unusual. High pressure really gave us offshore winds through last night. Very nice day today. But here comes the rain. Just in time for halloween day that cold front approaches increases the clouds tomorrow. And it looks like rain begins friday morning and spreads south during the day. Lets have a look at what futurecast looks like. Theres a model of, you know, the atmosphere if it behaves itself what it should be doing tomorrow so that by 2 00 tomorrow afternoon, just high clouds that will Cool Temperatures a bit and then watch what comes. This cold front is into the bay area at 8 a. M. Right through the central bay right at the height of the morning commute. A narrow band i grant you that but nevertheless plenty of showers so that by friday night, theres just widely scattered showers and plenty of places that are fairly dry so if your halloween takes you into the early evening hours, as it used to happen, it may not be so bad. The streets will be wet. 72 degrees in santa rosa. 76 napa. 67 San Francisco. 77 san jose. For halloween, showers, temperatures mid50s to mid 60s. And then as we look ahead, its going to warm up after saturday lingering showers saturday morning. Sunday were back into the low 70s. And then look at what happens on tuesday and wednesday. Were right back into the 80s inland again. So once again, we get a dose of rain, biggest dose so far this season. And it will turn around again with warm temperatures next week into november. So theres some good news. Thats the silver lining. We need it. Thank you. Still ahead, he dines by himself but he is not exactly alone. The story behind this snapshot thats gone viral. Plus, it started as a regular commute home but in a few moments, it turned this motorcycle rider into a hero. ,,,,,,, went viral on social media. This man spotted him eating at a an elderly man is touching hearts across the world after this photo went viral on social media. This man spot him eating at a fremont innout with a picture of his deceased wife by his side. After talking to the man, the photographer learned that he had been married to his wife for 55 years. Even though she passed away years ago, he still carries a photo of her wherever he goes. We caught up with a woman who has the inside story on this timeless love affair. Thats coming up tonight on bay area nightbeat at 10 00. A rescue on a san diego freeway has gone viral one year after it happened. Reporter michael chen shows us the hero caught it all on his helmet cam. Reporter he was on his bike going north on 163 a typical commute home when he came upon something not so typical. A car flipped over on the highway. He stooped down to look inside although his helmet cam couldnt look into the car. He saw the driver. When she was snared in that seatbelt, that was wrapped around her upper body. And her suffocating was the one that i thought she was panicking. She couldnt get out. Reporter as he was peering in. Anybody have a knife . Reporter another driver who had stopped to help was calling for a knife. He hurried to the other side of the car. Got a knife . Reporter he went to work cutting the seatbelt when suddenly an ominous statement from another good samaritan. Is this thing on fire . Yeah, its smoking. Reporter he cut the belt quickly and the driver climbed out. Paramedics tended to her. Hooten says it was all a blur of adrenaline. Its something you dont think about. You just do it. Reporter soon after the incident a year ago, he put the video on youtube but few people saw it. A few days ago after sites like lively picked it up, it went viral zooming past 500,000 hits. Its crazy and flattering. Reporter he says the attention is overwhelming but hopes anyone who sees the video can take away this. Just being human, i suppose, if you can help somebody, just help. That was michael chen reporting. Coming up in the next half hour, a warning about the debris after a rocket explodes following liftoff. What Scientists Say may have played a role. And lava crawling toward homes on the big island. What officials are letting people do even though it is closing in. At kaiser permanente, everything you need is under one roof. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Okay, a little easier. Become a member of kaiser permanente. Because together, we thrive. Investigators try to piece together what went wrong. Welcome back, im ken bastida. Supplies and experiments destroyed in this rocket explosion. Tonight investigators are trying to find out what happened. Welcome back. Im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. That unmanned long the was on its way to the International Space station packed with supplies and experiments including one from a Santa Rosa School when it blew up just after liftoff. Craig boswell on how nasa is trying to move forward. Reporter nasa successfully launched an a rocket. It came 24 hours after an unmanned rocket exploded in the sky over the virginia coastline. No one was injured. But more than 5,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space station were destroyed. Bonnie collier was there for the launch. Ten seconds later could run. And you could feel it in your chest. And it just meant something went terribly wrong. Reporter this was to be the fourth of the eight launches included in Orbital Sciences 1. 9 billion contract with nasa the agency has used private contractors to supply the International Space station since it retired the Space Shuttle in 2011. Critics question whether the engines which were left over from the 60s soviet Space Program played a role i

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