outside a vacant hotel where a group of homeless advocates had taken over. good evening. i'm alan wang the group marched into the hotel in the tenderloin tonight. police are not allows anyone else in, but they are not trying to get anyone out either. lessee brinkly is in the newsroom with more. lessee? >> it is a waiting game right now, alan, as police try to track down the owner of the hotel. it was declared to be the first world homeless day, 10-10-10. an activist decided to urn it vacant housing into homeless housing. >> it is great to be out here fighting with you. >> families, immigrants and students banned together at civic center plaza calling

themselves the creative housing liberation. unfurling a huge world homeless banner they marched down city streets to the vai can't leslie hotel at the corner of eddie and lar con and they entered it. they went room to room through the hotel hanging banners and taking over. homeless came through the door and settled into empty rooms with running water and electric -- electricity until police arrived. >> we had it open to the public. anybody who needed a place to sleep could get in. >> activists say there are 36,000 vai can't units in -- vacant units, and on any night 6,000 san franciscans have nowhere to stay. >> it is a disgrace to see three times as many empty housing in the city as people on the streets. something needs to be done.

since today is world homeless day, we are acting in solidarity with 50 other countries across the world dozens of cities in the u.s. >> people walking by were elated to find the surprise housing. >> millions sit empty and we can put people in there. >> this is what needs to be from the ground up. that's a beautiful thing. hopeful leahy will walk back up here with me. >> but that never happened. police blockaded anyone else from entering the building and exiting it. they are trying to contact the owner of the vacant hotel, but it is a stalemate right now with about 15 people inside spending the night there. leslie brinkly, abc7 news. >> thank you, leslie. two men are dead and others are in critical condition after a shootout in a san leandro golf club. someone opened fire in the monarch bay golf club near the san leandro marina about 10:15. police have a lot of

unanswered questions because most of the potential witnesses ran from the chaotic scene. >> the officers saw people fleeing, running away from the building and fleeing in high rates of speeds in cars as they left the area and not much left for us when we got there. >> the banquet room was rented for a private event, but some of the information on the rental application including the person who rented the place appeared to be incorrect and incomplete. two radio stations are working to get back on the air tonight after a fire destroyed their transmitters. the station served the vietnamese and spanish communities. it started with a car fire north of highway 101 and mckee road. cecilia vega has a look at the damage and the political fallout. >> we have been off the air since 5:20ish. >> that's when a grass fire spread destroying the studio's

transmitter. it is the only station in the bay area broadcasting raiders' games in spanish. crews raced against the clock to build a temporary transmitter in time for today's game. >> we are losing revenue as we speak. >> a loss that can be blamed on city budget cuts. 45 were laid off this summer and a water engine from a nearby fire station was also on the chopping block. >> the engine right across this freeway would have been due to this fire and maybe they could have kept it to a smaller grass fire. >> the charred debris was the back backdrop for the latest union press conference to announce it to the bargaining table. it is the same offer the union made in the past. the same offer the city says fell $6 million short. >> we are not providing the same level of service. we want to bring back the firefighters, but we need concession to do it to pay for

the huge pension increases that are causing us to cut services. >> frustrated by a lack of details, this councilmember showed up to learn more about the offer. he ended up facing off with union bosses. >> it just doesn't add up. >> the reality is you need so many dollars to bring back the positions. >> the two radio stations don't know when they will be back. for now they remain silent. >> they cannot do anything with our building anymore. >> now, the san jose fire department does not have an official response time for the fire. the computer program that tracks response times in san jose is down. but a spokesman for the fire department said with the heavy winds and the dry grass in this area, it took crews more than eight hours to finally contain this fire. reporting in san jose, cecilia vega, abc news. a review of public records show the california public utilities commission rarely finds p -- fines pg&e for

pipeline violations. the san francisco chronicle looked at six years of records and found that even though pg&e had more pipeline infractions than any other pipeline operator, the puc did not issue a single fine. pg&e accounts for more than 60% of the probable violations. the utility is under investigation for the september 9th san bruno pipeline blast that killed eight people. fox news claims to have sources who have identified the person in the jerry brown campaign who used an offensive slur against meg whitman. the comment was disweptly recorded on voicemail. brown thought he hung up the phone when leaving a message for the police union. fox quotes, people with knowledge with what happened say it was brown's wife who suggested calling whitman a whore for cuting a deal to get the union's endorsement.

>> brown's campaign did not respond to our e-mails today, and it hasn't said who used that word. whitman is demanding a personal apology. the two candidates have a debate in marin county next tuesday. a fox news source notes brown's wife, anne, a former executive of the gap cannot exactly be fired from the campaign. well, the mid-term elections, the congressional elections are a little more than three weeks away, and some observers suspect republicans will make major gains on capitol hill and some see it as a referendum on president obama's first two years in office. the president himself hit the campaign trail in philadelphia today. it, marked his -- it, mad his

third stop in the last few weeks. they tried to propel the youth vote into the white house. >> it comes from the top and it comes from the bottom. >> the democrats blame a wave of gop fundraising on a recent supreme court ruling that ended restrictions on campaign spending by corporations. >> they won't released any information about where the campaign money is coming from. that's at the core of the problem here. >> this isn't -- this is a desperate political ploy about the failed economic policies. >> they plan to make at least four campaign stops in the coming weeks and many more on november 2nd. up next, the op -- the optimism where crews are preparing to rescue 33 trapped miners. and the san francisco giant get a little help from their opponents just when they needed it. and the baby who is a real 10.

what makes his birthday so memorable. >> and hi, everyone. i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. right now some locations still in the stefts. -- 70s. get ready for a warm up expected the next couple days. of course, that could pose some fire trouble for parts of some fire trouble for parts of the bay area.

meg whitman's nose is growing again. this time she's lying about jerry brown on taxes. but as governor jerry brown cut $4 billion in taxes and says no new taxes without voter approval. meg whitman -- her nose just keeps on growing and growing.

meg whitman is lying about jerry brown again...on taxes again. newspapers have called many of her ads untrue. fact: jerry brown cut taxes by $4 billion and says no new taxes without voter approval. but meg whitman's nose just keeps growing by the millions. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to chile's mine minister says he will -- they will start testing rescue capsules on thursday, and the trapped miners could come up on the same day. the rescue operation is expected to take about 48 hours. the minister says the men are

so giddy with confidence about their rescue that they are arguing who should be the last one out. the miners have been trapped below the desert for money than two months. the blue tooth headset you can wear on your ear has turned into a camcorder too. it is one that can even send your video to youtube. richard hart reports on the drive to discover a camera that never stops recording. >> the newly restored carousel in golden gate park, a moment you want to capture on your camcorder. karen is wearing hers on her ear. so is robert. he just shot a keeper. >> i think that's a keeper. >> he just pressed a button to save a clip of the last golf shot. head movement is crucial to the game of golf. >> there is no start-stop button to record. the camera is recording all the time.

the last five hours of everything it has seen. when you press the button, you are telling it to save the last thing that happened. make a 30-second clip. and it can then send it to your phone. >> the video is not on the phone. it is in the camera. in the phone there is an app to edit the video for longer clips and to send through e-mail. the camera itself can post the video to popular websites when you hold the save button. >> we have people refer to it to life blogging. >> for $199 don't expect high def individual wroa. -- video. and it is 15 frames per second. but that happens to be fine for the web. some attach to helmets and others to clothing. >> we chose to put something on the ear because the head is actually a very stable platform. >> they are visiting from denmark.

and now they can show friends back home what they gu did. twitter sends 140 rkt cha teres of text. with the next step in camcorders, richard hart, abc news. well, thousands of people enjoyed the blue skies and the blue angels along the san francisco waterfront today. the navy's high performance aerial aerobatic team swooped over fisherman's wharf in the final show of fleet week. >> at one point they were upside down, and then they went -- they flipped the plane. >> the adrenalin you get from seeing it go up and coming down, thinking they will hit the ground. >> it was awesome. we decided to come home after three days. but we we couldn't get a good

view of them so we came out to enjoy the show. >> traffic was choking streets in several san francisco neighborhoods. local businesses, however, were happy to cash in on the millions of dollars that got injected into the local economy. the aerial shows are over, but the visiting fleet week ships will be open for free tours tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00. we have a link with information about the ships and where to find them at abc7news.com. we have about 40 minutes left until the calendar does not read 10, 10 of 10. a lot of people think the series of 10s is considered good luck. speaking of, little raphael of los gatos was born today, and he has a couple of bonus 10's to add to his good fortune. he was born at exactly 10:10 this morning at kaiser hospital in santa clara. >> complete fluke chance i got to the hospital. i got there 10 minutes to 10.

i didn't realize i was as far as i was. >> one more bonus, raphael was born in delivery room 10. his mother, marjorie, believes it is nothing more than a coincidence and expressed relief he was 8 pounds 11 ounces instead of 10 pounds and 10 ounces. >> good for her. >> yeah, cute child there. listen, today, a beautiful weekend as we have noted with the blue angels and everyone out and about. things are heating up for us in the next several days. we'll get to the numbers in a moment. it is clear out there. this is from the high definition rooftop camera. looking toward the bay bridge, clear skies are the exception. a few puffs of fog near the coast. check out the current readings. it is clear and still warm inland with antioch right now 75 degrees. fairfield 57. 59 in san francisco.

san jose right now with clear skies and 62 degrees as well. we'll keep it clear. a much warmer day as we head into monday and tuesday. and because of the warm up, because we will get into those dry offshore winds, that has prompted a fire weather watch in affect for parts of the bay area. we'll get to that in a moment. they had to scour the low clouds and fog off the coast. we will keep it clear skies across the bay area. we'll keep it mild overnight especially in the east bay with anteing yo. mid to low 60s. 59 for concord and san francisco 57. 52 for santa clara. santa rosa tonight getting down to 53 degrees. all right, this is going to be the set up for the next several days. high pressure is continuing to dominate. it will really start to move overhead as we get to monday, tuesday and wednesday. as it does so it will bring us

the offshore winds, those dry, warm winds going from land to sea. as we go to monday night and tuesday, it also means a chance of some fire danger. the possibility for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills. we do have a fire weather watch in affect beginning at 6:00 monday extending through 6:00 a.m. wednesday. very dry fuels have low humidity as the winds come sweeping down and dries out the air mass. it looks like we will keep a close eye on this as we continue to see the offshore winds develop. monday night and few morning, a good chance of this. for tomorrow get ready for warmer temperatures. 86 for san jose and 84 for cupertino. the beach day tomorrow. half moon bay up to 72 degrees. we will go 83 for redwood city. san francisco, 78. in the north bay, temperatures

near 90. santa rosa 90. 88 for sonoma. oakland 82. 80 for hayward. brentwood and antioch tomorrow , low 90s there. 90 for concord. we'll look for 90 for gilroy and 78 for santa cruz. we'll look for the warm up to begin monday. the warmest day will be tuesday, mid-nineties inland, upper 80s around the bay. 70s at the coast. we'll start to turn down a little thursday, friday and saturday and that's when the winds will shift to more onshore and the fog will return. >> crank up the ac in october. >> yeah. > thanks a lot. the giants rally in the 9th inning against the braves.

the giants refuse to lose. down in the 9th, the g-men rally for a victory. sanchez clinched on sunday making his first post season start. ross pops one up and brooks conrad had a beat on it, but he will drop it. his third error of the season. 1-0 giants. san sanchez was up. he ends the 6th and one of his 11k's. he leads with the lead in the 8th, but sergio romo could not hold it. can you kidding me? a dramatic pinch hit 2-run homer and it is 2-1 atlanta. not looking good. with two outs in the 9th and aubrey huff comes up clutch. the game is tied at two. and tim lincecum, check him out in the dug out, he is loving it. next batter and buster posey grounds it to second right through conrad's legs and his third error of the game. freddy sanchez scores and

giants up 3-2 and bottom of the 9th and brian wilson closes it out gets him to ground out to end it. the giants take the series lead after a 2-1 victory. >> a two-run homer in the bottom of the 8th, i mean that can take the wind out of your sails. these guys came back and found a way to get it done. that's a great win. >> i got pretty lucky. sitting at home for nine years watching playoffs and watching stuff happen. it isn't over until it is over. we battled and that's what torture comes from. it is never easy. > winner of the series gets the phillys who swept the reds tonight. single terry is not happy single terry is not happy with --

meg whitman's nose is growing again. this time she's lying about jerry brown on taxes. but as governor jerry brown cut $4 billion in taxes and says no new taxes without voter approval. meg whitman -- her nose just keeps on growing and growing.

meg whitman is lying about jerry brown again...on taxes again. newspapers have called many of her ads untrue. fact: jerry brown cut taxes by $4 billion and says no new taxes without voter approval. but meg whitman's nose just keeps growing by the millions. singletary thought about benching smith against the eagles. and then alex almost pulled

off the victory. some would consider this a make or break game for smith. he appears to fumble away the game. he loses the ball and he will take it 52 yards for the score. and the eagles go up 24-10. this is where it get interesting. fans calling for back up david carr. they have a heated discussion and singletary challenges smith. alex responds and goes 6 for 6 on the next drive including this 7-yard scoring drive. 49ers within a touchdown. now two minutes to go. smith swings it out to frank gore. his third td pass of the night. it is 27-24 eagles. but there is no storybook ending. san francisco's fifth turnover of the night. the niners are 0 and feoff. -- 0 and 5. >> we were in this situation, and how do we get out of the situation? hopefully you are part of the

solution. i think in the conversation we had it was part of the solution. >> they bought tickets. i would be pretty frustrated too. >> to the coliseum and the raiders are trying to end the 13-game losing streak to the chargers. the first blocked punt of the game. it is 12-0. third quarter and philip rivers deep to malcolm floyd and 41 yards. rivers threw for 431 yards and two scores and 24-15 chargers. late in the third the raiders roared back. campbell filling in for gradkowski. 24-22 and campbell threw for 159. in the fourth michael bush three yards out and ran for a touchdown and the two-point conversion failed. philip rivers arm is hit and he fumbles. branch scoops it up and returns it for the touchdown. after review the play stands and raiders beat the chargers

for the first time since 2003 with a 35-27 victory. >> michael huff made a great play to the quarterback. it was a great turnover and took it home. >> have i been through a lot. a lot of the stuff has prepared me for what has happened early this year. y'all have to stay positive. >> it is good we stopped the streak. but as i said to them, let's not make this a 24-hour feel good party.

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