[cheering] >> in just minutes, the last two world series champions go head-to-head as the giants host st. louis and the fan excitement at at&t cannot be contained. good evening. i'm terry mcsweeney. don't stop believing. this is the moment on thursday that launched the giants into the national league catholicship series, game one hoff the series against the st. louis cardinals set to start in a few minutes. we have live team coverage with lillian kim at at&t park. house the party going?

>> the game starts at 5:15 and people are still making their way toward the ballpark. anticipation and excitement is at a fever pitch. fans cannot wait for game one to start. even though the giants play well on the road, the fans are happy they home runfield advantage. the first two plays will be played here at at&t park and if necessary games six and seven will be played here as well. it's been two years since the giants made tote the nlcs. last year they decide notice make the playoffs. san days hoping for the same magic from 2010 when they won the world series. >> i have a lot of friends in other cities and towns and other states, yankees fans, rangers fans, et cetera. so it's nice to see them prove they're back here again and it wasn't just a one-time deal. >> it's huge. you got 2010 world champs versus the 2011 world champs to be the

2012 world champs. so it's big. >> it's scary when you're facing a team with a lot of heart like the giants. so i think they're ready to battle. they're ready to come in here and it's going to be hard to stop them. >> the nice thing about this year's postseason is that the fans seem to be more relaxed. able to enjoy the experience without being so stressed out as they were in 2010. when everyone was eager to see the giants win their first world series in over 50 series. but make no mistake, fans want their team to go all the way like they did two years ago. >> the fans can afford to be excited, but the players have to stay focused. at least that's their job. for a veteran it's easier than the newer to -- newcomers to the playoffs. rick quan joins us live with a preview of the best of seven series. rick? reporter: this should be a great

series. a pair of teams that refuse to lose. at friday, st. louis trailed washington 6-0. they were down to their final strike twice but still managed to win. david disalvo who went to uc davis, tied the game at 7-7 in the nine william with the two-run single. the rookie pete put the cardinals on top with a two-rung single. st. louse scored four in the ninth to advance to the nlcs. the largest come back in a winner take all postseason game. >> both club s had their bath to the wall, we did going into cincinnati, had to win three straight. they found a way to get it done. so that's a lot about the two clubs, the character, and how hard they fight and should be a hard-fought series here. >> i think what we did proved to a lot of people it's not over until it's over. pretty much everybody counted us

out and we were able to find back. >> madison bumgarner will be on the mound tonight. he has pitched very well this season at at&t park. he will be oopinionsed be i by lance lynn. we'll have postgame interviews tonight at 11:00. >> public transportation is the way to go with the giants game, the niners game, the treasure island music festival, all going on today. bart barret is running langer trains and six special event trains, including some after the giants game, and the san francisco bay ferry has added round-trip service over to at&t park. >> a sonoma state university student is recover at a hospital after falling from the third floor at his apartment building. it happened at the alleg grow student apartments in roanoke park. sergio quintana is live with the details. reporter: the student who took that three-story fall was rushed to the hospital and was in intensive care for some time.

police say he is doing better, which is good news after a fall that police say involved alcohol and horseplay. >> two missing pieces of a third floor railing and a broken fence on the first floor, includes clues that help explain how tyler glen fell three stories. >> we believe a 19-year-old climbed over the railing and hung on to the two pieces of handrailing. >> the two pieces of wooden rail came loose, and glen fell, landing on the concrete walkway ask this wooden fence himself neighbors tell us he is a baseball player at sonoma state. police say control was involve in the alcohol. >> the subject did indicate he had been drinking, but i can't indicate how much he had been drinking. we are not going to do a toxicology report. >> residents we talked to said glen's fall caused a ruckus in the whole complex. >> i was laying in bed and then i heard like, please, don't go

out. >> they also say there are often loud alcohol-fueled parties in the complex, something they're used to because of the student residents. >> it's easy for people. a lot of times there's roommates that are underage and roommates that are overage, and they buy the roommates beer if they want it. >> the police are not focusing on alcohol use by a minor. >> the biggest concern was there was not any foul play involved. he wasn't pushed or coerced or anything like that, that took place prior to this happening. >> talked with the managers at the apartment complex. it's a private housing property that specializes in university student but it is not affiliated with the local universities. they say they don't condone underage drinking and they have a guard patrols 245 hours a day and the guard does shut down noisy parties. >> the battle between the san jose police officers union and some city officials is getting more and more personal. today union and city officials

gathered to strongly condemn city council woman rose ha rare a. they say in a mailer, she blamed slow response time on the police force. they point out the police force is very understaffed. >> it's happening in my neighborhood and neighborhoods throughout the city. more break-ins. we're not responding to burglaries and that is not the fault of anyone that wears the unform. that's the fault of city hall. >> what the mayor addressed is the police union, not all san jose police officers. talking about the police union and their tactics. >> herrera is in a tough re-election fight. she is in favor of police pension reform. >> residents of an apartment complex on webster street in san francisco were forced out when s.a.t. officers arrived looking for a gunmann. police say it began with an exchange of gufers between a man on a sidewalk and people in a passing car. the man barricade himself in a nearby apartment complex and ended in a standoff that lasted four hours.

sheriff mark -- lives ago down the street. >> when you see an incident like this in a quiet area, it's not unfamiliar but it's been quite some time that we these kind of incidents happened. >> police believe the suspect evacuated the building with the other residents and then was arrested. officers say he is a 28-year-old man from vallejo and was booked for probation violation. they continue to investigate the report of shots fired that started the whole thing. >> both candidates for president are off the campaign trail to bone up for tuesday's debate. the format will be a town hall meeting with questions from the audience. the consensus is president obama will be more aggressive this time around but observers say he needs to be careful doing that. >> the question is can he walk the tightrope and notescross the line in term0s turning off the audience surrounding him.

>> mitt romney is spending the weekend in ohio. this debate could be a tough challenge for him because he is seen as being more emotionally distance than the president. >> traditional wisdom is governor romney is not as good as connecting with the voters as president obama. >> just 23 days remain until election day. now, the next debate, tuesday, president obama and mitt romney are going to be meeting at hofstra university in new york. this one is going to be a town hall meeting format. abc-7 will carry it live starting at 6:00 p.m. the longest serving u.s. senator in pennsylvania history has died. arlen specter served 30 years in the senate, was a former chairman of the senate judiciary committee and paid a key role in many supreme court nominations in 2009, the long-time republican became a democrat because he did not think he could win the nomination for a sixth team in an increasingly conservative g.o.p. he lose the primary.

specter died from complications from non-hodgkin's him -- lymphoma. he was 82 years old. >> coming up, 15 hours late, the space shuttle endeavour makes it to the final destination. >> a spectator captured it as it happens. a fireworks show goes horribly ongoing. >> leigh: i'm leigh glaser. i know it's fall but get ready for summer. temperatures heating up. a look at the

>> nearly 100 people were hurt during a fireworks display in china. most of the injured were treated and released for minor burns. for some reason the low altitude fireworks fell into the crowd. the calls of the accident under investigation. it happened during a trade expo that attracts millions of people. finally, the space shuttle endeavour is home. it wasn't until three hours ago that the shuttle parked at the california los angeles mew scheme of science. it took all day friday, all day saturday, more than half of today to travel 12 measly miles. thousands came out to see it. >> an amazing event. that's why i'm here with my daughter. to make sure she sees and it is part of it. >> a once in a lifetime deal with the spate space shuttle going down the streets of l.a. >> one of the reasons it took so long was because of the tight squeeze. engineers had to shoe horne the

shuttle around trees and power lines. >> up next, a feat no man has ever done before. [applause] >> the extreme athlete who jumped from the stratosphere and made a nearly 24-mile sky dive back to earth, and leigh glaser says, get ready for warmer

>> a skydiver successfully made his ascent from the edge of space, breaking the speed of sound during the freefall. felix bum baumgartner ascended

in a helium balloon that carried him to 23 miles, more than three times the cruising al a.l.itude of the average air lynner. he hit a speed of 833 miles-per-hour. >> stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble. not about breaking records anymore. it's not about getting -- it's all about coming home. >> the risks for today's jump included low temperatures, thin atmosphere, and possible loss of consciousness. baumgartner attempted the jump last tuesday but delayed the stunt because of gusty winds. >> wow, some winds blowing this afternoon, at least over there in ma rip -- marin county. i don't know if they're going to stick around. >> leigh: we are getting reports of some pretty gusty winds out of the west. sfo, gusts up to 20 miles-per-hour. but you can see behind me that we're seeing nothing but blue sky across much of the bay area.

although live doppler 7hd picking up some low clouds sitting just off the coast. also, through the golden gate bridge we have that arm of fog extending right on towards alcatraz, and also angel island right now. so we'll keep some low clouds and fog in the accuweather forecast for this evening but it looks like for the ball game tonight, go giants -- 5:07. temperatures, around 64 degrees, and then we'll start to cool things off by the latter part of the game, seventh, eighth, nine innings, temperatures in the mid-to-upper 50s. here's a look at current temperatures. low clouds and fog near the coast, and inland, plenty of sunshine, few high clouds, 78 in antioch, 79 in livermore, 64 in san francisco, accept rose sacks 77. 1 in mountain view, and san jose, 70. here's a look at the forecast. for at least the next several days. we had pockets of dense fog this morning. north bay and even around some of the bay area airports.

so that caused some flight delays and will reform tonight. so you have a little heads up on that for tomorrow morning. high clouds, a warmer day for monday, and after that, folks, all bets are off. get ready for a miniheat wave tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. here's a look at our fog forecast. overnight tonight, all of the low clouds will move back inland, and within this, the high pressure is pushing down on the surface, so some of the fog will develop close to the surface. this is 5:00 a.m., and then as we work through the afternoon hours, most of that fog will move on out. continue to see a few high clouds and the reason why is you can clearly see cold front to the north of us. the rain from this system will stay to the north of us, but some of these straggly cloud right here will drift by the bay area tomorrow. so i'm going with high clouds, warmer day tomorrow. filtered sunshine but the high pressure will build and tuesday

and wednesday, offshore flow develops and temperatures are going to heat back up into the 0s. lows tonight, in the 50s. here's a look at the highs for monday. gradual warming. antioch, 83. 84 for livermore. north bay, santa rosa, 80. san francisco, 70 tomorrow. fremont, 7. -77. and the cold front, you'll see some filtered sunshine from time to time. 78, santa cruz. 84, gilroy. hires a -- here's a look ahead. we are going to see temperatures gradually warming. check out wednesday. 90s inland and then warm to hot temperatures just in time for the 49ers game on thursday. going to be great. 80s around the bay, even some 70s at the coast, and peeking of the niners game, abc-7 will give away $49,000, and it will announced on october 18th,

thursday, you can still enter, go to facebook.com/abc news and then click on the win $49,000 button. that will take you to the online forum where you can enter your details. good luck. there will be a winner. >> bill the way you look fantastic in orange and black. >> thank you. >> people in red and gold were not looking very good. >> no, they were not. 49ers and giants renewed their long-time rivalry. the little town whether blues. alex smith picked off three

>> mike: i'm going to say it. the giants own the 49ers. knocked them out of last year's super bowl and ko ed them again today at the stick. jim harbaugh and the staff outcoached. might be a wakeup call. alex smith, off. underthrows to walker. the interception. giants made the niners pay. eli manning takes over. funds cruz, and then rogerrers for the touchdown, and it's salsa time. thirduarter, bradshaw, leaps, acrossthe goal line. giants on top 17-3. moments later, smith picked off again, this time byowan makes an acrobatic play that led to a giants field goal, and this not a replay. again, third interception of the game. giants held to another field goal.

niners trail 23-3. just wasn't the niners' day. the sack, one of six on the defending super bowl champs. crushed the niners. san francisco falls to 4-2. >> the raiders are coming off a beast week ready to roll in atlanta, hoping to knock the falcons off their undefeated perch. the raiders picked off matt ripe three times. moore, five catches, 104 yards, raiders led at the half. late fourth quarter, raiders on the move. samuels steps in front of palmer and he is off the races. palmer trying to run him down, can't make the tack. falcons, 20-13, later, darren mcfadden, into the end zone. 40 seconds left but the falcons got into field goal range, matt bryant, 55 yards. one second remaining. atlanta improves to 6-0. raiders fall to 1-4.

>> game two of the alcs, yankees hosting detroit with new york down 0-1,s' without their heart and soul, derek jeter, quick turn around after last night's 12-inning contest. tigers have some great defense of their own. chopper to peralta, gets the runner out. controversial play in the eighth. jackson to right field. infante thought about going back to third. goes back to second, and he is out. called safe but he was clearly tagged should be the third out. joe gird gird -- girardi gets ejected. tigers win 3-0, and take a 2-0 series lead. final round of the fries.com open. 54-hole leader came in with a two-shot lead but yankeeed two holes. then petrovic, needed a long

birdie on 18 to put him in the clubhouse at 16 under. jonas takes the lead. shoots a 3-under 66. and then wins his first career pga event. we'll hear from the 49ers at 6:00. i'm sure very disappointed. >> i think i have heard enough. >> the winner of the world