tv ABC7 News 1100AM ABC October 31, 2014 11:00am-11:31am PDT
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>> we have you covered for the big celebration. the abc news photographers all of us are all along the routes, today, giving you the best possible coverage you can get. >> larry will kick things off. >> what better way to start off than by taking a look at at the highlights of the 2014 world champions. >> in the air. hunter pence with a two-run shot. >> a bunch of warriors. >> back in the center. >> come out as the champions is a dream come true. >> a shut out for madison bumgarner. >> unbelievable. >> unbelievable play by joe. >> he throws. swing. pop-up. sandoval in foul ground.
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he has plenty of room. he has it. the giants have won. they have won the world series for the third time in five years! >> pure joy. excitement. relief. >> great moment. just incredible. >> let's get some things started. there is a change. we hear the parade, rather than noon could start a half hour early. we will get you covered with the big celebration. here is our team, first of all, we have a bunch of all-stars here, digital producers along the route and civic center plaza for the big rally. it is all hands on deck. we have everyone we have. >> we want to show. >> look at parade route, the players and their families, they will proceed up to market street and go to the civic center plaza. >> now, live to grant and market
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street if we can get that shot. thousands of people have been pouring into the city despite a little bit of rain to celebrate the historic run. it is a save orange and black in the city mixed with panchos and umbrellas. the rain will not dampen anyone's spirits. the team cannot wait to see their giants. the parade could start early, maybe in half an hour. >> we will get things started. as you can see the map and the exact route, most of the parade coverage will be document natured by the action on market street. here is mike shumann, with the team there in kansas city and joins us. first, traffic and weather, why not start with that, mike. >> it has stopped raining right now. actually, i will bring in amy, and drew. this is your first parade? >> fantastic. the crowd is so pumped. the players have not even
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arrived. can you imagine the energy in 20 minutes. >> rain has stopped and we predict it will start early. >> heaviest rain is out for the next half hour and another shield of rain is headed our way -- light -- but keep the umbrellas handy. >> we are hearing that today. >> no one and rain on our parade. >> thanks, drew. the police are here, everyone is here. let's go giants. >> let's go giants. there you go. we will hear that all day. >> let's go, giants. >> this is our third parade in five years. i remember the first in 1982 and everyone was right around the corner, coming down market street on to the civic center. get ready for a lot of fun. there are 45,000 people -- here comes the honor parade -- 45,000
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people at at&t park at night but the giants have millions of fans all over the state. today is the day for the players to appreciate that, and for the fans to appreciate what they have do. it will be a special day. back to you guys as we wait for the parade to begin. >> it is raining out there. we knew it was going do happen. >> in fact, our folks were warned because meteorologist mike nicco told everyone, get the panchos out but not the umbrellas. >> it is too crowded with the umbrellas. they can be cumbersome. i have one because i am the only one up here besides the engineer, dan, on the roof. there is light rain. but over to live doppler hd that is what everyone wants to see: the heaviest of the rain is moving past vallejo and to sacramento and stockton. we have several waves of
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light-to-moderate showers. you can see them coming up from the south. as long as we have the southern win we will keep the moisture in the sky. when we get that southern wind switched to a more southwestern wind we will get a break and we will have the low pressure and even the thunderstorms. late to moderate showers. a window opens for dry trick-or-treating and more showers tonight and tomorrow. the forecast, light rain will hang around through about noon. then it will trend dry. by 2:00, all bets are off. by 4:00, we will see more sun. temperatures will hold in the low-to-mid 60. if you are going to trick or treat after the game, we are looking at best chance of any showers remaining in the southeast bay well inland by 4:00. temperatures are falling into the upper 50's during the evening hours. the kid could get cool. a look at the seven-day forecast
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shows with tomorrow at november 1, chance of scattered showers and day light save insurance ends on saturday night. through noon and maybe 1:00 o'clock, light rain downtown. i will not say it will rain on their parade. i will not throw that out there. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >> buddies, kristen sze and i covered this for a couple of years and kristen sze is talking to the fans. in the rain. >> i miss you out here so much. listen to the fans. they are so excited. they have been in the rain for two hours. no one cares. they could not be more excited. they waited two whole years. >> all right, folks, i want to talk to this family, they took the kids out of school and they are here. who are the favorite players? >> bumgarner and pence. >> why?
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>> why? >> because he is fast. >> bumgarner. >> bumgarner. >> who do you like? >> i like panda. >> good choice. posey. >> and bumgarner, right? >> you know what, if it wasn't for him with the home run walk off we wouldn't have the win we needed. >> everyone here cannot wait. we have a replica wing. >> awesome, great. >> back to you. >> thank you! >> excited fans gave the giant as warm homecoming at at&t park early yesterday morning. hunter pence took a picture with the c.h.p. officers getting in at 4:45 in the morning and larry
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baer hoisted the trophy as they cheered on the champions. there is larry holding up the trophy. larry said the team is not done just yet with a lot of the same players coming back next year. >> so exciting. >> on wednesday that is the scene when the giants got the final out to become the world champions and the city set up a big jumbo-tron to watch game six and seven. >> abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is at montgomery and market street with very excited fans. amy? >> i'm excited. i can't wait to see the players come down this street. it did just start raining a bit were the people are still screaming with enthusiasm. they do not care about the rain. they just want to see their team. i have asked many of them, why not stay at home and watch it where it is dry?
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they said, it wouldn't be the same. i have some interviews from early this morning to play for you. we got here at 4:00 this morning. yes, we are early birds. people beat up. some people got here before we did leaving very early. most of the people in the front room are experienced parade goers and say that is when you have to get here. let's roll my tape. this is four hours before the parade even started. these fans have so much enthusiasm for their giants. they will not let rain and the possibility of thunder and lightning hold them back. >> we will still show up. fans are fans. no matter what we are here. >> one good thing about having three championships in five seasons --. >> we got here five hours early
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and could not find seating. so we hardy if you get here seven hours early and you can find seats so we walked to the bart and got here and got perfect seats. >> they do not travel lightly. they know it will be a long and wet day. that is just fine. >> we want to support the giants. they are amazing. they did a great job. just a great experience here with the kids. we want to be together. >> i'm excited to see the players. i'm also excited about this, or am i nervous? i am not sure. those are confetti guns. we saw some coming out earlier and i wonder what wet confetti will be like. it sounds like it will be rain, i am excited to see it rain down on us, along with the rain. i read open twitter, someone said this isn't rain, this is the dodgers crying.
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very positive attitude. they are turning a rainy situation into a happy situation. back to the studio. >> i like that. i like that a lot. she will have all that confetti in her hair. >> world series champions, the best part is that all of you out there are sending us pictures, pictures from all the games, from out on the parade route and we are showing them. look at the tweets that have come in today. amazing energy here. you can see they are at the civic center with her panda hat. we have loyal giant fans waiting in the room before the victory parade. here they have all their gear on and are decked out. this is great. we want to keep seeing your pictures. put them on any social media platform and use # whereyoulive and look at that dog wrapped
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unand we are streaming this. onr with giants gear on the wall guarantee that will go right to the top of the list. this is an honor and a privilege to do the this it time roller coaster rights and all drama, re-capping all seven games between the giants and the royals. the series could not have started better, hunter pence a two-run homer and madison bumgarner gets 2-0 lead and now the giants ace is a worldwide star and pitches the giant to victory. the giants win game one in kansas city 7-1. game two, another good start,
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blanco led off with a home run but it went downhill from there. and rookie got the better of jake peavy and they got five runs in the six and the series was even underred with royals win at 7-12. and game three, hudson and if gut try, royals got breathing room in the sixth and a double for 2-0 lead and the giants could not touch that, and royal poinciana win. in game four the wheels come off and trying to get on first base and then, they went on to win 11-4 to even the series. now, i will just sum up the last few games here, all right? they go to five, they go to since, they go to seven and the giants win a thriller in game seven thanks to madison bumgarner.
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welcome back to the continuing coverage of the giants world series parade. you can see there is a lot of rain out there. we have live pictures of the cloud waiting for the victory parade. >> a lot of folks came to the public transportation because there was barely any traffic on the bay bridge. last night, actually, at 11 o'clock we talked to a couple of people who came and camped out to get a good spot. hope it want too wet. matt keller has our continuing coverage on the street at market. matt? >> san francisco giants fans don't have any problem with the rain because the last time it came down so hard was in 2012 at at&t park and the rain was coming down against the cardinals, the 9th inning, and they romo was looking at the sky and it was pouring and they won and they went to the 2012 world series against the tigers and sweat them.
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no fear about rain for san francisco giants fans. a lost puddles. there is a rumor that mad bumgarner was seem walking on water on the bay but he pulled off a few miracles during the world series. a lot of people coming from marin on the ferry, these young ladies, quickly, who is your favorite player? >> posey. >> posey. >> we will be here all morning. >> back to the studio. >> good line about mad bum walking on water. >> hopefully the rain will clear out. the parade will start in
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>> live coverage sky 7 h.d. of our coverage of the world series victory parade which starts in a few minutes as you look at the civic center plaza where the big rally will be held. the team will march to civic center for a giant rally which is a couple of hours away. >> it starts in a few minutes. we will get down to the ground at market and grant. >> let me just tell you what it looks like to cover a parade for
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a reporter. keeping warm and dancing to the music and of course we have the channel 7 attire. this is our team. that is why we are wearing blue. orange, of course, in honor of the giants and a cap that was loaned to me from a colleague's son, cooper. but we are here because of the fans. how are you doing? our friends from santa clara. >> when did you get here? >> at 3:00 a.m. >> this is not your first? >> this is my first. >> 2010? >> 2010, 2012 and 2014. >> what is different about this parade, of course it is raining. >> you feel that it was a hard series but we fought through.
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>> tell me about the world series of all of the latest they have won i think this was the most exciting. >> this was the most memorable, going into game seven, you dream about that. and come out as the victor and...you are just happy. go, giants. >> you are not here alone. >> i property all my family from santa clara. >> thank you so much to all of you guys. we will rock tonight. what are you going to do? >> watch the parade. >> the fans are great. back to you guys. >> good work out there. those 19s -- fans are excited. tears of joy. tears of joy. we will be
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>> welcome back to our coverage on abc7 news. i am checking all your social media as we are ready for the parade to kickoff at 11:30, you and see sandoval getting off the bus. all you have to do is show your picture showing where you live and we are showing the tweets and pictures. look at them, cool orange glasses. people don't care that it is raining. look at all the friends and she looks like she is having a great time. she has it figured out, keep sending all your tweets and pictures and now let's go check on the pictures. >> those are great pictures,
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> a world series end for the san francisco giants. this is great. thanks for joining us on the special abc7 midday, all hands are on deck. >> we are looking at video. the champagne celebration as the giants and mad bum, one of the greatest world series pitching series ever, and we enjoy the scenes from the champagne party, the
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