making news in america this morning, houston strong. >> the houston astros are world champions. >> the astros celebrate their first world series win. this morning, how they're paying tribute to their fans recovering from hurricane harvey and the moment everyone is talking about, the big proposal on live tv after the game. breaking overnight, gunfire inside a colorado walmart. panicked shoppers running for cover. >> they got out through the side door. >> this morning, three people are dead. the urgent search overnight for the suspect. demanding the death penalty, president trump speaks out overnight on the new york truck attacker as we learn new details

about the suspect's practice run and what was found inside a bag at the scene. plus, the unexpected video that's been found in osama bin laden's vast collection. and why national anthem protests in the nfl are now being blamed for a drop in pizza sales. and what a morning it is, everybody. this morning the city of houston can call itself the home of champions. >> just over two months after being hit by hurricane harvey, the city has something to celebrate. the astros have won the first world series in the team's history after dominating the dodgers in game seven last night. check out the final out that ended the game. >> here's a ground ball, right side, could do it. the houston astros are world champions for the first time in franchise history. >> that does it. unlike the rest of the series,

this wasn't even close, the final score, 5-1. series mvp george springer hit his record-tying fifth home run of the series, and when the game was over, it was clear the players were dedicating this one to the people of houston. >> you know what, houston, we're a championship city. we take great pride in being there for houston at that time, obviously they responded by falling in love with this team. our september was incredible. october was even better and november, we're pretty good. >> that patch on our chest truly does mean a lot to us and i'm so happy for all of our fans who have endured a lot and we're coming home champions. >> why, yes, they are. the game was in los angeles but 17,000 houston fans watched together at the astros stadium, this was the reaction, the party pouring out into the streets of downtown overnight. we'll have much more on the big win for houston coming up in

just a few minutes here. but right now we want to turn to breaking news that we've been following throughout the overnight hours where three people are dead after a gunman opened fire inside a walmart north of denver, colorado. >> police in thornton call it random and say the store was full of shoppers. a woman whose son was inside at the time says he called her from his hiding place. >> he was near the shooter. the gun was going off, and he just called, he said, i'm at 1%, mom. my battery is ready to die but there's a shooter here at walmart. i'm not going to tell you which one because i know you're going to come. but if anything happens to me, i love you guys. i love you all so much, and he pulled his friend out the side entrance, so they got out through the side door. >> must have been terrifying to hear that phone call. police are now searching for this person of interest who they say fled the scene in a red mitsubishi. the victims include two men and a woman, all three were in the

same area near the front of the store. and we now turn to the first day in court for the man accused of carrying out the deadliest terror attack in new york since 9/11. >> the suspect appeared in a wheelchair before a federal judge as he faced terrorism charges for the truck rampage that killed eight people. now, president trump is calling for the death penalty and wants to end the visa program that cleared the way for the suspect to enter the country. abc's janai norman is here with the new details we're learning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president trump called the suspect an animal and lashed out at the u.s. justice system. he says the way the system handles terrorists is a joke and that he'd consider sending the suspect to guantanamo bay. overnight the president calling for the death penalty tweeting nyc terrorist was happy as he asked to hang isis flag in his hospital room. adding, should get death penalty. >> we got multiple casualties. this is a mass casualty situation here. >> reporter: president trump has continued to voice strong opinions in the wake of the deadly truck attack in new york city. police say sayfullo saipov drove a large home depot truck

swerving into a bike lane mowing down pedestrians for nearly 20 block, almost a full mile leaving eight dead. >> we'll have to come up with punishment that's far quicker and far greater than the punishment these animals are getting right now because what we have right now is a joke, and it's a laughingstock. >> reporter: president trump taking a tough stance on the man being labeled a terrorist. a stark contrast to the shooting in las vegas 30 days earlier when for days the white house said it was inappropriate to talk about politics or policy. but the president hasn't stopped the political tweets since they started within hours of the new york attack taking aim at the diversity lottery program that allowed the suspect into the u.s. seven years ago. >> diversity lottery sounds nice, it's not nice, it's not good, so we want to immediately work with congress on the diversity lottery program on terminating it, getting rid of it. >> reporter: and despite the

president calling that a democrat lottery system, that diversity visa program was signed into law by republican president george h.w. bush. it provides about 50,000 visas every year out of millions of applicants and, diane and kendis, everyone who gets accepted gets a background check. >> and it had bipartisan support there in congress. janai norman, thank you. well, despite the debate over that visa program, authorities say it appears the suspect was actually radicalized here in the u.s. >> prosecutors say he had 90 videos and thousands of photos on his cell phone, many of them isis propaganda including images of prisoners being beheaded. now, they say after researching halloween in new york city, he rented a truck on october 22nd to practice making turns and was planning to drive to the brooklyn bridge to target more pedestrians until he collided with a school bus coming off that bike path. and here's another reason that the crash with the bus likely saved a lot of lives. investigators say the suspect had a bag of knives which he

planned to use when he could no longer drive but after the crash, he couldn't reach the bag. do stay with us for more on that attack. later this half hour we'll have more on the victims including five high school friends celebrating a reunion. back to the other headlines out of d.c., former trump campaign chairman paul manafort returns to court today. he and his associate rick gates have been under house arrest since monday when they pleaded not guilty to charges connected to the russia scandal. their lawyers are fighting to have their bonds reduced. manafort's was set at $10 million after he was actually deemed a flight risk. you see, court documents reveal he has three u.s. passports and even registered a cell phone using an alias. the cia has released documents seized from osama bin laden's compound after he was killed. one document reveals how iran offered to help al qaeda including weapons and cash. bin laden also had a video collection that included the documentary "where in the world is osama bin laden?, children's programs like "tom and jerry" and even had a youtube video called

"charlie bit my finger" from 2007. he was living with family at the time. back here in this country time for a look at your thursday weather. well, winds gusting up to 70 miles an hour through central colorado blew two big rigs over onto their sides. those gusts lasted long enough for the state's transportation department to issue driving restrictions on interstate 70, the major thruway there. now today warmer weather returns to the northeast with temperatures in the 70s from washington, d.c. to new york. the upper midwest will likely stay in the 30s. hot spot in dallas which is expected to top out at 93 degrees. the first 90-degree day in november for that city. still ahead, the popular travel website accused of deleting several warnings about tainted alcohol at resorts. plus, caught on camera, a woman's dramatic escape from a kidnapping running from the trunk of a vehicle.

we're back with the surveillance video showing the moment a kidnapping victim escaped from the trunk of a car near montgomery, alabama. she had been abducted from her motel room while she was sleeping, but when the suspect walked into the gas station, she pulled a lever inside the trunk and escaped. the suspect was arrested yesterday. facebook is now revealing that messages traced back to russia reached up to 150 million americans during the presidential election. members of congress blasted tech company executives for a second day on wednesday for not doing enough to disclose their origin. and they revealed more of those fake pages and ads purchased with russian currency aimed at stoking racial tensions and divisions on social issues among u.s. voters. abc's dan harris traveled to a

building known as the troll factory in st. petersburg, russia. a reporter who went undercover to work inside told him she used the names of fictional characters to post messages on topics carefully selected by her bosses. now, to the growing fallout from the sexual harassment scandal in the entertainment industry and learned that kevin spacey overnight is now seeking treatment. in the meanwhile, warner brothers cut ties with filmmaker brett ratner after six women accused him of misconduct. a $450 million financial deal is actually now in question. and actor dustin hoffman has apologized for any inappropriate behavior after a former intern claimed she was harassed on a movie set when she was 17. in the meantime, in nashville, kirk webster, a publicist with the country music industry has stepped away from his firm after being accused of sexual misconduct. the travel website tripadvisor is accused of removing warnings about tainted alcohols and assaults at mexican resorts. an investigation by the "milwaukee journal sentinel"

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they were also supposed to visit boston where another member of their group lives. and we have some new details about the two american lives cut short by that attack. nicholas cleves was a 23-year-old software engineer. he lived less than two blocks from the bike path where he was killed. and 32-year-old darren drake lived in new jersey. he was out for a bike ride between meetings. drake's father says he had a hunch that something was wrong when he didn't hear from his only son after the attack. >> i'm not even angry. i'm not. i'm not. i'm not angry at all. i'm hurt. i'm absolutely hurt. >> another female victim is from belgium. she was the mother of two children. the california family missing since sunday when armed pirates attacked their boat in a river in brazil has been found alive in the jungle. brazilian police say adam and emily harteau and their two young daughters are in good condition. it's unclear how they escaped gunman.

the family had been living in brazil but were heading back to california at the time of the attack there. a white college student facing hate crime charges after police say she deliberately contaminated her black roommate's belongings with bodily fluids. former university of hartford student brianna brochu confessed to a local newspaper saying she was frustrated with what she called her roommate's rude behavior. that roommate, chennel rowe is now speaking out. >> she got me out of the room after a month of spitting in my coconut oil, putting my toothbrush places the sun doesn't shine. putting moldy clam dip on my lotion. >> she says she believes the contamination may have caused the extreme throat pain she was suffering. a daring method to steal from postal trucks. a security camera in one of the trucks caught two men jumping from the hood of their car into the back of the truck as both vehicles were going 50 miles an hour down a road in sweden. they tore open some boxes but found nothing worth stealing

and then moments later, you see them here jumping back onto the hood of their moving car empty handed because it was all a setup. they were arrested. >> yeah, the area has been dealing with these kind of thefts for awhile now. all right, changing gears and returning to our top story, a big congratulations is due to the houston astros, the new champions of baseball. in fact, a store selling world series champs apparel has been open all night with plenty of reasons to celebrate. >> there's a ground ball, right side, could do it. the houston astros are world champions. >> houston's world series drought is officially over. the most exciting series in memory, a back and forth battle with a record number of home runs ending with a blowout. the astros dominating the home team from the start quickly scoring in the first inning silencing dodger fans. >> 3-2 to springer. shot into left center field back at the wall, it's gone. >> reporter: george springer's two-run homer putting houston ahead, 5-0.

game seven all houston. >> here's a ground ball, right side, could do it. the houston astros are world champions. >> one person loving the outcome, kate upton. now word she and pitcher justin verlander, who only joined the astros in august, will travel to italy this weekend to tie the knot. >> fans embraced us, and i mean to be able to do this for them, i mean it's something special. what an incredible city that i've joined. >> it's the most incredible experience to be here, and we're really enjoying houston and the fans. >> reporter: and speaking of nuptials, the night finishing with this amazing moment on live television. shortstop carlos correa getting down on one knee and proposing. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> you make me the happiest man in the world. will you marry me? will you marry me? >> oh, my god. >> i think she said yes.

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lysol. what it takes to protect. otherwise known as thursday, november 2nd. >> oh, that's not fair. >> it's 4:27. good morning to you. >> november 2nd, the second day of the month. >> that's what this means. >> a little chilly. we're getting there. it's a slow start, for me at least. >> me, too. >> mike, give us good news. >> it's just thursday. that means it's dry outside. if it was friday it would possibly be wet. let's focus on your commute this morning especially the north bay. quarter mile visibility santa rosa, napa and starting to leak across 37 over towards novato. you need to watch out for that. visibility in windsor, south santa rosa all the way down to petaluma.

it's not very good. notice the winds are calm so it's not going to move much either. dress for temperatures mainly in the mid-40s to low 50s right now. take a look at your 12-hour day planner coming up. sue? we're going to go outside and take a look at a clear sky and clear lanes at the golden gate bridge. four lanes coming up in the southbound direction and two in the northbound direction fog free as mike was saying. over to the san mateo bridge nice traffic flow from hayward over to foster city. road work in lanes for a few more minutes. we'll update that in a few. >> thank you, sue. a major change if you drive down van ness. >> southbound lanes are shifting to the center of the road. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield with more on what this means for your commute. >> reporter: good morning, reggie. expect a different ride through herealking southbound vannessci. look at the lan next to the

sidewalk, they are already closed this is what will change for you. they're going to move you to the middle of van ness. you'll see equipment construction. in some spots they will separate so they're really moving things around. this will cause some parking spaces and there will be times this will reduce van ness, that this will reduce van ness, that will be sporadic. this phase will take about two years. it will be complete in 2020 and officials are promising we will see a cleaner and safer van ness. a little on the way to getting there as we get moved around and have to dodge all this construction equipment.

reporting live, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. thank you. san francisco police are trying to figure out whether the carjacking of a taxi is related to a police shoot-out in the castro that left an officer in critical condition near 18th and diamond just after midnight. it started when officers were notified by a suspicious vehicle. it turned out to be stolen. when officers approached the car there was an exchange of gunfire between the suspect and at least one officer. both remain in the hospital and the suspect's condition is life threatening. about a mile away in the mission district a carjacked taxicab was ditched. it's believed that cab was taken in the castro right after the shoot-out. the connection remains unclear. neighbors say police searched all around the area yesterday. it is 4:30 now. let's get a quick update on your weather and traffic starting with mike nicco. hi, everybody. check out this beautiful picture