say? what indeed. and we have live team coverage, starting with abc 7 sports director larry beil live for us at levi's stadium. larry? >> reporter: eric, dion, thank you. george kittel said the best feeling in the world is moving a man from point a to point b against his will. and that was essentially the story of this game for the 49ers on both sides of the ball as they dominated the vikings. and the result, next stop, as you guys mentioned, the nfc he49onship game. energy for the first-ever playoff game at levi's stadium. and of course the fans go crazy when they see joe montana, honorary captain. jimmy garoppalo, not montanaesque today. but vikings tied it on a bbom n. kirk cousins, intercepted.

coleman, two rushing touchdowns in this game, and the defense put a vice grip oninix sacks. two by nick bosa. niners win 27-10. let's hear from kyle shanshan, talking about that rushing game, 47 carries, 186 yards. >> fans felt different. i mean t w, it was rockin' out e y.dato un as far as everything. iotfa treat it like another me 24 hours to celebrate this one. 5:00 tomorrow you can ask me about that. i'm going to enjoy this one and definitbl rrow and i can't wait to play more football. >> reporter: so the 49er will host the enif being championship game next sunday. they will take on the winner of

the green bay/seattle game. the titans are leading baltimore, 14-0. that would be a shocking result. we'll have a lot more in sports. for now, live in levi's stadium, larry beil, abc 7 news sports. the 49er faithful were out in full force and cornell bernard has more of the excitement, cornell? >> reporter: hey, dion, the party's kind of wrapping up in the levi's parking lot. niner gang feeling awesome about what happened, that incredible blowout over the vikings. 49er faithful know what's next. one win' w away from going to te super bow a big win for the niners' fans. never had a doubt. >> 100% we had the win. >> who's got it better than us? nobody! >> we are going do the super bowl. we're going to take it this

time. >> niiiiiiiiiners! >> reporter: that victory battle cry seemed to echo from every corner of the levi's parking lot. >> we've had three heartbreaks with harbaugh, now we've got to make this one work. ♪ >> reporter: the tailgate party was gold-blooded. maybe the biggest yet. we found wayne larsson in his tesla. tailgating in a tesla, it could be the first for me. >> it's a great car for tailgating. it fits a lot of stuff. >> when you're a fan, you're a fan. >> reporter: bobbi showed how devoted she is, eve knows it. >> let's go niners! >> reporter: vikings not welcome here, theseuys from saskatchewan. >> people have been friendly, actually. >> the weather, i was able to wear my beach attire. >> i've had my hat stolen three times and returned to me. that's how nice the niners' fans

are, yeah. >> reporter: yeah, we're thinking those guys are probably headed back to the airport. might be a quiet trip home to canada. what do you think? niners fans were so pumped up for a win today you could actually hear them blocks away from the stadium. that's where we were today. it was an incredible day. go niners. we're live at levi's, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> and of course our coverage doesn't end here. head to abc 7 news.com/sports. we'll have highlights, interviews and all your favorite moments from tonight's game. turning to other coverage now. we are learning new details in the deadly ukrainian airline crash. one of the 176 people killed was a san diego college student. >> her name was sarah sedaot and had movo ted from . she studied at university and was studying to be a

psychologist. she was traveling with her mother when it went down minutes after takeoff. her close friend is heartbroken. >> she was pretty goofy. she would make me like dance in the car with her and sing along denial.ongs.n every time i wake up, i'm just questioning if it really happened. >> iranian armed forces last night admitted they had shot down the boeing 737 by mistake. that follows a report from u.s. intelligence that determined the plan had been hit by iran's own anti-aircra anti-aircraft missiles and another 4.6 magnitude quick was detected about an hour later than the first puerto rico. governor gavin newsom is sending a team tomorrow morning. >> disaster specialists from california that are experienced in managing complex, big disaster events as well as the

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will drop well into the 30s over the next 12 hours. tomorrow there will be a front just to our north. that's going to try and touch off an isolated shower. and the best chance of that shower will be in the north bay. we'll show you the timing in one second, but a much stronger storm looks to move in here wednesday night into thursday morning, which would bring widespread wet weather along with strong winds, especially wednesday night. temperatures right now, we're slowly falling through the 50s into the 40s. 47 currently in santa rosa. 53 in the city. 49 in fremont and palo alto. we still have a high surf advisory in effect ahe entinglo t coastline until 3:00. tomorrow afternoon. an active ocean current right now. wave heights between 15 and 17 feet high from san francisco to half moon bay. not only those waves, we're watching the king tides, the highest tides we tomorrow morning in san francisco, tighide teha is at 11:54 in the morning.

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d shower tomorrow. we're hey not givinot giving it the storm impact scale. wednesday night and thursday morning, thursday morning especially that's a two on the storm impact scale. the heaviest would be thursday t the afternoon. now sports from abc 7 news. >> hi, everybody. larry beil at levi's stadium. the last five 49er games all went down to their but not today. they took care of their business early, using a stifling defense and powerful rushing to take out thee gam minnesota vik and it's on to thefc chpi ty' a t the lights went out, they're celebrating. 7-0 niners in a flash.

for diggs. witherspoon got tripped up. he was benched after that play. samuel jimmy g throwing the block. not sure kyle shanahan wants more of that. the niners on rwie coleman tapping a drive, 14-7 niners. the touchdown, but a bad intercepti late second quarter. that was aonlmost costly, but d ford, remember, he was questionable, a baam hdngrist . cousins, 14-10 niners at the half. niner d, cousins picked off by richard sherman who brings it back into viking territory to set up holman with his second rushi rushing td. coleman with a td. 27-10. and from there it was all

defense. nick poesa wibosa with two of t. and the nfc game against either green bay or seattle. they will play tomorrow. 27-10 is your final score. i'm joined by abc 7's chris alvarez who talked to thetethers >> they talked about running the ball 30 times plus. they said if we run it 30 times e we to win this game. they ran it 47 times. seven or eight times right down their throat. he was asked about the interception and some of the disrespect he gets. >> i get tired of hearing oh, he's his own corner. i get tired of hearing squexcus of why i'm good. i show up year in, year out, whether it's 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. unless i tear my achilles, i'm le avel.e doing my job i get tired of the excuses for

why i'mh, m go odgo , they're playing zone, oh, my god's this guy, oh, my god, receiver smith. why don't other people get those opportunities? you know, there's a lot of other corners who have the same ops i have, you know, it's odd. it's like people got frustrated that i was so confident early on in my career. i was so confident early on so that people wanted me to fail. and when i didn't fail, it's like how do we tear him down another way. >> rhard sherman is one of the nfl. he is really alu ge guy. everybody looks to im hahim. you see nick bosa, t' is off on all aspects of the waid tm.ea richard sherman wasn't great? >> not us. h. jordan, kobe, others, if he wants to use the

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