only one inning left. savor it. the a's leading right now, hoping to capture that win to cap off their final game in oakland. an emotional and bittersweet end to a decades long era for the town o town. good afternoon. i'm kristen sze and i'm larry beil. >> thanks for joining us. even

after the team is gone, the a's will leave a lasting legacy on the city that they have called home since 1968. >> abc seven news reporter anser hassan is live at the coliseum on what has been a very emotional game for fans. answer >> kristen and larry. good afternoon. what an incredible day here at the oakland coliseum. just checked the screen. a's are up by one inside. these fans are on fire in the bottom of the third. and the a's are the first to put two runs on the board. a big moment for fans. >> this is my childhood right here. this is everything that i've known and come to know. and here in oakland, california, to see jonas cruz among the thousands of a's fans here for the last game. >> many, sad to say goodbye. i actually worked here before so it's seeing everything leave from the bay area. >> it's kind of it's heartbreaking. often js it the e and the fans want to go out on

top. >> it definitely matters. it matters. we need the a's to win just to show that bay area pride, you know, we got everybody who needs to be here is here. it's a big day. we want to win. >> definitely. >> we got to win. >> well let's see if they get that win. we're one inning away. we will bring you the very latest fan reaction coming up at four. reporting live anser hassan abc seven news. >> thank you so much. and you know with fans sporting their green and gold one last time in oakland, some coliseum staff are wrapping up their careers with the a's. >> and for some it's an end of an era. i mean, decades in some cases. some of them have worked at the coliseum for years and years and years and years. >> all right. thank you so much. right now, we want to turn to your colleague, abc seven news reporter suzanne vaughn live with their reaction, talking to the staff. it's emotional for them, too. suzanne without a doubt. >> and you know, the staff are watching this game very closely. moments ago, we heard a loud

roar from inside the coliseum. of course, everyone hoping that the oakland a's will get the ending that they wanted. now, this is a bittersweet day for our staff here at the stadium. they went to work, put on their team colors. they tell me some of them put on a little extra these beads for just a little extra luck, but they are, without a doubt very sad because they're losing their beloved team, and many of them could also be losing their jobs with the a's. yeah, let's go oakland for one last time, fans packed into the final a's game at oakland coliseum, and beer vendor kendrick thompson, otherwise known as ice cold kenny bo thompson, has spent the past 13 years working at the coliseum. he followed his step dad's footsteps and became a vendor here. he said he fell in love with the game, the culture and the work. >> i know i'm going to cry real soon. i feel it coming. i just almost had a moment. i'm trying to bite the bullet as long as i can until the ninth inning. >> although thompson is losing

his job, he says he'll be okay because he'll go where the work is at other stadiums and in other cities. >> not a lot of people can go to every stadium like i, myself and a few others. a lot of them. this is the only spot they can go to. they can't go to giants, they can't go to chase. >> it's so disappointing. but i am semi-retired. >> concession stand worker delinda horton says she and other employees are taking a big hit. nearly 600 jobs could be lost, including 358 game day seasonal employees. >> they denied us severance pay, the earmark we had asked them and they said no. >> horton, who lives in sacramento, hopes to find work there when the a's leave oakland and play in sacramento temporarily. yeah, and more applause that we've just heard from inside the coliseum again. we're still at the top of the ninth now. again, employees here having very mixed reactions. some of them again say that they're worried about losing their jobs. a few of them we talked to are semi-retired. and they say they're just going to go with the flow. meanwhile, we

heard from that beer vendor ice cold kenny bo, and he says he's just going to also go with the flow. he's going to go where the jobs are now. it may be in san francisco, he says. it may be in anaheim or maybe in seattle, but he's willing to take the chance. that's the latest live here in oakland, suzanne phan abc seven news. all right, suzanne, by the way, that share you heard, i think was when we got the second to last out. >> right. so one more out and that's it. that's it. w in the column. >> yeah. mason miller their closers on the mound. he throws 104 miles an hour. and i'm looking at the monitor just above us. and we'll see what happens here. but i'm just wondering suzanne, the overall vibe that you got out there today because it was described last night by one person as a game with playoff intensity and a funeral at the same time. >> oh, without a doubt. boy, there are people here who came in full of sadness. i mean, they were just not happy about the way that things ended. and a lot of them wereus. we had a lot of folks kind of

spew off trying to tell us what they wanted us to relay on their behalf, and then there are people who are just here happy to support the a's one more time. they came in their best wearing their beads, wearing their hats, wearing their kicks, just everything to show their love for their a's. and without a doubt, they're hoping for this big win >> by seconds away. and what a way to end it. all right, suzanne, thank you. and the end of an era for oakland a's saying goodbye to nearly six decades of baseball. that's how much history there is. >> yeah, one and two. the count now. and the ball is just fouled off. it's a it's a weird sensation of waiting for the final out and wondering what's going to happen. and we're doing a live show right now. so we're half in and half out. but yeah. so we have a kind of a look back in time at a piece that we prepared just to give you the

whole picture, because obviously a lot of folks weren't around in 1968 when the a's arrived. let's take a look. after stints in philadelphia and kansas city, the athletics moved to oakland. in 1968. team owner charlie finley was thrifty, a theme that a's fans have suffered through with several ownership groups. but the green and gold produced a loaded lineup in the 70s, led by reggie jackson, joe rudi, sal bando and their ace catfish hunter. the a's won three straight world series titles from 1972 to 74, and the oakland coliseum explodes into ecstasy as the oakland a's captured their third successive world championship. free agency and finley's stinginess broke up the team, with the owner exploring moves to denver and new orleans, among other cities. finley sold the team to the haas family, and they were committed to oakland. they owned the a's from 1980 to 95, and back then the oakland coliseum was regarded as a fantastic place to watch or play

a game that would dramatically change over time. in their best years, the a's had star power rickey henderson, who grew up in the town, was not only the greatest leadoff hitter of all time, he also broke the single season stolen base record with 130 in 1982. and he's the all time stolen base king. >> but today i'm the greatest of all time. thank you. >> the bash brothers, jose canseco and mark mcgwire were together for seven seasons, featuring displays of pure power and the signature bash in celebration, oakland's own dave stewart emerged as one of the best pitchers in baseball, known for that menacing glare on the mound, helping the a's reach the world series for three straight years from 1988 to 1990. after losing to kirk gibson and the dodgers in 88, the a's beat the giants in 89. a series delayed by the loma prieta earthquake. the a's probably should have won multiple world series titles, but they were shockingly swept by the reds in 1990, and the a's

have not been back to the world series since. new ownership groups came and went with a familiar theme do more with less. and that led to the famed moneyball era, where general manager billy beane began using data analytics, evaluating players based more on their statistics rather than relying on old time scouts. the moneyball era was capped by a 20 game winning streak, culminating in a dramatic walk off homer by scott hatteberg. >> that run is gone, and it's 20 consecutive victories for the oakland athletics. >> holy toledo. the moneyball concept led to a book and then a movie with brad pitt playing the part of being, if we win with this team, we'll change the gam. >> it's a no hitter. >> the oakland a's have thrown a total of six no hitters and two perfect games on mother's day 2010 with his grandmother in the crowd, dallas braden was perfect. he did it. >> he did it. dallas braden just throwed a perfect game in the

past two decades, the a's made more headlines off the field, exploring new ballparks in oakland, fremont, san jose, then back to oakland. >> but they really never came close to getting a shovel in the ground. the last gasp came with a grandiose plan to build a stadium, hotel, retail space and housing at howard terminal. after years of trying to drum up community support and money, the howard terminal project seemed close to reality. >> well, it has to be a proposal we agree with and that works for our business. and, you know, we laid out one that worked. the city had a different one, and it needs to achieve the goals we need financially to make sense. >> but just as oakland officials felt they were close to a deal, current owner john fisher pulled the plug and decided to move the team to las vegas. fisher stripped down the roster to cut expenses and drove diehard fans away in droves, would sell the team shirts, popping up all over the country. >> he found a team. >> fisher was so universally

despised by fans and players, he won't do interviews he's almost never seen in public unless he's pitching politicians to give him taxpayer money for a new park. >> we believe that by coming to las vegas, we're going to be able to get out of this idea that the a's have to let their best players go prematurely. that's a goal. that's been our goal since the very beginning, since we were working on a new stadium in the bay area. >> the proposed move to vegas has been a calamity marked by repeated embarrassment, like photoshopped ballpark renderings and a financing plan that still has yet to be revealed. whether the a's ever make it to sin city is unclear, but their next stop will be sacramento. playing in a minor league park perhaps for three years, the a's will follow the raiders and warriors out of town, leaving oakland without a major pro sports team. generations of loyal fans will see their team ripped away, left only with the rich history of their beloved franchise. stay in oakland. >> stay in oakland. stay in

oakland. >> i wish they would stay in oakland, but that is not the case. although the a's do finish on a high note, mason miller induced a groundout for the final out. the a's beat texas 3 to 2 in the finale for the athletics. a good way to end it in oakland. yeah yeah. >> all right. well, mark kotsay speaking right now on the field, and we also have th

the oakland coliseum for the a's. rickey henderson and dave stewart threw out the ceremonial first pitches. henderson grew up in oakland. stewart, born in the

town. former a's cy young award winner barry zito sang the national anthem, and he sang it for the very first time, he said. and that was special to start the game. he do? >> he's a photographer. he plays the guitar. he sings. >> so those were the days. and there's a classic coliseum moment because day games, the sun can be brutal. so that was a ball that got lost and that made it three nothing a's. and we're ready for goodbye. three two game in the ninth. mason miller gets travis jankowski to ground out. the a's win their final home game at the coliseum three two. the celebration ensues. you know everybody hugging and hugging and hugging and look at the crowd behind all the player. nobody wants to leave. they want to savor every last second. and mark kotsay. hopefully we'll be able to get the sound for you in just a second. here he grabbed the microphone because he wanted to personally address the huge crowd and all the fans who've been with this team for 57 years. in some cases, and honor

them as they should be. and as the team owner, john fisher has never done, he's only looked at this as a as an investment, just a random business. and that's part of the problem. this is not a new thing. i mean, we've seen we saw the rams move to saint louis, then move back from saint louis to los angeles. we've seen the chargers move from san diego to la and seattle supersonics. every sport has this every sport. it doesn't make it any less painful, right? >> when it's your team, of course, but can i just ask you? of course. teams move occasionally. very occasionally they move back. and in this case, you know where they want to be. we don't even know if they can get a deal done there. so there are a lot of hopeful fans still thinking, are we really closing the book? is there a chance, larry. and that's where i'm going to ask you, what does it what does it have to happen? like what stars have to align for them to actually play in oakland again someday? >> okay, so here's the way i see it. it's like a 3 to 5% chance

is where i'm at right now. as you see a side by side with live shot of fans right now leaving the coliseum complex. here's the deal. the plan is to go to sacramento for three years and play in a minor league ballpark while they work out the las vegas stadium. while they begin construction. they have never gotten a shovel in the ground in any place that they've proposed stadiums. they've been working with goldman sachs or had been for over a year, to try to get some sort of financing plan that made sense. it doesn't pencil out. so the only way this would make any sense is if john fisher, who you know, was born into a billionaire family, if his mother or other family members wants to put all of their money in. the problem is he's got a lot of investments in real estate and other things. he doesn't have billions of liquid dollars to just throw at this. he wants investors to come in and prop him up. but when you're talking about a guy who wants to build a stadium yet remain on revenue sharing, in other words,

getting checks from teams like the yankees and dodgers that spend a lot. if you're an investor, you look at that and go, so you think you're going to keep losing money and then have baseball bail you out and you want me to put my hundreds of millions into this? >> they're better investments. >> you think bitcoin would be a better investment? i mean, it makes no sense. and you know, we'll see. part of the reason that vivek ranadivé, the owner of the kings and also the owner of the stadium in sacramento where the river cats play and where the a's will presumably play, he's betting on the a's failing to get a deal done in las vegas because his presumption is. and that's why he and fisher are buddies. but it's zero rent. they're going to charge them nothing. 0000. >> so what's in it for him? >> what's in it for him is vivek ranadivé is betting on failure by john fisher yet again. and major league baseball, looking at the situation going, you know what teams in sacramento. let's see if we can make a bigger

stadium do whatever they're there. and so then vivek will go, that's mine. i'm keeping it now. and they'll force john fisher to sell. but this is what it is with baseball owners. nobody really wants to put themselves out there because let's say you own a franchise and i'm asking you to vote. let's get rid of john fisher. and you're thinking to yourself, what happens if some other owners gang up on me, and then they force me to do something? so it's, you know, it's the billionaires club, and they get to decide what the rules are. so they very rarely do you see anybody come out. and in the ownership group and say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. you know, you know, but how scarring is this for oakland? >> psyche and pride and identity, as you mentioned in your piece, there are professional team to leave oakland. yeah right, >> you know, a lot of it can be attributed to oakland politics. you've covered oakland politics. so have i. it can be very messy. and it's not nearly as organized as, let's say, when the giants

proposed building what was then pacbell park, they had the whole business community and a bunch of real high rollers and high profile people in support of them. the a's have none of that. and so it's just, it's just frustrating all the way around. i kind of lost my train of thought there, but yeah, it's okay. yeah, i'm i'm just just all the fans, the emotions of all of this are just overwhelming and short circuiting in our. yeah, i am short circuiting right now, but but let's listen to mark kotsay in terms of his address to the fans. moments after the a's beat the rangers. >> how privilege and honor i feel today to stand on this field. it hit me last night >> i know it's been hitting us, all of us, at different times. >> for me, it was after the game last night. i walked into this stadium. my amazing wife dragged

me down onto this field and we took it all in and i'm going to keep this short because i don't really know if i'm going to be able to make it through this. to the staff who've dedicated their lives to the oakland a's, especially those who aren't coming with us. i am forever grateful and will never forget you. >> forever grateful. >> marcotte's a really good dude. put in an impossible situation, right? >> stay with abc seven news for our coverage of today's final a's game at the coliseum, which has ended with a win three two. that to savor. we'l

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will be above average. the weekend outlook cooler weather moves in here. we're back to average, but then next week we're right back up. hot weather back in the forecast. so high pressure building over the desert southwest that is acting like a heat pump for us. and that will bring us the mild conditions later on today and hotter weather tomorrow. here's future tracker this afternoon. you can see closer to 4 or 5 p.m. we're finding those temperatures warmer than yesterday. so the warming trend is underway here today. highs in our microclimates in the south bay 80s on the board from cupertino to morgan hill. gilroy coming in at 89 degrees up along the peninsula, 75 in san mateo, but 80 in redwood city. increasing sunshine along the coast. but we'll keep it in the 60s there across the city today, it's turning sunny, temperatures warmer than yesterday, upper 60s, lower 70s in the north bay. it's warm this afternoon. we'll see sunny skies. 87. santa rosa

84, san rafael 82. in napa, the east bay brighten mild 75, in oakland 78. union city and inland. we're in the mid 80s to the lower 90s with all that sunshine. now tonight we're not expecting widespread cloud cover as high pressure takes over that squashes our marine layer. so that means a lot of sunshine from the get go tomorrow. and a hot afternoon. look at these temperatures well above average for this time of the year. accuweather seven day shows you will go up in temperatures today and tomorrow. then we'll cool down saturday and sunday closer to average with morning clouds to sun both days, and we're heating right back up. summerlike heat is back for several days monday, tuesday and wednesday. hot days continue, so keep that summer wardrobe alongside your autumn clothing. we'll be using it all in the next seven days. >> that's what i call larry beil. weather coming your way. it's a scorcher. yeah uh- more thoughts on the finale. right now they're scooping up the dirt so that fans will have a lifetime souvenir to remember. this was the coliseum. this was

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let's listen in >> well, it appears marcotte says microphone is not working. let's just let's wrap it up. you asked me about the third team leaving warriors were going to leave no matter what. as soon as joe lake bought the team, they realized the greater asset value would be in san francisco, and they built their own arena. so they control everything. they're not just a renter. as far as the raiders, here's what's really

frustrating is that john fisher and again oakland politics. they sold him the land. the politicians gave him the land. and he squatted on the land, preventing the raiders from building a football stadium. that's why they're in vegas. so you want to sit down and talk to mark davis, and he'll talk your ears off for a few hours about john fisher and the a's. right? >> he might have joined you in your commentary the other day. >> yes. which still lives on. and if you can see, actually, traffic's not too bad on 8-80 because you know why? because no one's going anywhere. i know, look at the cars, i know. look at the parking lot. >> continues after the game. yeah. >> so let me give you just one thought on on the ownership that that tells you everything you need to know. in 2004, the a's had a third baseman by the name of eric chavez. he signed what was then the largest deal in team history, $66 million over six years. fisher bought the team in oh five. that is still the largest contract in a's history, while shohei has got a $700 million deal and others.

200. 300 million. yeah, 2004. yeah. >> eric chavez, same ballpark. >> well, and literally, literally not in the same ballpark. uh- frustrating, frustrating, frustrating. but hey, at least we got that final win three two. >> and that's what we'll remember. >> and savor that. and they'll have a few more games on the road and then that will be a wrap on the oakland athletics. all right. >> well a lot more on this on abc seven news at four. larry and i wi tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the major hurricane just upgraded moments ago to a category 4 now, now set to hit the u.s. just a short time from now. they are warning that this could be catastrophic. also breaking tonight, the mayor of new york city indicted. what he's accused of doing. the images coming in tonight. this monster storm taking aim at florida. authorities warning of a life threatening storm surge. up to 20 feet. heavy rain, flooding and