>> good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia cannon. >> the weekend is here and we want to check in with rob. >> it's looking good, but chilly outside. we have 40s and 50s. that will carry through 8:00 this morning. part low cloudy jumping to the afternoon. 67 today and mid-70 no, sir san jose. 73 in oakland. pretty nice forecast and we will see how the morning commute is shaping up. >> doing all right except for a couple of deer hit out of the mountains. we have to warn folks that that will be related to the activity with the construction zone. it cleared up towards the los gatos exit. in the one lane that you can access up to hamilton. mark that construction zone as well as 101, the typical construction zone with activity overnight as well. a lot of money being sunk into

the roads. a lot of money. >> a lot of work needs to be done. california entered the record 100th day without a budget. they worked trying to hammer out differences and end the budget stealimate. the assembly passed the main part of the legislative package to close a 19 billion dollar deficit. they voted 54-1 in favor of the measure, but overall it was just barely enough support to reach the required 2/3 vote. the bill moved to the senate and lawmakers failed to pass it. they again began to work into the early morning hours. >> this is done. this was a hard negotiated agreement that is months late. that's not a good thing. >> while senate leaders are confident they will muster the 2/3 they need, the delay has the

state on the drink of issues u ious and cutting off funding for things like road projects. it includes no new taxes and cuts spending by $7 billion. new this morning, a chinese dissident who struggled for human rights for more than two decades is the nobel peace prize winner. the-year-old is the first chinese national to be awarded the peace prize. he is in prison serving a sentence for plotting to overthrow the ruling party. he was jailed in december 2008 for helping to organize a charter '08. this just in. chinese government is denouncing the committee. the peace ties violate the principals who they call a criminal. plous in southern california this morning are searching for two children who they say were

kidnapped from an apartment complex. 4-year-old jacob and 2-year-old justin were abducted while walking outside with their mother in anaheim last night. the 2010 silver or pewter dodge caravan pulled up and two men jumped out and grabbed the children and took off. 10 people are recovering for minor injuries after an amusement parks accident. two cars collided at the loading area at knot's berry farm. nine people on the cars and one person standing nearby was hurt. no injuries are serious, but they are trying to figure out what caused the accident. a big win for the giants, but little time to celebrate. game two is tonight. tim lincecum was sensational. he tossed a team postseason record. 14 strike outs that allowed two hits so the giants went on to win 1-0 over the braves. game two now tonight.

it is at 6:30. matt kaine will ob the mound. ticks are available on stub hub. we have been checking to try to get the latest. the cheapest seats are $109 in the out field. standing room only costs about the same. the most expensive we found are about $499 and those are for field level club tickets. >> one of the great reasons to live in the bay area, you will be able to feast from baseball playoffs to college and pro football to fleet weekend festivals. giants fans may have to get extra race after the big win. christie smith is live in san francisco for more on how the weekend kicked off. good morning, christie. >> good morning. it doesn't get much better than this for the bay area. we have the giants when everyone is celebrating that. we have fleet week. we have people coming in for that. we have tourists pouring into

the city and we have bars and hotels and tim lincecum. everyone talking about him. it was loud and rowdy. when the giants pulled it out on the home game. the giants lead this best of five series, 1-0. the electricity was absolutely amazing. people were talking about atlanta having a better hitting game. it has been a long time coming. >> lincecum is finally doing what he's meant to do. we get to the postseason and it will be fantastic. fans of course still celebrating, but looking forward now. they haven't had a world series win since moveing for new york to san francisco in the 1950s. it has been quite a while. it has been years since the giants were last in the postseason. there is a lot to cell brit this weekend. live in san francisco, christie

smith, today in the bay. >> not for san francisco cabdrivers, they are protesting this morning. they want the transit authority to allow them to set up a cab stand at the intersection of third street and willie mays program. the current stand just isn't big enough to handle the fans to come to and from tonight's game. >> voter are getting better ideas for the candidates for lieutenant governor and why where they stand. gavin newsom and his opponent face off in sunnyvale. newsom said maldonado offers politics as usual and a fresh start of ideas is needed. he was appointed to lieutenant governor early this year and he spent that time as a reformer and trying to break gridlock. the latest polling shows newsom is up about points in the race. >> message not deleted. jerry brown is apologizing for a

phone call recording where a campaign aide called meg whitman a derogatory name. we are waiting to hear. >> give me a call. jerry brn. loveo talk to you. >> i think we missed some of it, but brown was reportedly calling a police league last month to ask for an endorsement. apparently he thought he hung up the phone, but the voice mail recorded the conversation where he and aides talked about pension reform that whitman off. they imfloyd whitman will cut secret deals with unions. the tape was released and brown's campaign said this was a jumbledinaudible recording of a private conversation. at times our language was salty and we apologize toman and anyone who may have been

offended. e cpapapapapapaé responded sayi whitman. >> brown and mittman will debate next tuesday in the third and final debate. tom brocaw will be atéé protesters are expect and security is a concern. the job of making sure that all goes smoothly falls on security director, haré%il >> i work for him and his wife works for the company asany. >> the san rafael police officer and his family say the business of security is their passion. the debate is next tuesday moderated by tom brocaw. we will also have pre and post debate aéo yépépép can get bate infésoretaiti

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livermore. 76 in san jose. 68 for san francisco and lots of 70s around the north bay. the seven-day forecast taking it through the weekend. not only inland spots, but té7hd theé< mididididids on sunday and station in the 80s through the first half of next week. >> looks good.égég5:10 and euro experiencing a disaster comparable. we will find out what's going on there. >> the giants getting a nod of approval from this fan. we will mead the possible head king coming up. [ male announcer ] taxes.

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as ceo, she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to china. china. india. russia. poland. i know precisely why those jobs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina shipped them there. to shanghai instead of san jose. bangalore instead of burbank. proudly stamping her products "made in china." 30,000 workers gone while fiorina took $100 million for herself. carly fiorina. outsourcing jobs. out for herself. [ barbara boxer ] i'm barbara boxer, and i approved this message. good morning. time now is 5:13. a nice live look at the bay bridge this morning. a beautiful start to the weekend finally here. the forecast will be warming up a bit. the inland areas will be in the 80s. some of the temperatures are 68 and looking for a high in san

francisco of 79 in places like los gatos and 75 in danville. just about perfect. we will check in with him in a little bit. >> are new this morning, an american astronaut and two cosmonauts are on the way to the space station. they took off late last night and will spend six months on board the space station helping out with construction on the complex. the work is supposed to be finished later this year. the toxic sludge spill in europe could be just as big as the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. new figures show as many as 184 million gallons of sludge escaped from the reservoir. some of the that sludge already reached the danube. officials hope the immense size of the river will be enough to blunt the impact of the toxic spill and avoid environmental damage. it flowed south through a number

of countries before emptying into the black sea. >> a controversial new documentary that takes a look at what happened as the taliban captured the prince of england. the taking of prince harry is set to air that imagines a helicopter crash that leads to the capture of the man who is set to be third in line for the british throne. harry did serve in 2008, but had to go home after the media found out. he said he wants to return, but the royal family has not commented on that or the movie yet. from graduation gun to wedding gown. young adults with college degrees are more likely to be married than those less educated that. reverses a long time trend. the rising number of couples choosing to live together particularly for those who are not college educated is contributing to the decrease in marriage. more than 800 pages of e-mails and the associated press shows the firing of shirley sherrod

was done hastily. you may remember the agriculture department worker was fired after being wrongly accused of racism. secretary tom ville sack was warned he may not have had the full story before firing sherrod. she later received apologies from the obama administration, including one from the president himself and he was asked to return. she declined. lots of die-hard giants fans and one is in the stayed with the team every day. we are introduced to the man who simply loves giving a nod to his favorite bay area team. >> at the ballpark with giants in the postseason. we set out to take ow a behind-the-scenes look at a variety of things. today we bring you inside the visiting clubhouse. the giants visiting clubhouse manager who has his own bobble side. that's the start of a huge

collection. they first told me about this and when folks tour the park, they ask if they can see the baseball menagerie. >> he did the tour because he was hoping i would be here on a game day. he came in and he brought me a bobblehead. a willie mays one. they were interesting. i thought it would be something neat. >> on the scene with harvey and his bobblehead. have yourself a great day. >> cool. halloween a few weeks away. excited to dress up and head to the pumpkin patches. the big kid. bob redell is excited too. he is live this morning with more on a little bit of the fun. doing carving, bob? trick or treating? >> i love carving, but you know what i love more? mashing pumpkins. i have got my pumpkin blaster. i'm locked and loaded. see that bat out there?

let's see if i can't take it out. nice. they advertise these as shooting at 100 miles an hour. i wish i had the motivation. >> don't butt up a second of me, bob. >> i wonder about the motivation out there. do we see motivation? have we spotted the motivation? >> that looks like the male voice. >> brent cannon? >> looks like me. >> oh! one shot. just a concussion blew him away. >> fight! fight! >> i have a jam. >> that's what you get. we are going for the orange target. this is their 13th year of having this entire set up here. they have a ton of stuff.

surprised how much it's grown over the years. they have an ariel rope course. we will show you within the air and see if i can't complete it without falling down. >> i'm kind of looking forward to it now. >> i know. >> $5 a bucket. go for the car. >> you know what would be more fun? if they had another one and you can have wars. >> if you are okay with bodily injury, it's fine. 100 miles an hour. that's got to hurt. >> you have the coolest job in the business. we will check back. >> do we have to pay him for that? >> yes. benefits in the work. that's a big benefit. >> 5:19 and we want to check the commute. that looks like a fun place to

swing by. >> go ahead and go out there. clear heading out and we have an accident over to the maze. getting cleared off of highway 24. a minor accident and no injuries as folks coming westbound near 580. this is outside of the tunnel. you shouldn't see slowing with the westbound area, but we see slowing towards highway 13. we will check it out and no other incidents reported. that is moving smoothly and 18 minutes off of the bridge towards the berkeley curve. antioch is the first to show slow downs on a friday. speeds in the 80s passing by l street where the 64 is located. the 56 with earlier slowing through pittsburgh and bay point. we will watch for the pattern and it's just a blip that has shown up. 14 minutes out of the pass. the eastbound direction coming through the construction zone. we see a patch of slowing. we get out of town traffic about

3:00 and a live look at oakland with slowing because of the warrior game tonight not affected by the weather. rob has the forecast coming up in a moment. john stewart and stephen colbert are getting ready for a rally athe capital. why it could be over before it starts. meet the real meg whitman: serving on the board of goldman sachs, whitman was caught reaping millions from insider stock deals. after ebay shareholders sued and a judge cited the obvious conflict of interest she was forced to pay the money back. what kind of person would be involved in deals a fellow republican congressman called corrupt? and in her last year at ebay, whitman paid herself $120 million right before the company laid off 10% of it's workers. we're choosing a governor, shouldn't character matter?

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good friday morning. let's take you out to san jose. clear start and chilly start outside. we show you the temperatures around the bay area this morning. we have temperatures. how about that. lucky number 55. tim lincecum's numbers. cool start with some spots waking up in the 40s around the north bay. a nice jacket outside. degrees in oakland and there you see san francisco looking nice. 56 degrees and southwest wind at 3 miles per hour. it feels like fall for sure. you want the jacket as you head outside, but for most places you can leave the jacket indoors when you pass 10:00 this morning. for the weekend, 80s and maybe pushing close to 90 out towards the trivalley. satellite view shows high clouds to the north and a powerful system will slam the pacific northwest and not get us here. high clouds for the afternoon and if you are heading to the

high country, nice weather for the weekend. lake tahoe close to 70. travel forecast if you are heading into southern california, 80s around l.a. on the central coast, gorgeous day to check out san luis obispo. highs in the low 80s. 78 in fresno. yreka will see showers this afternoon. the bay area temperatures are looking nice considering the warm up that kind of tried to get started yesterday. you will notice it kicking in this weekend. 76 in san jose and 68 in san francisco. low 60s around game time and gorgeous weather for fleet week this weekend. mid 70s towards the east bay and the north bay highs in the low to mid 70s. from here through sunday, we will warm up with 80s and 70s near the coast and stay warm actually through the middle of next week. back to you. >> washington, d.c. could see something scary for halloween. porta potty shortage.

mat rene core marathon is scheduled for hal rene and the politico rally is also scheduled for the 30th. there only so many portable bathrooms go around. the marathon contracted 750 of them. organizers offered to share the cost of getting the porta potties, but they have to be locked up until the sunday morning of the event for security reasons. >> for every 300 persons, there is one portable restroom required. whatever that total number becomes, 20% of that total number of restrooms, 20% must be handicapped accessible. >> the rally organizers could have to go to baltimore to get their porta potties. >> 5:26 and the latest jobless numbers are set to come out any minute. how america's economy is recovering. we will have the numbers in a

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new this morning, california's budget battle being waged as we speak. we valentine latest on the negotiations and the vote we expect coming up next.

>> giants fans got a big win last night and so did the entire city of san francisco. i'm christie smith and we will talk to the chamber of commerce today in the bay. >> per good friday morning. thanks for joining us. >> it is 5:30 on today in the bay. we start with a quick look at the forecast with rob. >> good morning. brent and laura, you want the jacket as you head outside. 40s and 50s outside and clear skies. a cool start to the day and a nice finish. high temperatures with san francisco. 73 around oakland and came time temperatures for the giants near 60. wear a nice giants sweatshirt and lucky enough to head out later this weekend. >> sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. thankfully for the giants they

are both. they led the giants to win last night. buster posey and the umpire said he was safe, but on a second look he was tagged before he touched the bag. no instant replay in baseball so the call stands that. set up cody ross for a single. posey scores and eventually you see the giants win 1-0. there is another game tonight. first pitch around 6:37. >> businesses is picking up in the bay area as major events are packing in the tours. we have the giants playoffs, fleet week and 49ers and raiders both home. stanford is hosting usc and rascal flats are playing. plenty of other events as well. christie smith is live in san francisco with how businesses and people all-around the bay area might benefit from all of this. sounds like a busy weekend. >> it absolutely is.

we are hearing that at the game there were like 44,000 fans and just about everyone digging in their pockets to buy something. that doesn't include the people at bars and restaurants and other places. what does this mean from the city. bars and straups and cabs and hotels? >> for the 44,000, about a third come from out of town. they spent about $175 each on average. that is directly into our economy and people who wouldn't be here otherwise. it's a great boom for the city. you throw it on at the beginning of fleet week, hopefully they want to stick around and stay throughout weekend. really get to see what industry is. on top of that, you get national coverage. all those georgia peaches get to see how beautiful our city is and they will vacation and if

they see how beautiful it is, they want to come here as well. it is a great marketing tool. it's also just a lot of fun. >> absoluteliment. were businesses pulling out all the stops? >> they have been ready for this for years. especially down by the ballpark. places like mo mo's and 21st amendment, those places are packed. it's such a great thing to see them out having a good time, celebrating their city and the giants. buying beer and having a good time. it is something that i think the city really has need for a while. it's great to celebrate. >> thanks for coming out with us. rob asked earlier, is this hat too cheese to wear in the morning. i said no such thing. not under these conditions. it's perfect. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith today in the bay. >> thanks a lot.

also new, the state is halfway to a new budget, but close is not close enough. the senate has not passed a deal yet. late last night, the assembly passed the main part of the package meant to close a deficit. they vote 54-1 and enough to reach the required 2/3 vote. senate leaders said they are confident they will muster the necessary votes as well. california has been without a budget since july 1st and the delay has the state on the brink of issuing iou and cutting off funding. the new plan includes no taxes, but it cuts spending. >> allegations of misconduct are shaking up another bay area city. the police chief said internal affairs got a call two week ago from someone claiming misconduct. they will not say what it's all about, but a lab technician is

using or stealing drugs from the lab. that said an investigation was conducted and the allegations are not true. he looked at the lab when he started a year ago and it passed an audit. he believes tle no wrong-doing, the investigation is continuing. that's not the only problem. dog training 101 will begin for the oakland police department. they will tour the spca and made the move after complaints about officer who is shot and killed an old and arthritic family dog. the tour is a pretraining set to begin in november. officers will be taught how to recognize signs of aggression. oakland police killed a lab as they were responding to a burglary call and a lot of people are critical of that shooting. it's 5:35 and news just in, the last jobs report shows the private sector added jobs and the unemployment rate stayed the same.

that's because of widespread government layoffs and unemployment at 9.6% as was expected. vallejo's six flags discovery kingdom will try to repair ay is lion's muzzle. the sea lion's name was sergeant neves and shot twice in the face. vets worked to make him strong enough for surgery. because of how badly he was injured, he cannot ever return to the wild. he is already moved into seal cove at six flags and in may made the debut. this was video. the man accused of shooting him will number court on october 19th. he pleaded not guilt to animal cruelty charges. >> area of contra costa county should be better protected from the west nile virus. crews roll in the trucks and coming up quickly the mosquitos on the hol ant track.

7:00, weather perming, they will fog in brent wood there between sand creek and loan tree way. >> business owners say giving up is not in there vocabulary. every first and third thursday, ninth street is blocked off. four new businesses got to hold a series of street coner ises called thursday night live. they believe it will give the downtown area the economic boost it needs. >> people give oakland a bad rap. when they don't know oakland and have no idea about the area. it's nice to let people see what we are about. >> this was the last ninth street block party for the year and it starts next summer, but there will be a lot more events like this coming up. check out the website for details. 5:37.

get you started on the area. looking nice for the freeway past the coliseum with the tail lights past hyde street. no major delays. the toll messrs.a has little back up and the volume will increase you see the folks heading into the city. that's because of fleet week and the game tonight. antioch will reduce the start even for a friday. speeds dip down to the 40s as you pass through l street. bard is a good option to get around the bay area. they run longer trains and a lot of posts are over. >> looks good. san francisco later on in the low 60s around game time. you want a jacket as you head outside. 40s and 50s this morning and not much wind and not much fog outside either. gorgeous sunny skies and warming

up with mid 70s inland and sunday low to mid 70 oz the coast. a few high clouds drift by. the system will miss us and head up towards portland and seattle. just fall sunshine getting started today with mostly 70s inland and upper 60s for san francisco and low 70 no, sir oakland and turning warmer for the weekend ahead. temperatures inland as warm as the upper 80s on sunday. we will stay warm for the first half of next week. temperatures on the coast in the 70s. nice weather in the bay area. back to you. >> time now is 5:39. the jobless numbers are out and we will tell you what it means for the economic recovery in a live report. >> changing course. the tour of california taking san francisco and the north bay off its route. we will tell you where the bikes will roll instead.

> good morning, everybody. 5:42 and a nice looking shot of the bay bridge. there so many great events and we will touch on that later on and of course your forecast is coming up. >> i can't wait to see. the latest job numbers are a mixed bag. the employment rate went up. live in washington, d.c. with the impact of the news on the campaign trail. good morning. >> good morning. the unemployment rate that 9.6%. we lost 95,000 jobs which is what the republicans will emphasize the fact that we lost jobs at least net.

there were jobs create and the private sector created 64,000 jobs and we are losing all the temporary census workers and additional state and local government jobs too as cities and states around the country deal with tight budget crunches. there was a revision from the summer. another 15,000 jobs lost there. the biggest decline in construction and manufacturing. how would the democrats and republicans spin this. this was the last report before we go into elections. democrats and president obama will focus on the fact that we are not getting significantly worse. we are slowly picking up the private sector jobs. they will talk about the census effect as temporary. emphasis on temporary. republicans will emphasize the fact that we are losing jobs in the country. 95,000 in the last month and the construction remains depressed which has been a big part of this economy and a big part of the recession and the recovery. the bottom line, 14.8 million

americans in this country out of work. laura? >> tough time fist air lot of folks. thank you very much. >> tensions with the people of afghanistan rising. they are upset that nato helicopters fired off, killing six of them. nato said the men fired first and hundreds of villagers shouting death to america and long live the taliban. nato is looking into the shooting. the united arab emirates cutting off service on blackberry smart phones. they e-mail and web browse because of security concerns, but officials they they have reached a deal with black berry and service will remain. 5:44 and good morning. happy friday and thanks for joining us. >> good happy friday. i'm laura garcia cannon. the tour of california won't be

cruising over the golden gate bridge next year. the 2011 route was announced and san francisco and santa rosa were left off the list. instead there will be one stage in the bay area running from livermore to san jose and adding stages in north shore and south shore lake tahoe. the route was changed to give other cities a chance to get involved. the tour of california stars may 15th. >> and halloween comes up in a few more weeks. >> i already feel like a pumpkin kids are excited to dress up and go to the pumpkin patches. so is today in the bay a biggest kid. he is live with a lot more on the fun. it's a fun friday assignment. >> it is. 100 mile an hour pumpkin blaster. good morning to you. you are my official loader. do we have one? are we locked and loaded? boy, if we had another target,

oh! it's amazing. we had a photo from the last time. it's now in the car. lock and load. here we go. come on. really, brent? bam! oh, yeah. that's what i'm talking about. many pumpkins at 100 miles an hour. i love you, brent. >> do i need to come out here so people can fire at them over the weekend. also family farms. you have seen the set off off i-5 getting threw out of tracey and going out to the central valley. you guys have been doing this

for 13 years. i remember taking my kid out here and it was just pumpkins and a hay ride. now you have got what? >> so much more. just last year in the last two years, it's amazing. we added a 3,000 square foot country store and jumping pillows which we were trying to get you on. we put a brand-new train with a one-mile train that goes around the outside perimeter. we had a zip line and we have the new ropes course. >> we will take you to that coming up. >> i won't wear a safety harness. you will get your revenge. >> i know you love me. deep down inside you do. >> see you in about a half hour.

look for that. high ropes and no sunrise. if you are heading out, eastbound 580 to 205 is moving nicely. 14 minutes we are showing the commute westbound coming into the area. the eastbound commute will slow down and keep that in mind if you are heading out of the area. a lot of these folks will head to all of the activities. we have parades on sunday as well as the festival in choinatown. keep that in mind. 580 at interstate 80 is clearing up and the bay bridge with a live look at the toll plaza is nice. it will get busy because of the folks heading into the city. how is it looking so far? >> on the roads and the sky, around the bay area dry roads and clearer skies. temperatures are warming up nicely. the common theme from san jose

to oakland and a chilly start to the morning. 50s near the water and mid 40s. we will warm up nicely. upper 70s to near 80. 76 in san jose. 68 degrees and sunshine around san francisco. into the north bay, petaluma and wine country looking nice. mid 70s through the weekend we will see 60s tomorrow and 70 oz the coast. a great way to wrap it up and temperatures are staying warm for the first half of next week. >> not exactly a wholesome family outing. a dad and his three kids go out for a nice afternoon robbing cars. security cameras show the man walking through an atlantic city parking garage with a toddler and kids following. moments later you see one of the boys take off with a bag and a package. police think the dad had the kids help him haul off lcd

monitors and a laptop. he is goes off casually carrying the toddler. >> humors about a deal between the adobe systems and microsoft. shares jumped 12% yesterday after word that microsoft might work more closely with the company or acquire it. the "new york times" reports microsoft ceo met with adobe's top dog. the meeting took place at adobe's san francisco offices. microsoft would own the flash software and some mobile phone features. both sides may be dreaming because experts say they would not approve a deal between the two companies. china could soon get the iphone. the country's third largest mobile phone company is holding intensive talks with the bay area's apple. discussions could bring the phone to chine early next year.

>> are new this morning, senator barbara boxer could campaign and tour the manufacturing plant in oakland at 10:00 this morning and thereby with secretary of commerce. he is part of boxer's campaign to try to support small businesses and boost american manufacturing. rank choice loading will be used for the first time in alameda second in the november 2nd election. voters can learn more about it and how it works through an online web nar. it's at 3:00 this afternoon. if you are interested, you should preregister. go to www.acgov.org. you see it there on your screen. it's complicated, but you see it on the screen. you get lots of useful information. the future for sports in cal is at question. the alumni association will hold the value of sports. it will comes after they cut

because of budget problems. "san francisco chronicle" columnist will talk with cal athletics director sandy barber. they register for homecoming weekend and will be at the emergencying center from 2:00 to 3:00 and we will have more on the future of cal athletics starting at 5:00. >> the bay area breakthrough could make wheelchairs obsolete. berkeley bionics showed off the e legs. they tame to see a demonstration. they are an off shoot of technology to help soldiers carry equipment on the battlefield but it gives hope to bob who got hurt in the line of duty. chelsea fell victim to a drunk driving accident. >> as soon as i saw her come walking out, it brought tears to my eyes. it's emotional because i saw

someone in a chair like me. >> i thought they have to come up with something and they did. it's incredible, not being able to stand up on my own, i have to have someone lock my knees. this i can do on my own. >>. >> it's got to give them so much hope. he said some of his friends chitted suicide because they didn't want to live in a wheelchair. both have their names on the list for e legs. >> here's a word we like. free. pepsi is teaming it up with wal-mart to give away free cases of the new sierra mist. it has been reformulated and sweetened with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. pepsi removed artificial ingredients and added the word natural to the can. at least 10 million cases will be handed out this weekend. organic soda. i don't know.

good healthy stuff for you. time for a look at what's hitting theater this is weekend. >> frenzied excitement. he eats up the ground and paused fiercely, rejoicing in his strength. >> my goodness. it's a good mix of new movies. diane lane stars in secretariate. that's the that won the triple crown in 1973. the thoroughbred's owner was a woman. it's a true story of a virginia housewife that takes over her father's stable and produces possibly the greatest racehorse of all time. >> tragedy turns life upside down for two people who hate each other in life as we know it. they are cogod parents that have to take over when the baby's parents die. this is supposed to be a romantic comedy. >> in stone, a prisoner and parole officer. his wife is doing everything she can to get him released. stone is rated "r."

another movie, my soul to take. this is a horror flick. i guess people are getting ready for halloween coming out. >> that's scary. nothing scary about the forecast. a heavier jacket as you head out the door. >> a winter coat would not be a problem with mid 40s. 52 in concord and 53 in hayward and 55 in san jose. that's one of the warmer spots we are seeing. for the afternoon it will be gorgeous today. both for fleet week and the giants game this evening. mid-70 no, sir san jose and low 70s. we are not only tracking fleet week, but a huge game here on nbc. niners versus eagles. the weather looks outstanding as well. >> that's right. sunday night. football night in america. san francisco is taking center stage. as you mentioned, football a fish yado, rob and the eagles going head to head. he paints hads face and

everything. we have a preview. we have the niners against the eagles. both coming off losses. we don't know what the status will be with the quarterback and, but let's look at the niners. they played good football here. >> they really have. they have to look that field goal away from beating new orleans. the field goal away from beating atlanta. we have to make the plays to win the games. they have a lot going for them and they are playing philadelphia's back up. >> i know mike singletary will be hit and every year he is on the hot seat. he is a good coach. i think he's a good coach. he can't control what the players do. >> they are supposed to be good. >> his fault they got the balls knocked off. his fault that they condition to

throw interceptions? >> he has coaches who put in the plays and player who is he helped draft. >> players that are not very good. he can't keep putting them down and who do you think will replace them? >> if he has a hot seat, he should give them a call across the bay. tony is not going. >> i will say this. the coach is always on the hot seat. you have to win. he knows about that. >> eagles against the niners coming up. football night in america. >> what's with that music? can we get that whenever? >> one of russia's biggest stars comes out and who showed up to say farewell to space travelers. >> giants fever is hitting full swing. how business is faring and taking advantage of all of this in a live report. #