>> world series champions, the save giants return home to a hero'selcome this morning. one of the standouts of the series, cody ross, there you see him giving hig fives to adoring fans. here's how the giants clinched the title last night over the texas rangers. >> here it is! struck him out! and for the first time since 1954, the giants are world champions! >> and winning pitcher tim lincecum leaped on to the massive celebration on the ranger's home field followed by a shame pa-- champagne shower i

the locker room. >> i think the partying is going to go on well past the parade and forever. it wasn't until yesterday world series champions. it's now true. foreever! and giants fans are eating it up. they're living it, breathing it and they're wearing it. the ne is long, long, long at the gian dugout store at at&t park, the first world series title ever for san francisco will do that to you. spike is first in line. he's been out he all night. >> i want to get a shirt and a baseball cap. >> all this updated stuff with the world series on it? >> yes. >> this is what they're after, anything sing giants and world series champ >> anything they have, flags. >> what are you getting? >> just a shirt. i'm on a budget. >> giants baseball!

yeah, baby! yeah! >> very early this morning at the ballpark. several hured fans waited for hours to walk home as heroes about 4 a.m. where they came. loaded with players, coaches, managers and the families. >> whoa! >> here we are in san francisco. back home with the trophy. did you party all night on the way here? >> it was a pretty mellow flight, you bet. >> past th people he calls the best fans in basebal the players touche off the celebration and talked abo the moment. >> you drea i mean, words can't reall explain it right now. >> this is awesome. i mightot see it, but it's -- we'r having a great time. it's amazing. >> unbelievable. just something we all dream about. right now we're livin' the dream afor those thousands of players who played for the giants since

1958 and never got a world serieswin, this is closure. >> we didn't get it done. always dreamed about doing it. always new the parade would be incredible and this is pretty special for all of us. >> the fans after closure, they were after memories. memories more than half a century in the making and what you're looking at right now is wh makes the shirt authentic. they retain your value if you have a little sticker like that on your shirt. they have them out he in the trailer here on third street and king. they've got it at the dougout store. if you're coming out to let something, give yourself extra time because the lines are lon and people are buying stu up. i saw a woman by $400 worth of shirts down the street. terrmcsweeney. >> thanks a lot. san francisco police detained at least five people during last night's celebration, mostly for vandalism. overall authorities say it was

fairly orderly. >>. (cheerand applause) >> at the civic center plaza, more than 7,000 fans went wild after the final out. gathered to watch the game on big-scen tv's and spilled into the streets and shut down intersections in the marina and mission districts and around at&t park. things did get a little unruly a few times. people jumped on cars and you can see th set off illegal fireworks and lit bomb fires in the middle of t street. and a window was broken at the giants dugout stores near the ballpark but nobody was injured. the city is planning a victy parade for the giants tomorrow at 11 a.m.. we'll bring you the entire parade live at abc 7 beginning at 10:30 tomorrow morning. we'll stream is live for you online at abc7ns.com. >> now to our other big story. it's electio day throughout the country. candidates making one last push to w votes. could be a big nights for republicans to pick up 39 seats to regain control of the house.

in the senate they need ten seats to take back the majority. both sides trying to energize their parties. >> we need you to get fired up. we don't have more time. >> take it home! look out! >> president oba will hold a postelection news conference tomorrow at the white house. it will be the first chance for the president to react to what is widely forecasted to be major democratic losses. many candidates are still campaigning today. boxer went to the open grill. tonight the renaissance hollywood hotel. her opponent, republican carly fiorina, cast her vote in losal tows this morning. this is meg whitman actually. no word what appearance she might make the ceo will fly to southern california where she'l attend a california republican party in irvine. back to the race for california

governor. democrat jerry brown cast his vote at an oakland fire station this morning. this is his campaiing earlier this year. he will remain there tonight. no word if she' be making any public appearances today. she's spent more of her own money than any other candidate in california history. governor schwarzenegger gave a very diplomatic answer who he voted for. >> i will let you know. i don't want that the to be the news. the key thing is people go out and the vote. >> the governor went on to say that he believes voters are fatigued athe end of any election noting the high number of ads, fights and debates they see during the campai. but also predicted that

california would be unique and indendent in how it votes when compared to the rest of the nation. and in the race for california lieutenant governor, democratic san francisco gavin newsom and they brought their baby. >> elections workers are billsy fixing a snafu on mail-in ballots that came in and are still coming in. livet the register's office t show us how they' trying to erase the problem. theresa. >> kristen, literally erase the problem. we saw them in the back office. they are using erasers with smudge marks that are throwing off the machines that scan those ballots. meanwhile you have gotome voters here that continue to drive by that box to drop off their vote by mail ballots each of what will be inspected. >> went thrgh a box of erasers

and a box of ballots. what they have in common on election day. in santa clara county, they are using these chunks of rubber to scrub clean these barely noticeable printer toner smudges. little marks causing big proble. >> last week we realized the machine that counts the ballots was setting aside a larger number than usual ballots that had exaneous marks than a write-in balt. >> the registrar voter's office said the optical scanners were rejecting the mail being processed. workers discovered the machines were getting thrown off by toner smuds. most were the vote by mail ones on the creases where they're folded t fit in the envelope. >> it's unusual situation but the important thing is we're taking every step possible to make sure every vote gets counted. >> the solution? physically inspec every ballot.

the mail ballot and thoseoing to polling precincts. >> that is a little strange. >> mostoters had no idea the county had been working overtime for a week now erasin smudg. >> i think there's errors in any type of coting and voting ballots and things like that. i don't know, we just hope that it's looked at and it's counted truthfully. >> as for those first 100,000 ballots that had to be canceld, they were all cleaned and recounted. no actual votes will be erase the. >> the ballot printing company program solutions says that santa clara county is its only client that has reported smudged ballot it intends to reimburse the county for all the costs for inspecting and cleaning those ballots. it has budged in time to do this sort of erasing and expect to deliver the election results on time. live in san jose, theresa garcia, abc 7 news.

>> theresa, thank you. if you have any problems at the polls, we'd like to hear it. you call us at the number on the screen. stay with abc 7 for complete election coverage. our vote 2010 coverage. national coverage 7 p.m. and 9:30 and we'll break in with state an local returns throughout t evening. we'll have a colete wrap-up at 11:00 followed by a one-hour edition of night line at 11:35. you can check for realtime results abc7news.com where we'll be streaming a number of live events >> new violence at a san francio nightclub. still ahead the latest on a deadly shooting at the popular marina district. >> rescuing several people from a burning building, including children. four cities, one problem. a mess in parts of the east bay. [ male announcer life is indeed an incredible journey.

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another attack this morning on a site tied to the u.s. military in the washington d.c. police say in northern virgin one fire was shot at a coast guard recruiting station. there's minor damage and the shooting seems similar to recent shootings. in the past months shots have been fired at a marine corps museum, the pentagon and recruiting stations.

no one injured. >> police don't believe a nightclub shooting was related to the giants' late-night celebration. it happened just before midnight on chestnut. a 22-year-old man was shot several times inside the crowd. he was taken to san fransco general hospital and died a shortime later. investigators say the bar was crowded at e time of the shooting and hoped witnesses will come forward with more informatio dozens of adults and children are without a home thi morning after a fire in oakland. oakland firefighters rescued seven people from the three-story apartment building. usual oking at pictures from sky 7 hd. the fi aware first report at 6:15 an 15th stre. it was knocked down in about an hour. it appears to have started in the building's basement but no word on a cause. damage is estimateadd $250,000. >> authorities are investigating water main ruptures in contra costa county this mornin it all happened just after 2:30. two water mains broke in

concord. there was irrigation leak in pleasant hill and another in walnut creek. police around the scenier in the day to control the water flow. this is what it looked like at clayton road and concd. water use was not affected and there was no serious flooding. it's not known if all the incidents are connected. >> meteorologist mike nco is ahead with the forecast. >> these incidents are connected to giants win an it's sunny and warm outside. feeling warm and fuzzdy all over? it may be the forecast the next couple of days. >> check out this beautiful picture from ballmer peak. how much warmer than average today and tomorrow and an update on the chance of rain over the weekend. >> mike, thanks. free speech versus safety. the nation'sigh court weighs in on california's controrsial law banning violent video games for minors. >> and forr slugger berry bonds has a runnion as the giants celebrateheir world series title. i spend three hours on my homework --

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the final journey. nasa's final miion will be in 2011. >> what a beautiful fall day. hopefullit will stay like this for the victorparade as well. >> absolutely. even warmer. a lot of sunshine. seeing the shuttle real quick, they may want to wait because it will be better thursday. maybe a blessing in disguise. today they have their own meteorologist with a lot more education they havehan under my belt. yeah, the sun came out. it's tomorrow. the giants are world series champions. what mor can you do -- i mean what more can you say. absolutely gorgeous looking outside unless you're an oakland a's fan. i feel for ya. let's talk about temperatures. everybody in the low to mid-60s. these are temperatures from this morning. sorry abt that. mid to upper 60s around th monterey bay. monterey at 71. not sure why that didn't update. talk about sunshine and warmer weather today and some rough

surf has started and it's going to increase at least through tomorrow afternoon. cooler afterons are coming in friday, saturday, sunda and monday and along with them a chance of rain but the best chance in the north bay and it's mainly friday and saturday. let's take a look at the highs. compared to average, 7 degrees warmer in concord, 8 san francisco, san jose 9 and oakland 11 degrees warmer than average. a look at the high surf advisory. all our beaches just about now until 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. large breaking whites 15 to 20 feet. around 13 to 60. could get up to 25, lone wave and that's going to create strong rip curren, also. from watsonville to santa cruz, those southwes beaches not under it but dangerous in and around that area. looking at several storms. look at them in this trough of low pressure. very stormy system to our west. but that's going do have to hold off until the weekend and break

through this very formidable area from morgan into arizona and mexico. as long as it hangs around, you can see that jet stream to the north and we'll see more of this in the forecast. upper 70s in the south bay. cupertino, campbell right around 79. mid to upper 70s on the peninsula. redwood city, palo alto, 78 degrees. low to mid-70s along the coast. yes, gorgeous weather ahd for. watch for those rip currents. north bay valle with low 70s at your beaches. mid-70s throughout the east bay shore. castro vall jumping to 78. 80 degrs in the east bay valley. look athe rest of the bay and even inland, tempatures around the low 80s. tonight a sprinkles of mid to upper 40s in the north bay valleys, livermore and half moon bay, low to mid-50s for the rest of us. fog in the valleys again lat tomorrow morning. temperatures jump 2 to 4 degrees

tomorrow. that puts downtown san francisco in low to mid-70s during the parade. temperatures will tape a little thursday. we'll be back to average on friday and all the way through the weekend. again, our best chance of that shower reaching the ground would be the north bay friday and sunday. >> all right. thanks a lot, mike. >> the latest call of duty video games, the minors would face big fines under a california law considered by the u.s. supreme court. the high court heard arguments this morning over a ban that would make it illegal for retailers to sell or rent violent video games for anye under the age of 18. retailers would faceines up to $1,000 for each game sold. senator leland yee from san francisco sponsored the law but justices said it might encroach on first amendment rights. >> while the giants were celebrating their first ever title, a forr star of the team was not so lucky. west hollywood police pulled barry bonds over last night for talking on his cellphone and

issued him a $125 ticket. police say bonds was very cordial. the former slugger had no comment on the ticket but he issued a statement congratulating his former team. >> we'll be right back.

>> today on oprah at 4:00 singer ricky martin talks about coming out and becoming a new dad. the rowdy halloween par hosted by governor schrzenegger's teenager son that polic had to shut down. the polling places you can vote and get your flu shots at the same time. these stories and me at 5:00. >> one final check of the forecast. here's mike nicco. >> why don't we take a look.

at&t park, beautiful out there. a lot of sunshine, temperatur mid-60s but tomorrow during the parade low to mid-70s. >> beautiful for a the folks lining up to buy the gear, right, for tomorw's parade. >> thanks for joining us. the parade at 10:30. that's when our coverage will be. >> you'll be out there in your orange and blac >> a lot of abc 7 news will be out th

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