is officially over. >> the a's have given me so much, so just coming here one last time. this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. >> the a's just wrapped up their final game ever in oakland and much more on that coming up. but first darren is here to talk about hurricane helene making landfall just off the florida coast, now a category 4 hurricane. >> yeah. that means the sustained winds in the center of this are around 140 miles an hour. >> wow. >> you can see it in the imagery behind you. i want to do a little better. we'll put the perspective on it. where is it and how will it behave over the next four hours as it comes onshore. if we go to the big picture view and put on the latest high resolution satellite imagery, you cannot miss it. there is a category 4 hurricane right off the coast of florida. this is is going to take a few hours to come onshore, but it's coming

quickly and there are a lot of aspects to this. we want to get straight to the latest details. we've got a cbs special news report for that. let's go to it now. >> i'm norah o'donnell. we are coming on the air with breaking news as hurricane helene gets closer to making landfall. it's already an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane and is expected to bring catastrophic rain and wind when it touches down in florida's big bend region. helene will be the strongest hurricane to hit the u.s. in over a year. take a look at this. this is the view from the international space station. you can just see how massive this storm is. roughly 800 miles wide and 1,000 miles long, tropical storm force winds extending nearly 350 miles from its center. one of the big dangers is the storm surge. the forecast in florida's big bend area remains at 15 to 20 feet. that is enough to cover a two-story house. we want to begin tonight with our manuel bojorquez in tampa, florida, where the storm

surge could reach some eight feet. good evening, manny. >> reporter: that's right. good evening, norah. as you can see, the tampa bay area is getting battered now. the water that's been lapping up over this seawall here is not going back into the bay. it is accumulating here. so this is the beginning of that expected storm surge of five to eight feet. combined with high tide tonight, we're told the water will come up to the level of these tables here and likely above it and cover this whole area. already officials have had to shut down some major roads and bridges throughout the tampa bay area. what does that mean? anybody who did not heed mandatory evacuation orders, their options to get to higher ground have probably run out tonight. they will have to ride this out in their homes and there is the point where officials will not be able to

get to you should you need to be rescued because of the danger the water and wind poses to them. forecasters keep telling us over and over the wind speed and the intensity of the hurricane is important and destructive around the eye, but the water around the greater areas, including here in tampa bay, that is the number one killer during these storms. we are going to practice what we preach and now that the water, the flooding here, is starting to get significant, we're going to toss it back to you and get out of here. >> good idea. thank you for being there. stay safe. hurricane helene is the most powerful ever to hit florida's big bend region. cbs correspondent jason allen is in crawfordville, florida, just south of tallahassee. jason, what's the latest there? >> reporter: norah, as we have the last few minutes of sunlight tonight, we're really starting to see the clouds blow across the sky. we are starting to hear the wind in the pine trees behind us and the rain,

although it's not heavy yet, it is steady and it's starting to fall not straight down, but definitely moving in a diagonal. this is one of those areas in the big bend where that storm surge could reach that 15 to 20-foot level. that is where you don't see us by the water tonight. in fact, the gulf coast about 2 1/2 to 3 miles away from this position. that is a high enough surge that some of that water could get this far inland, maybe even beyond in the low lying areas. we're in a good spot, a higher spot, but just down the road from us the sheriff warned people here the water could pile up at a major intersection as much as nine feet high. >> i know you've been talking to evacuees. what are they telling you? >> reporter: we've been talking to evacuees for a couple days who are presenting us with really a very different attitude than we see from normally storm hardened floridians. they often take these storms in stride. they're

prepared, often riding them out at home, not with this one. we talked to a number of people who felt this storm is not one they want to sit through. they evacuated the area before it can arrive. >> glad they are heeding the warning. thank you for that report. with more on hurricane helene's projected path, let's turn to cbs' lonnie quinn. >> good evening. i want to show you a picture from a spot quite a ways away from the storm. this is fort myers, florida. this is a picture of what's currently happening outside in fort myers. they're 200 miles away from the storm. the storm passed them. this is what's out there as of now. let's look at the precipitation signature of the storm. the eye of the storm is off the west coast of florida, all right? but look at that path of the rain. the rain goes up into the tennessee valley, all that related to one storm. there will be huge rainfall numbers and the storm surge will be a big player here because as that

storm tracks along, it's running parallel to the west coast of florida. the best example i can give you, imagine you're out hosing down your driveway, okay? and there's a wall that runs along the side of your driveway and you're spraying the water parallel to that wall. the water keeps shooting right down until it finds some kind of a 90-degree angle and then it piles up. mother nature does not make 90-degree angles, but she comes close in the big bend area of florida and that's why we think we could be seeing all that water gathering from the south and just bubbling up to 15, maybe even 20 feet of storm surge in that area. in terms of the other type of flooding you get from a system like that, storm surge the number one killer, the most deadly part of a hurricane. freshwater flooding, this is a big player. as the storm pushes inland, it's putting more and more rain down. where the eye comes ashore, that's where you'll get the most intense rain, but it's a finite period of time. you get the heavy

stuff and move forward. however, for a place like asheville, north carolina, the center of the storm will be decaying and away as it gets closer to asheville, but it's still putting down big rain, at which point it gets to asheville and turns west. as it turns west, now the bands come into asheville. asheville will get rain from every which way in this storm. so often a storm has a calling card we'll say. sandy was a storm all about the storm surge, not the wind. other storms are more about the wind, then the storm surge. this one, it's got everything. it's got storm surge. unfortunately, it's got freshwater rain and flooding and it's got big winds. the winds could be coming onshore at 130 miles per hour. i mean the type of damage that will certainly affect roofs and structural walls of buildings, anything along the shoreline, lots of structural damage and feet of water in those homes. >> as you note, this monstrous storm will affect tens of

millions of people. lonnie quinn, thank you so much. our coverage will continue on cbs news 24/7, your local news and then tomorrow on cbs mornings. this has been a cbs evening news special report. i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ >> we will have much more on hurricane helene coming up for you tonight at 5:00. but for now back to our coverage of the a's, how it all ended, their final play ever in oakland and get this. i love this, going out with a win, 3-2 against the texas rangers. after the game the a's hugged on the field and thanked all of the fans. kara st. cyr joins us live from the coliseum. kara, what an ending to an incredible series here. how's it looking over there for you? >> reporter: it's definitely a bittersweet day at the oakland coliseum. i've seen quite a

few fans walking around smiling, laughing at their memories, but quite a few tears as well, some people wearing sunglasses because their eyes are red. they've been crying. it's a tough day. the truth is quite a few of the fans here tomorrow have been coming to these games since they were children. one man told me he'd been coming since he was a kid and was devastated he won't be able to bring his own children and they won't be able to experience the oakland coliseum the way he has. while it's been a very sad day for some, it's also been a day for celebration of a very strong tradition. >> we've been fans. this is my dad. he's 78 years old. >> hey! >> his father was a fan. >> the a's have given me so much. just coming here one last time. >> reporter: while you'll definitely hear some people that are devastated the a's are leaving, there are some that say they'll be an a's fan till the end and they will

support them while they're in las vegas. back to you, liz. >> true fans. i'm so thrilled they won today. thanks so much. we also heard from a's fans from sacramento who traveled for decades to watch them in oakland. listen to what they think about the upcoming move. >> it only makes sense to have the ball club here. you have b.a.r.t. you have the train. you have the freeway. you are going to sacramento where you don't have any of that. >> i find no joy in it because this was the root, heart, and soul of the athletics. as far as i'm concerned, it's always oakland athletics. >> there you go. kathy called for the employees to write their names on the signs today along with how long they've been working there. some of them have been working there more than 40 years. isn't that incredible? b.a.r.t. ran extra

trains this afternoon to take a's fans back home for the very last time and the departure of the team is expected to impact overall ridership. >> we know ridership at coliseum will be affected by the departure of the a's, but we're doing everything we can to make sure that we have a safe, clean system so that people that want to take it to the roots or to concerts here will continue to use b.a.r.t. >> b.a.r.t. says its daily ridership topped 200,000 this week for the first time since the pandemic. a new chapter is just around the corner for the oakland coliseum and this one is without the a's. coming up, we're taking a look back at one of the most unique stadiums in sports history, the ballpark that fans say is uniquely oakland. ♪

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there's no doubt the a's departure will leave a major hole in the town. this is a time lapse of fans flooding into the coliseum today and now there are still a lot of questions about what will become of the coliseum site? before we look at the future, we wanted to look at the past and the building itself. it's the fifth oldest stadium in major league baseball. in recent times it's been described as a crumbling concrete donut, but as wilson walker shows us, it's a stadium that's really the last of its kind. >> well, this vibe is so dope. i've been to so many states. there's not another vibe like oakland. there's not. i've seen this packed just fans oakland, let's go oakland. it's going to be weird. >> reporter: these two have come for the long good-bye

soaking in a few last memories in a building packed with them. >> i mean every day walking through seeing rickey, dennis eckersley hanging out with dave stewart. >> reporter: now approaching 60 years old, the coliseum has been described in terms of obsolescence for decades now and a lot of fans love it. >> we were just talking about they haven't really done much remodeling, but the fans love this stadium the way it is. >> a bird's eye view of the newest landmark in oakland, the coliseum. >> it was built with a kind of a rawness and simplicity, but real elegance. >> reporter: greg hartman is senior design partner with skidmore, owings, and merrill, the architectural firm that designed the coliseum in the early '60s. he reflected the building with us when the raiders were on their way out of town. >> a very, very innovative structure and the architect myron goldsmith was a genius at

the use of with the land and geometry. these buildings were nestled down into the land. they're very californian in that regard, the sort of relationship between the architecture, the structure, the land, the climate there being so beautiful. it has a real sort of california vibe about it. >> reporter: the coliseum reflect even broader vibes of the times. >> it was part of the entire sort of american ethos at the time about the idea of making places where they were flexible, transformable that could serve multiple uses. >> reporter: americans were also on the move out of the cities and into the suburbs. >> this is the american dream of freedom on wheels. >> reporter: the coliseum situated in a vast parking lot fit squarely in that vision of the future and something else that could be said for this complex, it was an absolute steal even in 19$60, right? this place was built for 25 million. that comes out to about 260 million in today's

dollars by comparison. the raiders new home in vegas cost $2 billion. this really is from an unimaginable time and time has not been forgiving to this stadium. >> i don't like it. i used to be able to see the oakland hills, used to be a beautiful stadium. now it looks like a mess. i don't think it's going to look good when they finish it either. >> reporter: many still decry mt. davis and every single one of the coliseum's diversion design contemporaries are long gone. the long good-bye is heading towards an end, last call for baseball's last dive bar. >> it's home. >> it's oakland. that sums it up, man. that oakland feel is going to be gone. it's weird. >> bay area native tom hanks grew up going to the games at the coliseum and he even admitted he may shed a tear or two now that the a's are

leaving even though you remember he is famous for his line there's no crying in baseball. that was from "a league of their own." our juliette goodrich got a chance to talk with hanks about his childhood memories as an a's fan. >> it was a childhood, a world renowned place where so much was going to be happening and i happened to be living in the slightly elevated parts of city and i could see the lights of the coliseum whenever there was an event down there, big deal to me. >> hanks' first job was selling sodas and peanuts as a vendor at the coliseum. you can catch juliette's full story with tom hanks tonight at 6:00. it's going to be a good one. we'd love to see your memories of the a's at the coliseum. share them on social media and be sure to tag kpix. let's get back to our weather now. we're talking about hurricane helene. if you made it out to the game today, it actually was a nice day.

>> 70 degrees. >> it was kind of perfect and i'm so thrilled for them that they had a beautiful day, a beautiful win, but it's heating up again it sounds like. >> tomorrow and then we cool down for the weekend and really warm up next week. >> whiplash. >> i think next week's warm-up is the headline and probably the main factor. let's start out by looking at the view at home. we started off by talking about helene in this newscast and went into a lot of detail with our national coverage. i'm going to use the next few minutes to get you ready for what's coming for us. we want to look how things are changing. if we look off the coast today, here's our onshore breeze. temperatures today are effectively on the mark for average. that changes tomorrow because the winds are really going to weaken. this is today in the middle of the day. let's keep that wide view and go a little wider because i'm going to transition this ahead from today to what the wind speeds will look like tomorrow

at noon. you see the whole kind of intensity of it goes down a notch. we lose some of the influence from the wind. if you look over here in the bay, it's not often or it hasn't been for much of the last several months to see very little wind in the interior of the bay itself. this is tomorrow at noon. you won't have much wind and with much less wind, you aren't getting that cooling influence, there's certainly momentum to carry that cooler air inland. as a result, the numbers are going up. let's lose the wind streams and jump ahead to tomorrow's daytime highs. there's are the numbers for friday, 97 in livermore and concord, 87 in redwood city, the city going up into the 70s. you should be around 71 for the average. to go to 78, it's warm. next week that number's probably going to get up to 80 and by monday and tuesday we're going to have to cram three digits back here because these temperatures are also going up. again, that is the headline.

let's get to the seven-day forecast. i'll show you what that looks like for our warmest microclimate, the one that tells the most dramatic story, the two terrariums right in front of me, 102 by tuesday. here's good news. doesn't last long. we'll be back down to the mid-80s by the middle of next week. enjoy the weekend. you notice the temperatures for the weekend were also pretty nice. after that warm-up tomorrow, you cool back down saturday and sunday and heat comes back the recall part of next week. we'll be right back.

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and hurricane helene nearing landfall along the florida coast, we're tracking that storm that could bring historic flooding and catastrophic damage to the southeastern u.s. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. after six decades of thrilling highs and heartbreaking lows, oakland has hosted what may be its last ever major league baseball game. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. a packed house was on hand this afternoon for the final a's game at the coliseum. >> good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. for fans it was one last chance to get together with their friends, root for the team they love, and also share memories of seasons past. some fans tried to take a piece of the stadium home as a souvenir like these guys who ripped the seats right out of the ground. juliette goodrich leads our team coverage live from the coliseum for us. what was it like being with the crowd there today? >> reporter: