now at 11:00. >> the rain has a little bite to it. >> hurricane helene has slammed into the coast as a massive category 4 storm, the latest on damage and where it's heading next. a deadly day in one north bay city after two people were

found dead. we hear from the man who caught this pursuit on camera. let's go oakland! >> plus we take you through the five stages of grief as the a's wave good-bye to oakland. >> i will always be an a's fan. i will not be a fan of the management, but i will always love the oakland a's. >> fans give the finger back to ownership. plus we sit down with one of the biggest stars to come out of the bay area about his favorite moments inside the coliseum. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hi. i'm sara donchey. well, here we are, the end of the road for oakland and the fifth stage of grief for a's fans, acceptance that the team is leaving the bay and not coming back, but let's take a look back at the other four stages before we got here, one, denial. how could the a's be leaving their home of 50 plus

years? >> unless you see a shovel in the ground, don't believe nothing that man says. >> two, anger and there has been plenty to go around. >> sell the team! sell the team! >> sell it, man. let someone who actually takes pride in the things they own own something. there's actually somebody who gives a [ bleep ] about the game. take mommy and daddy's money somewhere else. if you're just going to be a greedy [ bleep ], own it. >> that was about john fisher. then comes bargaining stage which the city of oakland did with the team. in fact, they practically begged them to stay. >> i assure you we are very close. >> the a's might come back to oakland. >> it has become clear that we are not able to reach acceptable terms. >> remember all that? next depression sets in. >> what can we do? it's heartbreaking and i don't even know what to say. >> and now we are back at

acceptance. >> i will always be an a's fan. i will not be a fan of the management, but i will always love my oakland a's. >> and even if they didn't like the circumstances, the fans still showed up for their team in a big way. this was the line to get into today's game early. it snaked around the coliseum. i was at the game today and i have to tell you it was a really strange mix of sadness -- i can't tell you how many time i overheard people talking about their memories or how sad it is or what a shame this whole thing was -- and then there was this energy and excitement to be a part of this game and the fans were loud today. >> let's go oakland! >> and they were loud thanks in part to none other than crazy george, the lifelong cheerleader and a's fan there with his drum and cutoff shorts. he's been at this for decades. after all, he's credited with starting the wave at the coliseum back in 1981. we also caught this.

>> foul ball, closest i ever got to getting a foul ball. >> that fan caught the last foul ball of the game. he will have bragging rights forever. there was some rowdy moments, too, not many, but some did stop play at the bottom of the seventh someone throwing a flare onto the field that they somehow had handy. then there was the beer can that was chucked, a lot of booing and at the top of the ninth two people jumped onto the outfield and ran around as fast as they could, didn't last long. security tackled them, took them out. some fans actually took seats out of the stadium, but not everyone got away with it. one of our producers took these pictures and videos of security guards intercepting a pair of stolen seats. people did the same thing back at candlestick. remember? when the 9ers played their last game there in 2013. for the seats that weren't ripped out the 9ers put them up for sale for

800 bucks a pair. people in sacramento are preparing for their first ever season with a major league baseball team. they are getting their wallets ready, too. ashley sharp talked with fans there about sticker shock once they learned how much tickets will cost. >> coming home, the oakland a's, won the ballgame! >> reporter: sliding in to be the first with oakland a's season tickets aren't all a's fans. >> they'll be the prime game i'm looking forward to. >> reporter: giants fan phil hinkle is now a proud a's season ticket holder. >> i'm paying to see the major league baseball and all the stars. i don't have to travel to the bay area. i don't have to fight 80, get a hotel room. it's great. >> reporter: hinkle and eight of his friends split the cost of a more than $30,000 season ticket package. >> it's $400 per game, which does include food and drink, parking. i mean it's like kings tickets, but it's worth it. >> reporter: each friend gets

two tickets to ten games total splitting the season's financial burden down to $4,000 each. >> now we're able to get our season tickets. >> reporter: sacramento river cats season ticket holders picked up their packets for next season earlier this week, some saying the a's prices came with sticker shock. >> starting at $5,000 for a deposit and we're like well, for middle class people that have to watch what they spend and pick and choose where they spend their money, we really thought that the river cats was the way to go. >> tickets will be skyrocketing. when the dodgers come here, the yankees come here this, place is going to be a zoo. >> reporter: the average price for a premium season ticket runs about 180 to 250 bucks a seat. by the time ticket sales open to the general public for each game, well, fans are already preparing their wallet. >> they'll probably pay upwards of about $300 for those seats. >> i'm going to have to budget for my favorite team. >> reporter: saying they'll

pay those big league prices when their team comes to town. >> we're willing to sacrifice that because it's only a few games and to see my favorite team, the chicago white sox, i definitely would pay for it, for sure. our other big story tonight, we are tracking the path of hurricane helene which slammed into florida as a category 4 storm when it made landfall. some people along the florida coastline are facing this tonight. they're being rescued by boat from their houses with the storm creating some extreme flooding. check out the storm surge in tampa earlier today. some people tried to forge through this bridge turned into basically what looks like a river. the sheriff in one florida neighborhood actually warned people to write their contact information on their leg in permanent marker if they were planning on staying and not evacuating like they were supposed to. authorities say three people have been killed, including one driver who was crushed by a fall ing street sign in tampa. helene has been down graded to a category 2

storm. it is moving toward georgia, but the national hurricane center says it is still very, very dangerous for people in the storm's path. jason allen is in crawford, florida, with the latest. >> reporter: the brunt of hurricane helene is now pushing right up against florida's big bend region. this storm will move through fast, but it will be a crucial next couple of hours. hurricane helene has made landfall along florida's big bend region barreling onshore with damaging winds as forecasters warn of a catastrophic storm surge. >> it is currently making landfall in taylor county in the big bend section of florida, deco beach. it is a category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. >> reporter: strong gusts of wind and heavy rain moved across the orlando area thursday. residents throughout much of the state and large parts of the southeast braced for dangerous storm surge that could hit as high as 20 feet. >> any storm that comes through

the area, it's something that's very worrisome only because you don't know how far the water will come up. >> reporter: the director of the national hurricane center described the expected storm surge along florida's northwestern coastline as "a really unsurvivable scenario." early flooding hit waterfront neighborhoods in st. petersburg. in crawfordville in northwest florida the wind is really starting to pick up and this is a place helene could pass directly over. georgia, the carolinas, and virginia have joined florida declaring states of emergency. >> if it is not necessary for you to be on the roads during and after this storm, please try to stay home. >> reporter: the region will facing increased flash flooding and tornado threats as helene bears down. the worst of helene's winds are probably going to feel that storm surge which covers a broad area. it will make it difficult to get into the worst hit communities even after the storm moves through. back to you. darren, correct me if i'm

wrong, but what i've always understood to be a meteorologist's worst nightmare about a hurricane for the most part is when one strengthens really fast. >> yes. that's what this one did. over the years previously we would spend days like wringing our hands and talking about a hurricane that was on track to hit the coast of the u.s. this is a category 4. years ago that would have been headline news about four or five days before it happened. this was not anywhere near a category 4 two days ago. >> and then? >> it went through rapid intensification, exactly what you were talking about. i think that might be one of many important aspects about the storm. the answer to this lies in the water. first look off our coast. temperatures off our coast now, sea surface temperatures are in the mid-50s, pretty cold. let's go over to the gulf. temperatures in the gulf right now are in the mid-80s, but it's not just that, 30 degrees warmer than our water, it's supposed to be a lot warmer over here, it's off the charts warm now in

terms of being the warmest these waters have ever been on record for this time of year. now if that's fuel for hurricanes, first of all, it gives them the intensity and as they approach the coastline, we've seen this theme happen a lot now in previous years. it allows them to go through that technical term of rapid intensification. if we lose the sea surface temperatures and put on top of this same map what it looked like today, i brought us back to noon so you can see how this came across that very warm water right before it went into florida. we'll watch from noon to midnight. we'll see it make landfall in the 7:00 hour our time and then that eye holds onto strength. it's still a category 2 just like sara was talking about and it stayed strong for longer as it moved onshore because it had so much intensity to work with after having rapidly kind of really taken off like that. so one important aspect, there's so many other aspects to this we'll cover over the next several days and on the network newscast as well, but for now

back to you. >> thank you. coming up, a look at what it's been like caught in the middle of that powerful storm and it was a deadly day in napa, what police are telling us tonight about two people found dead and a wild pursuit into a park. and tom hanks is one of the biggest stars to come from the bay area with deep roots in oakland and at the coliseum, what he told our juliette goodrich about some of his treasured childhood memories there. washington, d.c.. i'v

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two people are dead after a very violent day in the north bay. our andrea nakano has more on what had police so busy today in napa. >> reporter: i'm at kennedy park where the chase ended. we saw s.w.a.t. teams, fire trucks, and dozens of police cars leave this area earlier tonight. police say that a violent day ended with a double murder suspect shooting himself during a standoff. now this all started at an apartment complex on the 700 block of lincoln avenue. two people, a man and a woman, were shot and killed at the complex. officers later spotted the suspect in his car in napa and tried to pull him over. instead he took off. a high speed chase began and it ended at kennedy park. we spoke with a witness who captured the moment two police cars rammed the black sedan near the skatepark. michael scott and his friends were at the park when they heard the sirens and

saw the crash. both the napa police department and the napa county sheriff's department responded to kennedy park where they tried to get the suspect to surrender. this went on for hours, but ultimately ended with the suspect shooting himself. now we're told that the suspect was taken to a local hospital for his injuries, but police did not give us an update on his condition. let's go back to hurricane helene. we've been covering this all night tonight. this storm made landfall with 140-mile-per-hour winds. this is the first category 4 hurricane to ever hit florida's big bend region. that's since the 1800s. the storm has been downgraded to a category 2. it is taking aim at georgia this hour. there is no way to take stock of all the damage just yet since this is only unfolding now, but debris has been seen flying everywhere in one florida city. that intense storm caused power lines to spark up in the city of perry. at least 1 million customers are in the dark right

now in florida. that storm chaser was prepared with goggles and was very surprised to see some lightning and a reporter in perry did his best to stay upright. >> reporter: hurricane helene is packing a punch right now. the rain is circling around and it's got a little bite to it. my anemometer has been reading around 30 miles an hour, but i'm about to put this thing down because i think that the wind is far stronger than that. >> i know we see those sort of eye wall standup videos, reporters out there every time. >> yeah. >> even though as crazy as that looks, i don't think there's any way to convey how that feels. that was some fast moving wind. >> it's not fun. you got to be really committed to wanting to tell and share that story. some people are made for it. we're going to switch the gears now

because we've covered so much of helene i want to come back home because we've got our own story to talk about here in terms of what's coming our way the next few days. we're going to use the hemisphere overview to show you not what's going on over here tonight anymore and i'm going to put on the hi-res visualization. it's nighttime now, so you see all the city lights. you can see the day/night divider on the other side. let's swing over to this side, if we can, because what i want to pick out is the west coast and you can get into the sunlight over there. once you do that is a winter storm. just keep going. let's see that west coast a little more in the direction. that is a definite sign that the pacific is starting to wake up. it's hurricane season over here. winter storms are developing out there on the other side. i know it's just on the other side of the night divider. there is imagery there that gives us a clear indication how things are changing. however, you're not

going to feel it tomorrow. you'll feel it over the weekend. by saturday and sunday things will cool down and temperatures will come back down to average for us. as odd as it sounds to talk about winter developing in the gulf of alaska, tomorrow is going to be noticeably warmer because that system is not able to quite reach us yet and give us the cooldown that it's got. so if we look where we'll be for daytime highs tomorrow and also visualize it with the temperatures on here, it's a pretty big jump from today, about 10 to 12 degrees for some of those warmer inland spots, going to be near 100 in livermore tomorrow, 97 in concord and temperatures will be in the low and mid-90s for the santa clara valley as well. let's see how that changes going into the weekend. let's come back for a view off the coast and bring the marine layer on because you won't have any of it tomorrow, but starting tomorrow, you are going to see the fog after tomorrow like around sunset into saturday morning. we'll see the marine layer start

building back in very weakly but just enough that it has an influence. if we leave behind friday's numbers and look beyond that now, see the impact it has on saturday? we'll lose all the imagery. see what the temperature profile looks like saturday, much lighter looking. the colors are a lot less ominous looking as well and when we get rid of the clouds, this where is that onshore influence starts to come back. you can see the shades of green. this is surface air temperature about two meters above the ground in high resolution. you can see the cooldown right there. it's not getting far enough inland. you do get some benefit. look at saturday's daytime highs. remember the numbers we were just looking at for tomorrow? let's look where they'll be saturday and by the time we get there, now you're back down closer to average anyway. we get you out of the 90s for the weekend. you'll be in the upper 80s and san francisco goes back down to the 60s, below average. so the battle happening in the atmosphere overhead, the cold air is not winning yet even though there

are signs of it that are building out in the pacific. what happens for us now as we look to the seven-day forecast for our microclimates, you really have to look at monday, tuesday because that's where we go back to the low 100s, 102 on tuesday and then it gets better. there is a significant warm-up coming our way as we get into the early part of next week. we look at the numbers for san jose. you're not going to the low 100s. you'll go to the low 90s and we'll round out the story by looking at san francisco's seven-day forecast where you have some days in the low to mid-80s on tuesday. matt, over to you. >> coming up in sports we will recap an emotional afternoon over in oakland one last time from the coliseum as the green and gold left it all on the field to make sure the hometown fans got it is inevitable.

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kind of a sad show. we were talking about today and about how it was sad, but it was very

energetic. >> yeah. >> it felt like a big game. >> and as someone who has only been to the coliseum a handful of times, obviously it was sad, but i really enjoyed being out there today, but you saw the energy fans have talked about so long. it was a playoff atmosphere. it was really fun. since 1972 just two major league baseball teams have moved cities, the oakland a's becoming the third joining the expos and the senators to leave their hometowns. we've heard the rumblings of a new stadium dating back to the early 2000s and especially since 2005 when john fisher bought the team and today nearly 20 years later it seems fisher got his wish. fans were forced to say farewell. at the very least, at least they were treated to something memorable on thursday. rickey henderson and dave stewart on the mound for the first pitch. barry zito with the pipes for the national anthem, mark kotsay and the a's emphasizing how important it was to get a win on this final day and that's exactly what they did.

mason miller closed out for a 3-2 victory. their 2,492nd victory at the coliseum. the stadium has hosted 17 world series games, 61 playoff games, and i would say the atmosphere on this day at the coliseum rivaled many of those contests. a final farewell to the oakland coliseum with 46,000 plus on hand to soak it in, including one final chant led by the skipper. >> and i ask you for one more time to start the greatest cheer in baseball. let's go oakland! >> let's go oakland! ♪ >> i got pretty choked up. i didn't really grow up an a's fan or anything like, that but seeing all the staff here and all the people that have been a part of this over the course of years took us all back a little bit. >> reporter: did you expect it to be as loud and as crazy as it was? >> i really didn't know what

to expect, especially with the situation, you know, and people running on the field and the smoke things. >> it wasn't a full-on raider game, but i mean, you know, you understand in the seventh inning when beer sales stop, right, like hey. >> a lot of stadiums have become less about the actual baseball game and more just about an entertainment product and i think what the coliseum offers is like here's just a bunch of seats and here's a field and there's going to be a baseball game happening and that's why everyone is here and that's really cool. >> i think the die hards share that sentiment said there by brent rooker. brock purdy said his back is good for sunday's game against the patriots. you could say purdy hurt it carrying the offense last sunday. vern glenn has more in santa clara. >> reporter: the 49ers were shorthanded in l.a. last sunday, but that did not slow down brock purdy. >> it seemed like brock played his [ bleep ] off from what i saw. >> reporter: purdy has been silencing the haters that say

he is a system quarterback. his 842 yards passing are the second most in the nfl through three games. >> you have guys who never played the game talk about how he's just got good guys around him. i don't really get it, but after playing with him for three years now i continue to say the same thing. he's a fantastic quarterback. >> it was quite the day at the oakland coliseum and something i found interesting, the a's used 27 different bases during the game today. that's because they wanted players, coaches, and staff members to be able to take home a souvenir. manager mark kotsay said he took home three. i did not get a base, but i did scoop up some of the dirt. the grounds crew was very willing to scoop it up and give it out at the end of the game. i think that's cool. i've got a little bit of a souvenir, hopefully can spread this around. i've got some more for the fine folks at kpix. >> yes. thank you for giving me dirt. >> merry christmas. >> as you tend to do. tom hanks is known for his movie career

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actor tom hanks is feeling the pain of the a's leaving the coliseum. before appearing in some of the biggest movies ever, he actually got his start with the coliseum. he shares his memories with juliette goodrich. >> reporter: can you see the ballpark behind us? can you look at that? >> oh, look at it. yeah, there it is. >> reporter: bay area native tom hanks recalls childhood days at the ballpark, the oakland coliseum ballpark. >> i think i was in fifth or sixth grade. >> reporter: a bittersweet conversation with hanks down memory lane. he says as a kid, the coliseum was -- >> it was a palace. it was a world renowned place where so much was going to be happening and i happened to live in the slightly elevated part of the city and i could see the lights of the oakland coliseum whenever there was an event down there, which was a big deal. >> reporter: hanks graduated from skyline high school in

oakland. it was in high school when he applied for his first job as a vendor at the ballpark. >> colossal hotdogs! >> reporter: during covid hanks brought life to the cardboard stands with his voice as a virtual concessions vendor. >> look, i'm 68 years old. the oakland a's have been a part of my life and people that i paid attention to all through the bash brothers days, certainly all the glory days of their world championship games. i saw the san francisco legend willie mays play his last professional baseball game in the world series against the oakland a's. the oakland a's won that day, by the way. i always saw something memorable at every single oakland a's game. campy campaneros turning the perfect double play. joe rudy going deep holding tight to the ball as he crashed into the wall.

>> reporter: and there were games he may never forget for other reasons. >> well, let me tell you i went along with my friend alan and his older brother and we were at hot pants day. i don't know if you can remember hot pants day, but every woman who was wearing hot pants i believe got in free and you want to talk about a sellout crowd, there were a lot of women in hot pants there that day. i believe that was a doubleheader as well. they had a little bit of a hot pants competition in between the games and i want to say there was an awful lot of excitement. >> reporter: but there is one player hanks says will always be a standout to him, a favorite. >> the guy that i really loved the most was mudcat grant. he was a pitcher and he was a wonderful interviewer whenever they put a microphone in front of his face. just the idea that we could root for a guy named mudcat, you know, when you're a kid and a baseball fan, you

get attached to that. you never quite let go. >> reporter: admittedly letting go of something you love from childhood isn't easy, but hanks offers this to all of us. >> even though the athletics, looks as though they are going to be moving on, that doesn't take away from the grand history that goes along with the word athletics on somebody's chest. >> i had no idea he was such a big prolific baseball fan. >> neither did i. >> i never knew we had a guy on the team named mudcat until just now. >> you learn something new from tom hanks every time he speaks. >> that's true. you can watch the extended version of juliette's interview on our website, kpix.com. thank you so much for joining us on this emotional night for oakland a's fans everywhere. good night. >> new york mayor eric adams was