up is under way. they waited and waited and on this crystal clear day. the giants deliver to the city of san francisco its first world series champion trophy. >> this is a reminder after dream fulfilled for all of us. >> thanks to your amazing giants fans on this city in northern

california and all over the world. >> john miller and dave fleming introduce the team. each one filled with a unie personality that the fans have grown to love from aubrey huff. >> i am sure that you all heard about the song and rally. >> this thing nailed it. >> to brian wilson. >> i'm not a man of many words. i don't even know right now. kind of having a mini heart attack. i am not sure what it is from. maybe the electricity in the town or frog 19. it is over. >> the mayor hand them a key to the city. >> they wanted to win it as bad

for you as for themselves. >> with confessti falling from the sky, the story of the world championship san francisco giants arrived at this climatic point and this one is where fans will repeat it for generations and a dodger fan is coming along for the ride. >> as you all know, i grew up a dodger fan. it is all about the strange giants -- san francisco giants baby. >> live here in san francisco. mike mibach ktvt. we want to show you live pictures from outside of at&t park, you can see the sidewalks packed with people still excited and a lot of people heading to

the dugout store. so many people want a world series t-shirt or cap. a bonds jersey right there and a lot of folks soaking up the atmosphere as the giants are world champions of 2010. >> keeping the magic alive and while many gathered. there was no short and of fans routing along the team on the parade route. john was there and he joins us with the coverage. >> reporter: on market street this was a day of joy and love and relief. plen of relief that finally after 52 years the san francisco giants are world champions. what else could make a million people this happy? oh, my gosh. it is so magic. i can't believe it. i guess i finally believed they won the world series. >> it is mading. it is the weirdest thing ever. we have been waiting for this. >> the players rode in trollies

and walked on foot and high fived the crowd and everyone overwhelmed by the moment. >> it is awesome. it doesn't get any better than this. that is what you play for. these people come out and support us and we are giving back now and this is what it is about. >> it is unbelievable. this is amazing. >> it feels great and sharing this hall of fame with san francisco. i can see this team is alive. >> another man was behind the theme song don't stop believing. >> they brought us back. they got us here. it is all about them. >> the tough thing about a story like this is that it is impossible to encapsulate such a huge emotional event. suffice it to say that a million people went home totally

content. channel 2 news. today's excitement turned into roweddiness in some parts of san francisco as some folks took it too far. on market street people jumped on top of buses and traffic was blocked as folks came into streets of the downtown area after that civic center celebration. it is not clear whether police made arrests but there are no reports of any injuries. there was one giant fan at today's event that did not get a warm reception. governor schwarzenegger. >> thank you very much. >> cheers turned to boos for the republican leader as he approached the crowd. despite the not so welcome reception, schwarzenegger welcomed his congratulations and for more on the san francisco giants you can watch the parade and see the coverage of the team's world series win and visit our website ktvu.com and click on the world series tab.

and jerry brown became california's once and future governor last night beating opponent meg whitman by more than a 10% margin. brown was california's youngest governor when i look leaked in 1974 by the age of 36. he is the oldest candidate to lead at the age of 72. >> all i can tell you is that i didn't create this mess and i will be straight and do everything can to make it world. >> he will take office on monday, january 3rd. meg whitman made a cheerful concession speech. the billionaire spent $141 million of her own money and received just more than 3 million votes. that means that meg whitman spent about $46 for each vote. no word on whether she plans on continuing a public career. senator barbara boxter will be rushing to washington for a

4th term. we was away from the cameras and press today. she spoke with her supporters in hollywood. her opponent waited to today to make her concession speech. >> i have spoken to senator box ter and congratulated her and wished her well. the arena thanked her supporters and said she would try to make sure that government works for the people and not the other way around. an official report shows boxster with 52% of the vote compared to fair rino with 42%. kyle harris is in a cliffhanger with steve coolly for the office of state attorney general. harris thinks she will ummly win but currently leads by only 15,000 votes which works out to .2 of a percent and there are thousands of absentee and provisional ballots that still need to be counted by some estimates and it could be weeks before a winner is declared. folk in oakland are going to have to wait awhile to find out

who is going to be that city's new mayor because of the new ranked voting system. as of 4:00, don per lotta had the lead but not the majority that he needs to win. the registrar's office has to do the math to figure out the winner and that will take time. we are live in oakland with more on the situation. rob. >> reporter: frank, the alameda register of voters is tabulating the votes and said it could be friday before we know who will be occupying the mayor's office here at city hall the next four years. at the registrar of voter's office today dozen of workers had mountains of ballots to sort and check. oakland is using new system called rank choice voting that allows voters to pick up to three candidates of preference. the register says the new system is not slowing down so far. >> usually fit is a close race you don't know the winner so it

has nothing to do with rank choice voting. >> under ranked choice voting if no candidate receives more than 50% the bottom candidates are redistributed to the voter's second choice until the candidate sefs the majority. >> i'll run that algorithm on friday afternoon and those won't be the final results by any means but it will give everybody a better idea of which candidate gets dropped off. >> candidate don per lotta is leading councilwoman jean qualm. the campaign manager has it over ranked choice. >> i don't think this process helped to clarify candidate's positions. >> oakland voters approached the system four years ago but it is just now taking effect. the big attraction of rank choice that's it saves taxpayer money by avoiding primaries and elections money that could go towards police and public parks by city council president jane broader says it short changes

the voters. >> i don't think the debate on the issues was sharp and i think that is what happens when you have two people. >> the reg star says it won't be until friday until the rank computer program goes into action for better or for worse, reporting live in oakland, ktvt. channel 2 news. a congressional race is a dead heat at this hour. a dellage of last minute votes. jerry mcnury from challenger sam ramone torn david horner, we are in pleasant ton now, a town divided. >> reporter: in downtown pleasantton and where you go to hear the talk of the town is hear, normal's barbershop and it is the congressional race that's getting all of the buzz. call it cutting it close, or

maybe a head by a hair. at normal's barbershop it is about the race between democratic incumbent mcnurry and harmer. mcnury leads by 120 and the count continuing. dean understand us that he voted for mcnury last time but harmon this year. >> this time i went to hor man because of the fiscal issues. it has just gotten out of control. >> reporter: small business owner john mcnamey switched from the democrat to the republican. >> there's so much spending going on and for the future for the kids, they are never going to be able to reap out from that. >> there was quite a bit of talk about in that the shop. >> pretty friendly debate. >> yes, no fistfights over it. >> the candidates are glad of that and today both said they have reason to believe that ballots that arrived late will support them. >> we had 1500 workers on the get out the vote program in the last day and the last weeks leading up to that and we have knocked on one hundred thousand

doors and a lot of the ballots came in because of the program and i'm looking forward to see what they say. >> we have 35,000 ballots yet to be counted where performance have been strong and we are hopeful as they come in the lead that grew slender and vanished will reemerge. >> it appears that everybody in the town will have something to talk about for a a few weeks and that is not counting a possible recount. an uncertain future for silicon valley start up. it should be the economic future but the question is are their questions over that cloud. that story is still ahead. i'm we are tracking rain that is headed to the bay area. i'll tell you which days of the weekend will be wet.

and here is the festivities that ended here at city hall where the giant fans from all over the bay area gathered to welcome home and thank the 2010

world series champions. that was juan uribe, he was one that received a hero's welcome. a native of the dominican republic, he gave his speech today in spanish. >> a few months after president obama visited a bay area sola manufacturing and appraised its

employees it announced it is shutting down one of its plants and laying off workers. we are live in fremont home of the manufacturing giant. >> reporter: julia, a half billion dollars in loans cannot ultimately guarantee so liner's success. the president visited here last may but it is announcing the closing of its plant and meaning 200 temporary and job losses, 30 full time production workers. >> that is pretty sad. they are gone. call this stimulus package from the government? >> i think that everyone is doing that now, everyone is cutting back and trying to tighten the belt. >> reporter: slender is in deep debt facing competition from

china. >> this is a shakeout that we have been anticipating. >> reporter: the head of berkeley's night of business says in a depressed economy. >> the market should be picking winners and what worries me is when the government gets in and picks winners and some turn out not to be winners which will happen. is the government willing to say oh, that was a mistake or are they going to start throwing bad money after good. >> slender's ceo said its problems are way over blown. >> slender has tremendous growth prospects about 1,000 people in fremont and we will continue to have about 1,000 people and reduction is 30 and we in ten to hire about 30 sales and marketing people during the course of the year. >> reporter: but currently the industry has too much production capacity and not enough customers. important to remember that new technology have rough bumps at the beginning, don't forget that

apple almost failed several times. sales for the u.s. auto industry rose and that includes general motors where sales jumped three-and-a-half percent. sales of wagons and suvs were strong up 36% compared to october. buick, gmc and chevrolet were up 13%. buyers are growing more confident and new models are drawing more people into dealerships. >> stocks reach add new high after the federal reserve announced it would buy $600 billion in treasury bond, an effort to drive interest rates lower and spark more spending. the dow finished up 26 points ant nasdaq was up 7 points. workers in the tunnel after a construction accident this morning. cal train says that a worker was

injured after a rock fell on the worker. he was taken to a hospital where he was treated and then released. caltran says it has stopped work when it invest gaits what happened. what a beautiful day but you have been looking at the computer models, bill and it looks like changes. >> yes, as we roll into the next couple days, clouds and temperatures cool off and rain visits as we go to the weekend. to hear the forecast or the highs right now, current temperature, it is warm and mile and 76 in san jose, and temperatures in the valley in the 80s and these are the official highs, highs tomorrow about the same, another nice day. fire danger is not an issue and air quality is good and this air system is what i'm tracking and as it rolls in we are waiting for the showers. tomorrow and thursday and friday looks good and cooler and more clouds and saturday more clouds and then sunday, this weather

system drops in and okay looking weather system. maybe some rain. sunday right now looks to be the wet day and the timing will change and i will show you the latest computer model. we'll have a new update and look at the timing and severity. if the timing and severity matches it looks like it is on track and that is thousand you decide which computer model to use. 83 in morgan hill and 83 in gil rey and a beautiful thursday after a beautiful wednesday. 73 in daily city and no coastal fog and some patchy valley fog and a nice weather pattern and this deal on sunday looks wet, a few sprinkles in your sunday night and don't let your saturday, it won't rain then, late saturday and early sunday. i'll update with the latest

computer model at 10:00. another look now at the massive crowd giving the giant's a hero welcome. an estimated crowd of one million people. all to bask in the world series moment. for many this is a moment that they have been waiting for their

entire life. >> the got to make it a great day and you might as well make it san francisco giants day in the city of san francisco. >> that was mayor galvin honoring the giants and proclaiming it san francisco giants day and they received a key to the city. the fans were 50 deep during the parade and overall the crowd was estimated about one million people celebrating their hometown heroes. what a crowd. >> amazing and mark is off and joe is in tonight to continue the wave of the giants celebration. >> and when they got here in '58, everybody thought they would do it earlier than 2010. the event many long-time fans thought would never come was

held in san francisco today. the san francisco giants were honored with a parade that celebrated their world series championship. bruce bochy was the carrier of the official hardware as thousands reveled where the team tried many times. since 1997 brian sabin knows the significance of what this team accomplished. >> we deserved this, northern california deserved this and san francisco deserved this and the organization did and the fans, it's the most interesting life experience than anybody could have. >> in spring training and to the torturous august to texas, seeing black and orange was so awesome and fun and exciting and made it so much fun to play

therein they're and -- and all i can say is thank you. on this day of celebration for the giants, former manager clyde king has died at the age of 86. the oakland as has cursed options on ellis and cocoa crisp which means they will be back and they did not do so for the injured chavez. our most images of vladimor, someone seen too freaky to play in the field and the rangers did not exercise the option to keep vladimore for another year. for the moment, everyone can bask in the glory for another day or two. >> and that's what they are doing. speaking of that the party continues in san francisco as the giants continue to celebrate

that victory party and coming up at 7:00 on tv 36, winning affects people on a lot of levels for the feeling of pride, one expert says it is contagious but a sobering side and we will take a look in a story in 30 minutes on tv 36. hard not to be contagious. when you look at the fans. yes. >> and that's our report for now. >> i'm julie haener and i'm frank summerville. good evening everyone. have a great night.