we are underway in downtown cleveland. you're in tribe territory. deep right. it's out of here. >> 11 strikeouts. >> welcome home coco. >> once again cleveland, you will have an october to remember. after win. >> how about that? ball game. >> the cavs made history and now the tribe looking to double down. >> they have swept the boston red sox. the indians are headed to the american league championship series. >> play ball. >> it is time for cleveland to

>> it's a night fans have been hoping for since the indians quietly nailed a 14 game winning streak. tonight is shaping up to be a beautiful night for some baseball indeed. air tracker 5 giving us a view of progressive field tonight. it's been almost a decade since the tribe made it this far. this year, we are feeling great about their live team coverage from progressive field. we have people digging into the history and players. live outside progressive field kicking things off. what's up, guys? . >> well, from the days that we heard the first words op pitchers and catchers report to spring training, this is what

aiming for. but only the indians and blue jays are there from the american league. it's a beautiful night for baseball tonight. just about three hours from now, it's the tribe against the blue jays in a series about a decade in the making. >> it has actually been nine years since our tribe has been in the alcs. we made it to game seven and then --. >> >> and that was our very own coco krips clenching the series for the boston red sox. he's back on team tribe and the red sox manager back in 2007 is now indians. >> he's the red sox manager and now he's the indians marg o

right. >> and you know what else? we are outside. we can go inside the stadium now. andy is right there where all the action will take place tonight. >> hey, guys. terri is still the manager of the cleveland indians. we're in good shape. you're right about the weather. it should be pretty good. i just had a chance to talk to one of the base coaches for the indians who as well. when the indians hit the three home runs, he said it's as loud as he ever heard it. for the indians to win in this series, they're going to have to turn to andrew miller out of the bull pen frment one of the best relievers in the game right now. he is ready. >> it's nice to have the

teammates. it hopefully brings confidence in yourself. all of us trust in what we've done to prepare and how we're prepared to go out there and get the job done. >> bauer who was scheduled to start tomorrow has been pushed back to game three. he was fixing a drone and ended up with ten stitches on his throwing hand. >> that's an injury i've never heard about. thanks. back outside here, it's all about the fans. the fans are starting to make their way into the stadium. hi, paul. >> hi, rob. as we get closer to tonight's

the compliement building. all you have to do is look around, excitement. >> it's game one at progressive field. the indians crew was busy putting the finishing touches on the ballpark this afternoon. people are wearing indians gear. some sports bars are having indoor and outdoor watch parties tonight. there are signs up all around downtown. we ran into fans grabbing a to eat before tienlt's game. they have -- tonight's game. they have big expectations for tonight's game. >> on fire. on fire. cavs did it and now the indians can do it. >> just energy everywhere. everybody's chantding go cleveland. you can see it everywhere. even at the hotel, everybody's walking around with their

it's amazing what they've accomplished. they haven't let us down and they're not going to tonight. >> not to be the bearer of bad news, but we checked out parking place prices. we saw signs for 40 and 50 bucks. >> is it me or does this year feel like everything is coming up cleveland because we are just on a roll? >> so far, all lined up here. if you have any doubt it will continue tonight, check out this. the numbers don't lie. that's what they had to say. this is going to blow your mind. we think the indians are right about all this. the team needs eight more wins for a title. there are 27 outs in every game.

>> 216. see what we did there? it's destiny, i fell you. but -- tell you. but even if it's not, taking a lot of weight off the indians this season were the cavaliers. >> and you know what? even though we are officially a city of champions, for some strange reason we still have people want to pick on it. take a look at this picture. what's on their mind? it's cbs sports commentators photo shopped in front of a burning river with a caption welcome to cleveland. that was the wrong move. the voice of cleveland had something to say about that. >> my name is leon.

me about cleveland or our rooifr, meet me -- river. we can have a face to face talk on the refer bank one night if you catch my drift. >> way to go, leon. >> he's live outside of progressive field. your video went viral viewed more than 1 million times. >> skwpt next day you accepted an apology not? >> you are absolutely right about that. we accepted it had apology. you know tbs is going to broad cast tonight's baseball game. but the other night they had the picture up after the indians beat the red sox. there was no reason for the picture saying welcome to cleveland on a photograph of a burning river.

of a russian pipeline fire in a russian city. it wasn't even cleveland. cleveland was offended by that. the story went viral. 250,000 hits i'm told. maybe i used some language a bit stronger in that piece, but i didn't want to network messing around with my town. that brought out an apology for tbs. the stadium and maybe a tbs official will say something, another apology. no dice on that. we have taken care of that. and that river burning joke, that's autz old as -- well, it's older than that. now the guys over at fresh

together a t-shirt. they say they're quoting me on the t-shirt. they're putting these on their website. i'm in the in the t-shirt business but i am in the cleveland business. it says don't mess with my town. don't mess with us, we're cleveland. by the way, i'm leon. >> mr. wife a few minutes ago, she's already bought me own of your t-shirts. thanks for everything you had to say. >> don't mess with my town. i will meet you at the river bam, bam, and bam. that's what i like. >> thanks. my name is rob powers and his name is mark johnson and he's going to did you say about the weather. >> hey, mark.

jacket or a cape. i think it was a cape. superman lives in this town. 63 in cleveland. 62 in akron. mild october afternoon but we will chill down. the best news for the tribe and all your high school football activities, no rainfall. let's get you through the game. tonight mainly clear. jackets. watch these temperatures inland really going down. 8:00 o'clock, 40s. 9:00 o'clock, mid 40s. by the time the high school football games end, 40s in a lot of 1309s.

the mrak making. plus less than four weeks to election day and things are not looking good for the republican nominee. a new round of national polls is out. a heated race for the u.s. senate right here in ohio. they went head to head in their first debate and we break down where they stand on the issues. and we are indians yet. our coverage continues with a look at the controversial team mascot. and bringing you that story and a lot more from progressive field tonight. a live look sfr air tracker 5.

we're taking action for a viewer who says police towed his car and then had it crushed. >> that's what he was told at

his ride up for auction. >>reporter: found his car in a police impound lot. we were also able to match the vin number hours before it was set to be sold to someone else. the vin number matches his insurance card. >> that was my baby for a while. >>reporter: it was this picture cleveland police posted on facebook that was all the confirmation he needed. th and he's had it three years. it had been sitting outside his cleveland home for an extended period of time. a neighbor had it towed. he waited a few weeks and when he went to retrieve it, cops said it was too late. >> they said it had been crushed a while back. at that point i had to chalk it up as a loss.

right here ready to be auctioned. a cleveland police spokesperson refused to answer my questions on camera. he said registered mail was sent out to the owner but the mail was not retrieved. i have no information about the vehicle being crushed. clearly it was not. but there's more. thousands of dollars in high end go sneakers also went missing. >> if you threw those away, that doesn't make any sense. i would just like my golf clubs back. >>reporter: no answer from police about where his stuff went either. he plans to follow up with police. just under a month until election day. donald trump losing ground both

battle grand states. new polls by fox and nbc show hillary clinton leading. the recent polls come after an audio recording leaked and you could hear donald trump brags about doing inappropriate things to women. a new of women have come forward to accuse him of misconduct. >> fiction. they're 100% made up. they never happened. >> the clinton campaign is dealing with their own fall yacht about the wiki leaks e-mail released. and the race for the white house is grabbing the most headlines, but also at stake is control of the u.s. senate. >> one of the key races is here in ohio.

head to head. >> among the topics portman and strickland battled over in the hour long debate was strickland's record as governor. >> he left a record deficit and took the rainy day fund down to 89 cents. nine out of ten of the jobs that left ohio went nature of our economy. wer a heavily manufacturing state. these job killing trade deals had a particular detrimental benefit on the state. >>reporter: another hot topic was portman's support of donald trump. >> for me it was the final straw

that i could not -- saying i could not support my nominee. >> he was too ashamed of him to stand on a platform with him but continued to say he should be president. what kind of twisted logic or twisted value system would lead someone to engage in that kind of, i don't know what to call it. >>reporter: these two will go at it again thursday. 24 seats are held be republicans including portman's. i hear there's a game tonight. >> you heard? >> a little game going on. tribe taking on -- it's a bird. >> yeah? are we good with jeans and a hoodi sneshgs. >> it is winning weather.

look for downtown cleveland right now. the sun going down. we love when mother nature smiles on us with this kind of view. now, it was a chilly overnight tonight. we had the cold settling in. this morning's lows, 32 degrees. that's a hard freeze. not just a frost but a freeze. a lot of awe way from the lake had your freeze and frost. beginning to surge north -- but. it'll be a mainly clear evening for whatever you want to do. and right now doutd is at 63 degrees. 38 in parma. where's the rain? we don't see any. no rain to worry about for the evening hours. here we go. near 60 at 6 p.m. by 8 p.m.,

at progressive field, 57 to 58 degrees and then wooerl be in the lower 50s to end the game. but if you're inland away from the big city lights, those temperatures are going down into the 40. 49 tonight, clear skies. wear your coats. a nice weekend coming up for you. we'll be right back with more

a hero's home going. >> today a sailor killed in the attack on pearl harbor was laid to rest. he was only 19. now nearly 75 years later, his

they honored the veteran who was buried with full military honors. the indians taking on the blue jays. our boys' first appearance in nearly a decade. we've got live team coverage. that continues next. one of the tribe players needed to have his jaw broken in four places. we take you inside the surgery and the impact it had on the

i'm glad i did it. i'm sleeping now and my health is a lot better. for me to come here and have the manager every day, it saved my

>> just a remarkable story. he gets regular sleep now, eight hours a night and he can finally dream again. his dream come true would be to win a world series. guys, back to you. >> heck of a story. thanks for bringing it to us. it back home. you know what we saw in the air. midges. we need a little game time forecast. how should we dress? >> well, they're trained. they're going after the blue jays. they don't like birds. they're trained attack insect

day such as i can. i love the -- as much as i can. it will be a spectacular evening. i can assure you we have no frost advisory issues. we have marine warnings up here. no blue colored counties anymore. we are not going to freeze overnight tonight. we will be chilly. we're cool 63, clef clef, 73, akron. so here's how to prepare. don't worry about rain because we'll stay pretty much clear through the entire ball game through the evening. the temperatures will cool down. 57 to start the ball game and lower middle 50s to end. so jackets. >> come on, man. all right. we have more indians team

6:00. all new tonight, a history lesson from leon bib. he was able to track down the sign. there's some memories. foind out where that landed when the stadium was torn down. and going deeper into our team's past. the indians is a team rich with history. a look back at the p

in my world of weather today, unique scenario in the northwest. there's a typhoon about ten days

winds. it's gone, but the remnants remain and it is stalking the northwest with hurricane force winds. they had a very rare tornado today in oregon. there's the tornado and here's the damage all because of the remnants of the typhoon. we'll be back with more right

welcome back to news 5 at 5:00. we're in the shadows of progressive field. the indians are set to take on the blue jays. when the team hits the field, them do so with -- they will do so with a recognizable logo. with them as well. >> it's very controversial but he's been around for decades here in cleveland. we're live with this week's my ohio with more. >>reporter: this was the piece of the cleveland indians which could be seen from miles away. it once turned on the corner of

hated depending on who is viewing it. >> it's a historic art fact but it also talks about the predominance of baseball and the place the cleveland indians have held in the city's history. >>reporter: he went up in 1962 and remained there for three decades. when they moved, the sign went into it was donated to the historical society. some call it racist and other label it as tribute. >> if we avoided controversy in terms of preserving historical items, we would have no history. >>reporter: they acknowledge all viewpoints. on permanent display are also

in roughly the same number of words tells you why it is negative and racist. and the third one tells you why it's not. >>reporter: regardless of the controversy, the support is widespread for the team of the field. the cleveland indians are running to the pen nt. world series doors can be hard to own. the last time it opened wide was part of the exhibit on bob hope who was a part owner of the team. '48 was a good year and a good one for this chrysler. >> you can imagine this car driving down to cleveland municipal stadium and being parked in the huge parking lot that was there. >>reporter: when this car was

championship, world war ii had ended two years before. >> the team was back. you're looking at cleveland and cleveland was reenergized. it's population was still growing. >>reporter: there were times baseball was king of spofrts alone -- sports. when fans flooded the stadium and memories were made and those d world series champions wore cleveland uniforms. >> as for the chief, the logo is still around. but now it shares the duties with the indians block. >> it has for the 1948 indians they need to repeat that scene.

the cavs ended it, the monsters won a championship. now here come the indians. >> as we toss back into the studio, i want to make observations. they keep asking us to describe the atmosphere. this is a town that likes to run. there's a lot of runners out here today running by. i just want to compliment some of the men on their running gear and some of the beautiful scenery that i appreciate >> you are a hoot. >> my eyes have seen the glory. >> with how short the shorts are, she's seeing more than the glory. as we go to this guy right here. >> how's the weather now. >> nice job. thank you for painting that picture in our mind.

i'll show you the glory blue skies. we're seeing the sunset right there. here's the live look at cleveland. there's the glory right there. sts going to be an incredible sunset topping or beginning an incredible evening for fans and friends here in north ohio. there's some blue jay fans. be polite and courteous but do not back down. we had a very chilly start t but the cold air will retreat and bring in more warm air. look at the temperatures from this morning. 32 was the morning low. freezes where it hit 32. they were scraping windows of frost in akron and in canton. even parma was 37 degrees.

tonight. 62 currently in akron. 60s in the area. clouds to the north and south. and right here in the middle, i don't know, i'm feeling good. right in the middle is the creamy filling. yeah. it's the sunshine and clear sky action going on. if you're going to a high school football game, should be a mainly clear evening. lakeshore, you'll see the temperatures falling quickly. the fall chill is on. be ware. the tribe game, we'll stay in the 50s. we'll start off around 55 to 57. by (1)000-1100, midnight, we're in the lower 50s. not terrible. tonight we'll go down to 49. clear skies and jacket weather. not as chilly as last night.

i'm liking that. mainly sunny and a warm afternoon. in you're running in the cleveland browns 5k, great weather for it. career skies for akron and tomorrow 72 and mainly sunny. all new, a potential danger on cleveland's innerbelt. >> find out what happened when we started ago the tough questions. it's a story you'll see only on 5. we are looking back at one of the most the season. next we'll take you inside the historic ballpark. wait until you see the treasures

as we kwoint down do game one of the alcs. >> here we go. this is the perfect time to take

city of cleveland. mike is joining us from the city's east side. the history comes to life at the team's original home, league park. >>reporter: yeah, rob, it sure does. the ticket house here at east 66th and lexington is packed and it sits feet from the field where indians memories and historic moments played out. >> connecting generations and we feel passionately about that too. >>reporter: they weave the generations of tribe fans together. >> if you just had the players on the cleveland indians and you took away the history, it's just a group of guys. >>reporter: all of it inside the ticket house of this restored ballpark. >> league park is the corner

>>reporter: it's hosted some of baseball's biggest moments. >> joe dimaggio hitting in 1941. babe ruth in 1929. >>reporter: league park and the team that called it home also known for breaking race and gender barriers in the game. >> there's a very strong theme of diversity. >>reporter: after years downtown, it relocated here. home where we should be where baseball really started in cleveland and where the indians grew from. >> this is still a hidden gem. . >> to have a baseball museum right where that history was made, i mean even the baseball hall of fame doesn't have that.

visitors from all across the country and globe. they are open saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. go tribe. and that'll do it for news 5 at 5:00. next, a local police auction is raising eyebrows after a man says his car fsz towed and put up on the auction block unfairly. tonight we're digging into his problem and what we've uncovered. everything you need to know about tonight's game.