reporter: another live look at the final work being done here in exposition park. getting ready to push the space shuttle into the brand new hangar. it's going to remain here sack toll for five years, and then hope to put it in a vertical position just like when it was set to take off. live in exposition park. abc-7 news. >> thanks very much. still to come on abc-7 at 6:00. new details uncovered about what may have led up to a fire at the chevron refinery in august. >> a man tries to use an evacuation to escape from police. >>> grocery shopping goes high tec. the new app that makes shopping a virtual ease. >> high there, i'm leigh glaser. today 60s and 70s across the bay area. by mid-week, temperatures into the 90s. get ready for warmer >> a bitter political fight in san jose between the police union and city officials is growing. supporters of the unions and the officers denounced the statement by councilwoman herrera. they say she knows the force has been cut to the bone and is playing on people's emotions. >> i said it before and will say it again, i said it as

it's headed to a museum at exposition park. it has been parked at los angeles international airport for the last few weeks. the shuttle is moving at speeds up to two miles an hour as we speak. overnight endeavour was pulled across a bridge above interstate 405 and today it's traveling along a narrow residential street with apartment buildings on either side. sometime tonight endeavour is expected to reach the california science center where it will go on display. a lot of people turning out to check it out on its final voyage. >>> some pieces of white house history are up for auction. they were collected by a man who was a carpenter at the white house for 33 years. from harry truman to ronald reagan, now the carpenter's grandson is selling about a 1,000 hand me downs, they include a lighter, john f. kennedy's baby pin, and a wooden post from 1814 when the british set fire to the white house. some of the starting bids as high as $12,000. >>> thanks for joining us this morning. ,,,,,,,,

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. >> reporter: the girls came to exposition park this morning after younger sister sydney saw coverage yesterday. >> i said to mommy can we go to the space shuttle tomorrow? and she said yes. and why i want to go here is because it's my first time to see one. [ applause ] >> reporter: city leaders and joint managers from the science center to walk arm in arm with the shuttle making her way to her final resting place after a 12-mile trek from l. a. x. through different neighborhoods in los angeles and edgablewood. >> we went through some pretty tough streets of los angeles. and everybody was just universally enthusiastic. >> reporter: enthusiastic despite arriving a half day late. >> time was not the critical factor, safety was. and with the huge crowds we have that slowed us down some. >> reporter: it's estimates one million people lined the route which has been compared to a slow moving parade. as i spoke to people who gathered along the streets, i saw the real gift. >> of the endeavour. the gift of inspiration. >> ever since i've heard about the final mission for the shuttle. i've --

being transferred from los angeles international airport to the california science center at exposition park. the 170,000-pound spacecraft will be on display there for museum visitors eventually . this is a live picture of from the streets of l.a. there you can see the shuttle is moving at 2 miles per hour. four computer controlled transporters will negotiate the shuttle along the 12-mile route where in some cases it will be inches away from buildings. >> in some places the wing tips will extend beyond the boundaries of the streets over the sidewalks. >> reporter: what do you do then? >> just move very carefully and slowly. we tell people to open their windows as the wing comes by. [ laughter ] >> can you imagine? trees and other obstacles had to be removed to accommodate the unusually wide load. the shuttle will travel at speeds up to 2 miles an hour as we said in the two-day trip that began late last night. can you imagine being on that crew it help move it along the streets? >> neat. >> i think they took out like hundreds of trees too. that's tough. >> they did. >> but hey, it's the shutt

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live from exposition park, vicki vargas, nbc bay area news. >> quite the journey.u. >>> arlen specter died today from complications with non-hodgkin's lymphoma. the long-time moderate republican made headlines in 2009 when he announced he was switching to the democratic party. in 2010 he lost the democratic primary. before that, specter was the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and played a role in many supreme court nominations. he previously battled cancer and other health problems. he was 82 years old. >>> in the race for the white house, the presidential candidates took a break from campaigning today to prepare for their second debate. both campaigns expect tuesday night's showdown to be more confrontational than the first, which is widely seen as a victory for mitt romney. the president's campaign adviser says this week could be a critical rebound week. while mitt romney's adviser has what different perspective. >> i think he will be agres ive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country. >> the president can change his style. he

. >> reporter: this is exposition park.uttle is taken here through the south lawn of the museum of natural history, it will take this path they have laid out, making its way into the air and space center. now, this is unlike any trip ever taken by a space shuttle. laying down a carpet of steel along martin luther king bull yard. 2700 one inch plates placed along the route the space shuttle will take. >> we're getting these from southern california, arizona, las vegas and san diego. >> reporter: normally used to cover trenches, they are enlisting them to help protect underground pipelines. >> the steel distributes the weight. it will protect the infrastructure underneath the ground. >> reporter: and the final adventure at the speed of a slow walk starts friday morning. the work being done by four mobile transporters used for moving very large objects. >> there's 80 wheels and each wheel can move independently, but they're all computer controlled so they can move in one direction or move right angles and turn around on itself

los angeles, moving very, very slowly and expect to arrive at the california science museum at exposition park later on this morning. and the endeavour did run into hurdles yesterday on its trip through los angeles. the rig carrying the shuttle had to undergo maintenance, taking longer than expected. there were a lot of physical obstacles along the shuttles wingspan like building edges and tree that is they had to skirt around. >> that is pressive. people lined up to see it. it makes you feel good. >> the controversial thing. they had to remove hundreds of trees from the streets. >> it shows people are interested in space travel and science. something you may want to relay to washington. >> i don't know why so many people wanted to turn out, though, because it was the last time they could see something like that. >> yes. now they have spacex, so, that help, but it is amazing this country that really got us to the moon, which was the ussr, because we are engaged in this race to get to the moon, now we are dependant on russia to get us there with man and supplies. >> it cost as lot of money. >>

it will be on display at exposition park. it arrived after flying over a number of landmarks in california. the shuttle made a 12 mi. journey through the streets of los angeles where it estimated 1 million spectators watched it go by. with russia that live as well. the new exhibit will include two parts. before entering law call you a tour an exhibit that tells the story of california's aerospace industry in the shuttle program. it features videos, images, and artifacts, including endeavour's toilet and kitchen. visitors will enter the samuel auction pavilion. if you need a up close and personal look. still ahead on the kron 4 morning knows hurricane sandy strike and the east coast leaving residents without power and also leaving city officials dealing with flooding fires and damaged buildings plus the gian about before tomorrow morning. plus will be keeping an eye on the skies with erica she will be along with a check of whether in george will be along with with a check of whether in george will be along with whether[ female

we have an appointment at exposition park on november 16th to take the entire school. >> reporter: all along the route endeavour brought out cheers and even some tears because, after all, endeavour was an amazing flying machine. randi. >> thank you so much. we'll be keeping an eye on the shuttle's slow iffing course throughout the morning. now the latest on a 14-year-old pakistani girl who has stunned the world with her courage. malala remains unconscious on a ventilator after being shot in the head by militant gunmen on tuesday just for going to school, but pakistani officials say she is making slow and steady progress, and even moved her limbs when doctors reduced her medication. right now a massive rally in support of malala is underway. pakistan's larnlest city. thousands of people have taken to the streets in karachi to protest her shooting. >>> now to the presidential race. 23 days to go, and president obama is off the campaign trail again today. he arrived in williamsburg, virginia yesterday, but not for a campaign event in the critical swing state. instead he is there for debat

international airport to the california science center exposition park. that's an 11-mile journey.00-pound spacecraft will be on display for museum visitors eventually. four computer controlled transporters are negotiating the shuttle along the route where, in some cases, it comes just inches away from buildings and signals. i guess they have to chop down a lot of trees as well to get it you there. >> you can see people lining up on the streets there. they expect about a mill people out there for this little tour through the streets of l.a. >> the farewell continues for the shuttle. but quite a sight there. >> in business, wall street is steady this morning with futures up just a fraction of a percent right now on this friday. erica ferrari of cbsmoneywatch.com joins us now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. asian markets were mixed following more worries about weak corporate earnings. tokyo's nikkei shed a fraction, hong kong's hang seng added half a percent. the labor department says the number of people filing new claims for unemployment fell sharply. it's the lowest leve

through city streets from los angeles international airport to the california science center at exposition park170,000-pound spacecraft will on displace eventually at the museum. >> kind of a tricky process. four computer controlled transporters will help negotiate the shuttle along 12 miles where in some cases it's just inches away from some buildings. >> some places the wing tips are going to actually extend beyond the boundaries of the streets over the sidewalk. >> so then what do you do then? >> just move very carefully forward. [ laughter ] >> we tell people to open their windows as the wings come by. >> trees and other obstacles had to be removed to accommodate the unusually wide load. the shuttle will travel at speeds up to 2 miles per hour. two-day trip will begin late last night and once they get it, it's finally going to retire after a long farewell tour. >> in the video you could see all the people lined up on the streets. >> a lot of folks saying good- bye >>> some berkeley people are mourning the loss of redwood trees cut to make room for a library. five were originally cut down fo

tough as any space mission. [ cheers ] >> reporter: when the shuttle finally touched down in exposition parkseemed to mind that "endeavour" was 15 hours late. >> in some ways i think that the delay's a blessing in disguise. more and more people have been able to come out. >> reporter: this family came to monitor the shuttle's approach on the ipad. what do you think of the space shuttle? >> it's really big. >> reporter: yet, this "endeavour" also became a big ordeal. took more than 60 hours to travel more than 12 miles to the science center. officials trimmed trees and razed wires, trying to keep it on the move. the city had cut down trees and elevated more than 100 power lines, but it wasn't enough. as the crowds grew and often blocked its way, the shuttle could have used a booster rocket. it sloweded to just one mile per hour. then a planned two-hour maintenance stop stretched to five when hydraulics on the transporter started leaking. all those problems simply gave more people more time to gaze at space history. >> basically -- when are you going to see it, we went from there and came here

bob decastro is live in los angeles at exposition park. and bob, the shuttle fine lip rolled to a stop yesterday afternoon, right this. >> reporter: everybody just kind of exhaling here. you said a long time. but this was 17 hours late. it actually exended up being this extended party for us here in los angeles. i'm gonna show it to you because the shuttle walk was rolled right into that pavilion. a lot of activity here this morning because they are working feverishly to try to finish up this pavilion. they are gonna close this off. this will be part of a whole interactive museum. it's just a temporary home because any are building a wing to the california science fent -- california science center. for now, in is gonna be the "endeavour's" home t was quite a party. 165,000 people estimated to come out and line the streets of l.a. as it made its way through l.a. city streets. this was the largest object ever to move through l.a. city streets. they planned this out well in advanced, they moved trees, street lights. but there were unexpected