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at los angeles international airport, casey stegall, fox news. >>> giant's fever is heating. . bay area fans can't get enough of their boys in orange and black. where they are cashing in on the world series excitement. >>> oakland is poised to pick a new mayor. in a ktvu special report we look at why the candidates want the job. . >>> giant's fans are opening up more than their hearts to the team. they have their wallets out as with. the gyn's dugout store was filled with shoppers wanting souvenirs and paraphernalia. >> we're going to get up early. we're going into the city into san francisco and we're going to get some world series t- shirts, hats and just be ready. >> staff at sports authority store in san francisco say they have seen a steady stream of fans today and everyone hopes it's only a matter of time to buy gear proclaiming the giant as world series winners. >> they turned tout for a celebration breakfast held at lefty o'douls near union scare, that calls itself the giant's world series headquarters. they are planning to help fans celebrate even more this week once t

in los angeles, casey stegall, fox news. >>> stay with ktvu for continuing coverage leading up to the november election. can you always find the latest developments by clicking on the news tab and selecting "politics" from the drop-down menu. >>> up next, a gay pride rally turns ugly. right wing extremists take on riot police in a european country striving for acceptable at a critical time. >>> and days away from freedom, the extensive preparation and concerns for rescuing 33 trapped miners. >>> the bay area warm-up continues. coming up the warmest day of the week and also, we have this. a fire-weather watch and i will tell you when what that is set to begin. >> the gay pride event was seen as a major test for the serbain government as it steeks join the european union. the protection of human rights is a requirement and it comes days before u.s. secretary of state, hillary clinton is excelled to visit. >>> the days and hours are ticking down for the 33 trapped miners in chile. their rescue could begin wednesday. elaborate preparations are being done for every step of the way. patrick

casey stegall reports. >> reporter: remember when jetting off in a plane was glamorous.l the good old days of air travel is older and now passenger complaints are soaring. >> it's just not fun any more. it's an effort to get somewhere. >> it's frustrating. the most frustrating part of this flight was security. >> you want the services you're used to to come back. >> reporter: this year the complaints to the ntsb have gone up. and despite fares actually being down on average. >> it's just nickel and dime stuff. i guesses that what their industry has come to after 20 or 30 years of being mismanaged. >> reporter: it is said that it forever changed traveling after 9/11. and when fuel prices hit an all- time high a few years later. >> and the bottom line is airlines have been losing money for almost a decade and it's about time they figured out a way to make money. >> reporter: the restructuring has taken off of the just last week the largest carriers posted healthy profits. the first time out of the red since 2007. >> the fact that airline profits is up is really good right

>> the vietnamese american vote could turn a race in california already locked in a dead heat, casey stegallquick update. hi, casey. >> hi, jamie, in the district that represents much of orange county, california the major political players have traditionally been white and latino. in fact, the latinos make up about 68% of the constituents there, but only about 44% of the actual voting base. vietnamese american voters make up roughly 15% of the district, but a higher percentage of them usually turn out to the polls according to analysts. now unwith of the candidates, a california assemblyman who happens to be a vietnamese immigrant himself and is hoping to harness the votes and a 14 year incumbent and showing him trailing his democratic opponent by just about two points according to the real clear politics average. jamie. >> jamie: all right, casey stegall live for us in los angeles watching this race. fox news watching all the races you want to keep it right here for the election coverage and that's it for us. >> kelly: i'm kelly wright, thanks for joining us. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby. the

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casey stegall with the latest developments on this, casey. >> good evening, they do not call it the wild. this whole housekeeper gate issue as some are calling it was definitely the white elephant in the room yesterday and it did not take long for that controversial issue to be brought up. the televised debate was sponsored by spanish language network univision and scheduled well before the allegations came it light. allegations last week that meg whitman employed an illegal immigrant for nine yearses as a housekeeper and ignored a letter from alerting to a possible problem. whitman says she does not recall getting that later and accused her opponent jerry brown of california, of digging it up as a last ditch smear campaign, listen. >> you know what, i took accountability. we hired someone who i thought was here legally. she was not we unfortunate let her go. what would you have had me do, to call the attorney general to have her deported. my husband and i play by the rules and the fact that your campaign two weeks ago was talking about this issue, the fact that joined at the hip with gl

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casey stegall is live in los angeles with the l.a.p.d today. explain to us what this means, predictive policing. >> good to see you. basically it's taking years and years and years of criminal data and plugging into a computer. we're talking about when crimes occur, who commits them, and when and basically they say that with the ability to look at this, it will allow them to forecast future crimes and predict when and where they could in fact happen. does it sound too good to be true? well, experts say it's actually highly accurate because oftentimes criminals make the same mistakes over and over again. now, l.a.p.d is also working with scholars at ucla, like criminologists and psychologists and say human behavior is actually much more predictable than we think. so the idea is to nail down the routines of the criminals and stop them dead in their tracks, rick. >> rick: so what is the l.a.p.d plan to do with this information as it comes in? >> well, it's going to allow commanders to basically look at that real time data and base the staffing on

and casey stegall is live in los angeles with the l.a.p.d. today. e about this so-called predictive policing. >> well, rick, this is exciting. no fireworks like you just heard out here in los angeles, but basically predictive policing is taking years of crime data, plugging it into computers and then trying to forecast where and when the next crime will happen. does it sound too good to be true? experts say it's actually highly accurate because criminals often times make the same mistakes over and over again. now, the l.a.p.d. is working with scholars at ucla like crimologists and psychologists who say that human behavior is much more predictable than we think. so the real key here is trying to nail down those routines of the criminals and getting officers in place and again, trying to prevent the crime before the criminal even has a chance to strike. a very interesting concept and l.a.p.d., by the way, rick, thinks this could be the way of the future with policing in other parts of the country as well. >> rick: well, it certainly does sound promisin

casey stegall.or the update. >> got it. >> shannon: flood waters now reseeding in windsor, north carolina. local officials declared a state of emergency friday after ten inches of rain put 80% of the town's business district underwater. a lot of folks could only get around by boat. and check out these folks. animals, buffalos from the town's mini zoo had to scramble there for higher ground. >>> more rain is on the way again for the northeast and chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is tracking it for us from the fox weather center. hi, rick. >> not just rain but much cooler air. last week we had it'ditis 80s d 49ers. 90s. 50 temps here around 10 to 15 degrees below where you typically are for this time of year. especially the rockies 25 degrees above where you should be this time of year. areas utah northward. the temps will drop this week a little bit as the system pulls in. you were shaying, shannon, this is the next system we are watching and it will develop across the waters and pull a lot more mo

casey stegall is live in los angeles with more on this interesting story. re casey. >> reporter: we're talking about no crystal balls to do this instead it's crunching numbers. lapd says it's getting closer to predicting crime which means in theory they would be able to prevent it before it even happens. >> los angeles, home to some 4 million people spread across 469 square miles. finding effective ways to police the nation's second largest city. >> information can predict the future. it can lead to make good decisions. all we're doing is moving that to police work. >> welcome to the comstat unit a place where they study years of previous crime data and plug it into computers. >> we have the ability to look into database and see all the crime that has occurred and use that data to forecast where and when crime is most probable to occur. >> reporter: working with scholars, have been able to anticipate criminal behavior which is why the predictive policing could be the way of the future. >> it's very regular. we as individuals don't deviate from our daily rout

casey stegall live in the los angeles news room, casey, good to see you as always.o campaign? >> juliet, as you said you're a big texter and pretty much everyone is now days, it lets you reach the masses and pretty much guaranteed that that message is going to be viewed almost instantly as opposed to e-mail that sort of goes out into a nebulous that can get caught by a spam filter and fewer americans have land lines in their homes than ever before and often teams, the cell phone is the only way to reach folks. almost everyone has one, about 290 million americans to be exact. that's about 94% of the total population. so, politicians are now jumping on the wireless band wagon to reach not only voters, but campaign volunteers as well. >> we needed a way to be able to reach younger volunteers, as you can see the folks behind me there, high school students, college students, people who wanted another medium to be able to get involved in the campaign and this allows the state like california to engage volunteers in every part of the county. >> all right. so the proof is i

casey stegall live at the los angeles international airport with the latest. way up? >> reporter: well, eric, good to see you. let's face it. the face of air travel changed forever after the events of september 11. a few years later oil prices hit an all-time high, and that's when the airlines really started losing money hand over fist, recording deficits each quarter. that is where the concept of paying to check your baggage came in and also paying for food on board, things like that. also, because many flights were empty, a lot of the airlines reduced their fleet, putting extra planes in store ran and running fewer routes. now in 2010, the capacity of flights are the highest they've been in about a decade. but because of the fuller flights, and because of the higher fares and extra fees, the number of passenger complaints with the u.s. department of transportation are up about 35%. unform unfortunately, if you're part of the flying public and plan to take a plane for the upcoming holidays, don't expect the fees to go away soon. fares for holiday travel will

casey stegall joins us live from los angeles to explain whitman found herself on the defensive yesterdaybody seems to be talking about this. housekeeper gate as some referring to it as certainly the white elephant in the room yesterday. it didn't take long for the very controversial issue to be brought up. this debate was sponsored by the spanish language network uni vision and it was scheduled before allegations came to light. allegations that whitman employed an illegal immigrant for nine years as her house keeper. then ignored a letter from the social security administration in 2003 alerting her of a possible problem. whitman says she does not recall getting that letter and even accused her opponent jerry brown of digging this issue up as a last minute smear campaign. listen to the exchange. >> you know what, accountability we hired someone who i thought was here legally, we unfortunately had to let her go. what would you have me do. would you call the attorney general's office to have her deported? my husband played by the rules. the fact that your campaign two weeks ago was talking

casey stegall is heading out to the scene and meanwhile we want to go to karen rainer with the los angelestment joining us on the phone to tell us about what is actually happening on the ground there. karen, can you confirm that this was actually an explosion in that garage? >> you know, actually at this point i cannot the. radio call ofo a raid crow someone hearing a loud explosion. we have a lot of resources down there right now and it is under investigation. and any time there is the potential for an explosion of any type we will take that seriously to the department is on citywide tactical alert to have the resources available should something else arise. at this point it is an ongoing investigation and i don't have a lot of facts at this point. >> we have been hearing reports that streets in the area have been -- streets in the area have been shut down as a precaution. >> that is, correct. chp has shut down one of the off ramps from the free way and we do have a perimeter around the area and we are investigating. >> a command post set up as well. >> that's true. >> no reports any inju

casey stegall is live in our los angeles newsroom. why have text messages an ideal way to campaign? >> reporter: these things right here have changed the way we communicate as a whole. text messaging allows folks to reach the masses because there is more of a guarantee that a text message will be seen as opposed to an e-mail because oftentimes e-mails can get caught up with spam filters. fewer americans have land lines before. the only way you can reach them is on their mobile phone. almost everyone has one. 290 million americans, that is 94% of the population. so no surprise that politicians are getting creative holding contests, jumping on the wireless bandwagon to not only reach voters but campaign volunteers, as well. >> we needed a way to reach younger volunteers. you see the folks behind me, high school students or college students, people that wanted another medium to get involved in the campaign. it allows in the state like california to engage every part of the county. >> reporter: listen to this. americans send nearly 5 billion text messages every single day. that number i

casey stegall has more on the sky-high outrage. >> reporter: hi, shannon.t time the airlines recorded a profit since 2007. so what does it mean for members of the flying public? live report from lax coming your way next here on america's news headquarters. ;7 >>> there are so many good things in the healthcare bill, we haven't talked about it. we've been afraid. we've let everyone push us around. time to start telling the voters. >> shannon: that's ed rendell's response to calling wusses for not standing up for healthcare reform. he said that yesterday. but that's not all. read his comments about what democrats need to do and the blogs from the producer and the reporters in the field covering the mid-term election at foxnews.com/aehq. >>> all right, the holiday season is getting closer which mean means a lot of us will fly home to see family and friends, but some are getting upset with what the airlines are not doing well. casey stegall is joining us live from los angeles international airport with more on how people are dealing with the flying frustration.

casey stegall is live from the west coast newsroom with that story? >> good to see you. as the mid terms are just about a week away, a lot of races are certainly heating up and here in california there is no exception. as a new power force as emerged when it comes to the 47th congressional seat. that represents much of orange county, california. it is an area where political players have predominantly have been white and latino but it looks like the contest could be decided by a small but mighty group of voters. we're talking about vietnamese americans. 14-year incumbent loretta sanchez is loved by the vietnamese community. she travels to vietnam and even co-founded the congressional caucus on vietnam. but she recent came under fire after an interview where she said, quote, the vietnamese and the republicans are trying to take away this seat. she later apologized and clarified she didn't mean the entire vietnamese community but still her opponent, van tran ran it and put out ads condemning her comments. mr. tran is a popular assemblyman and vietnamese immigrant himself w

casey stegall explains live from los angeles. they all have one and know they can get us.e they doing? >> reporter: they can. whether we like it or not, these things have changed the way we communicate. why should it be different when we talk about politics? text messaging, that's what we're talking about. the thing is it can be guaranteed that you can get that message almost instantly as opposed to e-mail that can get caught up in the spam folder or something like that. reality is fewer americans have land lines in their homes than ever before. so, pretty much the only way you can reach them is through the mobile number. almost everyone has one. listen to this. 290 million americans to be act. 94% of the total population. no surprise that politicians are jumping on the wireless bandwagon to reach voters and campaign volunteers as well. listen. >> folks behind me, high school or college students wanted another medium to get involved in a campaign. that allows a state like california to engage volunteers in every part of the county. >> the proof is in the pudding. americans

casey stegall is live in los angeles to explain. >> reporter: it s like something right out of a movie although it doesn't involve psychics or crystal bulls. the los angeles police department said it may be getting closer to being able to predict crime that means preventing it before it happens. -- los angeles, home to some four million people, spread across 469 square miles. finding effective ways police the nation's second largest city is a constant . >> information can predict the future. information can lead you to make good decisions and it is shown in a business model everyday. all we are doing is moving that to police work. >> reporter: welcome to the comstat unit, a police where officers study years of previous crime data and plug it into computer. >> we see all the arrest and crime that has occurred and use that data to forecast where and when crime is most probe able to co-customer. >> reporter: working with scholars officers have been able to anticipate criminal behavior which is why this could be the way of the future across the country. turns out human behavior is very reg

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casey stegall is live from los angeles with more. tell us about the housekeeper controversy.ow it was going to be addressed. though there are a number of issues plaguing the state of california, everything where taxes to the economy. it didn't take long yesterday for the whole housekeeper-gate issue as it's being built by some to come up. let's bring you up to speed. i know everyone has heard about this by now. just a few days ago the accusations were made that meg whitman employed an illegal immigrant for nine years as her housekeeper. even allegedly ignoring a letter from the social security administration in 2003 her employment records were not correct. meg whitman has said jerry brown of digging the issue up for a smear campaign. listen to the exchange. >> the real tragedy here is after november 2 no one will watch out for nicky diaz. jerry, you should be ashamed, you and your surrogates put her deportation at risk. you put her out there. and you should be ashamed for sacrificing nicky diaz on the altar of your political ambitions. >> don't run for governor if you can't s