the boston red sox to the american league championship series. they beat the heavily favored tampa bay rays, three games to one. a series the yankees watched from home, if at all. so congratulations to the entire world, which clearly benefits from this. i can see brianna agrees. >>

sex outs away from going down 3-1 to the boston red sox in game 4. jose altuve coming through in the clutch. solo home run in the eighth inning tied this up at two. at the top of the ninth, nathan thinks he gets a strike to end the inning, but it's called a ball. rbi single to center. flood gates open from there. astros score seven runs with two outs in the ninth. they won 9-2 to end the series. game five today at 5:00 eastern. dodgers, meanwhile, looking to avoid a 3-0 deficit to the braves. they were in a world of trouble. down 5-2 montana eighth. two on for cody bellinger. he blasted a three-run home run to tie the game. mookie betts with an rbi double. they win it 6-5. l.a. look to even the series at 8:00 eastern on tbs. elsewhere, the drama in philadelphia is reaching its boiling point. ben simmons has been suspended for tonight's season opener against the pelicans for conduct detrimental to the team. doc rivers kicked the all-star out of practice after he refused to take part in drills. joel embiid has had it with the situation. >> at this poin

the boston red sox to the american league championship series. they beat the heavily favored tampa bay rays, three games to one. a series the yankees watched from home, if at all. so congratulations to the entire world, which clearly benefits from this. i can see brianna agrees. >> ah. >>> there is other major news this morning. one of pro football's most high profile coaches resigns after an avalanche of new homophobic, masochistic emails come to light. las vegas raiders coach jon gruden resigned after "the new york times" revealed a pattern of homophobic, masochistic emails over a seven-year span. this followed a racist email that came to light a few days ago. in the new emails, gruden denounces the drafting of a gay player and calls for the firing of players who protested the national anthem. >> this is a stunning downfall for one of the game's highest paid and highest profile coaches. gruden was in the fourth year of a ten-year, $100 million contract. in a written apology, he says he never meant tojoining me is ian nfl insider. thanks for bei

. >> in honor of the boston marathon and the red sox, 13th inning walk-off home run victory. i want to ask you about the mayor's race in boston. and it's going to make history. there will be a woman elected mayor and minority for the first time ever in either case in the city of boston. one of the two candidates, i want you to listen to how she sounds here. >> and i'll be the teacher and the mother and the mayor that's going to get it done. >> all right. there are better clips out there, too. she has a really thick boston accent. it's interesting. because she is the child of polish and tunisian immigrants. her owe pontiacent from chicago. she is really leaning into the boston accent to show she has a connection to the working class roots in the city. how much does something like that matter? >> oh, it's huge. not only does she walk the walk, she talks the talk, right? welcome to madam mayor. the most important thing is you can have some sort of authenticity. i remember when hillary clinton adopted a southern accent when she went to the south. >> it is a fascinating part of th

yesterday, 21 people were headed to boston for the red sox/astros game, according to the water county judge. what happened is this plane started rolling down the runway, it didn't gain altitude, it never took off, it kept on going through a field. it struck a fence, was disabled and it erupted up in flames. all the passengers according to authorities were able to get out of this plane safely. this included a 10-year-old. authorities say the two individuals are transported to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. today we're learning more about the owner of this plane, a houston executive, the founder of a construction company. and through a spokesperson saying that they're dpgrateful everyone is okay, everyone is fine, they're working with the faa and the ntsb. the ntsb telling me a team will be arriving today here on the scene. the ntsb is the lead investigating agency. the faa will be assisting, but, brianna, the headline here is that despite those dramatic images, everyone is safe and sound. brianna? >> truly amazing. fast thinking there. rosa flores, thank you. >>> this

red sox, the perfect relay to get aaron judge at the plate. boston crowd just goes wild. they party the rest of the night. red sox accepted the yankees packing, 6-2. >> you feed off that energy. you thrive for that. red sox nation brought it tonight. we needed it. you can't say enough about the crowd tonight. >> the guys are crushed. tonight was another tough one to take. we've been through a lot of wars with guys in that room. we have a lot of scars. so guys are -- guys are bummed. >> yeah. another long off-season in the bronx. haven't won a world series since 2009. aaron boone's contract is up. the rays series gets started tomorrow. . >> the red sox aren't very good. but that doesn't matter. the only thing tha

the red sox win 6-4 in the 13th inning. boston can wrap up the series with a win tonight. it's one of four playoff games on the schedule beginning with brewers and rays. john berman smiling after a big boston win is what i love to see. >> it's like five hours. it was going on forever. i'm in bed at the end of the game, you know, it was lunchtime when i started watching it, and i was in bed at the end of the game. it was so fulfilling. >> it was magical stuff. >> all right, coy, thank you very much. >>> and cnn's coverage continues right now. >> good morning, i'm erica hill, jim is off today. happening right now, thousands of passengers are stranded at airports across the country after southwest airlines canceled hundreds of flights this morning, and that of course only adds to the chaos of the past 48 hours. take a look at this video, these are passengers last night at the denver airport. you see just waiting, looking at phones. over the weekend, southwest canceled more than 2,000 flights.

red sox accepted the yankees packing, 6-2. >> you feed off that energy. you thrive for that. red sox nation brought it tonight. we needed it. you can't say enough about the crowd tonight. >> the guys are crushed. tonight was another tough one to take. we've been through a lot of wars with guys in that room. we have a lot of scars. so guys are -- guys are bummed. >> yeah. another long off-season in the bronx. haven't won a world series since 2009. aaron boone's contract is up. the rays series gets started tomorrow. . >> the red sox aren't very good. but that doesn't matter. the only thing that matters is we beat the yankees last night. >> good enough to beat the yankees. >> exactly. thank you. really. i mean it. thank you. "new day" continues right now. ♪ >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is wednesday, october 6th. and zuckerberg speaks. mark zuckerberg breaking his silence on the damning testimony from employee turned his el blower frances haugen, accusing facebook of putting profits before the safety of its users, including the yo

the red sox, the first team ever now to hit three grand slams in a postseason series. last night, happened in the bottom of the second. bases loaded for kyle schwarber. he unloaded on that pitch. that made it 6-0, boston. houston just deflated at that point. fenway rocking. boston wins game three, 12-3, to take a 2-1 lead in the series. game four tonight at 8:00 eastern. game three of the nlcs between the braves and dodgers at 5:00 eastern on tbs. >>> monday night football was a thriller. we had seven lead changes last night, tying a record for a monday night football game. second quarter, derrick henry busting through the middle. 21.8 miles per hour on this run. keep in mind, he is 250 pounds. 76 yard touchdown, one of his three on the night. this coming down to the final seconds. bills had fourth and one. bills go for the first down with 22 seconds left. josh allen, as you see there, loses his footing and is stuffed. titans hold on to win, 34-31. >>> finally wanted to take a moment to pay tribute to a cnn sports legend. rick passed away over the weekend. he worked in