power at the b.a.r.t. station went out as well. b.a.r.t. employees shot it down so riders had to walk to the 19th street. businesses in jack london square had to close or operate in the dark. bed, bath and beyond chose to remain open and workers did transsatisfactions by hand. pg&e customers say they're frustrated. >> right now, it's a loss on revenue and also on the hours of the employees. there's no backup generator. there's nothing else we can do. we're going home. >> just heard a boom as i was walking out the door. sounded like a train dropped. it was really loud. i didn't know what it was. >> reporter: as for other parts of the bay area there have been minor problems on the peninsula. this is a crew fixing a lon on

17th avenue in sap ma -- san mateo. no word on when power will be restored here. pg&e has yet to return our calls. >> alan: and in the north bay, there's about a foot of standing water on highway 116. and a huge tree came crashing down on a house this morning. i crashed into an empty back bedroom. all four rot rts in the house are fine. >> i thought it was really long thunder, like a really long, loud thunder, and then it sounded like an earthquake. >> alan: ground delay is in effect at san francisco international airport because of the wet and windy weather. delays are expected to add up two hours for inbound flights and that will have an effect on

outbound flights as well. san jose and oakland are about 15 minutes behind schedule. for a better look at the big green blob over the bay area, let's go to leigh glaser. >> leigh: most of the heaviest rain has moved towards the east. we're actually seeing some partial clearing in some locations. you can see live doppler 7 hd, most of the heaviest rain has moved out. in the north bay, we're still get something nice returns, santa rosa. and we're sweeping live. much of this activity will continue to dissipateover night, and maybe a few isolated showers. looks like the worst is over. los gatos with some sprinkles, rainfall totals, so impressive. st. helena, over five inches of rain. santa rosa, over three.

mill valley, over two, and you can see almost an inch, san francisco and oakland. so quite impressive, and we have more rain in my accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. >> alan: in napa tonight, police are trying to figure out how a patient killed a psychiatric technician inside a mental hospital today. it happened at the napa state hospital. wayne friedman reports, this is not the first time there have been security concerns. >> reporter: there are those who work inside napa state hospital who say that last night's murder of a psychiatric technician was a long-time coming, was predictable and preventible. >> we always wondering, is today my day? aim going to be the one? >> it's a long-time nurse in the hospital, one of several staff members who spoke on the condition we disguise this identities. working conditions are bad.

>> told not to speak to the press. >> they don't want to be exposed. >> reporter: those complaints go back several years. psychologists, staff members have gone on record saying the hospital does not protect them from mental patients patients wm around freely with no fear of consequences for violent behavior. >> on every unit, every day. we're talking about getting hit of the head with cement blocks. talking about attempted rapes. staffing pulled into rooms, and beaten to where they can no longer open their eyes. >> reporter: when an attack happens they say it takes several minutes for the hospital police to arrive. today the police were guarding the front answer of the exphopt threatened arrest when we tried to enter a public parking lot. >> they should be on the units protecting the staff. >> reporter: what angers staff even more, they say hospital management knew of a murder

threat but did not pass it along. >> management chose not to inform us. >> reporter: today, napa state hospital had no response to any of the charges by its employees. they say they want safety. they want security. the same provisions that correctional officers get inside state prisons. they want them inside napa state hospital. >> how bad is it? >> bad. on a scale of one to 10 on a pain rating, it's a 10, 11, 15 on -- yesterday. >> outside napa state hospital, abc-7 news. >> alan: returning to the race for governor, new los angeles -- "los angeles times" poll is stirring up a debate. it shows jerry brown leading whitman 52-39%. brown's lead has doubled in the last month. whitman's campaign saying it's old, statistically flawed and in

no way a current snapshot. it assumes a turnot of dem democrats. >> brown stopped in compton today with harris, the democratic candidate for attorney general. the two appeared at three different black churches hoping to get the black voters through the polls on november 2nd. times poll shows barbara boxer holding to her 8% margin over carly fiorina. boxer's leades stick which i -- statistically unchanged from april. first lady misch -- michelle obama is going to be in the bay area. nancy pelosi confirms the first lady will be attending a fundraiser at the fairmont hotel

in san francisco. it will be her second bay area visit since her husband took office. the last visit here was in june of 2009. >> san jose police are offering a 10 thousand reward for taking sunny money on measure v" signs. this cams after they posted this video on youtube which shows city council member pierre louie iol' ol' oliverio with signs in his trunk. he says they were on public property and can be taken down. >> we encourage members of the community to come forward with any information they may have to ensure this childish and illegal behavior ends immediately. >> needs to be pointed out how many illegal signs are up by this campaign committee all over the city.

i saw over 27 illegal signs yesterday, just in one small mayor i saw three on my drive over here. >> alan: the officers and firefighters are campaigning against measure v, while oliverio supports the "yes on v" campaign. it would limit the raise firefighters can game through contract arbitration. coming up, the giants just back from their pennant victory in philly. hundreds of fans were at at&t park to greet their returning heroes. news, benefit or burden? a no hole showing [ male announcer ] unions have spent over 20 million dollars against meg whitman. millions in cash for brown. and the teacher's union just spent millions more attacking meg.

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>> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >> alan: the triumphant san francisco giants have just arrived back at at&t park an defeating the philadelphia phillies for the national league championship. tomas, giant fever seems to be catching on. >> it's really hot right now. it's quiet here right now. a little more than an hour ago there were more than 200 giants fans standing in the rain, waiting to see if they could catch a glimpse of the returning giants when they got back to at&t park. when the giants finally did arrive, fans got a lot more than they expected. >> when the giants arrived, more than 200 giant fans gave them a

heroes welcome. the management said they wouldn't make the giants available to anyone, but posey, kahne and others came out to greet the fans. the fans are celebrating a win they won't soon forget. [cheering] >> since last night's win, giants fans have been celebrating their national league champs. the celebration is not over. fans braved the rains to welcome the giants, chanting and singing the giants' praise. >> the greatest thing to happen to this city in a long, long time. thank you. thank you uribe! [cheering] >> in the world series? >> yes. >> i think that's why we're out here. >> welcome back, giants, welcome back, you guys, woo! >> other fans crowd the giants store at the park, buying piles

of memorabilia and spending lots of money. >> the fever. otherwise on this rainy day, probably be at home watching football. but baseball ain't over yet. >> i was just at the ceremony and there was 300 people in line for the dugout store so i live here, we decided to jump in the car and jump on 280 and come right down here where all the action is. >> we have tickets to games two and seven. >> steve just dropped $264 on giants gay, and aaron was buying his giant finger, summed up the win. >> the best part was that the giants won, and that they beat the phillies, who were a lot better than them. >> giants fever is bound to get a lot higher next week. abc-7 news. >> alan: and a lot of money spent all over the area. another poll to tell you about. the "los angeles times" asked californians for their opinion

on illegal immigration. the survey found that overall voters hold positive views of immigrants. asked whether they're a benefit or burden, 48% of likely voters say they're a benefit. only 32% said they were a burden. we may be at the tail end of one storm, but there's another one on the way. our meteorologistley glaser coming up to tell you about that one. >> mike: a tale of two cities. the raiders go crazy in denver, and the niners lose the game, they lose their quarterback. they lose their quarterback. details

insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results. i've built businesses. i've built a business. met the payroll. met a payroll. i enter this office beholden to no one except you. i will owe my office to no one but you. i don't owe anyone anything. i don't owe anyone anything. it's all about leadership. this is all about leadership. jobs, jobs, jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs. we do not have a revenue problem. we do not have a revenue problem. we have a spending problem. we have a spending problem.

rebuiling california. build a new california rebuild california. let's build a new california. we need to run the state as a business. running this thing a little bit more like a business. whats the worst that could happen? whats the worst thing that could happen? i'm among 30,000 employees who used to work for hp. i was supposed to retire there. carly fiorina changed all that. fiorina laid off 30,000 people

and she shipped our jobs to china and india. i had to pack my bags and i was out the door that night. we even had to train our replacements. she didn't need 5 corporate jets. one hundred million for herself. fiorina never cared about our jobs. not then and not now. i'm barbara boxer and i approve this message. >> leigh: most of the heavy rain has moved on toward owes east of us. live doppler 7 hd still picking up a few sprinkles in the north bay. and as we head through the evening, we will not take that out of our forecast.

upper 50s to low 60s, that's where we are right now. we a slight chance of shower for the early morning commute, and then plenty of snipe, clearing, and we will remain dry through wednesday. this is the cold front that moved through. a little unstable still there. we keep a chance of isolated showers overnight, but as you can see from the an nation -- animation, most of the heavy y stuff has moved on and we should clear out nicely, and bring on the sunshine, and warmer temperatures for us overall by tomorrow afternoon. in fact, here's a look at the highs. 64 for san jose. more clearing for you. 63 for cupertino. at the coast, half moon bay, 59. palo alto, more sunshine, 64. a nice, dry day there 60 for downtown san francisco.

north bay, petaluma, 62. sonoma, 63. vallejo, 61. oakland, 64. mixture of sun and clouds for fremont, and then danville of 4. 65 for gilroy. now, the accuweather seven-day forecast, very active week around here. we'll pull the rain out tomorrow afternoon, tuesday looks terrific. plenty of sunshine. the first giants game, wednesday, nice dry conditions. temperatures warming into the upper 60s. slight chance right now, maybe few showers moving in for the thursday game, and in fact, on saturday, look for the showers increasing for halloween on sunday. right now, 50 50rb -- 50-50 chance the trick-or-treaters could get wet. >> alan: something a sports caster loves more than anything, their local team going to the world series mike mike question

-- >> mike: no question about it. it was another nail-biter last night as brian wilson gets ryan howard looking to init, -- end t and the celebration began. it continued at at&t park this afternoon when the team arrived. the team was loving every minute of its october and is ready for the fall classic. >> these fans have been wonderful all year, and they all have three or four heroes on this team no one player. and it works a lot of good chemistry for us. the support of the fans means everything to these players. >> a lot of hard work and everything put into it, and for everybody to come together and get to this point, it's a great accomplishment. >> we know they're going to be tough and have a great team over there. we're going to bring everything we got and hopefully it will be a fun series. >> mike: the series starts on wednesday, 4:57 p.m., tim

lincecum and cliff lee. the raiders came to life today in denver. must love the altitude. sit a franchise regard with 59 points. oakland has won two straight in denver entering today. jason cam pel, rating 10.7 last week, improved today. finds a wide-open zack miller and he takes it for the score. the rout has begun. denver, chris johnson picks off kyle orton and rurpz for -- returns for are the touchdown. the broncos fumble on their next play, and the raiders turn that into points. in the second, third and goal. campbell to mcfadden on the draw. he will run over thompson. identifyings to the goal line. great effort. 31-0. mcfadden, a career day. in the third, busts loose. has some speed. 57 yards down the sideline.

mcfadden, 165-yard rushing. raiders with the 59-14 victory. >> al mex smith -- alex smith and the niners visiting the panthers. alex on the play action, all sorts of time. throws a dart to davis. 53-yard down to the one-yardline. next play. smith, rolls left. and it's davis again. touchdown. last time the fine the -- find the end zone. johnson pancakes alex. didn't see him. left the gain with a sprained left shoulder, did not return. mcdonald, picks off matt moore, 31 yards for their unlikely pick six. niners up 20-13. now under 2:00 to play. game tied at 20.

fans are clamoring. a chance for the win. marshal picks it off. there's the winning field goal. panthers get their first win, 20-20, and san francisco falls to 1-1. >> julie inkster was trying to become the oldest player in lpga history to win a tournament today in malaysia. she had the lead going into 18 after birdies on 15 through 17. she pushed her shot on 18 into the bunker. almost holes that. then two-putted for bogey and loses by a stroke. jimin wins 270 grand. julie in second. on the oval today, denny hamlin takes the checkered flag at martinsville, and he cuts jimmie johnson's lead to six

points. sharks on the ice on calgary, eye highlights tonight. >> alan: what makes the rangers such a dangerous opponent. >> mike: that entire lineup can hit. the phillies were the same way. but the rangers are towing -- going to be tough, and you have the dh in each park and that's something i don't like. >> alan: going to be great. up next, a new film just set a record for the largest three-day

david harmer wrote an education plan titled "abolish the public schools." he even called our schools "insidious" and "socialism." as families struggle to raise their kids, to provide a good education, harmer bragged, "we can design a plan to dismantle them." david harmer is just too radical. we need jerry mcnerney. protecting local schools from devastating cuts. he's a moderate, endorsed by the stockton record, the independent, and our local teachers. i'm jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message.

>> alan: looks like people are ready for an early halloween scare. pay pair normal" had a record opening, it jumped jack ass 3-d from the top spot, and rounding out the top three is "red." you have some movies to see. that's it for abc-7 news. thanks for joining us. hope to toe see you tonight at 11:00. captioned by closed captioning services inc.

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if you'd take a lie detector test. meg whitman didn't tell the truth about not voting or about how long she lived in california. she got caught in insider deals at goldman sachs. she changed her story about physically abusing an employee. she campaigned as tough as nails on immigration knowing her housekeeper of 9 years was undocumented. her tv ads have been condemned as false and misleading. and even her hometown newspaper said meg whitman has demonstrated "a loose relationship with the truth"