as one napa county official put it the immediate response to the quake was one thing. thigh all think they did pretty well in that area, but the recovery, the process of rebuilding is turning out to be much more difficult. it could take months, even years. >> we could not get communication links with the county. >> reporter: california's oes director said the fact his office had no communications in the months after the august quake was the first indicator they were dealing with major disaster. >> we assessed immediately that given the fact we did not have immediate communications that was a sign we really needed to lean forward and engage rapidly. >> it's very difficult to see the damage from the street.

>> reporter: the process of finding all that was destroyed is still ongoing. >> we found in issues. we think over many more months to come we'll find more and more homes that are seriously damaged. >> reporter: napa sill has 160 red tag buildings and less than 3% of those damaged or destroyed were covered by earthquake insurance. napa and surrounding cities did receive public assistance money from fema. individual assistance has not been approved for napa quake victims much to the frustration of many who need low interest loans and other aid. >> it's something that needs to be looked at going into the future. no estimate when it will be

completed. a drizzle a bit today. rain didn't fall everywhere but san francisco and the north bay did get a dose of winter like weather. not a whole lot but the rain fell this morning did catch some of it. this is in west portal. abc 7 weather news is live with live doppler radar. >> we have to say good-bye because stit's winding down. some moving through san francisco right now over to the east bay. down in the south san francisco as well. these are widely scatter and isolated showers and looks like they are losing their bunch. we did get measurable rainfall.

.2 of mt. selena. notice how many other locations received no rainfall at all. >> track the weather where you live with the abc news 7 app. it's free at the apple app store or google play. today's rain does little to ease the state's critical drought. voters will be asked to decide a $7.1 billion bond for water projects. projects that will expand water storage and provide other infrastructure improvements. we have more on how that money will be used. >> reporter: proposition 1 will take a long term approach to addressing the state's critical water issues as it will take a long time to figure out how to spend that $7.1 billion. local water agencies may have to

compete to win approval for some of their projects. the view shows how reservoirs are at low levels. the goal of proposition 1 is to build more reservoirs while boosting recycling and water shed protection. 2.7 billion out of bond will go towards storage projects. water agencies will have to vie for funding and come up with matching funds. >> the money in the bond goes to a lot of different organizations, state agencies. the store money will be decided by the california water commission appointed by the governor, nine representatives. they'll have to make decisions about the benefits of different proposals brought to them. >> reporter: local water customers could see rates increase to get bond money for their projects. governor brown was painting a dire picture of the drought at a stanford water conference. >> people are literally having to use bucket water for their showers and getting sand out of

their tap in various parts of the central valley. >> reporter: some analysts wonder where the water will come from to fill expanded storage facilitie facilities. >> if you read this one carefully, much of it won't do any good for 15 or 20 years. that won't help us during this drought period. >> reporter: voters believe the state's economy is on the line while others think conservation is the answer. >> more the rebates for having people incentives being water efficient homes, houses are critical versus building more reservoirs. >> we need to spend whatever it will take if we want to keep living here. >> you can follow the election issues on your tablet with the

abc 7 news app. 500 pounds of methamphetamine seized, the most ever. the estimated street value $18 million. investigators reveal today los angeles area gang members smuggled the meth across the u.s.-mexico border and took road trips where the product was sold. the operation was backed by a notorious mexican drug cartel. >> these drugs from mexico are reaching our residents and affecting all of us as a community. >> the state attorney general's office says california is the single biggest point of entry for meth in the united states. the lawyer of a high priced

prostitute accused of killing a google executive says his client did what the victim wanted. she was back in a santa cruz courtroom this morning. video shows her injecting him with heroin while on his yacht. the defense attorney says she was doing what hays asked her to do. >> two adults engaged in mutual and cooperative drug usage. it went wrong. it was an accident. >> tickleman injected herself with heroin before injecting hays. defense said that clouded her judgment. she was seen drinking wine and levering as he died of an overdose. the giants are in kansas city ready to take on the royals in their third appearance in five years. some lucky fans are pulling out while one san francisco sports bar has created a unique way for

fans to interact. >> reporter: they've got the hook up here. i mean that literally. they have web cams streaming live hook up fans in san francisco with fans in kansas city. it's new and it's innovative. perhaps nothing better than being at kauffman stadium itself. >> we saw a lot of guys in giants gear wishes they were catching flights to kansas city. >> i wish i was but i'm not. >> reporter: larry phillips is on his way. he's never been to a world series game. decide on last minute whim to go. >> basically two nights ago decided to get my plane ticket. get my stub hub ticket. got two days off of work. >> reporter: bill henry was catching a flight to kansas city

today. >> it's my fourth world seerrie. it's an exciting time. >> reporter: he went to see the giants during spring training but he's a fickle fan. >> i'm ready for the royals. >> reporter: here is where he would feel comfortable cheering on that team. left leftyo's doul's. >> everybody is welcome here. we even accept dodgers fans. >> reporter: in what is a first of its kind, lefty is a popular hang out for giants fans has established a video link with a sports bar in kansas still, welch's bar. each has sat aside a spot for visiting fans to chat. >> it's all about baseball. we both love the game. kansas city, san francisco. it's an experience. we want to share it with each

other. >> reporter: pamela and dwayne prefer to experience the heart ache at home. they're heading back to kc. barbecue or san francisco chocolates. ♪ we don't care ♪ we'll never be royals here is a song you won't be hearing for the next week or so no the bay area. "royals" by singer lordes. two san francisco radio stations have banned it from the air waves. all stations in kansas city has vowed to play it every hour on game day. that's an ultra sensitive

microphone. he tweeted this picture in fee mix. we'll be reporting live from the world series tomorrow and wednesday. you can follow his digital updates from kansas city in between by following him on twitter at wayne freedman. still ahead, a new renters rights issue. what if you're landlord was required to accept pets and what you'd have to accept in return. a man receives an e-mail saying a hit man is out to get him. should he believe it? or it is just another internet scam. what to do if a threat in your inbox. also, the launch of apple pay. the new iphone credit service was tested out. why did the ceo's audio drop out when he was getting to what we wanted to hear.

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berkeley councilman will introduce an ordinance that require all landlords to accept pets. >> reporter: talk about devotion. he knows he got lucky finding an apartment that accepted his dog. >> i've heard from several of my friends the desire to have a pet but the landlords do not allow dogs. >> reporter: taking a look at craigslist today, 130 apartments are available. if you have a cat or dog that number drops to 27.

that's why council member will propose a new ordinance tomorrow. it would forbid landlords from restricting any type of well behaved pet. the ordinance would allow more families to adopt shelter animals by reducing pressure on the hot housing market. the berkeley property owners association feels it goes too far. >> we're willing to take pets but not when you can't control the situation. it's an issue of control. >> reporter: case in point, she loves animals but has run into problems when allowing her tenants to bring in pets. >> i've had a dog that chewed up the carpeting and they enclosed him in the room and they put him in a room and he clhewed up the room. the security deposit doesn't cover that. >> reporter: she as a few rules. no puppies or cats and only dogs

that her pets get along with it. >> it will cause me and the tenant problem. demand for the iphone 6, which just went on sale a few weeks ago is off the charts. also today apple launched its new smartphone credit service called apple sarah palpay. . >> reporter: apple pay just went online across the country. for those of you who are familiar with passbook. if you have an iphone 6 or 6 plus you can now add a credit card or debit card to passbook and use it to make purchases in

person and even online. at the roll out of apple pay stanford university student was one of the first people in line. >> what's the best advantage of having apple pay in. >> i think the security. i don't think we've ever seen something this secure especially from low payment. >> reporter: he immediately mentioned two security features. the iphone prompts the owner to use a finger print. >> you can turn off payments from your phone remotely with find my iphone. >> reporter: owners who are familiar with the passbook app can load a visa credit or debit card. the phone take a picture and creates an electron pay token which is a series of unique numbers. >> another number will run through the payment system like a card number but it's not the actual number on your card.

>> if you're not placing that information in merchants hands in the first place but still able to make that transaction there's another layer to keep people from stealing that information. >> reporter: customers can use apple pay at more than 200,000 retailers that are set up at places like google wallet. >> i think we're a ways from not carrying them around but it has to be pretty for people to not carry it around. >> reporter: many of them are expected to update their pay technology by the next year. lots of people are waiting to see if apple changes how we buy everything the way it changed the way we buy music.

the setting sun adding colors to the clouds. we just need more rain. >> i know. we had a couple of showers trickling through san francisco earlier. now more down towards san mateo. widely scattered, isolated and light showers. i should call your attention to the beach hazard statement. it's in effect through tomorrow evening for our west and northwest facing beaches. please bear that in mind. might be a good time to stap away from the coastline. here is a lovely view of a huge colorful cumulus puff moving over the pay now. 65 degrees at this hour. 66 across the bay. san carlos 68. san jose. check out this view.

isn't it great. obscured by the clouds. we still have temperature readings for you. 68 f 68, fairfield. looking back at the tower. lots of blue skies a and a view clouds off in the distance. we'll see spotty showers ending tonight. it will be mostly sunny next three days and rain arrives again near the end of the week. our satellite image shows weakening cold front calling apart. this is the system that brought us a few showers today and continues to bring in little specks of moisture. tomorrow we'll get filtered sunshine with high clouds. a mild and dry day tomorrow. overnight look for some clouds

here and there but lots of clear skies. cool up in the north bay valleys where low temperatures will drop into the mid-40s. we'll see low to mid-50s everywhere else. low 70s in the south bay. 71 in san jose. low to mid-60s on the coast. p upper 60s to around 70. pretty uniform range of highs. here is the accu weather seven-day forecast. it's going to be a mild and dry three days. clouds will pick up friday night. likelihood of showers developing overnight into saturday. sad could be saturday could be a wet day. our next expected rainfall will be at the very end of the week. should be a little more than we got this time around. coming up next, what it's going to cost you to get into

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were banned taking people to and from the airport terminals because they lacked the proper permits. last week they reached an agreement with side car. pressure is growing in davis and northern california to do something quickly about a big leak in a city pool. the center city pool has lost more than 510,000 gallons of water since august. 7500 gallons day. the city doesn't be in a big hurry to fix the problem. they recommend waiting until november 17th because doing it earlier would disrupt the groups who use it. >> it's been leaking for a long time but the leak vs been small. now they're cumulative and it's add up. >> that plan could change tomorrow when the city council meets to talk about how to fix the problem at that 70-year-old

pool. if the davis folks decide to wait more than 600,000 gallons of water have been lost. t that's a drop in the bucket. your trip to yosemite is likely to be more expense ifr. they will raise the fee to $30 for a seven-day pass. the money will be used for maintenance, repairs and building restoration. the fee hasn't gone up since 2007 when it was raised to $20. camp site prices are going up. park service is taking comments by e-mail. there's a link at abc7news.com. we have a lot more to come. just ahead a new embarrassment for microsoft. the chief executive's microphone gets cut off. an important warning about the air bags in your car. why you shouldn't recall the recall notice you may have received. the united states makes an 11th hour attempt to save a city

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pushing the ever more powerful cloud platform. some reporters were more interested in asking him about something else. >> great to be in san francisco to talk about you are cloud. >> reporter: he came to talk about cloud computing but there was a cloud of a different kind over the ceo and it wasn't the cloudy weather he brought with him from seattle. >> big enough that you can park two jumbo jets complete with the passengers inside him. >> reporter: most of the presentation was technical. that all changed when microsoft opened the floor for questions. that's the reason some showed up. >> was the opportunity to push limb on some of the comments he made last week about equal opportunity and equal pay for women. >> reporter: on october 9th, he made headlines.

>> what do you advise to women who are interested in advancing their career? >> reporter: at a conference his answer was this. >> it's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. >> reporter: he issues an apology. mike crowsoft given broadcasters and fee and wouldn't turn it back on when we asked. he said we made a mistake. >> i took my ordinary reason personal and the lucky breaks i got.

overall 17% among engineers. >> that's what i want to talk to the company. that's the thing that came to me. two brothers are under arrest tonight accused of stabbing another man to death in san francisco's mission district last month. 26-year-old javier and 21-year-old louis gutierrez were taken into custody. video captured two men running away after goodman was stabbed. they are being held on murder and conspiracy charges. police in pleasant hill are looking for man who sexually assaulted a woman in a a parking lot early sunday morning.

the attack happened at an apartment complex. the man pulled the woman to the grount ground and tried to take off her underwear. the attacker is described as man in his 20s wearing a white hooded sweatshirt and shorts. federal regulators said you should get your air bags replaced immediately if your car has been recalled. in high humidity the air bag inflaters can rupture in a crash. honda, toyota, nissan, mazda, bmw and mitsbushi have issued recalls. if yours is one of them take care of it right away. a milestone for dozens of people who had contact with the man who died in ebola in dallas. their quarantine is over.

the 21-day quarantine ended for people who had contact with thomas eric duncan before he was hospitalized. it's reassuring news. >> the fact that those people who lived with mr. duncan, those people who stayed in the apartment after he was in the hospital, not one of them came down with ebola. i think that tels us this infection is pretty difficult to pick up outside of the hospital. >> nurses at the dallas hospital depending the facility where duncan was misdiagnosed. questions are being raised about the protective measures now in place for health care workers. >> the way that was written was a risk for the nurses. they went by the protocol. they got infected. right now those protocols are being changed. >> the world health organization declared nigh jeeria ebola free. new developments against the terrorist group isis. the united states is coming to the rescue in a town that's been

on the verge of falling to isis on the border of syria and turkey. abc 7 news reporter susan has the story. >> reporter: u.s. air strikes pounded isis targets over the weekend in the bloody fight for the syrian city of kobani and overnight a crucial new development. american aircraft dropped arms, ammunition and medical supplies to help the forces who have been under asies assauisis assaults . >> they're out gunned. they're brave fighters. they just need more help. if they had better technology, better weapons they could do it on their own. >> reporter: this morning human rights observers on the ground are confirming the air dropped supplies have reached activists battling isis. the u.s. that been wanting to support the forces in kobani

because in this fear battle the tide may be turning. more than 135 u.s. air strikes in kobani against isis has pushed the militants back and weakened their ranks. if he continues to present us with major targets as he's done in the kobani area then we'll service the targets and we've done so very effectively here of late. >> reporter: american officials admit kobani could fall but the real goal is degrading isis as a whole. one of those overnight air strikes targeted a pellet of supplies that had fallen outside the drop zone. all to make sure those supplies don't fall into isis' hands. proof tonight that even supreme court justices watch network television. >> coming up, sonya sotomayer

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keynote speaker. mrs. clinton talked about the need for equal pay and the living wage. she said it's time to elect leaders who will fight for everyone. >> i'm proud that more than 100 democrats women are running. i can't think of a belter way to make congress start working for american families again than electing every last one of them. >> people paid 1,000 to more than $16,000 to attend. supreme court justice sonya sotomayer just wrapped up a conversation. people packed student union this afternoon to hear her share stories from her life and the court. the justice gave advice on how to start a career as lawyer from the practical too be more

theoretical focused on persuasion, not arguing. >> she does look like she's not teaching people to have the kind of integrity that i like in the practice of law. >> she's been a justice since 2009. all right. would you like to be an assistant postal carrier? that's one of 1100 jobs that will be available tomorrow at the next abc 7 job journal hire event. this will be held from noon until 4:00 tomorrow. po post office and 16 other employers will be there. a bay area man gets an e-mail saying there's a contract out on his life. it's look at all these children. they all lost their lives because of preventable medical errors, now the third leading

cause of death. only heart disease and cancer take more lives. proposition 46 will save lives with drug and alcohol testing to make sure impaired doctors don't treat someone you love. safeguards against prescription drug abuse. and holds the medical industry accountable for mistakes. i'm barbara boxer. let's save lives. vote yes on 46.

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renta died. he died at 82. he was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. we all know about the internet scam to try to trick us into sending money to a thief, right. >> tonight a more frightening scam is spreading across the globe. >> it's hit one bay area resident. we have some important information. >> this is amazing. this is scam that police are calling a new low even for the lowest con artist. they strike fear to the heart of those they target. when a san francisco man received a scary e-mail, he came to me wondering if he should fear for his own life. >> there was a contract on my life and i was going to die insta instantly. >> someone he knew hired a hit

man to kill him. >> this is how your life will come to an end as your death has opinion paid for by someone close to you. my initiate reaction is it was a scam. then he read it out loud to a friend and a chill came over him. >> this is spooky. as the day progressed i became more spooked. >> reporter: it also offered him way to save his life. you have the chance if only you will comply with me. >> you need to stay calm and act unaware of the situation and follow the directions. >> reporter: he figured it was a phony threat and yet he couldn't be sure. >> you don't know. you don't know. that's the spooky part oift. >> reporter: was he a lone target. he came to us asking if others had received the same threat. we took it to police. >> it's very important that people do report this incident to police. no one knows if it will happen or not. it's better to be safe than

sorry. >> reporter: san francisco police spokesperson tells us any de death threat should be taken seriously. he said this is an attempt to extort money through fear. >> it's very terrifying. that's the point to install fear to obtain whatever they want to obtain. >> if i was the only person that would make it super spooky. >> reporter: he's not alone. an internet search found victims around the world have reported similar death threats by e-mail and text messages. just another internet scam. that's good news to rick. he's almost ready to laugh it off. >> i asked a few people in a joking way. i said do you buy any chance want me dead. >> reporter: oh, no. rick decided not to respond to that threat. police tell us and this kind of scam the con artist will ask for a lot of money to supposedly spare your life and some victims are frightened enough to pay it.

if you get a threatening e-mail don't respond but report it to police. rick did that. now san francisco police are investigating. it's unlikely they will come up with something but you want to give them the chance. time to turn our attention back to the weather. >> it looks really pretty outside. >> it's getting prettier and prettier. here is a look at live doppler hd. tomorrow we'll see sunny skies from top to bottom. mild conditions. we'll see a high of 93 degsz. here in the bay area look for mainly sunny skies with a few passing high clouds. high temperatures will range from mid-60s at the coast to upper 60s around the bay. tomorrow evening and kansas city it will be game one of world series. the giants taking on the royals and the royals home turf. game time 7:00 p.m. central time. lit be clear. skies will be clear. temperature about 61 degrees. that's pretty good baseball weather. here is the accuweather

seven-day forecast. we can expect mainly sunny and mild conditions the next three days. four days. highs in the upper 70s. late friday expect clouds to thicken. looks like we can have a wet day on saturday. that will be our next opportunity for rain. >> we're looking forward to all the opportunities. we have this. a lot of sports to talk about. >> we're less than 24 hours away from game one of the world series. hoping for the same result we had in 2012. celebrating in detroit. we have a preview of game 1 next in sports.

the anticipation players experience is off the charts. probably still coming down from the game 5 victory over the cardinals that sent them to the world series. madison will take the mound for

the g-men and winning game one i think is key in any world series. >> the biggest thing is going out there and making pitches and being able to adjust and read the situation and know how to game is going. that's kind of how i like to do it. you know they're a good team. we're a good team. you don't get to this point without being a good team. >> give bryan credit. he's the architect of this club and when you have some needs and need to fill some holes. he does unbelievable job of it. >> the royals will counter with big game james shield as the game one start. shield saw a complete game shut out against the giants back in august striking out 5 in a 5-0 victory. it's another story especially with both teams coming in hot. >> obviously, the postseason is a different beast. they're on a nice role right

now. i'm definitely will look at video and see how it pitched last time and make adjustments as the game goes on. >> the buy week for the 49ers could not have come at a better time. this team need a break. starting center daniel kilgore will undergo surgery for a fractured left ankle and peyton manning was the story last night breaking brett favre's record for career touchdown passes with 509. he threw four on the night. the 49ers offense must have got caught up in the peyton show as colin kaepernick was all over the place. thankfully all the attention was on manning and not the 49ers. probably worst game of the season. >> not what you want to have happen. understand that the opponent played extremely well.

erwhcan we learn. what can we -- where can we learn? what can we learn from? take that approach. >> seemed stunned still. the raiders lost their second straight under interim head coach. they've been more competitive in both games. dup did you want get any easier. check this out in oakland's first four games they were out scored. the raiders will play with more competitive deal losing a close one to the chargers. he's hoping they can taste that victory soon. >> right now there's a great belief in that room that we're going to get this thing turned around and we are getting better. it's just that they don't have the tangible evidence which is a wa win. that's the thing that

disappoints me now. i want them to feel what that's like to win one of those games. >> they have the cleveland browns next. this has been brought to you by orchard supply hardware. all the giants fans in the bay area can't wait. thank you. joins tonight at 9:00 on tv 20 cable 13. parental outrage. why some parents are demanding that these new action figures be pulled from store shelves. that's at 9:00. at 11:00, making a buck off of ebola. how some people are trying to cash in on the fear of that deadly disease. here is tonight's programming line up. we have dancing with the stars and castle followed by abc 7 news at 11:00. >> all programming is available on your smart phone tablet or computer. go to watch abc.com. >> that's going to do it for us. that's it for this edition of abc 7 news. >> our coverage of breaking news

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