costs to get in to see game one of the world series. we will have a live report from at&t park. >> another week, another obama. why the first lady is coming to the bay area today. new polls out show one california candidate is pulling away and another race is getting tighter. those stories today, october 25th on today in the bay. >> good morning to you. 6:00 on monday morning. i'm laura garcia cannon. >> i'm brent cannon. we start with the impact of a soggy weekend. we are still drying out, but rob said more is on the way. >> goody! >> we had the super soaker of a weekend for the north bay and ponding on the roads and most of the rain and wind moved on. temperatures hour by hour only into the mid 60sa as we show you the latest scan at the bay area

and beyond. things have dried out and isolated showers possible around the hilltops and along the coast. back to you. >> now let's go to today in the bay's christie smith to show us the trouble they are causing. >> reporter: good morning. lingering problems over on highway 84 that will be going on for sometime. i will get to that in a minute. i wanted to mention the good news happening this morning for bart riders. that is that the 12th street bart station here in downtown oakland is fully functioning this morning after the lights went out for sometime yesterday. both here and at the lake merit bart station. this is no short-term outage. it went on for six long hours and the storm trains would roll through and could not stop actually while the power was up. that led to system-wide delays. this all downtown also where the oakland fire department won. that's the dispatch center and

they had to use a generator to restore power there. the police department over on seventh and broadway went dark. no impact on 911, but at least 15,000 customers lost power. all of that restored this morning according to pg&e. also new this morning, back to highway 84, a pg&e transformer blew and knocked down a pole. live wires across the road. our camera couldn't get past the roadblock due to the closure and the danger from the live wire. pg&e expected to have that reopened sometime around 8:00 this morning. live in oakland, christie smith today in the bay. >> thanks, christie. >> we want this check in with mike. you might find water standing and trees down. all kinds of stuff that could affect the commute. >> you are right. as more folks hit the road, you woor likely to get the reports because they discover what's going on.

leave a little early and even for bart which as christie said no delays and stations have been any problems. no delays reported for 47 trains and get to the station early and you will expect an adjustment with the folks from last night. getting used to the things and 12th street station is open. the driff to the similar area looks nice and you see slowing through emeryville on westbound 80 off of the east shore freeway. as well as out of the tunnel for 45 minutes and heading past highway 13. that's an earlier start for the slow down than we see. i will point that out. jumping up to the north, another type of story christy is talking about, a tree down across all lanes. it took about 40 minutes to clear, but that reopened. highway 101 shows slowing through the santa rosa area. reports of flooding throughout the area. a nice drive for highway 101 itself. just eight minutes for highway

37 down towards 580, the richmond bridge. we watch lucky drive. that's a typical spot and the rain is easing off. back to you. new this morning, the first lady is expected to pay a visit to the bay area today. michelle obama will be in san francisco for a fund-raiser for a local democratic candidate. she will be joined by nancy pelosi. the event will be held at the fairmont hotel. it is expected to wrap up around 8:00. >> two teens accused of setting fire to a san jose school could enter a plea. the 16-year-old and 17-year-old are accused of starting the fire in july. it caused $10 million in damage. both teens are held without bail. today is the third day of deliberations in the murder for hire trial. the jury could not come up with a verdict before the weekend. paul garcia is accused of a

killing in 2008. giants fever is spreading. the orange and black will hit the field later and it will be the team's first world series work out. bob redell is live outside with what it will take to get in just to see game one. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning, laura. if you want to see the giants take on the rangers wednesday or thursday in games one and two, you can find ticks on websites like stub hub or a major premium or follow in the food steps of those two guys. the martin brothers. they have been sitting outside the giants box office since 2:00 yesterday afternoon. they have heard that the team might be releasing the ticket when is the window opens at 9:00 this morning. they are not sure and neither are we. for them, it's worth a try considering their love for the team. >> it always started with my dad

and my mom younger. we used to have season tickets at candlestick and growing up, the giants became part of the family, part of life. any chance i got to try to get world series tickets. >> i bleed orange and black. i don't know what else to say. it's my team and has been my grandfather loved them and i love them and san francisco loves them. we are dying for a world series for a championship. if the box office doesn't work, they can go to stub hub. people are selling standing room only tickets for the first game here at at&t park for $440. good seats, ones in the front row behind home plate are north of $4,000. around $4250. wednesday and thursday, first pitch before 5:00.

live outside at&t park, today in the bay. >> sitting on my couch is my price tag. for more on the giants and the world series, you can get all the information you need there. we have a full video of the happy homecoming this weekend at at&t park, the manager talks about what the team needs to do and work on in the next few days. his organization will be taking a careful look at the turn in the mortgage mess. the failure to turn in accurate foreclosure forms. up until just a few minutes ago. you didn't know the fed had an actual investigation under way. bernanke speaking at a finance conference said he expects a formal report on this fed investigation by the end of november. lots of housing in focus. we get existing home sales and

tomorrow case schiller is the well-respected look at about 10 different cities in america and the home prices wednesday. new homes as well. homes in focus both by prices and by the fed this morning. >> we know you are watching. thanks so much. 6:08 right now and california beaches closed because of a deadly shark attack could reopen as soon as this morning. a 19-year-old student was body boarding friday with a friend off of surf beach north of santa barbara when a shark pulled him under water. he died in the water. scientists think it was a white shark that attacked. >> another stab at putting another part of the bay bridge in place today. they will lift bridges on the second tower. they will span about 10 stories into the air. caltrans had postponed the job last week and said a maintenance issue had to be taken care of.

we want to check the morning commute and see how things are rolling. >> the volume is picking up and we are likely to see problems as folks figure out what fell on the roadway. be careful about that. brent gave another warning for folks crossing over the bridge. you will see that construction work going on well hit up. we will try to get you a live shot over the hour. you will see construction going on with the new portion of the tower. it will rise past the car level of the bridge and it will be a distraction. we will show you the pictures and check them on the website. don't be interacted. focus on the road. an issue we did find out about affecting the tunnel itself and the surrounding homes, a power outage in the area and no light through the tunnel from what i understand. both westbound are open for the morning commute. surrounding homes are experiencing up to 5,000 customers are experiencing outages. that may be an issue as you travel as well.

westbound 24 is slow heading over to the maze, slowing down the berkeley curve. no metering lights and a slow down through livermore and 580 with a couple of accidents near first. maybe what's causing this latest slow down. we see it bunching up. we will follow it safely. >> we watch the weather for you, 55 degrees currently? n san jose and not much rain, but patchy clouds around the santa clara valley. 56 degrees in oakland and the winds at 5, down from the 20 to 30 mile per hour wind wees had yesterday. 56 degrees and a northwest wind at close to 6 miles per hour. not much rain to worry about. maybe stray showers around the hilltops and the sierra is a different story. we are heading up to lake tahoe and you want to bring the chains and snow cables. we have chain control.

we have this batch of moisture that will swing through. for that reason, we have a chance of showers and we make the turn for the afternoon and call for partly cloudy skies. we are talking mid 60s and 50 oz the coast between today and wednesday. things should be dry with off and on chances are rain and taking us into sunday morning. back to you. >> 6:11 and haitians are dealing with a new problem months after a devastating earthquake. see what's happening now. >> an east bay woman is killed state hospital at nasa. >> a week away from election day. new polls show us how california's big races are shaping up. we will show them to you next. another live look outside. we are keeping tabs of the forecast. how things are affecting the roads. your traffic and weather coming up all morning.

>>. >> good monday morning to you. taking a live beautiful look outside. projected highs across the bay area. san jose 65 and oakland 62. san francisco 61. feels like fall across the bay area. rain making alg come back. we will tell you when. >> now to more on decision 2010. some people say they don't vote because they are not well-informed. chris sanchez is here to show you how to beat that excuse. >> no more excuses. nbcbayarea.com. read about the victorious san francisco giants and then click

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a man determined to be criminally insane is accused of killing a concord woman. it happened at the state hospital in napa on the highway. the deputies say somebody found the girl dead in a courtyard in the hospital. she had worked there for 14 years. the suspect is a 37-year-old man committed to the hospital in 1993. he now faces murder and robbery charges. >> people in haiti are dealing with more than 3,000 cases of cholera. it's sweeping through the island country while the people are rebuilding from january's earthquake. the hate yen government and aid organizations are trying to contain the disease. they are worried it could get worse as it strikes tent camps in port-au-prince. >> we are trying to inform the people of the camp because clearly they have more for the

commission they are leading. >>. >> cholera is caused by ingesting contaminated water or food. it is not spread from person to person, but it could move through community where is the water is not clean. >> people in indonesia are on high alert. a volcano is spewing ash, triggering evacuations of thens of homes much the government issued the highest alert possible early this morning after they noticed an increase in activity over the weekend. almost 12,000 people are going to need to leave homes. richard is over guatemala. the national hurricane center said richard may drop as much as six inches of rain on northern guatemala and expected to weaken as it moves inland. >> the sports complex would be named in honor of slain police

officer will either be approved or rejected by planners tonight. the soccer field would be located on bay road. the supporters say without approval the project stans to lose critical grant dollars contingent upon approval. richard may died in the line of duty. in february of this year, alberto alvarez was scheduled to die by lethal injection. the raiders take on the seahawks and are probably feeling confident after they set a team record, dismantling the 59-point team. they were up 21-0 through the first quarter. darren fadden scored four touchdowns and with a reception. nowing his way on in. the 49ers necessary england against the broncos. probably not feeling so good

themselves either. it's the first win this season for carolina and to add injury to insult, the quarterback alex smith left the game with an injured shoulder strain. they lose the final score 23-20. >> hit movies that came out about the past and the future are coming out again in the present. make sense? scott is here to take us back to the future. >> back to the future. all three of these movies will be released on blu-ray starting tomorrow. it has been 25 years since michael j. fox started time traveling, hopping back and forth from 1955 in the first one.

ronald reagan loved the movie despite the fact that it poked fun at him. he used the line where we are going, we don't need roads in his state of the union address in 1986. this is very disturbing. if hollywood remade the movie today, he would travel back 30 years into the far off land of 1980. >> wow. the land of scrunchies. >> they traveled 30 years ahead and that's 2015. we have five years to see if flying cars are true and hovering skateboards. and the new movie predicts a female president. we will find out if that comes true. the cast of back to the future will reunite on the today show tomorrow. to clear that up, they will look back on back to the future in the future tomorrow on "today." >> wow!

>> back to you. >> you are making my hair top the stand up like crazy. like mike inouye. >> let's go to mike right now. . >> it wasn't a mullet. it was a tail. let's look out and we will tell you the tale of a bay bridge. this is the view heading over towards the city and the beautiful skyline. let me show you the view. we are talking about the construction on the north of the bridge. choppers should have a live shot. they can pull it up. the fore grund shows you the light. that's the construction and the new tower that is being expanded and adding another 107 feet on there. well lit right now. that will be a distraction. throughout the day and the week. it will cause folks to slow and drift. as far as their attention goes. i hope they don't drift.

watch for the other drivers and drive defensively. we showed you the beautiful pictures there and focused on the commute. a nice drive and the tail lights on the maps. we will move it around to the top and show you that there is slowing on the bottom of the berkeley curve. you will see the speeds dip down into the 50s. both directions have the power out and you will have slowing there as well as westbound 580. an earlier accident at first and debris in the roadway. watch for that and clouds might be touching you. a 22-minute drive out of the pass there. >> bart could take riders to the pacific ocean. a director said the new lynn to ocean beach would meet the demands of richmond district residents underserved by public transportation. james fang who is running for reelection said an underground line throughout district could attract a lot of federal support. he is trying to start talks

about that proposal. his plan calls for an underground route to the north with stops in the western edition, 25th and 48 avenues and ocean beach. he estimates some 100,000 people use that extension every day. >> michelle obama is coming to the bay area. find out why she may be more help to candidates than her husband. >> at&t park this week. the giants think they have a good advantage. how the rangers plan to use bengie molina, coming up. >> a live look outside. a beautiful bay bridge from the distance. traffic is already making its way across the span. we will have a look at the morning commute and help you get where you need to tsmorning. al morning. also a full look at the forecast.

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and some of the temperatures on the bay today. 65 in livermore and palo alto is 63. let's show you what's going on on the radar. most of the action is heading off to the east. snow flying this morning and the batch of clouds offshore will swing through, giving us one more opportunity for showers around late morning to midday. after that, clearing skies approaching the late afternoon and evening. it will be a cool day today. mostly 60s inland. today through wednesday will be dry towards mid-week. more rain will drop in as we approach thursday into friday. back over to you. >> thanks for the update, rob. >> schools could be a haven for germs. what experts say are the biggest hot spots for kids in a live report. >> the world series is back in the bay area. live reports including from rangers country coming up. >> a weekend storm is gone and the problems remain. see what people are dealing with around the bay area next in a

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the rain has stopped and the weather has not. what's rolling for the morning commute, coming up. >> giants fever turning into world series fever. we will see how fans are celebrating today in the bay. straight up 6:30. >> let's start with rob. everybody is talking about the rain. pretty wet out there. any more on the way? >> we are catching a break from the rain and wind. the temperatures this morning are 40s and 50s.

as we jump to the afternoon, it will be a cool day and a slight chance of a shower. we will show you this. lock at the wave heights approaching half moon bay with 14-foot swells. use caution if you are heading out. more on the next chance of rain in a few minutes. back to you. >> thank you very much. >> we have been keeping tabs on how this is affecting the commute. although it's not raining now, we have the residual. the east shore freeway is showing a 19-minute drive off of the bridge from ashby to the curve. the build up with the metering lights on. we have seen this. that may force folks off of the freeway first heading down towards livermore and highway 84 where we see this slow down happening in the southbound

direction as you approach the express lane. this is a standar flow. it's smooth by the time you get to the south bay. you have a nice northbound direction. 101 just a little slowing around 680. 101 and 280 with problems and we had an issue and the tree is down and we will head over to you guys. christie smith heads more on that. >> we will have more on from christ to get the power back on. she is live in oakland with more on that. good morning. >> good morning. a couple of problems still lingering. we spoke with cal trans and the lights are off in the tunnel and both directions are also telling us that 2500 customers in the area near orinda are in the dark. we have calls into pg&e about that. good news for bart riders near the city center station.

they spent most of the sunday in the dark for at least six hours. the power outage went on for quite sometime meaning that trains rolled through and they did not stop. broadway was dark and also the oakland fire department dispatch had to reloi on generators and there were glitches turning them on. oakland police department on seventh and broadway lost power for six hours at the height. about 1500 pg&e customers in oakland were in the dark. those customers back on this morning. over on highway 84, problems lingering near skyline boulevard. a transformer blew down, shut down 84. it was so dangerous our cameras couldn't get close enough to it. pg&e expecting it to have it cleared up sometime around 8:00 this morning. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, today in the bay.

a fund-raiser for local democratic candidates. the event will be held at the hotel expected to start around tle:30 and wrap up around 8. >> it's just the beginning. san francisco giants now looking ahead to gym one of the world series on wednesday. today in the bay is live with a look at what's ahead. a lost excited fans. >> absolutely. the team arriving yesterday evening. from the flight from philadelphia. the texas rangers are supposed to be getting into town today and have their next work out tomorrow. the giants have been in the third longest world series championship drought behind the cubs and the indians and they are hoping to change that this week. the last time they won was in 1954 when they were back in new

york. they have been to the series twice since then with the giants in 89 when the a's swept the giants and eight years ago when the angels beat them in the final game. if you want to see the game wednesday or thursday, there tickets available. websites like stub hub are going for a pretty penny. those prices and what it's going to take to get inside the park this wednesday for the first tickets. reporting live here outside at&t park, rob rebel. >> the texas rangers have a not so secret secret weapon. his name is bepgy molina. they traded him to texas in july to make room for buster posey. they spent more than two years with the giants and the rangers manager plans to find out what he knows. >> it will be key. we will sit down and try to go through every scenario that we possibly can as far as the hitters go.

as far as the weaknesses are. once the game starts, we do what we have to do. >> no matter who wins, molina is in a great position. he will be in answer to a trivia question. he is the only player to trade him earlier in the 18 in the world series. he will get a world series ring no matter who wins. he spent enough time with the giant this is season to earn one them or get one by being a current member of the texas rangers. he is good to go. >> it is a good question there. 6:36 right now. more on the giants coming up. we will find out what we have in the world series in texas. >> several hot spots where your kids can catch a lost germs. where the hot spots are in a live report. >> one bay area schedule is getting a makeover. why it has one teacher. >> a soggy and windy weekend, a

forecast getting a makeover. things are drying out, but more rain on the way. we will let you know when.

>> welcome back. before 6:40 and most of the rain moved off to the eastward in the form of snow 6,000 feet. chain controls have been up towards interstate 80. we have one more batch of moisture that will swing through later this morning. that may kickoff a few more showers on the hilltops, but things will trend much drier than the windy and soggy weekend we had. temperatures as skies try to clear. highs in the mid 60s and close to 60 in san francisco. not too bad through the middle of the week. we should be dry for game one and thursday we will have to keep an eye on as more rain comes in. starting thursday through early sunday morning. >> thanks so much. a job hunter's boot camp will be held in san francisco. we will talk about the event at 11:00 this morning and highlight 20 area employers that have openings. it's at the south san francisco

conference center on airport boulevard in south san francisco. >> grit news for local schools, especially with the cuts that affect a lot of local classrooms. a kindergarten and first great teacher won a classroom makeover. she entered a national contest and one of five teachers from across the country and the only one from the west coast to win the grand prize. the contest is part of the national abduction prevention program called go to be safe, think smart, take charge. congratulations to her. they will be getting cool stuff for the class. >> hopefully they can clean things up. we will have a report on the worst spots for germs. >> she will get wipes for her classroom. a live look at the bay bridge this morning. we will check the forecast and your commute conditions. here's the construction we have been telling y about. they hope to get back under way this morning. expecting different results.

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welcome back. a live look at the shark tank. happy to get back there with another loss on the road. look at the temperatures. kind of cool. nothing into the 70s this morning. as you send your kids off to school, here's something to think about. the cafeterias and the library are full of germs. tracy pots is live in washington, d.c. with a look at what it could mean for school kids. >> good morning. 6.3 million california kids are heading to school today and where are the germs? we know there germs in schools and everywhere else, but a new study from the university of arizona fines that there certain

hot spots in schools to expect the germs to congregate. they are the cafeteria table where your kids are eating lunch today, the computer mouse, paper towel handles, water fountains and sink faucets, the very places where kid guess to clean up while at school. what to do about it? here's what the author suggests. staff and teachers should wipe off the areas with disinfectant throughout the day. in the morning about 13% of the surfaces they swabbed were filled with germs, but by the afternoon it was 50%. it's a good idea for parents to send hand sanitizer and wipes to school with their wis and teach them not to touch the surfaces in bathrooms. instead when they turn on the faucet, use a paper towel. those are public bathrooms and schools just like anywhere else you would go. live fra from capitol hill, today in the bay.

>> thanks a lot for the update. >> a florida girl made famous by a case of hiccups is now facing murder charges. 19-year-old jennifer is behind bars after police say she lured a man several times after he struggled with robbers. all three admitted to their part in the robbery and facing first-degree murder charges. >>. >> good morning, it is 6:46 and you are looking at construction. the well-lit portion, that's the construction as they add to the tower that takes it past where you drive. it will be a distraction right now as well as folks on the morning commute. let me take you to the maps and this is from the oakland side. the construction we just looked at on the north side of the bridge.

on the right into san francisco and on the left across the lower deck. there will be slowing, but we have shown you what's going on. you focus on the roadway and drive defensively. throughout some of the wet roadways as well and things might be fighting in puddles and trees and watch for that on the morning commute. the slowing that increases and coming down the east shore freeway, about 21 minutes off the bridge down to the berkeley curve. we see good slowing and the back up goes become to west front avenue. slow through the tunnel and the power is out in the tunnel itself. both directions reporting a slow drive between orinda and the oakland side. slow through livermore jammed out of the pass and an earlier accident involving four cars at first and caused the early slow down. the average travel time is 30 minutes from the pass to the interchange. we have a live shot as well.

880 is starting to pick up and that's holding up as far as the speeds go. you can clearly see the city lights in the background. >> enough rain did fall to keep bonding on the roadways. the rain moved on. it's chilly outside and mostly 50s. not all that windy, not like yesterday with gusts up to 50 around the east bay hills. not so bad. light wins and in terms of the showers, we see a few on the coastline. not a lot around the bay area. most of the moisture moved on to the east. one more batch of moisture that will swing on through that may kickoff a few isolated showers. after lunchtime, a decent day on the cool side. 65 for san jose and 61 in sfron. upper 60s on the coast through at least wednesday evening. things look dry. stay tuned. midday rain rolling in and off and on showers throughout the

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a new poll gives brown a big lead over meg whitman. 52% say that f they voted today, they would vote for brown. 39% say whitman is their choice. the poll released shows that the leaning towards brown is echoed by another poll we saw last week. whitman appears to be losing ground on women, latinos and those who declined to state a party of choice. a recent political poll shows that republicans get 47% of likely voters surveyed and 42% say they will vote democratic. the interesting thing about this poll, 14% more independents say they will vote republican this time around. that could have a huge impact on the boxer fiorina fight that could change the balance of poure in washington. you need to be informed. your decision day is coming up and everything you need, nbcbayarea.com.

>> meantime, activists will stage an exorcism against proposition l today. artist and activist and a full gospel choir plan to be at 16th and mission plaza. they perform the ritual. that makes it illegal to sit on any sidewalk. it's a way to fight panhandling and homeless people crowding local businesses. opponents say prop l violates civil rights and would have a devastating impact on the cult skpur the community. just a short time ago, we got word from ben bernanke. the fed is investigating the latest in the mortgage mess which is the bad foreclosures that some banks are making. the dow industrials are up about 70 points and nasdaq up about 22. amd, the chip maker is doing very well.

doing very well after it was able to control costs up better than 3%. we will continue to look at houses and we got the previously owned houses. don't expect a lot of good news with prices. there too many houses out there for sale. >> thanks a lot, scott. >> if you thought the bay area had a bad case of giants fever before, look out now. >> fans are grabbing anything they can that's orange and black. today in the bay is live this morning that shows us how the fans are celebrating. >> they are celebrating by getting into the game, wednesday being game one against the rangers here at at&t park. you can go g on ticket websites like stub hub and pay a treatmepremium. jer emy and tori martin have been sitting outside the giants box office since 2:00 yesterday afternoon. they heard that a team might be

releasing ticket when is the window opens at 9:00. they are not 100% sure and neither are we, but it's worth a try considering their love for the team. >> it started with my dad and my mom younger. we used to have season ticketsa at candlestick and the giants became part of the family and part of life. any chance i got to try to get world series tickets, i would try. >> i bleed orange and black. it's my team and it has been my grandfather loved them and i love them. san francisco loves them and we are dying for a world series. for a championship. >> if the box office doesn't pan out, they can try stub hub. people on stub hub are selling standing room only tickets on wednesday for $440. the good seats like the front row behind home plate are just north of $4,000.

the worst two games this wednesday and thursday at at&t park, the first pitch before 5:00. live in san francisco, bob redell, today in the bay. >> pretty exciting. >> their two sides to world series coverage. >> here to give us the rangers side is debra ferg from the dallas affiliate. both of the teams being celebrated for eliminating unpopular teams, the phillies and the yankees. >> good for both of them. >> think about it. the phillies and the yankees were both picked in the world series and now we have two underdog teams. the giants and the texas rangers. that part is a great story. we have got on our side, i heard your reporter talking about giants fever. we have that too. this kind of snuck up on us and we look back at the video with the summer in july and august,

you can see empty seats in the stands and not now. rangers fans are packing the seats to cheer on the rangers. first time in history this team has made it to the world series. it is a huge deal. usually this time of year, we are about cowboys football. not this year. >> i was going to ask, we know how big football can be. baseball is a big deal. as you mentioned, it's so special to get to the world series for the first time. the giants have been there for a few times and not been able to win it all and people here hope this will be san francisco's year. >> and people here hoping it will be the rangers. >> that's what makes it great. >> this is the popular look. these are the t-shirts printed up right before the series ended. the rangers ordered some boxes of these and ran out. this is the t-shirt everybody wants. american league champions rangers. red is the hot color.

>> you wear it proudly because we will have the world championship. >> some of us in the news were talking about. waiting for the world series t-shirt. the best of it, bengie molina, you all had him and we got him in july. this guy will get a world series ring no matter which. >> that are is a great story. the guy gets one no matter what happens. >> it's great. right. >> good luck to you. wednesday is the big night. we will be watching and if you need a weekend trip, come down here. >> likewise for you. >> cook up some barbecue and we will be there. >> you got it. >> we will be talking to you. las vegas makers are calling the giants the underdogs again. awes makers like the rangers chances with cliff lee pitching three games if the series goes

seven. they are favored minus 120. you have to bet $120 to win $100. . >> not that we encourage that or anything. >> i don't know how that works. >> stick with little mama here. kidding. what about the morning commute. >> things are moving smoothly, but we want to watch for the slick roadways and the construction to the bay bridge as well. we will keep that for you as folks travel over the bay. back to you. >> checking in with rob -- >> game two, stay tuned. may see showers. >> have a great day. thanks for joining us. [ male announcer ] carly fiorina.

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