new this morning, shackled in tracy, he will take as stand against the captor. >> we will tell you what's going on and if it will have an effect on the world series. >> i'm bob redell with what the history said about the giants. that live report is coming from

at&t park. good morning. thanks for joining us. 5:00. i'm laura garcia cannon. >> rob is working and should be working overtime. a whole track of showers coming through the bay. >> rain held off for game two of the world series. the temperatures hour by hour, a day all-around the bay area in the 60s. the main weather headline as we have these pockets of heavy rain moving in to san francisco and oakland. this ties in with ponding and localized street flooding around san francisco. >> exactly. the usual suspects. the lucky drive in and down in san francisco. 280 and 101 where we had reports of an earlier accident. southbound 280 at 101, this area is where we find reports of

flooding. southbound 101, the two left lanes. the east bay had been getting hit and watch for wet roadways and the slick conditions. >> the giants are getting ready to play another hand of texas hold 'em. bob redell is live at at&t park. giants fans should be getting the brooms out for a sweep. >> reporter: i don't know about that. they should be getting the champagne glasses out for a possible win. history is definitely on the side of the giants when it comes to that. they are the 52nd team to win the first two game in the series. as a result of that, they have an 80% chance of winning the championship if you consider this. 40 of the past 51 teams with a 2-0 lead did take it all the way. y that have these numbers up on the screen so i don't bog you down with too much information. the last 11 team who is won the

first two at home like the giants, they also won the series. this is one of the highest scoring fall classics through game two. looking at the screen, the yankees and dodgers scored a combined 30 runs by the end of the second game and the giants and rangers are in sixth position with 27 runs and last night helped tremendously in that effort. 20 of those scored by san francisco and nine of them last night alone and a blowout of texas, 11 the night before. the giants will be traveling today to arlington texas for game three at 3:57 our time. starting for the giants on the mound versus col bee lewis of the rangers. live outside at and t park, bob redell today in the bay.

>> stay with us all weekend for your up to the minute giants coverage. follow us on nbcbayarea.com. tune in at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 because raj mathai will be live in texas with the world series coverage. >> approximate are just when you thought the steroids standal had loomed for the last time, new allegations are surfacing. jose gills en not on the postseason roster because of a nagging neck injury as many thought. "new york times" reports they are looking to shipments in human growth hormone sent to his wife in the bay area. this is the second time in the past five years that the 34-year-old has been linked to performance-enhancing drugs. the manager is not commenting. a team found shackle and beaten will take the stand against one of his alleged abusers. king county prosecutors are

mayhem, tortureñr and kidnappin. his neighbors and the team's legal guardian accepted pleas to more than a dozen felony charges. prosecutors say the team was held captive and tortured in a home in tracy for more than a year. >> a warn being a real life boogie man giving parents and kids a prehalloween scare. a man tried to lure young girls outside a saratoga elementary school off highway 9. one of the girls's parents said eight kids were playing outside yesterday when a man in a truck drove up and pointed and said he would give them $100 each if they went with him. he drove off after the parents and teachers heard the commotion. >> we think we are safe here and i don't think we are. i don't think we are safe anywhere. we need to educate our children and be diligent about chasing away somebody who could be a

danger to our children. >> and police are still looking for the suspect this halloween eve. he is described as a man in his 40s with bushy salt and pepper hair and a tattoo up his arm almost to his wrist. friends and family will gather to remember the eighth victim of the san bruno explosion. services will be held at 5:00 at st. peters church in pacifica. he was rescued, but died 16 days later at the hospital. jackie spear will meet with san bruno residents at a town hall meeting. on the agenda are safety concerns following the explosion and fire held at st. roberts catholic church at 6:30. the california public utilities commission gave the president power to increase pressure in the pipeline. the president said he will only do so if a cold snap makes it necessary to keep them flowing

to critical facilities like hospitals. >> your south bay commute is about to get greener. the transportation authority will unveil a fleet of hybrid buses today. passengers will get to ride starting monday. the 90 buses will replace older busses and they are expected to reduce green house gasses by 15%. they are paying for the fleet through a federal grant and money from california prop 1 b. >> ask anyone. giants fans allowed, but one woman manages to trump them all out of at&t park. this is the woman calling the shots and has been in the booth for more than 10 years. like everyone, she has superstitions. she said most importantly, a figurine. the postseason with her lucky coat. >> i have been wearing this coat for the entire season.

it's orange and it's fabulous. doesn't go with everything though. >> you can make it work. she has been in hundreds of games, but said the world series is special. she won't make a prediction, but has a good feeling, like a lost us. >> let's check in with mike. i will make a prediction. heck yes. it will be over by next saturday. >> you think they will sweep it. i would love that, but i would love for them to come back home. >> we will have a parade. >> we will take care of the parade. hopefully things won't rain on the parade like right now. a new accident in the same location. southbound 280 at 101. the new accident popped in after the last one cleared in the same area. we talked about the roadway flooding. the two left lanes approaching the interchange on southbound 280. a lot of water and northbound 101, hit by rain.

back to you. >> let's see where and when it will continue to come down. >> san jose rain-free for the moment. the clouds are spilling in. san francisco just check the latest rainfall totals over downtown. about a third of an inch of rain and ponding on the roads. that's the reason why. the rain is flying around. san francisco with the heavy showers moving away and across crossing over up towards mo raga around st. marys near walnut creek with the rain on the approach from the west. downpours are likely in the next 10 minutes. showers around san mateo and not seeing a lot yet, but the rain line will adadvance for the second half. highs with the clouds in the 60s and upper 50s around the north bay. cool air spilling in with the heating of the day. may trigger a shower. south of san jose and later on. the weekend will start off with showers and for halloween, only showers north of santa rosa.

it will be clearing out and drying up to wrap up the weekend. back to you. >> 5:09 and an in-flight scare. a hole opens up mid-flight. >> getting ready for the holidays. what you should do to start now instead of waiting until thanksgiving. >> getting to know your giants, meet juan uribe. you probably remember his three home run last night. he plays third base and can play others as well. uribe is one of tdl few giants on the team with a world series ring. he has been clutched for the team hitting a four against the phillies to give the giants the win. he hit the nlcs winning run. a live look at the golden gate bridge. doesn't look like a lot of traffic right now. we will check the morning commute there across all bridges and by ways with mike coming up. (announcer) while there are some home disasters you can't avoid,

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good friday morning over the south bay. rain in the bay area, where and when with rob. san francisco 62 and low of 66. danville is 64. and this news just in. a big announcement for california workers. 200 jobs coming to sacramento. semens got a contract to build 70 electric trains for amtrak. the 466 million dollar deal calls for the first train to hit the tracks in 2013. >> a mother's decision to eat a president obama poppy seed bagel led to getting her newborn taken away. the baby was taken from her three days after she was born because the pennsylvania hospital reported she tested positive for drugs. it turns out the test results were wrong all because of a poppy seed bagel she had eaten just before she gave birth. the aclu is filing suit against

children's services and the hospital. this morning an american cement company is admitting they skipped a critical test. the halliburton company changed the amount of a critical ingredient mixed at the last minute. that means the contractor never did a stability test on the new blend. faulty cement that failed to seal the well was found to be one of the causes of the april 20th disaster. a scare in the skies. federal investigators are looking into what caused a two-foot hole to open up on the side of an american airlines plane mid-flight. passengers report hearing a loud explosion and loss of cabin pressure from miami to boston yesterday. persons and crew put on oxygen masks as the plane returned to miami for an emergency landing. >> lights were going on and off and noises and people were

hysterical and crying. screaming and grabbing on to each other. >> pilots landed safely and there were no reported injuries. investigators are trying to figure out what caused the hole. >> finding a job is tough and it seems the restaurant industry is cooking. it doesn't mean a boom, but they are adding jobs at four times the rate of the economy overall. good news because many view the restaurant business as a bell weather of the economy. eating out is the first thing people cut back on when they are strapped for cash and what they tend to do first when they can afford it. >> when you go out shopping, pick up bigger pants. halloween kicks off the holiday eating season. the average smern set american gain 7 to 10 pounds. buy candy you don't like and use substitutes with holiday meals. our bodies will thank us if we

make new year's resolutions now. >> if you set yourself up right before the holidays come by being aware that weight gain is an issue and you know you overeat, there things you can do to prevent that. >> sign up for a new year's day race so you don't celebrate too much on new year's eve and it will keep you motivated for the holidays. we are not doing any of those things. >> buy sweat pants. >> want to get fit in 2011? try boot camp, core training and back to basic workouts. among the 20 hot fitness trends. pilates and balance training are passy and they interviewed fitness pros to come up with that list. other things we are not going to do. >> bring on the pumpkin pie. >> i will ask for not a bench press, but a panini press.

>> one, two -- >> let's take you out to the improving situation. a sigalert that should be canceled because northbound 880 at auto mall park. reports of an overturned vehicle and a couple of cars that might have hit. no major injuries women had you slowing, but that might affect you up to 680. durham and mission to the north of there. we also have an investigation continuing in brentwood. the bypass is closed between loan tree and stanford because of a deadly accident. police are handling that and you will handle the commute by taking brentwood boulevard. antioch highway 4 moves close to the limit and pittsburgh as well. watch the rain. it will affect your drive. it's hitting portions of the east bay. a live look at the camera traveling past the oakland area. blurry lights because of the water on the windshields.

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we made it to friday. a live look across the golden gate bridge and you may find a little bit of ponding. good rain moving through san francisco this morning and almost 1/3 of an inch since midnight. 59 degrees as we get to the radar view from san francisco over to the san leandro now. the line of showers approaching the san mateo bridge. around walnut creek and mo raga, that continues to slowly advance and as we take you into san mateo, you can see where the rain line is. not quite into san jose, but the slow progression will continue to bring the showers into the santa clara valley. an interesting pattern with the rain at times and cold air offshore. could kickoff the isolated thundershowers. the cold air is an unstable environment. scattered showers early saturday and then on sunday, we are expecting clearing skies.

one more system drops into the north bay, but the trend sunday afternoon and evening all the way through wednesday of next week. drier weather and warmer temperatures as well. 60s and san jose 60s and upper 50s to low 60s across the north bay. your seven-day forecast will show you a bit of an unsettled day and a slight risk of thunder. more showers to kickoff and halloween eve looks fine for trick or treat time. election day tuesday plenty warm and dry. no excuses to get out and vote. back to you. >> do your part. >> we're wouldn't call them the bay's most eligible bachelor. maybe the most wanted bachelor. >> you can be the judge of that. no shortage of females willing to mate with them. this creepy love story just in time for halloween. >> we will have to be careful. you don't want them to run out. >> at $40 a pop, they can yield a small fortune.

113 babies. a breed of tarantula that is highly wanted, yet hard to find. that's why john is actually able to stud out the services of his male brazilian to people like loan myer who owns what she hopes will be a pregnant brazilian pink. >> he is lifting up and what he is trying to do is insert his sperm into her. >> the male has hooks on his legs to keep the female from killing him with her fangs t. does happen, but not today for lover boy.

>> that's tarantula sex. >> instead of a stud fee, they agree to split whatever eggs come out of this. >> give them away or sell them. >> for christmas at the holidays. when you have that many, we will sell like 10 at a time in lots. >> if they are missing a leg, only four of the eight, is that half off? how does that work? >> depends. >> this is not get rich quick. we do it for the love of the hobby. it can perpetuate the species. >> a true american love story right there, laura and scott. john will be bringing his tarantulas to the exploratorium on sunday for halloween, an event they are calling tarantula speed dating.

the numbers of the bats, bay area tarantula society. there is such a thing. the exploratorium here in san francisco, their website is exploratorium.edu. it is 250 members strong. >> no kidding. that is amazing. what a hobby. >> go to television first. >> only rob redell. good morning, bay area. >> it's obvious. they have gone hand in hand. >> thanks, bob. time now is 5:26. a new poll out this morning, who is out in front in the race for sell senate. >> how one campaign is capitalizing in the giants in the world series. plus, getting the kids ready for trick or treating. the safety tips you need before they head out. [ mom ] my son ryan didn't know his voulez-vous

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new this morning, we will show you the senate poll coming out days before decision 2010. >> everyone is thinking giants, but halloween is right around the corner. do you have everything you need to keep your trick or treaters safe? we will have tips coming up today in the bay.

>> good morning. brent cannon is off this morning. >> this is today in the bay. want to get you started with a look at the forecast with rob. good morning. >> good morning. the headline is the rain is coming back and it is affecting the morning commute enough to cause ponding on the roads. you can see it there into oakland. i will take you in closer to the east bay and you can see this is the last hour or so. the heavier showers pushing away from oakland and berkeley and the heavier rain at the moment at walnut creek approaching alamo and dropping south into castro valley in the next to 10 minutes. what to expect for the weekend and your halloween plan when is it comes to the weather. >> perfect. we will need to know. it is a big weekend. kids will be out trick or treating and parents can make sure it remains a safe night. christie smith is live in oakland with tips on how to keep your kid safe. good morning. >> we are in the glenview

neighborhood here in oakland and we chose it because it's popular with kids and also dark. had has a lot of hills. this is one of the areas that would be a good example of that you want to keep an eye on your kids and keep them safe, especially when they want to get running to the next house to get that next bag of candy. according to the cdc, about 84% of accidents involving kids on halloween happen at non-intersections. some are choosing to cross in the middle of the street. another sobering number is that car-related fatalities jump about 30% on average on halloween night. the key here according to expert who is look into this sort of thing is seth the ground rules before you leave the house. increasing the visibility on your child. here are inside you may want to try. use a flashlight or some sort of reflective material on the costume. trick or treat on bright streets where they are well-lit and only

approach homes that are well-lit, preferably homes that you know. back here live, yesterday we were in san francisco talking about the giants and i went online and found on the major league baseball website, a stencil where you can create a giants pumpkin. i worked on that last night and i want to turn off the light and let you know how it turns out. >> good for you. >> for particular me about an hour. printed out the stencil and basically just kind of carved it out. i think the key for me is really an ice cream scooper on the inside. you can thin it out and make sure you can really see the sf and my prediction is if you are a texas fan, this is about the scariest pumpkin on the block. >> i think so. >> we are having a pumpkin-carving contest at work. >> we were going to have one. no point now. >> that's fabulous. >> thank you.

there is like three options, but i figured this said it all. it was a lot of fun. you print out the sten il and poke the edges of to go picks and you carve it out. there you go. it's sf. my neighbors have been eying it. at night i will have to bring it in. really popular in the neighborhood. that's the latest from here. we will check in in about another 30 minutes or so. >> knit yes or no craft now. >> with just four days to go until mid-term elections, barbara boxer appears to have a slight edge over carly fiorina. in the latest poll, boxer appear to lead by 8 percentage points. boxer jumped ahead due to strong support from independent voters. the largest lead she had since the start of the campaign. 6% of likely voters still undecided. >> proposition 19 supporters are turning to jon stewart and stephen colbert to give pot a

push at the polls. >> they are hoping we don't vote this year. that's why they don't talk about prop 19 and how it force the government to update pot laws and let the police spend more time locking up real criminals. >> armed with a billionai donation, the yes on 19 campaign is trying to persuade young people to vote. the opposition is rachlg up a radio campaign with notable opponents like president obama and dianne feinstein. bashing texas is moveing for the baseball diamond to the political arena. this opposes a measure that would overturn the climate law. it is aimed at the oil company who back the bill. texas oil companies are trying to rewrite the rules of the game and steal home from california voters. the trial for a former police officer accusing the department of sexual harassment begins monday. the former officer saitv?yz+4n

her supervisors made inappropriate advances towards her. when she complained, her boss and others in the department retaliated by filing investigations against her. the woman quit in july after being stripped of her duties with the canine unit. they said the department investigated her complaints and the officer accused of making advances was properly disciplined. >> there is plenty of bay area sports going on besides the giants. >> the 49ers and with the broncos in london. earlier head coach mike singletary troy smith will get the start in place of injured alex smith. the raiders are at home on sunday hosting the seahawks. the silver and black hoping to build on the broncos. they set a team record in scoring. kickoff is 1:15. you will have to have more than

basic cable. it is blacked out once again. >> the warriors game will be on tv. the clippers will visit oracle arena tonight. they are hoping to go 2-0. golden state is in l.a. against the lakers. >> the sharks are at the tank and play host to anaheim. puck drops at 7:30. in case you didn't realize it, there is another proteam in the playoffs. the earthquakes host new york at buck shaw stadium on the santa clara university campus. the earthquakes will play two games against new york. tomorrow's game starts at 7:00. >> cal at oregon state tomorrow at 12:30. san jose state at new mexico state at 1:00. number 13 stanford visits washington and game time there is 4:00. >> 5:36 and switching gears. a milestone in your household yesterday. >> my oldest got his driver's

license. >> that ties in. >> for does. zack is a safe driver, but this is our gadget friday. safe driver. how it works is that's the key chain that goes along with it. another unit goes into this port below your steering wheel, even if you don't think you have one, it's the data port that has been put into cars since the mid 90s. you pop it into the data port and it communicates with the key chain. i will hand this to you and you can read to folk what is it says on the key chain. >> wow. 70 miles per hour maximum and 14 miles. it shows you how fast they went. >> exactly. >> i installed this into my own car and i got busted. i installed it yesterday. it shows that the fastest i drove was 70 miles an hour since this thing was installed. a little faster than the speed limit. i have gone 14 miles and the braking says zero. that means i never had to apply

the brakes incredibly hard. there is a scale of how hard were you driving. this goes along with the car and you can look at the key chain and say since i installed this device, he has never gone faster than this. >> you can tell if they took it out. >> it goes blank and says alarm. if you monk we it, forget it. i think it's about $70 from lemur monitors. it's really cool. >> amazing. we will see how people are rolling. 70 miles per hour for an average? >> just to clarify, i know that 70 miles per hour for folks was only in the parking lot. it's okay. it's a supervised test. things are rolling, laura and scott. we have seen a lot of spinouts women have seen reports of flooding, but this report at 101 and 92 has the fast lane blocked

by an injury accident. no major slowing because of the light volume. the bridge is heading over with the tail lights and a steady flow of traffic. the roadways are dry, but the peninsula did get hit as well as. >>s of the bridge. keep that in mind. the maze has been hit and the wet commute with reports of minor flooding approaching the toll plaza. there is wet roadways. the flow of traffic into the city and things are moving nicely. there is a lot of moisture in the air. >> san francisco in the north bay with most of the rain this morning, the last hour lining up offshore. across the north bay, coming down to highway 101 to san francisco, oakland you are seeing the heavy showers towards the oakland and berkeley hills off to the east. the bridge is mainly dry. we showed you that, but we will see the rain advancing off to the east. mo raga dealing with downpours.

nothing yet in san jose. that will be changing as we move to the rest of the day today. relatively mild temperature-wise. 60s for the south bay and 50s and 60s across the north bay. the other come to watch later in the afternoon, we may get an isolated thundershower to the south. tomorrow scattered showers and we dry out as we go through halloween sunday. back to you. >> 5:40 and a tahoe area resort is getting ready to open for the ski season. we will tell you which one, next. >> the next time you fly there will be more security. we will have live reports. ♪

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good friday morning. a live look outside, scattered showers expected over the weekend. when and where, we will check it out with rob. >> airport security screen suggest about to get a lot more hands on. persons will get enhanced pat down screening. tracie potts will be live with what's being done differently. >> for you don't like the full body scanners at sfo and other airports, you will be subject to an enhanced pat down. also if you fail the electronic screening, this is something you have to do. the tsa rolling this out today. what they will do is check passengers with the front of the hand instead of the back and check personal places. they said it's necessary to check for concealed explosives although they admit it may raise privacy concerns and they take

privacy very seriously. the dd scanners as you recall raised a few concerns at first, but now 70% according to a poll support the body scanners. more than 300 have been rolled out and we have 450 by the end of this year. 1,000 in operation by the end of next year. by the way, in addition to the new pat down that's rolling out on monday, you will have to give more information to your airline or at the airport in order to board your plane. the middle name, date of birth and gender to make sure you are not on a terror watch list. >> thank you, tracy. new this morning, the european union said iran is ready to resume talks about the program. they sent a letter saying they are ready to pick up talks after november 10th. they slapped four sanctions over the enrichment of uranium that

can be a starting point to developing atomic weapons. they only want to master the technology to make fuel for a planned network of nuclear power plants. >> 5:44 and we will talk with rob. huge glops of things and i use glop in the technical sense. >> those are glops. heavy rain around the frontal boundary and this corresponds to briefly heavy rain in the next hour or so as it heads inland. into the north bay, the 101 commute is quite soggy this morning. you can see more rain from san francisco to oakland, but areas south of san mateo down towards san jose, we are not seeing a lot this morning. that will change though. high today in the 60s with rain off and on at times and a slight chance of an isolated thundershower. let's show you the forecast and showers to kickoff on saturday and then we clear out towards

sunday. things will be nice and dry for halloween. this morning the rain is causing issues with the morning commute. >> most definitely. we have been talking about the 51ing that occurs. roadway flooding as far as the reports are going. one of the areas, 280 at 101, we have a connector ramp shut down because of a couple of cars. one is a taxy and another is a passenger car. that will last for a few mondays, but they had reports off and on the report for about 45 minutes. the two fast lanes reported flooding again at 101. expect the area to have spots of water drifting out into the roadway. use caution here and antioch and the commute through the east bay, we are looking at south of the commute. brent and highway 4 bypasses because of an overnight deadly accident. you will use highway 4 that will take you safely clear. the rain as it drifted through

for the start of the slow down, speeds down to about 30 miles per hour and this is the start of the morning and the flow as well. it will jam down to 15 to 20 miles per hour over 15 minutes. wet roadways. use caution. back to you. >> looks like the old song lyrics are ringing true when the giants come to town. it's bye-bye baby. we have a break from the torture last night, but will it come more back to life? it's so much fun to watch the games, bob. >> yes, it is. fans are on a high. the team of course on a high after shutting out the rangers last night. 9-0. if you didn't see the game, you must have been living under a rock. if you didn't see the game, it was 2-0 giants until the eighth inning when they scored another seven runs. in that inning alone, some of them walked in by the rangers. i bring up that number because

that is actually the most for the giants. in a series inning, a world series inning since 1921. when the new york giants back then set a record of eight runs in one inning. the giants almost breaking a franchise record there. we expect they will be traveling today to arlington game three against the rangers at 3:57 our time. live here at at&t park. >> our team coverage of all of this continues with lawrence scott in dallas and joins us by phone. lawrence, can you hear us? >> are you awake? >> how is the mood in texas? >> i tell you what, we are deep in the heart of it. enemy territory for game two. the only place that i thought could possibly feel like home at the town north of dallas called frisco.

the rangers bewildered watching their team go down 2-0. 20 runs in two games for the giants. four hits for texas in game two last night. prop 23 might do better than that. >> it's true. they all looked stunned out there. it will be interesting to see if they come to life as they are on their home turf. what are you doing? what are your plans? >> i have a bunch of things we are doing. we are going out first of all to aubrey huff, the huff daddy's high school. brewer high. he grew up in mineral wells about an hour due west of the metroplex here. we will meet with his baseball coach. folks here are saying the rangers may have celebrated beating the yankees in the american league series like it was winning the world series and too much too soon for them. they are talking like the wind may be out of the sales, but

they love the dallasu+i cowboysd the stars have won a stanley cup and mavericks have been in a championship, but for baseball it's all new. are they a sleeping giant? i'm with the fans saying they saw the rangers celebrate too soon. raj gets her tonight as well. in the evening the giants are rivals. >> all right. >> we are looking forward to it. how fun. i hope you come back with a 10-gallon hat. >> see you soon on tv. >> lawrence scott live from the dallas area. it's 5:50 and switching gears, in a few day, life for many california parents will get a lot tougher. when the governor signed the budget, he slashed the work program that helped the parents of about 55,000 parents afford child care. that funding will go away. we will talk about what parents

can do as a solution. thanks for joining us. 55,000 families, that's a lot. >> in santa clara county it's about 3,000 people. in the bay area probably about 10,000. >> there has been talk about first five will help cover the funds. are there allotments for it? >> the first and santa clara county acted to fund temporary transition program until january 31st. these people were notified that as of november 1st, they would not receive any more child care and these are people that have gone through the welfare program and have gotten jobs and actually are getting subsidized child care and we were afraid they would have to leave and go back on welfare. that's a concern of cutting this program. >> what can they do?

>> the first five commission allocated some of this money to fund for the next three months. it's only good for the kids that are zero to 5. it doesn't take care of kids over 5. we are faced with those kids getting cut november 1st and trying to prose pro pose legislative solutions starting december sixth in the state legislature. the speaker and the president of the state senate made a proposal to refund the program that the governor blue pencilled out of the budget. >> we have to make a difference for the families too. we will keep in contact to see the developments on this. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. go giants. >> skiers and snowboarders getting ready for the slopes much the first resort up and running in california saw the first snowfall earlier this week, but the new snow making

equipment helped get things reit. boreal will offer $15 lift tickets and passes will be accepted this weekend including the college and super saver passes. speaking of the ski resort, we will see snow levels at 6,000 feet. take the cables and chains if you are heading up to the high country. still waiting for the rape to arrive. some areas of rain and san francisco has been seeing quite a bit of rain this morning. over a third of an inch so far. 59 degrees and who is seeing the rain from san francisco to oakland. pocks hereof rain and heavy rain towards the east bay hills. san mateo with the southern boundary as it continues to hang up. there you see the rain west of danville and they is missing out for now. hour by hour, rain returning for

the afternoon. sun breaks mixed with the scattered showers and a slight chance of thunder later on today. the weekend will start with showers and there you see as we go into sunday, we will see the showers mainly through the far north bay. we will be watching through the weekend and halloween looks dry monday and tuesday. looking dry and there you see tuesday things look dry in the forecast. back to you. >> thank you much. bullying made a lot of headlines with tragic results. there is a website to help and you created the website write my principal. >> that's right. >> it sounds obvious. i get to write my school principal? >> that's the idea. one of the simplest and concrete things that you can do to combat bullying that affected gay and lesbian teens and younger children. write the principal of your alma

mater or local school. >> this happened 10 years ago. please be aware i'm ready to talk about this now. be aware of this in the future, not just this is happening this weekend. >> it can be powerful advocacy based on your own story or experience or a present reminder of what's going on in schools currently and connecting the two things. >> the department of education cracked down and told schools and the department of justice, we are going pay attention to this kind of bullying. is this something that cools nationwide and the bay area is more aware, but schools nationwide are getting the hang of this not being acceptable? >> i think schools are starting to see how serious the problem is. especially in light of this recent rash of suicides. it's definitely a problem in every school and community here in in the bay area. >> have you got a success story that made you say i am glad i made that website?

>> one woman who graduateed from a very expensive prep school on the east coast in the late 1980s and wrote to me saying i have not had a good relationship with the school because i was bullied so much and i was a scholarship student and that combination made it difficult for me. she wrote a letter to the school and like lots of people got a very positive reply. they called her to talk to her about the concerns she overtime. she felt like she had not only done something positive for students, but that she brought that part of her past to a close. >> write my principal. >> write your principal.com. >> thank you for joining us. >> paul the octopus may be in the big fish tank in the sky, but here on earth, his death is causing controversy. a film maker is making claims that the world cup predictor actually died three months ago.

that would mean paul died two days before the world cup final that paul successfully predicted. the filmmaker said the german sea life aquarium replaced him with a look alike, but is the conspiracy just a publicity stunt? >> be on the look out for vampir vampires. how to save yourself some money. plus, what to do to make sure halloween night is a safe night for the kids. and thes, a tyia gre a ty messig with texas? a preview of this weekend's game.

nothing torturous about it. the giants halfway to a world series title. a preview