>> at first i thought it w really long thunder, and then it sound like an earthquake. >> alan: t first big storm of e season topples trees and floods roadways. we're in west oakland where the power has been knocked out to 1400 customers. >> reporter: we're obroadway an14th street, and the traffic lits in the area are either out or flash red, all because of a power outage tt startled after residents heard a boom and saw a flash. people say they believe the sound ca from a pg&e

substation on second street. a crew member said the source of the problem was an insulator. this outage has affected 14,000 customers. traffic lights are now working in downtown west oakland. power at the b.a.r.t. station went out as well. b.a.r.t. employees shot it down so rider had to walk to the 19th street. businesses i jack london square d to close or operate in the dark. bed, bath and beyond chose to remain open and workers did transsatisfactions by hand pg&e customers say they're frustrated. >> rightow, it's a loss on revenue and also on the hours of the employees. the's no back generat. there's nothing else we can do. we're going home. >> just heard a boom as i was walking out the door.

sounded like a train dropped. it was really loud. i didn't know what it was. >> reporter: as for other parts of the bay area there have been minor problems on the peninsula. this is a crew fixing a lon on 17th avenue in sap ma -- san mateo. no word on when power will be restored here. pg&e has yet to return our calls. >> alan: and in the north bay, there's about a foot of standing water on highway 116. and a huge tree came crashg down on a house this morning. i crashed into an empty back bedroom. all four rot rts in the house are fi. >> i thought it was really lg thunder, like a really long, loud thunder, and then it sounded like an earthquake. >> alan: ground delay is in

effect at san francisco internatnal airport because of the wet and windy weather. delays are expected to add up o hours for inbound flights and that will have an effect on outbound flights as well. san jose and oakland are about 15 minutes behind schedule. for a better look at the big green blob over the bay area, let's go to leigh glaser. >> leigh: most of the heaviest rain has moved towards the east. we're actually seeing some partial clearing in some locations. you can see live doppler 7 hd, most of the heaviest rain has moved out. in the north bay, we're still get something nice returns, santa rosa. ande're sweeping live. much of thi activity will continue to diipateover night, and maybe a few isolated showers. looks like the worst is over.

loth some sprinkles, rainfall totals, so impressive. st. helena, over five inches of rain. santa rosa, over three. mill valley, over two, and you can see almost an inch, san francisco and oakland. so quite impressive, and we have more rain in my accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. >> alan:n napa tonight, police ar trying to figure out how a patient killed a psychtric technici inside a menta hospital today. itappened at the napa state hospital. wayne friedman reports, this is not the first te there have been curity concerns. >> reporter: there a those who work inside napa state hospita who say that last night's murder of a psychiaic technician was a long-me coming, was predictable and preventible. >> we always wonding, is today my day? m going to be the one?

>> it's a longime nurse in the hospital, one of sever staff members who spoke on the condition we disguise this identities. working conditions are ba >> told not to speak to the press. >> they don't want to be exposed. >> reporter: those comaints go back several years. psychologists, staff memrs have gone on record saying the hospital ds not protect them from mental patients patients wm around freely with no fear of coequences for violent behavior. >> on ever unit, every day. we're talking about getting hit of the head with cement blocks talking about attempted rapes. staffing pulled into rooms, and been to where they can no longer on their eyes. >> reporter: when an attack happens they sayt takes several minutes for the hospital police to arrive. today the poce were guarding

the front ansr of the exphopt threatened arrest when we tried to enter a public parking lot. >> they should be on the units protecting the staff. >> reporter: what angers staff even more, they say hospital management knew of a murder threat but did not pass it along. >> management chose not to inform us. >> reporter: today, napa state hospital had no response to any of the charges by its emploes. they say they want safety. they want security. the same provisions that correctional officers get inside state prisons. theyant them inside napa state hospital. >> how bad is it? >> bad. on scale of one to 10 on a pain rating, it's a 10, 11, 15 on -- yesterday. >> outside na state hospil, abc-7 news. >> alan: returning to the race for governor, new los angeles -- "los angeles times" poll i stirring up a debate.

it shows jerry brown leading whitman 52-39%. brown's lead has doubled in the last month. whitman's campaign saying it's old, statistically flawed and in way a current snapshot. it assumes a turnot of dem democrats. >> brown stopped in compton today with harris, the democratic candidate for attorney general. the two appeared at three different black churches hoping to get the black voters through the polls on november 2nd. times poll shows barbara boxer holding to her 8% margin over carly fiorina. xer's leades stick which i -- statistically unchanged from

april. firslady misch -- michelle obama is going to be in the bay area. nancy pesi confirms the first lady will be attending a fundraisert the fairmont hotel in san francisco. it will be her second bay area visit since her husband took office. the last visit here was in june of 2009. >> san jose police are offering a 10 thousand reward for taking sunny money on measure v" signs. this cams after they posted this vio on youtube which shows city council member pire louie iol' ol' oliverio with signs in his trunk. he says they were on pubc property and c be taken down. >> we encourage members of the

community to com forward with any informatn they may have to ensure this childish and illegal behavior ends immediately. >> needs to be pointed out how many illegal signs are up by is campaign committee all over the city. i saw over 27 illegal signs yesterday, just in one small mayor i saw three on my drive over here. >> alan: the officers and firefighters are campaigning against measure v, while oliverio supports the "yes on v" campaign. it would lit the raise firefighters can game through contct arbitration. coming up, the gian just back from their pennant victory in philly. hundreds of fans were at at&t park to greet their returning heroes. news, benefit or burden? a no hole showing how most ca ah, focus group. so what are we testing here? that's our new pastrami grilled sandwich. oh, great. hey, are they happy we got rid of the rye bad?

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>> alan: the triumphant san fransco giants have just arrived back at at&t park an defeating the philadelphia phillies for the national league championship. tos, giant fever seems to be catching on. >> it'really hot right no it's quiet here right now. a little more than an hour ago there were me than 20giants fa standing in the rain, waiting to see if they could catch a glimpse of the returning giants when they got back to at&t park. when the giants finally did

arve, fans got a lot more than they expected. >> when the gian arrived, more than 200 giant fans gave them a heroes welcome. the manement said they wouldn't mak the giants available to anyone, but posey, kahne and others came out to greet the fans. the fans are celebrating a win ey won't soon forget. [cheering] >> since last night's win, giants fans have been celebrating their national league champs. the celebration is not over. fans braved the rains to welcome the giants, chanting and singing th giants' praise. >> the greatest thing to happen to this city in a long, long time. thank you. thank you uribe! [cheering] >> in the rld series? >> yes.

>> i think that's wh we're out here. >> welcome bk, giants, welce back, you guys, woo! >> other fans crowd the giants store at the park, buying piles of memorabilia and spending lots of money. >> the fever. otherwise on this rainy day, probably be at home watching football. but baseball ain't over yet. >> i was just at the ceremony and there was 30 people in line fo the dugou store so i live here, we decided to jump in the ca and jump on 280 and come right down here where all the action is. >> we have tickets to games two and seven. >> steve just dropp $264 on giants gay, and aaron was buying s giant finger, summed up the win. >> the best rt was that the giants won, and that they beat the phillies, who were a lot better than them. >> giants fever is bound to get a lot higher next week.

abc-7 news. >> alan: and a lot of money spent all over the area. another poll to tell you about. the "los angeles times" asked californians for their opinion on illegal immigration. the survey found that overall voters hold positive vis of immigrants. asked whether theye a benefit or burden, 48% of likely voters say they're a benefit. only 32% said they were a rden. we may be at the tail end of one storm, but there's another one on the way. our meteorologistley glaser coming up to tell you about that one. >> mike: a tale of two cities. the raiders go crazy in denver, and the niners lse the game, they lose their quarterback. details of alex smith's inry next in

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live doppler 7 hd still picking up a few sprinkles in the north bay. and as we head through the evening, we will not take that out of our forecast. upper 50s to low 60s, that's where we are right now. we a slight chance of shower for the early morning commute, and then plenty of snipe, clearing, and we will remain dry through dnesday. this is the cold front that moved through a little unstable still there. we keep a chan of isolated showers overnht, but as you can see from the an nation -- animatio most of the heavy y stuff has mved on and we should clear out nicely, and bring on the sunshine, and warme temperatures for us overall by tomorrow afternoon. in fact, here's a look at the highs. 64 for san jose. more cleari for you.

63 for cupertino. at the coast, half moon bay, 59. palo alto, more sunshine, 64. a nice, dry day there 60 for downtown s francisco. north bay, petaluma, 62. sonoma, 63. vallejo, 61. oakland, 64. xture of sun and clouds for fremont, and then danville of 4. 65 for gilroy. now, the accuweather seven-day forecast, very active week around here. we'll pull the rain out tomorrow afternoon, tuesday looks terrific. plentyf sunshine. the first giants game, wednesday, nice dry conditions. temperatures warmi into the upper 60s. slight chance right now, maybe few showers moving in for the thursday game, and in fact, on saturday, look for the showers incrsing for halloween on sunday. right now, 50 50rb -- 50-50

chance the trick-or-treater could get wet. >> alan: something a sports caster loves more than anything, thei local team going to the wod series mike mike question -- >> me: no question about it. it was another nail-biter last night as brian wilson gets ryan howard looking to init, -- end t and the celebration began. it continued at at&t park thi afternoon when the team arrived. the team was loving every minute of its october and is ready for the fall classic. >> these fans have been wonderful all year, and they all have three or four heroes on this team no one player. and it works a lot of good chemistry for us. the support of the fans means everything to these players. >> a lot of hard work and everything put into it, and for evybody to come together and get to this point, it's a great

accomplishment. >> we know they're going to be tough andhave a great team over there. we're going to bring everything we got and hopefully it will be a fun series. >> mik the series starts on weesday, 4:57 p.m., tim lincecum and cliff lee. the raiders came to life toda in love the altite. sit a franchise regard with 59 points. oakland has won two straight in denver enting today. jan cam pel, rating 10.7 last week, improved today. finds a wide-open zack miller and he takes it for the score. the rout has begun. denver, chris johnson picks off kyle orton and rurpz for -- returns for are the touchdown. the broncos fumble on their next play, and the raiders turn that into points. in the second, third and goal. mpbell to mcfaen on the draw. he will run over thompson.

idtifyings to the goal line. great effort. 31-0. mcfadden, a career day. in the third, busts loose. has some speed. 57 yards down the sideline. mcfadden, 165-yard rushing. raiders with the 59-14 victory. >> al mex smith -- alex smith and the niners visiting the panthers. alex on the play action, all sorts of time. throws a dart to davis. 53-yard down to the one-yardline. next play. smith, rolls left. and it's davis again. touchdown. last time the fine the -- find the end zone. johnson pancakes alex. didn't see him. left the gain with a sprained left shoulder, did not return. mcdonald, picks off matt

moore, 31 yards for their unlikely pick six. niners up 20-13. now under 2:00 to play. game tied at 20. fans are clamoring. a chance for the win. marshal picks it off. there's the winning field goal. panthers get their first win, 20-20, and san francisco falls to 1-1. >> julie inkster was trying to become the oldest player in lpga history to win a tournament today in malaysia. she hathe lead going into 18 after birdies on 15 through 17. she pushed her shot on 18 into the bunker. almost holes that. then two-putted for bogey and loses by a stroke. jimin wins 270 grand.

julie in second. on the oval today, denny haml takes the checked flag at martinsville, and he cuts jimmie johnson's lead to six points. sharks on the ice on calgary, eye highligh tonight. >> alan: whamakes the rangers such a dangerous opponent. >> mik that entire lineup can hit. the phillies were the same way. but the rangers are towing -- going to be tough, and you have theh in each park and that's something i don't like. >> alan: gng to be great. up next, a new film just set a record for the largest three-y opening for a

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