let's ing to leigh glasser. >> leigh: the moisture is starting to feed o of the bay area. but this ea of low pressure really enhanced overnight and brough us some surprising nice rainfall totals across parts the bay area. you can see live doppler 7 hd st of the activity towards the sierra. a little light rain, mist and drizzle tolling, -- developing, and much of this is very, very light, and some modera rain ha been here earlier. that has scooted off towards the east. all of this pushing off towards the east. rainfall totals out of this system, yes, sonoma, over a quarter of an inch. a pretty good system. over .10 f mill valley, and you can see the numbe dropping off towardsan jose. san jose will come up a few ten inch of an inch. more rain is in our accuweather seven-da forecast. >> alan: well, we're now 16 days out from the general election. by the end of the day, form president bill clton will have made three stops in the bay area in support of democratic candidates. he follows the 2008 republican presidential ticket of sarah palin and john mccain, each appeared at diff

for a better look let's go to meteorologist lee glasser.s the worst yet to come. >> yeah, another system moves in tomorrow to bring us heavier periods of rainfall. you can see live doppler 7 hd, the wave making its way across the bay area. much of it on the light side, a few embedded heavier showers here and there but santa rosa to novato seeing light to moderate rain. in the east bay pleasant hill, walnut creek and concord just moved through your area. antioch, oakland, brenwood received some rain showers as well in the next few. almost fremont seeing a little light rain. this is stretching down towards milpitas, gilroy, even morgan hill seeing moderate rain as well as this band sweeps on through. rainfall pretty impressive in the north bay already with santa rosa a little over an inch. half an inch petaluma, lesser amounts as you head towards the oakland area as well as san jose. but be advised more heavier rainfall expected in the next 24 hours. we'll show you what you can expect coming up. >> thank you, lee. we'd like to see and share h

league glasser coming up with her forecast. >> mike: the 49ers and raiders in a battle of the bay. both offenses struggled, and that's due to the [ male announcer ] how can you retire at age 55? just ask jerry brown. he gave california state employees collective bargaining powers. since then the unions have grown stronger and stronger. now state employees can retire at 55 with much of their salary for life. and taxpayers are on the hook for one hundred billion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities. no wonder those unions are 100% behind jerry brown. he'll just spend, and spend, and spend. >> alan: in iran, a california businessman is free today after spending more than two years in prison even though he was never formally charged with any crime. we were there for his emotional reunion with his wife, and we have that story from tehran. >> carrying a small bag and showing a relieved smile, 71-year-old regs a taghavi walked out of prison after 30 months behind bars. >> welcome. >> at the very much. >> very happy. >> reporter: his wife met him, and the two of them alternating tears w

>> in san mateo, lee glasser, abc 7 news. >>> and if you would like to adopt one of those cats, we havek on our website, abc7news.com. just look under "see it on tv." up next at 5:30, another big downturn in bay area real estate. you'll see why potential home buyers are just too afraid to put in a bid. also the councilman caught [ male announcer ] how do you stop tacos falling over? [ speaking spanish ] ♪ [ male announcer ] old el paso stand 'n stuff taco shells. old el paso. feed your fiesta. go-gurt is specially made to freeze and thaw by lunch time? so kids can have their favorite yogurt in their lunch box go-gurt. freeze it. thaw it. eat it up. >> home sales down 19%. the second worst september in 19 years. looking into why people are afraid to buy new homes. >> it's the second slowest september in nearly 20 years for home sales in the bay area. 27% below average. >> people are a little apprehensive what's happening with the economy. >> louie is a realtor in the sunnyvale area. she does see a fair number of buyers still on the fence even though interest rates remain quite low. >> pe

in san francisco, lee glasser, abc 7 news. >> and a reminder, abc 7, the san jose mercury news and the silicone valley leadership group are preventing a debate between the candidates for secretary of state. it airs this sunday at noon here on abc 7. >> ok. coming up here next, giants pitching star tim >> for some sports, mayor gavin newsome has made a friendly wager with his counterpart in philadelphia over who will win baseball's national league championship. the giants and the phillies series begins tomorrow evening as you probably know. mayors have agreed they will wear the baseball cap of the returning team in an upcoming event supporting military veterans. last week newsome on a similar bet with the atlanta mayor agreed to fly the giants flag over the atlanta city hall. >> where's the exchange of food? >> world series, maybe. >> well, we've got some philly cheesesteak in the sportscast, apparently. >> get to it. ok. >> rather demanding here. >> it's been raining in philadelphia the past couple of days, weather for tomorrow night is dry and windy. that's perfect tim lincecum weathe

let's go to leigh glasser and some month -- monsoon like conditions. >> leigh: you're exactly right. we told you we would have winds and rain. the winds are dying down a little bit. you can get a sense from the live doppler 7 hd that things are starting to push on out of the area. we take you up towards the north pavement still -- north bay. the east bay starting to dry out a little bit. the livermore valley still seeing some rain there, and san jose, down towards morgan hill and gilroy, some rain. folks, this was a soaker. st. helena, five inches of rain, two in mill valley, san francisco and oakland, close to an inch. we will look at the forecast coming up. >> alan: this wet weather delayed the triumphant return of the san francisco giants this afternoon. the arrived at at&t park just about 15 minutes ago. there's matt cain, freddie sanchez. they won the national league championship and a berth in the world series. we're live at at at&t park where 150 hard-core fans are greeting the giants in the power -- pouring rain. >> there's about 250 standing out here, and for the last 15 min

we go to leigh glasser to see where the rain is tonight. >> leigh: you can see behind me on live doppler 7 hd the bands of moisture continue to feed in across the bay area. we had a little bit of a break earlier this afternoon, but that has since started to fill back in, and you can see some of the rain bands, the green just to the south of winsor now, heading towards santa rosa, petaluma, a little break, but you can see the darker bands feeding in. one a little to the west of the golden gate bridge, and all of this is moving from north to south and will continue to sweep across the bay area overnight tonight. tomorrow, storm number two will move across the bay area, bringing us heavier rainfall amounts and very gusty winds, advisories throughout the parts of the bay area. we'll look at that in a bit. >> alan: we would like to share and see how the rain is affecting you just send your video to you report. you can e e-mail the videos to us. >>> the president returned the white house tonight 11 days until the mid-term elections. he closed out four grueling days of campaigning and fun daysi

. >> that was lee glasser reporting.he fire department doesn't plan to have extra patrols but if the wind picks up they'll consider add are more staff later in the day. >> the first world championship since moving to san francisco in 1958. cody ross homered a tie in game four of the national league division championship series in atlanta last night. that made it 1-1 in the 6th. ross would deliver again in the 7th. he singles the giants ahead for good. brian wilson wrapped it up. the giants beat the braves 3-2. >> there's a lot of guys used to playing every day over here. we all kind of put our egos aside and decided that we have one goal in mind and that was to win. >> the giants won the best of five series three games to one. all three games decided by just one run. the team landed at sfo just after 3:00 this morning but they'll be back on the road soon to open the league championship series saturday in philly. >> a three-day strike by nurses at children's hospital oakland is scheduled to begin this morning. 780 nurses

here's abc 7's lee glasser with what's in local waterways and how it gets there. >> water flows through canyon down the 580 all the way down to 880 and here to the bay. >> this is where rainwater from the creek watershed in the oakland hills enters the bay. a new report found what's being dumped into bay has high levels of pcb's, mercury and pesticides. runoff comes from city streets. >> there's a presence of pcb's throughout urban areas, but they bring fish to the level that make bay fish unsafe to eat. >> researchers said creeks and storm drains in 15 industrial areas around the bay. waterway near richmond and san pablo were found to be heavily polluted. he works next to the creek in san pablo saying the community has tried to help. >> a lot of the stuff you see floating around in this creek has been cleaned up. the water seems much cleaner. >> plastic bags are another polluter. this stretch of echo creek in oakland restored native plants. the new plants will reduce the amount of contaminants entering the bay downstream. >> and as the water slows down, all the sediment that its carryi