Reporter that is correct, good morning to you sal. We are out here at the toll plaza. You can see some of the improvements that were made over the weekend. Behind me they have new cushions on the safety rails. More new lightbulbs. The big new is the earthquake safety improvements all finished early. Cal tran opened the bridge shortly after 4 00 this morning. We caught the first car going through the toll plaza. There is good news crews were able to get more work done than anticipated. There will be no bridge closure next weekend. The bridge shut down friday night so they could replace a cracked beam. They say a combination of good weather and good luck helped them finish early. The best i can tell you all of the work just came together. The panels fit appropriately. The equipment was here. Everything was in place. And everything just worked like clock work. Reporter in addition to permanently fixing the bridge they were able to fill potholes, clear away brush and trash that is work they hadnt expected to start until next weekend. So once again the san mateo bridge is back in business and traffic is really flowing just as it would on any other morning. Live from hayward im Tara Moriarty. 5 01. Happening right now the chp has closed one lane of northbound 8980 because of flooding. Look at this. Now that flooding is responsible for at least one spinout already. Other cars have been sending look at the water shooting several feet into the air. At first two of the lanes were blocked but cal ran was able to clear some of the water from one of those lanes. We have no idea when that other lane will reopen. And because of the weather, no electricity right now for more than 3,000 pg e customers. Heres the biggest problem areas in the east bay. In the bay area the power is out for almost 2,000 customers. In oakland more than 500 customers. Fairfield has lost power as well. Same thing for daly city. Richmond 343 customers dont have power. Pg e crews are working on it. A rude awakening just hours ago for san lorenzo. A car crash. Authorities say the driver was speeding as he drove over Railroad Tracks and then lost control. The car flew through the air, crashed into a parked mini van, and also damaged another car. The driver of the car was arrested. A passenger had to be treated for minor injuries. In election news this morning, president obama and mitt romney meet in florida for their third and final debate. Tonight. Tonights debate focuses on Foreign Policy. Coming up the latest poll numbers in the president ial race just 15 days away from the election. If you plan to vote in the upcoming election, you need no be registered by tonight. Janine de la vega is live at the Registrars Office in san jose with more on why they are making a big push for south bay residents to come out and sign up. Reporter the Registrars Office here in san jose is going to open up in the next three hours. That is when they will begin their big push to get people to register. You can see this is where people its a drop box for ballots for people to already drop their ballots off. They there be represented as workers there will be representatives here from the Registrars Office until midnight work song people can fill out their forms to register in time for the president ial election. Typically here in Santa Clara County if you look at the past voter turnout people come out in strong numbers. In 2008 during the last president ial election. 86 of registered voters cast their ballots in the city. For those that are already we just on the register. So fen the Registers Office want to make sure you do not lose your chance to have newspapers are plots heard. Again workers will be here at the office here on burger drive in san jose working l in midnight. That will also be at the community have and kansas t crest reformed church. Reporting live from san jose janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. 5 05. A big night tonight for the giants at at t park. It will be game seven against the cardinals after the giants won last night 61. Another strike out for vogelsong. Ryan vogelsong was incredible for the giants. He had a no hitter until the fifth inning and struck out nine for a career high. His teammates gave him all the support he needed for the four run second inning including scutaro two run double. Sal was cheering out there somewhere. Giants fans left at t park very happy knowing they are only one win away from going back to the world series and the excitement was everywhere. We are going to bring this home. We are going to win this game. We are going to bring it home. Game seven we are going to win it and go to the world series. And matt cain will be pitching for the giants in game seven facing the cardinals kyle loash. Well have a special edition at 4 00 p. M. That will be followed immediately by the Fox Major League Baseball pregame show add 4 30. For people like sal, big giants fan and a political junky you can have one on the tv, you can stream the other on your ipad or laptop. The debate. Yeah. You can watch it all right here. Good morning everybody. Today you know throw a little rain in the mix and that will effect your morning commute. Lets go outside and take a look. Highway 4 at hill crest is closed because of flooding. They havent told us when they will reopen that. But its closed for now. It has been closed for the last two autoings. Also the morning commute at the bay bridge toll plaza moderately heavy. No major problems. Wet roads. And this mornings commute on 280 northbound that looks good getting up to highway 17. Lets hear it from the man himself. Lets go to steve. How you doing sal . Good, you . Good. The first cold front of the season is moving through. Most of that is staying to the north. Morning rain will give way to showers. But i think they will play tonight. Sentence for the morning we have some rain. Unsettled pattern today tuesday, and wednesday morning. High pressure builds back in for three or four days. I know what some of you are thinking it will be here for another week. No. We have rain moving through right now. Heaviest through marin county. Heavy snow reported blue canyon last time i looked. First we have to get this cold front to slice through. That is what is going on. You can see there is a back edge to this. And probably get some sun and cloud up again and get more showers. Heaviest to the north. Cloudy, rain. Showers this afternoon. Highs in the 60s for everybody. About 64 should cover the spread for many locations north to south. Showers will continue tuesday into wednesday. Clearing out wednesday night into thursday. Chilly lows will be in the forecast no doubt about it. Looks good friday and saturday. Increasing clouds sunday night. Time is 5 08. If you have a pet there is a new alert about dog treats that may be making dogs sick. What pet owners are doing to make sure their pets are safe. New details emerging from a report about osama bin laden. How many people knew the al qaeda leader was in pakistan. Good morning, wet roads out there because of the overnight rain. Trouble, we all should he. Under thirtyeight they do. More a year. Bucks. Money for schools. Every School Dollar must be. Spent on student learning. Student wins. Vote yes on thirtyeight. The arteries of your dishwasher are constantly clogging up with grease and lime scale. Use finish dishwasher cleaner every month to keep your machine in sparkling health. For shining results, finish dishwasher cleaner. New this morning a Judicial Commission in pakistan has completed its investigation of the u. S. Raid that killed osama bin laden. The commission spent the past year and a half questioning military officers. Bin ladens wives and residents of the pakistani town where the al qaeda leader lived for more than five years. It concludes no one in the town knew bin laden was living among them and in the weeks before he was killed bin laden was so concerned about his safety he refused to step foot in the open courtyard. Tonight president obama and mitt romney meet in florida for their third and final debate. A new wall street journal poll is showing they are tied at 47 head into that debate. Ktvu alison burns reporting from our washington, d. C. Newsroom. This debate could have a big impact on the elections. Alison. Although, dave, there is big sports competition on tv tonight so viewer ship could be down for this debate, but it is likely to be another testy one. Round three in the focus tonight for president obama and mitt romney is Foreign Policy. On the table what to do about the war in afghanistan. Unrest in the middle east. Iran pursuing a Nuclear Weapon and the president s handling of the recent crisis in libya. For president obama one of the Biggest Challenges would be defining his middle east policy for the next four years. Hes had successes. Hes had some things that are still pretty hurricaney. Reporter romneys challenge could be bigger because his campaign has been largely about the economy. He has not given many specifics on Foreign Policy. The Republican Party hasnt really figured out what a republican Foreign Policy looks like after the bush administration. Well take a look at why some of mitt romneys advisors says tonights debate will be almost impossible for him to win during my next update. Reporting live from washington, d. C. Alison burns. Now ktvu will broadcast game seven of the National League championship series between the giants and cardinals. But you can watch the president ial debate at 6 00 tonight on our sister nation kicu tv 36. Well also stream the debate live on our website ktvu. Com. Thousands of pet owners are calling for a ban on certain dog streets treats. The treats in question are chinese made wagon chain psychiatricken jerky bites. They have reported 350 pet deaths and 220 cases of pet illness. The fda says it has been unable to confirm the treats are to flame. Time is 5 14. Police in watsonville are looking for the man that pulled out a gun right in front of a child. It happened right in front of the parking lot of the krista laundry mat. The man pulled out a loaded gun over the argument of a nosey child. The suspect threatened the victim adds they drove away. Just in time for rainy monday morning. This is School Bus Safety week. Chp is working with schools to make sure kids stay safe. The chp will be teaching stupids to be careful when they get on and off buses. Theme this year i see the driver, the driver sees me. All other drivers were being reminded slow down when you see the flashing yellow lights on the school bus and just stop when you see the red light. That is a great, great campaign. The driver sees me is key. Make sure you have eye contact. 5 15 is the time. A lot of advice for drivers today. Slow down would be the biggest one. Leave yourself a little extra time. Make sure that you keep your eyes on the road because there has been flooding out there because of the overnight rain. I will show you some of the pictures here. San francisco definitely wet. Northbound 101 approaching the 80 split. You will see traffic that will be a little slow. East 80 at seventh they were repairing sand barrels that were hit overnight. Also this morning we are looking at the westbound bay bridge. There is a little bit of a backup. Flooding on highway 4 at hill crest avenue has closed. That freeway at that particular location you can get off the freeway and use a detour of that highway 4 does look good over to bay point. Lets go to steve. Heaviest rain finally finally. We are long overdue pho for it. Most of the heyier totals a quarter to a third. The biggest area of rain i can find is mill valley. That seems to be the strongest. As we zoom out you can see the coverage is extensive. Its starting to slide south. Northern part of the peninsula and east bay and south bay dealing with cloudy skies. Snow is picking up in the sierra nevada. Winter weather advisory is up there. You can see the rain and snow line. Just to the east of grass valley and then moving up into the sierra. Blue canyon, tahoe, and truckee all reporting snow. Very cool unstable air. This is finally a winter like system beginning to move in. It looks like it will settle in for today. Tuesday and then start to lift out wednesday. You can see the wind is all storm direction if you will. Southeast until that turns west or northwest. Cloudy, rain heaviest to the north. Showers this afternoon. Forecasted highs really stuck. 6268 should cover it. Cloudy, cooler. Rain turning to showers. Showers and a cool unstable pattern tuesday into wednesday. Clearing on thursday. Friday and saturday looks good. Lows will be chilly though. Increasing clouds on sunday. Thank you, steve. Crude oil prices inching up this morning. The price topped 90 a barrel. Analysts say the violence in syria appears to be spreading across the middle east which could limit production and shipping in the region. Overnight asian markets ended the trading mixed. Japan closed with its sixth straight gains. China and hong kong also closed up. Right now most european markets are open and they are on the upside. Sentence checking in on our numbers. Futures do indicate a higher opening this morning. A lot of that has to do with corporate earnings and well have reaction from the president ial debate. Changes in the Airport Security by the tsa. It involves the controversial body scanner. Why they are being taken out in some of the nations busiest airports. A souvenir from space. [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents fabulous but. When i add chicken, barbecue sauce. And cheese. And roll it up woowee ive made a barbecue chicken crescent chow down. Pillsbury crescents. Let the making begin. Heres a better idea. Pillsbury grands flaky layers biscuits in just 15 minutes the light delicate layers add a layer of warmth to your next dinner. Pillsbury grands biscuits let the making begin. Welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. 5 21 is the time right now. That is a blimp like aircraft in florida with message support for republican president ial romney. His face is printed on the side along with the message America Needs romney. It had been seen flying over south florida and high winds forced the emergency landing. The Transportation Security Administration is removing their controversial body scanning machines from major airports. They will be removed from high traffic airports and put in smaller airports. Larger airports will get newer machines that display a genetic drawing of the persons body. Tsa Officials Say the new machines will get travelers through security more quickly. Group of people out to rob a man in richmond ended up shooting him. This was at the North Richmond ball field yesterday afternoon. The Contra Costa Times report three suspects ganged up on a man. One suspect had a gun. There was a struggle over the gun and the victim was shot in the leg. He is in stable condition. Time is 5 23. A woman from novato found a piece of outer space in ore yard. She didnt think anything of it until days later. That is when nasa announced that a large meteor that streaked across the sky witness night may have dropped debris in the north bay. So i got the ladder out and checked here and didnt see anything. I took it around inside the gate and it was right here. And what she found was a small rock different from the others in her yard. She says when she discovered a magnet manager net would stick magnet would stick to it that is when she calmed nasa. Ipad mine knee is expected to launch this tomorrow. That is not the only apple product they are excited about. Analysts will predict we will see new macs, mac books and mac minis. The smaller ipad is expected to have seven inch screen and cost about 200 less than the ipad. If you want to reserve picnic tables at Golden Gate Park there is an app for that. The recreation and Park Department launched the free iphone app. It allows everyone to parks playgrounds and gardens and sports. In the future the app could allow users to buy tickets for museums, walking tours, and other events. The new ktvu ipad app ready to down load. Dont forget you can watch all of our newscasts live plus drive time traffic, bay area weather, video of breaking news any time anywhere. And it will be very handy tonight during the debate because we will stream that live on our website. Lets check in with sal for traffic. All right pam, good morning. We are looking at wet roads out there for the morning commute. I want to show you the traffic is moving along pretty well in san jose on northbound 280 getting up to highway 17. There are no major problems there. Also the morning commute looks good on highway 4 expect if you are trying to get on near hill crest avenue. That is closed. The rest of highway four looks good but there is a backup approaching hill crest. 5 25 lets go to steve. Sal, thank you. First cold front of the season and also first snow up in the sierra nevada. Winter storm warning is out. Its snowing up in boot canyon. Its raining in the north bay and starting to slide a little south here. Our system has a long way to go here. Mainly for the morning hours. Look for rain in the morning. Starting to turn a little breezy and cooler as well with highs in the 60s. Pam. Thank you, steve. Number of fans led away from a San Jose Earthquakes game in handcuffs. The fight that led police to eject 100 people. Plus the mystery surrounding the death of a man in pittsburg overnight. Wet weather could jam up the morning commute. Well tell you about some of the roadways already seeing a lot of standing water. [ laughter ] [ girl ] wow. You guys have it easy. I wish i had uverse when i was your age. In my day, we didnt have these fancy wireless receivers. Blah, blah, blah. If i had a sleepover, i couldnt just move the tv into the playroom. No, we had to watch movies in the den because thats where the tv outlet was. And if dad was snoring on the couch, we muscled through it. Is she for real . Your generation has it made. [ male announcer ] the wireless receiver. Only from at t uverse. 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