ktvu's deborah villalon has been watching with fans. but we begin with mike mibach who is across the street at at&t park. mike? >> reporter: the game plan is simple win and you are in, frank. win and you are in. if that happens, there is going to be a very big party here tonight at china beach. i got out of the ballpark 10-15 minutes ago. a lot are feeling stressed in what is a very tight ball game. but holding hope that there will be champagne popping on this friday night. [ applause ] >> reporter: the bush for the playoffs at at&t park. >> are you feeling the magic? >> yes, i'm feeling the magic. >> reporter: the atmosphere absolutely electrifying before the first pitch and beyond. >> feeling good. we've got a lot of energy. a guy out at the plate. >> excited, yeah. >> the players arrived early in the day. the fans are not far behind. >> a 42,000 plus sellout crowd filed through the gates. the orange ration were awaiting. >> let's go giants, let's go, baby. >> reporter: this crowd wants playoffs baseball. and they are confident the 20

ktvu's deborah villalon has been watching with fans. but we begin with mike mibach who is across the street at at&t park. mike? >> reporter: the game plan is simple win and you are in, frank. win and you are in. if that happens, there is going to be a very big party here tonight at china beach. i got out of the ballpark 10-15 minutes ago. a lot are feeling stressed in what is a very tight ball game. but holding hope that there will be champagne popping on this friday night. [ applause ] >> reporter: the bush for the playoffs at at&t park. >> are you feeling the magic? >> yes, i'm feeling the magic. >> reporter: the atmosphere absolutely electrifying before the first pitch and beyond. >> feeling good. we've got a lot of energy. a guy out at the plate. >> excited, yeah. >> the players arrived early in the day. the fans are not far behind. >> a 42,000 plus sellout crowd filed through the gates. the orange ration were awaiting. >> let's go giants, let's go, baby. >> reporter: this crowd wants playoffs baseball. and they are confident the 20

reporting live in san francisco, deborah villalon, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> as deborah just showed us, the game started with the same enthusiasm from giants fans. but by the end of the night the mood was quite a bit different. this was the scene at the republic bar and restaurant on almost barred street tonight. just like last night this marina district bar was packed with enthusiastics giants fans hoping for a win. despite the loss tonight to the phillies, many fans still have high hopes for the rest of the series. >> it reminds me of back in 2002 when they were in the world series. and it is bringing back memories out here. and i know that they can make things happen and get in the world series, man. >> you can expect a similar scene across the city on tuesday afternoon when the giants host the phillies at at&t park. >>> meantime millions of sports fans on the east coast had to go without two big events on t.v. today, including tonight's giants and phillies game. all because of a cable dispute. fox has pulled its channels off cablevision after a programming deal expired and negotiat

ktvu's deborah villalon is live outside cafe cocoamo where the gun fight broke out had early this morning. >> reporter: heather, hip hop last night, salsa tonight. this nightclub would normally be packed at this hour. instead it is padlocked after a man was shot and wounded inside. a 23-year-old man was rushed from the club with what police call life threatening injuries about 1:00 this morning. clearing the crowd was a challenge. and investigators are still looking for the gunman are you doing anything different tonight? >> no. >> reporter: the club was closed voluntarily he said. by evening the city entertainment commission had made that official. a 72-shower suspension. a cooling-off period. >> there is no entertainment. we don't want any kind of reprisal or anything like that. basically it's about safety. >> reporter: this commission inspector who works undercover says cafe cocoamo has a good reputation generally, besides occasional noise or crowd complaints from the neighborhood. 5 years ago a man was shot to death and several people wounded in a dispute between groups spilling from

ktvu's deborah villalon was at one such party and joins us now with the live report. >> reporter: ken, latinos make up almost a quarter of california's registered voters, something the gop knows. and why it opened its headquarters in heavily democratic marin but the debate may have cost her any in-roads she has made. [ applause ] >> reporter: jerry brown won applause in the debate as a few dozen people watched at this mexican restaurant in the canal district. no surprise since most came into the room favoring brown. this is a part of san raphael with a large latino and day labor population. a community that has seen immigration raise and importation over the years. >> illegal immigration just that, it is illegal. >> reporter: meg whitman hard- line now seems to contradict her spanish language ads over the summer courting latinos. those watching noticed. >> my suspicions were of meg whitman that, you know, this is a political, just a political ball for her. and truly to be loved by hispanics, you need to be truthful. >> i will treat everybody whether they are documented or not as god's

ktvu's deborah villalon caught up with some parents torn between both interests. >> listen to it in the car. hoping to get back there pretty quick. >> reporter: after the 7th inning stretch a dash to buy pumpkins so they could be created for tomorrow. as for sunday's game he has got a plan. >> got two young kids. definitely wantto go out and go trick or treating. i might schedule the be at home time to hand out candy while the game is on. >> reporter: fans found ways to watch the game while fulfilling parental duties. at southland mall at hayward held a trick or treat event at the home. they were moving fast to get home. >> just do it for 30 minutes and then watch nigh game. >> actually i am recording it on my dvr and i will watch it later on. >> kids first and then giants. i know, number one fan, go giants. >> reporter: away from home the mall's radio shak store created a view of the game. the crowd grew as the game went on. not cozy but communal. >> stressful, huh? >> i am sweating because i want to go watch the game. >> but like so many moms and dads he doesn't. afterall, halloween o

but first let's check in with ktvu's deborah villalon. the rain has been coming down pretty hard for hours now. deborah? >> reporter: that's right, it is still coming down. on the frontage road along 101. you can see all of the water that's collecting. when this happens on the freeway, it's an accident waiting to happen. >> highway 101. >> rerter: one minute this vehicle was southbound. the next pointed north after the driver probably going too fast for the wet conditions lost control and skidded across several lanes. >> hydroplaned, yeah, jammed on the brakes and sent him into a spin. and spun all the way across and slammed right into the wall here. >> reporter: this is just one spin-out in the north bay today. the driver and the paenger shaken up but un injured. in sonoma county, another driver was lucky to survive a 200-foot plunge off an embankment on point ray's petaluma road. only some trees halted the car. again officers say too much speed in slippery conditions. >> time for the umbrella. [ laughter ] >> reporter: umbrellas seemed