for a better look let's go to meteorologist lee glasser. is 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

>> in san mateo, lee glasser, abc 7 news. >>> and if you would like to adopt one of those cats, we have a link 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 lo

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

. >> that was lee glasser reporting. the 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 nurse

here's abc 7's lee glasser with what's in local waterways and how it gets there. >> water flows through diamond 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 it