move with shortstop ginnie rawlins' parents. >> get the raincoat out or hunker up inside because a lot of rain is on the way. jennifer is here with our very wet forecast. jennifer? >> today was not one of our best days. a lot of overcast in the day, a lot of rain moving through. more is set to come in, and as we progress through the weekend, it's only going to get wetter. we're giving you a sneak peek on what we can expect using our futurecast rainfall model, and as we go ahead to 5:00 on friday, you get the idea we'll see some pretty good rain spreading across the area. but sunday will be the big day we'll see a swath of rape coming through the area. i'll tell you just how many inches of rain we could see through the weekend, lisa. >> nothing could damper giants fever. they left with a battle for a fight to the finish with the phillies on their home turf. for the giants, it's time to step up to the plate and win. >> reporter: good eevening. nothing comes easy for the giants, we know this, so here we are in philadelphia. right when you enter the town, you feel the excitement in the city. all of a sudden the phillies feeling they are in the driver's seat and they have all the confidence and momentum. we take you to afo this morpg. cool, calm ask wet. they got a hero send-off at sfo this morning. they got an honorary spray from the fire trucks, but there was a hiccup this morning. president obama tying up some of the runways at sfo. the giants arrived here in philadelphia a little delayed, so they canceled their work at the ballpark and went drebtirec to their hotels. there are not just giants fans, but yes, there are some phillies fans in the bay area. they grew up in the east bay, the parents live in walnut creek, and yep, as you can expect, they're rooting for the red. >> i'm going to go for the phillies. i'm going for the phillies. sdp sdplz we already have one major change for tomorrow's game. the time has been changed from 1:00 pacific to 5:00 pacific. that's because the rangers were eliminated, and the first game against the rapingers begins ne wednesday. he may wear a phillies jersey, but he was born and raised right here in the bay area. jimmy rawlins plays a key role in a series with the giants, but he also plays a key role with m.c. hammer. some south bay students won't be dancing at the sold out homecoming. this rite of passage denied to hundreds. what a bummer, george. >> 25% will be at the homecoming dance, but for 75%, they'll be making other plans tonight. they ran out of tickets for the first time in history, and they will be missing out on one of the biggest activities on campus this year. >> he says he is one of dozens of students that have been denied a ticket. >> i'm upset because i was excited and i had a date and i can go now. it's an outrage. >> st. teresa high planned for 500 to attend the dance. once they reached 500, they were told it was sold out. the principal said the gym where they will be holding the dance can accommodate 200 more students, but the issue is there are not enough people to chaperone. some parents offered to volunteer but they were turned down. >> i'm mad because this is my first year here and the teachers won't volunteer so i can go to homecoming. >> she is one of the lucky 500 going to the homecoming dance. she says she feels guilty that she can go but some of her friends condition. sdp >> i almost want to give somebody my ticket, but i can't because i have a date. >> the school has cut back on the number of teacher hours for supervising dances. as joe says, he's going to take his date somewhere else tomorrow night. nbc bay area news. your girlfriend is chared to death and cops would like to talk to you, so where are you going to go? a giants game, of course. an arrest at a party. he is considered a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend yvette martinez. he is now being held in county jail. one of the two women found dead in a crime spree in hercules is pleading no contest in an explosives confession. they found explosives in his vallejo home when they were investigating his wife's murder. he said he had access to them as part of his job and is not involved in bomb making. he is alsoen not a suspect in h wife's death. >> this was probably a great white. they are not very common in california. >> not common, but in this case deadly to body surfer lucas ransom. the 19-year-old died within moments of being bitten and dragged under water by a shark off the santa barbara coast. an experienced surfer, ransom was about 100 yards offshore when the shark bit into his leg, ripping it off of its pelvis. former senior lifeguard turned sheriff's deputy jeff rupert says he couldn't believe his ears after hearing his former olympic swimmer friend ransom was killed by a shark. >> i couldn't believe it, especially someone i used to work with. he was always in the water, whether it was water polo, lifeguarding, teaching swimming lessons, going to the beach. he loved the water. >> jeff proudly displays a newspaper photo from 2007 with lucas ransom in the middle and fellow lifeguard. the trio were hailed as heroes for saving a three-year-old who almost drowned in a swimming pool. >> everyone did an amazing job that day. they didn't panic at all and it worked very well. >> in high school, lucas ransom was a standout, fondly remembered by friends. >> he was a great athlete and one of the most talented players i got to play with water polo. >> people loved him. he loved everybody. >> jeff rupert admits he hadn't seen lucas lately but prefers to remember him as the happy-go-lucky kid in this staff photo and not the victim of a freak accident. >> he was a great person and he touched a lot of lives while he was here. >> i'm beverly white, nbc bay area news. >> tonight we're learning the last words that ransom said to his surfing buddy when he was dragged down was, help me, dude. his friend did manage to take him to shore where, unfortunately, ransom died. still ahead at 11:00, patients faced with a deadly choice. at what cost would you go without your prescription medication? there is help on the way. next. firsthand finds on secondhand smoke. who is going to have to pay up? starting this weekend, if you light up while dinie ining alreo in san francisco. what the team is doing to get ready for tomorrow's showdown. i'll have morrow's forecast and i'll have ourrr forecast for the ween od. ju little windy. it's looki a ttle wet a a litt. you know it's bad when the press asks if you'd take a lie detector test. meg whitman didn't tell the truth about not voting or about how long she lived in california. she got caught in insider deals at goldman sachs. she changed her story about physically abusing an employee. she campaigned as tough as nails on immigration knowing her housekeeper of 9 years was undocumented. her tv ads have been condemned as false and misleading. and even her hometown newspaper said meg whitman has demonstrated "a loose relationship with the truth" ["knock on wood" playing] every five minutes, chase pays for someone's eligible credit or debit card purchase. [beep] chase picks up the tab. it could be you. chase picks up the tab. it's another great reason to bank with chase. chase what matters. sign up at a branch today. the menu is changing for ou outdoor diners in san francisco. smoking is off the table. it's a new rule that can lead to stiff fines for restaurants. we're in san francisco tonight where most everyone has something to say about this new smoking ban. >> reporter: lisa, here in north beach eating outside is a neighborhood tradition, and for many people, smoke sg part of that street scene. but starting on sunday, you will no longer find ashtrays on the table. fresh air and good food filled outdoor tables in north beach year round. >> i cannot take cigarette smoking. >> some say smokers ruin the romance. >> secondhand smoking is worse than smoking yourself. it makes me naus yatd, and i really don't like it. especially in dining areas. >> san francisco agrees. starting sunday, no one will be allowed to light up outside where food is served. smokers say the law is a drag, maybe even unnecessary because customers police each other. >> i'll get up and move or something. >> when they come out and ask, you move. and generally they don't. i try to stay away -- if the window is open or something, i try to get far enough away and i try to be downwind of anywhere my smoke might blow in the door. i try to be accommodating. >> it will be up to restaurant managers to clear the air. if kmercustomers light up, the r may face a $500 fine. they think it's unfair they may have to pay. >> why should it be on the restaurant? why shouldn't the people doing the violating pick up part of the fine? >> he says he'll breathe easy as long as everyone follows the rules. the department of public health here in san francisco says it does not plan on handing out signs right away. it's hoping smokers will get used to the no smoking rule so it doesn't have to. reporting live in san francisco, bay area news. air force one becoming a regular sight. the white house confirming that first lady michelle obama will be in san francisco monday night to attend a fundraiser for barbara boxer. monday's visit will be the first lady's second trip to the bay area since her husband took office. here she is on her last visit in june of 2009. your money or your life. it sounds like something a mug ger would say on tv or the movies. but with a combination of prescription drugs, it takes on real meaning. there is help if you know where to look. >> gleevac is almost the perfect drug, perfect because it does amazing things, battling two specific and often deadly types of cancer. but almost because the patient must take it for the rest of his or her life at a cost of close to $5,000 a month. simply put, gleevac is a drug that can force a person to choose between their money or their life. >> i made the error of going off the drug for a short period of time and my cancer did become active again, so i know from firsthand experience you cannot go off the drug. >> it turns out holly is not the only gleevac patient that went off her medication even for a short time. her doctor wrote a letter to the new england journal of medicine citing a number of cases where patients, often due to cost, stopped treatment they knew to be life saving. >> patients are embarrassed to tell you that they didn't -- can't pay for their medication. they're embarrassed to tell their spouse that they maybe made that decision. >> help is out there. >> jeff truet is with the participate ship of people assistance. ppa is a clearinghouse of resources for people who need help paying for prescription medication. and whether they're public or profit, there are a lot of resources. >> there are more than 475 of these programs. they provide free or near free medications for the struggling. these programs cover over 2,500 medications. >> ty can usually help the patient get what they need and save them from maybing a terrible decision. the g-men go for win four in philly. when the giants hit the field, they'll be going up against the philly shortstop from their own turf. jimmy rawlins grew up in the east bay, and while baseball is his passion now, nbc bay area's lauren scott says the game can't touch his teenage past. >> reporter: for east bay native jimmy rawlins of the phillies, being able to come home to the bay area against the giants made an already memorable time extra special. >> it makes it fun just to be at home. get a lot of family to come and see me. >> for parents jim and gigi, it was probably even better. >> it's still not real to us. i guess you'd call it a dream. >> at home he had enough rewards to cher itish, but there is a certain memory from his youth he will never forget. >> and that was being chosen to dance in an mj hammer video. it was a casting call, i heard about it, and i said, would you guys want to go down there just for fun? >> reporter: his sister is not at all surprised he got the role. >> him doing a video is not out of his character at all. >> at the time it was a big thipg. a lot of people were jealous because they didn't make it through the audition. it was a fun time. got to hang out with hammer doing hammer time, and something i'll always remember. >> with the roar of "can't touch this" as told by the rawlins family, i'm jeff scott. >> those pants are back in style again. >> no, please, let's not go there. >> i'll get you a pair. >> only if you go out in the rain with thean >> cannexactly, and we'll see a of rain this weekend. big front coming through and it's part of a series of fronts. we saw some rain today. not heavy, most areas picking up a tenth of an inch of rain. there wasn't a lot of sunshine today. tonight we'll be hanging out mainly in the 50s. winds tonight, light to about 10 miles an hour. on thursday expecting some very strong winds associated with a big front. big low sets up in the pacific northwest. the front will sweep through on sunday. the heaviest rain will be to the north of the bay. the rainiest day will be on sunday. also very windy, and with that we'll see some big swells coming in, 15 to 20-foot swells coming in. that will start on monday. i can already hear the surfers. on and off rain again tonight coming off the north. we'll see those rain chances beginning to increase, and then on sunday, windy and rainy, but beginning to clear out late in the day. as we look at the giants beating the phillies, it will be a sunny game. at least in philadelphia we'll see sunny skies in the 60s. not here. as you look towards san francisco, oakland, danville to the north, very quiet radar. down to the south, a few light showers around today but nothing happening right now. expect the chances of rain to pick up after midnight. look at our forecast for tomorrow. again, not a big swing here in the temperatures because we're not going to see a lot of sunshine. temperatures just topping out in the 50s and the 60s with a lot of cloud cover and the rain chances increasing. as we look at the seven-day forecast, we're talking about rain increasing tomorrow, the rain chances. we'll see most of the rain happening to the north. the biggest rain amounts we'll see will be as much as five inches in the northern mountains around sonoma and napa, especially around the coast. and also around the santa cruz mountains, around three inches. most people will deal with half inch to an inch of rain, and what the weather service is saying, watch out while you're driving because there will be a lot of oil on the roads, and also try to clean out those gutters because a lot of debris will be happening there and you don't want urban flooding. >> there are so many sporting event for the kids on the weekend. we're still full baseball and soccer. >> hot line in the morning. >> i brought some legos for my son. >> how do they do t two boy two bsoy talking big talk around the world, still ahead. people! look at you! texting...blogging... all this technology, but you're still banking like pilgrims! it's time for new school banking, bubbie. interest plus savings at capitalone.com. why earn bupkis, when your savings can earn three times the national average!! three times the national average!!! new school banking at capital one bank. with interest plus savings, go to capitalone.com!!!!! what's in your wallet? somebody help me down. any new mom will tell you those first few months with a newborn can keep you feeling pretty scatter brained. but a new study says mommy brain is actually a better brain. there was increase of gray matter in the brain of new moms. essentially the brains grew in areas used for mothering, such as responding to a baby's cries and a baby's smell. so contrary to that negative label, mommy brain, it may just be a result of their brain reorganizing to care for the newest member of the family. >> this is research i can live with. i like this. it's all about the mommy brain. we're good to go. >> i've got world series brain. i'm thinking about it. we do know one of the teams headed to the world series now and it's a celebration deep in the heart of texas. i former giants catcher clinchs it as well. our own raj mathai is in philadelphia on the eve of game 6. >> this city buzzing about theit phillies but the giants g just trying to wrap things up. our coverage continues just ahead. 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"abolish the public schools." he even called our schools "insidious" and "socialism." as families struggle to raise their kids, to provide a good education, harmer bragged, "we can design a plan to dismantle them." david harmer is just too radical. we need jerry mcnerney. protecting local schools from devastating cuts. he's a moderate, endorsed by the stockton record, the independent, and our local teachers. i'm jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. good evening. the giants are back in philly and we're there with them to set the scene. our sports guy raj mathai is there for game 6. >> good evening, the fans here are fired up. they believe the phillies have regained control in the series, but the numbers don't lie. the giants still lead 4-2. most of the players we want directly to the hotel, but the managers and the starting pitcher jonathan sanchez had to do their media duties. >> the last one is always the toughest to get, but i think it's the case where you're playing good teams when you're in that situation and it's not easy. and you know you got to go out there examiand play your best go get it done. >> i've never been to the world series, and we've got guys on the team who have never been there. >> we got a good chance now to win because of who we got pitching and basically because we're home. and our fans are going to be out here to see us play, and also we like to play in citizens bank park, of course. i think that gives us a little advantage but then we got to win. >> so here we go. a few notes for tomorrow. first pitch is at 4:57 p.m. that's pacific time. jonathan sanchez versus ochewalt. the giants are hoping to wrap this up tomorrow night. if they do, they'll face the texas range errs in game one. now let's show you that texas-sized celebration. a former giant was at the certain of it all, and how fitting. a-rod, the former giants favorite benji mareno, texas had never won a series, and now they're headed to the world series. stanford has washington state for homecoming. san jose state welcomes fresno state. as for the state of the warriors, sitting out tonight's exhibition against the lakers. in the mecca that is ontario, already picking up the slack. 41 points on the night. the lakers take the game in o r overti overtime, 105-102. it's kind of like dude perfect from down under. we're back in a moment. 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