Winning a very close election in december. He was not mayor london breeds top. Here is some background on boudin. He, she was the one who had support of mayor london breed. Boudin ran on a platform of prison and criminal justice reform. Antiwar radicals sent to prison for murder and strongly opposed by the San FranciscoPolice Officers association. There is still a set of bitter feelings between both feelings, parties that are supposed to work closely on law and order issues. Boudin says hes ready to get to work and has a team of advisors a couple of transition into this new role. Emily, thank you. Earlier today mayor london breed officially took the oath of office. Today ceremony featured musical performances. She won a special election in 2018. San francisco can be the city that are sharecroppers daughter drifted to be. San francisco can and will be a city for all of us. Thank you. Coming up, we will have a closer look at mayor london breeds vision for the new year. A bombshell announcement from the duke and duchess of sussex. They are stepping back from their duties as members of the royal family and they are moving. Wendy gillette tells us what this will mean for the royals. Reporter the duke contractures released a statement that is sure to shake buckingham palace. They are basically resigning from major respondent, responsibilities. Reporter after many months of reflection we intend to step back as senior members of the royal family and work to become financially independent and continuing to fully support her majesty the queen. They will balance her time between the uk and america. This is major news and unprecedented. Harry and meghan want to do things their own way. Reporter they married with much fanfare at Windsor Castle in 2018 and they had a baby son a year later. But meghans transition from an american actress to a member of britains royal family has not been easy. The couple has been the target of intense tabloid focus. Harry has referenced disagreements with his brother, prince william. They wouldve hope they couldve resolve things. I think it would be painful for the family. Some notice the couples picture was missing from the table filled with photos with Queen Elizabeth gave her annual christmas speech. I wish you all a very happy christmas. Reporter we understand their desire to take a different approach but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through. The couple says there move will allow them space to focus on the next chapter including the launch of a new charity. Prince harry is sixth in line to the british throne. New details on a missing woman from connecticut. Her estranged husband was ordered to be held on 6 million bail. He has been charged with the murder of his estranged wife. His wife was last seen in may after she took her children to school. Police say of blood like substance with her dna was discovered and the vehicle he had access to on the day he vanished. Today his attorney said his clients 6 million bail was excessive. You will almost never see bond of this magnitude for a person without an extensive criminal record. He has been free and it liberty. We thought that frankly was sufficient. If there court needed to put a little salt on a, another 1 million would do. His girlfriend was awesome court today and had her bill reduced from 2 million to 1. 5 million. She is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder. An unusual crime trend in southern california. Police are searching for Armed Robbers holding up beauty shops in the middle of the day. Reporter it is just before 3 pm on november 21. The moment two midwalk into a salon in silver lake. One suspect wearing a reflective vest takes out a gun and points it at employees and patrons. The other suspects start to rob each person. You can see him snatcher customers purse. Very scary. Reporter no one wanted to talk about what happened. The man who runs the drycleaners nextdoor was working that day. They came over and told us what happened. Especially the time of day they robbed them. Reporter the men were in and out and nearly 2 minutes. Customers and employees had their heads up the entire time. If you fight back you have a good chance of them pulling the trigger. I would not fight back. Reporter they did not stop here. The beauty salon bandits had hit five places in lapds jurisdiction between november 1 and december 6. One of the locations was a refuge salon and another the high salon in silver lake. The suspect hit a day spa on december 6 and another location in will have. It is very scary especially in todays market. I think people out there are hungry and trying to make a dollar real quick and god knows when someone will come in and pull a gun on us. Thousands of people without homes in puerto rico. The efforts to help those following days of powerful earthquakes. Wildfires in australia continue to burn. 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Nurse you should know, he did it as mayor, hell get it done as president. Mrb im Mike Bloomberg dennys is making 2020 a super duper new year with a new super duper deal now you get bacon, sausage, eggs, hash browns, and all you can eat pancakes for only 7. 99. The new super duper slam happy new year, from dennys. Puerto ricos most powerful earthquake has left hundreds homeless. Heres more from puerto rico tonight. Reporter as we walked down the main street in puerto rico, this is what we saw. Downed power lines,s reduced to rubble, cars crushed beneath crumbling foundations. It looked as though some areas had been bombed. We found samantha and her family at the shelter set up outside the coliseum. They are among thousands of people who fled their homes on tuesday when the earthquake hit. They feared the tsunami. First responders were handing out water and provided medical care. They dispersed costs for the hundreds of people who slept there overnight. They either dont have a home to go home to her they feel safer outside than in their own home because they have been dealing with earthquakes almost every hour for the last seven days. I have never seen anything like this. Reporter Felix Rodriguez was watching over a neighbor when we met him. Rosalie torres kept her children close. We broke up and everything was shaking back and forth. It started shaking. Everybody started screaming, running, reporter the family just finished repairing the damage to their home caused by Hurricane Maria 2. 5 years ago and now they will be forced to repair the home again. We dont have any place to stay. Our house collapsed. I lost everything. These earthquakes will continue for at least a week or maybe more. Puerto rico sets on the plate and what is happening is expected and natural. It will take a while for the earth to simply settle down. David becnel, on scene in puerto rico. Wildfires continue to burn out of control and parts of australia and firefighters are racing to put out the biggest hotspots. Hundreds of millions of wild animals have been killed. Hundreds of Army Reservists up and working on Kangaroo Island located off of the coast of South Australia helping to treat animals who have suffered burns. They are rescuing a number of injured animals, many wild loaf. The majority of those nicolle wallace. There are also injuries to their lungs from breathing in the hot gas from the fires. People all over the world have been expressing solidarity with the world. Alton john pledged 1 million to help those affected by the fires. I am at the live news desk. People are taking to the streets in downtown San Francisco for an antiwar protest. Weve got some video into our newsroom. This is a gathering near the montgomery bart station. This rally is in response to the trump administrations airstrike to kill the top iranian general. Many protesters say they believe the President Trump is simply using the iranian airstrike as a distraction from his own impeachment proceedings. Other antiwar protests are planned on saturday, january 25 and it is being organized as a global day of protests. Back to you. Lets get the latest check on this next round of rain. It is misty out there from the camera that weve got. It looks like rain already. But the storm is not getting here until after midnight. The best way to show that is not just a look at the sky but to look at High Definition doppler. We will switch from the live view and we will see whatever light rain there is off the coast is pretty much just that at best. We will switch ahead and im going to bring us ahead to midnight. This is the leading edge of the rain that will be focused on thursday morning. It will make the roads slick for the commute. Widespread rain by the time we get to 3 am and we are right in the heart of this in the 5 am hour. By the time we get to 7 am it is just starting to clear out for the south bay. There is some good news in the time being. 90 of this rain will fall before the bulk of the morning commute. There is another friend with this that the streets will be slick. We will get about. 25 inches of rain. By the time you wake up and hit the roadway. Plan on some delays. It will also get a bit windy as the rain comes in. By the time we get to the early afternoon, it is done. That covers the first storm. If anyone is going into the sierra, there is a Winter Weather advisory from 1 am tomorrow until 10 am. Not very long. We will get about 6 inches of snow on donner pass. On friday, nothing happens. Sunshine and cold. It will be breezy and chilly in the morning. I want to show you the next rainmaker. This one gets here on saturday which is midnight on saturday. Lets play that one forward. By the time we get to 9 am it is done. It didnt give a whole lot of rain, in fact we will have a nice saturday with the exception of a few light showers and be out of here by 10 am. It is just 2 100 inches of rain. There are the morning lows for tomorrow. The clouds with the storm will keep us relatively warm. Daytime highs tomorrow are going to struggle to get out of the 50s. South bay will barely make it into the 50s. East bay, barely make it into the mid50s. In the northbay, a mid and upper 50s mix and temperatures up north not much different. Temperatures in the upper 50s. If i talked about rain on saturday, whatever your outdoor plans are, i do not anticipate the rain will have any impact. A goodlooking forecast for saturday. On sunday we get a break and then monday we talk about another chance of rain. We will have more as we get closer to it. We will be right back after this. This weeks jefferson Award Winners childhood experience with a longtime bay area nonprofit has inspired him to help others. Thousand Police Officer and volunteer peer counselor. Reporter Freddie Williams hits the streets of oakland but the sunrise. It is a city the recent graduate of the Oregon Police academy serves with pride. It is also a career choice that will have its challenges. Being a Police Officer you have to take people to jail. His own father has been incarcerated for most of freddies life. He relates the families of the people he will arrest. I can provide resources. Resources like project a free. A nonprofit at the gates of san quentin prison. It provides the children of incarcerated parents with the 10 year commitment of mentorship , summer camps, and other self esteem Building Activities like horseback riding. The executive director says empowering these kids is key to breaking the cycle of incarceration. We are working on that social Emotional Development and helping them heal. Reporter it drew freddie to project a free. He is a cancer now but not that long ago he was attending the camp. I have not missed one year of summer camp. Avery has given me everything as a kid. Reporter he has been a project every kid since he was eight years old. So far, it has served more than 1400 kids like this 11yearold camper who sees freddie as his role model. It gives me the confidence to do this. Reporter freddie is excited with his future with the Oakland Police department. This program has helped shape me into the man i am today. Reporter it is the community that will benefit from the most. Hes going into the community and he knows how to help heal them. Reporter by helping others feel empowered and save, this jefferson award goes to Freddie Williams. As a friday he will be on the job as a solo officer. Project avery is always looking for volunteers. For information go to our website or nominate someone at https pix11. Com. Pittsburgh police are dealing with quite a nuisance. Someone keeps messing with the traffic signals. The San Francisco mayor says compassion doesnt mean that anything goes on the street. The newest and hottest gadgets are being flaunted in las vegas. But the future of uber could look like. When it comes to Health Coverage, it helps to have someone in your corner. Thats why theres covered california. Were the only place where you can get financial help to pay for your health insurance. New this year, almost a Million People could receive additional financial help from the state to help lower the cost of health insurance. More for those already getting it, and new help for many who havent gotten help before. So check to see how much you could save. It only takes 5 minutes. The last day to enroll is january 31st. So get covered today. One Bay Area Community prone to wildfires and emergency evacuations is planning for the next one. Those can be logistically challenging when it comes to rescuing large animals. Don ford on the local organization stepping up to help. Reporter it is one thing to evacuate entire towns, but how do you evacuate 800 horses . Carefully with hundreds of volunteers working around the clock. And thats what this team is trained to do. Stay calm. A panicked 1200 pound animal is looking for leadership. If you can stand next to that animal and be calm, that will transmit to the animal. It takes a lot of training to keep people safe. Reporter it is a self Financing Organization that works with First Responders assisting with evacuations, sheltering and care of animals during disasters like the reason kincaid fire. They had the horses ready. We just put them in the trailer and drove off. And then were driving down toward our house and we see that our side of the valley is on fire. And it was just like, is this an apocalypse . Working closely with the sheriffs under the guidance of incident command, they relocated 800 horses during the fire. And then there is this. A 200 pound tortoise. Yes. That is a very large animal. Reporter what did you do with that . Reporter it took two people to lift the tortoise to a tarp and then a wheelbarrow and then awaiting truck a halfmile away. They must be prepared for anything. That is unusual. Reporter volunteers are screened and trained before being deployed in disaster zones. In napa, kpix 5. News at six begins right now with ken and veronica. A city where we can care for one another and where our streets are safe and no one is left out in the cold. Mayor london breed offering a vision for the city. Rash of south bay neighborhoods. How police traced suspects to the east bay. Our top story on kpix 5. A statewide effort to get the homeless off the streets. Good evening. Today governor gavin newsom signed an executive order directing agencies to find state line that could be dedicated as temporary shelter locations. Reporter the homeless began camping along i80 some time ago because they have nowhere else to go. And now the governors order says this is the kind of open caltrans property that could be used as homeless shelter areas. San francisco put a service area on caltrans property. Oakland mayor says that the order will hold city set of struggled to find property for homeless facilities. In a highcost area like the bay area, free land is very helpful. It is not just its distaste line but it is one dollar a year makes a huge difference. Other state lands like county fairgrounds be identified for use by the homeless and he is offering 100 travel trailers. The ceo of San Franciscos coalition on homelessness says what means the most is the order includes a 650 million Budget Allocation for homeless aid to cities and counties. When the state comes in and find it they are putting their money where their mouth is. Newsom will secure medical funding for housing. Living on the streets is a Public Health issue. The oakland mayor says she is relieved to see the causes of homelessness are not being a nord. He agrees with us that we must do more than just shelter people