45 minutes ago he made the bold move of declaring victory. It is my great honor to declare as the 66th mayor. He announced that at campaign headquarters. Liccardo said it is time to move past the contentious election and work for the city and reached out to the Police Officer association and the south Bay Labor Council to discuss the future. Right now, liccardo leads core address by 2,100 votes. Santa clara registrar Voters Office started counting 120,000 or sore mailin ballots, half from san jose enough to swing the race between liccardo and the supervisor dave cortese. Here is what i know i am not an expert but i do know that when pollsters take samples they take sample on the order of 400 or 500 or 600 voters. We have a simple of 100,000 voters. I reached tout dave cortese several times and have yet to hear back. Last night he told us going from behind to in front is possible with the high number of votes still to be counted. The registrar said there will be a count by mailin ballots this weekend and start on the provisional ballots after that. The election law has to be certified december 2, four weeks after election day. The new mayor is sworn in, in january. Ballots are counted in the oakland mayoral race. The one candidate is emerging as the likely winner, while the incumbent is out. You can see libby schaaf with 63 percent. Nick is in oakland. Good morning, we have reached out to all three of the top candidates one of whom has declared herself the winner. Oakland voters have sent a message that they are looking for change. We are trying to get through the counts to give you more ideas of where we stand. All the ballots have not been tabulated but with 63 percent of vote, the Council Member libby schaaf declared herself the we member that the registrar called premature. I would caution that it is not official until i certify and i have 28 days to go through that certification process. We have learned there are more than 100,000 mail in battle lots for Alameda County yet to be counted. Hopefully the next round will be released by 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. The fact that mayor quan finished third, not second, and not close, really indicates where peoples hearts and minds are. Retired state Senate Pro Tempore says no amount of counting can containing the fact that the choice that helped mayor quan win four years ago did not save her. She points to the controversial tenure including ok pay oakland, the first real test. She flung. Many believe she won because of liberal credentials but the decision to stand with demonstrators in 2011 against Law Enforcement suggested to men she was company she was weak on crime. You cannot be a hardcore leftist and run a city like oakland. You cant. If libby schaaf is, indeed, the mayorelect she will be the third mayor in five years in the city of oakland. My colleague will have more at action and 6 00 in oakland. Grass roots campaigns on limited budgets took the vote in richmond after chevron spent 72 per voter in an effort to help some get elected. In the race for hair and all three Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates Won City Council seats in a race that has drawn national attention. Chevron spent 3 million in the richmond election. Governor brown will remain in sacramento for four more years for an unpress denned fourth term as the california governor and will be 80 when the term expired. He leads near cell he leads Neel Kashkari with 51 percent of the vote. Brown sent out this tweet saying he was grateful for the confidence of a fourth time in california they once called us a failed state and now we showing the way. Brown will hold a News Conference at 11 30 this morning. We will stream it onlive. Democrats are still firmly in control in the bay area, but democrat versus democrat in district 17 contest in the south bay. 73yearold mike honda was backed by the Democratic Party and labor unions and the challenger, 38yearold, ro khanna grew support from the technical community, the first asian majority House District outside of hawaii. On the national stage, republicans won big last night. The going captured the senate and tightened their grip on the house of representatives in the midterm vote. The g. O. P. Gained seven seats at least for 52 total seats, the democrats have 45 seats and three contests have not been called. Here is more from washington, dc. The massive rest wave on tuesday left democrats licking their wounds. It was a crushing defeat for the democrats losing not only in purple states and red states which we anticipated but we lost if blue states. Republicans seized control of the senate and tightened their grip on the house of representatives. Heres the big winners from the l. A. P. D. Sleep, joni ernst who talked about castrating hogs put republicans overthetop where a victory in iowa. We will make em squeal gardner won in a state that president obama carried twice and the first africanamerican republican woman in utah and mcconnell is set to take over as Senate Majority leader. Friends, this experiment in Big Government has lasted long enough. One of the most embarrassing losses for president obama came in his home state of illinois, incumbent democratic governor quinn went down despite help from the president and first lady. Polls show voters went to the polls angry with president obama and took it out on his party. Now president obama must forge a new path forward working with republicans. The president took a beatin and the fact is you have to sit with the folks on other side and say, lets see what we can agree on. We will hear from president obama this afternoon at a News Conference and the republican and Democratic Congressional leaders will meet with the president friday at the white house. And berkeley has embrace add soda tax approved measure d, the sugary drink tax with 75 percent which only needed a simple majority to pass the penny an ounce tax amount similar proposition in San Francisco did not succeed. Proposition e fell short of the twothirds vote needed there. It only got 55 percent. It would have been a two cent per ounce tax on sugary drink. Soda industry spent big money to bet the measure. The two biggest contributors were the pacs, cocacola and pepsi. Though spent 10 million combined. The dr. Pepper group spent 2 million and then red bull and 140,000 was sunny delight kicking in 40,000 for a grand total for the five companies to more than 12million. San francisco voters have increased the minimum wage. In oakland, 81 percent said yes, to measure that increases the minimum wage from 9 to 12. 25. In San Francisco, they are the second city in the nation to aprove raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour incrementally through 2018. Results to the races are on abc. Com and we will continue to stream results at the bottom of the screen and check out our Facebook Page where you can see the voter selfie. Former Baltimore Ravens running back ray rice is back in the news with a request to the nfl. New details this morning about a fatal Traffic Accident in San Francisco. What police say the victim was doing moments beforeening before being hit. A beautiful shot of the bay and alcatraz with meteorologist mike nicco coming up with the accweather forecast. Abut, first, some election results. Hey john,whoa k it out. Yeah, i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv. And the tablet worked just fine. But i wanted to see if the phone would work as well. 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He was hanging on to a tanker truck in the tenderloin district between the two gas tanks and when the tanker turned he fell and was hit by the truck. Investigators are trying to find the driver. They think the driver might not even be aware he hit someone. Former nfl star ray rice is appealing the indefinite ban from the nfl after video surfaced of him punching his any wife. The running back entered into an arbitration hearing in new york Holding Hands with his wife, the same woman he is accused of beating when she was his fiance. He was suspended if only two games initially and suspended indefinitely after a second video surfaced showing him hitting and drag his unconscious fiance out out of the elevator. He believes the nfl violated his due process uncollecting bargain aing. Despite Good Behavior the suspension for San Francisco 49ers linebacker aldon smith will not be reduced. Espn reported that his nine game suspense if d. W. I. And weapons possession will last nine games. This leaves smith to return when the 49ers take on the giants november 16. Meteorologist mike nicco, how does it feel . Warmer than yesterday, some areas up to nine degrees warmer than 24 hours ago but the warming trend has a short life. I will tell you about the cooling trend and what to expect during the average november in san jose. That is coming up in the sevenday forecast. And mystery in more, the surprising explanation of this night time spectacle in the sky. More election results, as well. If aunder a microscope, put we can see all the bacteria that still exists. Polidents unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria. For a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture everyday. Covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. The mystery is over over the source of a bright light over chicago it was a stunt. Energy drink maker red bull claims it was part of a flashy stunt to promote the energy drink. Skydivers with shares drifted above the city around 6 30 monday night when calls starting coming up of a possible meteor and similar lights were seen if other cities but red bull says they were only responsible for the chicago event. Some health news for parents. Too much baiting can do your baby more harm than good. Researchers say too much soap can lead to dry skin and patches of dry and inflamed skin that starts in childhood. Doctors recommend fewer baths and more moistening lotion. Two or three baths are enough. Or just use the water and no soap. Exactly. Dry . Sunny . Meteorologist mike nicco is on roof. Just keep the smell, even guys can appreciate the smell of a baby, it is refreshing. It should be a cologne. Temperatures are nearly 80 if you are working outside, speaking of smelling good. The visibility is unlimited as we have dry air over us with low winds blowing through the ocean. They are not fast enough that we have a fire danger. They do down around los angeles and san diego, today because of santa anas kicking in. They are warmer than us. The east bay hills are hazy but not a spare the air day and some of the high clouds passing to our west over the ocean are the system that are going to income out temperatures down tomorrow but unfortunately not bring us any rain. Down in san jose, we could make it to 80, and you are at 66 right now but los gatos is 70 and livermore is same, and san ramon is 72 and Half Moon Bay at 75 and san mateo is at 71 and everyone else is in the midtoupper 60s. This is how it looks from walnut creek, the sun is shining as we look southbound to the San Ramon Valley and mostly sunny and warm everywhere. The coastal fog will creep in tonight. That will bring our coolest weather to the coast the next two days but some of that will filter inland and the warm the hike we have today if you miss out open it especially if you like to go to the coast is coming back this weekend. Todays temperatures are seven and nine degrees warmerthanaverage, and slow and livermore and redwood city, all the neighbors, double digits but you only enjoy it until 5 07. The temperatures are mid70s along the coast into San Francisco and everyone else is in the upper 70s to low 80s. Tonight it is going to be milder with the clouds along the coast, and upper 40s in our dopest valley and lowtomid 50s for the rest of us. High pressure is getting squeezed by the strong system but Strong Enough that we are another day deeper into the dry forecast and we help if rain midweek, next week, but it look like that will fizzle and fizzle, finally, a tropical depression bringing winds to mexico. For a typical San Francisco in november, we can get up to 10. 5 in rain, normally three but our extremes are 38 and 86. Other than tomorrow, friday and mound into tuesday, temperatures are going to be above average. You can see the cooling tomorrow at the coast and see how it spreads inland by friday and the robust warmth is back saturday and sunday and finale by tuesday next week we will have a strong cold front and it will knock our temperatures alabama to where they should be but it should not bring us any rain. Hope you like the sun account warm weather, it is here for the afternoon. We will suffer and enjoy it, mike. This is a new twist involving alex from target who rose to internet fame after the picture was posted on twitter. What did he know . When did he know it . He says he doesnt know anything about a Marketing Company taking credit for the pictures success shared by more than a Million People with alex from target, a Company Called breaker says it discovered a photo after it was tweeted by a user in the u. K. And drummed up support on social media. 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