Rise of mayor ed lee has mayor and reaction to his death. We begin with kpix 5s melissa caen at city hall, a day of shock and sadness and uncertainty of San Franciscos political future. Reporter thats right. Mayor ed lee is the third mayor of San Francisco to die while in office. People today here in city hall were surprised and heartbroken and unsure of what happens next. I ask for your patience and i ask for your support and i ask for your prayers. London breed, put into the spotlight, the first African American woman mayor in San Franciscos history. She gave her first so speech today stressing shes a native san franciscan and grew up in public housing, like mayor ed lee. As somebody who grew up there and spent most of my life there, mayor ed lee, very similar situation, we bonded over that. Reporter it was the City Attorney who laid out the rules for what is ahead. There will be an election june 52018 where, uhm, the next mayor will be chosen to fulfill the unexpired term of mayor e
Marc train now stopped that hit a csx dump truck. Police tell us the dump truck was on the rail switching over to the road in that intersection and thats when it was hit. The driver of the dump truck was injured but not hospitalized. There are 620 passengers on the train. Only one of them had minor injuries, but that person also declined to be hospitalized. The ntsb is now investigating as well as fires and again passengers should be arriving shortly. Were told that there are some mechanical issues on the train, which is why they cannot move that as well as the ntsb investigation that is now currently pending. Now we are told that people should be here shortly and eventually they would like to clear up the railroad and get it back open so that people can get home sometime relatively soon. Thats the very latest here from the kensington station. Thanks. Well, two months after that horrifying quadruple murder in a d. C. Mansion and the lead investigator told a judge today he thinks some o
Welcome to al jazeera america, im stephanie sy. Outrage in South Carolina this morning over the shooting of a black man by a white Police Officer. Protesters gathered a short time ago in front of North Charleston city hall demanding justice for walter scott. We aint going to take this any longer. You cannot continue to kill young people and especially black people. All lives matter but especially black lives matter. We have been treated like cattle for years, and its not going to continue. Scott was 50 years old. He was shot over the weekend by an officer. The officer said the felt threatened and that scott had grabbed the officers taser, but a bystanders video paints a different story. Reporter saturday what started as a routine traffic stop for a broken taillight ended with this officer shooting and killing the driver 50yearold walter scott. At the time local citizens called for calm. I dont want this to become an ferguson. I dont want any more lives to be taken. Reporter newly relea
A handful of cloud to ground lig strikes. Crews were able to pinpoint those with tracking tey those with tracking technology. Keep an eye out for any holdover holdover fires. All the shower activity is moving off to the n. Off to the north. Was take a look at the showers exiting. The the bulk of the crowds glare lig activity has really been concentrated in the Northern Colorado mountains in the high sierra. We did have a handful os around the bay area and some trace amounts of moisture. The heaviest rainfall right long the the coast in santa cruz county. T santa cruz county. Davenport picked over a 10th of minutes. E of minutes. A trace at sfo. A few drops here in there. Just enough to make you wash your ca. You wash your car. In the wake of the showers, teas have one backup inland. Upper 70s to around 80 in the north bay. Temperatures tomorrow should be within about 5 degrees of normal, and then a calmer weather pattern taking over the rest of the week. Taking a live look across the t