Us live in oakland this morning with comments from the candidates. Good morning. Reporter good morning. They still have some ballots to count yet some vote by mail ballots that voters dropped off here at the county Registrars Office in oakland. But libby schaaf as you mentioned declared victory early this morning. Out of the 15 candidates for mayor of oakland, it looks like she came out on top. Things look good pretty early for the Current City Council member after 15 rounds of counting rank Choice Voting ballots. She got almost 63 of the vote. This is the campaign that was fueled by love for oakland. These passionate people stretched themselves. They talked to strangers, they covered every square inch of oakland. Reporter current mayor and candidate jean quan came in right after her according to the latest numbers after a tough term as oakland as mayor since 2011 and a hardfought campaign to keep her job. If you are going to blame me for everything that went wrong in the city for the
City Council Member sam liccardo has a lead of about 2 right now over santa clara supervisor dave cortese. That small gap has been pretty steady since the earliest results were released last night. But with a lot of provisional ballots still to be county, the race is too close to call. The winner will replace chuck reed who couldnt run again because of term limits. Voters in two bay area cities decided to raise the minimum wage. In San Francisco, they approved proposition j, it passed by a 7723 margin. It needed a simple majority to pass. The minimum wage in San Francisco will gradually increase to 15 an hour by 2018. Its currently 10. 74. It will go up to 11. 05 on january 1. A similar ballot measure in oakland got even wider support. 81 of voters approved measure ff. That will raise oaklands minimum wage from 9 to 12. 25 starting in march. The most expensive statewide race was for superintendent of public instruction. Both candidates are democrats. And they spent 30 million on the ca
You hearing. Well its not yet official but phoenix sports anchor is reporting jim harbaugh will return to alma mater and take the michigan head coaching job. Ad are in the bay area. There are reports wolverines already offered harbaugh a 6 year, 48 Million Dollar contract that make him the highest paid coach in College Football. Michigan needs a fiery guy like him to turn around a program that has fallen on hard times. Hes also reporting harbaugh will tell the players the news after sunday Season Finale and then the formally introduced on tuesday. Raiders an jets also rumor to be in the running for harbaugh the coach has consistently refused to talk about his future saying well what will happen will happen, what will not happen wont happen. So its not yet official and i wouldnt be surprised if the raiders make one last push but rate now hes leaning towards the michigan job. What will happen will happe happen. Very profound. Really. Thanks. See you later on. Thank you. Now to another ma
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50s, 60s, 70s first, the positive spin is that it is out of recession. We did see some signs of life. It wasnt what economists were expecting. I think a big part of it was the big revision down, the thirdquarter gdp number. It was worse. Deeper than first thought. The initial read was negative one point nine. That brought they brought that down to 2. 3. We are looking at growth. The annualized figure is 2. 2 . The estimate was for 3. 7 . The Third Quarter revise number was down to 2. 3 . The recession was a bit deeper than expected. What was the reason for the weakness here . Lets talk about that a little bit. You had the export numbers were quite good for december. But the underlying demand spending, isnt quite where it should be. Lets listen in the hsbc japan economist was here. Listen in. Export is looking quite strong due to Strong Demand in the u. S. But Household Spending is still under pressure. I think that is going to be the case unless we get a big round of wage revisions sta