Guilt of an athletes. Has nothing to do with the case for the innocence. Of broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow the seas arent International Thomas glad to have you with us. Germanys social Democratic Party leader Martin Childs has announced his resignation with immediate effect his decision comes after he lost out in the german election to chancellor Angela Merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to a grand Coalition Government for a second time he said his decision will allow the party to refresh itself and come back stronger. Appears to be. This big you need to compute the renewal of Police Organization including its personnel and this is the urgent wish of the Party Members with my resignation and also the relinquishment of my federal government membership i want to help bring an end to this debate and allow members to really focus on coalition agreement. And with the background to this decision here is our to show the debate. We know that resignations is some
Live where you live, this is abc7 news. Chaos at city hall over a shocker. Theres a new mayor suddenly tonight. After a heated debate and a vote. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im dion lynn. Mark farrell was elected by the board and sworn in tonight. He unseated london breed who has served since the death of ed lee. Katie utehs has the story. Reporter the new mayor held a press conference moments after being sworn in. Its clear that he was trying to diffuse a tense situation that followed hours of heated public testimony. San Francisco City hall erupted as supervisor mark farrell unseated act are mayor and bord president in a final board of supervisors vote of 82. I, mark farrell. Reporter he was sworn in in quick fashion and will hold the office until june. To me, its not about politics. Its about moving the city forward and the continuity of our government. All i can say is, that i will work to represent every single San Francisco resident. No matter their race, ethnicity, their re
Live where you live, this is abc7 news. Chaos at city hall over a shocker. Theres a new mayor suddenly tonight. After a heated debate and a vote. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im dion lynn. Mark farrell was elected by the board and sworn in tonight. He unseated london breed who has served since the death of ed lee. Katie utehs has the story. Reporter the new mayor held a press conference moments after being sworn in. Its clear that he was trying to diffuse a tense situation that followed hours of heated public testimony. San Francisco City hall erupted as supervisor mark farrell unseated act are mayor and bord president in a final board of supervisors vote of 82. I, mark farrell. Reporter he was sworn in in quick fashion and will hold the office until june. To me, its not about politics. Its about moving the city forward and the continuity of our government. All i can say is, that i will work to represent every single San Francisco resident. No matter their race, ethnicity, their re
Testimony. San Francisco City hall erupted as supervisor mark farrell unseated act are mayor and bord president in a final board of supervisors vote of 82. I, mark farrell. Reporter he was sworn in in quick fashion and will hold the office until june. To me, its not about politics. Its about moving the city forward and the continuity of our government. All i can say is, that i will work to represent every single San Francisco resident. No matter their race, ethnicity, their religion. It doesnt matter. My job for the next six months is to make sure our City Government continues to function. Reporter the supervisor called for the vote for interim mayor because breed was acting as mayor and board president , following the death of ed lee in december. It raised concerns regarding separation of power. Breed has already declared her candidacy for mayor in the upcoming election. Tonights vote shocked her supporters. What london represented as mayor is an opportunity for us to rise up and take
Colleagues for trusting me with this position. Eight a stunning changing of the guard in San Francisco. Board of supervisors president london breed has been replaced with mark farrell. He is considered a caretaker mayor until the election is held. It has been a tumultuous evening at the city hall where mark farrell was just sworn in as mayor a short time ago. We witnessed the unusual transfer of power. Reporter the interim mayor just left the office and got onto the elevator. It has been a long night here at city hall. As you said, mark farrell has become the interim mayor. Here is what he had to say in his message to the city, just a few minutes ago. I heard the emotion in the room. I felt that also. I will be a mirror for every single San Francisco resident. My focus and my job is to represent everyone in the city of San Francisco, no matter their ethnicity or religion, my job is to represent everybody and i will do that. Reporter we obtained these photos of his swearingin in the May