Crawl approaching hillcrest in the westbound lanes. We teamed this out well. You can see they are doing the lanes changes right now across the Golden Gate Bridge. Eventually they will get four southbound lanes open in the commute direction heading into San Francisco. No delay for your Silicon Valley ride on 237. Easy breezy for you. Its been nice so far. So far. But its still early. It is. See you at 6 00. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. Well, one of the most powerful political jobs in the bay area is up for grabs today as san jose voters choose a replacement for their termed out mayor chuck reed. Kiet do has more from city hall on whats at stake. Reporter good morning. A lot is at stake here in san jose as voters in northern californias largest city pick a new mayor. Santa clara county supervisor dave cortese seen here on the left came in first in the june primary. City Council Member sam liccardo was the runnerup and the most recent polls show cortese with a lead but a large group o
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
Candidate jean quan came in third according to the latest numbers after one tough term as oaklands mayor since 2011 and a hardfought campaign to keep her job. I have been saying if you are going to blame me for everything that went wrong in the city for the last 10 years then you better give me credit for the things that have been going right in the last few years. Reporter this election is based on the ranked Choice Voting system. One by one the candidates who received the fewest first choice votes are eliminated and each vote cast for that candidates is transferred to the voters next choice. Schaaf says her First Priority as mayor of oakland would be to improve Public Safety. Back to you. A lot of work to do there, anne. Tell us, 15 candidates in this race, how did schaaf set herself apart from from all the people running . One from Governor Brown and another senator boxer. Live in oakland, anne makovec, kpix 5. Jerry brown will go down as the only person to serve four terms as calif
Registrars office where they will be counting votes today. This is a crowded field. Were talking about 15 candidates running for oakland mayor. Five have separated from the pack. Jean quan looks to fend off Current City Council members libby schaaf and rebecca kaplan. Professor joe tuman and businessman bryan parker. A recent poll found any one of the five frontrunners could win thanks to the citys rank Choice Voting system. That system allows voters to select up to three candidates in order of preference when marking ballots. Its meant to eliminate the need for a separate runoff but it takes the registrar a lot of time to count the extra votes. For a final tally its going to take into the following week. Reporter the ballots in the election were already coming into the Registrars Office yesterday where they were being sorted and test run for what is likely going to be a very long complicated count. Well, hopefully people will get out and vote but it sounds like voter turnout will be l
I didnt see it. There is a little bit of low clouds around and just be advised, there was not any yesterday but there is some today. Mostly sunny with a few upper 30s up towards lake county, up towards santa cruz and we have that low cloud deck which is not a big fog bank but some of it has gotten down there, High Pressure continues to nose in and so does the high clouds but everything continues to topple and we are out of here. 41 novato, close for some. And foster city just dipped to 47 degrees there and there are some cool readings offshore hayward, northeast hayward and san jose and it is only 6mile perhour. Lots of sunshine and some thick a. M. Fog and a lot of 70s from coast, bay from north bay to the south bay, a little bit of fog oop i trust things will move on and we all know things will stay good when it comes to major crashes and lets see what we have here with the bay bridge toll plaza and there are no major problems if you are driving on 101 and we have a nice drive in San