Future and right now the president of the board of supervisors london breed is the acting mayor. A special election will take place june 5th of next year. The winner chosen by voters will dpnch out lees term. Between now and june, the board of supervisors can meet at any time to vote on someone other than london breed to serve as acting mayor until the special election. Abc7 news vic lee is live with a look at who might be interested at taking the job. Strik . Reporter well, dan, a lot depends i guess the conventional wisdom is that a lot depends on whether london breed, the acting mayor will declare her candidacy for interim mayor in that special june election. A lot of people here at city hall with whom i spoke, mostly off record, believe she will. Now in respect to mayor lee, once hes laid to rest, the gloves should come off. There is no one like him. But because he wasnt a politician, he did things very differently. Reporter the sudden death of mayor ed lee, an earthquake thats sha
37 in napa. 33, santa rosa. Low 40s in oakland and upper 40s in San Francisco. As we get into the afternoon, upper 50s and low 60s expected once again. In santa rosa it will be a chilly start and around noon, still a bit cool in the low 50s. Helping out around 60 this afternoon and then cooling back down as we get into 5 00. Today is a spare the air day. We will look at air quality and your afternoon highs and the extended forecast coming up. Sal is off today. Lets take a look at traffic and see how things are going. We start with the tracy super commute. Westbound interstate 580, not many folks on the road. Everything is easy. All green on the map. Here is 880 through the oakland corridor by the coliseum. If you are early birds up this morning. No problems whatsoever. The bay bridge toll plaza traffic is very light. If youre heading into the city, you should not have any trouble. This is a difficult holiday work for california Highway Patrol. One of its officers died after his unit wa
Things pick up. 22 minutes between 205 and the dublinpleasanton interchange 680. And bay bridge toll plaza looking good. Back to you. A Fire Investigation is under way today after a three alarm blaze in San Francisco. The flames broke out shortly after 11 00 last night near the intersection of west portal avenue and vicente. A hardware store, salon and newspaper store in the area were involved. Crews are working to determine the cause. The chief says the flames started in one building and spread to the other businesses from a shared attic. San francisco has its third mayor in six weeks. Kpix 5s political reporter melissa caen has more from city hall where mark farrell took over for london breed. Reporter were here at San Francisco city hall where hours and hours of Public Comment finally ended with a bang. A new mayor. Supervisor mark farrell was a dark horse candidate who absolutely stunned the room. I personally want to thank london breed for her great leadership during this typical
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To the reporters here this morning. They showed the video from two recent incidents one that got the most attention was the shooting of wilkes on wednesday at 27th and Martin Luther king jr. He was stopped by Oakland Police driving a car police say was wanted in an Armed Robbery in july. He took off. There was an attempt at a carjacking according to the police. And then at 27th and broadway there was a problem and you can see the Police Chasing wilkes and they are on the sidewalk and he appears to be carrying a gun in the left hand. He turns around and runs back to the police. That is when the shots rang out. Here is the police chief on why his Department Released the video. We believe that doing it in the manner we have done it will allow us to correct some of the misinformation that is out there and at the same time preserve the integrity of our investigation. Now, the chief went open to say that the family of wilkes was given the opportunity to see the video before the reporters cou