traffic. all right. love that high pressure. can t get enough. all right. traffic is actually going swimmingly so far. no big problems on the roads. chopper 5 is showing us a live look at the san mateo bridge. know delays so far this morning. we ll have much more on your morning commute coming up. in the meantime backtoo you. #ás nine days after the election, this morning we know who the next mayor of oakland will be, city council member jean quan. good morning to you, anne. reporter: good morning. they are making history here at oakland city hall with this election but it is not without controversy because the ranked choice voting system that voters here in alameda county used this past week. what you filled out the ballot here in alameda county you had to put first, second and third choices and then the results defied a lot of expectations. kwan beat out former state senator don perata and eight other candidates for the job. perata earned more first place votes, thou
unburned hydrocarbons in the air. when you have an area wide power outage, we are told by experts, this is what happened. the system at kicks into place. you get flaring. five of the stacks, flaring right now. contra costa county hazardous materials officials are here. they re ordering a shelter in place. all windows and doors should be closed. if you are experiencing any type of respiratory problems you should seek immediate attention. now the fire department and air quality control officials are here. we are also told that this area wide power outage cost 13,000 customers their power. we are told pg & e is working quickly. maybe half the customers have power now. security is really tight right now. we tried to drive our truck up to the gate. they would not let us through. we didn t think that they would. we also thought that they would let us set up the live shot a lit closer. you had to come across the street. there you have the shot right now. as you can see that th
we re doing this shutdown in as safe a manner as possible to ensure that our employees are safe as well as the surrounding communities. and we have no injuries at the refinery to report. so ken, when something like this happens, are there alarms that go off with warning sound throughout the community? i m told houses are close by. there are. we have alarm systems in the community and refinery to alert people to the situation. we have a call system and, of course, we worked through the regulatory agencies to alert people as far as our community warning system. and in this case, it is a level 3 which has a shelter in place as you mentioned associated to it. okay. so what you re saying basically is the system worked the way it was designed and is supposed to? yes. correct. the system is working the way that it was designed to, the flaring with the early warning system and we are trying to reach everybody in the surrounding area to ensure that their safety is being addres
a few streets because of the wet weather last night and a raise in temperature for the weekend. nice seasonal weather coming your way. a lot of accidents due to those wet roads however no major hot spots yet. light at the toll plaza as well. and 6:00 this wednesday. i m kristen sze. i m eric thomas. a fairfield teacher is out on bail after having been arrested having sex with a minor. 27-year-old felicia killings made bail overnight. police arrested her yesterday. school district officials say they plan to meet as early as today to determine how to inform parents at angelo rodriguez high school where she worked as an english teacher. killings is scheduled to appear in court on friday. warning people walking dogs to watch for possible raccoon attacks. sunday night a pack of raccoons attacked and bit a woman in alameda s washington park. all the victims were walking small dogs. this woman was bitten in the leg and is undergaying rabies treatment. the raccoons are likely
a vote on tuition votes. how much of an increase? talking about 5% for this school year and 10% for next school year and the hikes just keep on coming. take a look at some of the students impacted. massive state budget cuts to blame. tuition has gone up 30% this past year. 76% over five years. and csu has responded by cutting faculty, putting more courses online. and when they ve done these hikes in the past, there s been student unrest. protest, building takeovers. it s not always students doing all that. you hear me using the word tuition today. csu and u.c. for that matter used to use the word fees when they increased student costs. that s because california many years ago vowed to have awe tuition free system. now they re no longer pretending. now they re getting real. the good news is one-half of ucs students, will nay be paying these increased tuition because their fees, their tuition is covered. live at san francisco state, terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. the kind of