Candidate for the november Mayoral Election in 2019, but now there will be a special election for interim mayor in june. He faces election much sooner. I was planning on another two years of campaigning, now it will be a mere six month. Reporter leno has already been raising money and building coalitions since he declared last may. But he may be facing board of supervisors president london breed who is now acting mayor. If she runs, you might call her sort of an incumbent. Should president breed decide to run, it will be an uphill battle for anyone thats going to be looking to challenge her. Reporter other potential candidates, state assemblyman and former supervisors president david chu who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2011. Former supervisor and assemblyman tom amiano says chu will have to roll the dice. His challenge will be the race for assembly is this year as well, so if he ran in june, he would have to give up his assembly race. Reporter also resumed, supervisor jane kim who ran for state senate. Dennis herera, mark ferrell. One thing is certain, if youre planning to run, better move fast. Vic lee, abc7 news. You can pay tribute to ed lee from 8 00 a. M. Until 7 00 p. M. This saturday at the rotunda at San Francisco city hall and a memorial will be held 3 00 a. M. Sunday at city mal. San franciscos acting mayor london breed says shes qualified to lead the city. In the meantime, she told reporters that her main focus is to keep the city running as smoothly and swiftly as possible. Abc7 news report lea melendez tells us where her attention also will be. Reporter one of london breeds first appearances as acting mayor was at an event announcing a Gun Buyback Program this weekend, something she cares deeply about. I hate guns. I hate what theyve done to my community. I hate how theyve taken lives of the people ive grown up with. Reporter for now, breed is taking on the role of a healer as the city is still very much in mourning over the death of ed lee. This was breed yesterday. And i ask for your patience and i ask for your support. Reporter people stopping by city hall to place flowers couldnt help but wonder how anyone can replace the late mayor. The has a really tough job ahead of her. I hope that she can fill his shoes. I am not blind. I see what happens in our streets every single day. And im going to continue to push for more housing. Reporter in addition to more affordable housing, breed made it clear she will continue to focus on the ongoing problems associated with homelessness. But today her main priority is making sure things run as they should. Ensuring the public that we will continue to take care of the city. Reporter while she said it was too early to say if she would run for mayor, breed believes her knowledge of what the city needs makes her uniquely qualified and prepared to step into the job. In San Francisco, leighian melendez, abc7 news. London breed now becomes San Franciscos first female africanamerican mayor. To learn more about her, look for this story on our website, abc7news. Com. Police are investigating the vandalism of a citimans car as a hate crime. You can see what was done to it here. He says racist graffiti was spray painted on it after an argument in a Grocery Store parking lot. Abc7 news asker eric thomas has the story. Reporter steve woolsons suv goes in the shop tomorrow to have these ugly words stripped off. Ive got to spend 500 for for a deductible that i dont have. I have to get this off my car. Reporter the dt is bad enough. He believes that stand for donald trump. The other side is really offensive. Reporter thats when the n word is written with the member go home. Id rather them stab my tires and break my window because now this is a rolling message. Reporter he came to the mall monday night to do some grocery shopping, but as he tried to park his car he found a tight squeeze, so he asked the driver next to him if he wouldnt mind moving his car just a bit. Wilson says the man didnt budge so he drove around him and when he got out of his car, he says the man told him this. Ill be glad when mr. Trump gets rid of all you bean eating mexicans and all you [ bleep ]. The word that he wrote on the side of my car. Reporter thats the n word, that makes him in the prime suspect in wilsons back. A marine corps veteran is not a trump fan and responded with words we cant say on tv, something he now says he regrets. The vandalism happened when he was inside the story and neighbors are noticing. While he was inside the store . Yes. Im sorry to hear about that. Reporter it also caught the eye of this woman, who dropped her daughters off at a daycare nearby. She posted this picture of it online. I didnt want to be too aggressive about it, you know what i mean . I wanted people to care. Reporter since the incident, wilson has racked up 140 in uber bills and hes on disability. This afternoon by coincidence, wilson and ross met for the first time in a parking lot. She has started a gofundme page for him. Eric thomas, abc7 news. A fire bomb and a suspicious duffel bag prompted a scare at the Alameda County courthouse today. About 10 30 this morning, a young man left a backpack outside the Oakland Court building. The Sheriffs Office says when the man was tracked down and questioned, he assaulted deputies. Several of our deputies ended up having a struggle with him. He was taken to the ground and ultimately detained. During that detention, we definitely realized he was suffering some psychological issues. In addition, hes on probation for previous acts of vandalism. The backpack did not turn out to be dangerous, but sheriffs deputies were being extra cautious after a separate fire bombing left burn marks by the front door. In a situation outside the courthouse, a preliminarily hearing into the ghost ship fire this morning. The court heard from a federal agent with the atf who says max harris told her he knew the building didnt have fire sprinklers but didnt do anything about it. Later, the assistant fire marshal marie sabatini. The plaintiffs facing 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. When a fire sparked inside the oakland warehouse, but defense attorney tony serra points out the cause of the fire was never determined. From our perspective, its going to be very difficult to assign culpability to individuals charged in this case when they dont even know the cause or the origin of the fire. The preliminarily hearing could wrap up tomorrow. New at 6 00, a whistle blowing complaint against the California PublicUtilities Commission is going to court. Karen kilometerton seen here is a achieve Administrative Law judge. Her complaint alleges that she was up lawfully fired in august because she was cooperating with investigators who were looking into collusion between regulators and executives from pg e. She claims the cpucs action with pg e may have contributed to disasters, including the san bruno explosion and the north bay wildfires. She also alleges racist discrimination at cpuc. It was chilly in places around the bay this morning. Abc7 news was in walnut creek where even frosty was frosty. This cold, icy windshield. Take a look. This guy pouring a bottle of warm water on to the windshield to try to melt it. Experts recommend you use an ice scraper because the warm water could crack your windshield. Were on day six out of seven consecutive spare the air days because of smoke from the Southern California wildfires. The air pollution does make for beautiful sunsets, however. Lets check with abc7 seven news anchor. Spencer . Lets start with the cold. It certainly was cold this morning. Ill give you a look at some of this mornings low temperatures. It dropped down to 26 degrees at fairfield, 27 as santa rosa. We had a low of 28 at napa, livermore, gilroy, even oakland and redwood city dropped to 34 depreciation. It was very cold this morning. Looks like it will be tomorrow morning as well. It was a warm afternoon. On the coast, we had highs of 68 at Half Moon Bay and 69 at santa cruz. The haze has caused a decline in our air quality. Our seventh consecutive spare the air day. In the coast and credibility bay, we expect improvement on air quality on friday. Another cold morning with another mild afternoon. Ill give you the complete forecast in just a few minutes. Spencer, thanks very much. Parents, stupids and faculty protested before tonights oakland board of education meeting where trustees will vote on millions in proposed budget cuts. The crowd loudly urged the mystery not to make the cuts during a boisterous rally before the meeting. This is video tweeted by abc7 news reporting who is covering that meeting for us. The plan to cut 9 million before the end of fiscal year. It would be spread across different district sites and programs. Opponents say these cuts would hurt the most underfunded programs in the nation. The nations labbot avocado producer lies in the path of the biggest Southern California wildfire burning right now. Plus, see what it takes to put up a ninestory structure that is as long as a football field in just one night. Also ahead dressed up like bunnies for the sake of science. Im Jonathan Bloom inside this giant clean room where theyre making the worlds biggest digital camera to unlock some of the biggest mysteries of the universe ahead on abc7 news. Coming up this friday, a major upgrade to the abc7 news app were happy to tell you about. Rolling out big, exciting updates that more customization and an enhanced video experience. Get open the news you want delivered to your phone in realtime. Get the updates [baby crib musical mobile] millions are still exposed to the dangers of secondhand smoke. And some of them cant do anything about it. But you can. Protect your family. Visit tobaccofreeca. Com. This afternoon, the San FranciscoPolice Department honored two civilians after they sprang into action to help save an officers life at sfo a few months ago. We reported this at the time. The citys Police Commissioner is calling them heros, but the two say they were just in the right place at the right time and did the right thing. Abc7 reporter chris nguyen has the story now from the airport. Reporter at San Francisco international airport, a Holiday Celebration that some employees wont soon forget. I dont think im a hero. I just did what i had to do. Ill do it. I will do it again and i dont think i wont think twice about it. Reporter in front of friends and colleagues this afternoon, covenant security screening agents Valerie Schmidt and vincent dell rosario were recognized by the San FranciscoPolice Department and the Police Commission for helping to save an officers life. It wasnt a thought in my head that i was scared or anything like that, its more of like this person is in danger or in, you know, and im going to do my best to help out. Reporter last september, Airport Police got the call they never want to hear, one of their own under attack with a weapon in the mix. They face dangers all the time, but when Something Like that goes on, a Police Officer knows when they hear it on the radio, this is bad. Reporter officer ray sirano was responding to a suspicious person at terminal one at sfo. Upon arrival, he attempted to engage with the suspect, 64yearold Doris Johnston who police say attacked him with a knife. The two wrestles to the ground, screaming and yelling, catching the attention of the offduty employee whos rushed in to help subdue the suspect. Without these two, it could have gone another way. Reporter johnston was arrested for attempting to murder a peace officer but has been declared not competent to stand trial. He is at sfo, chris nguyen, abc7 news. House and Senate Republicans leaders have reached a tentative deal on a sweeping tax bill. Gop negotiators have been working for more than a week to find a way to combine the bills, passed first in the house and then the senate. President trump cheered the progress today while democrats called the deal a disgrace. Were very, very close to a historic legislative victory. The likes of which rarely has this country seen. It is amazing to me that in the house, members of the new york, california and new Jersey Republican delegations could even dare vote for this bill. Putting the interests of their wealthy pay masters above the interests of their state and their constituents. The New York Times reports the deal would lower the Corporate Tax rate to 21 . The top individual tax rate would be lowered from 39 to 37 . And indiviuals would be allowed to choose whether to deduct up to 10,000 in income, sales or property taxes. Gop leaders hope to vote on the bill next week so the president can sign it before christmas. Firefighters have finally got a ring all the way around one of the stubborn wildfires in Southern California. The rye fire is now completely contained, leaving four active fires. The biggest and least contained is still the thomas fire, burning in ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Its just 25 contained and more than 270,000 acres. Today fighters attempt to get ahead of the flames with strategic burning while the winds are relatively calm. More than 900 structures have been destroyed, at least 700 of them homes. The thomas fire is also threatening the largest avocado producer in the country, but so far it appears the orchards are okay. A statement from company says 14 farm worker Housing Units have been gurnd and there was a brief power outage, but the company does not expect the fire and wind damage to have Significant Impact on operations. Abc7 news Spencer Christian is keeping an eye on the forecast. Still chilly at night. And still spare the air during the day. Super, super cold in the morning. Unseizably mild in the afternoon and declining air quality. That wont last much longer. Here is live dopplar seven, mainly clear skies with high clouds and a little haze right now. Let me give you a live view from our emeryville camera, along the bay bridge which is shimming out there in the night air. Temperatures right now in the mid50s just about everywhere, San Francisco, oakland, mountain view, san jose 57. This is a view of San Francisco, at least part of it, from sutro tower. 53 degrees in santa rosa. Temperatures have dropped in the 40s already in napa, novato and fairfield is going to be chilly. 51 at concord and livermore. Looking westward back towards San Francisco and the forecast features are these. It will be cold again early tomorrow morning, late tonight and early tomorrow morning. By midafternoon, well see milder weather again toomd and it will be another spare the air day, the seventh consecutive spare the air day. More mild days ahead, but even though its going to remain mild and dry, the air quality will improve beginning on friday. Overnight, what can we expect . Low temperatures drop down to 29 in ukiah and fairfield, mid30s in most of the inland east bay but low 30s at napa and santa rosa where we will see temperatures dropping below freezing, probably other locations nearby as well. Mid30s to upper 30s near the bay. A low of 36 expected in oakland. Again, get ready for another chill. In the afternoon, it will be another pleasant, mild and hazy day with high temperatures in the mid60s right around the bay. Mid to upper 60s inland mid60s to 70s on the coast. The coast and central bay moderate. It will be moderate just about everywhere on friday. So friday will probably not be a spare the air day and well have good air quality in many parts of the bay area on saturday and sunday. Lets look ahead to increasing winds starting on friday. Thats going to help mix out some of the haze and the pollution and bring us some cleaner air, but its going to be problematic perhaps up in the hills as the gusts will be quite strong. The gust animation taking us into saturday morning shows gusts between 25 and 45 miles per hour, generally across the bay area. That will hold, that pattern into saturday night, but on sunday well begin to see the wind ease up a little bit and normalizing by midday on sunday. Let me back away and show you the satellite radar composite image. High pressure controlling our weather and the circulation around the High Pressure is still deflecting clouds and rainfall well to our north. As you look ahead with the forecast animation starting tomorrow, it looks like our next chance of rain will be around the end of next week, friday, december 22nd. Even then, if this model holds up it looks like the rain will remain well to the north of the central bay area. Here is the sevenday forecast. And after fridays air quality improves, it will feel much more comfortable out there. But its still going to be nice and mild and dry through next wednesday. No change. 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