Which is all it takes to push the temperatures above average. Up to 81 inland, and 70 to 75 at the coast. Enjoy the warm weather. I saw flights flashing on the Golden Gate Bridge so we have construction crews there, as well, pecking up cones and they are making a clear commute as you head out the San Francisco and into marin. Southbound traffic is not seeing any delays whatever. We will take you over to the amount pass where we are seeing slowing and it is taking on a few minutes to the commute at 32 Miles Per Hour leaving tracy and 580 is looking at 39 Miles Per Hour for slowandgo and back on the basics with construction in the wrapping up stages and you will slow down as you approach 680 but you are clear to go to Castro Valley. The latest Election Results, locally, the hottest races is too close to call. Ballots are still counted in the san jose mayor race, sam liccardo leads county supervisor dave cortese and matt is in san jose. We knew it would be a close. It did not disappoint. Sam liccardo has 2,100 vote lead over dave cortese. Here at the registrar of voters in Santa Clara County they say they have a lot more mail in ballots still to be counted. That could swing the election the other way. 120,000 mail in ballots need to be counted with a third estimated in the san jose area. Tens of thousands of votes are still to be counted in the race. Sam liccardo and dave cortese announced there will be time before it is clear who won. The registrar will count starting today and plan on updates before 5 00 p. M. [ inaudible ] this ising a interesting map, showing the precincts where the canadas receives the most, green is liccardo and blue is cortese would won a majority of the East San Jose and liccardo when a majority of the west precincts and the regular star says it will take four weeks to certify the vote december 2. That is when they will be official. Either candidate could call for a recount. Turning now to the other nightmares race, in oakland, nows need to be counted but libby schaaf pulled away to replace mayor quan declaring victory after taking the lead with 62. 8 percent. Kaplan was second and schaaf received endorsements late from Governor Brown and senator boxer and says the First Priority will be to make the city safer by placing an emphasis on fighting crime. Governor brown will remain in sacramento after the overwhelming victory. This is an unprecedented fourth term for brown after governor. He got 59 percent of the vote and he actually will be 80 when the term expires. The republican said he is not through with politics and he will run again. 73yearold mike honda is backed by Democratic Party and emweing out ro khanna with 512 percent, the 38yearold ro khanna has drawn support from the Technical Community and he is a democrat this is democrat versus democrat contest. District 17 is the first asian majority House District outside of hawaii. California voters were not part of the wave that swept democrats out of the office. Many outcomes were expected the depth was not expected. Here is that report. A blow out, a victory by a couple of touchdowns riding antiobama wave, republicans seized control of the senate and tightened their grip on the house of representatives. This experiment in Big Government has lasted long enough. It is time to go in a new direction. As expected the g. O. P. Picked up seats in arkansas, south dakota and West Virginia and though won hard fought races in north carolina, colorado, and iowa and iowa was a zing to president obama because it was a state that launched his national career. There are a lot of disappointed people tonight. Including me. Republicans dominated in governors races, winning close battles in michigan and florida and wisconsin they knocked off the democratic governor for president obamas whom state of illinois, and dug interest deep blue states capturing the governor mansion in massachusetts and maryland. What a historic night in maryland. This turned out to be a national election, a national wave, senators, governors, house members, antidemocrat off the board. A big milestone, the next congress will have 100 women including the first black republican woman elected. President obama must now forge a new path forward working with republicans. Rebound has in president obama has invited the leaders to the white house on friday to talk about where they go from here. Now a look at local house races starting with nancy pelosi, the House Minority leader defeated the republican easy and she was so confident she stayed in washington. Barbara lee facing a republican in the democratic 13 the district, it was easy with lee getting 87 percent. Jackie speier was challenged but was not even close with Jackie Speier winning with 76 percent. This is closer, the rate for californias 9th including stockton, democrat incumbent was challenged by the republican but appears to be safe with 52 percent of the vote. Two democrats are face off for the office held by termed down incumbent, the two davids from San Francisco, both supervisors, and david chu has a narrow lead at 51 percent to 49 percent. Ought race for state School Superintendent the most important and expensive races, incumbent face add real challenger, marshall tuck vying for the job but at this point it looks like he is holding on to his seat with 52 percent of vote and 30 million was poured into the race, they times more than spent on the race if San Francisco police are looking for the fuel tanker driver behind a fatal pedestrian accident highlighting Transportation Safety concerns in that neighborhood. Knick is at the scene. Police are still investigating this as a fatal hitandrun accident that happened near the intersection of mason and turk and it happened before midnight. The area is near the popular soul Food Restaurant farmer brown. This is what we know witnesses say an 18 wheel are hit and killed a man in his 30s of the truck is described as a double tanker fuel truck with dark colored cab. Though do not have much to work on but it is possible it was use custody refuel the pumps at a Car Rental Company in the area. They want to interview the driver. It is taught clear if the driver was aware they hit and killed someone. Miss have not releaseed the name of the victim so said if there is anything to suggest drugs or alcohol or a fact report. The area has been the subject of pedestrian improvement in the past with better lighting and streetlights being discussed. This is like putting together a puzzle, with Surveillance Video and evidence collected at the seen. The truck has not been located but they are asking that anyone with Information Contact the San Francisco police department. At 5 09 weather and traffic. Heading to the coast on this sunny day with temperatures in the 70s . The water is still well above average at 58 at bodega bay and low 60s at Half Moon Bay and interesting sea life that usually is not rest laboratory in our waters near the coast. If you want to read about it go to my twitter page, a great article in the San Jose Mercury news. Midtoupper 40s through San Ramon Valley and lafayette and 50 to 52 out highway 54 and 50 in calistoga and foster city and 57 in richmond, a warm spot, and this is how it looks from sutro tower and 44 to 55, not so chilly by noon and 70 to 72 and by 4 00, 74 to 78 and 612 do 66 by 7 00 and a bigger spread tomorrow as the sea breeze kicks in and temperatures drop into the 60s at the coast and the rest of us in the 70s. We are dealing with a bart delay. It is 10 or 15minute delay at west oakland in the sfo millbrae direction because of traffic inspections. Hopefully though can get that work done and you are on your way. San jose looks like it is full steam ahead and tail lights southbound coming toward us into cupertino with a few extra cars on the road. Headed over to highway 4 we are looking at bumpertobumper traffic at 15 Miles Per Hour for a top speed away from 160 and hillcrest and you are look at top speeds continuing the driver into pittsburg and bay point and concord and 680 and walnut creek , 60 Miles Per Hour. Next, the new clue investigators are following monday clouds of miles away from the scene of a kidnapping caught on camera. His attack on fiance shocked the nation and the fight ray rice begins today. Twitter wants to take to the skies the pore but be first more Election Results. You have made my life special by being apart of it. Enough. everyone cheers glad you made it buddy. Thanks for inviting me. Thanks again my friends. For everything, for all your help. Through all lifes milestones, our trusted advisors are with you every step of the way. Congratulations thanks for helping me plan for my retirement. You should Come Celebrate with us. Id be honored. Plan for your goals with advisors you know and trust. 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Nfl player ray rice who hit his fiance so hard she lost consciousness will have the appeal heard today in new york. He is seeking reinstatement to the league. The argument is the nfl and the commissioner knew of the elevator incident long before it became public and the team have repeatedly disciplined him for the same conduct. Rice is backed by the nfl players union. Police in philadelphia say a bank card belonging to a woman abducted on sunday was used the next morning in maryland. Security footage show as man using Carlesha Freeland Gaithers card at 6 00 a. M. On monday at an a. T. M. 75 miles from philadelphia less than nine hours after Carlesha Freeland Gaither was reported abducted. Other footage shows the nursing assistant struggling in a van as the man carried her to a parked car. There is in reason to believe she knows her kidnapper. The Midterm Election could be giving a boost to more than republicans. Here is americas money report. Wall street is hoping for a midterm bounce, the november to april period is usually enjoy an average of 7. 4 percent but Midterm Election year the bounce is boosted to more than 16 percent. With stocks rallying oil is plummeting, on tuesday crude dropped to a low of half the alltime high in july of 2008 of 147. 27 a barrel. Savings at the gas pump are eaten up at the boarding gate. Airlines this year are expected to generate a high of 50 billion in fees 17 percent high from last year. Taylor swift is showing the largest sales rate for an album since 2002. Twitter wants to link two buildings with a skyway connecting Technical Company headquarters on market with a building on 10th and cover an ally. The employees waste time by going down to the street, crossing and going back up next store. What are your plans . Hopefully they include some Outdoor Activity . And we will have the weather. Did yard cleaning and getting prepared for the rainy season that hopefully comes and the sun want down early. Can you come to our house . Exactly. You are chomping at the bit. I pay 50 cents an hour, dude. A dollar. Let me know your final price. Prime rib dinner . That is serious. If time for christmas . Now, radar satellite. Maybe someone else wants to jump in. You can see the cloud cover offshore and remember the low clouds we tracked through the east bay valley . Looking southbound along 680 to the San Ramon Valley from walnut creek camera you can see the absence of those and it will be sunny and warm everywhere and coastal fog is cooler the next two days at the coast and the warmth returns to our neighbors this weekend if you miss the warm sunshine you can get it saturday and sunday. Check out the temperatures, five degrees warmerthanaverage in San Francisco at 74 and oakland is 77 and everyone else is double digit warmerthanaverage. Fortunately the sun will set at 5 07 so get outside for lunch and enjoy the warm sunshine. 80 in cupertino, and 81 in los gatos and the warm spot is to the south and everyone else is behind at 78 or 79. That is a popular number on the peninsula, 78 or 79, and millbrae is 76 and low 70s along the coast to mid70s in south and south San Francisco and low soviets along the north bay coast and 78 to 81 in the values, and 76 in berkeley to 78 in san lenadro and 80 in Castro Valley and inland, temperatures in the upper 70 to 80 degrees. Tonight it will be milder like it was this morning, milder than the day before with upper 40s in the deepest valleys and home 50s and notice the cloud cover coming back and that is the cooling trend that will hit the coast especially tomorrow as the manner layer slips in under the area of High Pressure that is squeezed by the fronts. The storm track will stay to the north, still have it dry all seven days of the forecast and depending on how strong the high it is depending on the temperature. Cooling for all of us open monday and tuesday. Have a good one. Bart now is recovering from the delay because of track inspection in the east bay and the sfo millbrae election so it is getting back to normal and we do have this construction project that will last until further notice southbound along highway 85 and it is a small portion of roadway before you get to 101 and it looks like the construction crews are not quite finished. Northbound traffic is moving along fine and here is drive time traffic, 80, headed westbound between albany to the maze, a short four minutes through berkeley and southbound 880 from fremont to san jose is 15 minutes and northbound 280 from 101 to cupertino is 12 minutes and from the east bay to the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is building on the overcrossing as you come from oakland and traffic is building and emeryville camera to the eastern span of bay bridge traffic is moving smoothly into treasure island, easy coming to San Francisco. Straight ahead, seven things to know as you start the day. Our ought fish fight before the Supreme Court and the impact on the power of government. At the no thanks to wrong yeah, enough for two. Gosh. Try four, buddy. Hmm, ill take a dark roast. Chai tea, please. Honey, text the man what you want. French vanilla, make it strong the all new keurig 2. 0 is here. Brew for one, brew for all. 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Incumbent congressman mike honda is leading businessman ro khanna 512 percent to 48 percent with 100 percent of precincts reporting. And district 17 is the heart of the Silicon Valley and pitting a longterm politician against the tech satisfactory newcomer. Berkeley making history the first United States city to pass a soda tax. Voters voted overwhelming the penny tax on sugary drinks and in San Francisco they rejected a similar tax in that city. San Francisco Police are investigating a hitandrun accident that claimed the life of a man in the ten door ten december tenderloin. Which are light but they will blow offshore today. Today will be the sunny and warmest day. I have warm weather, though, this week, coming up in the sevenday forecast. The Golden Gate Bridge<