People that do the job. They cannot tell you when they finish, like five or six days. I understand the holiday week came by. At the same time, we are suffering out here during the holidays, especially during a coldest part of the year. Reporter a man who identified himself as a property manager would not talk to us on camera to explain the delay. San joses Building Division says it understands how tenants are suffering but no one called for an inspection until close to closing time on friday. The city wasnt notified until friday late in the day about 4 30 p. M. That the incident had taken place. We offered to come out to the site right away but the repair was still under way, so until the repair was complete the city couldnt issue the paperwork necessary for pg e to turn the gas back on. Reporter the work crews continued to work over the weekend, finishing this morning. Once the city signed off, a pg e crew was on site to reconnect the gas meter. It also went to individual units to light the water tank pilot lights. David louie, abc 7 news. Tonight the federal government is stepping up to help victims of last months devastating rain storms. The u. S. Small Business Administration has opened temporary sdasdisaster loan outreach center. People and businesses impacted by the heavy rain can apply for low interest loans to help rebuild and repair the damage. My daughter, myself live downstairs and my father lives upstairs. Everything we had is gone. Its devastating. I cry every time i go back there but what doesnt kills us makes us stronger, they say. The help center will be open through january 15th. For more information, go to abc7news. Com. A driver in the north bay had to be rushed to the hospital today when he drifted into oncoming traffic. It happened about 11 00 this morning on river road near olivette road in santa rosa. You can see the van shredded as the driver sideswiped a big rig. Officers say the vans driver was not wearing a seat belt. He had major injuries. The driver of the big rig had to be cut free from the wreckage but was not seriously hurt. About 20,000 pounds of dirt and rock spilled from the big rig. It is blocking traffic. A crew is cleaning it up right now. Libby schaaf is now officially oaklands 50th mayor. The former Council Member was welcomed by her constituents as well as protesters outside the Paramount Theater in oakland. Abc 7 News ReporterLyanne Melendez is live with how the mayor plans to turn things around in a city that has faced serious problems. Reporter well, right off the bat, the mayor has said she wants to tackle the crime rate here in oakland and that she wants to engage the Police Department more. Thats something we havent heard in a long time. Now, she has said she will spend the first day in office at the Police Department from 6 00 in the morning until midnight to make sure that every officer in oakland knows what shes about. She arrived with her family at her inauguration in this car made in oakland by a supporter of the new mayor. I think its a great symbol of oakland, our vitality our creativity, our secret sauce. Reporter if ever oakland needed something or someone to improve its tarnished image, many agree its now and it may be schaaf. A group of protesters showed up outside the inauguration demanding yet again an end to police brutality. We are here to invite her to do the right thing. We are here to ask her which side are you on. You can make your actions speak and match your words. I embrace protest. Protesting is part of oaklands dna but vandalism is not. Reporter local businesses have been impacted by the violence and looting caused by a few protesters. Her goal is to have a better working relationship with police. Something the former mayor didnt have. Please raise your right hand. Reporter one of the three Council Members sworn in today believes the city should do more to try to hire more officers. We have students coming out of our community college, our high school, and have a direct pipeline to jobs for the city of oakland and to our Police Department. I think that changes the whole dynamic. Reporter during her first 30 days, the mayor says she will also focus on a deal to keep the raiders from leaving oakland and of course, the as as well. I will not put the publics money into the deal but there are a lot of other things that we as a city and the county can do to keep our sports teams, develop an incredible coliseum complex out in the coliseum area. I am very focused on that right now. Reporter for now, the raiders appear to stay for at least one year in oakland while a deal is reached. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Heading to san jose now former san jose mayor chuck reed did not waste any time getting a new job. He is joining hopkins and carley, a Silicon Valley law firm. A news release says he will join the real estate group. Former San Jose City attorney john gallo works for the firm as well. Its been around for nearly half a century. Reed served two terms as san hoe sayss mayor. Jerry brown made history today, starting his fourth term as california governor. Governor brown is the only governor in state history to be elected four teams. He will also be the last unless voters undo term limits now imbedded in californias constitution. Governor brown focus is challenging the state on setting even higher environmental goals. It is exactly the sort of challenge at which california excels. This is exciting. Its bold. Its absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system. Brown proposed the state increased renewable electricity sources from one third to 50 over the next 15 years. He is also asking california to cut vehicle Petroleum Use by 50 and double the efficiency of existing buildings. Tonight, Richmond Police are asking for help finding a 16yearold girl possibly being held against her will. Belinda jean carson hasnt been seen since leaving her home last thursday, new years day. Investigators have information indicating that this teenager may, may have been with a man who is refusing to allow her to go home. Carson has no history of being a runaway. Anyone with information on carsons whereabouts is asked to call Richmond Police immediately, please. We are learning that the shooting death of a man by San Francisco police was an apparent suicide by cop as they call it. The man had a pellet gun and was shot in the parking lot of the Mission Police station. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee is live at the hall of justice with what hes learned on this story. Reporter well, abc 7 news has learned that investigators here at the hall have the evidence that leads to the fact that the man committed suicide by cop, also known as blue suicide, because they do have the notes that he wrote saying that he was in a bad place. It is a sad letter, dan. I have read it and it says essentially to police that they are not to blame themselves that they did nothing wrong in shooting him, that he forced them to do that. The 32yearold man died from his wounds at San Francisco general hospital. He was shot multiple times by two Police Sergeants in the parking lot of mission station. It now appears it was blue suicide. The man left behind notes to his father, Close Friends and one addressed to police officers. The notes indicate he had financial troubles and failed relationships. It happened at around 5 20 last night. Police noticed he was hanging around the stations restricted parking lot which is offlimits to the public. Three sergeants exited their patrol car asking him to leave. The police chief explained what happened after that. Went to approach him to tell him again hey you cant be here, and he went to his waistband, where there was the butt of a gun and drew the weapon. Two sergeants fired. The suspect was hit three times. Reporter police discovered later that he was carrying an airsoft gun. Those who live and work around the Police Station were surprised and shocked when they heard what happened last night. Theres so many crazy people in San Francisco that probably need more help than they are getting. I was really shocked to see that in an area like this Something Like that would happen. Reporter there will be a town hall meeting tomorrow in the mission to address questions regarding the shooting. Police chief will attend. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Just ahead, four days and counting. Coming up the 25year project to improve the safety of the Golden Gate Bridge. Are you ready for the longest closure in the bridges history . Forget about smart tvs and smart phones. Lets talk about the smart belt and why it is capturing the limelight at the Consumer Electronics show. Also ahead the new wedding mantra. In sickness and in health but ah, push it. Push it. P. Push it real good ow oooh baby baby. Baby baby. If youre saltnpepa, you tell people to push it. Push it real good. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. Im pushing. Im pushing it real good safeway has agreed to pay nearly 10 million to settle an Environmental Protection lawsuit filed in oakland. It accuses the grocery chain of failing to properly dispose of Hazardous Waste at more than 500 stores over seven years. Prosecutors say the violations came to their attention when they conducted inspections of safeways trash between 2012 and 13. Get ready the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed for 52 hours starting this saturday morning at one minute after midnight. Crews will be putting a movable median barrier on the bridge to prevent headon collisions. More from abc 7 News Reporter wayne freedman. Reporter by this time next week, the Golden Gate Bridge engineer Joseph Strauss might be turning over in his grave or applauding. I think engineer strauss would be pleased to see us continue to make advancements in safety on the bridge. Reporter because unless you live on the moon or came here on vacation from toronto. Reporter theres a good chance you already know of next weekends threeday closure to install a movable median barrier dividing northbound and southbound traffic on the bridge. Manager kerry wick is so pleased, he sounds almost like a salesman. The bridge district has been working on this for decades. Reporter the bridge district has not kept records of how many headon collisions there have been here since it opened in 1933 but it does know there have been 16 of them since 1970 with five deaths since 1990. What well have by this time next week, a safer bridge with slightly less cleaner lines. I think its one of those things where its progress from a safety perspective but aesthetically a loss. Reporter as for moving the barriers around, these trucks will do the job. Those barriers are a modern marvel made of high density concrete steel and hooked together with technology designed to give on impact. They are very similar to those on doyle drive but only one foot wide. That was the trick. It took the district 24 years of planning and testing to approve and build to concept at a cost of 30 million. According to the bridge engineer, patience has paid off. Im tried to avoid frustrations and consulatekonsconcentrate on solutions. Reporter take a good look. The bridge as you see it is about to become a thing of the past. Wayne freedman abc 7 news. We are getting a preview of the new gadgets we will see when the Consumer Electronics show kicks off tomorrow. Lg is launching its second curved smart phone saying its virtually indestructible. Tomorrow the company will demonstrate its scratchproof casing by using a wire brush. Also making its debut the green cube. Its a box that allows lettuce and other vegetables to grow in an accelerated growing climate. A kettle controlled by a phone or tablet. And this stove controlled boyy a touch screen. After cooking all that food there are belfies which automatically loosens your belt buckle when you have eaten too much. How this could be the year that taking a selfie replaces typing in a password. Thats coming up with abc 7 News Reporter jonathan bloom. After eating a big meal its too exhausting to loosen your belt by one notch. Wow. Get ready to pay more for gas and electricity this new year. The company raising rates this week. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is here to tell us what we can expect. They are already pretty high. Great way to start the new year, knowing you have to pay more. Expect your average pg e bill to go up by about 7 a month. The state p. U. C. Gave pg e permission last year to raise rates. They go up this thursday. The money will pay for upgrades to old gas lines and improve the smart grid to reduce blackouts. Pg e also will expand its call center. The average bill will go up by 5. 9 , the biggest rate increase since 2006. Burglars have found a new way to break into your house when you werent there, using gps tracking. Heres what they do. The burglars put a gps device on a car to track its location. When the owner drives off the burglar breaks into the victims house. You cant protect yourself by scanning your car with a detector that can locate a hidden gps. However, those devices are pretty pricey. They cost upwards of 250. If you spent a lot of money on a lavish wedding, you may have a great day but what will the rest of the marriage be like . A new study says the more a couple spends on a wedding, the shorter their marriage will be. Researchers polled 3,000 people, those who spent over 20,000 on their wedding were nearly four times more likely to divorce than those who spend less. Couples spending under 1,000 had the longest marriages. Experts say the simple wedding means the couple is more focused on each other than the big party. I say they simply cant afford a highpriced divorce attorney. I want this to last a long time. Remember that for kelley. Michael, thank you. You know its been pretty cold here in the bay area but nothing like what it is in the rest of the nation, nothing like what the rest of the nation is dealing with. Its dangerously cold coast to coast. I talked to david muir about that earlier today. You know that frigid air 50 below zero in some places from Washington State all the way east tonight. Also, more on the two Young Americans killed in an avalanche, two sons, olympic hopefuls. The nfl team in the heartland, is the owner about to move them to california . The growing royal scandal. The prince and fergie weighing in. Its coming up. When it comes to football you got to be careful who you root for, right . Thats right. Root for the 49ers but definitely not the cowboys if you are governor Chris Christie. Caught on tape, rooting for dallas, hugging the owner there. How hes explaining it back home tonight. You will hear from him coming up. World news tonight with david muir coming up right after this newscast at 5 30 here on abc 7. Tomorrow is another spare the air day. That means no wood burning. This will be the 11th alert this winter. These are pictures taken a short time ago from our camera atop mount tam. Lets go to abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. Why so many spare the air days . Well, we have had areas of High Pressure with sinking air and as the air sinks it traps the pollutants right down near the surface, especially when you dont have the strong winds to mix out the air. Right now, light winds pretty much keeping our skies hazy behind me. Right now, lets take a look at a live picture. I will show you the haze in the atmosphere providing a little color as the sun has set from the east bay hills camera. We also have the high clouds around. Spare the air alert up again tomorrow as dan mentioned. Poor air quality inland east bay and Santa Clara Valley and moderate air quality elsewhere. So no wood burning through tuesday. When you take a look at live doppler 7 hd, you will see those high clouds passing through, no rain on the horizon, at least not immediately. From the kgo roof camera you can see the haze there as well. Temperatures right now 59 in San Francisco, 53 oakland. Currently in the upper 50s, san jose, Half Moon Bay. Nice view from the exploratorium camera. Looking towards coit tower, where you are going to continue to see some of the clouds. Mid 50s, santa rosa, novato but getting chilly in napa, fairfield, low 50s. Livermore, 54 degrees. From the emeryville camera we look across the bay there. Forecast, sunny and warmer the next two days record highs are possible. We are looking at a chance of sprinkles by the end of the week. Heres the pacific satellite picture and theres the High Pressure, that strong ridge that is providing us with a little bit of a warmup today but also that stagnant air and thats going to continue as we head towards tomorrow as long as the High Pressure continues there. We are looking at patchy fog tomorrow morning out towards the delta. The fog will be around. We will see record highs possible around the Santa Clara Valley and monterey bay. That wheres we are expecting the warmest air. Today, places like Santa Cruz Watsonville got up into the low 70s. Thats going to be likely again tomorrow. Thats where we wi