Crawl approaching hillcrest in the westbound lanes. We teamed this out well. You can see they are doing the lanes changes right now across the Golden Gate Bridge. Eventually they will get four southbound lanes open in the commute direction heading into San Francisco. No delay for your Silicon Valley ride on 237. Easy breezy for you. Its been nice so far. So far. But its still early. It is. See you at 6 00. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. Well, one of the most powerful political jobs in the bay area is up for grabs today as san jose voters choose a replacement for their termed out mayor chuck reed. Kiet do has more from city hall on whats at stake. Reporter good morning. A lot is at stake here in san jose as voters in northern californias largest city pick a new mayor. Santa clara county supervisor dave cortese seen here on the left came in first in the june primary. City Council Member sam liccardo was the runnerup and the most recent polls show cortese with a lead but a large group of voters is undecided. Yesterday cortese stopped at an unusual location, a homeless camp known as the jungle. Its my belief that we can start stabilizing people by getting them into microhousing and them getting them the services they need from social services, general assistance. Reporter liccardo plans to house the homeless using older motels like those on monterey highway. The campaigns Biggest Issue is public safety. Liccardo supports termed out mayor chuck reed in cutting costs by reducing pensions for city workers. And cortese says those cuts are the reason for a mass exodus of officers from the San Jose Police department. Also today, voters in three districts will elect new city Council Members. Assemblyman paul fong is the labor backed candidate for 1 up against retired tech worker charles jones. We keep mentioning the influence of labor down here in the south bay. They are such a big force. And depending how this election goes if a lot of the labor backed candidates win that could be big changes for pension reform here in san jose. I guess so. And kiet, lets go back to the jungle you spoke of earlier. Whats the citys longterm plan for that homeless encampment . Reporter they have been putting fences and boulders around it to keep people out and vehicles out. In december they will surround it, put a padlock and move people out. They hope to keep it from getting that bad again. Right now 200 people live there. They dont want a repeat of the jungle here in san jose. Kiet do, kpix 5. Proposition 45 would give the insurance commissioner the power to veto Health Insurance rates he thinks are too steep. The latest poll showed support for prop 45 had dropped to 30 . The no votes had jumped to 42 with 28 undecided. In the summer 69 supported, no votes were 16 and undecided 15 . Mitch mcconnell is in a heated battle to keep his seat in kentucky up against Alison Grimes who has been trying to distance herself from president obama. He spent 53 million trying to put barack obama on the ballot this is a chance to begin to save this country. Im counting on you to help. Thank you. Mcconnell will be in line for Senate Majority leader if the republicans pick up six seats in the senate today. California voters are not required to show identification at their polling place but bring identification anyway. If you dont have a drivers license bring a recent utility bill or the sample ballot booklet you received from your county elections office. Your passport or student i. D. Card work, too. You can catch all the results right here on kpix 5. Scott pelley anchors National Coverage at 7 00 and 10 p. M. And well bring you up to the minute local results throughout the evening, then a special edition of kpix 5 news at 11 00 with 30 minutes of commercial Free Campaign coverage. That test pilot killed in fridays Virgin Galactic spacecraft explosion grew up in the santa cruz mountains. 39 years Michael Alsbury was originally from scotts valley. He was married and had two children. Ntsb investigators have been collecting debris from the downed experimental spacecraft in the mojave desert. Investigators suspect a feathering system that was designed to slow the descent of the aircraft unlocked too soon, causing it to shatter during the test flight on friday. That isnt supposed to happen in the acceleration process until the vehicle has reached mack 1. 4. Copilot Michael Alsbury died in the crash. The pilot Michael Alsbury died in the crash. The copilot ejected and is being treated for serious injuries. Arraignment for 35yearold Sean Harrington was postponed to give his lawyer time to go over the evidence against him. Harrington is accused of stealing nude photos from cell phones of women he arrested. His lawyer says his client is sincerely sorry. Whats your clients message to the women involved. A heartfelt apology to them for the insensitivity of his conduct, the indignity of it all. Harrington is also apologizing to other Law Enforcement officers for the damage his actions did to their reputations. Several governments taking Southwest Airlines to court accusing it of making inadequate repairs to dozens of planes. The justice departments lawsuit involves fixes to prevent the aluminum skin on fuselages from cracking. The lawsuit says workers under southwests supervision put sealant under skin panels but didnt install ritz fast enough and now the government wants to enforce 12 million in penalties. Actress Danielle Watts is commenting publicly about her claim of racial profiling by the lapd. She spoke to students at usc at a forum on sexuality and racism. You have to work twice as hard to get what other white girls in your class are going to just get handed to them watts and her boyfriend who is white were charged with misdemeanor lewd conduct for having sex inside a car in studio city in september. She is say they were just kissing and that due to a history of racial profiling in society, she blew up at an officer when he requested identification. 5 07 on this tuesday morning. San francisco sending a message to trafficstalling drivers. The results this morning on a new Pilot Program aimed at unclogging some of the busier intersections. Live from the peninsula, good morning. I Roberta Gonzales. Whats behind me . And where is it . Ill explain straight ahead. A little more patchy fog to start out the day. We have a lot of sunshine coming in and warmer temperatures. Well talk about that coming up. Mass transit is on time. Well hit the road after the break. Plus, we continue to what we want to know what drives you crazy during your commute. Ask a question or share a gripe by emailing crazy kpix. Com. Or tweet me at ewengerkpix and watch to see if your question gets answered on air. Well be right back. If you are waking up on this tuesday with us, welcome back to kpix 5 this morning. We are starting out with a couple of more patches of fog early on. Chilly in the valleys. More coming up. New this morning two homes under construction were destroyed by fire in pleasanton. The construction site is on valley avenue just south of bernal avenue. The fire started around 2 00 this morning. 2 threestory singlefamily homes were destroyed. Pleasanton pd says its too to speculate on the cause of the fire. The site is secure and they are running utilities out there. So we cant say whether its arson or an accident. Firefighters responded quickly to contain the fire to just two structures. Polls across california open in about 2 hours and one of the bay areas most crowded contests is the oakland mayors race. Kpix 5s ryan takeo tells us that we wont have a final tally today and it might take longer than that right . Good morning. Reporter thats because of the rank Choice Voting system used in oakland and some other cities in the east bay. This is a crowded field. Were talking about 15 candidates running for oakland mayor. Five have separated from the pack. We are outside of the place where they will be counting votes tonight. Incumbent mayor jean quan, she looks to fend off current city Council Members libby schaaf and rebecca kaplan. Professor joe tuman and businessman bryan parker. A recent poll found any one of the five frontrunners could win thanks to the citys rank Choice Voting system. That system allows voters to select up to three candidates in order of preference when marking ballots. Its meant to eliminate the need for a separate runoff but it takes the registrar a lot of time to count the extra votes. For a final tally its going to take into the following week. Reporter the ballots in the election were already coming into the Registrars Office yesterday where they were being sorted and test run for what is likely going to be a very long complicated count. So ryan, is the mayors race motivating some of the voters in oakland to get out and vote . Reporter maybe not as many as you think. This is a contested race. Were talking about expecting between 40 to 45 of eligible voters to come out and vote today. Were live in oakland. Im tacoma kpix 5. One of the most high profile election battles in california this year is over proposition 46. It includes several elements aimed at protecting medical patients. It would increase compensation for people harmed by careless or reckless healthcare providers. The campaign for 46 has been funded by lawyers. Doctors and Insurance Companies say 46 would increase malpractice costs which consumers would ultimately pay. The entire election might be a surprise to a lot of voters. Todays turnout could be the lowest ever in state history for a general election. The Current Record was set in 2002 when just 50. 5 of voters voted. Just 25 turned out for this years june primary. And remember, kpix 5 is your home for Election Results on tv and also online. Be sure to bookmark kpix. Com. You can find your polling place and realtime results there. San francisco is going after drivers that block busy intersections. The city just wrapped up a threemonth Pilot Program studying in the south of market area. During the Pilot Program clogged streets went down by 82 . Citations start at 103 bucks by the way. Some leaders in the city want to make the Program Permanent starting next month. Sometimes its so hard to gauge if you go through the intersection and you make it by the light . I got a ticket in the mail for blocking an intersection to get on the bay bridge. How much . It was 100 oh, boy. I dont think i did it but theres no cameras, there was a cop there. He sent it. I contested it and they just said, too bad. Oh, and so you had to write the check . I had to write the check anyway. So you have to be careful. If i dont think im making it across, i stay right there even if the guy behind me is blowing his horn. Thats what happens. You get the horn honkers. Do i go, do i stay . Tough call. Out so no major gridlock now in the bay area. Out the door, no major gridlock now in the bay area. An accident if the Center Divide westbound 580 approaching keller. But i want to put up a speed sensor. 59 Miles Per Hour right now. So really from oakland through the macarthur maze heading to the bay bridge everything is clear. Heres some slow traffic the main lines of the freeway on highway 4. Westbound you can see red sensors popping up now from hillcrest to go. Street and then it loosens up into pittsburgbay point and concord. Westbound 580 we havent seen slowdowns of the drive time yet still hugging 17 minutes, 16 or 17 minutes between the Altamont Pass and the dublin interchange. But you can start to see some sluggish conditions growing out of tracy. Pretty usual stuff for this time of the morning heaviest traffic is on 205 and continuing out to about north flynn. And then maybe a little slow approaching the dublin interchange by hacienda. Looks like the lanes change crews are gone now. Four southbound lanes in the commute direction from sausalito into San Francisco on doyle drive from san rafael looks great. San mateo bridge other bridges still as you can see here this camera just past the toll plaza westbound and eastbound 92. We saw bigger delays 10 minutes ago in the far left cash lanes on the bay bridge toll plaza. Thats now gone. And with no metering lights, means no big problems for now right now heading into San Francisco from the east bay. That is your latest drive to work. Im kind of looking forward to this forecast. We have a nice looking seven day. Really the next couple of days going to be spectacular. Next seven days it is going to stay rainfree at least for now. And looks like maybe a chance of rain into next week. Right now though we have some patchy fog outside not quite as cold around the bay area although still dipping down to the low 40s in some of the valleys. By the afternoon, usually in the 60s and the 70s. Well be above average today between about 2 to 6 degrees. And High Pressure builds in and by tomorrow, i think some of these temperatures pushing near 80 degrees. So throughout the day we are going to see mostly sunny skies into the afternoon. Temperatures going to stay very mild for this time of year and then more sunshine and no rain in sight right through the weekend. That ridge will continue to build today and it will send the jet stream well to the north so thats going to carry plenty of rain to the Pacific Northwest while we stay dry maybe occasionally seeing high clouds across our skies. Temperatures in the Central Valley into the 70s maybe a shower or two into eureka heading in that direction. A lot of clouds into ukiah. Partly cloudy skies into monterey bay. We are starting out with some of the patchy fog this morning and maybe some of that is going to linger along the coastline into the afternoon. But by tomorrow, we are beginning to get a sense of a weak offshore flow. If that happens, temperatures going to be nice all the way to the coastline. Numbers around the bay area today, 71 degrees in san jose. 73 in morgan hill. 64 in pacifica. East bay temperatures in the mid60s in the warmest spots there. In the north bay well have plenty of sunshine this afternoon, about 74 in sonoma. 73 in napa. And 68 degrees in San Francisco. Next couple of days, we are going to heat things up and then cool down slightly on thursday and friday with a few more clouds coming our way. Then it looks like as we head in toward this next weekend sunny and bright some of the temperatures still near 80 degrees in the warmest spots inland. Wow. Thats good fall weather. Beautiful fall weather and maybe some rain next week. Well see. Gets dark when we go to bed, which is nice, cool. I went to bed at 10. Didnt make any difference. She is a vampire. She never sleeps. [ laughter ] i mean that in a very nice way. [ laughter ] thank you, i guess. A notable art exhibit is on display in the peninsula featuring outdoor sculptures made from thousands of tree branches. Kpix 5s Roberta Gonzales is Palo Alto Art Center this morning with the organizations director playing peekaboo. Is this school in cool . Reporter this is called doubletake, double look. We have karen here this morning to tell us what this is all about. Thanks, roberta. Welcome to the Palo Alto Art Center. Reporter now, i like what your husband refers to this as. An ewok village. Reporter it looks like ewok village. It looks like a giant birds nest. Who was the inspiration behind this . This is an internationally recognized artist patrick doherty. He made more than 200 of these throughout the world. Its an amazing sculpture universally loved made of willow that came from pescadero and it will be up for a few more years and then will go back to the earth from which it came. Reporter i imagine it gave your Palo Alto Art Center a lot of attention. Definitely. People drive by, take pictures in front of it, peek through the holes and then come into the art center. Its a distinct part of who we are. Reporter what else do you have . We have free admission exhibitions, classes and workshops for all ages. Come on by and see what we have to offer. Reporter you say this is going to be up here for the next couple of years . Definitely. Reporter so people can come by and see it . Please do. Reporter its so easy. Just visit us online at kpix. Com at links and numbers. And youll be able to hook up with the Palo Alto Art Center in palo alto. I promise you, as you drive on up you will take a doubletake. Reporting from palo alto, Roberta Gonzales, kpix 5. And im dennis odonnell. Coming up, did Pablo Sandoval take the giants offer . His reaction is coming up. And what two former 49ers are saying about the current edition and why they are not happy. Straight ahead. And whats cool about your school . Email your nominations to us at coolschools kpix. Com. We may come and feature your school on the show. Well be right back. Play o the day from the nba. ,,,, at shell, we believe the world needs a broader mix of energies, which is why we are supplying natural gas, to generate cleaner electricity, that has around 50 fewer co2 emissions than coal. And why with our partner in brazil, we are producing a biofuel made from renewable sugarcane to fuel cars. Lets broaden the Worlds Energy mix, lets go. Get four years interest free financing bulldog the veterans day sale is ending soon on the entire tempurpedic cloud collection and, get a queen size serta mattress and box spring set for just 397. Mattress discounters good morning, everyone. Following the 49ers loss to the rams, steve young said the team looked broken. Now, another former player suggested perhaps the 49ers need an attitude adjustment. You got to be pissed off that you put that effort out there in front of those fans out there. These people are paying a lot of money to sit and watch you play the you play that pool as offense you got to be mad about it. Wow. Sundays 1310 loss to st. Louis dropped the 49ers to 44. Thats as many regular season losses as the team had in each of the last two seasons. Yesterday jim harbaugh said the blame gets spread team wide. We all have fingerprints on this. It wasnt just one guy. It wasnt just one player, it wasnt just one coach. Some guys are frustrated or surprised or, um, you know, we didnt get the job done. And, um, you know, thats, um, on the men in the room. Yesterday the giants gave world series hero Pablo Sandoval a 15 million qualifying offer. Pablos response . [ laughter ] no laughing matter now. He is as of right now as of this morning officially a free agent. Everybody can go after the panda. Hopefully the giants keep him. Im dennis odonnell. See you tonight. Going to be a wealthy man. Thank you. Play of the day we are going to take you to the nba hardwood. Why not . An impressive slam, yeah, l. A. Clippers Deandre Jordan there, one more time. This is taking on the jazz last night. 107101. The clippers were the big winner. But the warriors are [ laughter ] thats your play of the day. Well throw it at you. Well be right back. Im ryan takeo live in oakland where the race for mayor is contentious and its crowded and complicated. So complicated, we might not get an answer tonight. Well go through that coming up. ,,,,, hey john, check it out. Whoa yeah, i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv. And the tablet worked just fine. But i wanted to see if the phone would work as well. So i shrunk sharon. Every channel is live just like on tv. But its my phone. Its genius. Shh im watching tv. Tiny sharon is mean. Im right here. Watch any channel live on any device around your home. Download the xfinity tv app today. ,,,, ballots. A preview this morning of the elections. It is decision day today. Voters all over the country heading to the polls to cast their ballots. We have a preview this morning of the Midterm Elections. Plus, a father makes a disturbing discovery in his childs halloween bag. What that child came home with that has parents on high alert. A few more patches of fog around the bay area this morning but lots of sunshine coming our way. These temperatures going to be amazing. Well talk about it coming up. And it looks like our delays are also building up and over the Altamont Pass. Well have more coming up. Good morning, its tuesday november 4. Im michelle griego. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. It is 5 30. Polls open in an hour and a half for todays Midterm Elections. But a lot of californians dont even know who is running for governor. A poll found only 42 of voters are aware governor jerry brown is running for reelection and only 20 could name browns republican opponent neel kashkari. California polls open in 90 minutes. Ryan takeo reports from oakland. Reporter michelle, this is a crowded race. It is a contentious race. And its also a complicated voting system. It all adds up to a lot of drama to see who is going to be oaklands next mayor. We have one city in oakland that has Incredible Opportunity and another city where we havent invested very much at all. I am tired of people asking me whether or not i feel safe living in my city. We need to go after violent crime. Reporter it was the final showdown between the top five contenders in todays oakland mayoral race. And they wasted no time taking each other on. Libby said would you hire a doctor who didnt know how to operate . My question to you is, would you continue to hire a doctor to do surgery when they failed in the past . I really am the only person up here who has worked in every neighborhood in this city. Reporter but even as the candidates worked the room, the ballots in the election were already coming into the Registrars Office where they were being sorted and test run for what will likely be a very long and complicated count. For a final tally, its probably going to take into the following week. Reporter the reason for the delay is rank Choice Voting which allows every voter to make three picks, tabulating all those extra votes takes extra time, in fact nearly as much time as just explaining how it works. Are you clear on rank Choice Voting . I dont think its as clear as i want it to be. Reporter our exclusive kpix 5 poll recently showed the top five frontrunners all are in play, all of them have a possibility to win. Just might take some time in figuring all that out. Its going to come down to who can get out the votes for the first place votes, second place and third place. Live in oakland, im ryan takeo, kpix 5. The registrar expects a turnout of 40 to 45 for the oakland mayoral election. Now to the highprofile congressional race in the Silicon Valley. Months of aggressive campaigning by the candidates not over just yet. The incumbent mike honda making the rounds shaking hands with voters late last night. The challenger ro khanna helped make calls with his volunteers. The latest polls show the race is a dead heat. The gap between them dwindled to practically nothing in the last several months of campaigning. Nationally, control of the senate is up for grabs. Kentucky republican senator Mitch Mcconnell is in a heated battle to keep his seat. He is up against Alison Grimes, who, like many other democrats, has been trying to distance himself from the president. He spent 53 million trying to put barack obama on the ballot this is a chance to begin to save this country. Im counting on you. Lets go out there and sock it to em, thank you very much [ applause and cheers ] a third of the senate is up for reelection but only nine seats are considereds toups. Mcconnell will be in tossups. Mcconnell will be in line for Senate Majority leader if republicans get 6 seats today. If you are a first time voter or havent voted for a few years bring this to your polling place. In most cases, california voters are not required to show identification at the polling place but to be safe, you should bring your identification or copy of a recent utility bill or a sample ballot booklet you received from your county elections office. Your passport, student id work, as well. Remember kpix 5 is your home for Election Results on tv and on the web. Bookmark kpix. Com and you can find your polling place, realtime results right there on your phone, tablet or computer back at home. First time i voted in california was in a garage. In a garage . Yes. I thought that was interesting. Hm. It was a garage. I like to take my daughter because she likes the sticker, i voted. Yeah. Nice day, too. A lot of folks sometimes get discouraged if its going to rain to go out and vote but today a gorgeous day here. In fact, lots of sunshine around the state as High Pressure builds in over head. We are starting out with a few more patches of fog early this morning but by the afternoon most of it is gone except at the coast we may see patchy fog linger there. Temperatures in the 60s, 70s inside the bay and maybe some mid70s in the warmest valleys. Looking toward levis stadium, we have some partly cloudy skies, temperatures still a little chilly inland. 43 degrees in santa rosa, 42 in livermore. And 52 degrees in San Francisco this afternoon as high as 73 and sunny in napa. 68 in San Francisco and 64 degrees and sea breeze into pacifica. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. I mentioned an accident in berkeley, turns out it is in the countercommute direction. A car hit the back of a box truck, spun out, lost control and then now its facing the wrong way in the fast lanes. So its all happening in the eastbound lanes of interstate 80 on the eastshore freeway at university. We are actually seeing some slowdowns in the commute direction so mainly probably lookyloo slowdowns, the westbound lanes are not impacted. Heres a live look at westbound 580, obviously sluggish now, the drive too many up to more than 20 minutes between the Altamont Pass and 680. The bulk of traffic is westbound 580 just past the 205 split all the way to north flynn and then remains sluggish to vasco and even beyond that. You can see the yellow sensors popping up all the way to the dublin interchange. Bay bridge, looks like its filling in here as well mainly in the cash lanes. The fastrak users are still able to get by without much of a delay. But you know, usually right around 5 45 they activate those metering lights so if you want to beat the rush maybe you can leave the house now and beat some of the bigger backups but again, for right now its just the cash lanes and the Golden Gate Bridge still looking golden heading out of sausalito. Thats your latest kcbs drive to work. Back to you guys. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. The planned bart extension to Silicon Valley may have to be scaled down. The vta is considering eliminating the alum rock station in san jose and the santa clara station. As len ramirez reports, its mainly because theres so much competition for federal funding. Reporter just as bart to Silicon Valley is getting closer to reality there may be a big change in the number of stations in san jose and santa clara. Bart Silicon Valley partner vta says greater competition for federal transportation dollars and lowerthanexpected tax revenues may force them to cut two bart stations from the plan. Proposed stations in alum rock and santa clara are on the chopping block after years of planning and Community Input neighbors in the areas feel betrayed. Vta says nothing is definite but it needs to trim 1. 3 billion from the project. Future Community Meetings on the cuts are planned. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. An ee base father is glad an east bay father is glad he checked his daughters halloween candy. He found a small back of methamphetamine inside and now the Hercules Police are trying to find the perpetrator. It happened somewhere in the promenade neighborhood of hercules. How will the Midterm Election impact your money . Cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger says past elections can provide clues as to what could happen to the stock market and whether there could be legislative action that might help or hurt your bottom line. Jill, whats going to happen to the stock market after election day . Reporter well, Research Points to a stock market rally no matter what the outcome. S p capital iq found that going back to 1944, the s p 500 has gained over 15 on average in the six months following a Midterm Election in the third year of a given term of a presidency. How about that for pinpoint accuracy . Now, given that many are predicting the Republican Party will take the senate, heres some more good news if you are a stock investor. Ned Davis Research found from 1961 to 2010, the combination of a democratic president and a Republican Congress has produced the best historical returns for the s p 500 an average of over 21 compared with a 12. 1 when the white house and congress are controlled by the same party. By the way, when either party is in the white house with a split congress, we get 7. 1 returns, the worst combo a republican president and a democratic congress, 4. 5 . Wow. What about legislation . Any big changes expected . Reporter well, obviously, political gridlock has put a stop on any major legislation but we should remember that over the past few years the periodic threat of a default or Government Shutdown has prompted congress to enact big changes to the tax code. So if the two houses remain split, obviously just more of the same. But if the republicans win the senate, then both house could unite and potentially come together to pass broader tax reform legislation. I think especially for that clunky Corporate Tax system, any big changes in the tax code for individuals or sweeping entitlement reform, that seems unlikely. Of course, president obama would need to sign any legislation into law and that president ial veto does remain a tool that could limit any big action. So should we make any moves in anticipation of today the election . Reporter absolutely not if we learned anything from that volatile october, its that longterm investors shouldnt be making guesses about market direction. Same holds true for elections. Stick to your game plan. Dont mess with that diversified portfolio. And by the way, for more on why, yes, we still stink at investing, go to jillonmoney. Com. Sounds like a website. It does. [ laughter ] all right, Jill Schlesinger live in new york, thank you. Shipping companies hope to avoid last year holiday delivery nightmare. Miamis of americans did not get their packages in time for christmas. Shippers blamed the weather. Now fedex has hired a team of meteorologists to keep an eye on potential weather trouble and will hire 50,000 seasonal workers. U. P. S. Will add temporary facilities to handle the deluge of packages and plans to hire 95,000 temporary workers. 5 40. Hot lava creeping towards a town in hawaii. Its slowing down at least for the moment. Now the president announcing his plan to help that city cope with that lava disaster. Reporter and a lot of folks including the mayor here in san jose predicted the economy would collapse after minimum wage went up. Two years later, it didnt. Im kiet do. We have a live report on a Progress Report on how things have been going. ,, for over 60,000 california foster children, the holidays can be an especially difficult time. Everythings different now. Sometimes i feel all alone. Christmas used to be my favorite. I just dont expect anything. What if santa cant find me . To help, sleep train is holding a secret santa toy drive. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and help keep the spirit of the holidays alive. Not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. First impressions are important. Youve got to make every second count. Banking designed for the way you live your life. So you can welcome your family home. For the first time. Chase. So you can. Today. Voters in san josel choose a replacement for chuck reed. Election day on this tuesday looking good. Patchy fog in San Francisco and a few patches along the coastline. Lots of sunshine coming our way. And some warmer temperatures, too. Well talk about that coming up. Thank you, lawrence. Today voters in san jose will choose a replacement for termed out mayor chuck reed. Santa clara county supervisor dave cortese seen here on the left will face city councilman there sam liccardo on the right. The most recent poll shows cortese in the lead but many voters are undecided. Yesterday cortese stopped at a homeless camp known as the jungle. Its my belief that we can start stabilizing people by getting them into housing and getting them the service they need from social services and jeb assistance. Sam liccardos plan includes using older motels in the city. The campaigns big issue is public safety. Sam liccardo supports cutting costs by reducing pensions for city workers. Cortese those are to blame for an exodus of san jose cops. Its been years since san jose voters decided to raise minimum wage for people who live in the city. Kiet do takes a look at how the measure has affect workers and businesses. Reporter its been two years since san jose voted to increase its minimum wage to 10 an hour. San jose state professor whose students came up with the idea is not one to rub it in. Minimum wage did not hurt the economy. In fact, it pumped we estimate over 100 million into the economy. Reporter two years ago, the Silicon Valley chamber of commerce held a press conference claiming if the minimum wage went up, san jose would lose 2800 jobs. But the numbers are in and they tell a much different story. Unemployment dropped from 7. 6 to 5. 2. The number of businesses grew from 75,000 to 84,000. An average employee hours remain constant hovering the just under 37 hours. Ken jacobs is the chair of Uc Berkeley Center for Labor Research and education. Things in san jose have gone pretty much as you would expect. Business growth is still robust. Restaurant growth has been robust. And we have seen a small increase in restaurant prices. A little less than 2 . Reporter the San Jose Downtown Association says the improving economy nullified those doomsday predictions. The Great Recession ending and the comeback of the economy really made it ado about nothing. Reporter mayor reed said back then enforcing the new minimum wage would cost 600,000. So shall i take it from the police department, shall i take it from the libraries . Shall i take it from the Community Centers . Reporter in fact, education and enforcement of the new minimum wage has cost the city about 57,000. Our opponent said the sky was going to fall. Reporter he says its easy to see why the minimum Wage Movement is catching on. Its regular folks, just people not without a lot of political power the chance to be involved in the political in the economic decisions of our society. Reporter with San Francisco considering 15 an hour, can san jose be far behind . Natasha sterling makes 10. 15 as a server and says a raise like that means she could afford to go back to college. That would be awesome. I could save more money or spend money on myself every once in a while. Reporter mayor reed was unavailable but issued a statement saying the voters of san jose spoke on the measure and the role of the city now is to implement the initiative. We are doing that. The Silicon Valley chamber of commerce also declined an interview. Kiet, what about other neighboring cities . Has it pressured them to do something about their minimum wage . Reporter yes. So sunnyvale and Mountain View in the past couple of weeks both voted to boost their minimum wage to 10 an hour. What is more, they are going to push it to 15 an hour by 2018 so the pressure now is back on san jose to do something. Live in san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. Remember, kpix 5 is your home for Election Results on tv and on the web. Be sure to bookmark kpix. Com. You can find your polling place and realtime results there. Cheap gas fueling sales of suvs and pickups now. Sales shot up in october. Chrysler posted a 52 jump and sales for dodge ram trucks up 36 . Even the discontinued hummer hr believe it or not in demand again. Meanwhile sales for the toyota prius, the best selling hybrid on the market, fell 13. 5 . Volt sales were also down last month. I got to tell you, its nice to get out of the gas station for under 40 now. Isnt that great . It is. Its full i know. 38. Gas is down. You dont drive gas guzzler. Once you get the hummer or whatever, the prices will go back up. Out the door, lets see, we have some gas guzzling going on it looks like on that eastshore freeway. So we have a location change. It actually is in the commute direction. This accident westbound 80 at University Avenue a car hit the back of a box truck spun out and is now facing the wrong way in the fast lanes. Now what we are trying to figure out is if theres been a second accident in the backup. There was another crash reported at central coming out of richmond. So its still a little unclear whether this is the same accident they are talking about. It is backing up traffic between richmond and berkeley. Once you get past university, though, it does clear out. But the drive time has jumped to about 25 minutes at least from the carquinez bridge to the maze. And judging from this look at the bay bridge toll plaza, they must have just activated the metering lights which they often do around 5 45, so the delays there are back to the overcrossing. Thats your latest drive. Your forecast now a little cold this morning. Didnt feel quite as cold. Not quite as cold this morning although in the valleys it is still very chilly down to the low 40s but elsewhere patchy fog outside. High pressure still building in across the bay area. Clockwise rotation of the clouds around the ridge will bring it more sunshine today and some warmer temperatures by the afternoon. But we have a couple of patches of fog early today. This afternoon, some mild temperatures and mostly sunny and then more sunshine and no rain in sight for the remainder of the week. Well be drive, a lot of rain up into the Pacific Northwest. Changes toward the middle of next week but for now air quality suffering with High Pressure overhead not seeing a lot of mixing in the atmosphere not a lot of wind. So a lot of categories in the north bay, central bay and into the santa clara valley. Looks like the fog will continue to linger maybe a couple of patches near the coastline even near the afternoon and looks like by tomorrow maybe a weak offshore wind. If that happens, looks like were going to clear out the skies and bring you lots of sunshine and tomorrow the warmest day of the week. Nice today, 71 degrees, above average, in san jose. 73 in morgan hill. About 64 degrees in pacifica. East bay temperatures mid70s into brentwood and into antioch. And as you head inside the bay you will find 72 in oakland and 68 degrees in San Francisco. Your sunrise time 6 38. Your sunset at 5 08 tonight. And looking out over the next few days, today and tomorrow going to be very nice. In fact, temperatures tomorrow near 80 degrees in the warmest spots inland. Cooling down slightly on thursday and friday with a weak weather system but not my much. Elizabeth says she loves my forecast today. I cant understand why. Did a good job on it. I do, too, lawrence. Very good. Youre not alone. We need 80s across the board to really get full [overlapping speakers people in hawaii are getting him from president obama. Lava from the kileaua volcano has been inching towards a village. The president declared it a disaster area allowing federal money to help the local area and accommodate 900 schoolchildren who are expected to be displaced. Well be right back. Stick around. ,, wifi access in more places then ever before. All your favorites in the cloud and on every device. A home you control with the touch of a finger. News and entertainment that informs and delights in ways you never thought possible. Comcast nbcuniversal bringing media and Technology Together for you. Drivers that block busy intersections. During the Pilot Program incidents of clogged intersections in the south of m San Francisco just wrapped up a threemonth Pilot Program regarding blocked intersections. During that program incidences of clogged intersections went down by 82 in the south of market area. Citations are 103 per. Some San Francisco leaders want to make the Program Permanent now starting next month. An illness at a Bay Area Hotel was even worse than first thought. Nearly 100 people became sick late last month during a convention at the Hotel Sofitel in redwood shores. The Health Department says people who ate there continued to get sick for days afterwards. The hotel has been fully cleaned and food service has resumed. Contra costa county supervisors will for adjusting their own salaries during their meeting this morning. The proposal would put their pay at 70 of the salary of superior court judges. Members of the Public Employees union plan to protest that proposal. Its 5 55 right now. A pilot killed in the Virgin Galactic explosion has been identified as a man from the bay area. An investigator looking into the accident may have figured out how it happened. Reporter theres a high profile race to become the mayor of oakland today as we are keeping an eye on the election. The polls are supposed to the polls open in the next hour. Well give you an update from here in oakland coming up. , tag sooner or later, Everyone Needs a helping hand, or a helping paw so mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to help train Assistance Dogs for wounded veterans. Veteran i live independently because of what all it provides for me. And its huge theres a lot of wounded, ill, and injured out there just like myself, who just maybe need a little bit of help. Tag you can lend a helping paw too. Give at mattressdiscountersdogs. Com or any mattress discounters. Mattress discounters good deed dogs helping dogs help people. [ indiscernible ] Midterm Elections are today and despite low projected turnout, a number of major issues will be decided in california. The spotlight is on mayoral races in oakland and san jose. San francisco and oakland voters will decide on raising hank. Im counting on you. Control of the u. S. Senate is on the line in todays elections. Republicans need to pick up 6 seats from democrats to take over as the majority. Test pilot would say that because they know the risk theyre taking. The test pilot killed in fridays Virgin Galactic explosion has been identified as 39yearold Michael Alsbury originally from the bay area. Investigators looking into the crash have recovered pieces of the downed ship 35 miles from the main debris. From across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com Linda Macdonald is captioning for you in real time. Good morning, im michelle griego. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. It is 6 00. Polls in california open in an hour and one of the bay areas most crowded contests is oaklands mayoral race. Ryan takeo says we wont have a final tally today and it might take a couple of days. Reporter thats because of the rank Choice Voting system used in oakland and some other weties in the east bay
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