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>> we're the most prosperous state in america, but we are also the poorest. the california dream will never be realized until every californian is sharing it. it's about effort, sustainability and time. >> reporter: newsome will face john cox in november, a relative unknown who became popular with conservatives after he was endorsed by president trump. former los angeles marianne tonio villaraigosa conceded the loss, made more bitter by an election snafu that kept the names of more than 100,000 angelinos off the roster. carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. >> antonio villaraigosa took to the stage in downtown l.a. and gave a gracious concession speech. >> gavin, thank you for caring enough about this state to put your hat in the ring, to run for governor of this state. we all acknowledge that you're
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the victor tonight and we thank you. >> villaraigosa urged the people who voted for him to support newsome come november. republican john cox wasted little time going after knewsome after declaring a second place victory. >> mr. knewsome made it clear he wanted to run against me instead of another democrat. as i told him in san jose at the debate, be careful, mr. newsome, be careful what you wish for. >> cox called knewsome part of the status quo. he also criticized knewsome for the sanctuary state policy and for the unpopular new gas tax increase. >> we have much more on all of this, it's an update on weathe and traffic where you live starting with meteorologist mike nicco. >> never more than seven minutes away. here is a look from sutro tower. the cloud deck rolling in from theest co-. here is what's going to happen with my accuweather 12-hour
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planner. we're starting off in the 40s in our deepest valleys, low to mid 50s elsewhere. that will reverse by noon. we'll mix in a few high clouds and sunshine like we did yesterday. look at the temperatures at noon. it's kind of chilly out there, mid 50s to only mid 60s with the breezes kicking up. look what it does to our afternoon temperatures, keeps us in the upper 50s to barely upper 60s. so summer is absent from this forecast. i have a brewing heat wave that could push us over 100 in the next several days. >> we are looking good so far today. looking good at the bay bridge toll plaza, stackup in the cash lanes, no surprise here. this seems to happen every morning now. until they get a few more of those open, we'll see this and the same thing will fill in on the right side of the toll plaza, too. fast track lanes are looking good so far this morning. drive times, westbound 580 tracy to dublin not too variable, 39
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minutes. southbound 101, san rafael to san francisco looking great in the green at 17 minutes. let's get now to those major new developments overnight in the san francisco race for mayor. mark leno surging ahead of london brie den. let's take a look at the results we have. you see they are neck and neck, 50% and 50%. actually they're looking like 2,000 votes making the difference. 100% of precincts reporting. so a major change in what we were seeing late last night with leno surging ahead. rank choice voting dramatically changing the results while you were sleeping. let's go to abc 7 news reporter cornell barnard live to explain all this. >> reporter: good morning, jessica. super interesting development here. the votes still being counted and it could be days or weeks before we know the winner, but london breed's early lead appears to be fading as former
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state senator mark leno taking the lead for now. redistribution of losing candidates' votes enabled leno to take the lead. rank choice voting allows voters to choose their top three favorites. candidates with the least votes are eliminated in rounds until there is a winner. leno and candidate jane kim teamed up n couraging each other's supporters to list each other as second choice on the ballot. that strategy appears to be paying off. leno has received more than 70% of kim's second place votes. >> i did give my second vote to jane, and i think she gave her second vote to me because we both agree that it is time for fundamental change for a new direction at city hall to address the crises that we've already discussed. we've got to shake things up a little bit. the status quo isn't working. >> reporter: of course, way too early to call this race.
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whoever wins would make history. leno would be the city's first openly gay would be the city's first african-american american mayor. this race is getting very interesting. >> mark leno being in the lead because of rank choice voting right now, really neck and neck. we'll explain houp that works coming up later in this next half hour. meanwhile in san jose, sam liccardo is expected to remain mayor. comfortably leading steve brown, 74% to 15% with 56% of precincts reporting. last night lick car dough thanking everyone for their unwavering support. senator dianne feinstein easily advanced to the november ballot. the u.s. senate race is the most crowded on the ballot with 32 candidates. the we is who she's going to face. let's take a look at the results
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right now. you can see she has that comfortable lead, 44%, and that is with 94% of the precincts reporting. last night feinstein released a video statement from washington shortly after the polls closed. >> thank you so much for your support and your faith in me. i'm not going to let you down. now it's on to november. >> feinstein has been serving in the senate since 1992. more election results posted on our website right now, abc7news.com. it's where you can keep up to date as more votes are still being counted. >> breaking news from the abc 7 live desk. >> we have breaking news coming in out of san jose. a car slamming into a fire truck this morning on capitol expressway. abc 7 news reporter matt keller arriving on the scene there. hi, matt. at ms here nissan sentra slammed into the back of this fire engine here on capital
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expressway. the firefighters were here at about 2:30 fighting a vegetation fire. an hour later while they were off in the woods here fighting that fire, this car came through and slammed into the back of this truck. thankfully no firefighters were injured. we can't say the same thing about that driver, though. that person, a man, was taken to the trauma center. his injuries are not known at this time. firefighters say it doesn't appear that this person slowed down at all or even applied their brakes. you can see the damage done to the vehicle. that certainly may be the case, but san jose police are going to be investigating what caused this crash out here. they're also going to investigate whether alcohol or drugs were involved. but westbound capital expressway is blocked off as they clear the scene. matt keller, abc 7 check out the temperatures. they are almost exactly the same as yesterday, from sunset at 49
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to 50 in glenn park, surn any side and lake merced and everyone else 51 to 52 degrees. the ferry building at 536789 here is a look at the wester span of the bay bridge, traffic coming at you from the east heading into san francisco. driving today, watch out on our bridges and especially this afternoon as kick up once again. if you're take mass transit, no hot spots. the ferry ride will be a little choppy during the afternoon hours everywhere over bay water and into the delta. east bay valleys some of our warmest temperatures. boy, come this time next week, you're probably going to wish we were back in the 60s and 70s like we are today. we'll see increasing sunshine by noon. hanging out in the low to mid 70s into the afternoon hours. back into the low 60s by 8:00. peninsula starting with 56 and cloudy conditions. you can see 58 at 10:00. 60o 60s through 8:00. if you were out yesterday
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evening, i was teaching my son how to grill chicken. it was kind of chilly out there. we were hovering around the grill to stay warm. here is a look at the 12-hour planner for the north bay. 67 by noon. low 70s for the afternoon hours, back to 59 by 8:00. >> i grilled chicken yesterday, too. it was a good day to get out there. >> won't be grilling next week. >> no, no. that will not be nearly as comfortable or enjoyable there. we're doing okay on the roads so far this morning. i want to take you to oakland where we have road work southbound 880. we've got various lanes closed between 23rd and 29th. that is scheduled to go until 6:00 this morning most days. this is an area they've been working on a lot. they have that picked up well before 6:00 a.m. we certainly have a backup approaching this, about 2 1/2, maybe three miles right now. as long as you're not in a big rig, you can use 580 as an alternate. it's wide open on the eastbound
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let's take a look at what's going on around the state today. you can see, as we zoom on up, low to upper 80s through the central valley. the sea breeze is continuing to take hold of that weather. 60 in monterey with extra sunshine in the afternoon hours. look at the 100s in palm springs and vegas again. 71 in tahoe. let's take a look at the rest of the week. we do have big changes, a drive
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cold front is going to drop us from 74 friday to the low to mid 60s. it's going to be kind of cool over the weekend. look, once the weekend is over and we head back to work, 76 to 82. a warming trend starts. if you went to bed early last night, you missed it. san francisco supervisor london breed losing her lead in the race for mayor to mark leno. >> take a look. you can see officially percentagewise, they are even. mark leno has that razor thin lead right now. of course it's going to continue to count these votes and see where we end up. this could take a little while. this is all the result of ranked choice voting. if you aren't familiar, abc 7 news anchor kristen sze explains how that system works. >> reporter: let's go to the abc 7 cafe. i'll explain using sticky notes. we'll keep it simple. four candidates. let's say purple is my top choice. if i can't take purple, i'll take blue. if blue doesn't win, i'll go
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with orange. now let's add up everyone's votes, 20 sticky notes for 20 voters. my candidate, purple has the most first choice votes with seven. if it has over 50% as in 11 votes, it wins the election. if it doesn't have the majority, then things get interesting. the bottom vote better is now eliminated. that would be orange. orange voters, now we go to your second choice. two more for yellow. one more for purple. purple still doesn't have majority. so now a new round. the new bottom, blue gets eliminated. blue voters' second choice votes are distributed. now we have a majority. you can see yellow is the winner even though it started out with fewer first choice votes than purple. you may be wondering what about my third choice? it only gets counted if your first and second choices are both eliminated which did not happen this time. kristen sze, abc 7 news.
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an update on the situation in guatemala. the death toll from the volcano erection has gone up. there are at least 75 pete dead this morning, 192 people still listed as missing. those numbers come along with reports of increased activityivy from the fuego volcano. forcing people to evacuate from areas earlier called safe zones. rescuers are digging to find more survivors. there's a lot of places where this ash is still smoking, debris flying about six miles into the air. the situation very much on going. you'll remember the eruption happened sunday. right now there are some homes that are buried up to their roofs in some places. i'll be watching for developments throughout our newscast. in hawaii the kilauea volcano continues to erupt destroying hundreds of homes and completely filling the bay now. lava from kilauea is actually reshaping the coastline of the
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big island. as an indication of just how volatile the big island has been, 12,000 earthquakes have been recorded there since may 4th. happening today. google is holding its shareholder meeting. there could be fireworks. an employee is expecting to demand executive compensation should be directly linked to diversity goals. a group of employees tells "usa today" it feels management has ignored concerns, so it will speak out in front of investors. diversity has been a hot issue for google. if you've been waiting for single day tickets for outside lands, they go on sale tomorrow. janet jackson is the sunday night headline act. she will close out the festival. single day tickets will cost about $150 each. if you miss out, there are three-day general admission passes. those cost $325. the annual festival is expected
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to take over golden gate park starting friday, august 10th. >> it should be great. it's 4:47 in the morning. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. good morning, mike. >> good morning. are you ready for another touch of fall? never more than seven minutes away from talking about just how we tried to start summer a couple of times and we just can't get it to sustain any length of time. today is one of those days again where we fall back into cool temperatures. here is a look at san jose where it's becoming cloudy right now, about 53 degrees. it will be mostly sunny this afternoon. cool breezes, once again keeping our temperatures below average. more clouds tonight, a few more areas of drizzle. let us know if you run into some. brewing inland heat wave. looks like the hottest stretch of weather coming at us next week so far for the season look at all this cool air, the areas of low pressure. as long as they're parading along that storm track, they
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bring in the cooler weather off the ocean. this is the result. look at these, mid to upper 60s for most of the south bay. low to mid 70s for morgan hill and gilroy. san jose ten degrees cooler than average. low to mid 60s on the peninsula. barely into the low 60s in downtown san francisco. we'll have upper 60s to low 70s through most of the north bay and upper 70s santa rosa northward. east bayshore mid to upper 60s. as you head inland, 68 in pleasanton to 78 in brentwood. my accuweather seven-day forecast, cool tomorrow, a slight warming trend friday. it cools again saturday. look at the heat wave developing for next week. good morning, mike. we're looking at a pretty typical commute for the bay bridge toll plaza. stackup in the cash lanes, but no metering lights yet. yesterday they were turned on very early, that was all due to a disabled vehicle. we don't have any incidents so far today. i'm expecting those metering lights to turn on about 5:25
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this morning. mass transit, ace 1 is on time but unfortunately the gps issue is back. everything is running fine. 29 b.a.r.t. trains in service. a giants day game. so a lot of company and limited company for golden gate ferry. facebook's data sharing is under scrutiny. >> diane mass sado and kendis gibson have the details. >> in today's tech bites. >> facebook admits it gave user information to the chinese firm the u.s. deemed a national security threat. huawe was granted access as early as 2010. facebook will wind down its deal with that company by the end of the week. instagram is reportedly doing away with video length
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constraints. >> users will be able to post videos up to an hour like. bill gates is giving every 2018 college graduate a gift. >> he says will buy the grads this new book, factfulness. graduates have to logon to gates' blog to get it. >> those are your tech bites. dub nation, time to sport the blough and gold. >> what to expect
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. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. did you see dion lynn? she met a family from sunnyvale at the airport heading to the warriors game tonight in cleveland. you can sit and watch at home because it's dubs on 7. weather 68 and 54. a little warmer than what we'll have at at&t park. we'll take a look at that and how cool compared to average we'll have today coming up. a new opportunity for children in the bay area. >> some local children actually learning how to sail from some of the world's best athletes. >> you're going to steer this. so remember, it's the opposite of driving a car. >> this is a really neat moment. olympic sailors from around the country are moving here to the bay area. i'm going to talk about a first of its kind facility opening up
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on treasure island, talk a little bit about the program. that is coming up tonight at 11:00. it's a story i'm really excited about. >> the man you saw in the sailboat is achb olympic athlete. >> yeah. it's a bronze medalist, teaching fourth graders in san francisco how to sale. >> really neat. all right. i am back. we're taking a look at what's going on in the peninsula today. look at that. temperatures there, 11 degrees below average in redwood city. livermore, san francisco, about five to six degrees below average. let's take you into the game. it's going to be 59 at 12:45 today at at&t park. only warming to 61. a lot of sunshine and breezy. i'm going to go ahead and mark today as below average. you can see the trend developing once again cooler than average temperatures. here is alexis. >> taking a look at a crash in the north bay.
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this is northbound 101. it happened in a construction zone a couple hours ago just past dry creek road between helms burg and geyserville. they are close to getting this clash cleared. only one lane open anyway when this crash happened. tow truck is there. should get that back open shortly. northbound 101 between oregon expressway and univerity expressway in palo alto, road work once again. lanes scheduled to be closed until about 5:00 this morning. tonight the warriors will try to take a stranglehold in the nba finals. sunday night golden state took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. the cavs are tough at quicken loans arena where they've won eight straight playoff games. dub nation will pack oracle arena for the official watch party. doors open at 5:00 p.m. tickets are 20 bucks. abc 7 is the only place you can watch the nba finals presented
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by youtube tv. pregame at 5:00. abc coverage at 5:30 with tip-off at 6:00. stay with us for "toyota after the game." a television show about colin kaepernick. we are tracking breaking news out of san jose. a fire truck involved in a pretty nasty accident. we'll take you to the scene next. plus some stunning developments overnight in the san francisco mayoral race. tolls appear to be going up and aaron persky is out. much more primary coverage is on the way. we'll leave you with more local results.
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than doubles your chance of escape in case of a fire. smoke alarms can provide an early warning if you follow these 3 steps. repalce your smoke alarms every 10 years. if they're old an discolored it's time to replace them. check your batteries regularly. a great time to change them is every spring and fall when you change your clocks. and lastly, check your alarms weekly. replace. change. test. because early warnings help to save lives.
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election night plot twist. mark leno waking up with the lead in san francisco's mayoral race after london breed was the front-runner all night long. >> the tides turned just after midnight because of rank choice voting. we'll explain all that. >> we have breaking news coming in from the south bay where a car has slammed into the back of a fire truck. you can see there, a terrible, nasty looking crash. we have a reporter there. matt keller is on the scene. we'll check in with him in a few moments. >> we'll talk about all the election results that could impact razor-thin margin between the top two vote getters in the sf mayoral ra
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