building a better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. the oakland mayor's race is still too close to the call between councilmember lauren taylor and council pro tem. xiang tao but just moments ago. we received an update on the results from alameda election officials. good evening. i'm on dates and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us, but even with that update a winner may still not be announced until next week. yeah to explain why abc 7 news reporters answer hudson has more the race for oakland's next mayor is down to two city council president pro tem tao and the candidate who's in the lead city council member lauren

taylor. this is something that is truly a grassroots ever-powered campaign. and i know that that's the same way. we will drive forward and addressing oakland's public challenges tiller spoke to abc7 news on election night. it is watch party since early results were released tuesday night. taylor has consistently held a small lead against tao but the race is far from over those ones that were dropped off very close to election day. haven't been counted yet. and those are what we're starting to process right now. please with the alameda county registrar voters. he anticipates 40 to 50 percent voter. turnout county wide, which he says is about average for a midterm election the vote for oakland mayor is done by ranked choice voting which extends the process and ranked choice voting the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated then everyone who voted for that candidate has their next choice counted the process continues until a candidate reaches a majority those votes are going to come in and that we're going to run the algorithm on the rank

choice votes and we'll see then who appears to be winning at that point of the election, but that means we still have a lot more votes to count. so dan and i'm as you mentioned those latest numbers were just released oakland city councilmember lauren taylor has just over 16,000 votes for 35% of the vote shang tao is in second place with just under 14,000 votes or about 29% now, here's where it gets a bit complicated. these numbers are just the first round votes this rank choice voting results will be in after 6 pm. also, they still haven't counted all the ballots and they don't know how many ballots are left of course comparison in 2018 the election for oakland. mayor 158,000 books were casted lauren taylor is in the lead, but with just 42,000 votes counted and once all the boats are in they then have to go through ranked choice voting. the alameda county registrar voters office tell me it won't be until monday that they have their next big update reporting

live on san jose abc 7 news. answer. thank you. and i do want to add that we did reach out to shang tao. she did not return our request for comment. lauren taylor's team says they will release a statement later this evening and if we says his team will be working through the weekend and hope to have a big update on monday. well, san francisco remains busy counting ballots from tuesday's election in its latest update the department of elections says they received thousands of additional ballots by mail and from dropboxes. there are a couple of races that are still up in the air brooke jenkins holds the lead for district attorney, but she has not hit the required 50% to avoid a runoff. i'll ballots have to be counted before december 9th. and with so many races still outstanding you can check results as they come in find every race and measure now on abc 7 news com slash elections. let's turn to the stock market wall street surge to its best day in years closing with a big rally the dow jump more than 1200 points the nasdaq and it's

760 points higher and the s&p 500. so it's biggest one-day gain ever adding five and a half percent of its value now. this comes after a report showed inflation in the united states slowed last month by even more than expected abc news reporter reena roy has more a potential sign of hope in thursday's new inflation numbers the labor department saying prices are up 7.7% compared to a year ago, which is still historically high but better than economists expected remember back in june we were at 9.1% so this is definitely some welcome relief used car prices clothing costs and medical care all seeing a drop president biden touting the new numbers as progress on slowing inflation claiming. it's a sign that his administration's economic policies are working but americans are still feeling the pain when it comes to rent gas and groceries the typical household in this country needs to spend 433 more a month on the same goods and services as they

did a year ago. according to moody's analytics essentials like food gasoline rent continue to go up and continue to cut into our household budget the labor department also releasing its weekly unemployment numbers finding that 7,000 more people filed. time unemployment claims last week compared to the week before we're expecting consumer spending to hang in there, but that consumers are going to be a lot more budget conscious this holiday season as they pay more for just about everything despite this hopeful news a lot of the economists are still predicting we could fall into a mild recession by the middle of next year reena roy abc news, new york. now to the latest on the turmoil at twitter just two weeks after elon musk bought the social media company abc 7 news. anchor karina. nova is here with what musk told employees today at some top executives announcer resignations karina. i'm an employees this afternoon learned. they'd have to return to the office while more top twitter

executives announced resignations today according to reports the interim head of advertising as well as the head of trust and safety. you'll roth quit and roth just recently showed support for elon musk's new policies in his tweets the chief information and security officer put out their resignation on twitter saying i'm so proud of the privacy security and teams work it teams and the work we've done other company leaders announced resignations yesterday musk sent his first company-wide email in which he officially put an end to all remote work requiring employees to come into the office at least 40 hours a week and this is a tweet that he put out earlier. today so far. he hasn't addressed any of the news that came out today, but you can see there. he says usage of twitter continues to rise one thing is for sure. it isn't boring now in his email. he said there's no way to sugarcoat the message the economic picture ahead is dire adding that without significant

subscription revenue. there's a good chance twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn musk is hoping to launch twitter's new subs. in service charging 799 a month and then once again, we have not heard from musk yet on any of these developments that happened today, but we will keep you updated on that live here in the newsroom karina nova abc 7 news that's moving fast now karina. thanks so much. it is official san francisco taxi drivers and uber are partnering up meaning that you'll be able to request an uber ride and a taxi. may show up abc 7 news reporter lou spen yet, pena spoke with a taxi driver who says he's getting more rides than before and it's really hopeful now about this partnership. blaming the right sharing company for a decline in business.

fast forward to 2022 hundreds of flywheel taxi drivers are now working with uber. that's at is. over head is a flower wheel what happenedawi has been a taxi driver for 25 years we rode with him for about 15 minutes during the timeframe. he got more requests from uber than he could accept on flywheel. normally he gets one request every 45 minutes a lot of drivers go work with uber but look at this and that's number eight but getting to this point wasn't easy many of his colleagues have left the taxi industry and alindawi owes a hundred and seventy thousand dollars on his taxi medallion something regular over drivers don't have to worry about you are one of the taxi drivers who will post working with uber. i was here i changed. the business dead i mean, we don't have a business like we used to before. according to flywheels san francisco at one point had over

700 medallions in the last five years 354 closed. they believe a lot of those drivers left the industry during the pandemic they say this maybe they're saving grace. better for us to work with them and come together and you know serve the city here in san francisco. so if you can beat them join them and i guess that's what you can say. you can be them join them. the one year pilot program is uber's way to get more drivers on the app saying part. we look forward to learning from writer and driver feedback about this pilot as we work towards our goal of getting every taxi and uber by 2025 that's good if they are doing all together so no competition, so it's good as for halloween now, we today is a good day. but tomorrow that's tbd. so partnering up. is it worth it even with a medallion? i don't know yet, but let's be honest with you. more business always good for us in san francisco lose pena abc 7

news. it's a new day for the taxi driver still ahead of warrant is now out for the arrest of a former east bay police officer. we'll tell you about the charges filed against him and we've been talking about snow in this year and now several ski resorts in tahoe are moving up. they're opening dates for the season abc 7 news at 5. we'll ♪upbeat music♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

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not settled with the vta. a former pittsburgh police officers facing charges for selling an illegal assault weapon the contra costa district attorney's office filed charges today against the former officer armando montalvo faces four counts for possessing ar-15 rifles and selling them to two seperate people the contra costa county da's office says both of those sales happen in november of 2019. the crimes weren't discovered until this year in the officer resigned during the investigation. there was a warrant out for the former officers arrest the city of san francisco continues to expand its street ambassadors program today, mayor, london breed and supervisor myrna milgar announced they are bringing the program to the west portal neighborhood retired police officer ambassadors have previously been focused on tourist areas like union square and fisherman's wharf with this latest edition of up to 25 more ambassadors. they will be deployed to more residential neighborhoods. so i who will know our patterns

and you know when people are out and who know the neighbors and make them feel safe and secure. the mayor recently announced plans to add 150 more retired police officers as ambassadors across the city. still ahead bart is now exploring ways to improve its service across the bay area and we'll show you some of the ideas be considered including the possible addition of

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be on the way by 2030 and the changes would include adding a new line and more late-night trains bart says whether those changes happen depend largely on the public's interest abc 7 news reporter zach fuentes spoke to bart officials about how they plan to gauge that interest and where the money would come from. all right part every day. jesse lugos commute starts here at the bayfair bart station in san leandro and ends in san

francisco where he catches a downtown bus to get to a shipyard job. i work all shift days graveyard swing. he says the same goes for his coworkers right now. bart is looking to hear from people like lugo they just released this survey called bart metro 2030 and beyond it asks people if they would take bart more if they added a sixth line and if they added trains after 9 pm the two options would expand east bay service during daylight and early evening hours and expand evening service in the core of its system. what happens during all seven days now is we go to from a five-line service during the day and again the early evening at 9pm it goes to three line service. so one of the interesting possibilities here is a chance to expand that evening service and to have more transmate trips bart spokesperson, chris philippi says in order to do that. they would look at adding a portion of the red line from richmond daily city that would continue past 9 pm and also add a portion of the green line from bayfair to daly city and that would be a big thing for folks

that works wing shift. that's something that we've seen during the pandemic especially for folks going to downtown san francisco in downtown oakland working at bars and restaurants bart is still working to recover ridership following the pandemic as of last month ridership is at 40% of pre-covid expectations with that in mind. we asked where would funding for any potential service expansions? come from bart says they're looking at different options, but that nothing has been finalized yet billy. i keep part of getting that funding is having a clear roadmap and knowing what our riders want us to do. so this is an important step in that process when we talk to lawmakers. this is something that they want to hear. they want to know that our writers are on board with this the public has until november 23rd to take the survey to find it and more information. you can head to bart.gov slash metro in the south bay zach 7 news. young people in the bay area are demanding bold climate action, and that comes as our global leaders tackle climate change at

cop 27 hundreds of local middle and high school students marched in the financial district today and near the embarcadero. they're calling for effective climate action and an end to militarism and profiteering they chanted and held signs reading fund our future and defund violence. the students were joined by veterans labor and peace groups as well making there voices heard. yes. all right another day sunset behind us. yeah gorgeous sunset and very cool out there tonight meet herologist. sandy patel is over the forecast. yeah, dan and alma and it's only going to get colder tonight. but before we get to that chill, let's talk about the drought. you know, we've had some rain this week with that storm. that brought us healthy amounts. did we see an improvement you betcha it wasn't huge, but we did see some minor improvement for full detour to d4 category came down about 3.74 percent. so you look at the statewide picture and there has been some improvement same thing for our

local area. of course this took years to make so we're not going to get rid of the drought with one storm, but certainly saw some improvement in most categories. look at how stunning it is as i'mma mentioned from our santa cruz camera. the sun set is just absolutely beautiful from our vollmer camera as well zephyr coe from tahoe. you can see that golden gate bridge nice looking view with a mix of high clouds out there and as we look at live doppler 7, it's just some high clouds passing through the bay area temperatures right now in the 50s of 48 degrees los gatos temperatures have been running below average for this time of year in the afternoon hours, and that's not going to change anytime soon. we do have a frost advisory once again going up from 12 am to 9 am tomorrow. it covers all of the bay area except san francisco bay shoreline and coast 30 to degrees solano county even colder for the rest of the area shaded here upper 20s to mid-30s frost will form and that means it could kill sensitive plants. so make sure you cover them this

morning we had temperatures in the mid to upper 30s and some of our official locations even colder and isolated spots tomorrow morning. you're looking at anywhere from 34 at lakeport to 47 degrees in san francisco. certainly some higher clouds overhead one more time. we're going to show you this view because it is so beautiful from where cruise camera cold again tonight morning frost body light showers for your saturday and a milder pattern is setting up for next week tomorrow afternoon mid-50s to the low 60s for your veterans day high clouds will filter the sunshine then a level 1 storm comes in for saturday, exclusive to abc 7 news. it's a light system spotty light showers. best chance in the north bay rainfall under 500th of an inch at best. so friday night a few sprinkles in the north bay can't be ruled out in the wee hours of saturday morning. you see a few more showing up and then some showers saturday afternoon between three and four clock but notice the front falls apart by the time it reaches us, so not everyone's going to measure it'll be anywhere from

zero to about 37 inch in santa rosa higher totals to the north quick. look at nicole. you can see just lashing out with heavy rain. they've seen the storm surge battering the area now tornado watch boxes posted strong winds. it is packing winds of 40 miles an hour expected to weaken as it continues to drench much of the mid-atlantic and the southeast the accuweather seven-day forecast veterans day cold and frosty morning spotty showers for your saturday, and then we're going to go with dry conditions little little milder as we head towards. next week on montana. okay, sandia. thank you, and we've been telling you about the snow and the sierra and today's several tahoe ski resorts announced plans to move up their season openers mount rose and boreal mountain plan to open tomorrow then on saturday heavenly north star and kirkwood. which are all veil resort properties plan to open that's a week earlier than previously scheduled for heavenly and north star and almost a month earlier for kirkwood since sunday the tahoe area received more than three inches of snow and for a

full list of ski resort opening dates. just go to abc7news.com. well, that's nice to see isn't it now veterans day is tomorrow and progressive insurance hosted its 10th annual keys to progress car giveaway in walnut creek today the car insurance giant gave vehicles to more than 100 veterans and military-related organizations across the us they wanted veterans to have reliable transportation that could help them. get back on the road kylie jones from walnut creek was one of this year's recipients and she spoke about how surreal this all is and it was just made such a difference in our life. honestly is it's just hard to believe that you that this is ours that you know, we have something reliable. now that something good is happening right now. the company also provided six months of covered car insurance to the winners their goal was to give a car to at least one recipient in each state for the winners actually are from california. very nice thing to do. makes a big difference for them stay with a reminder here you car

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download it when you get a moment finally tonight the latest movie from oakland native. ryan kugler is hitting theaters today golden state warriors hosted 400 oakland public school students for an early screening. yeah. it was very cool abc 7 news reporter ryan curry talked with them before the showing of wakanda forever. oakland unified students are excited to see another movie designed to break down barriers for the black community wakanda forever debuts thursday night, but the golden state warriors took students from several oakland schools to see the movie before premiers. it's not a lot of movies where they support the black culture like that on the big sign of the grand lake theater oconda forever as a tribute to the franchises oakland roots. the director of black panther is an oakland native and featured many connections to the city throughout the movie now with wakanda forever debuting oakland students are excited to see the franchise continue after the first movie set a new milestone for having a mostly black cast white soxian like a black hero

back and look up to relate to amazing beautiful the golden state warriors paid for students to be bust over to see the movie ousd says just like black panther. this one has significant cultural impacts on oakland youth having, you know, so many people on over screen who are black faces black people people who look like our kids and who are reflective of our community here in open being able to provide this opportunity to their students is something they say will have elastic impact students. say the more recognition. they receive the better opportunities, they will have for a brighter future we have hope that we can change make a change, you know wakanda is a afro futurism country, you know, we're growing and more and more like we're here and we're smart. we just need more recognition in oakland ryan currie abc 7 news how much fun for them? yeah. great day for them. all right. well world news tonight with david muir is next. thank you for joining us. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley for sandy patel all of us here. we appreciate your time and hope

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tonight, the deadly hurricane slamming into florida. the system then moving right up the east coast tonight. hurricane nicole making a direct hit. the strongest hurricane to hit florida this late in the season in nearly 40 years. the homes falling into the ocean. hundreds of thousands without power. the storm moving up the coast, alerts across several states tonight. damaging winds, possible tornadoes, and washington, d.c. to new york city all bracing for what's coming next. victor oquendo and rob marciano in the storm zone. also tonight, the battle for control of the house and the senate still undecided tonight. the key senate races in arizona and in nevada, too close to call. 400,000 votes left to be counted in arizona.