and that breaking news, powerful winds are feeding a fast moving wildfire northwest of los angeles, destroying multi-million dollar homes and forcing evacuations of hundreds of residents in that area. and

you have a live look here right now at the so-called mountain fire in ventura county. you can see all the smoke down there from the flames, and also some of the charred areas there. we're zooming in on some of the flames there. you can see there are definitely a lot of homes in the area. subdivisions. and there's a lot of dry brush. so mandatory evacuations are in effect. this smoke is blanketing entire neighborhoods. and you can see it's really limiting visibility for firefighters and evacuees both. and there we have a map for you there. moor park is kind of the centralized area where this fire is in ventura county. now the fire started this morning and exploded in size at around 9:15 a.m. it was just under 250 acres. now it's more than 35 times larger, covering over 15mi■!s. now the fire is burning through neighborhoods in the city of moorpark. as we mentioned, it's spreading into nearby camarillo. fire officials say several people were injured and taken to hospitals. it's not clear how they got hurt, but a few people

have been injured. and cal fire says water dropping helicopters are up. but strong winds topping 60mph are preventing other planes from flying. meteorologists say pilots could face turbulence that could bring a plane down and would face limited visibility from the massive smoke plume. so a dangerous situation. we'll have an update for you in just a few minutes. all right. now to the election results and the numbers still coming in. let's start with the race for the white house. so take a look right now donald trump has won the popular vote, certainly by more than 5 million votes. earlier this afternoon, kamala harris gave a concession speech speaking for the first time since the polls closed. and we get all the new developments now from abc news reporter perry russom, who's at the white house today after winning the white house president elect trump now preparing for his next four years in office. >> i will fight for you, for your family and your future.

every single day. i will be fighting for you. and with every breath in my body. >> one of the first major decisions for trump will be filling out his cabinet. >> well, it's far too early to talk about specific positions. the president has put together two great co-chairs of his transition effort, howard lutnick and linda mcmahon. they will put a number of options in front of the president, and the president ultimately will go and pick who he wants. >> trump has said he will let robert f kennedy jr, a vaccine skeptic, go wild on health. >> he wants to do some things and we're going to let him go to it. >> rfk jr today, speaking to npr. >> of course, we're not going to take vaccines away from anybody. we are going to make sure that americans have good information. >> today, vice president kamala harris calling trump, congratulating him on the win, discussing the importance of being a president for all americans. after not addressing her supporters last night, harris, speaking this afternoon. >> the light of america's promise will always burn bright.

>> republicans with another major win last night, taking the majority in the senate. >> the filibuster will stand. there won't be any new states admitted that. give a partizan advantage to the other side and will quit beating up the supreme court every time. we don't like a decision they make. >> we are still waiting to see what the house looks like, but it is possible that republicans will have control over the white house and congress, making it much easier for trump to enact his policies. perry russom abc news the white house. >> so what might trump actually do in his second term? and what might that mean for california? we'll get some answers from lanhee chen, a public policy fellow at stanford university, with expert advice or opinion, and he'll join us in about ten minutes from now. we're also getting new updated numbers for you on state and bay area elections. let's bring in abc

seven news insider phil matier. i don't know how many hours of sleep you got. i personally got about four. we were here all night. >> that's right. that's about right. >> okay, let's bring in. i want to show people where the san francisco mayoral race stands. right now. the department of elections will release more data tomorrow. so this is not final. final? but at this point, after 14 rounds, ranked choice voting, it's down to laurie and breed. daniel laurie and the incumbent mayor. mayor london breed, of course, with laurie, you can see here phil having really a commanding lead. and i wonder if you think this is playing out as expected, it is at least from daniel lurie's point of view. >> he was always keenly aware of how ranked choice voting works, and with mark farrell exiting and let's say aaron peskin's next, that's some 80, 98, 90,000 votes that can be redistributed around. and he is hoping to be the second choice among those. and that would put him over the top. now london breed has got an uphill climb. she has to get

number one votes and then number two votes as well to stay in the running. it's more difficult for her because he has that lead in how votes break. but the bottom line on this is ranked choice voting. if you're an incumbent, it can be a real bear because if people don't necessarily like you, they're going to be looking elsewhere. if you're one of the elsewheres, then it's just a question of which one's going to come out ahead. and lurie bet on him because he was not looking to be number one as much as he was looking to be everyone's number two. >> okay, it's not over. so we want to point that out. that's very important. but if laura does go on to win and become mayor, what do you think he will do? what might he enact? what might change in the city? visibly? >> i don't think you're going to see anything visible change. he hasn't been advocating for anything big in terms of new policies or new buildings or projects or anything like that. developments. what he's emphasized is the fact that what the course that we are now on, we should have been on before,

we shouldn't have gone off. it, and that he can do a better job. in other words, he is going to continue to try to manage the homeless situation in in san francisco. i don't know if he can solve it. so he'll be another mayor who's faced that same dilemma. public safety, same situation again, where everybody's talked about doing something. but has it really had an impact? he will, however, benefit from the fact that things have been getting better in san francisco visually, and how people feel just not good enough for mayor. london breed. so he's going to take the direction that city has already changed and run with that. so he he's basically he picks he he comes in at an advantage. he doesn't have to turn the battleship so much as just make it move faster. >> sometimes timing is everything. it is politics and sometimes that plays against you. >> mayor london breed thanks to the way things happened in elections, was in there for six years. people actually felt that she'd been there for two terms and they were getting tired of it. >> yeah. all right. you know,

talking about public safety, prop 36 passed very, very easily. of course, reversing, if you want to call it reversing prop 47, which voters passed. so now punishments or penalties for certain crimes, theft the kind that have been plaguing the city will increase. what does that mean for the city? >> well, in and of itself, proposition 36 is not going to change the world. it is a statement of policy that we are going to do this or judges have the authority to do this. district attorneys have the authority after three, let's sa, shoplifting thefts to charge somebody with a felony. that's not going to change the world. it's a roadmap to it. you also need enforcement by police, and you need the courts to go along with it as well. now, for example, here in the bay area, that's one of the reasons why district attorney pamela price in alameda was removed from office at similar numbers because people felt that she wasn't cracking down on what we see on the streets every day. and in crime and such. and so

we've seen a and to a certain degree, mayor qingtao in oakland also fell victim to that. so there's a shift going on in california. >> so we can take a look at that. >> we have a shift going on in california for more public safety. and that's against the governor's stand as well. remember, he was he was not in favor of this at all. right. he tried to keep it off the ballot. so not a great day for him on that. >> uh- also worth noting that evan low supported prop 36 and liccardo did not. and liccardo looks to be winning the congressional race in the south bay, too. >> yeah, i have a feeling that that a lot of politicians these days are sort of looking up at the stars and realigning. >> sorry, did i flip that like low? low was against prop 36. sorry about that. and liccardo yeah okay. so let me ask you about you know, the way this has played out. you know how there was a lot of people there were a lot of people saying ranked choice voting really doesn't reflect the popular will. looking at oakland and some of the experiences they recently had. but when you look at san

francisco, what does that tell you about ranked choice voting? it doesn't seem to be controversial in this particular race. >> you know, it's interesting. ranked choice voting. is it necessarily controversial when you vote or when the election is decided, it becomes controversial three to 4 to 5 months down the road when you start going, hey, wait a minute, who did we elect here? now, daniel lurie's challenge is that he was elected with a very positive campaign that spent millions of dollars projecting an image, a can do image. when he gets into office, he's got to do it. he has to do it. and that's if you do it. everybody's happy with ranked choice. if you don't, they go. this is another reason why we shouldn't have ranked choice. so you know voters are fickle as well you know. >> yeah. >> oh that is for sure. that's why the pendulum always swings as you say phil thank you so much. appreciate it. four election results for races all across the bay area. and the country. just go to abc7 news.com. in a stunning development, san jose council member omar torres was arrested

last night following a completely different case of sexual assault involving a minor. he's been under investigation in absent from council meetings for a month, with calls for him to resign growing in recent weeks, the survivor is a known person to torres. >> the alleged assaults started when both the survivor and torres were minors and continued after torres became an adult. but while the survivor was still a minor, the subsequent investigation led to. this led to the discovery of evidence corroborating the survivors allegations. >> before his arrest, torres submitted his letter of resignation to the san jose city council. we'll have more on this developing story coming up on abc seven news at five. a 17 year old killed in a boating accident in bodega bay has been identified. 17 year old johnny depp, the second of tehama county, was found dead after a boat capsized on saturday. his 11 year old brother miraculously survived by clinging to a cooler. four others were on the boat that are still missing. on

monday, a second boat capsized in the same area. one person died in that incident and another is still missing. first responders are warning of dangerous conditions for boaters along the sonoma county coastline through tomorrow, because of high winds and rough surf. donald trump has already started his transition back to the white house. so what could a second term mean for america? we'll explore that topic in jen b asks, "how can i get fast download speeds while out and about?” jen, we've engineered xfinity mobile with wifi speeds

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policies. there are democratic voters who fear what comes next, especially after the harris campaign framed this as an existential choice that could end democracy itself. but what

might a second trump administration actually look like? and how might california be impacted? joining us live now to talk about how this could play out. stanford hoover institution fellow, former mitt romney advisor, republican strategist lanhee chen. lonnie, really great to have you on. thank you. i'm sure you didn't get much sleep. so i really appreciate it. look, we are in the bay area, right? so i'm sure you have many democratic friends who maybe can't wrap their heads around. and keep in mind, we're talking about democratic voters. so, you know, this is what they're zeroing in on. somebody who says demeaning things about people has a criminal conviction. right. how that person could win the popular vote, which no republican, i think has done in 20 years. explain what happened to them, why this happened. >> well, you know, i think for many americans, this election came down to a question of whether they felt economically they were better off today than they were four years ago. that's not going to be a satisfactory answer for your viewers, who have a very different perspective on this election.

but if you look at the survey research and you talk to voters about what animated and sort of led to their thinking, they just believed that donald trump was going to be a better choice on those pocketbook issues or on immigration. that was the other issue. you know, the interesting thing is that the question of who will better defend democracy is one that actually, throughout this race ended up being kind of a dead heat between donald trump and initially, joe biden and kamala harris. so it's a very different view of america. obviously, it's one that a lot of people in this part of the world don't necessarily have, but i think it does answer the question of how it is that you can have a result that has come as such a surprise to people who might be in this area. >> yeah, i'm sure there's a lot of soul searching within the democratic party right now. and just this afternoon, bernie sanders, senator sanders, who of course, you know, up against hillary in 2016 and didn't get the democratic nomination, said it should come as no great surprise that a democratic party which has abandoned working class people would find that the

working class has abandoned them. does this resonate? and if so, what do the democrats do about it at this point? >> yeah, it's a really interesting critique, and i think that there is some validity. if you look at the transition, you know, that the democratic party has gone from being a industrial working clas. you know, it was a sort of a coalition of white voters and african american and hispanic voters. that coalition has flipped. and i think donald trump last night was able to expand upon his gains in 2016 and really build a coalition that you could argue was traditionally the democratic party's coalition. and i do think there has been a change. i think some of it goes to the fact that the democratic party is predominantly now a party of coastal elites, versus the kind of core working class constituency that you saw for much of its recent history. i think the other point about issues and the focus on issues

is really interesting as well. i do think that the democratic party, at a policy making level, has been focused a lot on cultural issues. it's been focused on the economic transition for example, to the green economy. and these are things that may not speak to, frankly, working class voters, particularly in the rust belt states and in some parts of the of the growing sunbelt, as well. >> all right, look, the harris campaign, in its most fervent supporters, absolutely fear that democracy is in danger, that trump may dismantle the justice department, the epa, cdc, and let robert f kennedy jr go crazy on health and more. do you see those things happening? what do you think he may actually do? of the things he's either joked about or talked about during the rallies? >> yeah, i mean, look, the core hallmark of donald trump's first term was unpredictability. and i think it's very difficult for us to sit here and say today, you know, which things he said are things he's really going to zero in on. what i focus on, you know, sort of goes to what do we

know about the governing history of donald trump? we know, first of all, that he's a big fan of tariffs, that this is going to be a central part of his economic philosophy, whether it's tariffs specifically toward countries like china that are competitors or countries that are even friends and trading partners like japan and korea and much of the european union. so i think there will be that approach. i think with respect to the energy transition, he's made very clear that he will focus more on developing a traditional extractive sources of energy. natural gas, fracking, oil exploration. these are things that he was a fan of during his first administration, and i would expect to see the same in a second. and then, you know, if you think about foreign policy and relationships around the world, he sees a lot of these relationships through economic terms. and so whether it's the relationship with china or europe or latin america or any of our of our partners around the world, a lot of those perspectives are going to be dominated by an animated by a focus on our economic relationships. and so those are the kinds of things where i think we know there's some

history. and i think we expect that donald trump will go in a second term. as for the rest, you know, we'll have to see how it all plays out because there's a lot of things that are said during a campaign that don't end up coming to fruition in governing, and we'll just have to see where those dividing points end up being. >> what about this? and this is relevant to a lot of people in california and many rallies. he promised to conduct the, quote, largest deportation operation in american history. do you think he'll deliver on that promise? >> well, a campaign spokesman was just asked about that today. and doubled down on the notion that that for people who are here as undocumented immigrants, you know, the trump administration is going to proceed with some form of deportation. now, they did add that it was for people with criminal backgrounds. so, you know, you're seeing maybe some narrowing of the aperture there. what i do know is this, that when it comes to immigration policy, this is an area where by and large, significant changes need to be run through congress. and it is going to be up to congress to legislate. you'll recall they've had a couple of

opportunities over the last decade to pass immigration reform. they haven't done it. we'll see if it ends up being a priority of a new congress. and a second trump administration. but there is surely going to be a different strategy toward enforcement. we're going to see that is something that is exclusively within the province of the executive branch. that is something we could potentially see change in a trump administration versus certainly what we've seen in a biden-harris administration. >> lonnie, before we let you go really quickly, it does seem like to me california has shifted to the right. if you look at kamala harris's margin of victory in this state over trump, it's smaller than what biden and hillary clinton got by quite a lot. but you're looking at everything else, too, right? what does that suggest about california? >> well, california is not alone. i mean, if you look at new jersey, new york, other states that are reliably so-called blue states, there was a several point shift in donald trump's favor. and that comes from the fact, as i noted earlier, he has built a coalition that is much more durable this time around than it was certainly even in 2016 when

he won the presidency, and definitely more so than in 2020. so i think that's really what it is. it's expanding his margins with constituencies that traditionally have not supported republicans. >> right. and we'll have to see what the democratic response is to that. but lanhee chen, thank you so much. i appreciate it. thank you. a fast moving wildfire northwest of l.a. has forced hundreds to flee. we'll have an update on a wildfire

of homes. here's a live look at the so-called mountain fire that started at 930 this morning. mandatory evacuations are in effect. as you can see, the flames are going and the smoke is rising. there is an evacuation shelter set up now. now, this fire is burning in a pretty residential area in the city of moorpark in ventura county, just northwest of los angeles. this fast moving fire forced several schools to evacuate and cancel classes. the fire crossed highway 118. it's now threatening a second neighborhood. extreme weather conditions ground to some firefighting aircraft because winds topped 60mph. and you know, this means pilots could face turbulence. dangerous. could cause the plane to come down as well as limited visibility from the massive smoke plume. so we have a look now at how the weather is impacting that fire fight. here is a live shot showing a bright, calm day in. all right, so anyway, here's another live look

at it. and that's the latest on the fire okay. now here is a look at the bay area. we have san francisco a bright blue skies kind of day. but spencer says we'll soon be dealing with some potentially dangerous

go. this morning you can see the scaffolding blowing over at this building on octavia and broadway. whoof! thankfully, nobody was hurt. let's get the latest on our winds. and, of course, the wildfire conditions down south. abc seven weather anchor spencer christian has your accuweather forecast. spencer. okay, kristen. >> we had winds blowing like that all around the bay area

today. i had loose objects blowing around my yard at home. you can see this on the satellite radar. composite image. clear skies. the nearest clouds are many, many miles away from the bay area, but we've got those strong gusty winds because of what's happening in the atmosphere. with the combined flow around that area of high pressure and a low pressure system over in the desert southwest, producing really gusty winds here in the bay area. the result a red flag warning for high fire danger in effect until 7:00 tomorrow morning. we are looking generally at winds out of the northeast, 15 to 25mph. gusts to 40mph down at the surface. in the higher elevations, we've seen gusts over 50mph, relative humidity down to about 12% in some places. right now, we're looking at wind gusts up to about 32mph. at oakland, 28 at napa, 22 to 28 in most other bay area locations. right now. and we have a wind advisory that's in effect until, well, that's that's supposed to expire, like right now. but according to the national weather service, it's still in effect until 3 p.m. for the north bay interior mountains and most of solano county. winds there gusting up to about 60mph

in those higher elevations. now, our relative humidity right now is below 15% in many locations. 1,213% humidity, that is bone dry. we're likely to see that increase late tomorrow as the winds also decrease a bit. right now we're looking at temperature readings of 67 in san francisco, low 70s at oakland, hayward, san jose, redwood city and half moon bay in the upper 60s. blue sky, breezy conditions at the golden gate. other temperatures at this hour 68 and petaluma. we've got low 70s at santa rosa and napa, upper 60s to about 70 at fairfield, concord and livermore. now the forecast headlines are these high fire danger with us through tomorrow morning windy pattern. of course we will have that for a while. dry and gusty offshore wind flow. but as the weekend approaches and going into monday, we'll see increasing clouds, increasing humidity and chances of some showers. a windy overnight though, with low temperatures ranging from mid to upper 40s for the most part. highs tomorrow mid 60s at the coast. low 70s just about everywhere else from the bay to

inland. not much change in the temperature range there and looking at the accuweather seven day forecast, you see the clouds increasing at the end of the week and our chances of showers going through monday, which by the way, is veterans day. >> kristen o. and we may get some showers. okay, spencer, thanks so much. and that's going to do it for now. thank you so much for joining us for abc seven news at three world news tonight with david muir starts right now with complete election results. and i will see you back here at 4:00. bye bye. breaking news, just a short time ago vice president kamala harris conceding the election to president-elect donald trump. what she said and the phone call between harris and trump. also tonight, the fires breaking out. evacuations, home destroyed already, others in flames. the images coming in right now. we're tracking