we did reach out to nick resnick but haven't heard back. d be the first transgender person to be elected to a school board in california but it appears though the results are changing. abc7news. ama: power is back up on treasure island tonight that it's the second straight day the island dealt with two massive power outages. the island lost power for a couple hours and everything was restored just before 6:00. san francisco officials are investigating the cause of the outage. our partners reported that officials suspect yesterday's power loss could have been from vandalism. similar outages from vandals occurred in washington and north carolina. even prompting a warning from homeland security. dan: he was the mastermind of a massive college cheating scandal and now he's days away from punishment. ama: the catholic world is watching over pope benedict tonight. a bishop from the bay area on his last legacy. dan: the road to carbon zero. the next key steps in cutting car pollution. stay with us. attempted to gain dan: -- ama: for rick singer is

we did reach out to nick resnick but haven't heard back. resnick would be the first transgender person to be elected to a school board in california but it appears though the results are changing. abc7news. ama: power is back up on treasure island tonight that it's the second straight day the island dealt with two massive power outages. the island lost power for a couple hours and everything was restored just before 6:00. san francisco officials are investigating the cause of the outage. our partners reported that officials suspect yesterday's power loss could have been from vandalism. similar outages from vandals occurred in washington and north carolina. even prompting a warning from homeland security. dan: he was the mastermind of a massive college cheating scandal and now he's days away from punishment. ama: the catholic world is watching over pope benedict tonight. a bishop from the bay area on his last legacy. dan: the road to carbon zero. the next key steps in cutting car pollution. stay with us. you didn't live this strong, this long

i also reached out to nick resnick but have not heard back reporting live in the newsroom.gton ktvu fox two news, alyssa just wondering if you'd heard whether any other races might be impacted. i know that that's something that they're looking into. it might be early to say, but have you heard of any other races that might be impacted? well christian this this impacted those jurisdictions with the rank choice voting, so that's oakland. berkeley and san leandro. but at this time that coalition did say that they ran their own simulations, and they did not find any other races that would have been overturned . alright, alyssa, thank you so much. new at 10 martinez refining says that a raccoon was the cause of a flaring incident last week. they say the animal got into a substation a week ago and caused a power outage that led to seven minutes of flaring that follows a larger, flaring incident at the refinery on december 9th. that flaring was also caused by an equipment malfunction. in that case, it was a compressor failure. flaring as a safety measure that burns off excess gas

nick resnick has not responded to the error and the reversal of his victory.ire department is responding to a video posted online showing a cyclist confronting an was parked in a bike lane. in the mg . you're killing us, san francisco fire denies that the crew was on a break and said in response that the mts we're finishing paperwork after responding to a medical emergency. they then moved to the other side of the street rather than engage with the woman. end of the year. holidays can be a dangerous time for many americans. thousands of people end up in emergency rooms during this the last week of the year, according to the consumer product safety commission. will usa today analyzed data reported to the commission from 100 emergency room departments across the country for the past five years. the top injuries reported are lacerations, cuts, fractures and internal injuries and abrasions. california's two u. s senators announced a $400 million grant for the golden gate bridge. they say the funding will help complete a seismic retrofit project already in its fina

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oakland school board member for district 4 were not correct. that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that the

nick resnick was previously declared your winner. county says current board member mike hutchinson is the actual winner. about 250 votes in my race had to be re tabulated because of this difference in the algorithm, and that was enough to change the results. the election results had already been certified, and hutchinson is now seeking legal advice on how to respond to this air. i have a lot of empathy for the other candidate in district four. resnick, um but i also accepted the results when i thought i had lost by 41 votes, so i'm hopeful in the end once people have a couple of days to absorb the new news that we can all kind of come together around what the official results are and make sure that we follow through with those so far, nick resnick has not responded to the air, officials say. while the pandemic certainly exacerbated food insecurity, many bay area families are still struggling with hunger. they say the impact of the covid crisis is still having a major impact on the problem of hunger and all nine bay area counties, and

other outcome in the election will change incumbent mike hutchinson is now claiming victory over nick resnick to be a school board member in district 4. the registrar's office did not say how they found out the mistake. >> the great great grandson of one of sacramento's. first pioneers is asking the public to come forward with any information leading to the person who vandalized a land park statue kron four's correspondent zach spoke with family and a city, a story about the significance of the statue and what it would take to put it back together. >> but officer in hill against the sacramento zoo and william land park is the statue of charles swan stunt. it's been there since 1926. nearly 100 years. but just this weekend it was vandalized. the head chopped my family is angry. we all really don't understand this or why anyone would do this to swanston family has a long history in sacramento. charles arrived here in 18 65. he became wealthy through multiple endeavors, including the meatpacking from swanston. it's an which he founded with his son, george. together, this wanton family acquired l

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oakland school board member for district 4 were not correct. that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots, which didn't have a ftrst choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that th

that means nick resnick, who was previously declared the winner, has now lost to current board member mike hutcheson. election officials say they are working to resolve the issue and are checking to see if any other races. may have been impacted. two men have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting in san francisco. that shooting happened back on december 18th 24th street mission, bart station, bart, police say in 19 year old man and a 20 year old man were taken into custody today, but their names have not been released. the name of the man who was shot and killed also has not been released. southwest airlines has already canceled more than 2300 flights tomorrow as the travel chaos nationwide shows no signs of relenting. the airline plans to operate roughly one third of its normal schedule over the next several days. trying to catch up southwest staff are among those stranded. the flight attendants union provided screen grabs from flight attendants calling into their scheduling center, who then spent hours on hold one call lasting seven hours and 45 minutes. now lawmakers a

nick resnick was declared the winner. it's human error. um it was simply a button that was checked on the algorithm that should not have been checked on doug are with the california ranked choice voting coalition, said the organization fair vote notice discrepancies between their results and the registrar when they ran simulations of votes cast. they were able to narrow it down to do a problem of what we call suspended ballots. which are ballots where someone may have. we're a voter may have skipped their first choice ranking but ranked somewhere else on there about our said in that case of voter second choice should count as a first choice vote in the school board race. it was so tight that those extra votes were enough to bump hutchinson up, but instead he was eliminated. hutchinson is now seeking legal advice and wants the new results certified . i have a lot of empathy for the other candidate in district four resnick, um but i also accepted the results when i thought i had lost by 41 votes, so i'm hopeful. in the end once people have a

. >> reporter: we reached out to nick resnick who was the additional certified winter but did not heareantime come after the news broke, new glint for the recalled in the tight mayoral race. registrar's office says that it's working with its vendor to be sure that the problem does not happen in the future. christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> san jose mayor is down to his final few days on the job. for eight years he has served the bed of the bay area's largest city and he says it's the honor of a lifetime. >> there have been a lot of really positive moments, and i say this is a great job and i mean that. you have so many opportunities to be able to bring people together, to a compass big things that matter to the community whether that's for example helping 2000 first- generation students get a pathway to college. or maybe it's bringing the community environmentalists together to protect coyotes. >> mayor has not been taking it easy during the final weeks. he celebrated landmark legislation which goes into the first january 1st. that legislation requires gun owners in san jose to ca

configuration of the system, whatever that means, incumbent mike hutchinson is not claiming victory over nick resnick and district 4. it is the only race apparently affected by this problem. >> more about so welcome in 2023. and with the new year comes a new loss. yeah, there's a lot of them. they officially take effect january 1st, capitol correspondent eytan wallace gives us a look at some of them. >> well, we're talking nearly 1000 new laws on all kinds of issues from minimum wage to homelessness to guns. as we enter a new year. get ready for minimum wage to go up on january. first statewide. it will increase by $0.50 to 15, 50 an hour. all part of a reoccurring annual california mandate requiring it to go up. no more than 3.5%. >> to help account for inflation. >> 2023 will also see several other new laws go into effect, including one requiring companies with 15 or more employees to post pay scales on job postings i'm homelessness care. courts will launch in riverside, orange and san diego counties in 2023 one year earlier than the rest of the state, in essence, allowing court ordered care for th

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oakland school board member for district 4 were not correct. that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that the

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oaklandtschool board member for district 4 were not correct. that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that the

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oakland school board member for district 4. we're not correct that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system. it's a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oakland school board member for district 4. we're not correct that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that th

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oakland school board member for district 4. we're not correct that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that th

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick as the oakland school board member for district 4 were not correct. that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that the

nick resnick has not responded to the error. alright 4 17 is the time if you need to get out on the road, you need to know there are a lot of problems. let's check in with james torres in our traffic center. pam pretty much all in the east bay is where we're seeing some of the most severe issues some of the most severe shutdowns, especially along 80 this morning, but all around the bay area. gosh it's just a mess, and we're just talking about a half hour past four o'clock this morning. you see about 10, maybe a little more than 10 of these icons. those icons, of course, telling us that there's some sort of difficulty on the road that you need to look out for. we're talking about all range of things. flooding crashes, highway shutdown, high wind advisories, everything you can imagine almost directly tied to some of the weather we're seeing this morning. but let's talk about some of the new things that we are noticing this morning. this is not so new 35 here, actually the traffic they're starting to clear up just a little bit from

but that difference means that mike hutchinson who finished third is now the likely winner over nick resnick says the error was caught after their partner organization ran the cast vote record, which is essentially a recount a common practice. he says that is done after every election since it's public record. it's up to us to make sure that we have the checks and balances in place. ensure that the vote count is accurate and in this instance, we have the checks and balances the cash vote record was released. the oakland branch of the naacp missed the deadline to demand an initial recount, but given the error in the school board race. they're demanding a manual recount in all of oakland city elections. even the oakland has been using ranked choice voting for over a decade. we think that the integrity if there is any integrity in this election that a manual recount might bring about some credibility the issue for the county now is how to recertify the election in an election outcome that is unprecedented in oakland abc 7 news. starting january 1st, san jose residents who own a gun will be requ

the alameda county registrar of voters admits initial results in a tight race used to certify nick resnick. >> as the oakland school board member for district 4 were not correct. that incumbent mike hutchinson, the candidate who first showed finishing in 3rd place in the ranked choice voting system is a real victor. i really want to stress this is a correction of an error. >> and so i think a really good sign that our system is working and it only impacted a very small number of votes. he says an organization called fair vote didn't audit, which is how this all came to light. >> according to the registrar's office, the algorithm miss some ballots which didn't have a first choice selected just a second or 3rd. so they weren't counted when they instead should have been counted by reverting to the second choice to act as a first choice. now that the real winners revealed the trouble is the original results from the election. we're already certified. so under the current process, hutchinson will have to contest them before a judge before resnick is sworn in on january. 9th. roe v reps say that

nick resnick has not responded to the error that led to the reversal of his victory happening today. it's the last day on the job for the head of california's office of emergency services. markkula duties, retiring after nearly 40 years as an emergency responder in our state, the past 10 of those years he was leading the state's response to wildfires, floods and other disasters. in recent years, his office has been focused on the covid pandemic. it's kind of bittersweet, obviously, you know , um, preparing to depart this this role. um it's uh, it's been kind of weird because we haven't slowed down at all. with one crisis situation after the other. ghilarducci began his career in emergency response when he was 16 years old as a volunteer for a mountain rescue team before becoming a paramedic a few years later, then spent most of his career serving the state of california. i've been through some really crazy major events in in my professional career, you know, dating back to when i got out of the business, you know, starting just at the state, the lumber parada earthquake in 1989, and

nick resnick was previously declared the winner. now the county says current board member mike hutchinson is the actual winner. about 250 votes in my race had to be re tabulated because of this difference in the algorithm, and that was enough to change the results. the election results sg legal advice on how to respond to this error. i have a lot of empathy for the other candidate in district four. resnick, um but i also accepted the results when i thought i had lost by 41 votes, so i'm hopeful in the end once people have a couple of days to absorb the new news that we can all kind of come together around what the official results are and make sure that we follow through with those so far, resnick has yet to respond to news of the error sent francisco fire department responding to a video that was posted online, showing a cyclist confronting an e m t, who's behind the wheel of an ambulance parked in a bike lane. cat out of the bike lane. pull in there. pull in the motorcycle parking. you're killing us as a fire denies the crew was o

that corrected totals mean there's a new winner in the race for oakland school board district for nick resnick was previously declared the winner. but now the county says the current board member, mike hutchinson, is the actual winner. the county registrar's office says it's working to fix the issue and checking to see if any other races were impacted. federal prosecutors say the mastermind behind the varsity blues college admissions scandal should serve six years in prison and pay more than $18 million in restitution. but rick singers defense team says he should spend just six months in prison after he helped prosecutors obtained 53 convictions of his former clients. the scandal centers on wealthy parents paying singer to get their kids into some of the country's top universities and schools. singer is scheduled to be sentenced next wednesday. the winter weather is especially hard for people living on the streets still ahead. what we're learning from one bay area county about four people who died just this week plus what we've learned about a person accused of shooting and killing a woman in

nick resnick was previously declared the winner.ow the county says current board member mike hutcheson is the actual winner. the county registrar's office says they're working to fix the issue and checking to see whether any other races were also affected by the same error. days after china announced it is reducing covid restrictions for people traveling into the country. there's now a new testing policy for people traveling out of china to the u. s. adults and children over the age of two will need a covid test before leaving. the cdc says the reasons for the new testing measure is concerns over the lack of transparent data coming from beijing and the need to prevent new variants from entering the us other countries have implemented similar requirements, including italy, japan, malaysia and taiwan. john more california police departments are turning to drones to fight crime will tell you why law enforcement says it could help protect officers and why others say it's an invasion of privacy. and marijuana has been legal in california