rebecca smith is there as well. i can make those connections if you need them. >> that would be great. thank you. >> commissioner saying? >> i want to echo supervisor ronen in her enthusiasm. i am really excited to find out what the results of this are, particularly because one thing that i have had in mind or have been thinking about is law does a lot as washington, d.c. has mission 77 which was just overturned by city council. it was looking into the issue of tips. i think this is prevalent here because one thing that is a unifying factor that we see with uber and many services is that these workers may be increasingly reliant on tips to furnish their wages. so i would be really interested in looking into how much gig labor is dependent on tips. it has become a unifying factor. that is something they have been adding too. uber now has tips where they didn't before. caviar has a courier bonus and all that stuff. that is something i would be interested in if that is what you are looking at. and also, i do appreciate

over rebecca bauer-kahan in district 16 which covers central contra costa county and the tri valley. >> it looks like there will be change at the santa clara county sheriff's office, laurie smith will serve a sixth term as the county's top cop over john hirokawa. smith, the incumbent and her supporters celebrated when smith jumped out to a lead right away. >> i'm very optimistic now. i think the lead is insurmountable at this point. anything can happen, but i'm very confident. we had a great team in place and i'm really pleased the voters of santa clara county selected me. >> i think that i would still be an advocate for change, still be an advocate especially in regards to the use of force, racial profiling and the reforms

rebecca bower. >>> in santa clara county, lori smith has been sheriff for 20 years, and seems to be headed for herm as the county's top cop. you can see the numbers here. 57% of the vote so far over her opponent. >> another race in the east bay is who will be the next mayor of oakland. a lot of competitors in this race, about ten. the mayor has an overwhelming lead in this race. this is a rank choice election here, which means we may not know who the actual mayor is, but right now, it overwhelmly appears she will get a second term. >> even if you don't live in san francisco, this is a hot topic. measure c, which has divided some of the city's best known businesses, it proposes taxing the city's largest businesses to help fund programs for the homeless. voters have given it the green light. this is the biggest push here coming from sales force ceo mark bennyoff. >> ian, clearly they have a reason to celebrate. there were a lot of other tech companies opposed to this, including the ceo of twitter. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the campaign party winding down now because a lot of supporters say th

to king view asset management cio, scott martin and rebecca walter gaeand gary b. smith.y, is it your sense the oil thing is a positive thing? because there are a couple ways to read that since oil is disproportionately weighted in the dow and s&p, when that fields a hit, those investors feel the hit? >> i think it's definitely positive. as you said in your opening remarks, the costs will doing business across the board, whether you're a consumer or a business, has just gone down. you talked about and obviously, gas and oil price are a big part of that cpi number. you mentioned everything else going up. here's the difference. you can't switch from gas to something else very easily. maybe electric cars, i suppose. with all the other things in the basket, it's very easy for people to switch if the price of beef goes up, they switch to pork or chicken, something like that. i think this is very much a net positive for the u.s. neil: rebecca, how do you feel about this? >> yeah, i'm excited about this. yeah, the cpi was obviously very high and that does indicate to go along wi

over rebecca bauer-kahan in district 16 which covers central contra costa county and the tri valley. >> it looks like there will be change at the santa clara county sheriff's office, laurie smith will serve a sixth term as the county's top cop over john hirokawa. smith, the incumbent and her supporters celebrated when smith jumped out to a lead right away. >> i'm very optimistic now. i think the lead is insurmountable at this point. anything can happen, but i'm very confident. we had a great team in place and i'm really pleased the voters of santa clara county selected me. >> i think that i would still be an advocate for change, still be an advocate especially in regards to the use of force, racial profiling and the reforms >> hirokawa had a thank you event for supporters in campbell. he said he plans to stay active on the issues he campaigned on. >>> proposition 7 is winning by a big margin. during the winter hours we'd be two hours behind the east coast, in the summer three hours behind. the idea will need approval from st state lawmakers and congress, and eventually president trump would have to sign off on the change. >> do we permanently lose an hour? no need to worry abo