reporter: after taking oath of office the three new members addressed the public beginning with zach unger who made vail references to the council's old way of doing business. >> i love coming into government at a time of abundance. that is a time of scarcity and we all have to make terrible choices. we are at our best focused on pragmatics. we should write fewer new laws and instead enforce the ones on the books and make sure they work rather than just being something to point to and say i passed that. [ applause ] >> brown, who won the race for the at large council seat struck optimistic tone. >> i know we have really tough times ahead both locally and at the national level and yet my heart is overjoyed for the opportunity to work alongside all of you to really help uplift oakland and create an oakland that serves as a positive vision for other cities. >> reporter: and ken houston got emotional about his new job representing district 7. >> my oath to you is to bring dignity and i do it in the best every move that i make i will do it in the best interest of oakland. thank you, everyone. >

one council member who will not need convincing is zach unger who was with the oakland fire department since 1998 and is starting his new role as a city council member. >> locked arms with them the last 30 years as my family, but as an oaklander, somebody whose parents and kids live here, i understand public safety is the key item we must maintain and preserve. >> reporter: chief covington said he hopes to reopen stations 25 and 28 in july just in time for wildfire season. we know cuts are coming across oakland. we just don't know where yet. >>> a live look at capitol hill where congress officially certified president-elect donald trump's victory today marking a peaceful transition of power. vice president kamala harris presided over the count overseeing a process steeped in tradition as electoral ballots made their way to the capitol to the house floor. >> this announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected, president and vice president of the united states. >> the proceedings stood in stark contrast

taking the oath of office, the three new members of the council addressed the public beginning with zach unger from district 1 who made veiled references to the council's old way of doing business. >> i would love to be coming into government at a time of abundance, but we all know this is a time of truly terrifying scarcity in which we all have to make some terrible choices. we're at our bests when we focus on problem solving and our worst when we attempt to locate ourselves within larger ideological movements. we should write fewer new laws and enforce the ones on the books and actually make sure they work rather than just name something we can point to and say, "i passed that." >> reporter: rowena brown who beat rebecca kaplan in the race for the at-large council seat struck a more optimistic tone. >> i know we have some really tough times ahead both locally and at the national level, and yet my heart is overjoyed for the opportunity to work alongside all of you to really help uplift oakland and create an oakland that serves as a positive vision for other cities. >> reporter: ken houston go

one council member, who will not need any convincing is zach unger, who was with the oakland fire department since 1998 and is starting his new role as a city council member, locked arms with them for the last 30 years as my family, but as an oaklander, as somebody whose parents live here, whose kids live here, i understand that public safety is the key item that we must maintain and preserve. chief covington has said he hopes to reopen stations 25 and 28 by july, just in time for wildfire season. however, all of that depends on the tough decisions that will be made inside of these walls. we know cuts are coming across oakland. we just don't know where yet. >>>>and this comes as new leadership takes the helm in oakland. three new city council members are being sworn in today, and a second interim mayor will be appointed. san francisco's mayor elect, daniel leary, will get the keys to the city hall on wednesday morning. leary spent this weekend hosting several neighborhood cleanups. he says he wants to kick off his administration with acts of service. san jose police have busted a suspected f

newly sworn in council member zach unger is the former head of the firefighters union. i'm going to work with my colleagues and with the city administration to find the money to keep these fire stations open. it's a matter of priorities. ken houston will take over district seven and says he plans to leverage relationships at the state, county and city level to find alternative budget solutions. on day one. he says he's already working with the governor's office to remove abandoned cars in his district. it's not difficult if we stop the bleeding, right? find the monies. we got to do some cuts. we're going to have to do some cuts. however, how drastic are those cuts going to be? a new mayor will be elected in april during a special election. until then, interim mayor jenkins says his focus is to provide basic services. well, we have issues, we have our challenges. but this is a resilient city, and we have a new council that's going to work hard to restore the trust in the city and restore the trust in this government. in oakland, velena jones, nbc, bay area news. well, pg

one council member who will not need any convincing is zach unger who was with the oakland fire departmentince 1998 and is starting his new role as city council member. >> locked arms with them the last 30 years as my family, but as an oaklander, as somebody whose parents and kids live here, i understand public safety is the key item that we must maintain and preserve. >>> the wait is finally over if you've been trying to get your hands on fresh dungeness crabs in the bay area. the season opened sunday after another long delay. fishermen in san francisco were out along piers 45 and 47 over the weekend. the commercial season is supposed to start in mid-november, but fishermen have had to get used to delay after delay in order to protect migrating whales. >> we lost our thanksgiving markets, you know. officially you can still open up, but a lot of us, we would like to see some of that stuff back. there's a lot of nice crab, but it's kind of a little bit slow, slower than we're used to. on top of that, we're going with less gear. >> fishermen say there are still some whales out there, so they

. >> new city council member zach unger says the la fires highlight the year round fire danger in california, and why oakland needs to find budget solutions to prevent the temporary fire station closures taking effect this year. >> we are a very vulnerable area. we have built deeply into the wildland urban interface, and we need to make sure that we have the resources both to prevent fires and then also to attack them when they happen. >> one other area of concern for residents is whether oakland could have problems with the fire hydrants, water supply and pressure as they saw down in los angeles. the fire chief says that oakland has 3200 fire hydrants, all owned by east bay mud, and there are plans to have meetings with the fire agencies to discuss that issue. reporting from oakland jana katsuyama, ktvu, fox two news. >> president elect donald trump could be coming to california to get a tour of the destruction as early as next week. the exact timing of the visit remains unclear, but trump's advisers are tentatively considering a trip to southern california late next week. following monday'

there are the voters who fully understand the power of recalls, now including incoming councilman zach unger, himself a former firefighter. >> the closure of seven firehouses would be the end of the oakland fire department as we know it. we simply cannot afford to close that many stations. that is a third of our firefighting capacity. >> already, the police services have been cut. the response time to a police. if you got a burglary, you're not getting an officer. you have to be in immediate, absolute physical distress to get an immediate response. >> what are they going to do if it's a major fire or a flood or anything? so that's mandatory. that's just like food and water. we need we need police department and we need fire stations. >> but that will have a direct effect on me if you can't get there. the person that i am, i'm always going to be ready to leave. but the people and the citizens of oakland still have a right to have normal protection when it comes to medical response. >> seconds count with fires, seconds affect, smoke inhalation, and most of all, flashover. when the heat builds

there are the voters who fully understand the power of recalls, now, including incoming councilman zach unger, himself a former firefighter. >> the closure of seven firehouses would be the end of the oakland fire department as we know it. we simply cannot afford to close that many stations. that is a third of our firefighting capacity already. >> the police services have been cut. the response time to a police. if you got a burglary, you're not getting an officer. you have to be in immediate, absolute physical distress to get an immediate response. >> what are they going to do if it's a major fire or a flood or anything? so that's mandatory. that's just like food and water. we need we need police department and we need fire stations. >> but that will have a direct effect on me if you can't get there. the person that i am, i'm always going to be ready to leave. but the people and the citizens of oakland still have a right to have normal protection when it comes to medical response. >> seconds count with fires, seconds affect, smoke inhalation, and most of all, flashover. when the heat builds t

there are the voters who fully understand the power of recalls now, including incoming councilman zach unger, himself a former firefighter. >> the closure of seven firehouses would be the end of the oakland fire department as we know it. we simply cannot afford to close that many stations. that is a third of our firefighting capacity. >> already the police services have been cut. the response time to a police. if you got a burglary, you're not getting an officer. you have to be in immediate, absolute physical distress to get an immediate response. >> what are they going to do if it's a major fire or a flood or anything? so that's mandatory. that's just like food and water. we need we need police department and we need fire stations. >> but that will have a direct effect on me if you can't get there. the person that i am, i'm always going to be ready to leave. but the people and the citizens of oakland still have a right to have normal protection when it comes to medical response. >> seconds count with fires, seconds affect, smoke inhalation, and most of all, flashover. when the heat builds t

. >> new city council member zach unger says the la fires highlight the year round fire danger in californiay oakland needs to find budget solutions to prevent the temporary fire station closures taking effect this year. >> we are a very vulnerable area. we have built deeply into the wildland urban interface, and we need to make sure that we have the resources both to prevent fires and then also to attack them when they happen. >> one other area of concern for residents is whether oakland could have problems with the fire hydrants, water supply and pressure as they saw down in los angeles. the fire chief says that oakland has 3200 fire hydrants, all owned by east bay mud, and there are plans to have meetings with the fire agencies to discuss that issue. reporting from oakland jana katsuyama, ktvu, fox two news. >> law enforcement agencies in the los angeles area have arrested nearly 50 people who were in mandatory evacuation zones, and some say they're suspected looters. two had disguised themselves as firefighters. nine were charged for looting in the areas of the palisades and eaton fire.

. >> new city council member zach unger says the la fires highlight the year round fire danger in california, and why oakland needs to find budget solutions to prevent the temporary fire station closures taking effect this year. >> we are a very vulnerable area. we have built deeply into the wildland urban interface, and we need to make sure that we have the resources both to prevent fires and then also to attack them when they happen. >> fire chief covington says he wants to thank oakland residents for passing measure m this past november. that is a 20 year special tax that will go to help fund wildfire safety precautions. >> mike, let me ask you about that money here, because with the city's budget problems, you know, the threat of closing even more firehouses. i mean, how much money are we actually talking when it comes to that measure you mentioned? and of the money generated, where and how would it be spent? >> it looks like measure m mike might generate as much as $3 million. the catch is it would take effect july in july. so that money wouldn't be available until later. and they said