An emotional time. She was joined by other supervisors. Here she is addressing this tragic events we are learning about. It is with profound sadness that icon firm mayor edwin m. Lee passed away early this morning, tuesday, december 12th at 1 11 a. M. At Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. Family, friends and colleagues were by his side. The 43rd mayor of San Francisco was 65 years old. Our thoughts and prayers with his wife, aknnita and his daughters and entire family. In accordance with the city charter, i assume the role of mayor of San Francisco effective immediately. I want to thank the invedable staff at zuckerberg general for their care and professionalism. Reporter profound sadness is the best way to um up what we saw on the faces of those folks here this morning as they held that News Conference roughly around 3 30 a. M. Regarding the passing of mayor ed lee. Its having a big time impact here in San Francisco and abroad. Moments ago you talked with former San Francisco
Mayor of San Francisco, ed lee, died unexpectedly overnight alongside his family. He died at San Francisco zuckerberg hospital. We are told he died of a heart attack this morning, early this morning. Stunned city leaders gathered outside the hospital. We want to go to pete suratos. He is live there at the hospital. He was there for the press conference this morning. Pete, certainly a shocking time for a lot of people out there this morning, im sure. Reporter yeah, shocking time indeed. The News Conference took place around 3 30 a. M. , a couple hours after mayor ed lee passed away here at San Francisco zuckerberg General Hospital this morning. We did see now acting mayor, london breed speaking alongside the board of supervisors here. A very emotional time. They discussed the passing of mayor ed lee at the age of 65. Lets show you the video of her speaking. It is with profound sadness icon firm mayor edwin m. Lee passed away early this morning, tuesday, december 12, at 1 11 a. M. At zuc
Live. The mayor died at 1 11 am today tuesday, from an apparent heart attack. The mayor was just working yesterday even tweeting about a new public works project. Board of supervisors president london breed will be taking over as acting mayor for the time being. President london breed will now take over as acting mayor for the time being. Thats right. We heard from her just a moment ago. She was at city hall and thats where pete suratos is as well. Quite emotional there this morning, but really, you know, she presented that the city will be able to move on as well, pete. Reporter yeah, thats right, laura. Very passionate speech there. A statement by current acting mayor london breed, really drawing parallels between herself and mayor ed lee that passed away this morning. We reported about it all morning. Passed away at the age of 65. Im telling you guys, i believe the video youre seeing now, these are some of the images here. When youre here on this second floor at San Francisco city h
Thank you. We have another aviation story now. Some passengers taking exception to a new American Airlines campaign ad. It says that great passengers make the best of their situations whether that may be a crying baby or a crowded seat, but the new ads are running into turbulence on social media. One message says america is in effect telling their customers to stop whining. Another suggests maybe its the airline that should adjust its attitude and some of the comments we cant even repeat. Well just say that. Its very interesting and very commercial seeming to suggest blaming the passenger. But most of the delays that American Airlines has endured according to a recent report are caused by the airline itself maybe the airline does have to shift its attitude. They should take a little bit of the blame. I will say this, the people on the plane have gotten much nicer, the flight attendants over the years what airline are you flying . They used to be mean to me. Now theyre a little bit nice
This tuesday april 14th. Karen is off today. Lets go over to dave murphy. Yesterday it was lovely in the afternoon and matt pelman is taking a look at traffic. Good morning. We have those expected changes in your Weather Forecast this morning. As you take a look at Storm Tracker six live double scan you can see showers beginning to inch their way into berks and lancaster county, northwestern Chester County also pick pentagon up a little bit of this. It is on its way in and it looks like it will get here in time for the morning commute at least the second half of it and things will be rather damp. You can also see on satellite and radar that theres a fair amount of cloud cover behind this precipitation and it does look as though that cloud cover is going to be pretty much stuck with us throughout the day. Now, that band of rain doesnt look all that bad and it does look like in philadelphia it probably will be pushing through and ending either around lunchtime or early this afternoon. Th