Suddenly and unexpectedly passes away at the age of 65. There are flowers covering the mayors desk inside his City Hall Office tonight. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im dion lynn in for ama daetz. The death of ed lee left the bay area stunned. His impact spread far beyond San Francisco. Well share some of the stories with you tonight. And reporter vic lee has more now acting mayor made the official announcement late this morning. But those here already knew. This after breed held meetings with the mayors staff and Department Heads before her news conference. Their tributes had a common thread, common words to describe what most called a kind, gentle man. Im drawn to the kind of leader thats nice. Ed lee was nice. He was a mayor who led with compassion, who was an incredibly kind person. Ed lee always had an open door for any of us. We can call him at any time. Mayor lee came from humble beginnings. He grew up in public housing. His father a veteran, mother a seamstress. He never forgot his roots. Stood up for immigrants, stood up for people. Never forgot who he was or where he came from. He was quiet, laid back, low key. Knew what he needed to do. Get the job done. His priorities, mourners said, were housing, homelessness, jobs and minimum wage. Lee had Many Political battles in his three decades of public service. Opponents may have disagreed with him on policy, but everyone agrees that our mayor was a good man with a good heart. With the flags here at city hall at halfstaff, thats where they will be for the next 30 days. Now, i go back on a personal note with mayor ed lee. During the days he was an activist with the asian law caucus. He was a civil rights lawyer, he campaigned for a lot of things that he believed were good. He then spent three decades here at city hall, ultimately as mayor. I believe that he thought he could change things from inside, from within the system. And thats what a lot of people said to us today. People we interviewed here that he did just that. Vic lee, abc 7 news. By so many. Ed lees sudden death was a shock to his fellow mayors in the bay area. Many remembered his kindness which extended beyond professional courtesy. In this rough and tumble world of politics, he truly was a beacon of generosity and of decency of compassion. It is a loss for each one of us personally o who held ed in our hearts as a true friend. His first questions to me were how can i help you . How can we Work Together for the betterment of the region. San francisco will miss ed lee, but i think well all miss ed lee. A House Minority leader, nancy pelosi, welled up with emotion as she spoke with ed lees passing today in washington. This is a terrible loss, personally for me its a great loss. He was my dear friend and a person who, again, always was thinking of the little guy. Pelosi says mayor lee never had an unkind word to say about anyone, calling him a person of great values. This is the front page of tomorrow mornings San Francisco chronicle focusing on the big changes the city has undergone during lees tenure as mayor. Board of supervisors president , london breed will serve as acting mayor for the time being as detailed by the charter. The supervisors have the power to exercise it to vote in another person to serve as acting mayor or more likely the board could let her serve as mayor until june elections. There is not a timeline. For that entire period of time, should they choose not to take any action, mayor breed will be both the acting mayor and the president of the board of supervisors. The special election will take place june 59 of next year to determine who serves at the remainder of the term. That term expires in january of 2020. Lets move on now. A huge win for the democrats tonight and a big loss for President Trump. Democrat doug jones beat republican roy moore in the race to fill attorney general Jeff SessionsVacant Senate seat. Doug jones has 49. 9 of the vote, roy moore has 48. 4 . Thats a narrow margin of 11,000 votes out of 1. 2 million votes cast. So it was raiser thzorthin. Heres jones tonight in birmingham. I have said throughout this campaign that i thought that december 12th was going to be a historic day. But but i got to tell you, and you know where im headed, december 12th has always been a historic day for the jones family. This is, as you know, my and louises 25th wedding anniversary. Roy moore still has not conceded the race and suggests that a recall could be in the works. President trump september out a tweet saying congratulations to doug jones in a hard fought victory. The writein votes played a very big factor but a win is a win. The people of alabama are great and the republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends. Donald trump beat Hillary Clinton by 28 points in alabama in 2016. It was the largest margin of victory in a president ial contest in that state since 1972 and trumps fifth biggest win. In other political news, mark dayton says hell name senator al frankens replacement at 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Franken announced he will step down but he hasnt stepped down yet nor has he set a retirement date. Franken made the announcement after he was accused of sexual misconduct. Arnie carlson is suggesting he should subject himself to an ethics committee. Sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sierra was the teenager who went missing on her way to school five years ago now near morgan hill. Chris nguyen was in the Santa Clara County hall of justice as the case came to a close. Tonight, a family tries to move forward. You never have closure and the pain never goes away, unfortunately. Outside the santa clara count hall of justice, the lamar family reflects on more than five years of heartbreak. Its hard to believe that this happened. I still wake up every day thinking its a dream. But its reality. And im dealing with it every day. In the spring of 2012, 15yearold sierra lamar went missing while heading to school near morgan hill. The disappearance triggered a massive search to find her and the person responsible for the kidnapping. Late this afternoon, 26yearold anglin Garcia Torres seen here was spends sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing lamar. Hell also have to recommendingster recommending st register as a sex offender. I think about her all the time. A lastditch effort from the defense to request a new treel. Torress attorney questioning it was followed by victim impact statements to the court. Sierras parents chose to look at him face to face from the witness stand. Never being able to see her again, have her with us in the holidays. Lamars body has never been found, something that continues to haunt those involved with the case. I hope and pray that one day we will find her and we will be able to lay her to rest. Garcia torress Attorney Says his client plans to appeal the sentence. In san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. Up next, a shooting happened not far from a san jose mall. Just two weeks before christmas. The suspect police are looking for. Whats left of homes in the Oakland Hills after this raging fire sparked overnight. Spencer christian has a preview of the forecast. Looks like well have copd makes it hard to breathe. So to breathe better, i go with anoro. Go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. I say, ill go my own way with anoro. Go your own way oncedaily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that Work Together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. Anoro is not for asthma. It contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. The risk is unknown in copd. Anoro wont replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. Tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. These may worsen with anoro. Call your doctor if you have worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain while taking anoro. Ask your doctor about anoro. Go your own way get your first prescription free at anoro. Com. San jose police are looking for a person of interest. Abc 7 News Reporter janine did he la vega has the latest. Were here on east ridge loop close to the mall where j. C. Penney is. Police are investigating after a man was shot in the head. The man was inside the silver car. A relative just came and is about to drive away in it. That is his car. Police are just wrapping up their investigation. They still have their crime tape up here. Lets go to video taken earlier from sky 7 where you can see the officers on the ground. They were collecting evidence and doing their investigation. You can see just how close it was to the mall parking lot. Officers say just before 1 00 this afternoon, a shot was fired from a car at tully and capital expressway. The gunshot hit a man driving and he had his window open. He realized what happened and police tell us he got out of his car and switched with one of the passengers and had the passenger drive. Then the car came to a rest here on east ridge loop. This is near the bus depot at the east ridge mall. The victim was taken to the hospital. Were told that he has injurie. At this point, police say they do not have any suspects in custody. And right now, they dont each have a description of the suspect vehicle. Reporting from san jose, jeanine did he la vega, abc 7 news. Fire in the Oakland Hills damaged or destroyed more than half a dozen houses forcing people to evacuate overnight. It was scary for a time. Something sparked the fire in the Early Morning hours along snake road. Reporter Leslie Brinkley shows you the damage done. Reporter flames erupted around 11 00 last night on this steep construction site in the Oakland Hills where two homes were nearing completion along snake road. I saw a bunch of embers coming down on the trees. I yelled to my wife to grab the baby. They managed to escape from what he described as a 40foot wall of flames approaching his home and embers raining down. They came back to hook at their home toad blackened by the blaze. Trash cans melted, scorch spots everywhere. Smoke and flames still visible. Firefighters described the air as filled with flying embers as they first arrived they evacuated 50 homes as the flames advanced up a dry hillside fueled by 18 mile an hour winds and extremely low humidity. We were able to save a lot of homes here in Oakland Hills. Could have been a lot worse. Could have been a lot worse. We could be facing what theyre facing in Southern California. I looked through my back window and i saw a wall of fire. I thought it was in the back of my house. It was very scary. In the end, two families were displaced, five homes badly damaged. Structural engineers are evaluating snake road now to determine if its still safe to drive on after the fire. The holtz family says they were appropriately paranoid and had already packed a go bag in the wake of the north bay fires and the Southern California fires. They got out the door in 90 seconds and they credit that with saving their lives. In the Oakland Hills, im Leslie Brinkley, abc 7 news. Now to the latest on the Southern California wildfires. Only one of the five active fires is still a major concern tonight. Thats the thomas fire burning in Santa Barbara counties and Ventura County. Its burned more than 234,000 acres. Thats the equivalent of 360 square miles. 8400 firefighters are attacking the fire from the ground and the sky trying to make some kind of forward progress with 20 containment right now. Our number one concern is to keep the fire out of carpentry a, montecito, sutherland and Santa Barbara. Were doing that so far. Look at this time lapse video. It shows enormous smoke lingering above both counties and ash continues to fall like snow. Also new today, Southern California edison which provide electricity to Ventura County confirmed that the state investigators are looking at whether their equipment helped start this devastating fire. Of course, all these fires that happened in Oakland Hills and down south, so wind dependent this time of the year. Its chilly tonight. But what about the wind . Not to mention the rain which everybody desperately needs, spencer. The three elements were talking about in this weather cast. The wind is upper level wind is bringing some of that smoke up into our area from Southern California. Look at live doppler 7. You can see that although we have essentially clear skies, each at nighttime, a bit of a haze. Its more evident in the daytime hours. Heres why. The snomoke is being carried fit out to sea and then swept northward by the winds aloft. Thats been the pattern for several days now. It accounts for the haze were seeing in the sky but it accounts for the decline in air quality as well. Weve had five consecutive spare the air days. Well have two. Looking out over the embarcadero, currently 55 degrees in San Francisco. But all the other locations here in the 40s. Upper 40s at mountain view. Low 40s at gilroy and halfmo m b bay. As we look westward from the east bay hills camera, napa, novato and fairfield into the 30s already. This is the view from sutro tower looking down over San Francisco and i present the forecast futures. Cold in the inland valleys again tonight. Saw evidence of that. Poor air quality with us the next two days. Theres a chance of rain next week which could be the element we need to shift this weather pattern. Overnight, clear skies, cold conditions in the valleys. Low temperatures will be dropping down to or below freezing in some places. 28 degrees the expected low at santa rosa. Mid30s in the inland east bay and mid30s way down south. Morgan hill. A low of 35 degrees expected. On to tomorrow. It will be another day much like today, hazy sunshine, mild conditions with highs in the mid to upper 630s from coast to bay to inland. Lets talk about air quality. Two more spare the air days coming our way. Two consecutive ones. Tomorrow and thursday. Then moderate air quality on friday and good air quality in some regions by saturday. A change in air quality, a good change is coming our way. Its been a completely dry month. No rainfall measured in the month of december. We dont expect any rain until late next week, thursday and friday. Heres the forecast animation indicating that a system from our north will drop in on thursday bringing rain to the bay area. Whoops. It disappeared. Were expecting rain in the bay area next thursday and friday and snow in the sierra. Things are moving slowly here. Well move along to the accuweather sevenday forecast. Here it is. As i said, there wont be much change in our temperature range the next seven days, very little change in sky conditions. Mainly sunny, increasing clouds on friday, an improvement in air quality but no change in the temperature range. Its going to be nice and mild, almost springlike the next seven days. Were looking at the development of this system that may bring us some rain late next week. Reese says its good for holiday shopping. Way to look at the bright side. Glass is half full. Half full. Thats because i havent started yet. Oh. Little ways. 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