People who lived here is what he had. Supervisor london breed is the acting mayor of San Francisco. Ed was not a politician. He didnt always deliver the best sound bite. Flash never mattered to him. Disagreements never deterred him. Was humbled and determined no matter the job he held. He was fair and collaborative no matter the heat of the moment. He was San Franciscos firstationan mayor. Do solemnly swear. Known as a champion for the homeless and civil rights he was appointed by the thenmayor gavin newsom i stood her seven years ago swearing him in. I was just in his office and they boxed everything up. I mean many of lees colleagues choked back tears they reflected on his life and three decades of service. He was a friend of mine. As an Asian American here elected his mayor ship was important for me. Some criticized him for the cozy relationship with the Tech Industry but he was a voice for those often overlooked. Saying that he was most focused on now was not having people sleeping in the rain and cold this winter. That is what i remember. Not playing the political angles or trying to figure out out anything other than what the right thing to do was. This is a time of reflection. Life is unpredictable and fridge jail remember ed lee the person way more than ed lee the bottle jigs what mattered politician. What mattered most was his work. There was no way you cant like the guy. He was a teddy baefrment it was rare to bear. It was rare to see him without a smile. News of his death came as a shock to all of thus morning. I now recently saw the mayor and you work with many people there closely, i know his death comes especially hard to you as well. Reporter yeah. I was here last week actually when he was signing the marijuana legislation into law set for january 6th. Couple weeks ago i saw him at westlakes joes. He wasnt at the booth. He was so unassuming. He was sitting at the counter. He had his warriors baby hat on. He was so proud he brought them. With him you gave him a hug when you met him. He was a teddy bear. That was the perspective we all had. Gavin newsoms reaction. It sounds like they cleaned out the Mayors Office and it looked like gavin newsom got a little choked up. Can you shed light on what that was about . Yeah. That is skaktdly what he was talking about. He snapped his fingers as if to say life changes just like that. He was here yesterday and now his things are being moved out. He did get choked up. He said out with the old and in with the new, a crass way to put it. He had tears in his eyes and i had nears mine. You get tears in mine. You get to have a relationship when you work with them daily. Aq ladies came from accolades came from outside San Francisco. They had Great Respect for the mayor of San Francisco. Mayor schaaf and licardo were planning to do a lot of things. He was a great friend, confidant and mentor. He was truly a regionalist. Not just in words. He was constantly seeing that we are all intercorrected. The marries were playing joint missions to marries were mayors were working together to projects including a womens empowerment summit. The way he talked about his wife and daughters and the kind of world he wanted them to live in was completely from the heart. Oakland mayor libby schaaf was shaken and heartbreak in. I am sad. This is a rough and tumble profession yet aide lee just stood ed lee just stood out with his true compassion and human illity. I can shall humility. I cant till how much i will miss him. All things g. Not a shred of ego in that man. Hard worker, smart worker and someone who exuded generosity all the time. I lost a good friend. San francisco lost a good champion. Mayor licardo. Mayor lee had a remarkable compassion for people. While leading a large and complex city he also had a wonderful gift for demme straight kindness even demonstrating kindness even in the most difficult times. He understood that the residents didnt care where the city limits twhfrment is one region. We care about how the bay area is doing collectively and we face many of the same challenges. When the public saw the mayor in front of the camera, i wish i could see him behind the camera. Ed lee, he good afternooned San Francisco garget San Francisco and championed the whole area. He was the First Chinese american to become mayor of San Francisco. Many say they have lost their strongest voice in chinatown. Reporter ed lee was so mild o mannered it mild mannered it is hard to remember he was a trail blazer even though he considered himself a politician. He became may have a major city. Someone could follow his foot steps. Those that may attain the position is possible. Ling is a longtime friend of ed lee. He was heart. Didnt matter if it was chinese, africanamerican, hispanics. He was trained to be a social worker. Many overs said lee was concerned that the rising rents in chinatown would hurt. It showed that he cared in everything he did. Lee had another worry. Last week he said to a friend david lee, that there were not enough younger Asian Americans entering San Francisco politics. He was worried that the next generation hasnt stepped up or come forward yes. He felt was really important to yet. He felt it was really important to encourage people to vote and run for office and make sure the chineseamerican community can continue to build on past successes. David chu disagrees i think we have a wonderful diversity of leadership. He says ed lee will go down as an historic leader in politics. He broke a bamboo ceiling. It wasnt long ago that we had little asian representation in city hall. He will be remembered as someone from the community. People we spoke with said that while was proud of his her the yuge really worked hard of his heritage he really worked hard to represent all. Former mayor willie brown us he was in shuck after receiving the call about lees death. I couldnt i couldnt process it. If it had been any other person other than those two who called, i wouldnt have believed them. He s had just introduced me he had just introduced me. London introduced him. He introduced me. Didnt seem to have a care in the world. Brown said he will miss lee personally and said his death is a loss for the city of severe. Our coverage continues on the unexpected death of San Francisco mayor ed lee on ktvu. Com. At 5 30 more on the background of london breed who will take over leading the city. Polls are officially closed in a controversial election in alabama. Will roy moore win Office AmidstSexual Misconduct accusations. And the latest on the fires. The have now scorched for hundred square miles. Well talk about the air quality. You see the redness. That is smoke from the fires. And we have a spare the air day again tomorrow. Sfx squeak sfx stair creak sfx clink sfx deep breath sfx grunt sfx tinny headphone music sfx feet shuffling sfx slice sfx gasp sfx inhale. Exhale. Sfx lights scraping on roof sfx metallic scrape sfx grunt covered california. Its more than just health care. Its life care. A standoff between police and a suspect many oakland ended peacefully this afternoon. It happened at 10 00 this morning near 41st avenue. The swat team set off tear gas inside the home of the suspect tried to escape through a crawl space. Police were waiting for him and caught him. The polls closed 15 minutes ago in the alabama race. Doug jones has an early lead but bear in mind only a few hundred votes have been counted in one precinct. Alabama is a solidly red state which President Trump won by 28 points. This race has been turned upside down by allegations of misconduct by roy moore. Showing you pictures now from moores headquarters. He has denied the accusations of several wham women who were minors at the time of the alleged incidents. Moore was removed from the state Supreme Court for urging clerks clerks to deny marriage linings licenses. He would be the first licenses for gay people. Africanamerican voters and young people were needed for a jones victory, experts said. Reporter well, it is certainly too close to call the. The poles just closed. The race has been dominating the headlines for the last fee weeks. The voters had the chance to today decide between moore and jones. Roy moore, the republican. Im coming to the senate. Well work out the problem theres. He insisted time has passed for the conversations about the accusations. Were done with that. Moore has denied the allegations but they have plagued the race with the former chief justice backed by the president while doug jones is supported by president obama. Weve done a lot. They are up for the Jeff Sessions former senate seat. The race could go either way after months of political ads and National Attention alabama voters are casting ballots. I voted for conservative judges against abortion. Being a teacher i feel jones was the right choice. Were told by each of the campaign thats jones and moore both spent the day with their families after of course, going out to vote. Now they, just like the rest of the nation, are waiting to see how the race turns out. Want to go now to Southern California where the thomas fire in Santa Barbara county has destroyed 800 structures and damaged 200. More than two hundred 30 230,000 acres have burned. 18,000 structures remain threatened. Lets go to bill martin now for the conditions in Southern California. The fire broke out a week ago. You said they might get a break wednesday . Maybe. This model shows. It has been bad fire weather in Santa Barbara area for 7, eight, 8, 9 days now. They are getting a bit of a break. Starting tomorrow afternoon. This is tomorrow morning. I want you to see these areas you can correlate the red to 33 Miles Per Hour as you see here in the banner. But weve had colors, contours representing stronger winds along this stretch of the coast for 7 or 8 days. For tomorrow afternoon it goes away. The winds die down and the direction changes a little bit. It will legitimately be the first opportunity for cal fire get a jump on the fires. That means fixwing aircraft and crews drawing fire lines. I suppose they are working on that now. It looks good for that. They will get a break tomorrow and a little bit beyond that too. Good news in the fire zone in Southern California. The pattern has been consistent. Ridge trough. Jet stream straws it in. It draws it in. Did t does that. That is the fire condition. You get sinking air over us. That is the spare the air day. You get snow, if you watch the game in buffalo. These are the forecast highs for tomorrow. On the east coast 30 degrees in new york. Los angeles is 702. The warmth is here by the rift by the trough here, it is cold. Unsettled in the northeast. Nothing like this. These were the highs observed today by the National Weather service out the monterey and 67 in fair field. I got distracted by the control room. I was looking at the sun set shot. Can you give me that . That illustrates it. The fires and there is spare the air day tomorrow. There is smoke coming up from Southern California were seeing it in the sunsets. I guess we cant ghat shot for you. That is get that shot for you. That is not it. There there it is. I mean, that tells you everything. We were fog this last night. I cant remember the last time in all these years ive seen smoke brought north from hundreds of miles south of here from fire. The sunset is beautiful but it indicates the fires are huge. They will get a handle on them by wednesday start to get a handle by wednesday. Lets hope so. Thank you. Still to come, frightening moments for homeowners in the Oakland Hills. Up next, a fire burns two homes and damaged three others. Why firefighters say it could have been much worse. Get a free pecan or pumpkin pie with every 20 order from dennys. Com. You can eat it wherever you want, even if you are in someone elses house. Santa. Enter promo code, freepie, on your next order at dennys. Com a fire broke out in the Oakland Hills in the montclair nabbed overnight. High winds posed a challenge for firefighters trying to stop the fire from spreading to other homes. It started before 11 30 last night two. Homes under construction went up in flames on snake road. The fire could have been much worse as rob malcolm explains. Reporter as flames raced through snake road. Around 11 20 last night we heard an explosion. We saw the flames shooting out over our hill over this retaining wall area. Reporter neighbors realized they were in danger. The whole room turned orange. I look out and the whole four story new construction home was completely engulfed in flames. Firefighters responded and found two homes under construction burning. The challenge now high winds. It was like a rain of fire coming down. Embers were as high as one 100 feet in the air and winds were up to 18 Miles Per Hour. That created pfrj for disaster. Potential for disasters. Residents quickly got out. I grabbed the keys and got out. The fire was knocked down by sunrise. What remained of the two home is now a pile of rubble. There were scorched christmas decorations. By the time i got my car. I can fetal heat. It was moving quick. I dont know how my house is still there. Hours later another concern you see how this is holding back the rock. According to the civil or Structural Engineer that rock is holding the roadway. There is still a heavy fire danger. For that reason neighbors are still on edge. Firefighters are reminding people to have Defensible Space around their properties. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Anted okay police say they have solved their oldest cold case going back four decades. Police arrested 63yearold mitchell bakum at his home last niechlthd they. They said he was a suspect . The rape and murder of suzanne bombardier. It took this long to link him to her death the man who was convicted of killing and kidnapping sierra lamar is now headed to prison. What her parents saided. Still ahead, will roy for that come out victorious in the senate racing. We will have the latest. Also, remembering the San Francisco mayor ed lee. The 65yearold died early this morning. Our news continues. Hows it going down there . Thats good. Lica misses you. Im over it though. laughter thats fine. I miss her more than you anyway. Hey, my window is closing. Yeah thats okay. Alright miles. I love you. phone hangs up yeah i love you too. Its just my eczema again,t. But its fine. Yeah, its fine. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. Tonight San Francisco is coming to grips with the unexpected death of its mayor ed lee. He died early this morning at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital after collapsing at a safe way store near his home late last night. That means supervisor london breed now steps noted role of mayor into the role of mayor at least temporarily. She said she will always remember ed lee for his efforts to improve public housing. His commitment to tune out noise and trying to get the job done. I will always appreciate him for take my priorities seriously. He was a dedicated and committed public servant. Breed can be voted by the supervises to be the mayor. If they cant clerics will be a general election next year. She grew up in San Franciscos housing projects in the citys Western Addition neighborhood. She attended uc davis and received a masters degree from San Francisco state. Shes been a member of the board of supervises since 2015 and it was believed she was going to run for mayor. Here are updated numbers for you. Roy moore has 36 . Doug jones as 63 but it is very, very early. We have a long night ahead of us. Alabama is a solidly red state which President Trump won by 28 points. Voters there have not sent a democrat to the senate in 23 years. The race was turned upside down by allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Several women accused him of trying date them when he was in his 30s. Bruin, would whatdo you look for in the early number. In the early numbers, they are meaningless by look for trends. If you see somebody surging, you look at where in the state it is coming from. That is theindicate author. We will go a ways tonight before we see the trend out. They havent sent a democrat to the senate in alabama for 25 years. What implications are there if either candidate wins . Moore is suffering from the sexual allegations. He is of course, being pin to the president and republican party. The republican partys job is to say this is an anoly based on the actions of the person. The thing about what julie said about how long its been since a democrat won there, its almost an i possible task for a democrat to win there. The fact it is being discussed or close, what does that say . It says since the story broke weeksing that immediately people in alabama wanted to dismiss it, hearsay, not true. As it went on and people started putting names to victims and the stories came out, people in alabama started to see the creepy factor in all of this and saying this isnt right. If it is true, we have a problem with this guy. Further, when there were so many accusers. Its not just one, several. That began to alarm people in alabama. If moore won, what is next for senate republican. They will bring him to washington dc. He will be a senator. 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