Other choice. Walk up to the car with my gun drawn looking for a shooter. Reporter michael lap the was the first prosecution witness today. Epps the mayor of Corte Madeira the own other of a wellknown ice cream a reserve police officer, he was first on the scene and recounted what simon told him. Protect my wife. I feared for my life. What was i supposed to do . Reporter dr. Simons lawyer tells me the d. A. Has helped his case and that he will argue when the hearing continues tomorrow. Simon feared for his life and fired his gun in selfdefense. I will be there and tell if you this case does go to trial. Thanks very much. Well abc7 news has learned new information about a Police Shooting in San Francisco last night that seems to support claims that the victim wanted to be killed by officers. This is a letter apparently written by 32yearold Matthew Hoffman explaining what he was planning to do. Abc7 News Reporter vic lee was the first to report on the contents of the letter earlier today. It begins with dear sfwers, you did nothing wrong. Hoffman tells the officers please dont blame yourself. The man wrote to his father and friends about financial troubles and failed relationships. San Francisco Police shot and killed hoffman last night when he flashed a gun at officers outside the Mission District station. That turned out to be an air soft pellet gun. In sacramento today, Governor Brown set some ambitious new environmental goals for california n the next 15 years, he wants half the electricity we use to come from renewable sources. He wants to cut the use of oilbased fuels in cars in half and he wants to double the Energy Efficiency of california buildings. Brown and republican earl warren are the only california governors who serve offed three terms in office. Today, brown was sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term. We have a picture from when he was sworn in for the first time, that was back in 1975. 40 years ago tomorrow there it is. Abc7 News ReporterLaura Anthony was in sacramento today when history was made. The tasks ahead are daunting. Reporter he may be starting an unprecedented fourth term but appears california governor jerry brown has no maps to slow down. The challenge is to build from the future not steal from it. To live within our means and to keep california ever golden and creative as our forebears have shown and as our descendents would expect. Reporter the 74yearold brown dedicated a good portion of his address to education including greater funding for k through 12 and lessening the burdening on those seeking higher education. I will not make the students of california the default financiers of our colleges and universities. Reporter brown made no mention of a controversial plan to build water tunnels in the delta but he briefly mentioned highspeed rail and improving californias overall infrastructure and he vowed to continue the fight to preserve the environment, create more Renewable Energy and less pollution. We are needlessly turning the gold we have inherited from our forebearers into straw. Reporter lawmakers on both sides to of the aisle applauded the governors speech but republicans later took issue with several key points. We already have electricity rates that are 50 higher than our neighboring states so at what point does being on the leading edge of environmental reform impact our ability to create jobs for our middle class . Reporter one area both sides can agree on the governors continued effort at pension reform including a proposal to have state employees brie fund their own retire. In sacramento Laura Anthony, abc7 news. Also sworn in to their second terms in office today, Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom and attorney general camilla harris, both from San Francisco. Pot are said to be interested in running for governor in four years. Oaklands 50th mayor today, the former Council Member welcomed by constituents and other elected officials as well as protesters outside the Paramount Theater in oakland. Abc7 News ReporterLyanne Melendez is live with how the mayor plans to turn things around in a city facing serious problems. Lyanne . Reporter well, before that, i have to say that the mayor arrived in this vehicle, the snail mobile, which he has made somewhat famous now. But watch the new mayor focus on development and growth here in oakland. Now the city is an old city, oakland is and the infrastructure is also old. Now, she will also focus on education. Thats what she told us but in the first 30 days, the may letter focus on also reducing the crime rate here in oakland and also trying to keep oaklands sports teams from leaving. More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Paramount Theater of the arts as oaklands new mayor officially took office. I i state your blame. Name. Reporter the group demanded an end to police brutality. Here to ask her which side are you on libby . Reporter she said she embraces these kinds of demonstrations but will not tolerate the acts of vandalism oakland has experienced. A new year and we have a new mayor and we want libby to be clear that we expect her to be an active part of ending the war on black people. And i am going to continue to hold our Police Departments feet to the fire to do more to prevent that type of damage. Reporter local businesses have been impacted by the violence and looting caused by a few protesters. Her goal is to have a better working relationship with police, something former mayor kwan didnt have. Please raise your right hand. Reporter one of three council bhebs was sworn in today. He believes the city should do more to try to hire more officers. We have students out of community college, high school, a pipe line for the city of oakland into our police department. I think that changes the whole dynamic. Reporter during her first 30 days, the mayor says she will focus on a deal to keep the raiders from leaving oakland and, of course, the as as well. I will not put public money into the deal but a lot of other things that we as a city and county can do to keep our sports teams developed an incredible coliseum complex out in the coliseum area. I am very focused on that right now. Reporter for now the raiders appear to stay for at least one year in oakland while a deal is reached. Of the office of mayor for the city of oakland. Congratulations. Thank you. Reporter in oakland, Lyanne Melendez abc7 news. Chuck reid the former mayor of san jose has landed a new job. Reid will be joining the Real Estate Group of san joses hopkins and carly law firm. Reid is a 197 graduate of Stanford Law School and the managing partner of a law practice before serving two terms as mayor. He has extensive experience in real estate land use and environmental law. Reids successor has taken office but his ceremonial swearing in is tomorrow. A man accused of neglecting dozen of horses in morgan hill will serve 90 days in jail. Humberto uribe was sentenced today for felony animal abuse. 38 horses were seize from him in november after complaints from neighbors about the conditions they were living in. His jail term will end this week because of time already served. His sentence also includes five years probation, counseling and he will not be allowed to care for any animal for ten years. Rescue groups and residents have taken in those neglected horses. Three dozen families at a san jose apartment complex finally have hot water and heat tonight after a big tree fell and ruptured a gas line. It took six days to complete the repair at the apartments off 280 near San Jose City college. Residents want to know why it took so long. Abc7 News Reporter david louie looked into it. Reporter you can imagine the frustration when theres no hot water running out of the tap or shower, when it stretches into six days theres a limit to asking friends to shower at their house. Howard hun, a disabled card club employ, why i joined fellow residents in pestering work crews how much longer it would take to repair a gas line that was ruptured when a tree fell on it last tuesday. This is what it looked like captured on google earth. Pg e says the landlord was responsible for the repair. All the neighborhood come out here to check in and go to finish the job as soon as they can but the people that do the job, they cannot tell you until, you know when they finish like five, six days. Reporter a man identifying himself as a property manager would not talk to us on camera about the delay, however, the Building Division of San Jose City hall said it was never notified about the repair job until later friday afternoon. It offered to send out a inspector to approve the repair but the work was not completed until this morning. The repair work was completed and then the city did expedite the paperwork so it could be issued immediately and the gas has been turned back on as of today. Reporter once the repair was inspected and approved pg e crews quickly sent out a team to put the gas meter in line. Crews also went to each of the 36 units to light hot water tank pilot lights. The situation is really a good reminder for Property Owners to contact the city right away when a gas line has been broken and needs repair so that we are at the ready to expedite the process. Reporter six days enduring cold nights and cold showers are finally over. What are you gonna do now . Gonna jump in the shower, take a shower. Reporter a long, hot shower . Yes, sir. Reporter in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. I will bet. Well, there is more to come here tonight on abc7 news. Just ahead the truth about an electronic cigarette. They are not as safe as you might think. A bay area city launches a campaign to clear the air. And we will show you where your Christmas Tree goes once the holidays are over and the benefits we get from recycling them. Im spencer christian. Tomorrow, near record warmth in some parts of the bay area. I will show you how warm it will be where you are in my accuweather forecast in just a moment. Good news for air travelers about their bags. Really. Im michael those who ride muni and b. A. R. T. Will begin to see a new ad Campaign Launched by San Franciscos tobaccofree project. The ads dont target regular cigarettes but the increasingly popular ecigarettes. Abc7 News Reporter, carolyn tyler, has the story. Reporter according to the centers for disease control, 20 million americans have tried vaping at least once. Inhaling and exhaling vapors from liquid nicotine through a batterypowered device. Unlike traditional cigarettes, theres no tar or carbon monoxide, but the San FranciscoHealth Department believes theyre dangerous. It contains heavy metals, just like cigarettes do. It contains carcinogens, just like cigarettes do. Most importantly, it contains nicotine. Reporter the Health Department is posting hundreds of billboards like these on muni buses and b. A. R. T. Trains in an effort to educate the public. But former smoker Shauna Anderson visiting tasty vapor in oakland, says ecigarettes helped weep her off her camels and Avery Hastings views vaping as harm reduction. Cigarettes are toxic waste dumps you put in your body where stuff like this is just a little bit less of a toxic waste dump. So for me i dont care. Reporter last year, San Francisco supervisors passed an ordinance regulating ecigarettes the same as traditional smokes. Sponsor eric maher is especially concerned about the thousands of teenagers lured by the candylike flavors. The ecigarette companies and big tobacco are really trying to use this new frontier of vaporizers and ecigarettes to hook a new generation and its a local governments role to protect the public health. Are it should be regulated but should be regulated fairly. Reporter the owner of tasty vapor is also a member of the smokefree alternatives trade association. You cannot penalize the large number of adults who have been resigned to smoking out of fer of a couple of kids picking this up. Reporter the fda proposed regulations last year but they have not been finalized. Carolyn tyler abc7 news. Two suspected car thieves are in custody tonight following a highspeed police chase from lafayette to oakland. It was wild. The object of the chase, a red sedan, crashed on highway 24 near the called cot tunnel and slammed into two other vehicles one of them overturned. There you see it in the middle of your screen. The Highway Patrol says the chase reached speeds in excess of 100 miles a hour before officers stopped the chase just east of the tunnel. It started in lafayette where police ran the cars license plate and it came back stolen. Victims of last months rain storms can now get some help from the federal government. The u. S. Small Business Administration has opened a temporary Disaster Loan Outreach Center on miller avenue in south San Francisco. People and businesses impacted by the heavy rain we had can come here to apply for lowinterest loans to help rebuild and repair the damage. Its a tough time, you know, holidays and the weathers cold and you dont have a home to live in. Youre just displaced and its hard. So, we are thinking this is very critical for them and hopefully, many, many of the residents will be able to get the help that they are seeking. The help center will be open through january 15th. For more information go to our website, abc7. Com. Time to start thinking about recycling those dried out Christmas Trees. Ecology workers have already picked up thousands of trees around San Francisco. They are being taken to this processing yard near candlestick where the tree stands and leftover decorations are being removed. The tries wont be composted, they are too acidic for that instead, they will be made into biofuel. Very full of energy. They are they have this pine pitch in there and so we chip them up, griped them and then that goes to a biomass facility and its used as fuel. Last year, 539 tons of Christmas Trees were recycled in San Francisco. Remember, the tree should be placed on the curb on regular gar badge collection days. Recycling Program Continues until january 15th. Almost smell the pine scent watching those pictures, cant you . The anonymous donor behind tips for jesus has hit San Francisco again. The mysterious frequent diaper left a large tip for servers at the tacolicious on valencia street friday night. The tip, 2,000. The restaurant says the person who left the tip comes in all the time and is amazing to the staff. The tip will be shared with everyone who works there. Thats nice. Way to start the new year. Absolutely. We are starting a mild warmup maybe . No such thing as average weather conditions here in the bay area. Averages somewhere between extremes, two extremes, extremely mild or extra emily cold. Tomorrow will be the extremely mild. Here is a look at live doppler 7 hd. Clear skies right now. Some high clouds above. And of course we have poor air quality. Today was our fourth consecutive spare the air day. Tomorrow will be the fifth. A time lapse view late after into approaching sunset from our east bay camera emeryville, see a little bit of haze with the clouds there. Tomorrow, spare the air day number five in a row, see poor air quality across the entire region, but especially for the inland east bay and Santa Clara Valley. Remember, no wood burning through tuesday. Now, a live view from our rooftop camera looking out over the embarkcaderoembarcadero, temperature readings, 57 San Francisco 51 oakland. 55 san jose and morgan hill. Half moon bay, 59 degrees. A live view looking toward coat tower from our exploratorium camera, 51. Santa rosa 48. Napa, 46. Navado fairfield, 49. Chilly up there. 53, con copped and livermore. Sutro tower looking out over San Francisco, forecast features, sunny and warmer the next two days, record highs possible in a couple locations tomorrow. A slight chance of sprinkles by the end of the week. Not rain, just sprinkles. Satellite image showing a strong ridge of High Pressure, dominant feature in our weather picture now, deflecting the jet stream well to our north, not allowing any rainmakers to move generally or directly at us. We have stagnant conditions continuing also with this dome of High Pressure sitting over the bay area. Thats why we have declining air quality and more spare the air days. Forecast animation, 6 00 tomorrow morning, which point, there will be a little bit of fog moving from the Central Valley through the delta and carquinez strait. Skies generally clear, a little bit of a warmup, not much of a warmup from san pan blow bay northward and eastward, going southward, high temperatures near record levels tomorrow parts of the Santa Clara Valley and monterey bay area. Overnight, see low temperatures dropping into the mid to upper 30s a