This city council to push for sound policies that allow richmond to grow and thrive. They havent tried to be a partner. What they have tried to do is buy city council that they own. And this is what they failed to do. Reporter this relationship isnt going to be strengthened overnight and no one thinks compromise will come easily but doesnt expect any huge butt doesnt expect any huge confrontation with chevron. Many issues were resolved by regulators after the refinery fire two years ago but he wonders, if city elections might change. Richmond has what he calls a tradition of behind the scenes machines controlling elections. I think the part thats different is it doesnt work anymore. Reporter whats interesting to note is that voters clearly rejected the chevronbacked candidates, but last year, people in richmond were asked to outline their priorities. At the very top was safety on the streets, crime reduction. They are also concerned about the condition of the roads. The refinery wasnt their top priority. Yeah. Roads and just like every other community in the bay area. Ann notarangelo in richmond, thank you, ann. The mayorelect told ann that he actually didnt think he would win. He got into the race just this past august so the voters would have another option. Some contests are still too close to call including a congressional race. Allen martin is live in the newsroom with the latest on the battle for district 17. Allen. Reporter the democrat against democrat race [ no microphone ] reporter the costliest Congressional Campaign in the bay area is still not over. 100 of precincts are reported. Mike honda leads ro khanna by 4. 5 points but thousands of absentee and provisional ballots still have to be tallied. Honda is seeking his 8th term representing the 17th district which covers much of Santa Clara County and the southern part of Alameda County. Fellow democrat ro khanna put up the biggest challenge honda has ever faced. The Honda Campaign held off today declaring victory but said things are looking good. It may be a while before we have a winner. The registrar will be counting ballots through the weekend. 3million spent by each candidate. The san jose mayors race is still also too close to call tonight. However, that did not stop sam liccardo from declaring victory. Im making this announcement because i think its time for us to move beyond the election day battles. Its time for healing in the city. Well, he holds a 2,000vote lead over dave cortese but as many as 125,000 ballots or more may still need to be counted. Its one of the reasons cortese is not yet ready to concede. Theres too many ballots out there. Whoever comes out on top will take office on january 1. It is a different story in oakland. Councilwoman libby schaaf set to become the next mayor there. Schaaf beat Rebecca Kaplan 63 37 . Our Political Insider phil matier with whats going to happen in oakland. Libby schaaf is charged up after the big win. Hit the ground running, walk, driving, which is exactly what she did today. She wasted no time declaring herself the winner and saying she wants to start moving right away. Heres the story. Reporter oakland got a new mayorelect today a 48yearold native whose first goal is to change both the citys image and its direction. Its time for this city to come together. Reporter schaafs goal is to replace the image of oakland as a chaotic city in the middle of a crime wave. To one of a city on the rise full of neighborhoods that are both hip and more affordable than neighboring San Francisco. A vision political consultant larry tramatola says was right on target with voters. Oakland was saying that were normal. Im looking for somebody who can get things done. Make it more userfriendly, people friendly. A government thats more responsive to its people and a government that delivers the most basic service at all of all, and thats safety. Reporter perhaps the biggest change will be schaaf sees herself as a sales woman. Oakland has a great story to tell. Reporter something that the often dour looking jean quan never pulled off. Oakland cant wait to start moving in another direction. Reporter schaaf already got one big break. In the same election, voters overwhelmingly approved extending a tax to help pay for more police. And i think that is something we all have in common and that voter in oakland is looking for. For oakland. [ applause and cheers ] reporter didnt just win with the cops, though. You know, winning with the economy, as well. If you have been over to oakland, seen it, its on the rise. Okay . Its picking up from San Francisco like the rest of the bay area and thats what voters in oakland are saying. We are seeing berkeley go up, san leandro go up, we are seeing the rest of the bay area, lets join on the elevator. People who live there say there are three issues that bug them safety, safety and safety. She wants to differentiate herself from quan who never got off the ground with that. Going to try to bring the cops back. Its not just policing. She has to get herself a police chief in there that she agrees with, maybe the one thats in there now, and get it going. Otherwise, same thing do haunt her as haunted quan, safety, safety, safety. Thank you. Governor jerry brown also won in a landslide over republican neel kashkari. Today he had this to say to california voters. I really appreciate the voter confidence that the voters have given me for a fourth term. Its unprecedented. And i see it as an opportunity to make government do what its supposed to do and thats work efficiently. The governor was so heavily favored, he didnt campaign. Instead he pushed propositions 1 and 2. San francisco was one of the cities to raise the minimum wage. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman asked employers and job seekers if it will make a difference. Reporter the signs where. Walk down valencia street in the mission and it wouldnt be hard to find a job. Everything from walgreens and target retail to the Solar Companies that need labor. Reporter jobs . Its a buyers market. Are you having trouble finding work now . No. Im looking for a better job. Reporter San Francisco just passed what will become one of the nations highest minimum wages from 10. 74 to 15 an hour by 2018. [ indiscernible ] reporter thats what shane pays his employees. He is having trouble keeping good workers which is why he came to this job fair. A lot of the people are having to apply from outside San Francisco so they have to commute and a lot of time they dont last because they have to commute. Reporter average apartment in San Francisco over 3,000 a month. You make minimum wage . You could pay half that if you didnt eat, before taxes. Anthony is barely making it. Like i said, two heads better than one. Reporter he lives in Public Housing with a partner. We have been focusing on people who have been chronically unemployed due to anything from stepping out of the job market to raise a family, coming home from incarceration, coming home from the military. Reporter they now have a shot at getting a job. Those in the market already like the Security Guard can move up. [ inaudible ] reporter you think you might get one of these jobs . Sure. Reporter life still wont be easy. A little easier. Mike sugerman, kpix 5. San francisco will match seattle as the cities with the highest minimum wage in the country. In oakland, voters overwhelmingly approved raising the minimum wage. It will go up from 9 an hour to 12. 25 next march. In one week the government has given out more than 2 million in aid to help napa recover from the earthquake. Fema has received close to 2,000 applications from homeowners and renters. The money can be used for repairs, medical expenses or temporary housing. Only people in napa and solano counties are eligible. Other bay area headlines, san jose finally got the water shut off from that broken main. It snapped just before 1 p. M. This afternoon sending a river of water down the villages parkway. As messy as this looks, no homes have lost their service. The city says the line is only used by fire hydrants. The break caused one of the hydrants to sink. The cause is unknown. The driver of this mini cooper apparently overdid it while trying to park in this foster city garage. Id say so. This is at the crowne plaza. The car went careening off the second floor around 11 a. M. A couple of cars were damaged. No injuries. Well, the key to solving the ebola crisis might be in our backyard. Coming up, find out why the Bay Area Company behind it hasnt worked on it in years. Sex ed gets political in one east bay school district. The issue, who is giving the lessons . Beautiful day to get outside and a beautiful sunset from the berkeley hills. Can we push the repeat button on this if you want to get outside or better yet, can we get some rain here in the bay area which we sorely need . Find out what the next seven days have in store with the weather. Thats coming up. , youll connect withnte, your doctor any time, anywhere. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Become a member of kaiser permanente. Because together, we thrive. Ramos takes inside the opern to stop the de s new at 6 00, a south San Francisco company could hold the key to putting an end to the ebola crisis. Kpix 5s john ramos takes us inside the operation to stop the deadly virus in its tracks. Reporter vaxart is a small Biotech Company in south San Francisco that is unknown. Jackie speier hadnt heard of them. Had i know the read an article in the newspaper i wouldnt have known that they were here. Reporter the company may be an important player in preventing worldwide outbreaks of diseases like ebola. They have developed a way to put vaccines in tablet form making their products more stable with a longer shelf life eliminating the need for cold storage which can be hard to find in poor third world countries. It can be mailed. It can be dropped from helicopters. And it could in fact be part of the solution. Reporter thats why its so surprising that this project was shelved back in 2012. The ceo says they just couldnt find any funding. Private investors didnt see a profit in it. And governments tend to focus on treating victims. We would love to see in general more funding go into a vaccine. I dont know the exact numbers. But its being a sliver of the funds that have been made available have been made available for vaccine development. Reporter even with funding, getting fda approval is a slow process. But as the world gets smaller, its becoming less possible to view disease as something happening over there this is going to happen again and again. So ebola might come back or next virus might emerge. This is the ideal platform to respond to those newly emerging trends. Reporter in south San Francisco, john ramos, kpix 5. John says that the company can develop a vaccine for ebola probably wouldnt be available until 2015 at the earliest if they can develop it. Its not the Sex Education but who is teaching it that has parents angry in lafayette. Planned parenthood teaches Sex Education classes in the acalanes district. The program has been going on for 10 years but a group of parents says planned parenthood has an agenda. Planned parenthood is a business. It is a business that sells sex. Its way to get clientele is to sexualize young people and turn them into life long clients. I never felt like planned parenthood was, you know, promoting their own services or encouraging us to have sex or anything like that. The district superintendent says planned parenthood does teach abstinence. The parent group plans to ask the school board to cut ties with planned parenthood tonight. Checking in with meteorologist paul deanno, because somehow the clock is moved backwards but we are now into july again. Because after october, as we teach children in school, after october is july. [ laughter ] and then june. And then february. Now, its thats what it feels like. Mother nature is completely confused because this is the time of year when we should be cooling down. We should be getting rain chances. Look outside. Its dark now but look outside earlier today. Youre going to see this. I knew i was going somewhere. We have a beautiful shot, thank you wayne our director for finding this, gorgeous shot of the full moon clear skies no fog everybody gets to enjoy it. Enjoy that in Half Moon Bay and pleasanton up toward the delta even up toward ukiah. Everybody enjoying the full moon tonight. 81 degrees in oakland today. Veronica you asked for the 80s. You got it. 80s in observations for you. 79 morgan hill. 77 in san jose. Fremont 77. San francisco 75. San rafael 72. Busy on the golden gate bridge, but also fogfree. We are rainfree on the radar will be for a while. tis the season with all these holiday ice rinks opening up as we head toward christmas. Tomorrow the one at union square opens up and its going to be sunny, mild, and 70 degrees. Makes you want to go figure skating. 70 degrees outside. Well, you can. They will keep the ice cold but the air will not be because of this. A ridge of High Pressure did move a bit. Its farther to the south allowing a storm system get closer to us. It means cooler and cloudier tomorrow with filtered sunshine. No rainfall. It will be hundreds of miles to the north. Ridge builds in after tomorrow. The rain stays up in the Pacific Northwest and gets stronger over the weekend where well see 80s once again over the water. Mid70s in the bay. A change in the pattern is coming. Its there and still at least 7 days away. Rain on the way but not over the next week. Highs tomorrow not as warm as today but pleasant. Filtered sunshine in fremont, 72. Napa 75. San rafael 73. San francisco 68 tomorrow. Another mild day on friday then well just call it warm because the 80s in november inland is warm. Great weekend to get out. Next week i dont have a rain chance yet on the sevenday forecast. But were trending in that direction next tuesday and next wednesday. So waiting for the rain impatiently. This is unusual. Its not like this in november . It can be but usually we turn the corner. Over the past 10 years we turn the corner around halloween so november, its not typically this warm or dry. But you can still enjoy it. Its only the 5th. No panic yet. No. Not yet. Were just enjoying it. Its okay. So just when you thought the Big Tech Companies had thought of every perk possible, soon twitter employees may not even have to go outside to go next door. The social media giant wants to build a sky bridge to connect its San Francisco headquarters. It would link several floors of its two Office Buildings at tenth and market. The City Planning Office says it has received a bridge proposal but hasnt reviewed it yet. If it stays nice outside, wouldnt even matter. I would just go outside. There you go. Take a walk. These people handle potentially harmful chemicals every days. One companys plan to protect salon workers. Plus a perk if your car is recalled. What gm is offering to get drivers in the door for repairs. Tempurpedic mattresses. Lar you can even choose 48 months interestfree financing on the new tempurchoice, with headtotoe customization. The triple choice sale ends tuesday, veterans day. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep six of our best sixinch subs simple 6 menu. Like the italian bmt and tender turkey breast with a 21ounce drink and a bag of chips for just 6 every day. Its value made simple. Subway announced record shares of test will surged in afterhours trading after the bay areabased electric carmaker announced record deliveries of its model s sedan t put out nearly 7800 of the luxury sedans in the 3rd quarter. That is up more than 40 from the same quarter last year. And thats despite a temporary shutdown of its fremont factory in july to enlarge the assembly line. The dow was up, nasdaq down, s p up. Santa clara county could soon take steps to make nail salons safer for workers. Kpix 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts explains what could be done to protect nail technicians. Reporter the city of santa monica was the first to do it. Now Santa Clara County is considering a healthy nail salon law. Salon workers are regularly exposed to chemicals known or suspected to cause cancer and other health issues. And they have long complained of rashes, headaches and respiratory problems. County supervisors want an ordinance that would reward nail salons that provide healthy work conditions like gloves, ventilation, use of safer products, as well as additional training for technicians. About 80 of Santa Clara Countys more than 7,000 registered nail technician are vietnamese. Many are immigrants and of childbearing age. General motors is trying a new tactic to get car owntors respond to recall notices. The car company is offering a 25 gift card as an incentive to get consumers to fix their recalled cars. So far, only about half of the 2. 5 million cars recalled for ignition switch defects have actually been brought in to dealerships for the repair. Car owners will be able to choose a gift card to starbucks, amazon, walmart and a few other retailers. To qualify, the repair has to be done by december 1. The frenzy over the movie frozen is showing no signs of stopping. Earlier this year we told but a shortage of elsa dresses. Thats no longer a problem. Disney now estimates that 3 million elsa and anna dresses have been sold since the movie opened a year ago. Lots of them turned up on trick or treaters last week, im sure you saw some. And its not just dresses. Frozen theme merchandise is expected to be a big seller this Holiday Season meaning disney will continue to cash in. Now, there are other items, as well. About 700 other items tied to the movie double the amount as last year when that movie first opened. Odds are if you know a little girl youll be buying something frozen this year. I was at a certain large theme park in Southern California this summer when that movie came out. And they literally had a forklift come in and kept dropping dolls into