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
Francisco. Oakland visibility went down in the airport to 6 miles, concord 5,. 3 for santa rosa. So it is dropping a lot there in the valley areas. You can see a lot of the low lying pockets of patchy fog. If you are heading that way, thats going to be an issue and its because the winds again are still calm across the south bay, across San Francisco, about 5mileperhour winds. Thats it. Picking up a little bit in berkeley this morning across the hills a little stronger. But across the north bay, you can see calm conditions there. And thats not helping clear the air, not helping push out any of the fog. Thats why our air quality looks like this for the coast and for the north bay air quality definitely unhealthy for sensitive groups so whats that mean . Fireplaces not allowed. Its illegal to use your fireplace. There are 1. 4 million fireplaces across the bay area and thats the number one source of winter pollution. So keep that in mind. Its not allowed. But things are going to change th