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But if liccardo is elected mayor. Keep in mind this is a referendum on current mayor chuck reed. That is a sign that the people agree with the current mayoral administration. Live in san jose, mark kelly, kpix5. Thanks mark. We are going to take a look at liccardos key enforcements. The San Jose Mercury news. Mayor chuck reed is one of his big backers. Former mayor susan hammer as well. And who was supporting dave cortese. The firefighters and the santa clara democratic county party. Police and firefighters have pulled no punch in the race. They really want cortese. Reporter thats right liz. We have also heard that a lot of police and firefighters plan to leave the city if mr. Liccardo is elected mayor. That is how high the stakes are in this election here tonight. And we have just had a little bit of excitement. Let me tell you what has been going on here. They have a computer here posting some numbers and it was just updated a ....
Us live in oakland this morning with comments from the candidates. Good morning. Reporter good morning. They still have some ballots to count yet some vote by mail ballots that voters dropped off here at the county Registrars Office in oakland. But libby schaaf as you mentioned declared victory early this morning. Out of the 15 candidates for mayor of oakland, it looks like she came out on top. Things look good pretty early for the Current City Council member after 15 rounds of counting rank Choice Voting ballots. She got almost 63 of the vote. This is the campaign that was fueled by love for oakland. These passionate people stretched themselves. They talked to strangers, they covered every square inch of oakland. Reporter current mayor and candidate jean quan came in right after her according to the latest numbe ....
Candidate jean quan came in third according to the latest numbers after one tough term as oaklands mayor since 2011 and a hardfought campaign to keep her job. I have been saying if you are going to blame me for everything that went wrong in the city for the last 10 years then you better give me credit for the things that have been going right in the last few years. Reporter this election is based on the ranked Choice Voting system. One by one the candidates who received the fewest first choice votes are eliminated and each vote cast for that candidates is transferred to the voters next choice. Schaaf says her First Priority as mayor of oakland would be to improve Public Safety. Back to you. A lot of work to do there, anne. Tell us, 15 candidates in this race, how did schaaf set herself apart from from all the people runnin ....
Security that they need to achieve their mission. So general williams is a very busy man right now. The u. S. Military has a lot going on in africa right now. You might remember that u. S. Troops were dispatched to uganda to help root out joseph coney there. Theyve also been sent to the Central African republic to look for elements of joseph coneys rebel group. Theyve sent around 80 troops to the nation of chad to help in the search for the missing nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram. A longstanding Counterterrorism Campaign in somalia and yemen right across the gulf from somalia. A contingent of u. S. Troops was sent to mali to support that countrys fight against islamic militants there. On top of all of that now is this big new effort in the western african nations of guinea, liberia and sierra leone. Its going to be a long time deal because that effort ....
For elements of joseph coneys rebel group. Theyve sent around 80 groups to the nation of chad to search for the missing schoolgirl. The United States has a long standing antiterrorism campaign in somalia and yemen, right across the gulf from somalia. A contingent against mill tants there. And, on top of all of that, theres this big new effort in guinea, sierra leone and liberia which is going to be a longtime deal. That effort is for the u. S. Military to essentially build up the Public Health infrastructure of those entire countries. Build up the Public Health infrastructure in those countries for those countries. So that the outofcontrol epidemic that those countries are battling there doesn continue to threaten the rest of the world. So being the head of u. S. Army, africa, riegtsd now, means youre business i. It means y ....