mayor gavin newsom appointed me as the fire chief about seven years ago. today is a really important day. does anybody know what we're about to get ready to do? a fire drill. you are close. an earthquake drill. fire drill, earthquake drill. is the same message, everybody needs to be prepared. we're working closely to make sure we keep each and everyone of you, your families, your school, and your home is safe. the big message today is that in san francisco, we have to be prepared for an earthquake. one of the ways we do it is to prepare ourselves by having a drill. every october, is a really important month for disaster preparedness. in 1989, there was a large earthquake in san francisco. we learned a lot of lessons from the earthquake. [unintelligible] thank you. [laughter] there are a couple of people i wanted to introduce. i wanted to introduce sncc hennessy -- nick tennessee, in charge of the emergency number. the director of 911 is here with us as well as one of my colleagues, battalion chief jose vella. we also have someone else who works closely wit

gavin newsom taking lots of pictures and sounding upbeat. his rival though, able maldonado is in southern california. he trails right now but you have more on his reaction to those numbers. >> lieutenant governor for now able maldonado is in orange county in irvine. lloyd lacuesta is there now, and lloyd i understand you have mr. maldonado with you. >> no, ken. i just talked to him and hopefully we'll try to get that tape back up again because he had to leave. but now we do have the tape. here's what the lieutenant governor had to say about the closeness of the race tonight against gavin newsom. >> i've always known that i'm running against a person who ran for governor, who stopped running for governor then ran for lieutenant governor. i knew that was going to be a challenge. but i feel comfortable where we're at. i still think we're going to win this thing. >> any thought that it's going to be a challenge at the end of this. >> i hope that at the end it'll be decisive enough he won or the other person won and we can move forward. i'm not i

gavin newsom taking lots of pictures and sounding upbeat. his rival though, able maldonado is in southern california. he trails right now but you have more on his reaction to those numbers. >> lieutenant governor for now able maldonado is in orange county in irvine. lloyd lacuesta is there now, and lloyd i understand you have mr. maldonado with you. >> no, ken. i just talked to him and hopefully we'll try to get that tape back up again because he had to leave. but now we do have the tape. here's what the lieutenant governor had to say about the closeness of the race tonight against gavin newsom. >> i've always known that i'm running against a person who ran for governor, who stopped running for governor then ran for lieutenant governor. i knew that was going to be a challenge. but i feel comfortable where we're at. i still think we're going to win this thing. >> any thought that it's going to be a challenge at the end of this. >> i hope that at the end it'll be decisive enough he won or the other person won and we can move forward. i'm not i

he could not have found anyone weekly more than gavin newsom. we still have more homeless in the city. if we need to have a mayor, a new mayor for my city, he must show us what brand he makes to clean the city. we need another new tourist to come in. the tourists give $30 million if you do not remember every year to the city. now, the tourists coming make big trouble for the homeless who sleep outside city hall. ladies and gentlemen, we need to be strong. man or woman, does not matter who is going to be our mayor, but i agree with many of our supervisors that the city still has homeless, and many of them come from other states, other cities. we need jobs and taurus and to clean our -- we need jobs and tourists and to clean our city, and we need someone who has the courage to clean the mess that gavin newsom and willie brown left behind. thank you. supervisor chiu: next speaker. >> walter paulson. ♪ when you pick a successor meier, no board could do it better -- when you pick a successor major -- when you pick a successor mayor all i ask you, s

gavin newsom has basically declared victory in that race. he has 47% of the vote compared to maldonado's 42%. >> carolyn tiler is live with the newsom campaign. >> a short time ago, gavin newsom came in here looking and sounding like a winner. he is just out of the governor's race a short time before he was running for lieutenant governor. he said, well -- >> i knew exactly what i said. i was having fun. >> he said, what does a lieu 10 nebt governor do anyway? he came up talking about priorities with his lovely wife, jennifer, by his side. he talked about some of his priorities, and he told me earlier that it would take someone who is prepared, thoughtful and organized. he let his supporters know he wants to move the state in a different direction. >> when we get up to sacramento, i think you know this well, we are going to hit the ground running. >> with me now live is mayor gavin newsom and his wife. thank you for sticking with us. tell us about your priorities. you said the first would be pushing ab, 32. >> one of the things that defines

the next question is, who replace gavin newsom at city hall? after all, he still has a year left in his term and there's already a lot of speculation, who fillings in that spot? it's a lot of power. and just hours after gavin newsom finished celebrating his win as you see here, in the lieutenant governor's race, he was down celebrating the giants win. and guess what. the topic of who might replace him became front and center in his remarks to the crowd. let's give it a listen. >> this town is going to need another mayor soon. and i just have three words. fear the beard! >> what does he mean by that? well, for those of you who hang out at city hall, it appears to be a not too veiled reference to his nemesis, former board of supervisors president aaron peskin. notice the beard? okay. and who is quitely trying to put together the votes to replace gavin newsom? whether or not that happens, however, remains to be seen. but it appears that gavin decided to use a little callout to shout out that fact. >> you don't think anybody confused it with wilson

. >> and we talked with gavin newsom. the wide ranging looking as his future job as lieutenant governor. >>> oh, so close one for the golden bears. cal had the top ranked team in the nation on its heels at memorial nation but they didn't go the distance. the stutter step that likely prevented a major upset. >>> a man hunt is on for a man considered armed and dangerous, suspected in a double murder a woman and her new boyfriend were shot and killed outside this apartment. she had been living there since splitting with her exboyfriend. this man. he came to the apartment earlier on friday night to confront her police say he came back to kill the couple. >>> we know it was a loud argument she was concerned and had some dialogue with the police earlier this evening. >> heard some lady screaming and heard the shots that was it. i didn't even lookout side. >> he was last seen wearing a red 49ers jacket with black sleeves he may be driving a 99 white dodge van. police believe he may have headed to mexico or new mexico where some

gavin newsom has been a leader of the environment before it was the sexy thing to do. he has been responsible for putting solar power at moscone center; responsible for putting power at san francisco international airport; responsible for putting solar power at the waste water facility in the bayview hunter's point. he will be responsible for putting power on our libraries, on our schools, and everywhere possible in the city and county of san francisco. we're very fortunate that this mayor has been the first mayor to create a climate action plan that will reduce the green house emissions by 20 percent by the year 2012. this mayor has also been a leader and innovation and we're looking at creating -- in harnessing paddle power below the golden gate bridge and that will be done under gavin newsom's leadership. so please put your hands together and give a warm san francisco welcome to our mayor, my mayor, gavin newsom. >> thank you. newly elected so i've got to now call him mr. president. thank you, president brooks. i want to thank the commissioners for being here and of

firefighter say that one person was treated for smoke inhalation. >>> san francisco mayor gavin newsom is banning a bill to stop toys getting sold with unhealthy meals. it forbids the sale of toys with high in calorie and salts and don't include fruits or vegetables. santa clara county passed a similar bill this year. >>> six supervisors and the mayor have taken another step to hosting the cup race in 2013. the group has introduced a host city agreement with the yacht club that hosts out the logistics if san francisco is chosen. it includes the repairs and use of piers on the water front. the full board of supervisors must approve the agreement. >>> bay area chev ran announced a multibillion dollar deal to purchase an unconventional gas dealer. atlas produces natural gas located in the eastern united states. natural gas made from shale is considered a growth industry because it burns more cleanly from gas from other searchs. >>> the dow and nasdaq spent much of the day in negative ground. >>> hot new video game that debuted is flying off the shelves and many people predicting it will b

of the appointment to replace gavin newsom. but he's got a problem because he's supposed to step down and become lieutenant governor january 3rd. the new board doesn't take office until the 8th. so there's a gap there of four or five days. there's been some talk of maybe he would wait until january 8th and then step down so the new board could get to vote. but that creates other problems. they're not quite sure, would that leave a vacancy in the lieutenant governor's office and might there -- there's even discussion that perhaps that would require confirmation because it would suddenly become like an appointment -- >> we haven't spent enough time trying to confirm the lieutenant governor in the last couple years. >> there are so many moving pieces -- >> any opinion on what his -- >> he is a key player because if no one gets six votes to become interim mayor by default he becomes, david chiu, the board president, becomes the interim mayor. but he's only board president until january 8th. and there's no guarantee that he'll get a

on behalf of mayor gavin newsom, thank you for being here tonight. it is a great honor for me to be here tonight to celebrate with all of you our local heroes. i just want to recognize tosean elsbernd and supervisor ross mirkarimi. thank you for being here to celebrate with us tonight. on to our next local hero. it is my pleasure to introduce our second honoree, michael durant. michael joined the indian health center as a substance abuse prevention counselor. he was promoted in -- to department director. he earned his master's degree at san jose state university. he completed his undergraduate work in history with an emphasis on native american studies at the university of california at santa cruz. he was previously employed at the center for training and careers as a center for youth services, and after 18 years of substance abuse and several years of incarceration, michael decided to dedicate his life to helping youth and adults find alternative ways to deal with substance use. michael is of apache-chicano and dissent and said this very thing -- "u

david stevenson has this to report. >> reporter: mayor gavin newsom today celebrated. speculation centered on who will fill out the remainder of his term. he is scheduled to be sworn in in early january. david she will act as mayor until the current board or new board select a replacement. analysts speculate that former board of supervisors president could make a bid for the job so others support another nonpolitical appointee. >> i think we are more likely to see a nonpartisan or someone at. maybe it's someone who has past experience someone like mayor lee brown. >> reporter: the mayor dodged the question last night although those hoping to replace him permanently had a few specific ideas. >> some people like myself would like to see an interim mayor. someone who is more of a government leader not someone who is a politician who could leave the city until the election has taken place. >> reporter: some people said the temp mayor will likely accomplish little. >> i think it's tough to get something done especially people know you are a bit of a lame duck candidate. >>

gavin newsom leaves the office on january 5th. on january 8th, four new supervisors will join the board. but some of the current supervisors want to make sure they get the interim vote in during that short period of time before the outgoing supervisors are replaced. live in san francisco, traci grant, bay area news. >>> crews may have cleaned up the orange confetti, but excite is still in the air in the city. jeff ranieri joins us live from the civic center. are there sunny skies ahead for all the giants fans, jeff? >> it looks like it, as we head into tomorrow. garvin, while they are cleaning up, some ten hours after the parade started, for many people the excitement is still out here in the area. i've got to share one experience. it was actually so crowded, as many of you know, when i was actually on the nbc bay area float today, you could actually see people covering entire muni buses out there and climbing up trees on market street. all happening under rare weather here in san francisco. the giants also bringing back some heat

el todavia alcalde de san francisco, el democrata "gavin newsom" mantuvo una lucha cerrada con el republicano "abel maldonado" por el puesto de vice-gobernador de california.---al final, parece haberse impuesto "newsom" con el de los votos hasta el momento contabilizados, mientras que "maldonado" tiene de sufragios a su favor.

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pero la ordenanza fue aprobada con los votos necesarios para impedir el veto de gavin newsom.---la ordenanza entrara en vigor el primero de diciembre de 2011.

. >> city of san francisco still does not have someone on deck to replace the out going mayor gavin newsom. this uncertain time of transition. >>> sunday, november 21st, i am ann makovec >> i am phil matier we have a lot of newtalk to cover. including that storm that kept a lot of people in the dark last night. >> was a wet one even if you were able to stay inside you might have seen the lightning flashing through your window. pg&e reported power outages throughout the bay area effecting several thousand customers and blamed on high winds that came with the storm. heavy winds backed up storm drains on surface streets and flooded a section of the great highway near the zoo. >> okay well, our winter weather pattern continues here across the region. a couple hours of some real heavy rain which we were just looking at last night that line of thunderstorms that moved through the bay area 6:00 p.m. last night now moving through los angeles basin generating some brief heavy rain here. we had up to a half inch per hour there for about 2 hours across the bay area last night and that was our main we

newsom. [applause] what is next, dave? >> i think it is time to meet your 2010 world series champion san francisco giants. let's meet them. first off, former giant first baseman, still in the ball club as instructor and broadcaster, jg snow. former giants shortstop also now an instructor, sean dustin. catching instructor, bill hayes. the giants great third base coach, tim flannery. the bench coach, ron waters. giants' hitting coach, hensley euless. first base coach, ronesto kelley. giants' bullpen coach mark gardner. the pitching coach, did a pretty good job, i thought, dave righetti. [applause] how about the giants skipper, his second world series, the manager first with the giants, i think he made all the right moves, brought the giants the world championships, bruce bowen g -- bochy. >> bochy. bochy. bochy. bochy. >> all right, let's meet the members of the 2010 giants ballclub. he was injured, it did not have as much impact as he was hoping, but we will be hearing a lot from him in the fu

. >>> and san francisco mayor gavin newsom is moving to sacramento. we will tell you who is now in line to take control of the city. "today in the bay" november 3rd on wednesday. >>> from nbc bay area, reporting what matters to you, this is "today in the bay." >>> good morning. thanks for joining us. it's 5:00 right now. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm brent cannon. what's old is new again. jerry brown is the governor and barbara boxer wins again. we'll have results coming up in just a minute and all morning long. >> keep an eye on the bottom of your screen. we're covering all the races that matter to you. >>> in the meantime we want to get a check of the forecast with rob. it was a beautiful day yesterday and we expect more of the same today. >> you can dress in layers as we go through the morning. we've got chilly temperatures at least for the moment. look at these numbers ratcheting upward into the 70s, even low 80s bay areawide and then cooling some as we head toward the evening hours. the only thing that may slow you down, maybe some patchy f

supporters include mayor gavin newsom and the police chief. they say the law will help move loiterers along and prevent people from intimidating passer byes. opponents say it unfairly targets homeless people. >>> san francisco police are on the lookout for a ballot bandit. a polling inspector broke into a ballot-counting machine and made off with 75 ballots and other election materials. they also say he stole a cell phone from a teenage poll worker. the election office says police do know the name of the worker and they are trying to track him down at this point. >>> alaska senator lisa murkowski is on track to make some history. she could become the second person to win a write-in campaign in the history of the senate. she's a republican. she ran as a write-in candidate after tea party-backed republican joe miller beat her in the primary. early returns show murkowski is winning this time but the outcome won't be known for days because officials need to make sure which write-in votes actually went to murkowski. >>> as we mentioned, republicans

>> let's check in with gavin newsom, the mayor of san francisco. >> let's right. we just learned that he has been declared the winner. what do you have to say about that? >> well, i want to say when we get all these numbers in. it looks good. we're certainly turning in the right direction, and i'm very proud. i'm proud of the work that everybody did around me right here, folks all up and down the state. we called over half a million people. we really worked hard to build a ground campaign, and not just spend money on tv ads. of course we did that, as well. i'm very encouraged by it, and very enthusiastic, and with jerry brown there, i look forward -- i don't mean to try to patronize him, i look forward to being a good partner with him. one thing i know about jerry brown is expect the unexpected. he's going to come in with real energy and real intensity, and he's going to hit the ground running. he's going to start the next couple of weeks, and he's going to need a lot of support, and i look forward to book that support, and in particular, i look forward to jump-st

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. >>> san francisco mayor gavin newsom presented a special gift to the giants managing general partner bill newcome. >> and we congratulate you with this team representing the championship, world championship, 2010, san francisco giants. [ applause ]

el todavia alcalde de san francisco, el democrata "gavin newsom" mantuvo una lucha cerrada con el republicano "abel maldonado" por el puesto de vice-gobernador de california.---al final, parece haberse impuesto "newsom" con el de los votos hasta el momento contabilizados, mientras que "maldonado" tiene momento contabilizados, mientras que "maldonado" tiene de sufragios a su favor. 42 por ciento que tiene abel maldonado desde luego vamos a seguir analizando los datos y mañana nuestro espacio le vamos a tener un re cuesta

several cisco mayor gavin newsom is headed for sacramento with a comfortable lead. he is facing maldonado as the new lieutenant governor he has 50%, the jockeying to succeed as mayor begins. the board of supervisors will be task of choosing an internet prisoners. will of more days for the morning. giant trade, weathparade, weathd the markets, finishing it to date pulsing session the numbers keep going up and down as the announce what they can do to help stabilize and stimulate the economy. we'll take a break, a live look at from the dome on top of city hall lit with orange as we kick off the counter and to the victory celebration for the giants we are less than seven hours away from party time in san francisco. we will be right back. and we're back, golden gate bridge, traffic is coming at the marin county as you can see light, very light. making good time all the way down 101. if you are marin county and you're looking to see the parade just note that the ferry system will have extra ferries to get you to and from with as little hassle as possible. meanwhile the su