robin's who was filling in and tom was before coming here on assistant commissioner for the new york city director of transportation and during the mind he oversaw bus rapid transit and parking and alternative fuels program and has been working on road and street pricing since a number of years ago to look at the pricing in manhattan in 2007 he led the agencies program for a technology program to approve traffic safety and the strategy plan i know from talking to the former commissioner of transportation she really credits a lot of the great things that happened in new york and in transportation with the planning process and started with mayor bloomberg's program for the double plan to excellent background and he developed a resiliency strategy a plan to rebuild after hurricane sandy exactly two years ago and also found ways to use innovative sources for transportation and economic liveable streets before joining here he worked at a large jerry firm and although he has been here a full week he hearsay previous roots and he including holding a degree from berkley in city planning plea

. >> republican robin chu challenging incumbent spare for house seat on the peninsula. again not surprise. incumbent jackie spear 75 percent with 19 percent of the precinct reporting. >> jerry mack challenge pingd by republican tony am door for the 9th district seat in congress. am door has a long career in law enforcement including 13 years with the los angeles police department. mack held his seat since 2007 and rate now 51 percent of the vote going to mack who is incumbent with 20 percent of precinct reporting. 49 percent for tony am door. >> close race to watch. tonight now to the state assembly where 2 democrat contract face off for the office held by termed out incumbent tom ammiano. david chu 60 percent of the vote over david ken positive with 40 percent of the vote again early return one percent of the precinct just in. record low voter turn out was expected today. not a sprays at all. field poll recontradicted 46.1% turn out this means 8 million out of the state nearly 18 million registered voters will cast ballot today. that means just one out of every 3 eligi