Been illegally subletting the flat. He hire add private eye to follow him and took him to the rent control board where he says chamberlain claimed he was renting the second flat for his girlfriend to protect her from the stalker. Being the fact we were trying to evict him for illegal fraud, i feel like i may be, maybe he wanted to get me. Reporter it is unclear what the motive may have been. He will be back back in court tomorrow. The story still unfolding. The polls close in about three hours from now. Voter turn out has been low thus far. You are looking at evidence of that. Governor jerry brown did not miss his opportunity to vote. He is hoping to be elected. Brown and his wife cast their ballot early this morning at a fire house near their home. Governor brown is expected to advance to the twoperson november election. There are several key bases across the area. One race is Getting National attention. Mike honda is fendsing off challenge from ro khanna as well as republicans vanilla sing. The top two will face off in november. Californias first elected family sheriff, laurie smith is fighting to keep her job. Shes being challenged by her former captain, kevin jensen. The top two winners of todays mayor race will advance to the run off. We have multiple report ons this election night. We begin with terry who is at the santa claras registrars off. Not many votes to count. Reporter there arent arent. You can come down here in you have any questions about voting. If you want to hand in your mail in ballot you can drop it off. You can register and vote down here. I was talking to the registrar about the turnout, she was thinking 35 yesterday. At noon today some of them only hat ten voters to that point. Hes now back to 30, maybe 25 . Take a look at some pictures we have of whats going on down here. Again, 25 . Might be the lowest in decades. Theres a lot of reasons for that. Well get to that in a moment. Folks down here right now are opening up the mail in ballots, flattening out where they will be tallied later on at two minute ts after 8 00. All of those ballots will be run and it will be a number thats available to the public. Right now no one knows how this election is going. 80 of the results are going to be coming in by mail in. Only 30 or 25 of the voters will vote. I ask the registrar why. Its the gubernatorial primary. People like to wait till the general election to come out and vote. They have summer vacation, graduations, people are moving. It doesnt seem like theres a lot of hot tippopic issues. Reporter its still a representivity poll of the people of santa clara county. Maybe its not all for naught. 75 of the people who could vote may be deciding not to. If you sigh any problems at your polling station. Call our investigative tipline. You can email us also. A controversial plan to give marijuana to voters in the south bay is getting nationwide attention tonight. Scott budman has more. This is an incentive program. If youre a member of the a medical pot club and you show your i voted sticker, you get free weed. You heard of rock the vote. Call this roll the vote. Reporter amsterdams garden, a Marijuana Dispensary was busier than most polling places today. You couldnt vote here but if you already voted and were a member, you got a reward. Free roll for voting. Cool. Reporter juan lopes got hiss. A little extra product to say thanks for voting. I took advantage of it. Offers like these dont come out. Reporter no they dont but if some call the weed for votes plans does work, expect to see it on future election days. I think this will help ni pioneers for the future as well. Reporter it is a one of a kind incentive to tackle a chronic problem. We ask the District Attorney office for comment. They say this kind of thing is not illegal, at least for a local election. Back to you. We continue our coverage of todays election on our website. Click on the upper left election b box. Still no decision. Theyll revisit the issue at next weeks meeting. They are looking at new regulations to reduce the number of pot clubs across the city. The new ordinance would create a buffer zone from day cares and schools. If passed, all the marijuana sold would have to be grown in the city of san jose. Happening now an uncertain commute home for the second day in a row. Hundreds of workers called in sick over a contract dispute kau causing headaches for riders. Only half of the vehicles are in service today. The citys cable cars halted. The sick out violates the drivers current contract. Were requiring a doctors note for people calling out sick today and yesterday. If they dont have a doctors note, they wont be paid. San Francisco Mayor said i join muni riders throughout our city in their frustration. The public should not be punished. A car fire shut down the coleman avenue onramp to northbound 880. This is right near San Jose International airport. As you can see started a small grass fire. Two men were seen running away from the scene. The fire was put out and the onramp is now open. Thankfully no one was home at the time but forecasts are ur c unaccounted for. Inside the cockpit for the first time. Were hearing from the pilot of the plane the teenage stow away hitch aed a ride on. Coming up why the District Attorney of San Francisco is taking aim at that industry and how he plans to push for stricter regulations. A local teacher receiving national roiecognition. How she brightening horizons. Good afternoon. The fog of the coastline is beginning to weaken. Well talk about major heat and who will hit 97 degrees and exactly when in that full forecast. At 6 00, pilots getting blasted by laser pointers. The feds take the crackdown to new levels. The fbi tactic that worked elsewhere now coming to the bay area. Thats new at 6 00. Harsh words tonight for Services Like uber and lyft. The District Attorney is pledging to crack down on drivers behaving badly and pushing for stricter insurance requirements. You have been looking at this emerging industries more months now. This is the big move. It is. An uber driver verbally assaulted a passenger last fall. Get in any face again like you did before. Thats fall this passenger claimed she was verbally abusive. A Police Report was filed but no charges until today. Hes facing battery on a transit passenger, a misdemeanor. It took his attorney by surprise. At this time the incident took place the police decided they didnt want to cite him. Reporter in april before he became a driver he served time in prison for drug charges. We found other drivers across the country with criminal records. Thats despite the policy of running background chicks and disqualifying anymore with a criminal record within the past seven years. District Attorney SaysLaw Enforcement will now be stepping up efforts to regulate ride service drivers. We want to send a clear message that this is making a lot of money. They have to be a good corporate citizen. Hes now working with the cpuc to implement stricter hiring practices and insurance policy requirements. In the meantime how do passengers know they are safe . Thats a good question. They really dont know at this point. Wed have no way of guaranteeing anyone of people that are driving the vehicles is someone thats reliable. Reporter the District Attorney says he hopes stricter regulations are implemented later this year. We also discovered that today an uber exdriver in l. A. Was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman taking her to a motel room. Uber said its unclear if this is uber related incident. They are working with authorities and nothing is more important than the safety of the riders. Thank you. We now have the cockpit recording from the day a south bay teenager stowed away on an airplane to hawaii. A guy is stowed away in the landing girl from san jose to maui. Thats the radio call from the pilot back in april after the teenager was discovered stepping out of wheel well. He jumped the fence at sjc, climbed onto the jet and hid in the landing gear for hours. In the air he lost consciousness and survived below freezing temperatures. Hes now back in the south bay. No charge vs been filed. The board of supervisors has become the first county to focus on the needs of the lebian, guy, transgender and queer community. It will provide a forum for individuals to air their concerns. Younger and younger people are identifying as gay and as transgender. The sensitivity needs to be there to embrace their important life changes that theyre going through. According to a recent census there are nearly 2,000 samesex couples in san mateo county. Theres incredible talent many the pay area and its not just the world of hightech. A schoolteacher is making headlines. Gar vin thomas is here with the big risk. Most of us if were lucky had a few Great Teachers when in school. Laura straight did. She became a teacher. Once she became a teacher she didnt stop learning. One of the secrets to her success and the key to tonights bay area proud. I see a lot of students that have a lot of connections. Reporter of all the lessons you would expect a fourth grade teacher to want to share with the world. Who has a red question . Reporter the benefit of stealing isnt one but at oaklands academy, laura straight swears by it. Yes. Nice and loud. Reporter lauras style of instruction, she is happy to you, is chalked full of techniques. We do a roller coaster chair for nathan. Reporter borrowed, lets say from other teachers shes observed in the past. Really observing other teachers makes your practice so much better. Reporter in her case much, much better. More than 80 of her fourth graders rate as advanced or proficient in math. Thats 20 points higher than the city average. Its also not unusual for students to jump two or three grade levels in reading after just a single year in lauras class. Everyone should be looking. Reporter the result impressive enough to win her this years fishman prize for excellence in teaching low income students. She just one of four in the country to get the award and the 25,000 that comes with it. A lot of students are really struggling in the beginning. They just need a teacher that gives them that individualized support and instruction. Reporter it was a long road to get here, literally. After graduating and teaching in a Large Public School outside of boston, she packed her life in her car and drove west with one goal. Be the best teacher she could be. I was driving to become a better teacher because of her. She gaves me way too much credit. She gaves me way too much credit. Reporter emily murphy was her assistant principal back in boston and she movered west to take a principals job, laura followed. It was clearly a risk that paid off for laura, for her school and those kids fortunate enough to get her as their teacher. Any teacher would say they try to do individualized attention to students and lesson plans, but thats a lot of work. This woman works hard p. She really does take each student and give them what they need and the test results and everything just like that. Very successful. Thanks so much. You know someone who is making a difference, let garvin know about it. Visit our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Good afternoon. You can see right here across the San Francisco bay a lot of blue sky. There is fog. The thing you want to notice is that marine layer is compressed down to about 500 feet. Thats the sign of fog beginning to weaken and much hotter temperatures on the way. As we also get a look at the Sky Camera Network down here, some best weather as we told you yesterday is happening right now across the santa clara valley. Sunny unlimited visibility. Well have more of that coming our way. Lets get you into the forecast. The thing we have been dealing with the past three days, at least Copious Amounts of has been the fog. What youll find in the fog forecast is the fact that tomorrow morning well have fog but its not as widespread. Its going to be right up against the immediate coastline. You can see for the Interior Valley of the north bay and south bay will be mostly clear. That will mean sunny skies back this the forecast as we head throughout wednesday helping those temperatures to inch up. The main thing were seeing happen is this trough of low pressure thats still lingering for tonight will exit and head off towards the east. High pressure builds in. That will provide our heat up with the potential of some near triple di weather coming our way. Not quite that hot tomorrow. Dont worry. Well give you a bit of time to get used to this warm up before it gets too hot. Saratoga at 86. San mateo, 74. San francisco which has been locked in the lower 60s will get close to 70. The marina still on the cool side. Going up a little bit. 66 for your daytime high and a little bit of cloud cover lingering. In the east bay oakland jumping up to 71 be 85 in walnut creek. Check out the hottest locations tomorrow. Now the trend over the next several days does have it getting hotter each and every day. You can see by thursday, 90degree territory and by saturday and sunday up per 90s, close to 100 degrees. That will increase our fire danger but its also going to probably have a lot of people taking the first dip in their pools, maybe. Going to be good. Its aimed at keeping your healthy. The dramatic change a restaurant chain is making to its menu. Whats in a name . The people who live on one bay area street say they want to change the name of the street. The city just handed down a decision a few minutes ago. Panera is going all natural. They are removing all artificial additives from their food. That includes transfat, preservatives, transfat and msg. The new policy will be in place by 2016. Another sign of the growing economy in the south bay. New york city based verizon has leased office space in san jose. The building at the corner of trimable road will accommodate about 700 employees. Many of these employees will be new hires. Verizon says they are looking to greatly expand their presence in the silicon vil lalley and this the first step. Mountain view chief of police is turning in his badge for good. He accepted an executive position at a Company CalledSecurity Industry specialist. His career spans nearly 30 years. The last day will be august 3rd. Nature lovers can soon enjoy more of the Great Outdoors in the east bay. The Coyote Hills Regional Park is expanding. The park sits on more than 900 acres in freemont. There was a donation of almost 300 acres of open space. That means more places to picnic, bird watch, hike and bike. Visitors of the park say it offers great views of the bay. Patterson ranch made the 10 million land donation. Six families living on one san jose street are happy to hear they will be allowed to change the name. They petitioned to city to change it because the current name is difficult to pronounce and difficult to spell. Its located near the s rararat park. The new street name is called joy lane. Its no day at the beach. Unbelievable video of a close call. Thats next. Well be back in the a half hour. Tonight at 6 00, hi parents dont have to carry him to school. The surgery that helped him walk for the first time. A stunningly close call for a sunbather in germany. A small plane nearly crashed into him. Watch the video. The piper plane came in very low for landing and within inches of hitting that man right there. The plane, the pilot missed. He misjudged the approach and didnt see the sunbather. The man who shot the video says the sunbather got up and quickly dove to the sand as he saw the plane approaching to take cover. Thankfully he dove far enough where he just avoided getting hit. I cant stand to watch it. The pilot was fun. He just misjudged his landing. Obviously. Its crazy theres a beach there. Thanks for watching. See you at 6 00. Growing backlash over that secret prisoner swap with the taliban. The army requested an investigation as high level democrats and republicans accuse the president of breaking the law. A violent outbreak right now. Warnings of a dangerous night ahead for millions. Hidden risks a stunning new Health Warning tonight the cdc says what you cant see in restaurants all across the country is making a lot of people sick. And off the clock. How some companies are now going to extremes to give employees their free time back. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with brian