Misconduct has spread to city hall. A grand jury report released today concludes City Council MemberLynette Gibson mcel haynie violated conflict of interest rules and misused city resources to prevent a townhouse project next to her oakland house. It looks like everybodys going to down in flames. Im really embarrassed right now for the city. We cant ride and hide on this one. Because we have the public attention at our front door. Reporter the grand jury makes several recommendations including possible censure. Tonight its going to be a really interesting City Council Meeting. It will be a full house. Reporter now, we did reach out to gibson mcenhaney for her response. She said she had not yet read that grand jury report because shes been stuck in meetings all day here at city hall. Tonight City Council Meeting is expected to be a packed one, one that is full of emotion. In fact, we are told it could go until about 1 00 or 2 00 in the morning. Reporting live in oakland, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Jodi, thank you. A brazen crime last year with some answers tonight. A highprofile smash and grab robbery at the bloomingdales at the stanford shopping center. Investigators say the three men drove that stolen suv you can see it there through the front glass doors of bloomingdales and took off with a large quantity of jewelry. Police now think theyve found the suspects. Tonight two men are in jail and theyre hoping they can find that third person. The outstanding suspect is joseph sandoval, the one in the middle pick toured here. Detectives also believe that a fourth suspect, a woman, played a role. Theyre still working to identify her. It is a giant call for action. Today digital billboard calling for the removal of a controversial judge went up along highway 92 in hayward. Critics say the judge aaron persky showed too much leniency in the Sexual Assault case of former stanford swimmer brock turner. The judge did rely on input from the Probation Department in the sentencing. The billboard directs people to recall a petition that already has 1. 2 million signatures. Brock turners sixmonth sentence on Sexual Assault charges sparked outrage worldwide. Now backlash could also trigger new laws. Tomorrow santa clara District Attorney says he which is announce new legislation that is inspired by turners Sexual Assault victim. Rosens office will not reveal early details about his plan today, but theres also legislation moving forward in the assembly. That proposal would eliminate the current tenyear statute of limitations in rape cases. Okay. Lets get to our weather. If you dont have air conditioning this is going to be a tough stretch for you. Meteorologist rob mayetta. The heat is sticking around for awhile. Perhaps the hottest days still lie ahead. Today we got close to 100 degrees in concord. Sonoma 94. 92 san rafael. Theres the island of cooling. San francisco 72 degrees. Oakland 82. As you see from livermore, 98 degrees. San jose 90, morgan hill Half Moon Bay comfortable cool at at 65 degrees. South bay temperatures still low 90s south of downtown. Whats pretty interesting we have 68 degrees in San Francisco. A bit of a stronger sea breeze thats short term is going to bring us some relief. The return to some low clouds coming inland tomorrow morning means tomorrow will not be a spare the air days. Temperatures drop just a bit. But the sevenday for example unfortunately is taking temperatures a lot higher. People let you know how hot it will get in a few minutes. Rob well see you soon. Our nbc bay area app is a great resource to keep you posted with these hot temperatures. Just click onto the weather tab to get your microclimate forecast. A very moving fare well to a fallen San Jose Police officer. This morning a procession through several south bay cities in honor of 34yearold officer Michael Katherman. The motorcycle officer was killed in the line of duty during a crash one week ago today. We do have multiple reports for you tonight. Lets begin right now with nbc bay areas robert handa. Robert todays Memorial Service highlighted a man, a dedicated Police Officer and a dedicated family man. Reporter well, peggy, there were certainly strong mixed emotions here. The police and Michael Kathermans family wanted a celebration of his life. And it was, but one mixed with heartache. The sap Center Memorial for 34yearold Michael Katherman was filled with officers and the public, all sharing a goodbye and a thank you. Id like to think that were not here to remember one tragic day but rather the life of a man that touched so many people. Reporter fellow officers told upbeat stories of kathermans numerous skills. He was known as the cat man. He always made jokes. Im built for torque and power. Reporter his father praised his sons dedication. April and the boys, all in. Basketball all in. Riding motorcycles, all in music, all in. His passion for protecting and defending the citizens of san jose, totally all in. Reporter another moving moment, katherman himself in a Police Academy video recalling how his mom stopped him from enlisting in the army. And my mom started crying. So the recruiters were like, well, maybe we should come back later. So they left. Reporter the most emotional moments came when the fallen officers friend Austin Nielsen read letters from sons jason and joshua to their dad. You really really love the lord, mommy, me, and jason. We miss you so much, dad. Reporter then one last dispatch. May you rest in peace knowing that you will always be remembered as a loving son, devoted husband, and dedicated father. End of watch june 14th, 2016. Reporter and again, after the public memorial and the flyover the family held a private burial service. Live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. You can hear six helicopters provided an aerial tribute after officer kathermans funeral. They hovered over the sap center as other officers prepared to escort kathermans body toyota final resting place at gaf lin hills memorial park. Michelle, this touches a lot of people including total strangers. Reporter yeah. It absolutely does. So many people wanted to come out here and pay their respects, especially Law Enforcement from all over the country. This morning i spoke to one from the central valley. He said although its heartbreaking to come to a memorial like this, he also called it inspiring, seeing that support from the community in san jose. I just wanted to pay my respects to the fallen officer. Reporter to many who attended todays memorial, officer Michael Katherman was a stranger who devoted his life to making san jose a safer place. Thank you very much for your services. I mean, they put their lives on the line all the time. Reporter to ceasar corera michael was an old friend. To steven rios he was a mentor who saved his life. The path i was going down when i was younger was not the right one for me. He kept me on that right path. Reporter to others michael will be remembered as a friendly face at church on sunday. I know that hes in a wonderful place. But i mourn for his family. Reporter while those who knew him best shed tearers hundreds of Law Enforcement personnel from all over the state lined the street leading to s. A. P. Center, standing at attention while his motorcade drove by. We all have the same job. Brotherhood, sisterhood were all together in this. Reporter katherman leaves behind a wife and two young sons. Today wives of other San Jose Police officers say his family is their family and will be cared for now and in the years to come. We just have to support each other for the families and the children and the wives. Reporter there is a fundraiser happening now at famous days in san jose that will go until 11 00 tonight. All the proceeds will be going to the officers family. Reporting live in san jose, michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. Michelle, thank you. Hundreds of officers from across the bay area are in san jose today and into the night, not to attend that funeral but to cover the shifts so all the san jose officers could go to the memorial. These are photos snapped this morning as all those officers were briefed. Every Santa Clara County agency sent officers to help patrol the streets of san jose. Our coverage of officer kathermans Memorial Service continues online. Just go to nbcbayarea. Com to listen to all the speakers from todays service. Weve also posted a link to the familys go fund me account. A Sonoma County mother whose daughter was killed in the berkeley balancony collapse is speaking out. Six young people died in that fall. Seven were badly injured when the fifth floor balcony gave way beneath them. The city determined that water damage has rotted the balconys support beams. An Assembly Bill today approved oversight on contractors. I dont want this to happen to anyone else. How many more balconies are ready to fall down in the state of california . Let me just think about berkeley. This is a reasonable reform that deserves to move forward. The company that built the balcony has paid out more than 26 million in similar settlements related to balcony issues. But that information is not public under current law. Donahoe wants a law that will ensure information is reported to the state licensing board. The National Parks service decides the way to keep ocean beach clean is to remove the public trash cans. Neighbors are ticked. Im Mark Matthews at ocean beach. Ill have the story coming up. I can assure you that this is sending shock waves through the u. S. Nuclear industry right now. The last Nuclear Power plant in the state is shutting down while environmentalists are cheering the decision, others arent so sure. And our 90degree days which began last weekend continued today. Still 91 degrees in the trivalley, cooling temperatures in San Francisco but finding cooling around the bay area cowl become more difficult and temperatures soar even higher. Ill look at your sevenday forecast when key come right back. Sfx turbines revving up, getting louder and louder you hear that . Thats the sound of our summer sale firing up its engines with fares as low as 69 dollars oneway. So get ready to take off. Because sale prices as low as these dont happen every day book your low fare now at southwest. Com low fares. Nothing to hide. Thats transfarency. Sfx clap, clap, ding anit hasome neighbs fuming. The National Park service hopes to cut down on an experiment at ocean beach and some neighbors say it is leaving them fuming. The National Parks service hoping to cut down on trash by removing the trash cans from a milelong stretch at the north end of ocean beach. Nbc bay areas mark ath use is live at ocean beach now. Mark, youve been talking with neighbors. They say theyre not so sure this experiment is working out. Reporter no. They say that trash builds up here on warm days. Weve got some of those coming. They say its especially bad in the summertime. And they are baffled by the Parks Services decision to remove the public trash cans. Neighbors have been sending is pictures like this of garbage, lots of pictures. Complaining about the Parks Services socalled experiment. Taking away garbage cans to encourage people to take their trash home with them. Do they . No, they dont. I see garbage left in the places where the garbage cans used to be. People are pulling up put inat the top of the stairs and it blows all over the neighborhood. They wanted to encourage people to pack the trash out and take it away with them. Nowadays people are so lazy they dont do that. Youre lucky to get them to walk to a trash can let alone take it with them. Reporter the park service pulled the trash cans from this part of ocean beach last october. A spokesman telling us cleanup cruise monitoring the beach every Morning Report that the experiment is working. Theyve found that actually theres less trash than there had been during the periods in which trash cans were in that area. It may seem counter intuitive, but thats their experience with it. Reporter at baker beach next to the very wealthy see cliff enclave there are trash cans, covered ones. Same for every other beach in the golden gate recreational area. The folks living near ocean beach feel that theyre the guinea pigs in this experiment thats trashing their neighborhood. I dont see them taking all the garbage cans out at yes acce yosemite or yellowstone. This is federal property. Were taking a look at the walkway along ocean beach. I know its midweek but there actually is not a lot of trash. I asked the Parks Service representative why ocean beach and not chrissy field or baker beach. He said its because they can remove the trash cans along about a mile stretch of this beach and still have some down at the other end. Then theyre using it as kind of an experiment to see is there less trash where there are no cans or more trash or less trash where there are cans. They say its a comparison. Were reporting from ocean beach, Mark Matthews, nbc bay area news. It looks beautiful where your. Thank you, mark. New developments today in a deadly rail crash at the center of a nbc bay area investigation. Lindberg thompson, the driver of a Union Pacific maintenance vehicle that killed a gilroy man last year was arraigned on felony negligence charges. 55yearold don williams had a green light when he was making a left turn across the tracks at maston and monterey in gilroy when that massive vehicle slammed into his truck. An investigation found the maintenance vehicle didnt activate the crossing gates at the intersection. Thompson who was driving in reverse never stopped, which is also a violation of Union Pacific policy. We filed these charges in part because of the negligent operation that we believe occurred in this case. But also because there was a tragic death. The message that we have is that when there are rules and regulations in place, they need to be followed. Thompson who pleaded not guilty could face up to four years in prison. Well, the business of pot was the hot topic for thousands in the east bay today. The cannabis business summit and expo is taking place in oakland this week. It is the largest meeting of its kind in the country. And today Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom gave the keynote address. He focused his message on an upcoming Ballot Initiative that would allow californians to use small amounts of marijuana recreation recreationally. To make sure the people that have been most impacted by the war on drugs are not without top of mind consideration as relates to empowering that community to be part of this industry moving forward. The measure is called the adult use of marijuana act. It is one of at least two legalization measures expected to be on the november ballot. As we speak, triple digit heat is fuelling wildfires across southern california. In fact, two fires have now merged into one. Take a look at the video here. Both fires started yesterday on the edge of the Angeles National forest. This is in l. A. County. So far the san gabriel complex fire has burned 5400 acres. This is just about 30 miles northeast of downtown l. A. If youre in l. A. You can actually see all the smoke just on horizon there. But no buildings are damaged at least not yet. Nearly 800 residents have been forced from their homes. This fire is zero percent contained. More than 600 firefighters are on the front lines right now, including these three, members of the Santa Clara CountyFire Department who were sent down after battling another wildfire in monterey just last week. And a quick detail here that we want to amend as something we reported earlier in our newscast about mike kathermans benefit taking place at famous day. We said it was taking place tonight. Its taking place a week from tonight on june 28th. Famous daves in san jose. For people who want to go down and honor the katherman family thats a good time to do it. The weather is nice at least for now around the bay area. There are places you can go to escape the heat. Inland we saw temperatures get close to 100 degrees. Concord up to 99 earlier today. Right now outside trivalley still 91 degrees. Look at the numbers. Just right next to the trivalley. 68 in San Francisco. Not all that bad. 83 degrees in the north bay, 82 in san jose, 77 around the peninsula. Heres the issue for fire danger for the bay area, the hilltops in those location weve got the very dry air in place of High Pressure above. Humidity levels below 20 . So elevated fire risk continues in the north bay, trivalley, east bay, hilltops even into parts of the south bay. Thats going to be a shape of things to come as dry conditions really set up across the hill tops in the interior value his. But at least for tomorrow a slightly stronger sea breeze will mean better mixing of the lower levels of the atmosphere. So we actually dont have a spare the air day tomorrow. So short term good news with our temperatures running maybe a few degrees cooler as we get into wednesday and thursday. Just a slight break from some of the heat at least around the inner bay and some of the value his. By tomorrow morning 50s and 60s to start. Into the afternoon well watch for low cloud in the morning peel back to the coastline as we head through the day. But yes, winds onshore slightly stronger tomorrow. So not near 90 in san jose tomorrow. 80s around san jose avenue. 60s to low 70s around San Francisco and lower to mid 90s around the north bay away from the upper 90s we saw in a few spots. Heres the story. Sevenday forecast now heading into the weekend Even StrongerHigh Pressure segment tting up h the weekend. Temperatures to vault up. Well have a look at that in a half hour. No more nuclear. The last Nuclear Plant operating in california will close. What it means for our energy plans moving forward. Researchers say that despite a winter of el nino storms 4 morernia likely needs another happening now. Trending on twitter, researchers say that despite a winter of el nino storms, california likely will need another four more years of above average snowfall in the sierra to recover from this historic drought. And also posted to our web page, the warriors set to make a major play for allstar kevin durant. The former mvp is considered to be the most coveted free agent on the market. Were back in a minute. Pg e announced it will close itt its the end of an era. Today pg e announced it will close its last Nuclear Power plant near San Luis Obispo in the next years. A fight that has spanned nearly a half century is finally coming to an end. Californias last Nuclear Power plant is closing in 2025. I just heard an outpouring of joy. Reporter damon mogland protested the opening of Diablo Canyon when he was in high school. Its a dramatic moment when a multibillion dollar utility is saying friends of the earth the Environmental Group pg e and other groups reached an agreement to replace nuclear with Renewable Energy sources like solar and wind. This is in step for the states goals for fewer greenhouse gasses. And its in line with pg es bottom line, closing the plant 20 years earlier than planned. Californias Energy Landscape is changing dramatically, says pg e ceo tony earley. Diablo canyons full output will no long be required. I think pg e simply got tired of fighting a fight being fought by the group i call the ultra greens. Reporter stanfords Burton Richter says the meltdown of fukushima gave Environmental Groups even more leverage to shut down deaub row ciablo cany produces 9 of the states energy. What people are banking on is that they can find a material which i call nonexistium. Pg e says it doesnt expect rates will increase as a result of this decision. Proponents are praising pg es move, including senator barbara boxer. She says the news that Nuclear Power will be replaced by renewables is heartening. New rules for the skies. The faa now laying out new laws for operating small drones. Im marijuanr marianne favr jose. Patrol plans changing. Ill have that story coming up in a live report. Good is in every blue diamond almond. Good is a catalyst, good is contagious. And once it gets going there is no stopping what you can do. Get your good going. Blue diamond almonds. Proud sponsor of the us swim team they can get, so why no runs 04 raj vo right now at 6 30 ineed of re i think its a good idea. I think they need all the help that they can get, so i say why not. Right now at 6 30, in need of reinforcements. The San Jose City councilman says its time to look outside to other agencies to help bolster the citys undermanned police force. The City Council Unanimously approved a plan to hire chp officers and sheriffs deputies to patrol san jose. Marianne favro, womuld these officers only be able to help with traffic stops . Reporter no. This plan calls for the c hps to do patrols to crack down on prostitution, even burglaries. Right now there are 820 street ready Police Officers in san jose to protect a city of more than 1 million people. The city has the money to hire new officers but its a slow process. The latest academy will graduate just seven new officers. Which is why