. i'm raj mathai. next on "nbc bay area news tonight," we have a developing story in a big-money and high-profile race for congress. we have a recount. this is the race that ended in a tie to replace congresswoman anna eshoo. also, thousands of state farm home insurance policies are about to be dropped. we now know what zip codes will be impacted. so what are your options?

our consumer investigator breaks it down for us. plus, the a's move to las vegas is far from a done deal. the legal challenge that's threatening their new ballpark. we'll show you what happened today. and why is this houseboat floating in the middle of the bay? we have some answers. good evening. this is "nbc bay area news tonight." i'm raj mathai. here comes the 80-degree weather. we're tracking the warm-up and then the rain that's supposed to come this weekend. we'll get to our updated forecast in just a few minutes. but we start with some developing news. there are now two official requests for a recount in that congressional race that ended in a tie. that tie was for second place. this is district 16. this is to replace retiring congresswoman anna eshoo. evan low and joe simitian both got 30,249 votes each, a tie.

normally the top two candidates move on to the general election in november. but since there was a tie, both simitian and low were set to join first-place finisher sam liccardo on the november ballot. that may change, though, depending on the results of this recount. tonight, evan low with a bitter response. we'll get to that in just a few minutes from now. another headline that we're watching. librarians in san francisco sounding the alarm about safety. they say city libraries are a magnet for crime and unruly behavior. today a large group of the librarians gathered at city hall. you see them there. they want the city to put security guards in all 27 branches of the library system. one librarian told us she recently had to deal with a deranged man with a weapon. another described trying to calm a man down after he started screaming at other people. >> we were just hoping he would leave peacefully before anything happened, and he did end up leaving but on his way out, he

kicked a window. >> a spokesperson with the library says guards are already posted at 12 branches, and they have a mobile patrol that can respond as needed. a spokesperson also said that seven of the libraries without permanent guards didn't have any reported incidents last year. well, despite concerns with the library, crime in san francisco is going down. that's according to new data released by governor newsom's office today. the new numbers show overall, property crime is down 32%. violent crime is down almost 15%. this comes after the chp launched an operation last may to assist sfpd to crack down on crime in the tenderloin. the report also says they made good progress. since then, the chp has seized more than 42 pounds of fentanyl, and they've made nearly 500 arrests. let's get back to our top story now. first the unlikely tie, and now the recount. this is to settle the second-place finish, which

covers santa clara county and san mateo county, district 16. two separate requests for a recount have been filed. former san jose mayor sam liccardo finished on top while both evan low and joe simitian tied for second. right now all three candidates are advancing to the general election in november. it's supposed to be two, but right now it's three. but today's official filing for that recount could change that. one person requested a manual recount while another person requested a machine recount. the cost could be as high as a couple hundred thousand dollars which the petitioner, the person who requested it, would have to pay. we're still trying to confirm if the petitioners are connected to any of these three campaigns. the registrar's office says they'll be ready to start the recount by monday. this is so rare, they're still working out the details. >> it's all contingent to whether or not the voter will make a deposit for the recount, the cost of the recount. this is a very rare event.

yeah, we're still, like, working on it on a day by day basis and doing the proper research. >> the question now is who called for the recount? we reached out to all three campaigns. sam liccardo's campaign responded to us a short while ago saying that more than 100 ballots were not included in the final tally due to issues like unverified signatures, and they, quote, understand why there would be an effort to make sure the voters are fully considered. evan low's campaign is accusing liccardo of dirty tricks. this is his statement, saying sam liccardo, who does not live in the district, did not file the recount himself. instead, he had his former staffer do it for him. what's he afraid of? let's bring in melinda jackson, a political science professor at san jose state. we've been covering this for a couple months now. this was a very polite race. all of a sudden, about an hour ago, it got feisty. evan low going right at

liccardo. are you surprised with this? >> well, the stakes are high, and this is, you know, the campaign that just keeps getting more and more interesting by the day. you know, no one could have predicted this. it is so highly unlikely that we would end up with a tie for second place. bur that's where we are. however, the rules do allow any of the candidates or any voter in the district to request a recount. so it looks like we have two voters who have requested the recount, but whoever requested it is on the hook to pay for it. that's going to be the tricky part. i know that one of the requesters has suggested that the two boards of supervisors from san mateo and santa clara counties should chip in and pay for it, but i don't think they're going to be eager to do that. so i think whether this goes forward, we'll really have to see whether the money actually is deposited. >> and just to clarify this for us, in theory, as a political analyst here, evan low and joe

simitian, their people or their supporters, wouldn't necessarily want a recount because right now they're both advancing, correct? >> right. so as the votes were being counted and we were seeing the two of them trade places day by day for second place, the assumption is that whoever came in third would have the strongest incentive to ask for that recount because it was so close. but when they tied, then it actually works out really well for the two of them. they both go to the ballot in november, so that's a good deal, and they don't have to pay for the recount. they can save that money. but now the person who actually has the most to gain from a recount is sam liccardo because right now, he's looking at a three-person race. he would probably do better, have a better chance, in a two-person race. so we don't know for sure if there's any connection between the voters who have requested the recount and any of the campaigns, but just looking at the political strategy involved, i think that liccardo has the

most to benefit from a potential recount at this point. >> it's fascinating watching this unfold in real time. final question for you. what's the process now specifically in santa clara and san mateo counties, this district, for the recount, and is there any sort of timeline here? do they have a finite amount of time? >> well, so, again, it's due to start on monday if the money is deposited, if the money shows up. and it depends whether they go ahead with the manual recount or the machine recount. the manual recount is really the gold standard because that means that a human is going to look at each ballot and try to sort out, you know, any discrepancies that may be there. but the machine recount is faster. so if we do the machine -- if the machine recount goes forward, that will be completed faster. the hand recount is going to take more time and cost more money. but, you know, all the eyes are going to be on this because it is such a rare occurrence, and i don't think that anyone really anticipated that this would ever

happen when the rules for this situation were set up this way. but, you know, there's a first time for everything. >> sure. and a lot of people around the country will be watching this race as well. professor jackson from san jose state, appreciate your time and your insight. have a good evening. >> thank you. another big story that we are tracking, state farm insurance is planning on dropping thousands of california policies this year. we now know where. just a couple of weeks ago, state farm said it would not be renewing 30,000 homeowners insurance poliies and 40,000 commercial real estate policies. that's here in california. they say with our fire and flood risks, it's just too expensive and too risky. here's the update. take a look now. this map shows where the dropped policies will come from. state farm releasing the numbers by zip code. the biggest impact zone in the bay area is orinda, that little yellow spot right there. the pink spots, also big impact.

1,700 policies will be dropped in orinda. in santa rosa, 1,400 policies dropped. other hot spots include lafayette, santa clara, and down in santa cruz. we should note they're not dropping all policies in these zones and cities. state farm says they'll notify customers sometime between july 3rd and august 20th. so many of the people who live in these areas, well, of course they're on edge, including the mayor of orinda. >> they are not being a good neighbor. they are certainly not being a good neighbor to anyone in orinda. >> this i worry about in the middle of the night. and when i wake up, i still worry about it. >> a play on words there. they're not being a good neighbor. let's bring in our consumer investigator, chris chmura. you've been talking about this not for weeks but for months, dating back to last year. remind us why is this happening? is it just coming down to money for state farm? >> it's not just state farm. it's essentially insurance companies saying that, we're not paying enough for insurance to cover the losses that things like fires and winter storms cause. >> sure. >> and they're perhaps turning

the screws on state government and us as policyholders with these dropped policies and increased rates to try and get higher premiums out of us and out of regulators, who are holding the bag. >> what's alarming to me is these aren't, you know, communities way up in the woods. these are our neighbors just here in the flats, maybe some of the foothills. what are the options now if state farm or other companies don't renew our homeowners policies? >> in state law, they've got to give you about 75 days of notice. you might get a little more than that. if you get that notice in the mail, you've got to act quickly. you cannot just ignore it, put it in the junk drawer. in july, you need to be on the phone. you should be trying to get yourself an insurance broker, somebody who might be able to find another company. they might not have tv commercials. they might not be sponsoring major sporting events, but they might be willing to offer you insurance for your home. you don't want to end up in the california fair plan. that is the state's insurer of last resort. the number of policies in that

has doubled over the past couple of years. >> why don't i want to be there? >> because it's the insurer of last resort. it only covers you for fire, and it's super-duper expensive. ideally you want to find a carrier that just does regular policies and a broker will help you do that. but it might take several, if not the entire period that you get, several weeks or the entire period of notice that you get you're going to be dropped. >> this seems something we would actually reach out to our government leaders here to help all these thousands of families that are going to go through this this summer. the insurance commissioner, governor newsom, is there any recourse there? >> they're working on it. they're trying to do two things. on one hand, they're trying to give the insurance industry kind of what it wants. at the same time, they're trying to figure out, wait a minute. is the situation really as dire as the insurance companies are making it out to be? they're trying to burn that candle at both ends. the think that's happening is in the meantime, people like you and people like me and lots of people in orinda are going to

lose their insurance in the meantime. something's got to be done here. >> are rates going to just keep going up, then, in theory? >> i think the answer is yes. the people who are in the fair plan are the ones paying huge amounts of money. ideally we want to see some sort of balance where we can pull people out of the fair plan. they can pay reasonable rates, and perhaps the rest of us pay a little bit more, or -- and this is where i think technology could really help us. maybe they do a better job of assessing the risk. >> sure. >> if they're just doing this by zip code, you and i can live next door and have very different levels of risk. you could take care of your house, and i might not. if they don't check it out in person or they don't have some sort of software product to check it out, maybe the risk should be spread differently, you know? i think technology might come into play. >> it's causing a lot of anxiety for our neighbors here. thank you, chris. appreciate it. you can see if state farm customers in your area are in danger of being dropped.

we've posted the zip code map right at nbcbayarea.com and our nbc bay area app. you can also type in your zip code on our look-up tool. up next, will the a's get that ballpark built in las vegas? what a drama mess this is. that could now depend on nevada's supreme court. we'll explain. also, that houseboat just floating in the bay. the story behind this odd sight. the story behind this odd sight. yo she got that dress with the extra money she saved using our brand new grocery outlet app.

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. welcome back to "nbc bay area news tonight." the a's say they're done with oakland. we know that part of the story. but we also know their future in las vegas, it's far from a done deal. today a group in nevada is intensifying its effort to stop that proposed ballpark in las vegas for the a's. this is all about the public money promised to the a's. last year, nevada lawmakers set aside $380 million in public funding for the a's. the legislation is known as sb-1. the plan is to use that money to help fund a $1.5 billion ballpark on the strip. a political group backed by the nevada teachers union is against the financing deal. they call themselves schools over stadiums. they want the nevada voters to decide if public money should be given to john fisher. late this afternoon, lawyers for schools over stadiums made their case in front of the nevada supreme court. they argued the voters should be the ones to decide how the money

is spent. also in court, lobbyists for the a's. they say the possible petition from schools over stadiums would be unclear. >> sos pac is not seeking to enact the text of sb-1 by way of initiative. nor is it seeking to repeal the entire text of sb-1 by way of a referendum. sos pac is only asking the people to vote. >> so what they're asking nevadans to do is choose between two options or two legislative futures for sb-1. either the current form passed by the legislature or the truncated version with their deletions. how are nevadans expected to make the appropriate choice between those two versions if they aren't provided with the full text of the measure? >> and back and forth it goes there. joining us now from las vegas is alexander marks with stadiums over schools. alexander, thanks for being with us. it's messy here in the bay area

with the a's. it's messy in sacramento. it's messy out there where you are in las vegas. are people in vegas aware of the turmoil with this franchise? >> well, thanks for having me. yeah, they absolutely are. we actually just saw some polling last week that has support for the stadium at 20%. i think folks are starting to figure out what's going on. we saw the same thing from jackson county, missouri, last week. whether it's the results from jackson county, missouri, the emerson poll from last week, a majority of las vegas voters oppose public money going towards a baseball stadium for the athletics. that's what we were in the supreme court today to determine. taxpayers should have the opportunity to vote on where their money goes. >> what happened today? was it a victory for you guys or for anyone, or was this just kind of unclear? >> we're kind of in wait and see mode. i think our oral arguments went

really well. we look forward to a quick decision from the justices. not much to add until a decision is rendered, but the context is important that a majority of las vegas voters oppose public money. it's wildly unpopular. i think a lot of folks know it, and some are kind of pretending otherwise. we're just hoping to get this to the ballot because i think at the end of the day, this is why billionaires have to sue teachers. they know if this is on the ballot in nevada, they're going to lose. >> nevada gave public money to the raiders, which we know very well around here. will that change for the a's? is that the goal? >> it will change. i think we were promised all these wonderful things, jobs, it will fix education, et cetera. i think when that stadium opened, we were 46 for pupil funding, and now we're 48th. clearly it didn't bring in the revenue they thought it would for public ed. i think folks are starting to see that stadium not bringing in the results we wanted. same thing with formula 1.

we're being sold a bill of goods that has been backed by no economic support, and i think our locals are starting to pick up on that through, you know, the work we're doing locally as well as with some of our partners in oakland like last dive bar. >> if the court rules in your favor, when will we know this, and what happens? >> we're hoping for a quick decision within the next week or so. obviously what happens next depends on that ruling. a complete win is great. we're going to be out there gathering signatures. partial win, if we have to change stuff, not that we think we have to. we think our position is fairly strong. obviously tomorrow would be better than three weeks from now. but i think the thing to keep in mind is that, you know, like john fisher, we also have parallel paths. we're also pursuing a constitutional challenge against this bill to strip the public funding. you know, john fisher is trying to inject himself in that as well like he did with this one. it seems that they don't have a permanent home except for trying

to fight educators in a courtroom, but we've got a lot of steps that we can take to try to strip public funding from this project and make sure that we're focused on our schools over stadiums. >> alexander marks, thanks for your time. good luck with your pursuit. we will be tracking this every step of the way. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> we did reach out to the a's organization for a statement or comment about today's oral arguments in nevada. we have yet to receive a response. well, let's move on now. something we don't see very often, a unique scene. a two-story home towed from the peninsula to a spot in sausalito via the bay. here's nbc's velena jones. >> reporter: there's a lot of ways to move, but it's not often that you see a two-story home being moved across the bay by a smaller boat. take a look. that's exactly what we see here. it's a sight that was met with excitement and a little confusion and worry as people watched the house being tugged by a much smaller boat that you see right there, that blue boat,

as it traveled from redwood city to sausalito. some concerned that the home wouldn't make it, but now we see that it is docking here in sausalito. the journey started monday morning at docktown marina and paused overnight in richardson bay. the coast guard checked on the boat once it anchored in the middle of the bay, but could not find the owner or the people responsible for tugging the boat. the houseboat was one of the last remaining floating homes at the redwood city marina after several efforts to evict residents resulted in many homeowners settling with the city and leaving the area. now the floating home has made it to its new location here at commodore marina in sausalito. velena jones, nbc bay area news. >> that's a nice house. thank you, velena. a live look now in san francisco. our meteorologist, vianey arana, is going to join us next with

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