green jacket up for grabs. could be number six. there you go. >> thanks, jason. all righty. next at 11. >> thank you for today. this is a special and unique day that we don't get to share very often. >> an emotional reunion in the east bay. a former police officer taking the opportunity to thank the paramedics who saved his life. >> the 11:00 news on ktv. fox two starts now. >> 53 year old jeff harrington is a former bart police officer. today, he came face to face with the paramedics who saved his life last year. hello again everyone. i'm julie julie haener and i'm mike mibach. >> in november, he suffered cardiac arrest at his home. his wife quickly called 911 and began performing cpr on her husband. paramedics dave raymond and jason vera arrived on scene and stepped in. they say after 20 minutes of working on harrington, they were able to revive him. harrington says he is forever grateful. >> one of my earliest memories, you guys visiting me and that's

that's a huge tribute to the people that you guys that you would take the time out of your busy schedule, whether you're dropping a 51, 50 off or whatever. but you came up and saw me and that speaks highly of what you guys stand for and came and see me. and i just i don't know how to extend the gratitude for i know, i know that it's just it's. >> and on this day, it was the paramedics who were brought to tears. dave raymond expressed his own gratitude, saying that as first responders, they're not always able to meet the people who they save. >> several people have been asking that same question. jeff, i've been in this county for 32 years. guess what? you're the first to be able to have that opportunity to say that. and i can't express the joy that i feel now. and knowing that i'm getting to talk to you. >> raymond gifted harrington a fork challenge coin to honor the occasion of his visit for law enforcement. challenge coins are a form of recognizing excellence

, commemorating a special occasion honoring an officer and connecting with the community. >> new at 11 tonight, more than 100 american cancer society volunteers rallied at the state capitol today, calling for lawmakers to act on three pieces of legislation regarding cancer prevention. the first measure would raise the income eligibility for free breast cancer screenings offered through the state. the second bill would establish a public list of what tobacco products are allowed to be sold in california, and the third called on lawmakers to support a bill that would increase civil penalties for retailers who sell illegal products to people under 21. >> tonight, in response to the arizona supreme court ruling that the state can't enforce a law criminalizing nearly all abortions, planned parenthood in california says it is prepared to handle an influx of people from the state of arizona who may be seeking reproductive health care here in california. ktvu is lamonica peters has the story. >> planned parenthood in california says they've already begun offering reproductive

health care to people from other states. >> we are assuring not only people of arizona, but throughout the country, if you can get to california, we got you. you can get care here. >> gilda gonzales is the ceo of planned parenthood northern california and says their seven affiliates across the state are financially capable of serving more people. >> our affiliate alone has seen a 38% increase, and we started preparing ourselves back in 2020 because we understood the numbers, we understood what was happening at the supreme court. and so we were well prepared for what happened in june of 2022. >> in 2022, the supreme court ruled that abortion is not a right protected under the constitution, and it left it up to states to decide on abortion rights. on tuesday, advocacy group reproductive freedom for all released a statement saying in part, with trump and the republican party working to ban abortion and all 50 states,

california is ground zero for taking back the house so that we can lock in the reproductive freedom majority who will restore the federal right to abortion. but this week, presidential candidate and former president donald trump said arizona's abortion ban goes too far and that he would not sign a federal abortion ban. >> we're now already hearing that they are exploring a state initiative in the fall. so, you know, fingers crossed that there is hope for arizona, the arizona supreme court ruling also suggests that doctors could be prosecuted for performing abortions, but the states governor, katie hobbs, says that she'll do all that she can to keep anyone from being charged. >> lamonica peters, ktvu, fox two news the arizona legislature adjourned today without a vote on a bill to overturn the state's near-total ban on abortion. >> shake, shake, shake, shake

said if this remains the way it is, this has dire consequences. >> people will die. >> the state supreme court ruled yesterday that the state can enforce the near-total abortion law from more than a century ago. the exception when a mother's life is at stake. some republicans were vocal about opposing the 1864 ruling, but went to recess without taking up a bill. today, the speaker says they need more time. >> instead of us all taking some time letting this settle, having an honest debate when cooler heads can have this conversation, we're we're we're doing this. the shenanigans and the childish behavior we saw earlier. >> the arizona legislature needs to act in the next 14 days, or the ruling will take effect, the speaker said. it doesn't matter if a bill passes today or in two weeks. >> new tonight a 14 year old had just taken the biggest stage of her young singing career at san jose's paypal park. but then days later, her father, who was at that performance, suddenly

died. tonight, the community is rallying around the bay area. singer and her family. ktvu is amber lee has the story. >> this is my last night with you. >> yesenia martinez of oakland loves singing. the 14 year old says she's been doing so for as long as she can remember, even through the cameras. us behind her biggest stage yet was performing the national anthem at paypal park in san jose, march 30th. it was the inaugural home opener for bay fc. short for bay football club and american professional women's soccer team, a special moment shared with her father, sanson martinez. >> he really, really told me like over and over and over again, he was just like, i'm just so proud of you. like, i can't even express to you. like i'm just so proud. >> a cherished memory captured in this photo. >> he was like, you're going to go so far, mika. >> but four days later, her father died suddenly from a

heart attack. she and her mother, rebecca martinez, are grateful for the outpouring of support. mom tells me a gofundme she started has helped pay for expenses, including flying family from out of state and mexico to the bay area for the memorial service. >> you feel like you're one of many, but then all of a sudden you feel like you really do have a village. >> support and donations have come from many, including bay fc and former 49ers star ronnie lott, whom yesenia and her father met at the match. >> and they've made it so much easier to be able to, like, process all of these things. >> the martinez family moved to oakland four years ago from groveland, a town near yosemite. mother and daughter say they've been embraced by the bay area from the start. all i ask is if yesenia's first major public performance was at oakland's first friday in 2022. she says her father's advice to be herself will guide her. she has these words for him that i love him. a lot. yesenia proudly

shows me the dress her father bought for her quinceanera to be held in june, a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. in the mexican culture, the family will be holding a memorial service for yesenia's father this weekend. amber lee ktvu, fox two news. >> workers in utah quickly trying to patch up a crack in a dam in tonight's west coast, rap y residents have been told to prepare to evacuate and the race to replace longtime congresswoman anna eshoo here in the bay area. >> still to come, we break down the potential recount. >> also ahead, people who rely on the salmon industry will have an opportunity to express their frustrations after the season was cancele

charges of threatening and intimidating, as well as disorderly conduct with a weapon. >> that story begins tonight's west coast wrap. suggs was arrested yesterday in connection with an incident on march 10th. he's accused of backing into another driver at a starbucks drive thru and then arguing with that driver. the victim recorded the incident on dash cam video. police say when the victim went to drive off, suggs displayed a handgun but did not point it at anyone. suggs was released from custody today and is scheduled to be back in court later this month. >> in the state of utah, some residents were told to prepare for evacuate after cracks were discovered in a dam in the

southern part of the state. garfield county officials shared photos of the cracks along the upper portion of panguitch lake dam. now, the president of the company that owns the dam said ice caused some of the cracking. officials say they are calling this a level two emergency, meaning the dam could fail a level three emergency would indicate imminent failure. a stretch of a nearby highway has been shut down. dam operators are releasing some water from the reservoir to reduce the risk of failure. >> in southern california, the chp says. officers discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen legos while serving a search warrant. officers say they were all found among four different sites in los angeles and orange counties. four people were arrested on charges including organized retail theft, grand theft and conspiracy to commit a crime. organizers or investigators rather say two suspects were stealing from retail stores, including target, home depot and lowe's, and you can hear about the west coast top stories every weekday right here on ktvu. west coast rap with alex savage airs

at 7:00 monday through friday, or you can find around the clock coverage at west coast rap.com. >> the race to replace silicon valley congresswoman anna eshoo continues to make history, as we've been reporting, supervisor joe simitian and assembly member evan lowe finished in a rare second place tie in that primary, sending both men up against former san jose mayor sam liccardo in the november general election. but as ktvu jesse gary reports tonight, election officials will soon be involved in a very expensive recount. >> all's quiet at the santa clara county registrar of voters office wednesday as staffers brace for what could be several long days monday. this office and its counterpart in san mateo county begin a recount of votes for the 16th congressional district race. >> this has not happened before, and it's a very unique event for us. >> the reexamination of ballots brought on by a tie between second place finishers, supervisor joe simitian and assemblyman evan low, both

garnered 3249 votes in the march primary of a district that stretches between two counties. both are set to oppose front runner and former san jose mayor sam liccardo, whose several thousand votes ahead this week, both counties announcing two separate requests for a recount. i think that there may be some concern about the recount because people maybe haven't seen it before. >> it's not a process that they're used to, but the county registrars know how to engage in a recount. >> the santa clara county registrar of voters says multiple tables of four staffers each will work eight hours a day to scrutinize each ballot. the process of the recount is very complicated because the campaign they can request to look at, you know, certain vote by mail envelopes. >> they can request to look at other things that processes that we do. >> one of the people making the recount request, jonathan padilla, a former liccardo campaign staffer, in a response

to claims his actions are geared to help his old boss padilla via the x platform, writes why other democrats don't believe in counting votes and ensuring that the will of the people is transparently reflected confuses me. it's especially baffling that many of the folks criticizing the recount i'm proposing have themselves advocated for automatic recounts in the past. >> i think it helps whoever might come out ahead, certainly, but in terms of the idea that there is a recount, i'm not sure that that breaks for either candidate at this point. >> the people requesting the recount will actually have to pay for the recounts. they'll have to make a partial payment on monday before counting begins. the registrar of voters says it will cost $32,000 per day for a projected ten days in san jose. jesse gary ktvu, fox two news. >> new at 11 tonight a man from sebastopol is now in custody after santa rosa police arrested him today for allegedly manufacturing an unregistered gun parts in his home. 40

year-old daniel saylor is accused of using 3d printers to make handgun frames without serial numbers. he was identified as a suspect in march, but was arrested today at the sonoma county courthouse, where he was scheduled to appear for other firearm related charges. saylor is now being held on a $30,000 bail. he's expected back in court this friday. >> two bills aimed at helping people with substance abuse disorders passed the state senate health committee today. silicon valley state senator aisha wahab, author the measures one would streamline the conversion of unused skilled nursing facilities into behavioral health facilities. the other would ensure that health plans and insurers establish a process to reimburse providers for mental health and substance use disorder treatments. both bills now head to senate appropriations. >> new details tonight in the whale caught in fishing net off the bay area coast. the race against time to help save it and recognizing the contributions of some amazing women during world

war two. >> the congressional award given to the rosie the riveters in washington today. >> and we are tracking that weather. there is another warm day in store tomorrow. temperatures into the low 80s and then rain potential f the weekend

of a bear hanging out at the top of granite chief peak. they say they have been giving him plenty of space for his own safety and for the safety of resort crews, according to their post. the bear is also the reason for some early closures on the slope. this past week. >> okay then, the weather is shaping up again tomorrow. today was nice. tomorrow is going to be just as nice. maybe a couple

more clouds, maybe a little bit cooler as well. fogs clear from the coast right now it's way down. down by san luis obispo. but i suspect the fog is going to try to come back, especially around montara tonight and tomorrow morning. so we'll see. not as extensive as it was this morning. low visibility all along the coast. you might have seen that. so highs tomorrow are going to be very similar, but just slightly cooler out on the bay. there is no fog right now and there's very little wind. the winds are kind of light and we've just got a nice looking day in store for us again tomorrow. there's the system that's going to impact us. see the jet streams further north. but this thing is starting to dig. they kind of dig and they erode the jet stream and they push down. and this that's what this one's going to do. it's a nice looking weather system. if it was winter it would be formidable. but this time of year, this system is going to go through. it's going to do most of its rain on the coastal hills. and the lake tahoe area. they'll get two, three, four inches of snow south down towards mammoth. they could see eight inches of snow, six inches of snow. so it's just another kind of beneficial rainfall

potential. it's on saturday. you'll see that in the model runs. this is tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon friday morning. and then you see it starting to show up back here. this is the low back here. and then friday afternoon the lows dropping and then this moisture spinning off of it is still offshore at 6:00. so friday looks partly cloudy partly sunny but dry. and then saturday midnight to one two in the morning. it starts to rain. you wake up. it's not bad. get some breaks through about noontime and then another wave comes through. and that second wave on saturday is the potential for a thunderstorm. and that's the one you're going to watch out for because you're going to think, oh, the sun's out. i can go do stuff. it's going to be one of those days like we had a few weeks ago, where you just have unsettled weather. you may be sunny at your house, but it might be pouring at your friend's house. so if we look at it that way, just take precautions. on saturday and we'll see that you need an umbrella. you might you might need to think about you need an umbrella. >> an umbrella that's aggressive. >> sorry about that. yeah. just

keep it in the car, mike. just keep in the car. >> can't even own one lately. >> it's like sunny and rainy and sunny, i know. all right, bill, thank you. >> thanks, bill. new information tonight on the efforts to save a gray whale found entangled in a fishing net. the whale was spotted right off the coast near daly city yesterday. the search for its current location continued today. but as ktvu jana katsuyama reports, time is running out to save the young whale. >> new images wednesday from noaa show the gray whale that was spotted tuesday off the coast near daly city, intant, in a gill net. the giant mammal had swum up from long beach, where it was first spotted march 23rd, dragging the mess of net and buoys. the marine mammal center and noaa fisheries launched a boat with a rescue team. kathy george was on the boat and saw the whale close up. it was probably about 25 to 30ft. >> i would place it as a juvenile so it's not an adult whale yet and it was starting to look thin. it is not able to forage, so i'm pretty confident

that it is not eating. >> george says the whale was skittish, so they were unable to attach a satellite tracker. >> this whale had so much gear on it that it was just mind numbing. >> on wednesday, the team's boat left sausalito and returned back to the ocean, hoping to spot the bright red buoys they had attached to the whale. >> unfortunately, the fog is hampering our sighting abilities. >> it's a bit devastating to hear that it's entangled. >> pacific gray whales have been the focus of recent studies. scientists with noaa noticed an unusually high mortality rate in 2019 that led to a 40% decline in the north pacific gray whale population, researchers found. the cause was ecosystem changes in the arctic feeding areas, leading to malnutrition. this north bay fisherman says he's noticed changes firsthand. >> like in the last few years, we've seen fish, fish move around and seals move around and predators move around. and like

ecosystems, are slightly changing. >> noaa is asking local boat operators to be on the watch for the whales red buoys. >> it's amazing to witness whales, and it's a tragedy that they're getting caught up. this way. and i wish there was another way to bring them fish out of the ocean than a gill net. >> the rescue team says they searched from point reyes down to daly city on wednesday, but they were not able to locate the whale again. they say they won't be able to launch the boat thursday due to weather in sausalito. jana katsuyama. ktvu fox two news. >> well, people impacted by the canceled salmon season will have the chance to voice their frustrations tomorrow. fishermen, charter boat operators, seafood distributors and restaurant owners will talk about how the closure of the season will impact their economic futures. that meeting will take place at 10:00 tomorrow morning at scoma's restaurant at san francisco's fisherman's wharf. the pacific fishery management council announced the season cancellation today, saying the fish population is still recovering from the 2021 drought. >> and here is a look at

tonight's stories trending on ktvu. com one of the top stories police have made an arrest in connection with a hit and run over the weekend on 680 in concord that killed a nine year old girl, and governor newsom's office announced results of a chp operation in the east bay. hundreds of stolen vehicles now recovered and dozens of arrests made, and a new study shows humboldt county is the deadliest county in the united states for dui crashes. you can find these stories and much more@ktvu.com. >> aerosmith is now back in action. what you need to know about their farewell tour kicking off this year. >> but first, these clear skies across the bay area make for some classic, beautiful sunsets. a few little clouds out there as we give you this live look at not live. it was live at one point oakland estuary earlier tonight, san francisco skyline there in the distance you're watching the 11:00 news on ktvu. we're back after the break

fall due to steven tyler fracturing his larynx. the tour kicks off in september and will wrap up in february. they will be touring with the black crowes. aerosmith has two dates set for the bay area. they will perform at chase center in san francisco on november 30th and at sap center in san jose on december 4th. >> grateful dead tribute festival in california had to cancel this year's event just days before it is set to kick off. the skull and roses concert has taken place every year in ventura for the last six years. dozens of bands associated with the grateful dead have performed in the past, including the dark star orchestra and melvin seals, who played with the jerry garcia band for so many years. in a long statement made to fans, the

founder of the festival took to instagram, saying financial reasons led to the festival being canceled. in his statement, he expressed his sorrow to fans and that they should not expect a refund. >> bart is planning a special send off for the last of its legacy trains. on saturday, april 20th, bart will host a retirement ceremony for the last run of its legacy trains. they are made up of railcars that serve the bay area for more than 50 years. that ceremony will be held at the macarthur bart station. most of the old bart cars are being recycled for metal scraps. >> the women who represented the original rosie the riveters during world war two were honored today in washington, d.c. the group flew out of san francisco international earlier this week, and in d.c. they each received a congressional gold medal. it is the highest honor congress can bestow upon civilians. these women took over critical defense jobs during the war while men were overseas in combat. former peninsula

congresswoman jackie speier spoke at the ceremony about how those roses made american history. >> we are here to commemorate the millions of women, millions of women who heeded the call to build planes and tanks and jeeps and cannons and rockets. they were high school graduates. they were housewives. they were mothers turned war heroes. >> some rosie the riveters helped design the special congressional medal given out to the women at the ceremony today. >> dolores huerta, a tireless advocate for social justice, is celebrating her 94th birthday today. lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis, who describes her as a powerhouse for social justice, proclaimed today dolores huerta day here in california. huerta legacy includes establishing the national farm workers association along with cesar chavez in 1962 and organizing

national voter registration drives, her foundation says at 94 years old, she's still actively advocating for equality and defending civil rights. >> all right. thank you for watching the 11:00 news, everyone. our next newscast, of course, mornings on two starting bright and early, just about 4.5 hours. and don't forget to stream the latest news and weather on your smart tv anytime. just download the fox local app to your tv. >> thanks so much for joining us. we'll be back tomorrow night at five, six, ten and 11. good night. good night everyone what's going on? i'm alex savage. welcome to another episode of like it or not, you know how the show works. we tackle s