beúbut, you know, i'm just i'm just glad we could we could that we reallt as a basketball team. >> and congrats to athenian and all the bay area state champions. yeah lots of reasons to celebrate tonight. >> allúright jason thank you. okay. next at 11 i wouldn't be out at >> and it will be interesting h& >> all eyes on silicon valley as the lead flips between two democrats battling to make the november ballot and eventually to congress. >> the 11:00 news on ktvu. >> fox two starts now at stake. the congressional seat held by the retiring anna eshoo tonight. while we know former san jose mayor, the dozens of votes. good evening >> i'm mike mibach and i'm julie julie haener. ballots are still being counted. ktvu jana katsuyama joins us now live from the newsroom with

. janna and julie and mike. what a battle it is. this is such a tight race. it's the top two candidates with the most votes who advanced to the general. >> well, since place spot has bn bouncing back and forth between assembly memberúevanúlowe and santa clara county supervisor joe simitian. today lowe actually pulled ahead for the first time by a very tiny margin as a result of an influx of mail in ballots. yesterday was the deadline for those ballots to be received by election offices. now, here are the latest results from the santa clara county elections office. they show sam liccardo, former san jose mayor, inúthe lead tonight.úhe's projected to advance to the november ballot by taking first place in the primary with 21% of the vote. right now, lowe and simitian still neck and neck in this race for the second spot. lowe right now is ahead by just 70 votes. san jose state political science professor melinda jackson says right now, it's anybody's race.

>> but now we have these three very strong democratic candidates competing against between them on the issues. they come from different areas of the district have their own kind of bases of supporters as an issue. the outgoing congresswoman has endorsed joe simitian. i'm sure that helped him with with some evan lowe, you know, kind of catching up to him. lowe represents a younger generation. he's asian american. so you know, it could go either way. >> the 16th congressional district includes portions of santa clara, san mateo and santa cruz counties. lowe's sudden surge to second is a really tight race since this election simitian said that he was entirely confident that he would be in the top two for the general election in novembern in a statement, joe simitian said,

quote, every vote counts and every vote has to be counted. that'súthe nature of our process and that's as it should be. the encouraging, but soon. meantimee also issued a statement saying, quote, thank you again to all of the voters who have made their voices heard inúthis election by the latest results that have put our campaign in the lead. professor jackson says. if lowe finishes in the top two, he when there tend to be younger voters who might be looking for somebody who's closer to their age. but again, there are these top democrats. they're well known in the district,úand they really appeal to different parts really shows the diversity that we have there in that district. watch this race.l continue to >> jana. thank you. well, another switch in the race now for california senate after taking the lead today, republican steve garvey is back in second place tonight behind democratic congressman adam schiff. so far about 5 million

votes have been tallied. and schiff is leading garvey by just 21,p00 votes. election still prg ballots, but the top two spots l be in the primary and will now face off in november to determine who succeeds the late senatorcc3 f1 >> the a bill that could lead to a ban social media platform tiktok. the measure passed the house 352 to 65 and now heads to the senate. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are expressing concern over the tracking the bill passes the senate and the president signs it into law, the app's parent company, six monthl the app, or it will be removed from us app stores, the company's ceo took to responding to today's vote, saying the platform has prioritized keeping data safe from outside manipulation. this bill gives social will also take billions f

dollars out of the pockets of creators and small businesses. it than 300,000 american jobs at risk. bill, movingúthrough therts the upper chamber. for now, it's unclear how or when the influens who have beenúable toúmake a living off the social media platformn >> many of them say they congres taking steps to joey horton joins us now to talk about how some of them could be impacted. andc for a lot of people, it's a source of income. >> it is a full time gig here. we're talking about their career. they do this every day of the week. they out on that m. lawmakersúsay if there is a ban, do, it's going to cost them at- lot. >> this is santos isúa professional social media

francisco. >> i had one tiktok video that went viral. >> he's against banning tiktok. his clients hire him to do their marketing on social media, including tiktok. the city of oakland promote restaurant week. >> i came from san francisco to preview aúcouple spots for oakland restaurant week for a a minute 30s, from 500 to $2000. >> r5% of his where he has about 12,000 followers. >> i think people love the authenticity of tiktok, michaela tencer of san francisco is known as michaela weinstein on tiktok, where napa and lifestyle posts make up her content. >> i was san francisco's union square, filled with tulips, tensor is hired by several companies to manage their social media in addition to her own, which she's done professionally for three yearsúnow.

>> she points out that tiktok doubles as a search engine for their search bar and type in restaurants in in richmond or going to find reviews of thosee places have recently been there. tencer lose business if tiktok ends sh. the platform accounts for 30% of her business and would cost her up to $12,000 a year if banned. >> the importance here is protecting data, and i think that is really important. i don't think banning this one app is going to address that issue >> she believes lawmakers should find a way to focus on data privacy without infringing upon freedom of speech. experts say using a vpn or a virtual private networking service might allow users to keep using tiktok if it does end up getting banned, and

that vpn can make it seem like you're connected to the internet guys from a different country to get around that possible ban. >> all right, a lot of eyeballs on this one, joey. thank you. thanks, joey. >> overseas, a ship from the nonprofit world central kitchen is making its way to gaza, as well as ships. those military ships with tons of massive equipment and steel pier segments. the plan here is to buildúa temporary port along the coast of gaza to facilitate the delivery of food, medicine and other desperately needed supplies. officials say the new port should be up and runningc n just about two months, and will enable the delivery of about da. tonight, it is still unclear how israel will respond. >> pro-palestinian demonstrators took their concerns to sfo and blocked access to the spinternational terminal today r more than two hours. palestine. the demonstration was peaceful,t for security and reach their

flights. protesters were calling for an end to the violence in gaza that has left an estimated 30,000 peopleúdead. they managed to make a was displayed, as long as they limited few hours. stily passengers were frustrated by this disruptionn i think itúit's a it's a good way to demonstrate your, your viewpoint on gaza, but stopping other people from >> i don't think is the way to do that. >> no, they're making enemy here. they disturb, they inconvenient. they want to fly somewhere. they are >> much of the international fod and drinks, and some travelers were escorted to another their mid-morning flight.t miss >> new at 11 the former uc davis student accused in the davis serial stabbings is waiving hisc right to a speedy trial. carlos dominguez appeared in court where he pleaded not guiltyc to all charges and enhancements. dominguez is accused of killing

two men and hurting a woman. he's going to be back in court juneú18th when his trial date is scheduled to be set. heading to the worldtics group - championships. we about what ths feat means to them and how you can help get them there also. >> the investigation targeting boeing. officials are now raising

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begins tonight's west coast wrap. health officials say this is the first human case of plague since 2021, and the first death since 2020. this comes about a month after a human case of the bubonic plague was confirmed in oregon. officials there say that infection was caught and treated early. the bubonic plague is a bacterial disease involving rodents and is spread to humans through the bites of infected fleas in southern california.t& >> a major landslide overnight flattened a home and damaged at least three others. the sherman oaks home was under construction, and no one was inside when the hillside gave way early this morning. now, were forced to evacuate.the area downtown los angeles received more than 12in of rain over the there. no one was hurt in thet- slide. >> and in washington, the department of health is launching a pollen surveillance system with 11 monitors across the state. the data will be

available on a phone app called pollen wise. the monitors collect data on distinct tree grass and weed pollen, so users that they're allergic to. thest- departmentúof health is also working to make that web based dashboard that will be available can hear about the west coastyo- top stories every weekday right here on ktvu. west coast rap with alex savage airs at 7:00 monday through friday, or you can findc around the clock coverage at west coast rap.com. >> new tonight in east palo alto. robotics team is headed off to houston, texas to take part in a world championship competition. >> theúchurro bots are a community based team with more spthan a dozen students from hih schools in the area, and as ktva peters tells us now, the team needs to raise of dollars to make it to theúbig competition soon. >> so i did this when i was in high school, life. >> students from ten different high schools meet at this east

palo alto garage to create, innovate and compete in robotics, coach matt pezzimenti created this workshop in his garage for create robots over ar dedicated andúi think just partr me. >> pezzimenti helped form the hope horizon east palo alto nowr just five years of learning and perfecting those techniques, the robots are preparing to compete in the world championship for the first time. >> having this amazing opportunity, itgs i feel it's going to be reallyúbeneficial welcome to the final finals.am. >> to qualifyc, the robots werea part of a winning alliance at the first robotics competition, silicon valley regional, last weekend. this is our robot team member kevin mendoza. hernandez says he's always been interested in building things, and he started honing those skills in middle school with the first

lego league. >> i love playing with legos, so from legos, i moved floor team,n the, so spthat got me more into robotic. >> the robots have now started a fundraising campaign to raise $40,000 to ship equipment registration fees, and travel expenses to take over 20 team members and coaches to the championship. >> yeah, we're hoping that this team, too, and that not not just getting folks the kids to houston this year, but in future years, having ongoing sponsor hours, see this team be able to grow and do this every year. >> the robots will head to houston the week of april 17th, and information about how you can help them get there, just go to ktvu.com and click the link for this story. peters, >> still ahead tonight, an environmental reportúindicates some retail giants are selling accessories with high levels doe

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and killing a farm in oakland. authorities say 33 year old robert lee moore shot 68 year old aristeo zambrano last month while zambrano was working at his auto repair shop. zambrano once worked alongside farm labor leaders cesar chavez and was on >> new information panel that ff

during an alaska flight in january. national transportation safety board investigator spsenate saying boeing's ceo cod not answer her questions about who worked on the door. now, she says, he claimed there are no records of theújob. hamidi also reports she was told security cameraúfootage that could help in the case was overwritten any& worked on forward, homendy has asked thei. >> not too far from the weekend. now we're pushing into a thursday. it's going to be a beautiful day. today was really nice. these temperatures sort of theú60s, even some low 70s, and temperatures tomorrow will be more upper 60s andúeven more loc w0s. and by the time we get towards the weekend, friday, saturday area, we could see temperatures in the mid 70s, spthe winds are blowing though.& we've got that wind advisory that we've been talking about, the yellow areas. i guess that's

i'm kind of colorblind.úi think that's yeah. julie is that yellow or gold? >> it's kind of a peaúgreen. >> okay. >> dang it. ofúa yellowish color okay. >> let's call it yellow. yeah. yellow okay. and then here is your, yourúyour extreme pretty intense. that's going to stay in effect for a few days as spwe go into southern californin santa ana wind conditions in which they fire. not a big concern because ofúthe you know, we've seen that before, especially in la. you can dry out. we get those humidities spdown in right out. so we'll keep an eye on that.c that's going to go on through friday and saturday. so as we push into the evening we've got no fog to speak of. we got windy, breezy conditions that are just now ramping up the morn again on friday morning, then again on friday afternoon. and right now the winds. 20 miles an hour at san carlos. i mean, it's breezy gusts at half moon bay. that's pretty breezy. and then these are the

right now. temperatures which are pretty warm for this time of night. think degrees in fairfield. so temperatures are warmer thant& they were last night when the winds when they sinks and the air warmsn it compresses and actually warms. that's why temperatures are going to get so warm. andc thats a may see overnight lows stay a little bit warmer as well. so as you peek at the 70s especially as you headw more towards the south bay. itgs going to be a niceúday. it's going to be a nice weekend. it's going to be nice, probably be ny we're going. there's a five day forecast, no rain in this one. >> all right. it's been a while& since wegve seen all that sun bill. thank you. well new sptonight toxic been detected al products. a new report shows some retail chainsc are selling these products, ktvu jana katsuyama spoke with the center for environmental health that issued this report and tells us about the warning for consumers. >> people usually don't think of shopping as a health hazard, but

environmental health this week announced that discount retail chains ross and burlington have been selling products with high >> what we found is that whether they're leather orshoes- they're full leather. right disproportionately have high levels of lead. >> kizzy charles guzman is the chief executive officer of c. e investigators went and 15 burlis across california, includingt& more thanc one dozen in the area. lab tests showedúhundreds of their items under a widet& range ofúbrand names, had lead millionl compared to theert- consumer product safety commission's limit 100 parts per million. for children's items. >> weúabsolutely need safer standards. we absolutely need better regulations at the federal level, you assume that they they're safe, like theirt& products are safe to buy.

>> by law, californiaúemployers also have to protect their workers from lead. specifically, they have an obligation to be aware of when lead exposures are happening and then to conduct testing of their employees and their environments. >> robert murray is an attorney with theúcaliforniac chamber of commerce. he says cal osha just passed new, stricter lead regulations last month that apply to retailers. >> under the prior regulation, you hadc workers with exposure p to 50 micrograms of lead, and now you're dropping that down to ten micrograms of lead. >> lower burlington did not respond to our request for comment, but ross sent us a statement that reads in part at ross,úthe health and safety of our customers and associates is of the utmost importance. we have policies in place that require our suppliers to meet applicable product safety and labeling standards. if we learn of allegations that our products are not in compliance, we

action. in oakland, jana katsuyama, ktvu, fox two news and here is a look at the stories trending tonight of theo people arrested inúsan jose after police say they carried out six bank robberies across northern california. also in alamo. woman robbed at gunpoint right outside her garage after multiple men followed her home. the incident caught on surveillance video and a man from san diego allegedly behind a nationwide theft ring that stole millions of dollars worthm than a decade. you can find these storiesúand much more right there at ktvu .com. >> still ahead tonight, a piece of history in san francisco. we'll tell you how long this 19th century replica of a tea clipper ship will be docked in the bay. >ñ but first, we want stunning a beautiful wednesday evening with the san francisco skyline there place watching the 11:00 news on ktvu

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for those caught organizing sideshows, the council reversed course at last night's a first read of the ordinance last month. under the proposal, sideshow organizers and promoters would be hit with a jail. council members who int- rejected this last night say they want a more strict penalize spectators. >> also new at 11, two members of the sunol glen unified school district have voted on theúdate for their own recall. the recall recall efforts against boardnd.- president ryan jergenson and member linda hurley began after

organizers say they want allegey making policies motivated by personal agendas and the refusal to take action against racism. >> sailing enthusiasts are able to now get a glimpse of a historic visitor in san francisco. skyfox flew right over the stad amsterdam, a 19th century style ship docked at pier 30. it's going to be here until march 23rd. then it's off to honolulu as part of a trip around theúworld. the ship captain says translates to the city of amsterdam, is a replica of an old tea clipper ship once used to travel between china and northern europe, transporting tea, according to the chronicle, the ship docked in san francisco once before, about six years ago, during its first world tour. >> nasa is offering an out of this world opportunity to have part of moon. the space agency is allowing people

to send their names to the moon aboard nasa's first robotic. onf the names are collected, they will be etched onto a microchip that will be attached to the rover. the craft will head to the lunar south polar region, where it will be the first rover to explore areas in permanent shadow and research theúmoon's water. the deadline to submit your name for the mission and get your personalized souvenir boarding giants legend and team part owner buster posey has purchased an $8.s million home in lafayette. this is the same city for most of hisúplaying career with the san francisco giants. now, their new ranch style home, a little more than 6300ft!s, consists of six bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms. and after posey announced his retirement back in 2021, he and his family packed up and left the bay area.

they moved to georgia, where he grew up, but then they later said that the bay area is where they fromúredfin, by the way. welcome home. i'd like to say to the three time world series champion, national league mvp, i could go on and on with all the accolades. always. it's nice to haveúbuster and his family back in the bay area. >> always a giants fan favorite, andúit's nice to have a place where you feel comfortable to call home. for sure. very pretty home all right. that is our report for tonight. thanks so much for watching the 11:00 news. our next newscast is coming up at 4 a.m. a little bit of an early start there, as it always is, toústream the latest news and weather on your hi, everyone. i'm frank malaka. welcome to another edition of like it or not. we take everyday scenarios and we put it before our very esteemed panel and we find out if they like it or not, andt'