whether or not they end up getting back together, which we know is going to happen eventually, that's going to the role of technology in the war in gaza, targeting the tech giant's annual flagship conference, plus. >> this is where legends take flight. but our story has yet to be written. >> well, the wait is over, folks. the golden state wnba team announces its official name and logo. but just what is a valkyrie? >> also, we're live this afternoon with the bay area woman who has completed a historic 17 hour open water swim . what motivated her during that grueling journey? >> from ktvu fox two news. this is the four. >> when i hear the golden state

valkyries, i think of power. i think of community. i think of achieving the impossible together. >> born from the bay and gilded in gold, it is the beginning of a brand new era in the wnba. the golden state valkyries prepare for battle on the basketball court. the announcement of the team name and brand identity, coupled with an invitation for fans to join the ascent. welcome everyone to the four this afternoon. i'm heather holmes and i'm alex savage. >> the golden state valkyries are now the 13th team to join the wnba. ktvu christien kafton joining us now live from chase center in san francisco, where team merchandise is already drawing a lot of fans and christian. there was a whole lot of excitement. >> yeah, you're going to see a whole lot of lavender guys. we are actually just outside chase center in the team store, and you can see that the team store, the dub nation, in fact, has rolled out the welcome wagon to the valkyries. maybe the chase

center is ushering in the age of the valkyries, the legendary norse warrior women, a natural fit to play at the home of the golden state warriors. merchandise for the newest wnba team is already on sale at the team store. the valkyries, revealing their name and v shaped logo. that logo, also honoring the team's homes in oakland and san francisco, united by the bay bridge. >> i'm obsessed, the team's general manager, omar nianhan, taking to the valkyries social media. >> reacting to learning the team's name and seeing the logo for the first time herself. >> it's powerful. i'm going to be a part of a lot of firsts with this organization. i'm so excited to get to know what this name means, and i'm leaning in 100. my whole self is going to be devoted to the team. >> team president jess smith saying the name valkyries was a fan favorite as they considered

what to call the team the colors, the logo, and the name all coming together to create something new while honoring the past. >> you know this name, this logo, this color. it's ours. and this is where our legacy begins. >> at the team store, fans wasted no time picking up merch to show their loyalty to the valkyries. leanna louis says young women can now increasingly see a place for themselves at the highest levels of sport. >> i'm a former division one athlete and our career stopped when we graduated college, and i love to see the avenue that cameron brink and angel reese and caitlin clark get to go on. >> nan luma is getting some gear for herself and for her two year old daughter. >> she knows the word basketball . we have it on tv. we have the nba games, the wnba games on tv. so she knows basketball. >> loomis says she's happy her daughter will grow up in a world where women athletes and teams will be recognized as the powerhouses they are, there's so much fun and they're fully

capable. >> yes, we are dunking in the wnba. we are doing all kinds of tricks. we are skilled. >> now, the valkyries don't tip off until 2025, but already the team says about 7500 fans have put down deposits to be season ticket holders for that valkyries inaugural season. the team going to be holding a block party here at thrive city this saturday from two until six. and guys, i'll let you know that people in the office are already putting in orders for some of their merch, so i don't know. heather, you seem like maybe a t shirt kind of gal, i don't know, i'll take a hoodie. whatever you guys want. >> i want one of those hoodies. yeah, those look good. >> they do. let's look. >> so we're going to look for a hoodie for you, alex. okay. and a t shirt. >> yep. that works. i saw i saw mayor breed already with a sweatshirt on with with breed across. oh, yeah. she's already sporting the merchandise. that's going fast. >> oh, yeah. >> there's tons of people here around thrive city already wearing those lavender jerseys. it seems like everybody got the memo today.

>> yeah. all right. >> yep. yeah, it certainly does a lot of excitement at chase. all right christian thank you. >> i'm a fast. >> it's powerful. i'm going to be a part of a lot of firsts with this organization. i'm so excited to get to know what this name means. and i'm leaning in 100% my whole self is going to be devoted to the team. >> and like valkyries general manager ohemaa ninan, we're learning the history of the valkyrie mythology. okay so here it is, folks. the norse figures depicted as warrior women, usually on horseback. they were tasked with deciding the fate of warriors in battle. really is fitting for them to be the identity, the face of this new team. and we want to talk more about the team's brand identity. just identity. what it signifies and how it's already building so much excitement. >> and to do that, we want to

bring in shaman smith, the head coach of the cal bears women's basketball team and a former wnba coach and player as well. coach, it's great to have you on this afternoon. obviously, a very exciting day for everyone here in the bay area as we look at the team name, the valkyries, a team, officials say they chose this because of their reputation for being fearless and unwavering. when you look at the name and the logo unveiled today, what does it evoke for you? >> well, i'm one of those who really immediately knew what it was i used to pick the valkyrie character in the arcade game gantlet. i don't know if any of you ever played that, but i love this name. it means a lot to me. it is. it is this. this fear. fearless. powerful warrior, so to speak. and i love what jess says about this being, you know, our own and this is the bay area's wnba team. and lots of, legacy to be created with this. >> yeah. and there is a lot that

this identity really signifies. i mean, i mean, they walk through and they break down kind of every aspect, especially of the logo. but we are we are in a different time than a lot of other wnba teams were when they were creating their logo and identity, especially given right now with the popularity of women's basketball and really this concerted effort to bring a lot of people in. >> yeah, i mean, this is the biggest moment in women's basketball. it's the perfect timing, it is long overdue for the bay area. and i'm super excited. i have my deposit down for a courtside seats, and when i'm not out recruiting, i will be right there supporting this team. >> yeah, and so will a lot of other basketball fans from from across the bay area. i mean, we just talked with christian. he's out of chase center. they unveil the new logo. they announced the new team name and the fans boom. they are down there at the team store grabbing the merchandise. and we talk about the fact that you already have more than 7000 people who have put down their deposits for season tickets. what are your expectations for

how the hype and the excitement around this team is going to build between now and tip off a year from now? >> yeah, i think there's just so much work to be done in the community and, you know, connecting this team with everyone. and i think jesse naaimur will do a phenomenal job of, you know, i'm just really thrilled that this is actually happening. and it's going to be a great season. yeah, but can you explain sort of the road that lies ahead for this organization being brand new to the wnba and attracting some real star players? well, the thing is, you know, i was a part of an expansion team, back with the minnesota lynx. and this is such an amazing product, you know, that the work is there. it's going to be challenging, but there's no better time than right now for women's basketball. and in that way, the people are going to come. the people are going to be excited about this team, i'm not sure exactly how the expansion draft will work, but i know that there will be talent in the bay. has

done a phenomenal job with the liberty and know that she will continue to do that here and in 2025, this is going to be a team to reckon with. yeah. >> obviously your your role right now at cal is to cultivate young talent out there. do you feel like this team, the golden state valkyries, is going to be a destination where players coming out of college are going to hope that they land 100? >> i mean, this is so exciting for our team, and i know that we've talked to, you know, the golden state team, the valkyries, about partnering with them, you know, use of our facilities, anything they need from the cal bears, they will have. and, you know, hopefully we'll be able to get out and, and have those interactions at the chase center and at the practice facility with the valkyries as well. >> yeah. and we're already seeing some of that on social media. i mean, already some players are saying, you know, i like what the golden state valkyries stand for. i like this philosophy. do you see that being enough to kind of lure in,

like i mentioned, some of those real key players, 100 and, you know, it's if you look at, you know, what the ownership has done with the warriors and now what that will be with the valkyries. >> i mean, i think people will be excited about playing in the bay and you want to have that type of ownership. like, you know, the aces and the liberty. there's some franchises doing it really well. and i think this, this golden state franchise will be just as good as those. yeah. yeah, absolutely. >> and plus just that color scheme there. the violet in the black i mean right coach. >> yeah i can't wait i can't wait to put my gear on for sure i love it. >> absolutely. yeah. >> really appreciate you checking in with us today. charmin smith, head coach of the cal bears women's basketball team. thank you for doing it. thank you. and golden state fans are invited to a valkyries block party happening at thrive city coming up this weekend. it happens on saturday between 2:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon evening. this event is going to feature appearances by e-40, kehlani and pillow. >> of course, e-40, a big

warriors fans. >> i'm going to guess he's also going to spread some of that love the valkyries way as well. all right, well, the big announcement on the bay area's new wnba team coming as the regular season for the wnba starts tonight, with star rookie caitlin clark making her big debut. she and her team, the indiana fever, are on the road to take on the connecticut sun in front of a nationally televised audience. the popularity of clark, who broke ncaa scoring records while at the university of iowa, has really driven up ticket sales. in fact, this will be the first sellout for a connecticut sun home opener since the team's inaugural season 21 years ago. clark and fever will play their home opener on thursday in indianapolis in front of, you guessed it, another sellout crowd. >> it feels like a new era, the wnba. >> all right, we want to talk about our weather here in the bay area. and to do that, of course, we want to give you a live look here. that is chase center off in the distance here.

this is sort of the perspective from the east bay looking across the bay over toward the city. you can see chase center, of course, a home of the golden state warriors. now, for the past few years and now home of the golden state valkyries of the wnba. weather wise, there looks like we have some of that marine layer kind of from the hills over there near san francisco. >> yeah, it seems like we're already advancing into june or july, right? the clouds and fog. so it's not the most exciting forecast, but i will say it's kind of nice, right? yeah. >> it's pleasant out there. >> yeah. we'll take it. we're not talking about heat. it's not extremely cold. but still it's a nice pattern to get outside over the next several days and right on through the weekend. so remember last week we were talking about the heat temperatures in the 80s and the 90s? not the case this week. we will have a lot of cloud cover tomorrow morning becoming partly sunny. cool for the beaches. it's warm inland. you can see the temperature profile tomorrow in the 60s, 70s and the 80s. you can see the overall satellite. there's an area of high pressure out in the pacific, an area of low pressure down in southern california. we're kind of caught in between those two systems. so

it's not incredibly hot. it's not incredibly cold. although we had somewhat of a chilly start this morning. i will say here's the low cloud deck near half moon bay near san francisco, out toward the marin headlands as well as we kind of come in closer, there's the cloud pattern, getting ready to push back into the bay over the next several hours. current numbers where it's sunny, it is warm. we have some lower 80s for livermore at 82 san jose, mid 70s, san francisco 58 and half moon bay in the mid 50s at 55. and we'll check out the wind reports right now. those winds pretty much right on schedule starting to pick up. you can see oakland airport gusting to about 35 miles an hour. some more neighborhoods for you with sfo gusting to 30, half moon bay at about six miles an hour, and san jose winds out of the northwest at about 14 miles an hour. so our live camera is still picking up on some of the green hillsides, some sunshine up above, and this from this vantage point. but with the low clouds getting ready to push back into the bay and we are expecting a solid cloudy start near the coast and right around the bay. tomorrow morning, temperatures will be in the 50s, probably partly cloudy skies well inland, but here's the forecast models definitely bringing in some cloud cover

tomorrow morning, maybe some drizzle right near the immediate shoreline, and then into the afternoon hours. we are expecting some cool conditions. coastside some patchy fog and more sunshine inland. those readings back up into the 80s for your wednesday afternoon. this pattern wants to stick around over the next several days. we'll have more on this with your full update coming up in a little bit. >> all right, mark, we'll see you in just a bit. thank you. up next here on the four this afternoon google's developers conference kicked off today. and attendees were met by hundreds of pro-palestinian protesters. we're live with the details on the demonstrations and know the signs. >> a bay area woman who survived three strokes will join us live to talk about her story of survival in hopes of sp ading awareness

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and along with the attendees, hundreds of pro-palestinian demonstrators descended on the main campus. ktvu south bay reporter jesse gary joining us

now live with more on how the war in the middle east is affecting corporate life in silicon valley. jesse >> alex and heather. the developers. afternoon keynote address went on. went off without a hitch. inside and without demonstrators outside. a sharp contrast to the way things began this morning. pro-palestine supporters using the spotlight from this annual conference to shine a light on their demands for freedom. we say how tuesday in mountain view, old chants greeting innovators of new tech outside google's annual developers conference. >> doing this at this conference sends a clear message to ceo sundar pichai and to google cloud ceo thomas kurian that you will be afforded. not a moment of peace. >> starting at nine in the morning, hundreds of pro-palestine demonstrators using this light to shine a spotlight on the big draw of this conference artificial intelligence. i think a lot of the topics were around ai and the new advancements they've

made, and it seems pretty impressive. >> i feel like a lot of the new advancements are pretty interesting, so i'm excited to see how it plays out in my life. >> protesters saying google's selling tech, such as project nimbus to israel means death for thousands of civilians caught in the war in gaza. >> there is nothing that would bar the israeli government from using these cloud services for military purposes. >> google is becoming more and more aggressive in their blade endorsement of and decision to profit off of israeli military settler colonial genocidal violence demands to cut ties with the idf mirror those made as protesters in april occupied the office of google cloud's ceo, a approximately 50 googlers who participated in that and other demonstrations nationally were fired by the company. >> the place that we are now in history feels like a turning point, and we need to decide,

all of us, how we want, innovations like artificial intelligence to affect our futures and the futures of our children. >> though the vast majority of attendees in the morning were inside by the time protests began outside, those expressing dissent say this is one step on a long path to promote corporate change. >> every effort matters. every conversation matters. >> and no word from google. we reached out a couple of times via email, but have not heard back as of this broadcast. there were no further protests this afternoon, and the extra police brought in from surrounding south bay towns such as sunnyvale and palo alto left the area shortly after lunch. guys >> yeah, and jesse, in other cases, we have seen the protests sort of linger and there be maybe clashes or dust ups. does it appear that that was the case here? what prompted the protesters to leave? >> we don't know for sure. but speculating there's a lot more attention the first day. and for

that morning keynote. and so that's when the cameras, news cameras are going to be there and most eyes are going to be on it, whether it's in person or virtually. and so perhaps that's why they used that as the platform to try to, you know, borrow some of the spotlight from the first day of the annual conference before the light starts to dim, particularly as we move into the, you know, afternoon and evening hours. and then tomorrow, you know, it's even dimmer than that. >> yeah, that makes sense. all right. jesse gary. live for us in mountain view. jesse. thank you. >> all right. do you know the signs of stroke? and do you know what to do if someone is having a stroke? stay with us. we' got important information

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aachen stroke month. organizations like the american stroke association want to raise awareness about the warning signs and the increased risk you face once you have a stroke, according to the cdc. every 40s someone here in the u.s. suffers a stroke and nearly 25% of those will suffer a second one. it's a fact that has fueled the mission of champion the challenges. it's a nonprofit founded by a los gatos native designed to help stroke survivors find therapies for recovery. and joining me now live is that stroke survivor, deb and bob shaw. deb is the president and founder of champion the challenges and a

three time stroke survivor. deb and bob, thank you so much for joining me this afternoon. deb, your story. it is so inspiring. after your first stroke, did you think that you would in fact have a second and then a third? >> no, not at all. in fact, 4,040% of stroke survivors don't know why it was even caused or how. >> yeah. i mean, that's unbelievable. bob, what was it like to help deb recover? >> in the beginning, it was really scary because neither one of us had been through it before, but we became very curious and we said, we have to explore everything that's available, try all therapies. and the other thing that we decided is we've got to get back into life as quick as we can. and so we were very aggressive with therapy, but we also did things that got us out of the house and we could practice therapy in the real world. yeah. >> and so, deb, i want to talk with you. what therapies do you feel like really worked for you?

>> well, absolutely. the physical therapy and occupational therapy. and then early on i had speech therapy. but hyperbaric oxygen therapy was very helpful. in addition to health care, vr and neuro acupuncture, all of them helped accelerate the recovery process. >> oh, that's really great to hear. and deb meant and women who have strokes often feel similar symptoms. and explain to the audience what those symptoms are. >> yes, the be fast is very critical. so the be presents balance being unsteady. the e is eyes being blurred. the f is facial drooping. the a means arms cannot be lifted above your head, the s is speech is slurred and the t is time to call 911, because time is of the essence

when a stroke is happening. yeah and it doesn't just take all of them, even 1 or 2. the person should be taken directly to the e.r. yeah. >> and, bob, were you there with deb when she was having one of the strokes? and did you immediately say so? you weren't there? >> i wasn't, i was out of the country at the time, and she had actually fallen on friday, and i wasn't here in the shower. family member took her to the emergency room, they ran all the scans, all the tests, she came back home and, seemed to be okay during the weekend. and then on monday, she actually had the stroke in her sleep. and woke up and wasn't able to move her right side and, did you immediately put two and two together and think, oh, deb may have had a stroke? yeah. and it was like, we got to call 911, get her to the hospital. and this is the other important thing we always emphasize. sometimes family members will say, well, let's get him in the car and drive them to the hospital. don't do that. call 911 because the paramedics can

take action in the house on the way to the hospital. and when you take an ambulance, you get to the front of the line at the hospital. you don't want to go through the whole process of getting in there. so always call 911. >> deb, this is really inspired both you and bob to start this organization. you plan these great events for stroke survivors. i mean, what happens at these events? >> oh, they're wonderful events. and we inspire the stroke survivors to get out and be social and have a wonderful day. and particularly like one that's coming up is called golf for life. and it's a wonderful, safe environment for people to experiment with therapy by putting a golf club in their hands, even if they never even thought about doing it. the brain loves variety, and so this inspires them to get out, be social, and just be among others that understand what they're going through and to share what

recovery processes have worked for one another. >> yeah, i mean, that's a really great message. and bob, for those who are loved ones of survivors, what is your message to them? >> it's really important that you see your role as the strategist and the person helping set goals. you've got to get the family and we call them stroke champions back into life and what we found is, you know, we would here's a wedding we want to go to, here's a graduation, here's a dinner. and it helps the therapist because all of a sudden you're saying, wait a minute, you're going to a wedding and it's outside. it's on wet grass and gravel. we're not practicing. let's do that in therapy. and the therapists love it because we take videos and send them back to them. and they feel very satisfied that they're helping you get plugged back into life and in your inspired. that's what we're trying to do. >> yeah, i can definitely see how you are empowering a lot of people. well, thanks again for coming on to share your story. bob. you too much success with the fundraiser that you have coming up, the event that you have coming up involving golf. i

think that that's absolutely great and really appreciate you coming on the show and spreading awareness about stroke. oh heather, thank you for having us. >> all the best. >> you too. thank you too. >> yeah, really inspiring story. all right. coming up here on the four this afternoon, physicians and public health professionals all calling on san francisco city leaders to do more to address the drug crisis and the growing number of overdose deaths. the data driven strategies they're asking the city to implement to help people who are struggling with addiction dupixent helps people with asthma breathe better in as little as 2 weeks. and when you can breathe better, what isn't better? this is better. this is better. that's better. and that.

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all joined together to call on san francisco's city leaders to do more to address the drug overdose crisis. they held a news conference outside of the medical examiner's office to highlight the more than 3000 people who have died from overdoses in san francisco since the beginning of 2020. speakers today called for evidence based public health strategies to help support those who are struggling with addiction. >> contrary to popular belief, individuals and struggling with addiction do desire recovery. they have the capacity to transform their lives. they are not bound by hopelessness and helplessness. >> among the organizations taking part in today's event, healthright 360, the young women's freedom center, the drug policy alliance, and the san francisco public defender's office, and for more, we are

joined this afternoon by laura thomas, who is the director of harm reduction policy at the san francisco aids foundation. laura, thank you for the time. i was listening to some of the speakers today. one of the doctors said that each overdose death in san francisco highlights a public policy failure. so can you lay out what are some of the policy changes that you and your colleagues believe would help to reduce the number of people dying from overdoses? >> yes. thank you very much for covering this, so one of the most important ones is increasing access to substance use disorder treatment for substance use disorder is treatable. people can recover, people do recover. and one of the biggest challenges in san francisco is we just do not have enough treatment available. and we don't make it easy for people to access. and we make people jump through a lot of bureaucratic hoops and regulations. and so one of our

goals is to ensure that there is these really low barrier, culturally competent, linguistically accessible, substance use disorder treatment for, for everyone, whether it's related to their alcohol use, their opioid use, their meth use, we want people to have more options available to them. >> all right. so what we talk about reducing the barriers to treatment for those who are facing addiction. what are the most significant, the most common barriers that people are facing? >> yeah, honestly, one of the most significant barriers is really the stigma that relates to substance use disorder. and people who may have a lot of shame or fear around it and are afraid of accessing services or, afraid of what that might mean, not wanting to have their children taken away from them, for example. and so we need to

address the stigma and the fears and the criminalization that comes along with substance use. the other thing is just the availability of services. so if, for example, you only speak spanish or you only speak a mayan language in san francisco, for example, there are very few services that people can access. if you are a parent with, with young kids, you know, where do you go, and you know, the, the single most effective treatment for opioid use disorder is methadone, which has been around for decades. it's very well researched. it's extremely effective, but it is highly, highly regulated and so people can only take it by going to certain places where they have to go every single day, you know, i think if, if any of us had to take a medication that we had to go to an office every single day to take it, we would think that was really not accessible. so yeah, these are

these are the sorts of things we can change. yeah. and when you talk about having those services be accessible to the people who need them, a lot of the focus at the news conference today was on the closure of the tenderloin center back at the end of 2022. >> this was a supervised consumption site and a social services center that closed after just nine months. there were hundreds of overdoses that were reversed there by the people who worked there. what has been the impact of that closure you believe across the city of san francisco, and is there a push underway to get a similar center reopened? >> yeah, the tenderloin center was was profoundly effective at what it was doing. they reversed 333 overdoses during the time it was open, as well as connecting people to all sorts of services, helping them, i mean, just some just providing meals, providing shower, providing access to laundry, but also helping people replace ids, get connected to

housing, get into other services. so it was a really effective program. and i think, you know, it's really clear that overdose fatalities went up as soon as it closed, they went down during the period of time that the tenderloin center was open, and they went up again as soon as it was closed. so i think it's very clear the extent to which it was, it was saving people's lives. i certainly would love to see more services like those open, it's, but i think one of the things that we're lacking in san francisco right now is a we're lacking the resources to fund something like that, and b, we're lacking the political will to really follow through and do the do what works. >> all right. we appreciate the conversation and the perspective today. we have to leave it there. laura thomas from the san francisco aids foundation, thank you for coming on. thank you. >> well, a bay area woman

celebrating a first. we're going to talk live with this amazing endurance athlete who just made history by swimming from the golden gate bridge to the farallon islands. and no, she was not wearing a wetsuit. it's amazing. >> mark, it sounds chilly already, but here's our live camera looking out towards san francisco. big fog bank out there. no major heat this week. in fact, we'll be on a kind of a cruise control forecast as we

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dangerous open water swim on saturday, 55 year old amy gubser became the first person to swim the nearly 30 miles from the golden gate bridge out to the farallon islands without a wetsuit. it took her 71 hours to complete the outbound journey through the cold ocean water, with powerful currents and the threat of sharks. a support team monitored gubser progress from a fishing boat alongside the neonatal nurse, who works in the pediatric intensive care unit at ucsf, has been planning for this swim for the past five years, and we are lucky to have amy joining us now live to talk about this incredible accomplishment. >> amy, congratulations. just how are you feeling? >> i actually feel really good when you train for events like

this. you want to make sure that you prepare well enough so that you could recover pretty quickly after event. the day after i swam, i felt a little sore. i hydrated and i was fine. >> you're like, oh, that. that was nothing. that whole thing that no one else has really done before. it was a piece of cake. >> no, no big deal. yeah. well, so for the rest of us. amy. okay a lot of what we're talking about here, just just taking a dip in those cold waters, that's like a nonstarter for me. as i was telling you then, you know, you talk about the idea. there's sharks out there. i mean, all of that is just. it's just you won't. you won't find me making this swim at any point in my life. but, i mean, you're doing this. i mean, you talk about the cold water, the currents, the threat of sharks and whatever else is in the water there. how did you prepare yourself mentally and physically for all of these things that that you know could potentially jeopardize your well-being? >> yeah. i'm not going to say that that was an easy

undertaking. this has been five years in the making, and i had to really think about it. i have grandchildren, i've got children, i've got a loving family who just endlessly supports me. and i really think about this swim in such a way. it's hard to prepare for something that you might not come back from, and it's, it's odd to say, but that swim has called to me for so many years. i see it because i'm from pacifica. i see those islands daily and i just know that they're mysterious and captivating. and it drew me to them and i prepared very hard for the last five years. and the swim came together with the perfect tide window and the perfect currents and the perfect weather. and my team was excellent and i had to go. it was perfect. so yeah. the right conditions. >> yeah. >> and you are among a very, very small group. only the sixth

swimmer to cross the gulf of the farallones. but those previous five swimmers did it inbound with the currents. what you did though was completely a completely different swim. i mean, explain the additional challenges. >> so the challenge that i had was i'm not as fast as some of those other swimmers. i know that swimming in open water community and marathons is not necessarily about speed, but it's about endurance and knowing what your capabilities are. i have a very strong capability of sustaining long time in very cold water, and i just have always viewed the swim the way that i did it. i always wanted the current blast out of the gate, but as i finished with that current that pushed me, all of a sudden the swim begins and each mile the temperature kept dropping and dropping and dropping, which i was prepared for. i wasn't prepared for the 43 degree water, but i was prepared for higher 40s. and,

honestly, i had to really just kind of consider that that was more in my wheelhouse to approach the swim. this direction. so that's how i did it. i i know swimming toward the shark island is just crazy in general. so there's no prep on that. >> okay, i'm glad we all agree on that. yeah. but as you got closer and closer to the farallons, you talk about the water getting colder and i know your support team, they did get worried about you. at one point they looked like your skin was getting pale. they were concerned obviously about about hypothermia in the water. what do they do at that point to help you out and what's going through your mind in that moment? >> oh my goodness. so my team is so well seasoned and they know me very well. and i could say honestly, i have never, ever told them in all of my time training with them and being with them that i've ever been cold in any condition. water. so when i said that to them, they were worried. they heated up my feeds, they gave me hot chocolate. they gave me hot water that i could pour on my

neck and pour on my hands in the water because they feed me off the boat on a with these, bottles that you have to pop the top off and you just drink right from there. it's on a string so you can't touch anybody. so they prepared that so that i had both of those things to have access to, and they told me that i was very close. and i just thought to myself, i gotta finish because i'm not doing this again. so i just got to i got to find i got to find whatever strength i have to be finished and done right. >> that's right, that's it. yeah. >> one and done. exactly. i didn't care what it looked like. it just needed to be done. yeah. >> and you and you did it. it really is remarkable. and you are you are such a delight, such a joy. i can also see why you why you are a nurse. you have that that beautiful personality and caring personality. but again, congratulations to you. what an accomplishment. >> thank you. thank you so much. thanks, amy. >> thanks for sharing your story. really inspiring. >> it is. >> i mean, it's not going to inspire me to get in the water and do a swim, but you know, thank you.

>> love the idea though, that she knew she wanted to take on this challenge. she set out a plan and she did it. and that is great. and mark, we are now taking a look at maury port, maury point in pacifica. amy obviously from pacifica. her yeah. familiar practice waters yeah, yeah, lots of low clouds and it's hard. >> it's hard to express how cold water temperatures in the 40s can be, the way your body wants to lock up and to be able to do that is just just amazing. so yeah, she had that background overcame that. yeah. she had the background image of the golden gate. and so she'll probably look at it in a completely different way the rest of her life. yeah but yeah, we have of course the typical low clouds and fog out toward the coast. and this feels like we're in the middle of june. right? lots of overcast, your portions of the shoreline. it's a warm temperatures inland. what's been happening? we've actually seen the marine layer deepen a bit. so all that cool air right near the coastline has been helping out the inland spots as well. so if you're not a fan of the heat, you like this pattern. we're not talking about 90s. and actually temperatures mainly in the low to mid 80s. here is a look at

the satellite and the radar. we actually have some activity some thunderstorm activity to the east of the bay area. moving out of the sierra approaching modesto. so if you look to the east, you might see some of those big puffy white clouds linked up with those thunderstorms. right now, though, we have this lots of low clouds and fog near the coastline. in fact, still hugging the coast from half moon bay right around the golden gate bridge, out toward the farallons and also the marin headlands this afternoon. current numbers. where we have the cloud cover, it's chilly out toward half moon bay. it's 54 degrees 73, in santa rosa, 82 in livermore and san jose, and in the mid 70s wind speeds, they have been picking up those stronger winds. oakland airport gusting to over 30 miles an hour, sfo gusting to 30, and san jose winds out of the northwest at about 14 miles an hour. here is our live camera looking out towards san francisco in the distance. and there's that low cloud deck already getting its act together, and wants to push back into the bay for this evening. and we are expecting some low clouds for giants baseball this evening. temperatures will be in the 50s and probably a bit of a breeze around 15, maybe gusting to 20 miles an hour this evening. tomorrow morning we'll

bring back the cloud cover, maybe partly cloudy skies well inland and temperatures will start out your wednesday, mainly in the 50. so here's the forecast model. this is tomorrow morning, 7:00. there will be a bit of a chill in the air and the cloud cover. maybe some drizzle, especially out toward the coastline. so temperatures in the 50s into the afternoon hours. this will be a forecast we repeat quite a bit over the next few months. the clouds clear back to near the shoreline. partly sunny skies around the bay. more sunshine inland 6070. the warmest locations actually pleasant approaching the low to mid 80s. watching two weather patterns out here in the pacific. this area of high pressure and then this area of low pressure down in southern california, and we're kind of caught in between. so we're not talking about extremely cold temperatures. we're not talking about extremely hot temperatures as well. as you can see here. cool for the shoreline and then warm inland. we'll have some cloud cover in the morning and then skies becoming partly sunny into the afternoon hours. take a look at the numbers. no triple digits yet. no 90s. we're just thinking some low to mid 80s for the warmest locations in the bay area. oakland 72, downtown san

francisco in the mid 60s. and here is a look ahead. your five day forecast. you will see temperatures not moving around too much, so lots of 60s 70s and some 80s. a little bit of a cool down as we move into the weekend for saturday and sunday, but overall it looks like a nice forecast to get outside. not much change over the next several days, so looking pretty good. and your five day forecast. >> all right mark, thank you much more news. headed your way this afternoon on the four. but first let's check on the roads around the bay area. and this is a live look at the traffic. it is stacked up at the macarthur maze right now. especially if you're trying to get onto eastbound interstate 80. >> and also coming up tonight at 5:00. the hits, they just keep on coming. sadly for a mother and daughter who owned small businesses in oakland, they just got hit by thieves for the second time in a second business in just the past couple of weeks, coming up at five. despite the issues though, these two tell us they aren't backing down. >> plus, it was a controversial proposition on last november's ballot and it narrowly passed. now just six months after that,

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nyla. brooke haywood received a sendoff party filled with family and supporters at silver cross hospital. this is near chicago. nyla was born at 22 weeks. this was back in november. she was just 1 pound, one ounce and 11in long, her sweet little lungs underdeveloped and a team of up to 15 hospital staff helped her during her first days. nyla's first time parents say they are grateful that their daughter is healthy and heading home. >> we are glad nyla is doing well. monterey county man responded to a letter from the city to build a fence in front of his parked boat with some paint and a brush. eddy and constable of seaside, says he followed the order to build a fence to block the view of the boat, and then had an artist work on a lifelike painting of his boat on the fence. constable says he's not a rule breaker, but he does like to make political and humorous statements every once in a while. that is a very clever one. the artist says nehbors around seaside have now asked

him to also create murals on their boat fences, as well. the city might have a trend on its hands there. all right. a viewer in sausalito thought we might enjoy seeing their dogs birthday party, and they were right. >> good boy. man. oh, he's loving it. >> this is great. that is macaroni riding the carousel at the north gate mall in san rafael. he just turned eight years old. he's clearly a big old ham for the camera. you see the look right there? yes. he looks over his shoulders as he rides around with his sister sydney. a good boy indeed. >> you know, i have not laughed this much in a show in a while between macaroni, macaroni and the boat. the fence. that's just crazy. the mural. >> that's very good stuff. >> happy birthday matt. that's right, that's right. okay, so we go to the ktvu a id of the day and we asked image generator midjourney to imagine some birthday wishes for little macaroni there. here's what it came up with. see the laughs. the chuckles. they just continue

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in the war in gaza are defying a 3:00 deadline to clear the tents, pack up and leave. >> we're not too sure on how everything is going to be played out, but we do have lawyers and legal observers and police lawyers on that are going to be facilitating, monitoring and monitoring this space. >> tonight, protesters waiting on the university's next move. good evening everyone. >> i'm mike mibach and i'm julie julie haener. those students defying an ultimatum by school officials to remove their encampment from campus. >> the deadline was 3:00 this afternoon. ktvu is jana katsuyama was there when that 3:00 deadline. just passed and joins us live now from the usf campus with the very latest jana , what's happening right now? >> well, mike and julie, students say they just got this letter early this morning from the university. and if you take a look behind me, you can see they did not clear out at 3:00. instead, they planned a rally and they are still here talking. they say they met with the university president yesterday, but say that another meeting to

continue the discussion is needed before they consider leaving. this united will never be defeated. at the center of campus, student organizers held a rally at the university of san francisco at 3 p.m, the deadline that the school's president gave the antiwar protesters to leave the site. students and supporters spoke out against the war in gaza. >> theology is action, not silence. if the world is committing injustice and you do not speak out against that injustice, you are responsible. >> the students have had the tent encampment for two weeks, calling for the private university to take action, to divest from companies tied to the war in israel and take other actions to support palestinian students on campus and palestinians in gaza, where the un has declared a humanitarian crisis, students say it is personal to some of the protesters. >> we've had folks