Year old brittany ligts home in pinole, back in february. She was studying to be a nurse at the time of her killing. Hello again. Im Cristina Rendon and im greg lee ligdus left behind two children. Ktvu joey jordan was at Diablo Valley College tonight as those children and their grandmother accepted ligdus diploma. As the Diablo Valley College class of 2024 files into viking stadium. Donning caps and gowns, there is one heartbreaking absence. I know shes here with us, and i know shes proud of us, cassandra santiago is referring to her close friend and fellow nursing student, brittany ligdus pinole. Police say the 30 year old was shot and killed in her home this february. Also home at the time, her four year old boy, liam. He was her whole world. No police say jeffrey kendall, britneys ex and the father of liam, took her life. Investigators say Surveillance Video shows him fleeing from the crime scene. Chp would later arrest kendall that night in santa cruz. We were supposed to do this together and she should be here, brittany ligdus in a touching moment on friday, britneys grieving mother, kathy, walking hand in hand with the two children. Brittany leaves behind, would receive two degrees on her behalf. It means terrible. Professor valerie green, who would have the honor of announcing britneys name at the ceremony, remembers her as a popular star student. We need people who are willing to, like, step in and help and make a difference and she was one of those people. And to lose her is a huge void. Its you know, this is not her story. Brittany leaves behind a legacy of helping her fellow students succeed. The whole Health Care Industry is missing out on her. She would have been such a compassionate nurse. Brittanys mother, clearly moved by the graduation, is now taking on the responsibility of caring for her grandchildren. The das office says that the suspect in this case has entered a not guilty plea. He is still behind bars and due in court for a hearing in his case next month in pleasant hill. Joey jordan, ktvu, fox two news Piedmont Police are investigating an arson case. They say they got a call around 1 a. M. The morning this morning of a nissan versa on fire in the area of crocker avenue and mendana boulevard. Investigators say they were able to confirm this was arson. After reviewing Surveillance Video, anyone with information is asked to contact Piedmont Police. California Highway Patrol released some data today revealing a growing increase in cadet applications. The chp says theyve seen 104 increase in applicants since 2022. Thats double the volume over two years. This year alone, Highway Patrol has seen 7600 applicants since january. To accommodate this interest, chp is holding simultaneous Academy Classes for the first time in Department History over 300 cadets have been sworn in as officers this year, with three more classes completing training this year as well. An inmate was found dead at a facility in the south bay. The Santa Clara CountySheriffs Office says a 41 year old man incarcerated at the elmwood correctional facility in milpitas died on thursday, deputies say they found the man in his barracks around ten in the morning. Emergency responders declared him dead less than an hour later. Investigators say there were no signs of foul play. The county medical Examiners Office is now working to determine the inmates official cause of death. A young father with three children and one on the way, killed by a suspected drunk driver. His family is heartbroken, but proud of the man he was. Ktvu is amber lee is live in oakland. After speaking with the mans brother about his familys devastating loss, amber. Greg, the brother tells me the man was well loved and admired, and he says family members are now focused on helping his wife and children. No, no no no. See only hafoka lifts up his niece with a heavy heart. The childs father is her focus. Younger brother daniella, known as finau hafoka, the 26 year old and oakland resident was killed by a suspected drunk driver. He always had a smile on his face, you know, always high on life, always worked at tesla in fremont as a forklift driver. The family created a memorial at the site where he was killed on the night of may 3rd, around 1130, finau was outside the auto plant taking a break near this bus stop on busy fremont boulevard. Hafoka tells me a speeding driver going the wrong way struck his brother. Finau died at the scene. Now this is not open. Were about putting my brother to rest and taking care of his kids. Finau left behind his wife emily and three children, ages three, two and 11 months old. The couple was expecting a fourth child due in a few months. Hafoka tells me he plans to help raise his brothers children along with his own child. He hafoka describes his brother as a loving, devoted husband and father whose priority was his family. He was just more than a provider. He was there. He was there. Funny man. Look at your big head. Seeing him, how he treats his kids, how he treats his wife. He. He makes me a better a dad and a husband. Hafoka tells me his brother was an old soul and a man of faith. He says the family is focused on honoring finos memory and not on the way he died. Hafoka says he hasnt given thought to the driver who killed his brother. My buddy forgets a lot, too, so he probably would have forgave them too if he, you know. But at the end of the day, its sometimes how it goes. The family plans to hold a Memorial Service for finau on may 24th. Theyre raising money to help his wife and children and fly his body back to utah, his home state. For more information on the family fundraiser, go to ktvu. Com and click on the web link section. Greg, hopefully the Community Steps up to support this family. Amberleigh live in oakland. Amber. Thank you. Oakland police are looking for more information in an unsolved homicide, george afakasi was standing outside with friends on crosby avenue near foothill boulevard when he was shot and killed last november 26th. Witnesses reported multiple suspects leaving the area in a dark colored sedan. He survived by his fiancee and daughter. Anyone with information is asked to contact opds homicide unit. New at 11 nurses in San Francisco overwhelmingly vote to go on strike. The nurses who work at San Franciscos Public Hospitals and Community Clinics tallied the votes today, and 99. 5 of the Union Members voted to authorize a strike. The nurses say the Sf Department of Public Health has not taken what they call meaningful action in contract negotiations, including addressing staffing shortages. San franciscos Public HealthDepartment Says 166 new nurses have been hired since december. The nurses contract is up at the end of june. The most valuable office tenet in the country is dropping a nine figure sum to become its own landlord. At santa clara headquarters, nvidias worth has skyrocketed to more than 2. 3 trillion estimation due to the Artificial Intelligence boom, the standard reports. Earlier this week, nvidia paid more than 374 million for six parcels of land with eight buildings and two parking structures. The deal also comes with 2,000,000ft s in future Development Rights after a standoff with police, a fire and an infant suffering from gunshot wounds. Rescued by police. Coming up, an update on this dangerous and chaotic scene in arizona and an east bay elected official plans to travel to china with the mayor of antioch hopes to gain from the trip. It hurts. Its because its my life. My whole life has been the hot rod cars my since i was 14 years old. And this man from oakland heartbroken by the theft of his beloved corvette from the 50s, his desperate plea have that priceless antique returned home shot up in flames following a Police Standoff with an armed suspect this afternoon. This story begins tonights west coast wrap. Police say a woman fled a home and called police, saying her six month old baby was inside and in danger when Police Showed up, they heard gunfire. They went in and rescued the baby. They say the baby had been shot multiple times. The baby was rushed to the hospital for surgery. Swat teams and spent hours trying to negotiate with the childs father before the fire broke out, police said this afternoon. Crews are waiting until its safe to go inside and check on the suspects status. Federal data shows illegal Border Crossings are on the decline and that the paths migrants take into the u. S. Are constantly shifting, as ktvu Frank Mallicoat shows us. The data also shows Border Crossings are down in all areas except for san diego, where crossings are up 55. Every night, as many as hundreds of migrants from Central America and across the world try to make their way across the u. S. Border. New data from the u. S. Customs and Border Protection agency this week shows. For the First Time Since the 1990s, san diego has become the busiest Border Crossing region, replacing tucson as the busiest of the nine sectors across the southern border. Immigration advocates say its a sign that migration patterns are constantly shifting. In total, i expect that there are maybe over 300 people a night combining all the different locations along the border wall. Here in tijuana, volunteers deliver hot coffee and food to migrants in the dark night while they await their next move, or the Border Agents to detain them and move them to a processing facility. Something that happens almost every night is we have injuries from people who jump across and jump from the wall on the tijuana side, and its about an 18 to 22 foot wall, a different sections. Border patrol has set up more staging areas in the remote desert as a crackdown by mexican authorities has resulted in the migration, traffic shifting to more remote and rocky terrain. The migrants are then taken to san diego to be processed before being released, with notices to appear in immigration court. What we try to help with the most is just giving some general information. A lot of people dont even know what city theyre in, so we try and get them to the airport through the public transport and make sure that they can contact their families and get to their families wherever they are in the united states, newly released Surveillance Video appears to show Sean Diddy Combs beating his former girlfriend, cassie ventura, at a hotel in los angeles in 2016. These are still images posted on tmzs website, taken from that graphic video, which first aired on cnn. The rapper, wearing just a towel, appears to chase ventura and then kick, punch and throw things at her, including a flower vase. The incident was detailed in a lawsuit that ventura filed against diddy in november, and he settled quickly. Last month, federal agents raided his homes in los angeles and miami in a sex trafficking investigation. Now we see what was a crime. Despite the statute of limitations having passed. And, youve got to youve got to imagine that diddy feels very, very concerned about what could happen here. Cnn reports that combs paid the hotel 50,000 for the Surveillance Video. Its not clear why it was released today. His attorneys have not commented. 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 round the clock coverage at west coast rap. Com. Antiochs mayor will be traveling to china this weekend to promote the citys deep water ports and industrial region. Mayor Lamar Hernandez thorpe will be meeting with government and business officials in hong kong and chongqing. He will be there sunday the 19th through sunday the 26th. This years trip focuses on green developments and deepening international relationships. Were going to be promoting our opportunities for sister city relationships, thats something that i learned was critically important when we spoke to secretary blinken when i was at the us conference of mayors, he said, we need to keep promoting these opportunities so that overall relations with china, continue to get better as opposed to going sour. The mayors trip is organized by china silicon valley, a nonprofit founded in 2012 to facilitate business and Cultural Exchange between china and the silicon valley. The capitola wharf is expected to reopen this summer. Coming up, the changes that are made to appear and excitement is growing for the bay areas new wnba team. The overwhelming number of people interested in season tickets for the golden state valkyries and in barry, whether the clouds will be making their way into the bay once again overnight. But we will eventually warm things up in our five d forecast and well on the 855 foot long wooden structure, is expected to be complete next month. Crews widened the war from 20 to 36ft wide, where its particularly vulnerable to big waves. This is after the wharf was badly damaged in storms in january 2023. The capital, capitola city manager, says a grand Opening Event is planned for august 14th and a soft opening will likely come in july with periodic closures. All right, lets get to meteorologist mark tamayo now for our final look at the forecast. Yeah. Remember all those stormy days . Thankfully, were not talking about any major rain at all. Or even heat waves. Just kind of a nice mellow pattern. And well take it into the weekend. Yeah. Right now we have lots of low clouds and fog near the coast and right around the bay, and looks like well be talking about eventually. Were going to warm up those numbers a bit into next week, but take a look at the highs from this afternoon. San francisco 63, san jose 76. Concord 74. In santa rosa in the upper 60s for this weekend. Some clouds tomorrow becoming partly sunny. Pretty much the same story for your sunday temperatures. Not moving around too much and were thinking just some 60s and some 70s all weekend long. Heres the satellite, and its kind of been the same weather pattern just over the past few days. We have the clouds pushing back into the bay. They try to clear back to near the coastline, and then they go back into the bay for the overnight hours and thats what we have right now. As you can see, a closer look at the satellite. Well come in closer right now and check out some of the current numbers for the 11 00 hour. We have cooled off into the 50s, except san jose right now, checking in 61, concord 57 and santa rosa 53 degrees. Here is our live camera looking out toward sfo. You can see the airport traffic here and the clouds have been drifting in over the past few hours. So tomorrow morning, the clouds near the coast and right around the bay, probably partly cloudy skies well inland and temperatures the cool spots up in the north bay, the north bay valleys in the upper 40s, but lots of 50s. So heres what the forecast model thinks. Tomorrow morning its 7 00 and then into the afternoon hours, the clouds will try to clear back to near the shoreline. Still some leftover patches right around portions of San Francisco. And there is the eventual temperature range from around 60 to around 70 to 78 degrees. So this was the case today. There is a little weak system thats going to move in from the north into the weekend. This will keep the temperatures in check with the cloud cover in the morning. Once the system moves on out, we will definitely warm up those numbers beginning monday and into tuesday of next week. Forecast highs tomorrow will be San Francisco 64, hayward 72 degrees mid 70s in concord and antioch 77. And a look ahead. Your five day forecast. No major changes this weekend, but you can see into next week. Well scale back on at least the morning fog and temperatures will be warming back up by tuesday. The warmest locations back up into the mid 80s. So kind of cool to mild and then eventually rebounding into early next week. All right mark thank you. An 80 year old man in oakland is dead. Stated last month his 1959 red corvette was stolen from his home. Ktvu henry lee spoke with the hot rods owner, who says this car has been a big part of his life. Theres no consequences in this city. People can steal and rob dave like tellers, been robbed of his pride and joy, his bright red 1959 corvette that hes had for 18 years. Oh, god, its like a stab in the heart. He turns 80 on saturday, but he doesnt feel much like celebrating Surveillance Video shows two guys breaking into a garage near east 22nd street and fifth avenue in oakland on april 15th. One of them scoots into the garage and the door shuts. Less than three minutes later, one of the burglars opens the door and runs off as the other guy pulls out of the garage in the corvette. He eases out onto the street. Here, the corvette rolls back a bit and hits the curb because its on an incline. So they knew how to drive the car because it was a stick and they just went right out. Like teller hasnt seen his 200,000 car ever since. It hurts. Its because its my life. My whole life has been the hot rod cars my since i was 14 years old. Hes the ultimate car in racing enthusiast. His apartments full of memories and photos from his racing days. This is like teller in the red jacket when he bought the corvette back in 2006, he gave the convertible all his love. He rebuilt the engine, repainted the car reupholster it, restored the car factory perfect, only to be ripped off. He thinks he could have been followed from a car show in pleasanton with scofflaws learning where he keeps his car and simply returning in broad daylight to make off with it. At this undisclosed location, lechtaler keeps this 1932 ford roadster he calls hiboy next to a harley named fat boy building little model cars. Back in the days wed build little models. Heres pictures of me racing. Heres a picture of me right there. This is you here. Yeah he may be older now, and his corvettes insured, but he has only one message for the thieves. I want my car back. Oakland police are on the lookout for this corvette. But if you happen to see it on the streets or perhaps stashed somewhere, give police a call in oakland. Henry lee, ktvu, fox two news. All right, heres a look at stories trending tonight ktvu. Com. One of our top stories uc berkeley says eight of the 12 propalestinian protesters arrested at a vacant building near the school have been identified. Also giants outfielder jungwoo lee will miss the rest of the season after dislocating his Left Shoulder when he crashed into an outfield wall last sunday. And the man convicted of attacking Nancy Pelosis husband paul, in their San Francisco home was sentenced today to 30 years in prison. You can find these stories and more ktvu. Com. Thrilling rides, fun games, tasty food and chaperons. Coming up, the changes at this years cont costa ou a slow network is no network for business. Thats why more choose comcast business. And now, were introducing ultimate speed for business our fastest plans yet. 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If there are groups with more than four minors, there needs to be an additional adult for every four kids. Some knew about the fights that broke out here last year. David fernandez is 17. I was here last year, but i do understand because of the fights and everything. So i didnt see them. But i seen the videos though. Signage at the entry gates spell out the new policy. I didnt even know that until we got up to the front. If a minor behaves badly, security will escort the minor and the adult chaperon off the fairgrounds. Organizers want everyone to have a good time and to feel safe at the fair, especially with a lot of violence. You just dont know what people are going to do. I just think its a good idea just to make sure the kids are behaving correctly. Vendors and participants we spoke with also liked the new policy, knowing its usually teens and young adults in crowds with no supervision. That have been troublesome in the past. They welcome this new policy we need to keep keep the Contra Costa County fair alive and everything. And if thats what it takes, we need to do that. The Contra Costa County fair goes until sunday this weekend. Make sure to stop by and youll be able to see lots of live music, carnival rides, pony rides, camel rides, and lots of deep fried food. Everything on a stick in antioch. Alice wirtz ktvu, fox two news. A local filmmaker is celebrating a big festival win. His series good guy with a pun. Just won best writer at the prestigious denver series fest. The comedy is about a former child star who desperately clings to fame by broadcasting on instagram stories. Filmmaker dmitri malkin told us at four. It was all shot in the bay area. Ive lived in the bay since 2011. I absolutely love it. It has an amazing film history, and so it was really important to me to not only capture the visual beauty, but really to get the entire community involved. The entire project is sponsored by local bay organizations and businesses. The movie even includes a cameo from our own pam cook. Malkin is hoping for a bay area premiere in the not too distant future. Well, it looks like the golden state valkyrie will be playing in front of large crowds during their inaugural season. The valkyries announced today that the team has eclipsed 10,000 season ticket deposits for its home games at chase center. Over 2500 deposits have been received since the teams name, colors and logo launched on tuesday. The valkyries will begin play in the 2025 wnba season. The valkyries are hosting a block party tomorrow at thrive city outside chase center. It starts at 2 p. M. And the team says fans of all ages are welcome. Sutter health is teaming up with bay fc to launch a Community Health campaign empowering women athletes. The bu initiative is designed to address common barriers that prevent young women from continuing to play sports. This includes mental health, injury and recovery, and body positivity. The campaign will host local soccer clinics, make community donations, post content through a social media series, and host Educational Programs to learn from professional athletes. Theyll also be matched giveaways that align with the bu platform. Themes and values. The National Endowment for the arts is awarding a total of 120,000 to recipients in the second Congressional District in northern california, us representative Jared Huffman shared the list yesterday. It includes 30,000 for the California Film Institute to put on the mill valley Film Festival and 20,000 for the Marin Shakespeare company in san rafael. And crt, incorporated in eureka. Also got 30,000. The playhouse arts in arctica, or arc arcada, excuse me, got the largest grant at 40,000 to create artist residencies in rural schools. Nice to see the arts supported. We want to thank you for watching the 11 00 news. Our next newscast is at 7 a. M. 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