Kay Recede joined the Stockton/Modesto Bureau of the KCRA News team in January 2021. Kay joins the team with more than six years of experience reporting in Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties, where she has had the immense honor and responsibility of speaking to families in the southern part of the Sacramento region. Before her time reporting in California, she was a reporter and weekend anchor for the CBS and NBC affiliates in El Paso, Texas and a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Eureka, Calif. Kay was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a first-generation Filipina, and is happy to be close to family and friends.