Everywhere to the very top is where basketball has taken tara vanderveer. And today, the winningest coach in College Basketball, talked about her retirement after 45 years of coaching, including 38 at stanford. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley and im dionne lim. Her list of accolades truly is incredible. Hall of famer olympic gold medal coach, coach of the year. Really the list goes on. It does. But now the woman whose name has long been synonymous with the stanford Womens Basketball program is retiring. Abc seven news south bay reporter Dustin Dorsey was at her News Conference today and has more on her trailblazing career. Dustin yeah, dionne and dan, for someone who doesnt like to talk about themselves much, tara talked for almost an hour today. Really going taking the opportunity to thank each and every person that made an impact on that illustrious career. As you just mentioned, one of my favorite parts was when she was thanking all the athletes that she played for, and she was talking about the significance that they each played in what was a historic career 45 years total, three National Championships and 1216 wins. The greatest of all time gets thrown around a lot in sports, but Stanfords Tara Vanderveer has earned that title, and now the goat is calling it a career. My 38 years as the head coach of Stanford UniversityWomens Basketball team have been nothing short of magical, a journey that started when vanderveer took over the Stanford Program in 1985. Vanderveer remembers the conversation she had with her father when she took the job. He proceeded to tell me that it was an impossible to win at stanford, and the job was a graveyard job. My father was right about one thing the stanford job involved digging, but instead of a graveyard job, it has been a gold mine job, one featuring many final four appearances. National championships, and the most wins of any College Basketball coach ever. But vanderveer said, whats even more important than the victories were the people. That feeling is mutual. With her players and fellow coaches. Shes meant a lot to me over the years. Shes been a first a coach and then a mentor and a friend and colleague and everything that you could want in a in a coaching relationship. As people say, shes the goat. Shes one of the greatest of all time. And i think, you know, now that shes stepping back, shell really receive the flowers that she deserves. But just me personally, im super grateful to have been coached by her. Vanderveer has made a Lasting Impact in basketball as a whole. There were no girls teams when she was growing up. Now the game is more popular than ever. The game is more than 1 or 2 teams, or 1 or 2 or 1 or 2 players, and its really its really exciting to see kind of where we are, so i feel like im leaving it in a good place. She says coaching is rewarding, but its hard work, and it was time for her to retire the head coaching desk at stanford will be filled by new faces down the road in tara. Vanderveer hopes the legacy that she leaves behind makes a difference. There is a young girl out there who will watch or read about stanford Womens Basketball, and her dad will say to her, basketball will take you everywhere and absolute incredible full circle moment there. For vanderveer, she said her goal and her coaching career was to be someone that she would be happy to play for as a coach herself. And she said the goal for this particular season was to have the best year ever. And this retirement, i think, really just caps off what was plenty of check boxes that she checked throughout her career. Absolutely delivered. Before you go, we do want to look forward because you mentioned new faces. Do you know who is taking over at stanford now that this coaching spot, the head one, is open for the first time in nearly four decades . Yeah, its going to be a slightly new face, if that. Its going to be looking within for stanford. Kate pay is going to be taking over the program. She spent the 90s playing for stanford and playing for tara before spending 17 seasons as an assistant coach under vanderveer. So really going back to its roots want to keep things. Continuity was a big word that she shared today, but she said shes also excited to continue the great legacy that tara uh built here at stanford and keep things Going Forward certainly has made quite a mark. All right, dustin in the south bay for us. Thank you. The uc regents announced cals next chancellor today and hes a familiar face on campus. Rich lyons is a well known economist and former dean of the haas school of business. The 63 year old is a cal alum, and the campuss current leader for innovation and entrepreneurship. He says one thing hell really focus on as chancellor is inclusion. In every one of our students, every student has a need and a right to feel like they belong. At berkeley and to feel like theyre respected at berkeley. I feel like ive got some some instruments and some perspectives that once, you know, bounced off and tested with my, my colleagues and so forth that we can we can push forward in some fresh ways. Lyons will take the reins after chancellor carol christ steps down in july. Tomorrow is decision day for a controversial plan to rename Oakland Airport to San Francisco bay Oakland Airport. The port of oaklands board will meet tomorrow afternoon to make a decision. The aim is to attract new travelers and new airlines to oakland, but it has been met with fierce opposition from San Francisco, its airport and city leaders. City attorney david chu has even threatened to sue for trademark infringement. Heres Oakland Airport boss craig simon speaking to us this afternoon. Yeah, certainly. Its unfortunate that that they would take that stance, you know, weve been on the San Francisco bay area, on the bay itself, for, you know, the entire time weve been in existence almost 100 years. And so we dont feel as though anybody necessarily owns the San Francisco bay or the name itself. The idea to rename Oakland Airport was first talked about back in 2013. So it has been in the works for a long time now. To your voice, your vote and the likely district 16 recount and the congressional race. It impacts the two tied candidates who hope to move forward to the general election and the race to replace congresswoman anna. Issue. Abc seven News Reporter zach frontus spoke with one of the people who filed a recount request and joins us live. Zach yeah, let me just quickly give you a fast recap of what happened here. So the two candidates in the primary election were able to go on. The two candidates with the most votes, rather are able to go on to the general election. But in this case, we had two candidates tying for second place. That meant three people could go on to the general election. That was until this recount. Now, theres a possibility that the general election ticket may look a lot different. You have a three person runoff in november instead of a two person runoff, or so it initially seemed in the district 16 congressional race, but now there have been recount requests by two voters in the two counties within the Congressional District. The person who has the most at stake is probably, sam liccardo, who is betting that he would have a better chance in a two person race than in a three person runoff. Registrars confirm that the Santa Clara County recount was requested by jonathan padilla, according to his linkedin profile. He was a policy and finance director for liccardos 2014 san jose mayoral campaign. He released what he said would be his only statement on the matter on social media, saying in part, our democracy is resilient. When we put people above politics and our laws are designed to protect the will of the people. Lets count every vote. Evan lows campaign issued a statement saying in part, theres zero doubt that sam liccardo orchestrated this recount and padillas declaration that the recount is on our campaigns behalf is simply disingenuous. Liccardos campaign did not claim any connection to the recount request, but sent us a statement saying in part, every vote should be counted. And thats why recounts are part of the states electoral process to ensure accuracy. As for joe simitian, he said, quote, eventually this process will work itself out. My job is to say, focus on how i can best represent the folks in our district, and thats what im doing. A person filing a recount request has to select a candidate and pay for it themselves. If its found that the candidate they selected won, they would be reimbursed. I spoke with dan stedingk, who requested the recount in san mateo county. He said he is not connected to any of the congressional campaigns, but chose low in his recount request. He said he believes there should only be a two person race in the general election. Statistically, very unlikely that these guys would tie, i like to say, you know, the counties cant even keep track of how many cars they have, much less count the same number twice. Now, the Santa Clara CountyRegistrars Office tells me that they can confirm that both recount requests are valid, and that they plan to start recount activities monday pending. If they get that first deposit on the overall payment for the recount. Speaking of payment, nothing is free. Zach obviously, and that includes counting ballots again, walk us through how much that might cost. Well it depends. So if its a manual recount that is going to be the most time consuming and most expensive, that could be up to 320,000. Just in Santa Clara County alone. Remember, this Congressional District is in Santa Clara County, san mateo county. If it is a machine recount, which is what staging who you just heard from there is asking for, thats going to be a lot less time consuming and cheaper upwards to about a little more than 80,000. Then okay. All right, jack, thanks a lot. Mayor london breed is leaving for china on saturday, hoping to drum up business for San Francisco. Breed is traveling with asian business and Community Leaders to several cities, including hong kong, beijing and shanghai. Shell be meeting with Airline Executives to increase travel and several universities to extend their campuses in San Francisco. Were going to be talking to some businesses that are already looking at investments in San Francisco, and the desire to have them do more to develop and grow in our city. Breed will also make a push to bring pandas back to the San Francisco zoo. The trip is being paid for by a nonprofit group. Meanwhile, at the white house today, President Biden met with japans prime minister, fumio kishida, as the two countries strengthen military ties during a state visit, biden and kishida said the u. S. And japan will form a joint defense council. The two countries also talked about new cooperation on space research, Artificial Intelligence and clean energy. The u. S. Wants japan to join a Defense Coalition that includes australia to counter chinas increased threat in the region. Focus is on advanced capabilities, including ai, autonomous systems. All told, that represents a new benchmark for our military cooperation across a range of capabilities. Prime minister kishida also says japan is sending 250 new cherry trees to dc to replace those being ripped out to repair the sinking seawall at the National Mall tidal basin. Still ahead, we all know the challenges of real estate prices here in the bay area, but after the break, well tell you about a home about the size of a hotel room with the price tag of 1. 7 million. Details whe a super thin, flexible patch with maximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieve pain right where it hurts. And did we mention, it really, really sticks . Salonpas, its good medicine. A sack on carmen road. And get this, its about the size of an average American Hotel room, but its listed for 1. 7 million. Abc seven News Reporter lena howland explains why this is what 1. 7 million will get you on the western edge of Silicon Valley in cupertino. A cozy 384 square foot home, which is a little more than the average size of an American Hotel room. Its location, location, location. But the house might not be what people are paying for. Instead its the potential of a 7800 square foot lot. Theres one thing that that we dont make anymore, and thats dirt residential real estate, particularly in the San Francisco bay area, is its unique. Its unique because, you know, there there are so few choices for buyers these days because sellers really like to live here. The home up for sale is at the end of a cul de sac, sandwiched between homes worth around 5 million, according to zillow. This home has a lot of interest because of the lot size and the neighborhood. Cupertino is really well known for its School District and great schools. Maxwell ducklow is the buyers agent, he says its the smallest house thats been up for sale in cupertino in more than ten years. I imagine like a like i mentioned earlier, like an investor or a builder would look at the opportunities that this property has and, you know, build a nice 32, 36,000 square foot home and then ended up selling it for like, you know, 4 or 5 million. I was actually looking at the home, for the lot. And so it was really attractive from a price per square foot standpoint. We bumped into broker contractor and Real Estate Developer alex chow, who stopped by for a tour. He says the price tag didnt faze him. I wasnt surprised by it. I thought it was a little bit low, so i think it will sell. If it does sell in the first week, it might sell for a little bit more chow later. Let us know that he opted not to put an offer in after finding out the home already had six offers on wednesday, the highest more than 300,000 over asking at around 2 million. Is it realistic . I guess well find out when the property sells in cupertino. Lena howland abc seven news isnt that wild . All right, coming up, its a race against time as Marine Mammal experts search for an entangled gray whale swimming off the coast. Why . Finding it could literally be a matt line yesterday, and as abc seven News Reporter tim johns explains , it could die if it doesnt get cut free from the netting it stuck in for the second day in a row. The search for the entangled gray whale swimming off the coast of the peninsula continues. The whale, which was first spotted off the bay area tuesday morning, has its tail caught in gill nets. Its probably around a foot thick of gill net, just wrapped very tightly. We need some very strong tools that will help us cut through that and help to unwrap the lines. Kathy george works with the Marine Mammal center and was on the team that went out to examine the whale tuesday. She says the whale was first seen off the coast of Orange County late last month and was already entangled. George tells us some of the centers Partner Organizations have put a tracker and some buoys on the animal to keep an eye on it until it was safe to remove the gill net. But after the tracker stopped working, they didnt know where the whale was until it was spotted off the coast of pacifica tuesday. The Marine Mammal center tells me. Scientists goals today is to find this whale and tag it once again. That way, with bad weather expected in the coming days, theyll be able to continue monitoring it. As of wednesday afternoon, george says teams havent been able to see the whale again, partly because of foggy weather along the coast. She tells us its important to get the netting off sooner rather than later, though, as it could eventually be fatal for the whale. It could be a slow case of a secondary injury that results from that entanglement. Or it could be the whales inability to feed. It could be its inability to get out of the way of other vessels. News of the whales entanglement has renewed discussion over the use of certain types of gill nets, and the effects they can have on animals. In a Statement Released tuesday, International Advocacy group oceana called on california lawmakers to pass legislation that would do more to prevent these types of incidents. There are very nonselective gear type that have high rates of bycatch and bycatch mortality, and as well as wildlife entanglements. In the meantime, the Marine Mammal center is asking for the publics assistance in finding the whale. If they do see the whale, if they could report it to eight seven, seven s. O. S. Whale or call channel 16 the Us Coast Guard on your marine radio and stand by until train responders show up. That is the best way to help this whale in San Francisco. Tim johns, abc seven news. Hope for the best