Jesse Gary
Jesse Gary is a senior KTVU reporter based in the station’s South Bay Bureau, in Downtown San Jose.
Originally from the New York City suburbs, Gary began his broadcast career after graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas. His first full-time TV news reporting job was in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he worked as a reporter and camera person.
After a few years, and a short stint as a junior reporter in Dallas, Gary landed a job at KWTV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Gary was the first reporter broadcasting from the scene of the Murrah Federal Building domestic terrorist bombing in 1995. During the course of the following year, he was part of a team of reporters who profiled each of the 168 people who were killed that day.
After Oklahoma City, Gary worked in Philadelphia and then the Bay Area for 10 years. He left KTVU to accept a job working in Los Angeles, before returning to Philadelphia for the birth of his son. He returned to the Bay Area and KTVU in 2016.
Gary is the recipient of multiple regional awards, including two Emmy Awards, multiple Emmy nominations, and one Peabody award (team coverage).
The latest from Jesse Gary
Mom, daughter identified as victims in San Jose Highway 87 crash
A mother and her toddler daughter were killed in a fiery crash on Highway 87 in San Jose earlier this week.
DA seeks to try teen as adult in triple Westfield Valley Fair mall shooting
Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they are seeking to try a 17-year-old boy accused in a Black Friday triple shooting at the Westfield Valley Fair mall as an adult, and charges against three other people who they say acted as accessories after the fact.
Highway 87 crash leaves 2 dead in San Jose
A multi-vehicle crash on a San Jose highway on Tuesday morning left an adult and a child dead.
Foster City husband arrested in wife's cold case killing
Authorities say they have solved the 1982 killing of Nancy Galvani, whose body was found in a sleeping bag with a cinderblock attached in the San Francisco Bay. Her husband, Patrick Galvani, is now charged with her death.
Bay Area families still reeling from CalFresh freeze this holiday season
A recent pause in the federal SNAP program, known as CalFresh in California, has put added strain on relief agencies. Although the federal government shutdown that caused the pause is now over, its impacts are still being felt this holiday season.
Bay Area soccer fans gear up for NWSL finale match
The finale is a rematch for old adversaries Washington Spirit and Gotham FC.
Racist and threatening graffiti discovered on SJSU campus
Racist graffiti threatening a mass shooting was discovered on the San Jose State University campus, officials said on Tuesday. It's the second time in as many weeks that racist graffiti has been found on the campus.
San Jose opens 11th housing site for unhoused residents
San Jose officials celebrated another milestone Monday in their ongoing effort to address homelessness, cutting the ribbon on the city’s 11th interim housing site, which will house up to 136 people.
Waymo expands to Bay Area freeways, San Jose airport
Next time you're on the freeway, you may see one of Waymo's self-driving cars.
Dozens of cars broken into at San Jose apartment complex
More than three-dozen car owners in San Jose were paying for repairs and looking for answers Tuesday after someone – or several people – broke car windows overnight.