Today her mother told kpix 5s Ann Notarangelo her daughters death could have been prevented. Reporter brittney silvas among seems strong but she is clearly distraught today. She is convinced that her daughter would be alive if she hadnt been listening to music with her headphones on. I dont know how much more stronger i can be, though. I know gods sure testing me. Reporter a mothers anguish just yards away from where her daughter was killed wishing the tragedy wasnt true, wishing her daughter had taken her advice, wishing she could just have one more moment together. I hope she comes back [ indiscernible ] one more time. [ crying ] just one more time, i need her to come back. Reporter yesterday, brittney silvas mother says she was walking on these train tracks texting with her earphones in. A witness said he tried to warn brittney about the train but she didnt hear him, either, and was killed. Kpix 5 viewers may remember her from a story last month when she was interviewed about an explosion near her home. She is screaming like help me. Very well liked here by students, very well liked by teachers and counselors who also noticed the turnaround she made. Reporter she is remembered as a good student who was going to College Next Year and wanted to be an ob gyn. She had matured a lot in recent years. Real close. And [ pause ] its hard. Reporter grief counselors went to her classes today at san leandro high. I wanted to acknowledge the fact that she was her death was here. Reporter some students said they couldnt handle school and came to the tracks instead. When you walk in from the street and you gotter headphones on, keep one headphone in and one out so you can hear the world around you because i believe that she if she had listened to me and do what i said, she would have heard the train coming. Reporter a death brittneys mother knows was preventable. The memorial near the train tracks for bring the if i is growing. There will be a vigil tomorrow night at San Leandro High School at 8 00. Her mom made it very clear that she wanted the vigil to be where brittney lived and not where she died. In san leandro, Ann Notarangelo, kpix 5. New at 5 00 a construction worker has been killed in an accident at a Housing Development in san mateo. Chopper 5 over the scene at bay meadows on south delaware near derby street. Authorities tell us the worker fell 15 feet on to cement just over an hour ago. The workers identity hasnt been released. A former cal fire chief accused of killing his girlfriend faced a judge this afternoon. This is our first look at Orville Fleming since he was caught last week. He had been on the run for more than two weeks. He is accused of killing a woman who had worked as an escort. Her body was found in the sacramento home that they shared. Several former players including a 49er are suing the nfl. They are accusing the league of illegally giving them painkillers and risky drugs. Kpix 5s brian webb is at the federal courthouse in San Francisco. Some shocking allegations from inside the locker room, brian . Reporter allen, eight former players filed the lawsuit here in the federal courthouse behind me with many more hundreds waiting in the wings all basically claiming they are damaged goods thanks to the nfls doctors and drugs. Eight players are listed as part of the lawsuit filed in San Franciscos federal court including former 49er jeremy newberry. You would have 20 to 25 guys standing with your pants half down waiting in line for a doctor who has 100 different syringes lined up and youre walking through, theyre sticking you one at a time. Reporter newberry played for the nfl. He was routinely medicated, he said, to stop the swelling and mask the pain by team doctors he trusted. Doctors say this is okay, acceptable, why are you going to question a doctor like this is going to do a longterm effect . You have a relationship with these guys. Reporter other players have similar stories claiming nfl doctors gave them drugs illegally without prescriptions, without warnings of possible side effects, and sometimes the players never knew how bad their injuries were including broken bones. Some claim it led to addiction, ruining lives after football. I have seen some people just say im not going to take a shot. Im afraid of needles, this and that and a lot of those people dont stick around. If you dont do whats asked you to stay on the field, they have find something who did. Reporter newberry says because of the nfl drugs, he suffers from longterm Health Issues from kidney failure high Blood Pressure and severe headaches. I got nephews that play football. I got little guys that are coming up, my son if he happens to play football. If i dont do something to change this game and it happens to them, shame on me. Reporter this lawsuit could have been filed anywhere. Tonight at 6 00 you will hear from a legal expert who says why Northern California courts are a hot spot for class action lawsuits. Brian webb, kpix 5. Sports director Dennis Odonnell broke there story on kpix. Com this morning and on our website you can read more accounts from the players and watch our entire interviews describing what happened in those locker rooms. A starting confession from a popular hollywood actor who called 911 to report he shot his wife inside their home in los angeles. 51yearold actor michael jace is best flown for playing a cop in the crime drama the shield. But now he is in the middle of his own real life crime drama. Jace said he shot his wife april after she returned home last night with their two young sons. People in the hyde park neighborhood are stunned. I never heard them fight. I never heard them say a cuss word in the 10 years they have lived here. When Police Arrived at the home, jace was standing outside. His two sons were inside with his wife who was shot multiple times. The couple has been married 10 years. Jace is being held on 1 million bond. Another victims family is suing fedex and a Charter Bus Company after the crash in orland. Its on behalf of a 15yearold student on the bus going to Humboldt State University Last month. He was one of ten People Killed when the fedex bus hit the charter bus head on. They claim defects in the fedex bus. Chopper 5 giving us a look at the semi that hit a power pole in oakland. A handful of businesses are without power because of two poles near 7th and maritime. Dangling wires near bart tracks stopped service between San Francisco and the east bay for about 30 minutes around noon. Trains, were told, are now back on schedule. Nurses say they are fed up with the Staffing Shortage at San Francisco General Hospital so today they delivered 235 empty scrubs to mayor lees office today. They demand the mayor fill nursing vacancies at hospitals across the city. San francisco general admits there are a number of open nursing positions, not clear home. New information on a story we brought you yesterday. Neighbors along the famous stretch of lombard street in San Francisco will get a break this summer. Today the Municipal Transportation Agency voted to shut down lombard to cars for four consecutive weekends beginning june 21. Gridlock and safety problems peak during the tourist season. A freeway in San Francisco is going to be closed for the long holiday weekend. Starting thursday night 280 will be shut down southbound from downtown to the pennsylvania avenue onramp. It wont reopen until tuesday morning. Chopper 5 over one of the ramps that will be closed, king street at 280. Caltrains is replacing a hinge on the highway that allows the road to absorb movement in an earthquake. This is the first of three scheduled closures for the project. The other two closures will be timed for the 4th of july and labor day weekends. How about . The late season storms bringing rain and snow to lake tahoe. It was enough for authorities to issue a Winter Weather advisory for that area up to 3 of snow falling in the sierra. Kpix 5s viewer photos from home surveillance cameras showing the snow coming down over the lake and just an hour later the skies cleared over this neighborhood. A thick blanket of snow left over is so pretty. Kpix 5s chief meteorologist paul deanno were still picking up rain and snow up there . Ironic because we didnt get it in january but sure five days before memorial day and the weekend there we are picking up some rain and snow in the sierra. Upper level low pressure such a close near miss for us. Couple of morning showers but it was a direct hit on the sierra, where it continues. Im looking at rain, snow and even a couple of thunderstorms over the high sierra. As for us, some of you did have rainfall this morning. The bulls eye would have been saratoga. One eighth of an inch of rainfall. Otherwise a few drops in fremont, hillsborough, belmont and fairfield. I added aoakland there one of the many cities which did not receive any rainfall from this low overnight. Its moving out. Moving in is another big ridge of high pressure. Well talk about how warm were going to get and how long it will stick around coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Pet poisoned by pot and the video is tough to watch. And shes acting kind of crazy. [ barking ] staggering and stoned, the huge spike in dogs getting seriously sick from their owners treats this girl is in the drivers seat. The bay area golf phenom who just landed in the history books at 11 years old. Immediately, you know, you want to get the bird out. You kind of feel responsible. They heard the chirp and jumped into action. How a garden hose saved the baby birds life. ,,,,,,, Redwood Shores just qualifio play against the bes a bay area 11yearold is making history. The girl from Redwood Shores just qualified to play against the best golfers in the world. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman with her amazing story. Reporter chances are very, very good this little girl is a better golfer than you are. And that was back when she was a kid. Now shes 11. [ laughter ] reporter ramsey smith is an assistant golf professional at Half Moon Bay golf links where yesterday, lucy li of Redwood Shores qualified for the u. S. Womens open tournament, 11 years old yes, she is the youngest ever to do that. You ever see a golfer like that considering her age . Not at that age. I have seen them 4, 5, 6 years like that but nobody at 11. Reporter 11. 11 years old. Can you believe it . Reporter she has been playing since she was 8 training mostly in florida during the winter otherwise homeschooled here in Redwood Shores. Recently she won another pga juniors event at the home of the masters, augusta. Listen how composed and mature she was in an interview with the golf channel. Oh, its great. Im just a chance to be here is amazing. And i really want to thank the pga,usga and the masters who have allowed us to play here. Its wonderful. Reporter for the past several weeks she has been putting in hours and hours and hours practicing on the Half Moon Bay course practicing for the open qualifier. She won ramsey smith played a round with lucy during that training. Did you beat her . No. I did not. [ laughter ] dont tell anyone, though. Reporter she shot a 74. Ramsey shot 81. Buy her a beer afterwards . Not until she is 21. Reporter thats 10 years from now. Not only did she win yesterdays tournament, she won by 7 strokes. And liz, we wish her well. The open is at Pinehurst Country club in north carolina, starts june 19th. What a remarkable young girl. My goodness. Reporter he was not doing that at 11. Ill tell you that. Neither was i. [ laughter ] all right, mike. Thanks. We wont ask what mike was doing at 11. An oakland student who grabbed headlines by getting in just about every Ivy League School got to go on a shopping spree today thanks to the raiders. He will be all decked out in silver and black when he goes to yale in the fall. The team opened its alameda headquarters and with the help of a couple of the player loaded him up with the gear. I just think it has a lot to do with our city because we have a lot of times they portray our city in a negative light and focus on the bad news. I think a lot of people were happy that we had some positive news. He is a senior at oakland technical high school. He is graduating with a 5. 0gpa. Classes could resume tomorrow at a south bay college where students were kicked out last night. Students were ushered out in the middle of class at the for profit Bryman College in san jose. No trespassing signs were hung in windows, locks on the doors were changed. Students were left wondering about their classes and the thousands of dollars of paid tuition. An official at the San Francisco branch says the South Bay School will reopen tomorrow. Several people are being honored tonight for acts of courage. San francisco District Attorney George Gascon is recognizing Good Samaritans who helped others in dangerous situations. One of those being honored a key witness who helped catch the man who kicked a woman in the head after robbing her just before last years gay pride parade. For that, we want to thank you and we appreciate your commitment to our community. [ applause ] the suspect in the attack is serving 6 years in jail. Each honoree got a certificate of recognition and a 200 check. Desperate times do call for desperate measures. A rescue mission in the north bay required firefighters to get very creative. The call of the wild was from a baby bird stuck in a pipe. Reporter for the Marinwood Fire Department this call for help didnt come over the radio. It came from a drain pipe on the back of the station. I can hear some chirping down there. You want to get the bird out. You kind of feel responsible. Reporter so firefighter Ryan Brackett and engineer smith responded with everything they had. I tried to reach my arm down. Because of the angle of the people i couldnt feel the bird. Thats the good thing about our job is coming up with a solution to a problem. We used a go pro camera to get an idea of what the pipe did. Reporter once they had the lay of the land, they still had to get down there. So they pulled out the vacuum cleaner and grabbed some lawn equipment. Kind of go through the bends of the pipe. Reporter after a few minutes of fishing, it worked. That bird got stuck right here on the back side. Reporter and what was said in that moment of triumph . I said, turn off the vacuum cleaner. Trying to get our little patient out of here. Reporter the bird, what you might call a runaway teenaged finch, is now being cared for at a foster home in novato. So you have to at this point feed him every 45 minutes from dawn until dusk. Reporter despite being sucked out of a drain pipe with a shop vac and a garden hose only injury seems to be that little abrasion on his little forehead. Nothing better than being rescued by a fireman and for this guy, absolutely the case. It was one of our most interesting rescues. That finch has attitude, doesnt it . After 6 weeks of tlc in the foster home, the bird should be ready to head back into the wild. Story to tell. Oh, man. All his little friends. The dog, the cat, the bird this week. A lot of rescues. We are going to rescue the sunshine. Sunshine is coming back. A little more today compared to yesterday. But look off to the east you saw a lot of storm clouds because that low pressure which just missed us is peeling off to the east and were seeing a lot of showers over the sierra right now, look at that great shot there. Sutro tower, San Francisco. We have some low clouds approaching the coast. What may catch your eye if you are out and about this evening is all the cloud cover. Youre seeing the tops of a few thunderstorms if you look over to the east toward mount diablo diablo. Temperatures were milder today. Right now throughout the bay Area Temperatures in the upper 60s for you in san bruno and oakland. San francisco the cool spot at 62. We made it back to the 70s in livermore, san jose and santa rosa. We have to check the radar. Showers in morgan hill and gilroy, thats all im seeing on kpix 5 highdef doppler radar. We had showers this morning but nothing widespread this afternoon and we missed our thunderstorm chance. Thats good considering our fire danger. San jose was above normal on friday. Its below since then. 72 over the weekend, 71 yesterday, your high today 71. But we will be warming up. This low has kept us chilly for the past few days. Look at all green and the white over the sierra over western nevada. Thats all the moisture this low pressure area had but its heading in the wrong direction moving off to the east and something new will be moving in. You cant have a vacuum in the atmosphere. Something has to move in and that something is a big ridge of high pressure. You have heard that before. Its going to move in to allow sunshine to return and will allow temperatures to warm and well will be if you are making a weekend plan and many of us are, high and dry for the weekend. Warm, sunny, beautiful. Maybe even head to the beach where temperatures will be in the 70s especially on saturday and sunday. Clouds, fog near the water tonight we are already seeing that from chopper 5. The warmup begins on wednesday tomorrow when well warm up well above average for the upcoming holiday weekend. Tomorrow back close to 80 for you in concord and san jose which is a few degrees above average for this time of year. Sunnyvale 76. Fremont 73. Still chilly along the coastline Half Moon Bay 64. San ramon you hit 78 tomorrow but some widespread 80s toward brentwood and pittsburg, bay point, livermore, pleasanton. Pleasant hill 79. Oakland tomorrow your high 72. Napa you will hit 80. Close to 80 in san rafael. 67 in San Francisco. 83 beautiful degrees on the shores of clearlake. Thursday milder not going to call it hot. Hot i save for widespread 90s. We are north going to get there but boy are we going were not going to get there, but, boy, are we going to get close. Over the weekend, 70s at the coast. This is a fantastic holiday weekend. Going camping . Fine. Are you going to the beach . Fine. The only thing is be smart if you are heading into the woods because that fire danger is really bad right now. Good advice. All right. Thank you, paul. This is your pet on pot. Bay area vets sounding the alarm. The deadly side effects if your dog gets a hold of a toxic treat. ,,,,,,,, th consumerwatch went after him and now petco says it is going to stop selling all pet treats made in china by the end of the year. The chain stays there are fears that the treats are making cats and dogs sick. We have been reporting on thousands of pets getting ill or dying even after eating treats made in china. The fda launched an investigation late last near but hasnt figured out which specific ingredient is the culprit. Vets are seeing a spike in pot poisoning among dogs. Consumerwatch reporter julie watts tells us the problem is bad in california. Over she is acting crazy. Reporter they are the kind of pet videos that shouldnt go viral. Dogs staggering shakerring and falling over after eating marijuana intended for human consumption. But veteran sean wells insists theres nothing funny about it. Its a drug like any other prescribed drug and can be serious. Reporter he and other vets say more and more pets are getting into their owners pot. We seen 2 to 3 cases a week up from one case a month years ago. In fact, according to a new report by a company that sells pet insurance, california is now the number one state in the nation for marijuanarelated pet health claims. Colorado where pot was legalized last year ranks fourth. Vets all over the country warn, while canines arent picky, they prefer edibles. They like the baked goods better than just a baggie or other medical preparations. We have seen them with lollipops. Reporter a serious problem because those portions are intended for humans, dogs weigh much less. And as any pet owner knows, they dont exercise self control. They dont understand, so they are just they eat something and now they feel really strange or they feel really sick. Reporter and that can lead to seizures, comas, even death. All the more reason wells says pet owners need to put away their pot. She is definitely still high though. Now, vets say its important to bring your dog in for treatment if you see or even suspect its eaten pot. At the least it will be need to be closely monitored and interestingly, were told this rarely happens with cats because apparently they are just more finicky. If you have a problem, call us at 8885helpsu. Its especially concerning with cookies, edibles, five or Six Human Services or imagine a dog or cat eating a whole cookie. The pot is more potent. Humans notice it and for pets much more so. Could be deadly. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,, high crime. Low morale. In lice officers im ken bastida in the kpix 5 newsroom. New at 6 00 tonight, high crime, low morale, Oakland Police officers brought to their breaking point. They are being enticed by neighboring agencies and ditching the department. And the 49ers wouldnt be moving to the south bay if it wasnt for this guy. Allen and liz, we found out how a seed planted in the 1980s finally paid off. Doesnt seem that long ago, the 80s . Way long time ago. [ laughter ] all right, ken. Well see you in 30 minutes. Thanks for watching us at 5 00. The cbs evening news with scott pelley is next. And remember the latest news and weather are always on our website, kpix. Com. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com pelley tonight, they say they were drugged by the nfl. Former players sue the league, claiming it illegally gave them pain killers to mask serious injuries. They would hand them out like candy. I mean, they would hand them out freely. Pelley jim axelrod is covering. Jeff glor reports that g. M. Is recalling millions under vehicles to fix everything from seat belts to transmissions. Credit suisse will pay a record fine for helping u. S. Citizens evade taxes, but bob orr tells us the tax dodgers arent being penalized, and we may never know who they are. And Michelle Miller on how adding the arts to the three rs is turning troubled schools around. What a Wonderful World captioning sponsored by cbs
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