Beaches, temperatures there in the 60s. You will find some sunshine 70s in the bay and maybe some low 80s in the warmest valleys. Out the door it is mostly cloudy early on this morning. The temperatures generally in the 50s. But as we head toward the afternoon, enjoying lots of sunshine about 78 in concord, 76 in san jose, and about 66 degrees a little breezy into San Francisco. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. And once again we are going to check out your east bay travel times. I did get word of an accident northbound 880 at stevenson but i think thats already off to the righthand shoulder. So as you can see, we are still mostly in the green. No problems getting to work on time. A lot of the overnight roadwork is either cleared or in the clearing stages. The nimitz past the coliseum, obviously those taillights are northbound traffic heading into downtown and everything looks great from 238 to the maze. And if you are traveling southbound past Oakland Airport and the coliseum, it looks good through hayward and this is a live look in milpitas. 880 and 237, very quiet for Silicon Valley drivers so far to sunnyvale. And a live look at some of our sensors in the south bay, no problems. Also the guadalupe parkway and 280 moving at the speed limit, as well. So yeah, at 5 02 we are looking good on your kcbs traffic. Thats the latest from here. Back to you guys. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. The National Football league faces a new wave of litigation from former players who filed suit saying they were given too many painkillers over the year. Kpix 5s cate caugiran is live at San Franciscos Candlestick Park where one of the plaintiffs played several seasons with the 49ers. Reporter that player said he used to hobble into the locker room here at Candlestick Park stand in line with other injured players where painkillers would be handed out like candy. Here are the details of the lawsuit. We know it was filed in federal court in San Francisco on behalf of more than 600 former players. It alleges, quote, the nfl has illegally and unethically substituted pain medications for proper healthcare to keep the nfls tsunami of dollars flowing. The league does have a ban on the use of painkillers without prescription. But theres no clear policy or oversight of how team doctors provide the drugs. Some games, im taking two or three vicodin before the game, two or three vicodin at halftime, taking a shot of toradol before the game, and they are getting both shoulders, hands shot up before the game. Reporter now, former 9ers player Jeremy Newberry told kpix 5 he now suffers from renal failure, high Blood Pressure and violent headaches because of the pain Medication Team doctors and trainers gave him. Now, nfl commissioner Roger Goodell says the nfl has not yet received the lawsuit and is not commenting. Reporting live at candlestick, cate caugiran, kpix 5. Among the other players is jim mcmahon who gray up in san jose and won the super bowl in 1986 as quarterback for the Chicago Bears after growing up in san jose. Donald sterling is facing new allegations this morning. Nba accusing sterling and the Clippers Organization of destroying evidence relating to the recording that got sterling in trouble in the first place. The l. A. Times reports sterling asked the former girlfriend to lie and tell the nba it was not sterling on the tape. She talked with dr. Phil about the recordings. Were disclosures made when you were recording him . And she gave variable answers to that. Sure he knew. Did i tell him every time . No. Dr. Phil said stiviano became emotional when she talked about her relationship and sterling and maintains she was just an assistant. Happening today in san jose, a judge hears from people about his decision to release a convicted rapist to a Southern California neighborhood. Kpix 5s kiet do is at the Santa Clara County courthouse where protestors are arriving from l. A. County for this mornings hearing. Kiet. Reporter yeah. They have made the 350mile journey from Southern California all the way here to the hall of justice in downtown san jose trying to plead with the judge not to release this convicted rapist into their neighborhood. This is a very vocal group of mothers, elected officials and rape victims who have waged an allout Campaign Including writing 11,000 letters to make sure he isnt released near them. 63yearold Christopher Hubbard has admitted to raping about 40 women in the 1970s and 80s. Most of the rapes happened in Southern California. But about 10 took place in san jose and northern california. State law says convicts are to be released to their last known address before they went to prison. In this case its in a white house near palmdale. Neighbors are furious and say there are already 900 sex offenders who live in that small city. He has to come by my house to go into town to get his medicine, to get, you know, groceries, to anything. And my kids play outside. So they are going to see my kids outside and he is not going to stop. There is no consideration given to our community. They are dumping this guy here and hes 40 prior . 40 that hes admitted to . Come on this isnt right. Reporter the doors open here at the hall of justice at 8 00. Public comment begins at 10 a. M. Cameras are not allowed in. Wherever he is released hubbard will have round the clock security for the first 30 days and then have to wear an ankle security bracelet 24 7 after that. Back to you. Kiet, apparently that area is rural without a lot of streetlights. Reporter so their concern is if they needed to call police for help, it would take quite a bit of time for them to arrive. All right. Kiet do live in san jose, thank you. It is 5 06. A former cal fire battalion chief accused of killing his girlfriend made his First Court Appearance in the case. Orville fleming arrested last week after a long search. He made a brief Court Appearance in sacramento yesterday but didnt enter a plea. Relatives of the victim Sarah Douglas wanted to make sure fleming knew they were in the court, too. At one point, douglas mother hissed at fleming. Bad, i wanted it bad. I wanted to attack him bad. I wanted to do something bad. You were hissing in there. Was it hard. Real hard. Real hard. Sarah douglas body was found inside the Sacramento County home she shared with fleming. He was on the run for more than two weeks until police finally caught up with him at a bus stop. Cal osha is investigating the death of a construction worker in san mateo. The worker fell 15 feet and landed on concrete yesterday afternoon. It happened at a Housing Development being built on the old bay meadows racetrack. The mans name hasnt been released. Happening today, bicyclists in San Francisco honor fellow riders killed or injured on city streets. The event starts at 5 p. M. At the Sports Basement on byron street and from there people will ride 7 miles and stop along sites where riders were killed. The National Ride of silence is to advocate for safer streets for bicyclists throughout america. Home prices are up throughout the bay area. Thats according to the real estate website zillo. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec has the latest numbers from the report that was released today. Anne. Reporter the numbers are not good for anybody looking to buy. But for sellers, its positive news. Your home could be a cash cow. These prices are from the home selling website zillos april Real Estate Market report showing home values rose 16. 4 yearoveryear in apri in the overall ninecounty bay area. That is more than three times the National Increase of just 5. 3 over the same period. And that is in part because inventory around here is very low. The number of for sale Homes Remains down yearoveryear in both the San Francisco and san jose metro. It fell more than 9 . And zillo predicts the numbers will keep rising over the next year up to 9 higher than they are today. Anne, this comes on the heels of a new report listing what salary it takes to own a home in different cities across the country. Reporter yeah. You can imagine San Franciscos numbers not looking good. In fact, according to the website hsh. Com, you have to make more than 137,000 a year to afford to buy a house in San Francisco. That is much more than new york city which came in just under 90,000. So if you are selling youre in good shape and if you make a lot of money youre in good shape. If you dont, youre not. Reporter a lot of us fall not in between category. Thank you. 5 09 now. Debate over a measure to criminalize bullying went deep into the night in a Southern California city. A firstofitskind plan was shot down. Lombard street will be a whole lot less crowded this summer. The new restrictions in place and who will be exempt. Low pressure now headed out of town. We are getting ready for the Holiday Weekend. What about the weather . Well talk about that coming up. And the drive along the peninsula looks great. 101 and 280 if you are passing anywhere near sfo you can see all green on the sensors. We want to know what drives you crazy during your morning commute. Ask a question or share a gripe by emailing crazy kpix. Com. Or tweet me at ewengerkpix and watch to see if your question gets answered on air. Well be right back. Female narrator through memorial day at sleep train, female narrator through memorial day get 36 months interestfree financing plus big savings of up to 400 on beautyrest and posturpedic. Even get three years interestfree financing on Serta Icomfort and tempurpedic, plus free sameday delivery, setup, and removal of your old set. When brands compete, you save. But this special financing offer ends memorial day at sleep train. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep that m back now at 5 12. Another 2. 5 million cars have been added to gms recall list. That means General Motors has recalled five times as many vehicles this year as it sold in all of last year. 29 recalls so far in 2014 nine in just the last five days. What theyre doing is, theyre getting rid of their backlog of defective vehicles that they have built over the year. And with General Motors today, if in doubt, recall. The largest of yesterdays recalls involves 1. 3 million enclaves, traverses acadias and outlooks because of seatbelt problems. A city council in Southern California has rejected a plan that would have criminalized bullying. More now from David Begnaud in carson. Reporter the motion fails. Reporter three of fivecar son City Council Members voted no to an ordinance that would have criminalized bullying. Its not a defeat. Well bring it back again. Reporter the city councilman who said he was bullied as a child because he stuttered authored the ordinance that would have made bullying punishable with a fine. First offense would have been 100. Second offense, 200. And a third could have resulted in a criminal misdemeanor charge. There has to be Something Else [ inaudible ] [ [ crying ] reporter before the vote, councilmembers heard from nancy vega. She says her brother was a victim of bullying and committed suicide. I feel my brother would still be here if Something Like this would have been done. [ crying ] reporter it was clear even before the vote was taken there was some opposition. One mother passionately told the council there are bigger priorities. We need you guys to [ indiscernible ] let us parents take care of that. And whatever the parents arent taking care of, the school will take care of. When theyre 18 and they go to jail, the system will take care of it. You guys do not need to worry about this. [ applause ] reporter the city council will now go back to the drawing board to seek advice from experts and residents before trying again with a new proposed ordinance. David begnaud for cbs news, in carson, california. Tourists are going to be kept off the crookedest street in the world at times this summer. Its true. Its a Pilot Program aimed at easing the impact on people who live on lombard in San Francisco. The famous curvy section they are going to shut it down to cars for four consecutive weekends over the summer. The spot between larkin and leavenworth is often gridlocked and a mess. There are too many cars, too many pedestrians, and it has become a significant problem. This is unique in the world. To shut it down to car traffic is a crime. Its a shame. Its another nail into the soul of San Francisco. Well, the closure starts june 21 and includes the 4th of july weekend. Residents will be exempt and perhaps taxis, as well. I guess its just the weekend. People actually live on that street. So true. So yeah. There are a lot of people there. I know. And its always busy. I know. My friends and family every time they come in thats the route we take. Must be hard to live on that street. I have thought about that bringing groceries . In all right. How do you do that . I dont know. Yeah. Lets go flying over westbound 580. So were beginning to see those usual delays at this time of the morning that we see out of tracy on 205. And we can go flying over the Wind Turbines and then well kind of halt it right there. Right around north flynn. Thats where you see the biggest backups now and as you continue your journey on westbound 580 so far things still look good all the way to the dublinpleasanton area. And the drive time in fact is still in the green so even though we are starting to see more yellow slowdowns and brake lights on our sensors, so far you can kind of beat the later rush, about 17 minutes between the Altamont Pass and the dublin interchange. The rest of the bay area Still Holding steady 61 miles an hour if you are crossing the eastshore freeway earlier this morning, overnight various lanes blocked from buchanan to powell, which is all clear as well as the macarthur maze roadwork. They have closing westbound 580 to eastbound 80 ramp, that was picked up at least 15 minutes ago by 5 00. Its usually the hour they pick everything up. Westbound 92 still steady as well if you are leaving hayward across the san mateo bridge only 12 minutes between 880 and 101. That is it your kcbs traffic. With the forecast, heres lawrence. A lot of fog out there this morning as the atmosphere starts to calm down. Yesterday we had a couple of scattered light showers. Those now beginning to shift a little further to the east. Still the Sierra Nevada could see some thunderstorms there. See some of that moisture rotating in that direction even a couple of snowflakes across the higher peaks. Still, toward the afternoon here we are going to see mostly sunny skies away from the coastline still a couple of patches of fog there. And temperatures going to start warming up today and getting warmer over the Holiday Weekend hot in spots in some of the valleys. That area of low pressure that brought with it some unsettled weather here yesterday is now kicking eastward. High pressure just beginning to nudge its way in here. That will help to warm things up for today and over the next few days temperatures really going to start to heat up. 87 in the sacramento valley. 81 fresno. Watch out for the possibility of some thunderstorms in the high country. You can see the low clouds and fog early on today, that will begin to back away to the coastline in the afternoon and looks like its going to surge back onshore into early tomorrow morning. So we are going to see that typical regime for this time of year as you see low clouds and fog night and Morning Hours giving way to sunshine in the afternoon. 70s in the south bay 60s toward the coastline. And as you head to the east bay 70s maybe a couple of low 80s. Inside the bay a little breezy into San Francisco still about 66 degrees. Next couple of days, more sunshine on the way. The Holiday Weekend is looking good especially saturday and sunday. Should be beautiful. Just a couple of patches of fog near the coastline getting hot in the valleys up in the 90s. And memorial day, just a little bit cooler mid80s inland. Not bad. That is a really good a lot of people love to go camping can, a lot of outdoor stuff, barbecues, should be a great weekend to do it. Thank you. 5 18 now. Still early but a lot of people in the bay area are up and working. Roberta gonzales is checking in with some of them in hayward. Roberta, the donut. Youre supposed to eat it. Reporter good morning i see you. Yes. Welcome to worlds fair donuts in hayward. Whats your name . [ inaudible ] what are you making . Chocolate donuts. Reporter come in here outside right now in hayward 55 inside i wish you guys could smell this, its like so delicious in here. This is kelly. And kelly is the owner here. Good morning. Good morning. Reporter what time do you open up every morning . 4 00. Reporter what time do you get here . 3 00. Reporter im so proud of you. We are not the only ones who do this. What time do you close . 7 00. Reporter look at all these people lining up. Good morning reporter say hi, frank and michelle. Hi, frank and michelle [ laughter ] reporter tell me about your donuts. Everybody said you have to come to worlds fair donuts because you have the best donuts in the world. What are these right here . Glazed. Reporter but these arent just glazed . Yeah, theyre big glazed. Puffy, big and delicious glaze. Reporter how many calories are in one of these donuts . None, zero because they are so puffy. We took all the calories out. Reporter they are just filled with air, right . Mmhm. Reporter what else are you known for . Chocolate. And the lotto. We had a big winner also like a lot of scratch winners, you know,. Reporter oh, yeah. I hear that youre big time winners and tonight there is a lottery, too. Look at this, guys. This is the fantasy. We have just recently won that. Somebody won that. And we have jackpot winner tonight on this. If anybody hit it here you get a free donut for life. Reporter a free donut for life. You know what, i was telling kelly, i have not had a donut in years but im going to go ahead and try one just for you. [ pause ] reporter ill see you guys later. Bye. Okay. Looks good, roberta. Really good. Thanks. 5 20. More va hospital facilities under investigation for their treatment of u. S. War veterans. Coming up at 5 30, the new allegations and the fallout from that scandal. And im dennis odonnell. Coming up, meet the new head coach of the golden state warriors, steve kerr. Well talk to him. And the giants, it all came down to this coming up. Each oa little bit of minion. The part of us that wants to play, wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it out. Find your inner minion only at the despicable me minion mayhem ride at Universal Studios hollywood. [ barks ] whoo mmm oh, yeah [ whistling ] [ male announcer ] discover your new orleans. Start exploring at followyournola. Com. [ woman ] and i love new orleans baseball. Check out the defense at third base. By good morning, everyone. New warriors head coach steve kerr was introduced to the bay area media yesterday and i posed him the question, why the warriors over the knicks . It was a tough choice. It was two unbelievable opportunities for me. New york was intriguing because of phil jackson, because of the knicks brand. There is nothing negative about new york. It was just the positives that were here. The miami heat have evened their series against the pacers at one apiece. 80 run in the 4th quarter, 87 83 the defending champs take game 2. Drew pomeranz hasnt given up a run in his last three starts and another great run against tampa bay last night. He left the game eventually with a stiff neck. As win 30 the sixth shutout of the year. Sergio romo and the giants one strike away from taking game one but the closer leaves it out there for nolan who ropes it off the wall. Tying run is coming around. That scores. Here comes the winning run. Here comes the throw and he is in there. The giants lose a tough one to the rockies 54. So after a great start, the giants closer sergio romo now a couple of blown saves in the last week. Im dennis odonnell, see you tonight. Thank you, dennis, play of the day back to major league baseball. Check out the defense third base torontos brett lowry. Here we go. A double play that will end the inning. And amazing play at third base. How about that . Makes the stab, goes over to third, goes home. Youre out, boston. The blue jays went on to win 7 4 at fenway your play of the day. 5 25 right now. Some bay area drivers could be in for a traffic nightmare this Holiday Weekend. Why a major stretch of one of the areas busiest roads is shutting down. Reporter and former nfl players are suing the league accusing them of pushing painkillers like candy. Well hear from the ex49ers player at the center of it. ,,,,,,,,,, this is the name your price tool. It gives you options based on your budget its a piece of cake. I was told there would be cake. Face of the nfl. How he says the league put profit d of health. Your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. A longtime 49er at the center of a lawsuit that could change the face of the nfl. How he says the league put profit ahead of health. And a convicted rapist is set to be released back into his old neighborhood. The neighbors there are unhappy. Im kiet do with a live report to explain what a Santa Clara County judge has to do with all this coming up in a live report. Low pressure spinning out of town. Temperatures could get hot in the next few days. Well talk about that coming up. And it looks like our delays are really beginning to build now coming out of the Altamont Pass and through the Livermore Valley. Well show you where things begin to pick back up again in just a few minutes. Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, may 21. Im michelle griego. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. It is 5 30. Some former pro Football Players are suing the nfl saying they were given too many painkillers over the years. Kpix 5s cate caugiran joins us live from San Franciscos Candlestick Park where one of the plaintiffs played several seasons for the 49ers. Reporter that former 49ers player said he would often ask the doctors what are the side next of the meds . And he said doctors would tell him dont worry about it, youre good to go. He tells us years later that wasnt the case. Reporter Jeremy Newberry played for the 9ers for nine years. He also worked for kpix 5 as a football analyst. He told me he suffers from renal failure, high Blood Pressure, and violent headaches because of all the pain medications team doctors and the trainers gave him to get him on the field. Some games, im taking two or three vicodin before the game, two or three vicodin halftime, a shot of toradol before the game and they are getting both shoulders, hands, shot up before the game. Reporter the lawsuit alleges the nfl has illegally and unethically substituted pain medications for proper healthcare to keep the nfl tsunami of dollars flowing. Our players were shot up like cattle. They were brought to market and then discarded like pieces of meat. Reporter the league has a ban on the use of painkillers without a prescription. But there is no clear policy or oversight of how team doctors provide the drugs. This is a nfl culture not just a teambyteam thing. Reporter five other players are also suing seeking financial compensation and extended healthcare as well as changes in how painkilling drugs are administered. You know, 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 the commissioner is not commenting because they havent seen or received the lawsuit. Live at candlestick, cate caugiran, kpix 5. Among the other plaintiffs is jim mcmahon who grew up in san jose then later won the super bowl in 1986 as the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. 5 32. A check of weather and we have big Holiday Weekend coming up and its looking good. A lot of folks making plans. The unofficial beginning to summer. Looks like the weather is going to cooperate nicely. Of course we had a few scattered light showers moving through the bay area yesterday. Those are long gone now replaced by more of a stable atmosphere and that means some fog and low clouds but the Sierra Nevada, still some showers up there today maybe some thunderstorms. Watch out for that in that direction. Temperatures around the bay area though up in the 70s maybe some low 80s inland 60s and patchy fog toward the coastline mostly cloudy out over the bay right now. As we have pretty good onshore push and low clouds and fog. Temperatures generally in the 50s but by the afternoon, here comes that sun and looks like the temperature starting to heat up 79 in the napa valley. About 74 degrees in vallejo. 76 in san jose about 66 degrees a little breezy into San Francisco. All right lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. Outside we go out to the bay bridge toll plaza. And it once again looks like the left lanes the cash lanes are beginning to stack up a bit. The middle of the parking lot right lanes are clear and fastrak okay. Well let you know as soon as they turn on the metering lights. Typically they have been turning them on the last couple of weeks around 5 50. Heres a live look at some sensors now coming through the Altamont Pass, dublin interchange. Kcbs drew through the scene a little while ago. They are calling it sluggish slowandgo from tracy on 205 and continues that way through the Livermore Valley now. Looks like it picks up past vasco and slows again by the dublin interchange and if you are driving the eastshore freeway, we had all that overnight roadwork everything is long since cleared, and it also looks great as you can tell here. This is approaching carlson boulevard coming into richmond. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Frank has some traffic news. One of the freeways leading out of downtown San Francisco is going to be closed through the coming Holiday Weekend. Starting tomorrow night, southbound interstate 280 will be shut down from king street to pennsylvania avenue. The onramp there will stay closed until Tuesday Morning after the Holiday Weekend. Video from chopper 5 showing the king street ramp that will be shut down. The project involves hinges that allow the road to withstand an earthquake. Hinges are being replaced there. This coming weekend work will be done in the southbound lanes, then the northbound lanes will be closed for the same work over the 4th of july weekend and the labor day weekend. Concord police are trying to identify and catch a groper. This is a sketch of the suspect. Police say he is probably a teenager, 56 with short black hair. He has run up to at least three women on a walking path between north and south larwin avenues. He grabbed the victims from behind and ran off. It happened once in march and twice earlier this month. Its terrible. I wish out development in the park would post fires about it. And tell the residents who live here. 5 35 now. Four suspects are all in jail after a crime spree that spanned two bay area cities. It began yesterday morning two homes ransacked in redwood city. Investigators say same culprits later hit two homes over in fremont. One case there, a woman was held at gunpoint in front of her two children. Police arrested james Miles Brothers stanley and Anthony Sherman and a 15yearold boy. Happening today a courthouse in the south bay is expected to have a crowd from the southland. Kpix 5s kiet do is in san jose where people are protesting and want a Santa Clara County judge to keep the convicted rapist locked up. Reporter the contingent of people is here to tell the judge very loudly not in my backyard. If i have to, you know, stand my ground, put my foot down, uhm, you know, voice my opinion. Reporter a mother of four daughters and a rape survivor herself, misty left for san jose last night to plead with a judge to block the release of serial rapist Christopher Hubbard into her neighborhood. The single mom lives five minutes away from the small white house that the landlord has agreed to rent to hubbard in Lake Los Angeles, outside palmdale. He has to come by my house to go into town to get his medicine to get groceries, uhm, to anything. Hes going to see my kids out sight. Reporter dubbed the pillowcase rapist, hubbard admitted to sexually assaulting 40 women in the 1970s and 80s. He has been locked up since 1996. He needs to stay where hes at locked up. Reporter Sheryl Holbrook was raped at 14. Brings back a lot of flashbacks when i was raped at 14 years old and by knifepoint by two men. Reporter she and a dozen fellow women formed a group, the ladies of Lake Los Angeles, upon hearing of hubbards pending release. They staged one final protest before leaving for the public hearing. So far they have sent 11,000 letters in protest to the Santa Clara Superior Court judge supervising hubbard. Dont make us have to sleep with our guns in fear. Reporter activists say there are close to 900 sex offenders who already live in that area. Theres no consideration given to our community. They are dumping this guy here and hes 40 prior . 40 that hes admitted to . Come on. This isnt right. Reporter and wherever he is released, he will have round the clock security for the first 30 days and then he will have to wear a security ankle bracelet 24 7 after that. The doors open here at the courthouse at 8 a. M. Public comment begins at 10 a. M. Were live in downtown san jose. Kiet do, kpix 5. The protestors from Lake Los Angeles say their community is too remote for help to arrive quickly if they need it. Right now San Jose Police are searching for a missing 13 yearold girl. Cyana odonnell has a history of depression and ptsd. She ran away from home on monday and officials are worried she doesnt have her meditation. An arsonist that targeted a san jose family still on the loose this morning. Security cameras captured that suspect lighting an suv on fire a few nights ago. Both cars were destroyed there. People living in that home say the same person threw paint on their car just a couple of weeks ago. Fire investigators say they expect to find out who the suspect is very soon. Happening today, lawmakers on capitol hill take on a bill that would make it easier to fire senior managers at va hospitals. That comes after several claims that patients died due to lack of care. More than a dozen va hospitals are now under investigation. Va secretary Eric Shinseki has ordered an audit of all hospitals in question. But theres pressure on the white house to do more. It is time for our president to come forward and take responsibility for this and do the right thing by these veterans and begin to show that he actually cares about getting it straight. President obama has assigned deputy chief of staff rob neighbors to reform the agency. This week neighbors is focusing on the phoenix va hospital where up to 40 patients may have died while waiting for care. A big victory in yesterdays primaries for senatemy in order leader Mitch Mcconnell he won get the tea partybacked challenger in kentucky. Analysts say republican candidates did well over Tea Party Favorites across the nation and they did that by campaigning even further to the right. In november republicans hope to gain six seats in the senate to take a majority away from the democrats. Detroits biggest automaker is becoming its biggest car retailer now recaller now, rather. Jill wagner of cbsmoneywatch. Com joins us now. Good morning. Reporter good morning, frank and michelle. Another series of recalls from General Motors. This time, its affecting 2. 4 million trucks and cars because of problems with seatbelts, bad cables and faulty airbags. So far this year, the automaker has issued 29 recalls. That is more than 13. 5 million vehicles since early february. The Federal Reserve will release minutes from its april meeting this afternoon. Yesterday, the dow plunged 137 points. The nasdaq slid 29. It may soon cost you more to fire up the grill this summer. The price of meat is going up. The usda says beef is now running at around 5. 50 a pound a 46 cents increase since january. Pork is also going up. The increase is blamed on drought and disease in parts of the United States and higher demand overseas. On the flip side, though, poultry prices are slightly lower. And the most valuable brand in the world is google dethroning apple which had the top spot for the past three years. According to a research company, apples brand value dropped by 20 last year while googles has soared. I dont feel sorry for apple. They are doing all right. If you want to track your pets fitness routine and vital signs, of course theres an app for that. Reporter of course. And it is called pet pace. It is a new smart collar with miniature sensors that monitor your pets vital signs like temperature, pulse, respiration and activity. When you log into the app you can see how many calories your dog is burning around the house while you were away. The collar costs 150. There is a Monthly Service fee of about 15 a month. Frank and michelle, i guess the challenge is really getting them to wear it. Frank and michelle. And while youre at the beach you can say the dog is really getting a workout. You can take yours and your dogs vital signs. Jill wagner of cbsmoneywatch. Com, thank you. A new study might make you think twice about booking your next flight. What researchers found lurking in the cabin. New details in the Donald Sterling scandal. The alleged coverup attempt next, more from the woman behind the infamous recording. ,,,,,,,, a Memorial Service is set t held this evening at san leo high school. To honor a student who died, after she. Happening today, a Memorial Service set to be held this evening at San Leandro High School to honor a student who died after she was hit by a train earlier this week. Brittney silva was walking along the tracks near hesperian boulevard on monday evening when she was struck. She was wearing earbuds and sending Text Messages at the time. A man yelled to warn her of the oncoming train but she didnt hear him. Yesterday friends and classmates stopped by the spot where she died to place flowers and candles at a growing memorial. I dont know how much more stronger i can be, though. I know gods sure testing me. We were real close. The fact that she is going is going to be hard. Brittney silvas mother doesnt have money for a funeral so a fund has been set up in her name at chase bank. Developing this morning, new allegations against disgraced l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling accused of stage a coverup after a recording of his racist comments were made public. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec has the details from the newsroom. It turns out clippers management may have tried to help sterling destroy evidence. Reporter that is what we are hearing. That the teams former president got the tape weeks before it came out and the woman at the heart of the scandal is speaking out again. The embattled l. A. Clippers owner is center court once again. The nba is us cooing Donald Sterling and the Clippers Organization of, quote, destroying evidence relating to the recording and the l. A. Times reports according to a 30page summary of charges it obtained, the league also alleges sterling asked v stiviano the former girlfriend who recorded his racist remarks to lie about the authenticity of the tape. No one can really see what i felt and thats why i wore the visor. Reporter dr. Phil asked her about the recordings. Were disclosure made when were you recording him . Uhm, and she gave variable answers to that. Sure, he knew. Did i tell him every time . No. Reporter the nba banned and fined sterling after the recording was made public by tmz last month. League owners may vote to terminate sterlings ownership at a june 3 meeting. I know were doing the right thing here. This is an unprecedented proceeding. You know, will there be bumps in the road . Presumably yes. Reporter sterlings lawyer cents a letter to the league saying he wont pay the 2. 5 million fine and is threatening to sue if he isnt afforded due process. Sterling has until next tuesday to respond to the allegations and he might just appear at that hearing in june in new york in front of the owners. It would take threequarters of them to terminate sterlings ownership. Live in the newsroom, anne makovec, kpix 5. Slightly disturbing new study about airplane cabins. They are filled with germs this gives you the hebe. He goosebumps. Mrsa lasts the longest on the seat back pockets while e. Coli survived longest on the arm rests. They remained there for over a week. Im not surprised. I try to not focus on that. Otherwise im not going to go anywhere. I dont touch my face, my mouth, my nose. The dry air in the cabin helps the bacteria survive. We are told the airlines are working on ways to minimize the risk. They cant wash the planes down. Never take off your shoes. I have seen so many thats gross. And then you wear pants. Or go in with a windex bottle. Dont touch anything. Thats right. Gloves are a good idea. I have heard somewhere that magazines in the front those are the dirtiest things. Bring your own. Good idea. Now that we have sufficiently grossed you out while youre eating breakfast, well talk about traffic. Things looking hairy in the east bay. We have a couple of things going on. This seems to be the worst of it in oakland westbound 24 on the approach to highway 13. So this is the initial tweet from kcbs. We are getting updated information. So the first reports were westbound 24 the left lane was blocked and they couldnt find the motorcycle rider. He was seen weaving in and out of traffic. Now it sounds like two lanes are blocked approaching highway 13 so we may see delays coming out of the caldecott tunnel and also until the macarthur maze westbound 980 to westbound 580 we have an accident there involving a car blocking one lane. So a couple of different issues in the east bay. At the bay bridge toll plaza, it looks like they already turned the metering lights on. They have been turning them on awfully early the last couple of weeks. So again, you have a minor backup right now to the pay gates and it looks like its jammed up to the overcrossing so its spread out across all lanes cash and fastrak. And they reopened some more lanes southbound in the commute direction across the golden gate bridge. They got four southbound lanes open now heading into San Francisco. A little bit of fog out the door. With the forecast, heres lawrence. A little bit of fog out there this morning. We are going to see some sunshine into the afternoon. Looks like that area of low pressure that brought us some unsettled weather and showers yesterday thats headed out. If you are heading to the Sierra Nevada watch out. Maybe even thunderstorms up there today. Otherwise low clouds and fog should give way to mostly sunny skies. Clouds marching to the coastline and mostly sunny elsewhere and a little warmer then much warmer for the Holiday Weekend. We are going to warm up nicely. The low is going to kick further to the east so temperatures going to begin to warm today a lot more so toward the weekend. 80s into the central valley. The high country. 50s and 60s and showers and the possibility of thunderstorms. 65 still mostly cloudy into monterey bay. So we are watching the atmosphere stabilize so we are getting low clouds and fog back again and its going to surge back onshore early tomorrow morning. But into the afternoon, that goes back to the coastline. And we are left with a lot of sunshine. Numbers working out like this we are going to see about 76 in san jose, 75 sunnyvale, 60s at the coastline with low clouds. To the east bay 70s and 80s beginning to show up there. And lots of 60s inside the bay. As we look out toward the Holiday Weekend the unofficial beginning to summer lots of sunshine coming our way, temperatures maybe hot in spots with 90s inland, 60s at the coastline but the weather looks very nice for outdoor plans for the Holiday Weekend. Looks good. Thank you. 5 51. Coming up, the cat that saved that little boy down in bakersfield throwing out the first pitch at a Minor League Baseball game sort of. How tara managed to pull it off. We have the video coming up. ,,,,, [monotone] she says, switch to progressive and you could save hundreds. All right. We are looking at your pollen report for today. Not too bad actually running into the low to medium category. Looks like we are going to march up as the weather improves and by the weekend looks like it will be medium high all around the bay area. And we have some problems continuing to brew in oakland. This backup is getting worse right now in westbound 24. Theres a motorcycle accident approaching highway 13. Two lanes are blocked and our sensors are going to be showing slowing as far as as the caldecott tunnel. More coming up. New this morning a Southern California city has rejected a plan that would have criminalized bullying in the city. Last night, the Carson City Council voted 32 against that new ordinance. It would have made bullying punishable with a fine for the first two offenses with misdemeanor charges possible for a third. Supporters of the bill plan to reintroduce it though after making some changes. Well, it was a very big night for tara the cat who became famous for chasing off that dog who was attacking a 4 yearold boy in bakers field. She threw out the first pitch at the bakersfield blaze baseball game. Not too bad. Of course, that ra needed human assistance because tara needed human assistance because she had a tough time gripping the ball. She is a cat. Really . Media from germany, japan, russia and brazil were all on hand for the extravaganza. And one more look at the video that made tara a worldwide heroine. Fortunately for the blaze, taras unfortunately for the blaze, tara was not a good luck charm. Bakersfield lost. 5 56. In the next half hour new numbers are out showing the state of the bay area housing market. The only surprise is, just how high prices are soaring. The new report up next. Reporter a convicted rapist is set to be released back into his old neighborhood. You can imagine the neighbors are pretty unhappy. Im kiet do with a live report coming up. ,,,,, and then cover the papi. Announcer the moment babies are born, their brains are forming the connections that determine how they learn. Think. 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Were disclosures made when you were recording him . Uhm, and she gave variable answers to that. Sure, he knew. Did i tell him every time . No. The nba is accusing clippers owner Donald Sterling of trying to destroy evidence related to the infamous racist comments. Dont make us have to sleep with our guns and fear. The protests over plans to release the pillowcase rapist comes to Santa Clara County this morning. A judge tentatively approved a plan for the confessed serial rapist to move into a home in Lake Los Angeles and neighbors are not happy. From across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. Good morning. It is wednesday, may 21. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now 6 00. Liz has a check of the morning commute. They were able to reopen one more lane of westbound 24 which is better for commuters in oakland. The accident is approaching highway 13 so now just one lane