organization for covering up the harassment and for the wrongful termination of the accuser. we met her this morning at the news conference at her attorney s office. she is erika smith. she is in her 30s and she was working in the community relations department for the warriors. she has worked for three nba teams in her 14 year career. smith says ellis sent her dozens of texts that were inappropriate and harassing. she says her responses were always professional. at some point during this ellis actually had smith reprimanded. he said she wasn t doing her job. shortly after that that, she says he sent her a text photo that he claimed was of his genitals. we saw it in the news conference today. the attorney want today to make sure we understood it was not a frivolous lawsuit. we are not going to show it is not suitable for television. smith says the texts were known to the warriors. when the story started getting out, she was fired if. i worked with the players i had billing
harassment lawsuit was officially filed this morning. it does accuse star guard monta ellis of sexual harassment. the suit names the warriors organization for covering up the harassment and for the wrongful termination of the accuser. we met her this morning at the news conference at her attorney s office. she is erika smith. she is in her 30s and she was working in the community relations department for the warriors. she has worked for three nba teams in her 14 year career. smith says ellis sent her dozens of texts that were inappropriate and harassing. she says her responses were always professional. at some point during this ellis actually had smith reprimanded. he said she wasn t doing her job. shortly after that that, she says he sent her a text photo that he claimed was of his genitals. we saw it in the news conference today. the attorney want today to make sure we understood it was not a frivolous lawsuit. we are not going to show it is not suitable for television. sm
dry december, rain finally in the forecast. good morning i m frances dinglasan. new accident reported east bay northbound 680, big rig blocking right lane. [ inaudible ] good morning i m terry mcsweeney, in for eric thomas this morning. and i m kristen sze. a bay area sports star in the news. not for what he did on the court. monta ellis is being accused of sexual harassment. katie marzullo joins us live from oakland. accuser says she has proof? reporter: she does. sometimes these cases of sexual harass come down to he said/she said. this accuser does claim to have proof. she said she was working for the golden state warriors we she was sexually harassed by far guard monta ellis from november 2010 until january of this year. she says it involves dozens of text messages, including many late at night and a graphic photo her attorney describes it as disgusting. her attorney also says ellis used a special cell phone for all of this. the text messages came from a secret
san francisco 49er officials and pg&e are trying to discover what caused two embarrassing power outages at candlestick park last night on national tv. the second one was a show stopper. amy hollyfield is live at the stick. they have some ideas? reporter: they ve got a lot of poking around to do. today is all about figuring out how this happened and how to keep it from happening again. they are going to be hosting a playoff game here next month. they really have their work cut out for them. check out this video of the second that it happened. look at the lower left of your screen. it appears a france former outside the stadium explodes a transformer outside the stadium explodes. the pow we are did go out twice once before the kickoff then second time 6:45 during the second quarter. we ve been coming here for 40 years this is the first time this has happened. total power failure. the game was interrupted. it is not fair to the players. it is not fair. what can i say. it
the bay bridge toll plaza but, of course, we have overnight road work going on. police are warning students walking on the berkeley campus to beware after a man exposed himself and tried to assault a young woman. i m kristen sze. i m eric thomas. topping our news this half hour, in just a few hours more suspects in drug crimes will be released from the san francisco jail. they have had charges thrown out because of alleged misconduct. terry mcsweeney is live at the jail. 42 of those cases were dropped just yesterday afternoon. the police commissioner says before this case is finished hundreds of inmates may be released because of the alleged misconduct. take a look at video at the core of this case. the investigation involving the f.b.i. and eight plainclothes officers all from southern station which is next-door really to the jail accused of illegal searches and arrests. those officers are on desk duty. one of the 56 defendants whose charges were dropped talked to us l