Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki has been called to testify before congress. It stems from allegations of mistreatment at va hospital in phoenix where as many as 40 veterans reportedly died while waiting for medical treatment. And now a House Committee has vetted to subpoena all email and correspondents related to that va hospital and a possible coverup. Lets bring in tracie potts from washington. Good morning to you. What happens if the subpoenas come up empty . Reporter theyre probably going to dig deeper. Lawmakers believe the answer is in there somewhere. What may be thousands of pages of documents they want to look through every democrat, every republican voted in favor of this subpoena. They want to get to the bottom of who made it difficult for these vets to see a doctor quickly. Im now going to sign a subpoena for production of reporter lawmakers are giving the va until may 19th to turn over emails and documents about who destroyed a secret waiting list at the phoeni
The gulf coast. We are against the Keystone Pipeline because its absolutely dirty fuel and it makes no sense to build a huge infrastructure to continue to use coal. Reporter once again, the president will be spending the night here at the Fairmont Hotel in san jose. Then tomorrow at about 10 00 he will be giving a speech on clean energy at a walmart in the city of Mountain View. So here in san jose the preparations under way. The traffic jam is already starting. The president is not due here for a couple of more hours. Live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman is in Mountain View tonight where the president will be speaking about that Energy Savings plan. But there is a bit of a controversy there, too, right, mike . Reporter kenny, it doesnt have to did with energy. Walmart apparently does a good job with solar energy. Its just that in the bay area, organized labor is very strong and walmart is kind of the poster child for organized labors bad employee. Bad employer,
It is part of the brand and the revenue stream and it has fallen behind both in the hardware space and the streaming space. Brings applenics the headphones that everyone wears. On the music streaming site you have beats music that has garnered a lot of attention. I do not know how successful it has been on the business side because they have not released numbers. Right, so is it worth 3 billion . Complex many analysts would agree that it is not worth any analysts would agree that it is not worth that much. What is concerning is that youve never had apple acquire a brand, ever do big deals. Billion dollar deal for what essentially boils. Own to a brand that is cool it is not a new technology. It will not move the needle on the technology front. Apple has a lot of money. Overseas but the money is not accessible. Debt tos had to issue give shareholders value back. Yes, it is a blip on their overall cash balance, but if you look at their operations, it is not a small number, he even even f
But this weekend should be spectacular. Well have more on that in a moment. Right now lets check the roads with elizabeth. We continue to watch the chp reports and we are getting initial reports of an accident near grant line so thats probably whats backing up traffic out of tracy now. Westbound 580 initially reported as a hitandrun again approaching that grant line road exit. Right now its about 43 miles per hour. So just heads up if you are there. Pretty sluggish as you approach the Altamont Pass and then clears out a little bit. Actually as you get closer to the Livermore Valley and vasco, and then looks good by the dublin interchange. Heres a live look at the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Once again, last night they had a lot of overnight roadwork so it looks like everything is clear now westbound and eastbound 580 between richmond and marin county. All green on our sensors so no delay there and check of the south bay where its quiet 101 northbound to morgan hill into san jose. Well
Up in the cash and fastrak lanes. Its backed up at the first overcrossing. Checking twitter, kcbs traffic letting us know about a stall now midspan westbound 92 across the san mateo bridge. Just expect some minor delays, though, traffic is still light out of hayward. This is a new crash in san jose. It is in the Center Divide northbound 101, threecar accident approaching old oakland road but it is slow from the 280 interchange. And a quick look outside, heres a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge, visibility is low. With more on the forecast and why, heres lawrence. We have seen some of that rain overnight so yeah, its left behind some of that moisture in the atmosphere. We are seeing dense patchy fog outside. Watch out for that. It looks like the weather going to be much improved throughout the day. Cold front swinging through town overnight bringing with it light showers and the drizzle. That is starting to move out of the bay area. And our kpix 5 highdef Doppler Radar confirms thing