Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The National Football league is facing another lawsuit concerning the longterm health of its players. It was less than a year ago that the nfl settled the case over concussion risks. This time hundreds of retired players charged the league illegally supplied them with risky drugs that led to addiction, and some say they were never told about serious injuries. Omar villafranca has our report. Reporter eight player are named in the lawsuit including former San Francisco 49er Jeremy Newberry. Im 49 years old and i have kidney problems from playing football. Reporter newberry, who also worked as an analyst for station kpix said he received injections to numb injuries during the majority of his injuries during his career. It was almost like a cattle call, waiting with your pants down. Theyre sticking you one at a time as youre walking in and out. Bears quarterback jim mcmahon is one of the plaintiffs claiming he suffered nearly a decade later he suff
Not sure about injuries. We know chp is on scene. Delays around the caldecott tunnel. If you are continuing on westbound 24 maybe heading into the macarthur maze, the bay bridge toll plaza, it is jammed solid almost to the macarthur maze already this morning. They turned on the metering lights once again on the earlier side at 5 46. They have been on for nearly 15 minutes. Thats why were league is delays in the cash and the fastrak lanes. Looking at other bridges, so far no weatherrelated advisories across the san mateo bridge. Everything is still moving at the speed limit out of hayward. Westbound 580 though heavy. You will notice that drive time almost a half hour in the red between the Altamont Pass and 680. Kind of a steady flow of sluggish traffic now from tracy into pleasanton. Mass transit looking good so far this morning. Bart systemwide on time and ace trains one and three also reporting no delay. You may have seen some gray skies in our traffic cameras. With the forecast, her
Retired players claim teams administered pain killer drugs just to make money. We had percodans, vicodins whatever you needed no questions asked. Flames forced evacuations of homes and businesses in colorado. And hail as large as baseball. Voters have said no to Tea Party Challengers almost across the board. The nba alleges that Donald Sterling asked v. Stiviano to lie to investigators. You rollerskating out in front of the paparazzi, that looks like attentiongetting behavior to me. Six people were arrested in iran are happy. An empty school bus on fire and rolling right into traffic. This is a first. You look like a powdered sugar donut now. I saw some baby powder flying across there. An unusual roadside rescue caught on camera in british columbia. That is the coolest this evening ive ever seen. All that matters a special honor for a hero cat. The feline got to throw out the fishs first pitch at a baseball game. And meet happy. Some parents are saying he looks creepy. Dadada not lovin
Fire investigation will soon begin, they dont know as of right now, what caused the flames, and theyre also telling us that the man who died in this fire does still remain in that house, and theyre trying to get to his body right now. But they are having some difficulties because, again of this collapse. We go to some video, from little bit earlier, firefighters on the scene, you know there is fire started 10 30 last night. It was called in, firefighters raised to the scene, again, got that notice, that there were people trapped inside at the time, when they did arrive, though, two women who were badly burned outside, and those two women were immediately rushed to the hospital. One went straight to crozerchester Medical Center, the other went to christianna hospital. The update from the fire chief did tell us that that woman at this time is being prepped to transfer over to crozerchester Medical Center, again, they do have a burn unit there. So both of the women will be treated, and th
880 580 at the maze roadwork cleared. Both directions 880 looking good, no delays at the bay bridge. Back to you. Thank you. 5 01. New this morning a Murder Investigation in San Francisco. Kpix 5s mark kelly is in the Mission District where the victim was discovered last night. Reporter good morning. Sfpd investigating this killing. Right now, we dont know too much but heres what we do know so far. The body was found right here on this sidewalk. Im on 16th street right behind me south van ness in front of me cap street ablock away from the 16th and mission bart station. There are apartments up above me so theres a good chance somebody heard something last night. Right now the crime tape is down but heres the scene last night. Police say shortly before 10 00 they responded to a call of an unresponsive man right on this sidewalk. When paramedics got here, they pronounced the man dead. Now, at this hour police havent released exactly how the man died or given any details on a suspect in t