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
First up, a check on the weather forecast. Mike . Noticeable trend, record High Temperatures are possible for the 10th day in a row. Here is the day planner, it will hours for the bay we are in the upper 30s to mid40s and a few high clouds from time to time and upper 50s at noon and midtoupper 60s at the 4 00 hour and enjoy a delightful evening with smiled temperatures in the low 50s. Inland we have frost as usual mostly in the north bay and a few in the east bay valley and midsecretary by noon and record highs are possible with near 70 at 4 00. We will be mild at 7 00 and 52 and along the coast, fewer clouds this morning with temperatures in the lowtomid 60s for better part of the afternoon and we could spike to 70 at Half Moon Bay. Enjoy the colorful sunrise and temperature is 51. Enjoy that. Hopefully you will enjoy the commute. Unfortunately i am afraid not so great, we have five to tenminute delay in bart in the east bay direction because of a track switching problem. No service o
Upper 40s to low 50s. Once again a lot like where we landed yesterday. Ly have the timing on this rain and an advisory to talk about. Good morning sal. Good morning, rosemary. Traffic is doing well if you are driving around the bay area. The traffic is looking good at the bay bridge toll plaza. On the east shore freeway it is a nice drive so far from vallejo as you drive to the berkeley area. We will keep an eye on things and if things start to slow down, we will let you know. This is a look at highway 101 and 280. So far so good. Just a little slow traffic on highway 92. Lets go back to the desk. Happening right now thousands of people are in the dark in benicia this morning. Claudine wong is joining us to tell us how many businesses and homes are effected. Good morning, claudine. Reporter good morning, pam. The estimate is 3700 people when you consider the town of benicia has a population of 27,000. We are talking 14 of this city in the dark. We are actually at a shopping center. It
We will check in with her in a moment. It is friday, december 6th im pam cook. We made it. Good morning, everybody im brian flores in for dave clark. Rose mary in for rosemary in for steve. 26 in napa. 25 novato. Sunrises at 7 11. We will not see much fluxuation between now and then. 34 at halfmoon bay. Im picking up a few clouds hanging along the coastline. We have changes coming our way. Ly have more on that in a moment. Lets head to the north bay. That is where we see our coldest temperatures. 25 for you in heelsburg. 2 in petaluma. If we shift to the east we are looking at 27 degrees outside your door in san ramon. Ramo. Bring along the winter coat you are going to need it. Maybe something to cover your face because that air is a cold one. This will be traveling, south, southeast over the course of the day. This will bring us rain as early as tonight and because of the cold air in place because this system is cold, we are going to likely see snow in our local hills by tomorrow morn
Good morning and welcome back. Boy, a huge power outage in benicia. You are looking at notes apologizing for the outage out there this morning. We just got an update from pg e and the news is not good. Boy, this comes at a terrible time with the overnight very cold temperatures for people to be without their power. Claudine wong is out there this morning. She is talking with pg e. We will go out to her in a moment. Its friday, december 6th im pam cook. And im brian flores. Dave clark has the day off. Lets get a quick look at weather and traffic. Rosemary in for steve. It is cold out there. You are right. Bring along the winter coat once again. Temperatures sinking into the 20s once again this morning. We are still about an hour and ten minutes away from the official sun vise. Temperatures will remain this cold. At least between now and then. Fairfield sinking to 21 degrees. 28 in concord. 22 napa. Mid 20s in novato. 23 santa rosa. Around the bay upper 30s reported in mountain view, San