Some breaking news. Retired nfl players accusing the league now of illegally giving them painkillers and other drugs to numb their injuries. Kpix 5s Dennis Odonnell spoke with one of the players who says the nfl needs to change. Reporter frank, we saw this happening at 9 00 this morning when the suit was filed. Jeremy newberry played almost 200 games in his nfl career. He took tore doll insections for the majority of those games. Now he is paying the price. He thinks the nfl should too. Im 38 years old and i got 30 kidney function. If my kidneys get any worse, ill be on dialysis or a transplant. Reporter in the suit filed in San Francisco federal court, jeremy newberry, richard dent, jim mcmahon, and others claim that the nfl has intentionally recklessly and negligently developed a culture of drug misuse, substituting Players Health for profit. We have five years of Health Insurance and then youre on your own to deal with these Health Issues that could easily have been prevented if the
Elizabeth. Were just getting word of a new problem on highway 1. The initial reports were coming in both lanes blocked southbound 17 by redwood estates. Sounds like there will likely be slowly. The accident just happened, both lanes reportedly blocked southbound 17 by redwood estates. Four to five cars involved. Outside and heres a live look at the sensors coming through tracy and the Altamont Pass. The stall at north flynn is cleared from the chp reports. We still have that high wind advisory in effect and the commute is really beginning to slow passing 205 on to westbound 580 so the heaviest traffic is from Mountain House in tracy continuing to north flynn. More chp wind advisories still in effect for a number of bridges including the bay bridge for just about all of them this morning especially your east west bridges. So again no delay so far at the toll plaza. Back to you guys. Thank you. Breaking news in san jose where crews are investigating an earlymorning fire. Kpix 5s kiet do
From the citys evergreen area with disturbing Surveillance Footage. Reporter these guys didnt know they were on camera but well get to that in a second. The front of the house shows where the cars were parked. San jose has taken the cars as evidence because this is a crime scene. They say this is arson. I want to show you some of the fire extinguishers on the porch. Thats where the homeowner tried to run out and put this blaze out by himself. The blaze at one point was probably 15 to 20 feet with flames into the air. This could have had a tragic ending. But with the surveillance camera, this just might have a happy ending. We have that video for you now. It shows the arsonist creeping up on the car while trying hide amongst the trees. He is wearing a hoodie, its dark and he thinks nobody can see him but he is on a camera equipped with night vision. The arsonist empties a whole bottle of lighter fluid on the windshield of the homeowners car and uses an aerosol can and lighter to start t
Francisco where southbound 280 will be closed for four days. The chp says prepare for some major delays. And a check of your kcbs traffic. We are scanning twitter now for the latest traffic hot spots and theres one growing at the bay bridge. They just cleared a stall. You can see the latest tweet from kcbs traffic. They cleared a stall on the incline and now traffic is 10 to 15 minutes to get on the span. All lanes are now open. We have a gravel spill cracked windshield alert here southbound 680 approaching andrade road. Its going to take nearly 45 minutes from now just to get caltrans sweeper crews out there so we are already seeing delays growing out of pleasanton. So a heads up if you commute that every day. We are seeing some big delays, gravel and dirt in the roadway. Gravel trucks spilled it earlier. Westbound 580 through the Altamont Pass and dublin interchange sluggish slow and go the drive time up to 4 minutes to 680. That is your latest kcbs traffic. Very gray skies in the Tr
A and, you know, iran obviously should consider the fact that if it is if its view of the region is solely through sectarian frames, in cofind themselves fighting in a whole lot of places, and thats probably not good for the iranian economy or people over the long term either. I suspect there are folks in iran who recognize that. You know, a, an iraq in chaos on their borders is probably not in their interest, but old habits die hard and well have to see whether they can take what i think would be a more promising path over the next several days. All right . Thank you very much, everybody. Unity, do they have the president ended up taking a wide range of questions. He has taken us over the hour, 11 00 a. M. On the west coast, 2 00. On the east coast. A civil war in iraq, iraq he put it at one point hangs in the balance. A point of clarification here, he kept referring to the terrorist group isil. Weve been calling the same group isis. Its all the same. This group highly armed, highly m