Narrator the news that day would start a chain of events that would threaten to forever change the way americans see the game of football. It is hard to find a former pro Football Player whose body hasnt paid a very high price. Narrator mike websters body was delivered to the Allegheny County coroners office. Webster ends up in the autopsy room. And the pathologist whos on call that day is this guy, bennet omalu. Omalu parked his car and walked into the office and he said, whats going on . And one of his colleagues said, its mike webster. Hes up in the autopsy room. And omalus response was, whos mike webster . And everybody looked at me like, where is he from, is he from outer space . Who is this guy who doesnt know mike webster in pittsburgh . Hes a nigerianborn, incredibly welleducated guy, but he doesnt know anything about football. Narrator a doctor, omalu was also a trained neuropathologist. From the beginning of the autopsy, dr. Omalu could see the effects of 17 years in the foot
The abnormalities. Narrator a decadeslong battle between scientists, players and the nations most powerful sports league. You cant go against the nfl. They will squash you. Narrator next, league of denial the nfls concussion crisis. Im really wondering if every single Football Player doesnt have this. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by tfrontline Journalism Fund with a grant from and scott nathan and laura debonis. horns blowing erenberg touchdown listen to this crowd, theyre on fire the steelers have their key receivers in. Stallworth on the left, 82, swann
The abnormalities. Narrator a decadeslong battle between scientists, players and the nations most powerful sports league. You cant go against the nfl. They will squash you. Narrator next, league of denial the nfls concussion crisis. Im really wondering if every single Football Player doesnt have this. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by tfrontline Journalism Fund with a grant from and scott nathan and laura debonis. horns blowing erenberg touchdown listen to this crowd, theyre on fire the steelers have their key receivers in. Stallworth on the left, 82, swann
Park. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Catherine we begin with developing news tonight in the eastfire crews are on the scene. After a smoke was seen pouring out from under a bart train at the orinda bart station. Catherine the train was evacuated. And the platform closed. Kron 4s scott rates is live at the bart station in orinda. Scott what can you tell us . Reporter this scared a lot of people. People were looking and you see this picture with people on twitter sending info goes with this one showing smoke coming from three different areas. It appears to be fire coming from that area. It looks like theres fire. It appears to be electrical nature and the source of the smoke were semiconductor box and bart riders cannot get on the train or off the train. The trains were moving through and to evacuate everyone from the train you see the response from First Responders with police and ambulances. For a while no one knew what was going on. They have
Back wed like to see photos. Send them using hash tag fox 29 back to school. We will show them throughout the show. Meanwhile we have a lot of news to cover, reporters covering big stories, dawn timmeney live outside Helium Comedy Club in center city where late comedian joan rivers performed. She will talk about her death, of course, and steve keeley in Burlington County where annex eagle is due in court today, but first we will head over to caitlin roth with your weather on the ones. We have a lot of fog behind keeley. We have live pictures in mount holly area, there is some dense fog out there. It is in pockets but it does include the airport. This is near rancocas park, i believe, is that right, camille . Rancocas road, that is right rancocas road in mount holly, dense fog. You can see halo around streetlight and headlights, that is all you can see visibility less than a half a mile in spots and that includes here in philadelphia live shot at the airport right behind us. Planes gett