good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm carolyn tyler. a regard has been offered in los angeles to try to identify two dodger fans that severely beat a bay area giants' fan at thursday's seasonal opener in l.a. the victim is paramedic from santa cruz. he remained hospitalized in los angeles in critical condition. his name is brian stowe and he is in a medically induced coma. david louie spoke with family members that can't believe it could es kliat into violence. >> i pray every minute of every day they find the cowards that did this. >> jesse cares deeply about her former husband, brian stowe. had he remain good friends and they share custody of two children. 12-year-old tyler and an

8-year-old. >> each of them break down at different times. biggest fear says the father won't remember them. and if the unthinkable happens, they both want to see him. >> los angeles police are investigating why the two suspects between 18 and 25 years old attacked him from behind. he fell to the ground and was hit repeatedly in the head and body. stowe is in an induced coma. other giants' fans say the mood at dodger stadium disturbs them. >> it's how some people behave. we've been doing this for four seasons now and this season, it takes a lot out of you. people don't have no sportsmanship at all. >> stowe was a paramedic and he avoids confrontation and he was trying to walk away.

for now the son and daughter are doing their best to keep occupied with everyday activities. >> tabitha has played two softball games and dedicated both games to her dad. tyler tries to stay busy. >> the family hopes the suspects will be identified and arrested. they also wait for hopeful news about his condition. >> i believe firmly he knows he got into trouble and he needs to be a father to them. >> reporter: police in los angeles a surveillance tape hasn't produced any leads but there were potential witnesses as fans left the game. they have put up a $10,000 reward for information. back here in the bay area, a fund has been set up to help pay for his medical bills. those details are on our website at abc7news.com. click on see it on tv.

southwest airlines citizen it will cancel another 300 flights all over the country today. 79 of the aircraft remain out of service for inspections, so far oakland has cancelled about dozen flights. sfo at least one cancellation. san jose has cancelled five flights. the airline advises passengers to check southwest.com for specific flight changes. as know this is all due to friday's emergency over arizona where a flight developed a huge tear in the fuselage. the oxygen masks dropped down. two people suffered minor injuries before the plane made an emergency landing. now nstb inspectors are outlying the black boxes back to washington to see what caused this incident. just minutes ago the n.t.s.b. gave us this update. >> we have clear evidence that

the skin speculated at the lower rivet line. a preliminary on-site examination shows preexisting fatigue along the fracture surface. this is term known in the industry as multisite damage. >> the n.t.s.b. says it will cut a section of the plane's skin to ship to washington for a detailed analysis. the inspection of airlines is expected to take a few days. this morning, a berkeley police officer's decision to shoot and kill a pit bull is being reviewed by the department. dog owner's says it was unnecessary force. he shot the dog point blank in the head after police raided his home yesterday evening. berkeley police say several

officers went to the house after a report of gun shows. they say when officers entered his property with guns drawn, he left he let them know he had a pit bull that was friendly. when he was only shooting an air pistol and the officers were light-hearted over the pellet gun. >> everything was okay. he was laughing at the window. don't worry about it. three people told him the dog is friendly and he shot him. >> the police officer says he shot the dog and growling and moving towards him. the department says it's an unfortunate situation where we have to be careful. starting tomorrow the chp and 225 california police agencies will launch a month

long crackdown on distracted drivers. they will be increasing patrols looking for drivers who ignore the ban on hand-held phone calls and text messaging. more than 350,000 california drivers have been ticketed since the cell ban took effect in july 2008. 600 more have been cited for texting ban. epselon a company that manages e-mail to tivo, banks and supermarket chain reports a security breach that has expose customers' names and e-mails addresses. online notices are online for tivo customers. while names and e-mail addresses have been compromised all the companies say no other personal information is at risk. epselon does does not have access to credit card numbers.

the company handles 40 billion e-mails annually. >> japanese officials struggle to seal a crack in a badly damaged nuclear plant as contaminated water continues to flow into the ocean. >> and find out how the oakland a's are trying to help earthquake and tsunami victims at today's game against the at today's game against the mariners. mmm. ahh. yeah. bacon.

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no pain. nmess. no surprise here, president obama wants another four years in os. he is expected to officially announce his intention to run for reelection as early as tomorrow and he reportedly will make the announcement in a video message. he is setting pretty lofty goals. they hope to raise one billion dollars. 2008 he raised $750 million. >> it could take months to get under control the crisis at n japan. they say it's going to take some time to repair all the damage from the march 11th earthquake and tsunami. yesterday, engineers tried to seal a crack that has been leaking of water on a pacific

ocean. a concrete mixture failed so they are injecting a mixture and special expanding polymer. so far the crack still leaks but they are given tomorrow to fully set. they announced two workers died at the plant when the tsunami initially hit. that information was withheld until the families were notified. >> the oakland a's are donating a dollar from every ticket sold to the red cross to raise money for japan's disaster victims. two of japan's biggest stars will be on the field. hideki matsui and mariners ichero suzuki. they have created a t-shirt that will be given out to the first 10,000 fans. uniforms that suzukiwore will be auctioned off.

>> matsui has donated more than $600,000 of his own money and that will certainly help. kristine hanson is here with a preview of cooler accu-weather forecast. >> running 1-8 degrees cooler but. here is a live picture in hd from our mount sutro tower camera. here at gold bridge, blue skies, a lot of different colors of blues in that picture. we're talking about a little bit of a warmup. complete forecast coming up. >> also coming up. opening night of charlie sheen's torpedo of truth tour bombs with many fans. [ male announcer ] dandruff, meet micro-beads. any last wishes? new selsun blue deep cleansing micro-bead scrub goes to the source wiping out flakes before they flake. new selsun blue deep cleansing.

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charlie sheen may want on revamp his show before it hits the bay area. he was boo'd and yelled at fans by disappointed fans in detroit in the first leg of his four. the former cast of "two and a half men" took the stage. he was greeted by fans. but before the concert was over they were chanting for a refund. >> the guy that opened for him was absolutely horrible. he got boo'd off the stage. >> everybody wanted out. there was more people smoking. it was really boring. he is losing! >> more of his chloral rants

about cbs and warner brothers. an apologetic sheen thanked the few that stayed on after the show. >> i didn't know about the opening scene with them. that was interesting. >> what about the weather show? >> the weather show, we're going outside, this is from mount tam looking across towards the bay bridge. some are hazy and look at the trees in the foreground. you can see are blowing and we have swings, 15-25 miles an hour farther inland and along the coast. we will expect breezy conditions. our temperatures this morning are running cooler this morning than yesterday. that is because we don't have

the cloud cover. we do have what was left behind but the cloud cover brought yesterday morning. 45 in san rafael. 53 degrees in antioch. 50 in napa and 39 degrees it started this morning. santa rosa, 55. mountain view, 54. 54 in san jose. so cool, breezy this morning but by this afternoon, we'll see our temperatures come up a few degrees we have daytime highs because we did have the cloud cover but picking up lost ground from cooler night lows. cooler temperatures, return to rain and snow return to the area yesterday we only a trace of rain from that system.

it's still moving through the southern half of the southern california. then we're starting to see this build in. the high pressure associated cloud cover behind it will move to the noutdz north of us into the pacific northwest and way out in the pacific. look at all that cold air that is moving our way by mid-week. our forecast for this sunday is pretty nice. mostly sunny. a few high clouds. daytime highs in the upper 60s. low 70s. coast temperatures will be in the upper 50s. san mateo a high of 65. no flight delays and san francisco airport due to weather 64 downtown san francisco. north bay temperatures, just a little bit warmer. we get a light offshore wind, 72 in santa rosa. napa valley coming in at 72. 67 in hayward. east bay locations will also be in the upper 60s and low 70s. monterey bay, 65.

66 in santa cruz. 72 degrees. warmer monday, tuesday cooling off and clouds come in. rain will return and winter that won't let go. we recently aired a report about a san francisco man that raised some eyebrows. michael finney is clarifying the story and putting it in proper context. >> our report focused on concerns on the death of his brother. born just 13 months apart they had been inseparable. >> we do everything together. we're very close. i didn't expect this at all. >> the family decided to keep the arrangement simple and have

the mortuary take care of things. here is the price list called for by federal trade commission regulations. there at the bottom that was chosen. direct cremation, no services, no ceremony. without a viewing. $1,220. >> the family originally came in and opted for the simplest direct cremation or preparation or viewing or really anything. >> later the family decided to add a short viewing and that is where hurt feelings came in. they charged $200 for the family to say goodbye. look at the price list. the charge is listed right there with brief 30-minute family only viewing in chapel, $1,420. $1200 more. however, our report left the impression they didn't do much

for the money. that it was almost a ransom. >> this $200 fee was painted as if, if the family wanted to see their loved one it's going to cost you $200. that is not it at all. >> the son of the founder, a family business, he has been providing services at this daly city location for decades. money he says is not the focus here. >> the money thing really bothered us because we're not that way. we don't emphasize that. >> and in fact, there was much month to do before the viewing the room was set aside. staff assigned. there had been an autopsy. so the remains were not in pristine shape. there was work to do to make things presentable. >> we put a great emphasis on the final viewing. we wanted to be a very positive,

beautiful experience. it's the last time they say goodbye and they will live with that memory for the rest of their lives. >> the earlier story said other providers don't charge for viewing the had but that depends on the provider and the services requested. family should check the price list carefully before select the services they want and ask questions if they are not sure what is covered. >> that really is the key. ask questions and make sure you understand the answers. >> still ahead, find out why, klepto cat will be wearing a prison uniform today.y.y.y.y.y..

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same exact medicine, same full prescription strength. allegra. now without a prescription. the bay area's infamous klepto kitty is going to perform community service. he became and the internet sensation after being caught on camera. he was featured on animal planet and then on our newscast becoming a world wide sensation. dusty returns home with just about anything that isn't nailed down. today he is going to go down the i'll of the animal fashion show to help raise money to help raise money for neglected. he will be wearing, what else, a prison uniform. dusty was adopted five years from a local humane society shelter. people can't get enough of this story. >> it is so much fun.

i'm sure they have to be entertaining movie offers. >> its cute story. >> it's captured the attention of everybody. great day for dusty to be doing his deeds today for the animal fashion show. temperatures start in the 40s and it was chilly but look what we have for next seven days, cooler weather next week. >> that is going to do it for us. thank you for joining us. we're off earlier because n.b.a. basketball. i'm carolyn tyler along with kristine hanson. have a good sunday everyone.