second individual that's out there. please understand, that we're not going to stop. a huge step tonight in the investigation into the vicious beating of a san francisco giant's fan. los angeles police arrest a suspect and are now working to track down at least one more. good evening everyone i'm heather holmes. >> and i'm ken wayne. there are major new develop developments in in the bryan

stow case. police have reported what they are calling the aggressor in the giant's fan bryan stow attack. >> reporter: bryan stow remains in critical condition. his family got one bit of good news today, that one of the alleged attackers is now behind bars. >> the los angeles police department has arrested a suspect in the senseless and brutal attack that occurred here at dodger stadium on opening day. >> reporter: police announced the arrest of giovanni ramirez. >> he said that we had bryan's assault suspect in custody. >> reporter: sources say ramirez has at least three

prior convictions for robbery, attempted robbery. witnesses identified him from a line up and police say that he is main aggressor. police also say he has fresh tattoos that would cover identifying tattoos. after today's game against the a's two giants players said their fan bryan stow is never far from their minds. >> all our thoughts and prayers are with bryan. that's good to hear, it's good to hear they found some of the people who are responsible because it's definitely you know the last thing we ever want out here, fan violence. >> we don't want anybody to get hurt. >> reporter: the key tip in this case came from ramirez parol agent who noticed he

resembled one of the suspects sketches. john sasaki. fans at today's giants fan say they too were glad to hear of the arrest. saying that it will hopefully close a dark chapter for the the stadium. people in southern california are rooting for stow's recovery. >> we're doing fundraisers trying to raise support for this kid's family. it is awful. i hope it never happens again. >> everybody is very hopeful for a good successful recovery for him. >> baseball is supposed to be fun, a family thing, you should never worry about getting beat up and ending up in a hospital after the game. stow's family and friends also shared their joy after today's developments. we spoke to stow's mother anne by phone after the announcement. she says the family is incredibly relieved that one

suspect is now behind bars. stow's fellow santa clara county paramedics also said they are thrilled at this arrest. >> it's wrong, it was wrong for those guys to do that. justice definitely needs to be served, and it's going to happen. definitely happy about that? -z after hearing the news, family and friends visited him at the hospital where he remains in critical condition. family members thank supporters and say quote we would always like to thank lapd for all their hard work on this case. we are overwhelmed with many emotions today. a little later on in this newscast we will get a report from l.a. with more on this suspect arrested. giovanni ramirez. you will hear from his neighbors including some that witnessed the s.w.a.t. team raid this morning. contra costa county investigators are trying to fine out what happened to a 4

-month-old child. no one seems to imagine how she vanished from her bassinet. >> take a look at this 4 -month-old child, her name is ramey gallegos. police say someone came in her parents home and abducted her. >> the baby was next to her mom's bed in a bassinett. mom woke up at 4:00 a.m. and the baby was gone, the back door was open. >> reporter: police would not say if the door was open. officers say it's suspicious. >> we don't have any indication that there was a family dispute or abduction at all. the thing that is suspicious is the child doesn't have the ability to disappear on her own. >> reporter: deputies took little ramey's parents into custody which is procedure. >> i feel like i'm in a bad

dream. i just could not imagine waking up to nurse my baby and, not being there. >> reporter: so once again little ramey is 4 months old, blue eyes, she was last seen wearing a one piece zip up pajamas. we also told there are three other young children in the home but were unharmed. if you know anything about this case, you are asked to call police. stockton police tonight say the couple who reported two young children kidnapped yesterday made up the entire story to try to get authorities to respond quickly after their car was stolen. police say raquel moore told police her two kids were missing. moore told the lie in an effort to get police to search more

intensely for the stolen car. >> he felt the police would come out quicker if he said the kids were in the car. san francisco honored harvey milk day by celebrating for what he stood. the lesbian and gay freedom band played. he became the first openly gay man to serve in california. stewart milk spoke today about how proud his famous uncle would be about the progress that was made. >> harvey milk was connected to many issues of social justice. whether it would be the homeless or disabled or elderly or labor, that is one of part

of his character that i would not like to see diminish. >> reporter: supervisor milk and then san francisco mayor george masconi were assassinated inside city hall by dan white in 1978. today would have been milk's 81st birthday. today also marks the 30th anniversary of the first aids case reported in san francisco. to reflect on the occasion, a giant red ribbon was put atop san francisco's twin peak. it will remain there until june 19th. 20,000 san franciscans have died of aids. the worse of the destruction was in joplin missouri. st.john's medical center took a direct hit from a tornado just after 6:00 p.m. the hospital is evacuating about 100 patients. the roofs of two fire stations

collapsed. a county manager says 200 people are confirmed dead. the city is almost unrecognizable. this is the aftermath of a tornado that hit minneapolis today. the storm tore up restaurants, gas stations and homes. and this is what a town looked like after a deadly tornado. forecasters said the system that struck minnesota was separate from the storm that struck eastern kansas. tonight inmates in louisiana are helping sandbag to keep their prison from flooding. waters in angola are running so high. take a look at these pictures, they are close to reaching power lines. an outer levee breeched at the

louisiana state penitentiary. with that about 2,000 inmates were put to work to make sure the prison stays intact. the river is now expected to crest on tuesday. one in and one out in the race for the presidential nomination. mitch daniel sent an e-mail to his supporters telling them that after long consideration he would not run for the 2012 nomination. it's believed he decided not to run due to opposition from his wife and two grown daughters who did not want to face the scrutiny of a race. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty says he is in. in this video the republican announced his candidacy run this evening.

a blustery day made its mark in san francisco where one tree could no longer bend with the wind. new information tonight about what might have caused an explosion at an east bay apartment building. plus we're live in san jose where the canucks ar our planes start flying when it's dark. and they don't stop flying until it's dark again. flying all day, every day. you deserve our best. that's why there's so many flight options. [ webber ] southwest airlines has seven daily nonstop flights

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area this afternoon were apparently too much for this tree in the richmond district. the large tree toppled on to a pickup truck between california and clemente streets. a neighbor said it all happened very fast. >> this tree was going back and forth. and i was talking with my wife actually, this tree is going to go. and yeah it went. it was one of those thing that is were unexpected. >> pg & e sent out crews to make sure none of their transmission lines were affected. a man killed himself using a toxic gas at a hotel in san ramon. the man was found dead at 4:00 this afternoon. firefighters gave the all clear

at about 9:15 this evening. hazmat teams are still trying to determine what inhalant the man used. three people were burned in an explosion at a livermore apartment building. >> she came running out, made her way to the grass. >> it just seemed like a loud bang, like a stick of dynamite went off or something. >> reporter: there was an explosion in one of the first floor apartments in this come lek. c o mplex. it was so powerful that it caused part of the back porch to explode. >> there were two guys sitting new mexico back. their skin was coming off, and

one had his hand blown off. the girl was just sitting here with her clothes blown off. investigators spent the day looking for clues of what happened. >> reporter: you don't have an explosion short of a gas leak. >> i would always smell marijuana coming up from the windows and i did smell a weird odor and my son heard some clanking noise. >> police would like to talk to the suspects to talk about what happened here. reporting from livermore, janine de la vega. antioch police arrested two

suspects in a string of thefts. 33-year-old kenneth hobbs was arrested yesterday along with rachael byrnes. police have identified a man and a woman killed in separate shootings in oakland over the weekend. 22-year-old bianca august was sitting in this car on high street near carington street when police say a suspect fired several shots. someone drove august to highland hospital where she was pronounced dead. 24-year-old timothy barnes was found shot to death on the sidewalk on 90th avenue near hillside street. four young men were seen running from the area around 11:00 p.m.. no arrests have been made in either case. the shooting happened in the baby district about 12:30 this morning. the victim was sitting in car

near third street when three men approached him. one showed a gun and demanded the laptop. when the victim struggled he was shot in the neck. the three men escaped, officers say the victim was hospitalized with life threatening injuries. san jose police are searching for the owner of a horse they say they had to shoot and kill after it ran through a glass door front. the horse was running down white road last night when it smashed through the window at this western wear store. it's boarded up now as you can see. the horse tried to back out of the broken glass but apparently was unable to escape. the horse was pleading from multiple cuts. millvalely police remain on the look out for an armed robber who held up a gold trading business. a man robbed pacific precious metals on miller avenue yesterday morning. witnesses say the robber was wearing black clothing along

with the mask and surgical gloves. he got away with more than $10,000. san francisco police are searching if drugs or alcohol played a role in a fatal motorcycle crash. at about 1:40 this morning a motorcyclists struck a median on juda street near 39th avenue. he flipped over and wound up under a parked car. he was pronounced dead at the scene. no one else was hurt. dui checkpoints could be restricted. santa rosa congressman michael adams says some police are using the checkpoints to wrack up inpoundment fees. assemblyman alan says the check points target unlicensed illegal immigrants who lose their vehicles everybody if

they are not driving under the influence. it's do or die time for the sharks. the men in teal must win every remaining game against the vancouver canucks if they hope to advance to the finals. debra villalon is live where canuck fans are going canuts. >> the celebration belongs to visiting vancouver. >> reporter: canucks

pakistan militants are battling army and navy commandos after storming a naval base. at least four pakistani sailors are dead tonight and others injured in fighting that has been going on for hours. the militants have captured one building, and there might be hostages inside. the pakistani taliban had pledged to attack government and military installations aft u.s. forces killed osama bin laden earlier this month. in baghdad, two american service members were among 20 people killed today in a series of attacks. at least 80 people were injured, including 3 u.s. soldiers. in all, there were 17 attacks today. a spectacular sight in

iceland. today was the second day of eruptions from the nation's most active volcano. four international airports were all closed to most flights today as this volcano sent ash some 12 miles up. last april a different iceland volcano erupted for weeks, grounding planes in several european countries. some trouble for a couple of spacewalking astronauts today 240 miles above earth. one lost a bolt and got a washabler stuck in a crevice. the spacewalk went 90 minutes longer than planned, to for a total of 8 hours and 7 minutes. today's was the second of four planned for endeavors final flight.

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we learned tonight that a tip from a parole agent led los angeles police to one of two men wanted in connection with the brutal beating of san francisco giants fan brian stow. kristina gonzales went to the east hollywood apartment building where early this morning that suspect was arrested. >> reporter: we are actually about three miles, that's it, away from dodgers stadium, but it is in that building that police say they got one of their men. l.a.p.d. at the building hours before

their arrest of 31-year-old giovanni ramirez in an early morning raid at apartment 25. >> they told me not even to look at the window. >> reporter: quite a s.w.a.t. entry according to neighbors. >> they say something in spanish and in english, then these two, everybody out from the apartment. >> reporter: no one answering the door, but we knew a group of men had gone in minutes before. investigators are saying -- >> (indiscernible). >> reporter: so this is a vehicle belonging to the family? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: the neighbors were surprised. >> yeah, he's nice. >> nobody suspected it. >> reporter: anyone saying more wants their face off- camera. >> that some guys might come in. >> you see guys dressed up with

the t-shirt and stuff. >> shaven heads is stuff. >> it was scary to actually think that they could be like -- >> reporter: your neighbors? >> yeah. >> reporter: be are learning that the suspect has at least three priors, and they are looking for other suspects. >> more than 200 billboards went up in the l.a. area with sketches of the suspects as police looked for leads in the march 31st attack. at least check, the award fund in the case stood at more than $200,000. no word on the impact today's arrest will have on that money. we have continuing coverage on the arrest in the brian stow case. you'll find this afternoon's press conference from los angeles by clicking on the brian stow tab on ktvu.com. >> there is a push in washington d.c. for more offshore oil drilling a year after the massive spill in the

gulf of mexico. john fowler investigate understood bay area research suggest something big oil spills may not be so bad after all. >> reporter: the deep water horizon blowout, the biggest oil catastrophe every. but we are seeing is evidence that we may have reacted. >> there won't be as much to worry about and as much groom and doom as we saw in the media -- gloom and doom as we saw in the media from this oil and i. >> reporter: this sample came directly from the blown out well. he said when the oil gushed out, much of it simply disappeared. >> it's bio degradable, naturally. >> reporter: they searched the gulf top to bottom looking for signs of oil. >> we can't find any oil at all. we can't detect it.

>> reporter: in his laboratory, new strains of oil consuming bacteria are more efficient than any predicted. bp partly paid for the research, but he initself is it had no input on his work. other studies so that the spilled gulf oil may be no problem in as little as two years. >> they will use that type of science to justify their reckless per suit of oil anywhere on the plan it. >> reporter: lawmakers and the obama things are pushing for more offshore drilling. >> the gulf of mexico has not heal. >> reporter: others point to more death of wildlife, although there hasn't been a tie yet to the oil spill.

>> there isn't evidence yet, but the bodies keep floating in. drilling on the east coast might be much more risky than drilling in deep water than in the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: but natural seats in the santa barbara channel are protected. >> but the rest of the west coast has relatively few natural seeps. >> reporter: he said lack of microbes helped make the exxon value keys spoil so -- valdez and i so devastating. >> the more that we try and engineer our way out of these problems, the more trouble we're going to get in. >> reporter: hazen's most controversial position, once the and i is contained? >> the best thing to do, quite often, is nothing at all. >> reporter: hazen and

environmentalists do agree that the ocean's resilience is limited, and we need to views the damage we do. >> you'll find john fowlers story along with other ktvu special reports by going to ktvu.com, going to the news tab, and click on special reports from the menu. >> well, according to the lundberg survey, the new national average on a spruce for a gallon of gas fell to $3.91 a gallon. but the bay area, a gallon of gas costs an average of $4.21. a suicide prevention hotline it was dedicated in straighten today as a location steeped in gay and lesbian history. the building which once held harvey milks camera store is

now home to the trevor project. the screenwriter for milk, the movie that portrayed his life, said the project will be part of one of milks great causes, saying you have to give them hope. >> we have to have a safety net for noesi who aren't in places where they have -- for those who aren't in places where they have someone to turn to. well, all it took was two minutes, the mistakes that may

we had some gusties earlier this afternoon. you can see the storms moving to the east. they should remain out of our forecast picture overnight. right now we do have mostly clear skies and the wind check in the middle of bay gusting at 20 miles per hour. the most recent gusts of up to 44 miles per hour. here's a look at the over all story for tonight, we have scattered clouds, gusty winds. the sun cloud mix and we have another fairly good rain chance showing up on the weather charts. you will see that the chance

showing up at least in the five day. this weather system will pretty much cast our system for tomorrow. and as a result we will hold on to the partly cloudy forecast in the 50s and 70s. this is when things become interesting as we head into wednesday. this system pretty strong for this time of year. still we will be tracking light shower activity. at least for tomorrow morning we have cloud cover to contend with at 8:00 and the clouds favor in the coast. parts of the south bay, we could have a few patches scattered. clouds beginning to back up in coverage. with that we will have partly

cloudy skies into the afternoon hours. wind speeds do crank up once again. here's our wind, 5:00 30 miles per hour. 7:00 tomorrow morning. areas of fog upper 40s to lower 50s. by 12:00, 55, sun-cloud mix. these numbers really not a big change from today. right around the coast mainly in the upper 50s to the lower 60s. here is a look ahead and with your five day forecast and patchy morning fog. we start out tuesday with partly cloudy skies. there's the chance of a shower. then we're looking ahead at least toward a part of the holiday weekend. no major heat ups in sight. the sun-cloud mix and temperatures in the upper 60s.

i thought we were over with the rain last week but the rain season wants to continue. >> showers not a big deal. >> at least it gives me something to talk about. >> thank you, mark. >> sure. coming u up next the sharks not only

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good evening everyone. welcome to this late sunday night edition of sports wrap. they are one game away from elimination because they couldn't do one part of the game against vancouver and the

canucks could. a little play back by kevin bowar appreciated by the vancouver fans. things totally came apart from the sharks. tori mitchell called on hooking. they quickly convert. and kessler drills the shot past niemi. san jose called for too many men on the ice. canucks score again on the three. 2-0 vancouver. after delay of game penalty. the canucks score again. and canucks score 3-2 man advantage goals in a span of 1:55. that's never happened in stanley play off history. it's sadin again to alex. he buries the goal and can't

help but smile about it. mark edward blasic fires from the point. the canucks also disturbed -- also dished out punishment. it is elimination time for the sharks when they head back to vancouver on tuesday night for game five. four will have two the final as the canucks go up 3-1 in the series. fred inglis has more on how the canucks cashed in on their chances while the sharks did not. >> sharks were on the wrong side of history today as vancouver who scored just one five on three goal all year scored three one in five three goals. after scoring five goals in the first five opportunities in this series, they came out blank today. >> how much did the momentum change by going 0-5 in those

power plays. >> it's frustrating. the momentum shouldn't change. but we were skating well at times and we were playing their end and we got to bury one of them. >> we didn't score. that's it. sure you guys are asking me why the puck was so hot. it was just gone. we didn't score. bottom line that's it. >> maybe if we play with our back against the wall last game, seemed like we played well. if we can just play desperate hockey, we have to go after it. we have one in vancouver so we have to play a good game there and take it back here. and sort of like detroit the last series. >> effort and skiing aside, do you have the talent to win the next three games? >> we're going to find out. >> nearly 5, 5,000canucks made the trip to this game and got rewarded. sharks fans not expected to

match that number up in vancouver, they will question in captain joe thornton. he left the game with an injury. he's questionable for game five. fred inglis. it's happened to often that we almost expect it. the giants pulling out a win. san francisco after a sweep of the a's in this latest edition of the bay bridge series. today they did so against gio gonzalez when freddy sanchez sent a shot down the left line. running from fourth josh willingham. tori just beat it is throw. jonathan sanchez working with a 2-0 lead in the sixth. gets the defensive gym from tejada who gets a hit to take away from conner jackson. the a's got it going. you can't get robbed if you hit

the ball over the fence. that's what willingham does trimming the giants. and in the seventh and the a's like that change with cliff pentington at second. coco crisp drives one down the line. a double for crisp, it's 2-2. the a's then took the lead. barton slaps one the other way. here comes chris but he slides across the plate. that's when nate shoreholtz scores again. launches one high to deep right. two run homer ties the game. stays that way until the 11th. then with the speedy at second, emmanuel burress left. the giants complete the sweep they've won five in a row. nine straight at home against the a's. they take this one 5-4 in 11

since his diving catch in l.a., shurholtz has been right in the middle of the action. typical of how the a's get contributions from up and down the line up. >> it's a lot of fun. a couple of big hits in the end by two guys who don't get a lot of at-bats so huge, huge win. >> they won the game. we're saying this every night. there's been some great games there. tight ones that we know could go either way. but i mean to have this many consecutive games here at home, it's pretty amazing. it's way too early to do much scoreboard watching but this was a good weekend for the giants in the standings. the giants led milwaukee. a two run triple, plus the error counted for all of

milwaukees runs. the first series between the cubs and red sox since 1918 is over. gerald sotolamacia with a homer over the green monster. red sox takes two out of three from the cubs. the edge in the nba's eastern conference final series now belongs to the miami heat. chris bosh the decided number three of miami's big three has the biggest night. bosh with a spin and a jam. the heat just a step ahead of the bulls throughout. never forget miami has a guy named lebron james. korver does his best to try to slow james down but becomes road kill. players not named james wade to bosh. only contributed 23 points but

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80 miles stood behind cyclist horner in the tour of california. horner signing photographs. fred white had the lead, the stage was born by matthew goss. horner maintained his 32nd lead at 39. he's the oldest rider to complete the tour in his sixth year. and obviously the oldest to win

it. something had to give at the colonial win. we begin tonight with wi putting. toms who lost last week and shot a 74 yesterday hit a 180 today. the ball hits the string and rolls right back in for an eagle. toms played his best down the stretch. he parred out at 18. he had a one stroke win that denied wi but earned tom his first win since january of 2006. when your track record expects six national championships, you're expected

to win. the cal the winner, the numbers tell the story of cal's dominance. 26 national championships now. 19 of the last 21 and 26 championships in 31 years of competition. the hottest player in tennis this year, yokevich seated second doesn't play until tomorrow. none of the top seeds in action today. this is joe wilfred zanga. he can celebrate. that will do it for this week's sports wrap. have a good week everybody.

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