>> cried. the baby was dead. >> this is one of the worst accidents we've seen in a long time. >> reporter: police are investigating whether the driver may have been under the influence. they're analyzing skid marks and other evidence to figure out how fast he was going. >> if the vehicle was speeding, it's such a reckless act. >> reporter: police tell us the man behind the wheel suffered major injuries. the woman in the passenger seat suffered life threatening injuries. she was rushed into surgery, according to police. the toddler did not survive. cara liu, ktvu channel 2 news. >> the speed limit along there is 35 miles an hour. you talked to a witness who saw the car before the accident. what was her estimate about how fast that car was going? >> reporter: she told us this car looked like it was going 100 miles per hour. now while that may have been a very rough estimate, certainly

speaks to how fast this car may have been traveling. police will be out here a couple of hours while this investigation continues. >> all right. cara liu live tonight, thank you. things did not go as planned for a former east bay high school football coach facing 16 felony child molestation charges. one woman who said she was sexually abused by barren edwards told our patti lee what happened. >> reporter: that arraignment has been postponed. alleged victims are coming forward. mother and daughter were living here on this hayward street when they were introduced to edwards. porsche fowler was 9 when she

says barren edwards started molesting her. fouler recalls edwards assaulting her at least 6 times between 1998 and 2001. most incidents took place at edwards' home. >> he had other children as well that lived with him. he would ask if my daughter could spend the night. we didn't think anything of it. >> reporter: when porsche turned 12 she told her mother he had molested her. >> it's like they didn't believe us. >> reporter: bell says 12 years ago police told her there wasn't enough evidence to file charges against edwards, who at time was a respected high school coach and musician. today porsche fowler tells us she feels vindicated.

i was able to find the police report portia filed all those years ago. it was back in october of 2001. it turns out it was in the hands of two different police stations. where its filed and then hercules. at this point police aren't talking about how they handled the case more than a decade ago. they are asking more victims to come forward with their stories. reporting live, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. the alameda sheriff's department has issued a silver alert. she has early on set alzheimer's. she was last seen yesterday morning leaving her home. police say she was driving a white 2003 four did door toyota cam rita williams.

, oakland police are investigating a shooting and crash that left one man dead. someone drove up alongside a van and fired multiple shots last night. the van crashed near matt duction driver. the driver was killed. a woman was sevel times. power has been restored. one neighbor who didn't want to be identified said he heard the crash. >> very loud. it sounded like a bomb. and all the lights went out. it happened really, really quick. then after that i came over and just saw the vehicle with the person that it seemed like passed away. >> >> no arrests have been made. police do not know a motive for the shooting. oakland city workers are gathered saying they are willing to go on strike.

jana katsuyama live. >> reporter: this is all happening right now. you see behind me they have a table set up in front of city hall. they have gathered blocking the front entrance to city hall. these are workers withs seiu. they say the city is not treating them fairly. >> over the period of time the dollar of the city employee as a whole is 25% less. >> reporter: the unions say those past concessions including waiving a cost of living wage. the two unions represent more than 3000 employees with the street, public works and parks

departments. they say the city has projected revenues coming in. some city officials say restoring concessions should be enough. >> the mayor's budget, she is stopping all the concessions. which means a 9% increase in compensation for all our city employees. that's before we go to the bargaining table. >> reporter: back here live, you can see about 70 union members who are here at this protest rally. the unions say they should be able to invest in the workers here as well as increasing public safety spending to help with that problem in the city. the seiu union representatives tell me they have not held a strike vote since 1946. they plan to do so next week.

the police headquarters in downtown oakland is still closed to the public because of a water leak. police say the leak was discovered about 3:00 this morning on the third floor of the bidding. a department spokesperson says the leak caused significant flooding on the first three floors. oakland police have not said if morrow. lding will a san francisco police officer was injured today in a traffic accident. it happened about 2:00 this afternoon near the corner of 8th and bryant streets. police say a car ran a red light, hitting the officer as he was in his patrol car. his injuries are described as nonlife threatening. new questions about how safe pg&e's gas lines are. an audit found that pg&e failed to spend $50 million it received from rate payers to fix and maintain natural gas

distribution pipes. this took place in the decade leading up to a deadly explosion. the audit was ordered by the california public utilities commission. the company disputes some of the findings. there's a scathing report about san francisco's troubled housing authority tonight. it's from an audit by the board of supervisors. it says poor management has deprived the agency of millions of dollars in lost federal funding. 276 housing units in the city were unused and there's a maintenance backlog of more than 2800 repair requests. happening now, voters are going to the polls in parts of santa clara county to fill the supervisor's seat left vacant following a criminal conviction. the special election aims to replace george jr. he resigned on march 1st after prosecutors filed charges against him for spending more than $130,000 in

public and campaign funds for personal use, including gambling at casinos. he later pleaded guilty. some voters say they are ready for a change. >> i'm hoping there's some new blood coming in that will dig into some of that corruption and see if they can correct it. >> it appears it will be a light turnout. only about 22% of absentee ballots have been returned. polls in district two are open until 8:00 tonight. people in san mateo county are getting notices after two dead birds discovered there tested positive for west nile virus. r birds, humans and animals can become sick if bitten by mosquitoes infected with the

virus. new developments in the huge power house fire burning in southern california. firefighters say moist, cool air has helped them and they have that fire 60% contained. so far the flames have burned more than 50 square miles of land. six homes have be destroyed. nine others damaged since the fire started last thursday in northern los angeles county. evacuation orders for 3000 have been lifted. cal fire has made no prediction about when that fire might be fully contained. long shoremen appear to have solved their dispute. about 100 union members gathered to keep the barge. they say the pacific maritime association no longer considered a barge a vessel and were using nonunion laborers. both sides agreed that local 10 workers would do that work. the union says there are still some outstanding issues and that talks are continuing.

some east palo alto pares protested against the principal of the ron mcnair today. they want her to resign. the assistant principal disputed their claim saying lee has responded to the problem. he says the school has hired full time bathroom monitors. a series of bank robberies in san francisco. new at 5:30, how police are working with the fbi to find the men responsible. it is day two of the unusual two jury gang rape trial. what the victim's father said on the stand. back here at 5:20, speaking about a warmup. temperatures on the increase. it'll get down right hot around here. how hot in your neighborhood? i'll have the specifics. you kids should count yourselves lucky.

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his garage in san francisco's bay view district. it happened just before 5:30 a.m. fire officials say the driver lost control on the hill. no one inside the home was injured. a passenger in the car was taken to the hospital. so far no word on the person's condition or how much damage the accident did. federal prosecutors announced a berkeley resident is one of six people facing an indictment. accused sneaking the parts out of the u.s., putting false labels on shipping boxes and packing the gear to devoid detection. the u.s. attorney's office says there were 240 such shipments. no word if she has entered a plea. san francisco city attorney dennis herrera has filed a lawsuit claiming the company is dodge fees and undercutting competition. the flight business allows

folks to rent their cars instead of paying for airport parking. last year sfo took in more than $94 million from rental companies. chrysler motor corporation is refusing to recall almost 3 million jeeps. federal safety officials asked the company to recall jeep grand cheer keys from 1993 to 2004 and jeep liberties from 2002 and 2007. the national highway traffic safety administration says the fuel tank on the jeeps can fail when hit from behind and that could potentially lead to a fire. but chrysler says the jeep fuel tanks are not any more dangerous than fuel tanks on other models. the next move could be for the government to take chrysler to court. the city of alameda regained control over what used

to be the naval air station. today the city manager signed documents taking back the area that makes up about a third of alameda. it'll be redeveloped with a mix of homes and businesses, expecting to create thousands of jobs. a list for add have cats for the oyster company is growing. the sonoma city council voted to support a resolution. last fall the national park service rejected the oyster farm's request to renew its 40 year lease. drakes bay sued to overturn that decision and is awaiting a ruling. absolutely gut wrenching testimony in the gang rape trial of two men in richmond. we have continuing coverage tonight involving the teenage victim who police say was raped for hours. john sasaki was in court as the father of that young victim took the stand and described what his daughter looked like

afterward. >> reporter: first day of testimony in this unusual double jury trial is over. that father of that gang rape victim was the first to take the stand. a news camera was allowed inside the courtroom for opening statements but not for witness testimony. the victim's father testified about seeing his daughter after she was being wheeled from the scene after this horrible crime. he said her face was distorted, ashen, gray, clammy, she appeared to be on death row. hair was all messed up, lots of vomit in her hair. he described a footprint on the side of her face. the father said it's a horror, it's very scary to see what i did at that point. he talked about the scene that night in oklahoma october of 2009. he said he talked to her while she was being taken to the ambulance. i assured her we loved her and to hold on. this case centers around what who did what in the rape of the

girl. two are on trial. the victim time was raped for hours by as many as 20 people. today's opening statements were for jose monta know. >> i'll tell you the evidence will prove that mr. montano personally committed some of those acts. he personally raped jane doe and he is guilty of doing that in concert with those other people that did those other acts. >> reporter: montano's attorney says he got on top of the victim but did not commit rape. >> what mr. montano did in jumping down and jumping back up and leaving was that good behavior? absolutely not. we don't want anybody doing that. >> reporter: witness testimony continues tomorrow and the victim is expected to take the stand some time this week. new details about last friday's deadly tornado that

touched down near i'll reno, oklahoma. the national weather service announced that the ef5 tornado reached winds of up to 295 miles an hour and that the tornado was the widest in history at 2.6 miles in width. 18 people were killed in that tornado and the flooding that followed. that tornado came just two weeks after another ef5 tornado killed 24 people not far away in moore, oklahoma. here until the bay area bill martin talked about swings the weather was going to take. i hope we've hit a bottom here. >> we did bottom out. temperatures were on the cool side. lots of 60s and 70s. in the fog, this morning it was everywhere. live storm tracker 2. all our friends in san francisco, you're fogged in right now. it's chilly. temperatures in daily city in the 70s. fog out to the ballpark. that moves in tonight.

it's going to be warmer tomorrow. we have strong winds right now. in fairfield the winds are sustained out of the west. that's almost 40 mile-an-hour winds. it's howling out in the delta right now. national weather service has issued a wind advisory tonight. strong winds on the delta. if you're heading that way, you know what i'm talking about. on those bridges, it's moving. winds are going to back off tomorrow and temperatures begin to warm. today we bottomed out. antioch, not reporting right now. fairfield, 73. cooler than it was yesterday. at we look at the forecast, you're looking at low 60s in the berkeley hills. mid60s out towards fremont and hayward. upper 70s with a few low 80s popping up as we head into tomorrow afternoon. that's warmer than it was

today. this is the beginning of a warmup. temperatures are starting to increase. five day forecast. tomorrow you see the warmup. look at thursday. temperatures come up 88 degrees on thursday. friday we're calling it warm to hot. coming up on 98 degrees out in antioch. look at saturday, hottest day of the week. might hit a couple records or so. friday, saturday, sunday, fire danger comes up. here's your five day forecast with your bay area weekend in view. when i come back we'll take a peek at other forecast temperatures for tomorrow. the patients of the boston marathon bombing suspects are speaking out for the first time. >> he was trying to calm down, mama, you don't worry about anything. >> what they revealed about their sons and the audio recordings they shared with reporters. the new evidence that syria's government used

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tonight we are hearing newly publicized audio recordings of one of the boston marathon bombing suspects. the parents of the suspects released a phone conversation they had with their son from prison. they insist their sons are

innocent. tamerlan and dzhokhar are accused of setting off bombs. tamerlan tsarnaev died after a shootout with police. his brother dzhokhar is awaiting trial in massachusetts. his mother says she was surprised by how calm he sounded on the phone. >> i felt like he would scream. what's going on. he would ask what's going on. but no, instead he was calming me down. >> this week the last surviving victim of the boston marathon bombings finally left the hospital. 29-year-old erica brandik lost most of her left leg in the explosion. he is due to appear in court on july 10th. continuing coverage now on the violent crackdown on environmental protesters in turkey. today hundreds of riot police

surrounded the prime minister's office. antigovernment rallies have grown since friday when police launched a predawn raid. a 22-year-old man died during one protest. turkey's deputy prime minister apologized for the government violence. syria is coming under fire tonight as new evidence emerges that the government used nerve gas against its own people. france and britain say they've confirmed the nerve gas was deployed multiple times. they did not clarify weather antigovernment rebels may have used chemical weapons. a un team said it has reasonable grounds to suspect small scale use of toxic chemicals in four attacks this spring. three violent takeover bank robberies. what the fbi told us they all have in common and the warning the issues are issuing to the public. bay area scientists discover that sounds from the

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the public should know these individuals are very well armed and very dangerous. >> a warning from the fbi about these bank robbers and what agents call their unusual tactics. there's been a string of violent bank robberies. the fbi and police are warning the public and turning to them for help. david stevenson with surveillance video that show these crimes as they happen. >> reporter: i talked to fbi agents late this afternoon. they told me this bank that you

see behind me in china town in san francisco is just a block away from a police station. they say it's one of three targeted in a series of recent violent takeover robberies. now the first robbery happened at this wells fargo branch in san francisco on april 19th. the robbers are seen on bank surveillance cameras wearing scarves and baseball caps. police describe them as three black men. you can see one brandishing a gun, another in a bank hallway and another in an aisle inside the bank. the robbers use guns to intimidate employees and customers and jump behind the tellers windows to take money. the same men yesterday robbed two banks in the space of two hours. the cafe bank seen here and the metropolitan bank on powell street where i'm standing. >> the public should know these individuals are very well armed and very dangerous. they should not approach these

individuals by themselves. they should contact law enforcement. >> reporter: the fbi says it's unusual to see two robberies in the same day by the same people. their get away car is described as a light colored older model ford taurus. anyone with any information about the robberies is asked to call the fbi, the san francisco police department or the san mateo sheriff's department. the interesting thing is the bank is banning people from wearing caps, sunglasses or hoodies inside the bank. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. south african paralympic champion accused of murdering his girlfriend appeared in court today. oscar pistorius stood up during the hearing. prosecutors asked for a postponement. it's not clear why. it's possible they need time for tests related to the bathroom door that pistorius shot through.

his girlfriend was inside that bathroom. pistorius claims he thought he was shooting at an intrude per. the case was delayed. it's a deal that will give amazon access to popular tv programs for children. amazon is paying more than $200 million for the rights to spongebob squarepants and others. the deal includes more than 4000 tv episodes that will be available for free to amazon prime subvibers. it comes days after netflix stopped streaming the shows. partial shift in attitude by parents when it comes to the use of digital devices by children. researchersay 55% of patient parents are not concerned. when they want to keep children occupied they say they still resort to toys or books. the study shows with today's tech savvy parents the use of technology has become more of a

family affair. new at 5, bay area scientist have made what they call a surprising finding that could give people an early warning before a tsunami hits. discovery came after studying that devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan two years ago. our health and science ed john fowler is in pacifica tonight. >> reporter: this is one of the low lying areas. people are supposed to listen up. >> i wouldn't know what to do. i have my morning kit at home. >> reporter: beach areas have signs. >> get out as fast as possible. >> go up the hills. >> reporter: depending on where

the under sea quake hits the siren could give just three or four minutes warning. that was the warning time in japan. 15,000 people died. scientists studied the tsunami. they discovered a previously unknown natural warning signal. underwater sound. >> in addition to exciting tsunami waves, rapid uplift excites sound waves. our simulation is capturing those sound waves adds the dark colors here. >> reporter: professor eric says sea floor quakes could give a perhaps 15 to 20 minute warning. coast side people y 's worth more study. >> it's always good to have more warning for sure. absolutely. >> reporter: it likely would be expensive to put a network of microphones on the sea floor. to identify which sounds signal tsunamis and filter out any false alarms. reporting live in pacifica, john fowler, ktvu channel 2

news. college in california is on the rise, but it's still a good investment according to one new study. the number of students taking out loans is at an all time high. students are borrowing larger amounts of must be. according to a new report, employment prospects are better for college graduates. the study found most college grads will earn enough money to pay off their debt. 20 oakland high school students enjoyed a rare field trip last weekend. as fred inglis reports, it was an opportunity to mix science with sports. >> reporter: they're not golfers, but these oakland high school students spent the day learning about the game thanks to an organization called first green. >> an eighth of an inch is .125. >> people know about golf courses but they don't know what they're about. >> i am surprised. i thought it was just a game. like any other game. now that i come here i find out it has to do with science and

everything. so i find it really interesting. >> it said it was at 100. >> also allows the superinten kept to explain some of the stuff they do to maintain these locations. >> that's a lot of work. that's a lot of work. at the same time, they have fun and are taking care of the environment. all the water and stuff. all the water going down. >> reporter: the united states golf association has given first green grant, not only to help teach the science of golf but to demystify the game as well. >> i thought it was for older people. not people like me. >> the kids who come to this program are going to have a life long belief that golf courses aren't bad. they are contributing to the local community. >> reporter: these first green field trips makes learning fun and may help steer these students into new careers in

sports science. in oakland, fred inglis, ktvu channel 2 news. new video of a brazen act of sabotage. new at 6, the clues it provides and why police say it clearly demonstrates whoever shot up a pg&e substation knew exactly what they were doing. up next at 5, what the lapd ruled about the firing of that former officer who went on a shooting rampage earlier this year. >> i have lost sleep over just being in fear of what our government might do next. the irs under fire in washington. the testimony attacking the agency for targeting conservative groups. ♪

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op are recovering after an explosion at a building on a college campus in new york. it happens just before noon at niacc college. the basement and first floor of the building were severely damaged with blown out windows and columns displaced. a utility spokesperson says natural gas had risen to explosive levels in manholes near the college. none of the injuries is life threatening. the suspect in the colorado theater rampage will undergo a mental evaluation. james holmes changed his original plea of not guilty to one of not guilty by reason of

insanity today. the judge accepted it and has allowed the use of a truth serum during interviews. holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 more. if he's convicted on the insanity defense he would avoid the death penalty. the hacker who blew the whistle an an army private testified he never expressed disloyalty to the u.s. bradley mannings court-martial began yesterday. he's confessed to the leak but is accused of aiding the enemy. manning told him he was upset over government atrocities in iraq. the trial is expected to last for months. a review by the los angeles police department has concluded that ex-police officer who went on a shooting rampage earlier this year was justifiably fired. christopher donor killed four people before killing himself after he vowed revenge for his firing which he blamed on racism and bias. civil rights attorney said the

review of his firing found no basis for donor's complaints. new jersey governor chris christi is calling a special election this october to pick a replacement for u.s. senator frank lautenberg who died yesterday. christie is expected to pick a republican for the election. there is a general election in new jersey the next month. teching against the irs, what conservatives said today about agency putting them under extra scrutiny. i'm going to talk about what the fog is going to be doing the next couple days and how hot it's going to get as we go towards the weekend. look at 'em.

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the embattled irs came under fire twice today in washington. conservative groups attacked the agency for putting them under extra scrutiny. their testimony comes on the same day a scathing audit took aim at spending. >> reporter: start with the irs, responsible for taxes. then add on allegations it targeted groups and misspent millions and you end up with an agency very much in the political hot seat. >> i have lost sleep over just being in fear of what our government might do next. >> reporter: this is the second capitol hill hearing in two days about the irs.

tuesday's featured firsthand accounts of how the irs held up organization tax exempt status requests because of their conservative believes. >> beliefs. >> i wondered who fights the irs. >> reporter: a report found targeting originated in the cincinnati irs office. republicans and democrats differ on whether blame goes beyond that. >> it is the obama irs. we intend to try to get to the truth here. >> a mid level employee overwhelmed by four times as many applications as before made stupid, irresponsible shortcuts or that there's an administration-wide plot to take down community organizers? >> reporter: also tuesday, the treasury department released an audit of conferences. including a 2010 event that 2600 people attended at a cost of more than $4 million.

the audit listed what it called questionable spending on things like spoof videos, speaker fees, and a presentation called political savvy, how not to shoot yourself in the foot. it's conference advice now with real consequence. one group that testified today against the irs helped lead the campaign against gay marriage here in california. >> guess what i learned in school today. >> what? >> i learned how a prince married a prince and i can marry a princess. >> they have bankrolled ads that denounce same-sex marriage. they have supported prop 8. today that group's president accused the irs of illegally giving their donor list to the news media. >> they deliberately provided our donor list to the very political opponents of ours who

have been seeking that information for a long time. >> they said it will sue the irs for allegedly leaking donor information. president obama today introduced three new nominees to become federal appellate court judges and called on senate republicans to move more quickly to approve them than they did during mr. obama's first term in office. >> time and again, congressional republicans cynically used senate rules and procedures to delay and even block qualified nominees from coming to a full vote. as a result, my judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those of my republican predecessor. >> the president said that republicans stalling amounted to political obstruction rather than principled opposition. the nominees are a georgetown university law professor, an appeals lawyer in washington, and a judge on the u.s. district court in washington.

a gay rights group says a new survey suggest more than half of california voters now approve of same-sex marriages. this was released in time for gay pride month. according to the group, 55% of likely voters surveyed say they favor same-sex marriage. 37% say they are opposed. that is in sharp contrast to 2008 when 52% of voters approved proposition 8. the u.s. supreme court could issue a ruling some time this month. the actress who played sunshine corizone on glee has come out as a lesbian. she confirmed she a lesbian during a recent interview on a talk show. the 21-year-old first got noticed through videos on youtube. what a change today. you weren't kidding when you said the temperatures were going to drop.

>> numbers dropped a few degrees. it was cool yesterday. temperatures have been way down since what we experienced on saturday when temperatures were very hot. as ego through the next few days, temperatures warm up. we have a lot of wind. winds are blowing through the gate here. fog along the coast. that's transporting cool air inland. up in the delta, we have a wind advisory. the winds are blowing up to 35 and 40 miles per hour. here are the current wind conditions. 17 miles an hour at the oakland airport. fairfield, almost 40 miles an hour. those winds are going to start to die down about 10:00 tonight. it warms each day as we head into your saturday. it warms about five degrees each day. extended forecast calls for some heat. the forecast highs tomorrow will pop in in a minute. no, they're not. they didn't update. this is the map that should show you temperatures with colors but it's not going there. as we go into the next couple days, we're looking for

temperatures like these. 85 in san helene. these are tomorrow's highs. temperatures, five degrees warmer tomorrow. five more on top of that. 80 in fairfield. that's going to be 85 degrees. a nice warmup around here. forecast in the east bay, 77 in walnut creek. 79 in danville. still kind of cool for this time of year. 71 in fry hospital. good air call with this. fog along the coast. your five day forecast with your weekend in view, start off here. warmer. look what happens on thursday. temperatures come back into the upper 80s. touching on 90. look at friday. coming up on 100. saturday i think we will get triple digits. a gradual warmup as we get to saturday. temperatures cool off a little as we head into sunday. thing to talk about at this point is the thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, no question that fire danger goes back on

the table. i think that's the kind of thing we'll be talking about. >> do you think that'll be the hottest we've been so far this year? >> yeah. >> thanks, bill. the senate goes after top military leaders over sexual assaults in the armed forces. >> this isn't about sex. this is about assaultive domination and violence. the accusations from both sides of the aisle and the promises made by top military brass. be great if all devices had backup power? the chevrolet volt does. it's ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. no wonder volt is america's best-selling plug-in. that's american ingenuity to find new roads. ♪ the 2013 volt. charge ahead of the rest in the hov lane. ♪

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ibm is expanding into so- called cloud services. it says it's buying cloud competing company softlier. they are not commenting on terms of the deal. it was reported the deal could fetch more than $2 billion. soft layer leases online storage space to companies. the dow snapped its winning streak. it finished 76 points down. the nasdaq was down 20. the s&p was down 9 points at the close. members of a u.s. senate committee dressed down top military leaders over sexual abuse. the senators said rape in the military has become an epidemic. >> this isn't about sex. this is about assaultive

domination and violence. >> i cannot overstate my disgust and disappointment over the continued reports of sexual misconduct in our military. >> senators from both sides of the aisle expressed their anger and dismay over the sheer numbers of sexual assaults. the pentagon estimates there were 26,000 cases of sexual assault last year. members of congress said most victims are afraid to report their abuse for fear of retaliation. military leaders say they want to stop the assaults. >> these crimes violate everything our army stands for. >> the top brass strongly opposed a proposal to strip commanders of their authority over sexual assault cases. the senate is considering seven bills. breaking news, some of the biggest names in baseball could be facing long suspensions. this is just coming out. mark ibanez will be here in two

minutes to go through some of the block buster names. also we are still at the scene of a deadly crash in fremont where a toddler died when a car slammed into a tree. that car was cut in half. what we've learned about the investigation. we all remember from other years when we were little. >> only on 2, we're hearing for the first time from oscar grant's daughter. the role she is playing in the upcoming movie about her father's death.

caught on camera. the crews this new video is providing about an act of sabotage. developing news, a toddler is killed when a car splits in two. one witness describes what he saw moments before that crash. good evening, everyone. we begin with breaking news. >> it is coming out of the baseball world. some of the biggest names in the sports world could be facing landmark suspensions. here's mark ibanez with the story and the list. >> if you're a baseball fan this is really mind bending information right now. espn is reporting on their show inside the line that major

league baseball is planning to suspend some 20 players for continued use of illegal substances. including bartolo colon. he would be a repeat offender. facing the giants, former san francisco giant melky cabrera. he is on the list. it includes some major, major names. now major league baseball, i repeat, has not officially suspended these players. here are the names being about. alex rodriguez, ryan braun who won the mvp under a cloud two years ago. nelson cruz, star outfielder with the texas rangers and former oakland a and last year's cy young candidate. gio gonzalez. now with the washington nationals. so i repeat,