john healey prepared for battle.e that, like a warrior out on a battlefield? >> they are long, arduous procedures. it's a physical sport, if you will, and so you need to feel yourself as a warrior. >> reporter: healey's plans called for a rare surgery, one even he, a world renowned orthopedic surgeon, had only ever done twice -- remove the diseased femur, replace it with a titanium prosthesis and rebuild bruce's leg. for linda, it was yet another terrifying fight in their long campaign. >> there were so many times when we thought bruce will not come out of this. it was that scary. >> reporter: in the operating room, it was part medicine, part miracle and part magic. >> a little bit of a vaudeville act of going to a beautifully set dining room table with all of your china and crystal and silverware there, and you're trying to take out the tablecloth and leave the other things intact. >> reporter: the hours passed. bruce's leg, even his life, hanging in the balance. >> we didn't know how he was going to survive 15 hour

in los angeles, patrick healey reporting for nbc bay area news. >>> no liquids, no gels and tonight another possible no-no for delta airlines. the controversial move that has the airline banning bibles and possibly jewish passengers from some of its flights. >> the fact that guys say i'm not very good with women, i don't know what they want, i want to learn how to do that. >> do you believe this, lucky in life but unlucky in love. but a new boot camp promises to reboot some of the bay area's most eligible bachelors. we take you inside the seduction seminar and show you how they do when they face their fears at a local nightclub. >> mobility is not great because i'm in a cast. >> only on nbc bay area news, he's out for the season but back at the ballpark. one on one with buster posey. >>> good evening. a warm day throughout the east bay and for the south bay, temperatures near average with 79 in san jose. 63 in san francisco. cool tonight and yes, we are also still tracking any possible after shocks from that major alaska earthquake. i'll have more coming up. . >>> delta airlines, you'll lov

patrick healey from los angeles has the latest. >> reporter: the evening brian stow was beaten nearlyo death outside dodgers stadium, suspect number one had a white dodgers jersey and they identified jiminez at suspect number one three weeks ago. now we learn police have in evidence a bloody dodgers engineer sdee who brought it to a cleaners. the dna analysis xwaj a match to victim stow. the source that first disclosed the shirt to us says they believe it was ramirez that brought it to the cleaners. ramirez's attorneys spoke with us after meeting with him in central jail. >> he doesn't wear clothes that require dry-cleaning, sxing this sounds preposterous. >> are ramirez jailed for a alleged parole violation they have held off charging him for the stow beating. they say ramirez has an ironclad alibi. the daughter has sold reports so. all along police declined to reveal what evidence they have other than ramirez's look-alike experience b experience. >> we have some significant, significant pieces to it that lead me to believe we do indeed have the right individual. >> reporter: is it p

he paints stow as the instigator, and as patrick healey tells us, that's an accusation that has stow'sily outraged. >> reporter: bryan stow's family now confirms he is the seated fab who is being cursed at in this cell phone video. it was published by tmz reported it was taken at dodger stadium opening day before the postgame parking lot attack by others who nearly killed stow. at the beginning of the video before the cell phone is rotated, a man wearing a 23 jersey can be seen pointing his finger at stow's face while cursing him. john stow told the ap the person who took the video has spoken to the family. she said the guy was coming in and trying to instigate a fight with his cousin. bryan put his hands up and said him to respect the game. tmz said he's been notified of the i.d. of banda 23. the sender of the video said he was arguing with the man because he'd crossed the line. they say the man identified as stow had made a rude comment about dodgers. they say the sender of the e-mail was speculating about the later attack on stow, maybe he said the wrong thing to the wrong guys. sto

healey, what gave you the inspiration right "roots"? when you go about your business, he should find each and every day some good. i came here to praise some good, that could that is sitting right here in these seats, some fine republican conservative folks who understand in the core of their soul that they were created in the image of the likeness of god, and it is from him that their rights come. folks will understand what we do is loan power to the government for what purpose -- to protect, preserve, and defend individual liberty. friends, i came to praise the folks who know that with government -- when government expands, freedom contracts. quite frankly, folks that heard president obama a couple years ago, he was for hope and change, those of us in this room, we hope he hopes and changes. we heard him say that yes, we can, and now we know that what he really meant was, no, you can, but the government with the winfrey. we are in this from st. we are now in a colossal conflict of competing visions, a bishop of those who want the gove

joining us on the phone from baghdad, "new york times" reporter, jack healey., we're still trying to find out some details about how this happened. at this point, the u.s. military is only saying that five service members, as you said, were killed today in central iraq. some iraqi security officials are telling us that the attack occurred on an american military base, in the east part of town, and that somewhere between three and six mortars or rockets were fired into the base. now, militant groups, you know, have kept up these attacks against american military in recent months. even as violence has dropped. and you know, firing these kinds of explosives on to military bases is one of the tactics that they use. and then frequently you'll hear the air raid alarms go off, you know, outside of the green zone, where the american embassy and some other military installations are, rockets are lobbed in that direction. >> that's the part that's curious about this situation, because there is some reporting that about 20 people may have been killed in this, five u.s. se