identical twins bob and mike bryan have won ten grand slams from wimbledon to the french and u.s. l. >> we have the ultimate communication between twins which is our greatest advantage. >> reporter: but is that advantage twin telepathy? i spent some time with the bryan twins to check out the rumor floating around the tennis circuit that they literally read each other's minds on the court. you can see how eerily similar their strokes are. do you ever think you're communicating telepathically. >> i don't think it's telepathic but hanging out all the time. if you had a best friend that you hung out every day after school, times that by a million. >> reporter: the bryan brothers would argue it boils down to six hours of tennessee a day six days a week for 20 years plus. their coach says he'e's noticed strange things that happen. have you ever seen the woo-woo-woo telepathy? >> sometimes we'll see the same thing independently. they weren't with each other. >> reporter: 3,000 miles apart they go to the same store on the same day and buy the same piece of furniture. >> i got a good couch

identical twins bob and mike bryan have won ten grand slams. e french and 72 titles in all. >> we have the ultimate communication as twins, which is our greatest advantage. >> reporter: but is that ed advantage twin telepathy? i spent time with the bryan twins to check out the rumor that they literally read each other's minds on the court. watching them practice, you can see how similar that are strokes are. they practice likely mimic each other's moves. and look at the way they dance on the doubles court. so instinctively, in tandem, almost as a single organism with a joint brain. when you're on the court, are you aware of howowimilar your behavior is? and people talk about how you don't talk on the court. >> we do better when we don't talk. >> reporter: their opponents believe they don't have to talk, because they're communicating telepathically. >> the way they move is unlike any other team. they have this x factor. they know what the other person is going to do before they do it. the bryan twines are exploiting an unfair advantage that's all

identical twins bob and mike bryan are ranked number one in the world in doubles tennis. today at wimbledon. as toddlers, they too created a sperm language special language. >> we had our kind of martian language. >> reporter: why did they call it martian language? >> it was just nothing made sense. >> reporter: we went to investigate the insinuation by their opponents that they literally read each others minds on the court. look at the way they dance while in action, instinctively, in tandem, almost as a single organism with a joint brain. people talk about how you don't talk on the court. >> no, we don't need to. we do better when we don't talk. >> reporter: is it esp or just dna? twin researcher nancy segal argues it's not telepathy, but identical genes and a lifetime of shared experiences, like an old married couple. she calls it tacit coordination. >> it's not a matter of sending messages. it's a matter of thinking a process through. >> repepter: identical brains process thoughts identically. but some twin synergies seem to defy scientific explanations. take kayli an

identical twins bob and mike bryan are ranked number one in the world in doubles tennis.own kind of martian language. >> why did they call it a martian language? >> it was just -- nothing made sense. >> i'm going to join the tour any day now. >> reporter: we went to investigate the insinuation by their opponents that they literally read each other's minds on the court. look at the way they dance while in action. instinctively in tandem. almost as a single organisiswith a joint brain. people talk about how you don't talk on the court. >> no, we don't need to. >> we do better when we don't talk. >> reporter: is it esp? or just dna? twin researcher nancy segal argues it's not telepathy but identical genes and a lifetime of shared experiences. like an old married couple. she calls it tacit coordination. >> it's not a matter of sending messages, it's a matter of thinking a process through. >> reporter: identical brains process thoughts identically. but some twin synergy seem to defy scientific explanations. take caylee and allie. caylee was on a trampoline and got a painful bl

twins to win his sixth of the year. the giants were up 6-0. cody ross with a single who scored huff. bryan wilson had trouble in the top of the ninth but did manage to get the win with his 21st safe. the a's have cooled off a little bit against the mets, they've lost two in a row. that's jose rewhere reyes with a shot up the middle. and his inexperience hurts. throws it poorly to first. that allows another run to score. cal is trailing in the 7th inning. >> mark, thank you. >>> more on the surprise move by the white house that could provide midsummer relief at the gas pumps. coming up on bay area 37, we told you about 10 minutes ago that the president is approving the release of oil from united states reserves. we'll tell you what this means for what you pay at the pump. >> ktvu is always on. follow our twitter page for updates including more of the fatal fire in crockett. just look for ktvu on twitter.

twin peeks around 3:00 this afternoon. >>> the only man arrested in the brutal beating of the giant fan bryan stow has taken a polygraph in an effort to prove he was not involved in the attack. ramirez has insisted he had nothing to do with the beating saying he was in east hollywood at the time watching his daughter when the attack happened. ramirez's attorney made a deal with police in order for his client to take the lie detector test today. >> even when we find out the results from lapd our agreement, and i'm sure this is going to disappoint everybody, but this is our agreement with lapd and the district attorney's office is we are not going to announce them. >> police say ramirez is also a suspect in an attempted murder investigation in henderson, nevada. that shooting happened two months before the beating at dodger stadium. >>> pg&e says it will miss a key deadline to hand over documents related to the weld problems. the utility was supposed to turnover the records about problems in the welding of its gas pipelines in mid-march and then june 20th, a couple weeks from now. the san francisco chronicle reports that th