debra villalon, ktvu. >>> research happening in the bay area may help stop the epidemic of diabetes.sts can now predict years in advance which women will develop diabetes during pregnancy. gestational diabetes almost -- >> we have the potential to stop this epidemic and this epidemic is affecting not just the woman but subsequent generations. >> about one in every three women gets gestational diabetes. women should get their blood pressure and cholesterol tested and under control first before conceiving. >>> new u.s. census numbers show men are closing the gap when it comes to age. 2010 figures released today show the number of men, especially those 65 and up is increasing. that's mainly due to better health care. in 2000 women outnumbered men by 5.3 million. now there are just over 5.2 million more than men. numbers could be broad implications for health care and planning. >>> american idol now has a fourth judge to thank. a los angeles judge approved a financial contract for scottie mccreery. the contract gives mccreery $250,000 for winning. lauren alaina will receive $84,000 for s

debra villalon live in nevado where officers are holding a dui checkpoint in her honor. >> reporter: officers now stopping drivers to make sure they are sober. as the family knows that it only takes one who are not. >> reporter: allen osh era never paid much attention to these checkpoints until he and daughter melody were slammed by a speeding motorcycle in the crosswalk by their home. melody died and allen lost his leg. >> i still think he got off easy. >> reporter: the osherofs's had to rebuild their live and six months ago. welcomed their son noah. >> she -- in the past two years dui arrests are up in this city, crashes down, no accident. >> with the death of melody it was more widely accepted by the community to do checkpoints and to do more dui enforcements. >> have you had anything to drink tonight? >> no i haven't. >> reporter: her parents are very grateful officers remembered melody. and it's children like melody and son noah and melissa that this family wants the checkpoints. >> reporter: watching this checkpoint i can tell you they've made one arrest so far, three more hour

debra villalon, ktvu. >>> research happening in the bay area may help stop the epidemic of diabetes.w predict years in advance which women will develop diabetes during pregnancy. gestational diabetes almost -- >> we have the potential to stop this epidemic and this epidemic is affecting not just the woman but subsequent generations. >> about one in every three women gets gestational diabetes. women should get their blood pressure and cholesterol tested and under control first before conceiving. >>> new u.s. census numbers show men are closing the gap when it comes to age. 2010 figures released today show the number of men, especially those 65 and up is increasing. that's mainly due to better health care. in 2000 women outnumbered men by 5.3 million. now there are just over 5.2 million more than men. numbers could be broad implications for health care and planning. >>> american idol now has a fourth judge to thank. a los angeles judge approved a financial contract for scottie mccreery. the contract gives mccreery $250,000 for winning. lauren alaina will receive $84,000 for second plac

debra villalon live in nevado where officers are holding a dui checkpoint in her honor. >> reporter: officers now stopping drivers to make sure they are sober. as the family knows that it only takes one who are not. >> reporter: allen osh era never paid much attention to these checkpoints until he and daughter melody were slammed by a speeding motorcycle in the crosswalk by their home. melody died and allen lost his leg. >> i still think he got off easy. >> reporter: the osherofs's had to rebuild their live and six months ago. welcomed their son noah. >> she -- in the past two years dui arrests are up in this city, crashes down, no accident. >> with the death of melody it was more widely accepted by the community to do checkpoints and to do more dui enforcements. >> have you had anything to drink tonight? >> no i haven't. >> reporter: her parents are very grateful officers remembered melody. and it's children like melody and son noah and melissa that this family wants the checkpoints. >> reporter: watching this checkpoint i can tell you they've made one arrest so far, three more hour

debra villalone has the story. >> reporter: also possibly grad night, yearbook, fancy grad ceremony.cafeteria doors has turned messy. it started with cake to the face then game on. a food fight rumors all week launched by graduating seniors. >> they are good kids. they do well in school and i think it was just like a juvenile form of senior prank. like they wanted to kind of go out with a bang. >> reporter: this senior works in the lunchroom. >> it just exploded. everybody started throwing stuff all over the place. >> reporter: afterwards, the dean exploded. even as the teens started cleaning up on their own, he told them their prom was cancelled along with their grad night trip to disney. >> they called the grad houses and told them we were all suspended and we weren't going to have prom that night and all that. >> reporter: the principal calls the food fight devastating. she notes this charter school has high test scores and many college bound grads. one student took applying orange to the face today and had to be checked into the hospital. >> there are consequences that are going

debra villalone has the story. >> reporter: also possibly grad night, yearbook, fancy grad ceremony.he stunt behind those cafeteria doors has turned messy. it started with cake to the face then game on. a food fight rumors all week launched by graduating seniors. >> they are good kids. they do well in school and i think it was just like a juvenile form of senior prank. like they wanted to kind of go out with a bang. >> reporter: this senior works in the lunchroom. >> it just exploded. everybody started throwing stuff all over the place. >> reporter: afterwards, the dean exploded. even as the teens started cleaning up on their own, he told them their prom was cancelled along with their grad night trip to disney. >> they called the grad houses and told them we were all suspended and we weren't going to have prom that night and all that. >> reporter: the principal calls the food fight devastating. she notes this charter school has high test scores and many college bound grads. one student took applying orange to the face today and had to be checked into the hospital. >> there are conseq

debra villalon is live. >> reporter: grapes need heat to grow and they're not getting it. they're coming along slowly, but that turns out to be a good thing now that they are all wet. at a sebatical wine, the birthday girl did not remember if it was okay for them to get cold. >> brothers steve and joe farm more than a thousand acres of grapes. >> i'm pulling the leaves off so you can see. >> reporter: farmers prune to let air and sun in. and prune their vines to prevent fungus. >> any rain during the bloom period which is a two week period around june 1st, would not be good for us. these round things are potential berries and they cannot form. >> you can't restart that process? >> no, you've lost that crop. >> last year's harvest was good quality but smaller quantity. >> if it warms up we can get back on schedule. but it needs to warm up. last few years have been pretty cool and we're hoping this summer is not quite as cool. >> reporter: getting from here to here always a challenge. whether it's erratic weather, infestation or smoke. >> this is mother nature, we've been de

debra villalon is live. >> reporter: grapes need heat to grow and they're not getting it. they're coming along slowly, but that turns out to be a good thing now that they are all wet. at a sebatical wine, the birthday girl did not remember if it was okay for them to get cold. >> brothers steve and joe farm more than a thousand acres of grapes. >> i'm pulling the leaves off so you can see. >> reporter: farmers prune to let air and sun in. and prune their vines to prevent fungus. >> any rain during the bloom period which is a two week period around june 1st, would not be good for us. these round things are potential berries and they cannot form. >> you can't restart that process? >> no, you've lost that crop. >> last year's harvest was good quality but smaller quantity. >> if it warms up we can get back on schedule. but it needs to warm up. last few years have been pretty cool and we're hoping this summer is not quite as cool. >> reporter: getting from here to here always a challenge. whether it's erratic weather, infestation or smoke. >> this is mother nature, we've been de

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 coup

in san francisco, debra villalon. >>> vallejo police later say the man who was shot died at the hospital. >>> officers responding to the bay club apartments last night found the 24-year-old san francisco man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. he was sitting in the back of a black lexus parked in a carport. authorities haven't yet released the victim's name. >>> new at 10:00 tonight, a shocking discovery at a north bay community radio station. someone had written racist graffiti on the building. ktvu's john sasaki has this report from vallejo where this was addressed in an emergency meeting. >> i see this attached on my door. >> no one stands a chance with [ bleep ] >> reporter: the radio's executive director showed us where someone wrote graffiti with the word several times. >> we're a new broadcaster in an area that's never had at least in a long time had a voice for the community. >> reporter: marcus son removed the graffiti and said labeling the station as a station that only plays rap is wrong. >> half of our staff is black. the other half is asian or something, you know. >> rep

debra villalon. >>> pg & e is blaming a bad connection for leaving people in the dark. the lights went out at about 8:30 this morning and didn't come out till about 90 minutes later. >>> a number of people were impacted, that included several at a restaurant. one worker told us he just started his shift when he heard a pop. >> all of a sudden i hear a little pop and all the lights wept out, power went out. >> what were you in the middle of doing? >> getting any station set up. getting other stations set up. >> reporter: restaurant owners say this often happens after it rains. pg & e says it's looking for solutions for recurring problems in that area. >>> and the search continues for a woman last seen. >> reporter: 26-year-old nursing student michelle le left school with plans of coming back and finishing her clinical work and returning to reno. >> it's not in her character to leave and not answer anyone's calls. she did leave some of her materials near by. >> reporter: le and her materials were in this car and someone did drive it away. her suv a white honda crv turned