This is Eyewitness News at 11. This is KLAS-TV, Channel 8. People you can count on to bring you closer to the people, the places, and the stories that matter to you. You're watching Channel 8's Eyewitness News at 11 with Gary Waddell and Paula Francis. Good evening. The ex-wife of a man connected to the Oklahoma City bombing will go before a grand jury to tell what she knows about her former spouse's involvement. But friends of the family of Lana Padilla are denying reports that her 12-year-old son might be the mysterious John Doe Number 2 wanted in connection with that bombing. Scott Sayers has more on the story. He may have the most recognizable face in the country right now, but no one, including the FBI, knows who John Doe Number 2 is. In their search for leads, authorities have turned to the family of suspected bomber Timothy McVeigh's friend, Terry Nichols. Las Vegas' Lana Padilla is Nichols' ex-wife. They have grilled her in hopes of turning a new lead and still apparently suspect her 12-year-old son, Josh, as being John Doe Number 2. There's no truth to stories that he was with Timothy McVeigh when the rider truck was rented, and absolutely no validity to any stories which claims her son was thought to be John Doe Number 2. While family spokesperson Ronald Delpit brushes aside any allegations of that sort, he does admit the FBI has taken a sincere interest in what Lana Padilla has to say. Even though Eyewitness News has tried several times to find out what that is, Padilla opted to sell her story to a TV tabloid program. She'll have another chance, though, to speak in the coming week, but this time to a grand jury in Oklahoma, which will be sorting through the evidence being mounted against Timothy McVeigh. But there are likely to be more questions for Josh Nichols for the simple reason he visited his father a week before the Oklahoma City bombing, and agents are hoping he heard or saw something. Just really general information, and a lot of it is centered on the fact that Josh had visited his father for the week prior to the bombing, and they just wanted to see if there was anything that he knew or could recall. Anything that could lead them to the man everyone is looking for. Scott Sayers, Channel 8 Eyewitness News. Del Pitt says 12-year-old Josh has not been asked to appear before the grand jury. Padilla's ex-husband Terry Nichols also will appear before that grand jury. He's being held in Kansas as a material witness, but he's scheduled to be transferred to Oklahoma tomorrow. Jeff Flock is in Harrington, Kansas, Nichols' hometown, with more on the apparently increasingly valuable witness. The faces of Echo Company, 4th Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, Basic Training, Fort Benning, Georgia. Among the fresh young faces, an older one, 33-year-old Terry Nichols. Harder to figure the family man, Nichols. Nichols shown ironically here in the Army yearbook, getting standard explosives training. But with the search for John Doe II going nowhere and no other leads as promising, federal agents, both here in Harrington and Nichols' home as well as elsewhere, are now trying to cement the Nichols-McVeigh tie and trying to link Nichols directly to the bombing. This week, the FBI returned to Nichols' neighborhood, stopping motorists trying to place the bomb-laden rider truck at his house. At least one witness claims to have seen it there. Nichols and McVeigh had extensive contact in the days leading up to the bombing. Nichols' pickup truck was spotted at this Kansas lake, where investigators believe the bomb was built. Four 55-gallon drums, like those believed used in the bombing, were found at his Harrington house. Also found there, a receipt from this McPherson, Kansas, co-op for a ton of ammonium nitrate fertilizer like this, the kind believed used in the blast. But who is Terry Nichols, really? We get some insight into his mindset in this affidavit he sent to dozens of federal, state, and local authorities in March of 1994. The Marion County attorney received the affidavit in which Nichols demands the IRS prove its jurisdiction over him, calls the IRS 1040 form a, quote, bootleg document, and charges a criminal fraud has been perpetrated on America by the government. If he is guilty in the bombing, why turn himself in to police? Why admit such a close relationship with the number one suspect? Federal investigators are hoping that Terry Nichols' puzzle will begin to be solved when he is sent to Oklahoma on Wednesday to appear before the federal grand jury. I'm Jeff Flach in Harrington, Kansas. Metro police hope the public can help them find some answers to a very puzzling murder that happened more than a week ago. Roger Mark Jamison was found beaten to death under a tree near a gay bar called the Back Door Lounge. Police say he was a pilot for America West, but was apparently leading a double life as a family man and father of eight and also a homosexual. They suspect he was the victim of a hate crime. And we want to keep it in people's minds and hope that those that haven't called us that know something will call us. And we want to assure those people that are afraid that their identity will be known, that we'll keep it strictly confidential. Police are looking into other possible motives for Jamison's murder. They say his death may also be the result of a relationship gone bad. If you have helpful information, you're asked to please call Secret Witness. Larry Bailey, the man accused of killing a fellow Pizza Hut employee, is being held on a quarter of a million dollars bail. Bailey was in justice court here today, his attorney arguing for lower bail. Police say Bailey stomped Sean Wells to death. Wells' body was found inside the Pizza Hut on Rancho Road the morning after the two had closed the store together. No date has been set for Bailey's trial. Jurors in the O.J. Simpson trial got part two of a crash course in DNA and molecular biology today. The director of the lab where the DNA tests were conducted on blood samples in the case was on the stand. Robin Cotton explained to the jurors how the DNA tests worked. It is critical for the jury to understand how the evidence was tested for the prosecution to prove its claims that blood found at the crime scene and in the Ford Bronco and at Simpson's house ties Simpson to the crimes. Prosecutors tried to head off defense attacks. The evidence was contaminated. Is there anything about these environmental effects, whether sunlight, humidity, rain, etc., that can actually change DNA from one type to another? No. The presentation of the DNA evidence is expected to take three to four weeks. The prosecution should wrap up its case by the end of June. Las Vegas family has been forced out of their apartment because raw sewage has bubbled up in the toilet and bathtub. Human waste flooded the bedroom hallway and ran into the kitchen. Chad Taylor and his wife scrambled to move their furniture out of the way. He called the apartment manager for help. He in turn sent out a carpet cleaning company. The bathroom and kitchen were left untouched, though apartment spokespeople say they plan on cleaning them. The Taylors aren't satisfied. I don't want to live in here. I have an eight-year-old child and I don't want to bring him in here with soaked up urine feces on my carpet. The management company says they've cleaned and sanitized the carpeting and they plan on replacing the pad. The carpet cleaners told eyewitness news that with a young child the carpet should be replaced. We contacted the health district where a spokesperson said the carpeting should be steam cleaned at least twice to eliminate any risk of hepatitis or other waste related disease. We also talked to the property manager who says she plans on doing whatever is necessary to make the Taylors happy. Meanwhile, the family is staying with friends. The Las Vegas Valley Water District looked like a real water waster today, but it was all in an effort to get ready for summer. The district began flushing its wells, preparing for the higher demand for water during the hot summer months. Since the wells sit dormant for much of the year, they have to be pumped for a while to get rid of the sand and rust that collects over the winter. Thousands of gallons of water will be pumped into the streets before the wells are ready for summer. A motorcyclist led police on a high-speed chase during rush hour in LA today. The cyclist reached speeds of more than 100 miles an hour, weaving dangerously in and out of lanes and running red lights. The chase covered about 40 miles of the Los Angeles area before coming to an end in Long Beach. After a half hour of racing, the speeding man simply laid down his bike and surrendered to police. A tornado tore through Illinois today, and a television crew caught the twister as it wound its way across a small town. The tornado touched down near Cantrell, Illinois, a town with a population of just 125 people. Emergency crews had a tough time getting into the town because of downed power lines and trees that looked like toothpicks. Several fires broke out because of gas leaks, but there were no reports of injuries. Tornadoes and flooding ravaged the state of Louisiana overnight. Five people died in the storms. New Orleans got 22 inches of rain in 24 hours. That's five years' worth of rain here in Las Vegas. At one hospital, employees had to wade through chest-deep water, and patients were ferried in flat-bottom boats. One woman near New Orleans was trapped in a van. Rescue crews managed to free her and get her to a hospital. She delivered a baby five minutes later. Don't go away. When we come back, we'll continue our look at a $100 million desert fortress, a nuclear weapons assembly plant. And a medical condition has made a man a prisoner in his own home. We'll tell you how crews helped the man to freedom after family members made a desperate 911 call for help. Tonight on The Late Show with David Letterman, Brett Butler, and Bronson Pinchow. Ladies and gentlemen, it's TV Entertainment straight from the beautiful sky-blue waters of the Hudson. From smokin' to chokin', get ready to have the rhyme of your life. 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Or take home these JBL two-way 50-watt bookshelf loudspeakers. Now an unbeatable $44.97 each. So come hear it live. The best place to buy your new stereo is Circuit City right now. You're watching Channel 8's Eyewitness News at 11. An expensive facility out at the Nevada test site is lying idle because of the world political winds have shifted. It cost nearly $100 million to build and was supposed to be used to assemble nuclear weapons. The Channel 8 Eye team found out there's a big question whether that will ever happen. And as Tom Worden reports, the Department of Energy hopes the answer is yes. Beyond the Joshua trees, deep in the Nevada test site, sits a lonely desert fortress. It's a nearly $100 million nuclear weapons assembly plant, and it was built with your tax dollars. It's called the Device Assembly Facility, or DAF. But with the U.S. moratorium on nuclear weapons testing, this creation of the nuclear age sits idle. Economic fallout from the end of the Cold War. Still, the Department of Energy won't give up its big plans for this place. DOE has a long-term commitment here at the Nevada test site. So I think we're postured very well to take on the assembly, disassembly functions that would be needed at that time. That is, after the turn of the century. The mushroom cloud, the symbol of America's nuclear testing program, is gone forever. For decades, this site was used to test nuclear weapons. Now there's talk of using the test site to take them apart. Within 72 hours after arrival at Pantex. Right now, the dismantling of nuclear weapons takes place at Pantex in Texas. If the DAF is ever used for that purpose, it will become one of the most secure government facilities ever built. It needs to be, with today's very real threat of terrorism. I need to pull the lever and then slide it open. It's been designed so that we think we have a good line of fire all the way around, essentially 360 degrees around the facility. This is what the guard towers look like from the inside. It's reinforced concrete, bulletproof glass, and gun ports all around, which give the guards a clear line of fire all the way around the facility. We can't tell you what the security specifications are here, but we can say this. It would be almost impossible to breach this place. Outside, there are motion detectors and lots of razor wire. The government even brought in special forces to mount a ground assault just to test security. But could the DAF withstand an air attack? We think that, indeed, helicopters can get in, but they're not going to get out. The security forces up here are going to be aiming down at them, firing at them, and with large weapons. But with the future of this facility up in the air, the DAF waits quietly for its first nuke while the guard towers go unmanned. The bottom line is this building will not be used as it was originally intended. That's not anyone's fault. National policy changed. But the question for many taxpayers now is will the $100 million facility be used at all? The DOE says it hopes so. But for now, with only a need for a skeleton crew, the DAF is one of the loneliest places on the Nevada test site. Tom Worden, Channel 8, Eyewitness News. If ever there was a case where swords could be turned into plowshares, Tom says this is it, according to the DOE. A 911 call may have saved a man's life. He weighs nearly 700 pounds. A California man is morbidly obese. After many failed attempts to help, concerned family members finally called 911. It took eight paramedics to lift the man into an ambulance. Doctors say his condition is life-threatening. A foundation specializing in the treatment of obesity has volunteered their services to help control his condition. A new resort will open in Mesquite this summer with 500 rooms and a staff of about 1,000. It's called Players Island, a water-themed resort being built by Merv Griffin's Players International Corporation. The company already operates casinos in Louisiana and Illinois. Players Island is looking not only to Utah for customers, but to Las Vegas as well, to people who want to get away for a weekend. You might have heard of Texas referred to as a country, but soon here in Las Vegas, Texas will take on another meaning. Construction on the Texas Hotel at Rancho and Lake Mead is right on schedule. While North Las Vegas has a number of casinos, this will be the city's second hotel casino. Today, crews hoisted a classic Cadillac Eldorado convertible up to the ceiling of a gas station-themed bar in the casino. Texas is scheduled to open in July. A couple of new attractions to check out this summer. Nifty little gimmicks they've got. Kevin Janison is here with Weather and he'll be back with the forecast and all the news after this. To show you how much more there is to life at Summerlin, we've arranged for you to spend a full day here. Summerlin, you get more out of living there. 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It's about 20 mile an hour wind. There's nothing anymore. Here's the way things look around the valley at this hour. Temperatures in western parts of Las Vegas are at 68 degrees, but across the valley at our neighborhood weather station at Helen Hur Elementary School, it's up to 74 right now. And speaking of those light winds, here they are. You know, it used to be a 12 mile per hour breeze. It used to be something, but boy, the way this year has gone. Not even close. Most of the winds right now are light and variable. Officially today, 83 degrees for the high temperature. The morning low was 54. And boy, your heart has to go out with those people in southern Louisiana. It's beginning to rain again. The city of New Orleans had anywhere from 15 to 22 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. New Orleans is shaped like a bowl. And what happens is on the outside of the bowl, rivers and the Gulf and everything else, there's nowhere for the water to go. So they have very poor drainage and more rain will just continue to complicate the flooding problems those folks are having. Once we get through this mess though, it's pretty much clear sailing through the southern tier of states. A couple of showers looks like in Colorado and up around Salt Lake City. And there have been some patches of showers in northern Nevada and northern California. But that's as close as they get to us. Temperature wise, mild day throughout much of western America. There's our 83. Phoenix a comfortable 85. Even LA did alright with a temperature reading of 73 degrees. San Francisco hit 60 and Reno because of the clouds could only make it to 62. Look, this is all one big storm system out here. One line of showers and thunderstorms moving into the Atlantic coast states. Another line of some pretty intense storms extending now from about Grand Rapids all the way down to Cape Girardeau. And you can see the storms approaching New Orleans down through portions of southern Mississippi, Mobile, and then up into toward Montgomery, Alabama. All of that will continue to push east, northeast very slowly. There's the spotty showers in the west. There is a storm system moving into the west. All it's affecting us with are a few stray clouds. And you can see them breaking apart here. So that's a good indication that all we'll get will be the partly cloudy conditions or mostly sunny depending on how optimistic you are. Again, most of these clouds will go north. We could see some afternoon breezes again to 20 miles per hour, which normally would be breezy, but after the spring we've had, it's pretty much a walk in the park. Take a look at our feature photo this evening. This comes to us courtesy of Phil Coutant of Las Vegas. You are looking right down into a crater, a volcano crater. Phil took this picture in Costa Rica and he hiked atop the crater and shot straight down. It's a little wild geology there from Phil. A few clouds tonight, 58 degrees for the low temperature. Tomorrow the winds will pick up a little bit in the afternoon, but again, 10 to 20. 86, the expected high. Lake Mead should top out at 90 degrees. The water temperature, though, a cool 60. Mount Charleston under partly cloudy skies should make it to an even 60. That's their air temperature. And our extended forecast calls for great weather until Friday. And then another system comes in and then I think we'll see a little more wind Saturday afternoon. And it looks now as if we might see a chance for rain on Sunday. Not good timing there. Yeah, Mother's Day. We'll have to keep the festivities indoors. Glad you're feeling better. Thank you. Nice to have you back. Speaking of coming back, Scott is back now from all the race car drivers with all the sports. Scott, you got that right, Gary. Nixon-Pacer's taking each other on tonight. No fisticuffs, just basketball. The highlights coming up next in Sports. Today's news, a low introductory lease payment on the all-new Mercury Mystique. One of car and driver's 10 best. Now just $1.99 a month for 24 months. Wow, that's with dual airbags, an air filtration system and an independent suspension. Things you don't get on Grand Am. Plus it's loaded with air, stereo cassette, power locks and windows and more. All for just $1.99 a month. So get your Mystique today. Only at your Las Vegas Lincoln Mercury Dealers. It's time for our power bingo session and today's power number is 074. It's a growing dilemma. Mother's Day is getting closer and closer and you still haven't decided what to get. This year, get smart. Get mom something she'll love. The new Motorola Teletech from Sprint Cellular. Just $29 on the $9.95 rate plan. The lowest rate in Las Vegas with free local calling on Sundays. Only from Sprint Cellular, Southern Nevada's leading cellular carrier. But hurry, time is running out. Hand-Bow Sports with Scott Higgins. The Knicks couldn't wait to get back on the court tonight, especially after the Pacers Reggie Miller called them Chokers Sunday. Of course Miller was right, but he, yes he was the choker tonight. Mark Jackson early on drives and picks up the foul. The ex-Nick has cause for celebration. Later on, John Starks is denied so he kicks it out to Derek Harper for 1-2 and 3 of his 24. Starks played a little thing called defense tonight. Starks picks off the pass and he's driving to the hoop solo. The Knicks, even the series, 96-77. Things were no closer in Phoenix tonight. Charles Barkley took advantage of some tired rockets. He stops, he pops for 1-2-3. Now check him out, the man can get up as well. The alley oop, oop, oop, oop to Barkley right there who can shut up and jam with the best of him. Later on, Clyde Drexler, Clyde the glide, not gliding here. He fouls Dan Majerle, doesn't like the call. The referee, Jake O'Donnell, does like the call so he ejects Drexler. And from there the Suns rolled, 1-30 to 1-08. We go now to the NHL playoffs where the deadliest shark is one from San Jose. Goals-eye view of the Sharks in flames tonight. Look out between the wickets. Calgary scored first. Zahri Zalapski is stuffed. German Titov though knocks in the rebound, 1-0 flames. Calgary pass then broken up and it's Chris Tansel on the breakaway. Check out the move and it's 2-1 San Jose. Another bad pass by the Flames and they pay again. Craig Jani on the breakaway. He's stoned but Pat Faloon chops in the rebound. Sharks win it 5-4 in overtime. They won them both in Calgary to lead two games to none. Elsewhere on the board tonight, Red Wings take a 2-0 lead in that series over Dallas, Vancouver and St. Louis. That series nodded at one now and Toronto leads Chicago now two games to none. Well in golf you drive for show and you putt for dough. In baseball you hit for show and field for dough. Another disgruntled young fan should have stayed for the Padres and Dodgers. A Dodger record was tied. Hot shot to Jose Offerman. Nice catch. Bad throw. He hits the runner. That's an error and a run scores. More Offerman offerings. The grounder between the wickets for his third error in the inning. That ties a team record. Dodgers lose it. Final score 9-2. I would have guessed the record might have been 5 or 6 for the Dodgers. Cincinnati beat Florida 9-1. Atlanta over the Mets 3-2 tonight. Phillies beat the Montreal Expos 8-3. Houston wins on the road at Pittsburgh. Chicago does the same in St. Louis and Colorado tops the Giants. What should be the best two teams in the American League are in the same division. Blue Jays and Yankees. Any questions? Didn't think so. Alright here's Randy Knorr now at the plate. Clocks one to left center field. Takes that astroturf bounce over the wall for the ground rule double over Bernie Williams who can't find it. Later on Devon White. Chopped one to right center field to the gap. This one's going a long, long way. It clears the bases. Meanwhile White hustling around the sacks. He's headed for third. He is safe. Jays win at final score 9-6. Elsewhere Cleveland playing great ball lately. They shut out the Royals 10-0. It's Boston over Baltimore by a run. Chicago tops Minnesota. Oakland by 2 over Seattle tonight. California nips Texas. And Detroit and Milwaukee postponed by rain. And finally Las Vegas proved it is a racing town tonight. Kyle Petty's charity ride across America stopped in Las Vegas. The NASCAR guys and some other sports celebrities drive across the country on their Harley's to raise money for charity. Petty said he got the idea when the drivers used to ride their cycles between stops on the NASCAR circuit. Gary you came out there checking out the hogs were you? Yeah it was fun. They were really neat. Yeah you bet. Thanks Scott. Residents in one small West Virginia town are getting some strange and sometimes graphic letters in the mail. We'll tell you about it when we come back. And the victims in the Oklahoma City bombing are getting a helping hand from right here in Las Vegas. We'll have that story when we come back. Can your vacation do all this? Do it all. For your free San Diego visitor's value pack call 1-800-882-VALUE. The $99 acquisition sale ends Monday night. As Pledger joins Chevrolet Gio on Decatur and Alto. Well of course I've dined on salmon mousse with poached pot stickers and we've all had that German pizza with a robust schnitzel and I've even tried blowfish. And then I discovered Prime Rib. Carol's welcomes you back to good old American cooking. Our Prime Rib dinner is a slow cooked slice with fresh veggies and a baked potato. Just $7.99 at Carol's. Always good. Suddenly hip. I'm very picky about style but I have to admit I was impressed with my Pacific home. We looked at a lot of homes but none had the kind of value we found in our Pacific home. Before you buy give us 10 minutes. Just one look is all you'll need. You can get a good meal and help a good cause all at the same time tonight at the Hard Rock Hotel. The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is donating an entire day's profits from its restaurants. Mr. Lucky's 24-7 and more Tony's to the Oklahoma City Disaster Relief Fund. That means every dollar you spend tonight will help someone in Oklahoma. But it's good. It's a good thing. I think it's very good that they are giving it to the people in Oklahoma. I wish I could do more for them myself. Hard Rock Management says they feel strongly about their fundraising efforts. They say they stand behind their slogan to save the planet. People in Clarksburg, West Virginia are getting letters that would make most people's hair curl. New Yorker J.T. Colfax is picking names out of the Clarksburg phone book and sending them letters describing in great detail his homosexual encounters. Colfax calls his correspondence a literary project. He says he picked Clarksburg because it doesn't have any gay bars. Most people who have gotten the letters say they tossed them in the trash, but the Public Library is keeping some of them as part of its local history project. That's one way of looking at it I guess. Remember that time when we were getting all those letters? See? That's the way it works. Back in the 90s. Well let's just completely shift gears now if we can. Right into the breakfast forecast as we get started tomorrow morning. We should have plenty of sunshine and light winds. We're looking for a temperature in the lower 60s by 8 a.m. Tomorrow should be nice and sunny with a high in the mid 80s little afternoon breeze. And if you're wondering about our culinary offering for breakfast tomorrow, that is a little seafood dip on a cracker. I should say it's a lot of seafood dip on a cracker. More like a spread. Is that what you had before you were gone yesterday? I had probably good. That does it for us. Have a nice evening. We'll see you tomorrow.