his forehead hit the concrete. police have arrested a man suspected in the beating of san francisco giants fan bryan stow. found out what the suspect was covering up that eventually led to his capture. first, though ark few of today s top stories take a look at a plume of ash and dust and whatever else is erupting from a value colcan. this is in iceland. all of iceland s air space closed. nobody can fly near this stuff. it lies in the u.s., european commercial flight path. the ash cloud could reach britain and the rest of europe as soon as tomorrow. president obama left ireland early because of that. they re counting the votes in spain today. election weekend and people backed public spaces in madrid and barcelona. using the occasion to protest high unemployment in spain and the political establishment in general. spain has the highest unemployment rate in western europe.
buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the city s main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left are severely damaged, but frankly in this part of the city not many houses are left. you mentioned about 1/3 of the houses in this downtown area were severely damaged. by that you can take to mean flattened. behind me you can see the wreckage of some of them that is left. now the weather is complicating things as these teams go through the grids of this city on foot mostly and pick through this. the lightning has been rolling in. thunder, rain, all day long. it has made their job, much, much diffi