As the story quickly went viral across the Internet, some have likened the attack to one by a zombie. Details of the unthinkable attack included police reporting that when they ordered the cannibal to stop, he looked up with blood on his face and growled at officers.

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The suspected cannibal has been identified by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s officer as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene. Eugene may have been homeless at the time of the attack, his last known address was in North Miami.

Since news of the unthinkable attack first broke, the big question has been, why? Why did the man attack the other? Why were they naked? Why did the attacker turn into a cannibal on the causeway?

The president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Armando Aguilar believes the entire incident is the fault of a new drug trend that has led to similar incidents. Emergency room doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said they too have seen a major increase in cases linked to the street drug called “bath salts” or the new LSD.

“We noticed an increase probably after Ultra Fest,” said emergency room Dr. Paul Adams, at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

In many of the cases, Dr. Adams said the person’s temperature has risen to an extremely high level, they’ve become very aggressive. Some have used their jaws as a weapon during attacks. Dr. Adams said the patients were in a state of delirium.

“Extremely strong, I took care of a 150 pound individual who you would have thought he was 250 pounds,” Dr. Adams said. “It took six security officers to restrain the individual.”

Adams said the extreme strength and violence of patients on “bath salts” has become a significant threat to all those charged with the task of trying to help those high on the drug.

“It’s dangerous for the police,” Adams said. “It’s dangerous for the fire fighters. It’s dangers for the hospital workers taking care of them because they come in, they have to be restrained both chemically and physically and you’re asking for someone to get hurt.”

Aguilar said drug dealers aren’t aware that the liability could fall back on them.

“I have a message for whoever is selling it out there,” said Aguilar. “You can be arrested for murder if you are selling this LSD to people, unsuspecting people on the street and somebody ends up dying as a result you will be charged with murder.”

The Eastern Conference Finals will mark the fifth time in seven year that either Boston or Miami will win the Eastern Conference championship. Game 1 tips off Monday night and the Heat have expected that Boston would be the final roadblock to the NBA Finals.

“Was there any doubt that it’d be us and Boston,” Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra asked reporters.

Miami and Boston met last year in the Eastern Conference semifinals, with the Heat prevailing in five games. In one of those games, Rajon Rondo suffered a gruesome elbow injury that some say changed the series.

During this year’s regular season, Boston was won three out of four from the Heat. Both teams know that means nothing when it comes to the playoffs. For Heat star LeBron James, he has a real chance to exorcise some demons against the Celtics.

It was just two years ago that Cleveland fans said LeBron quit on the team during a playoff matchup against the Celtics. It marked LeBron’s last series as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

LeBron had to carry those Cavaliers teams and he will very likely have to carry the Miami Heat again in this series. But, he’ll have a running mate capable of helping him carry the load in Dwyane Wade. The duo were unstoppable in the last few games against the Indiana Pacers and will have to continue to play at that level.

“I wouldn’t have it no other way, personally,” James said. “It’s really the only team I’m accustomed to playing in the playoffs. No matter where I go, I find a way to play Boston. … We’ve got a lot of history.”

But this year’s Celtics team is far from healthy.

The Celtics lost Avery Bradley for the rest of the season and star guard Ray Allen is hurting and has had trouble finding his shot. The Heat are also dealing with Wade’s nagging injuries and the loss of Chris Bosh, who isn’t expected back in this series.

The Celtics have averaged 88.1 points in the playoffs, while Wade and James are averaging 53 points between them.

For the Heat, they want to get the game moving and into a quick transition/fast break style of game. Boston knows they will lose that type of series. On the flip side, Boston wants a slow, methodical pace that can neutralize the athletic advantage the Heat have in the series.

Either way, the Celtics and Heat are going to play a very physical series and both sides know, it’s not going to be an easy road to the Finals.

“It’s great theater for the fans and everybody out there,” Spoelstra said. “For us, it’s great competition. That’s what you want at this time of year.”

Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals tips off at 8 p.m. at the AmericanAirlines Arena.

So far, doctors have confirmed she has a concussion and is being fitted for back brace. Her parents told us today they are thankful she’s not paralyzed.

The 18-foot-drop was captured on cell phone by the 11-year-old’s father, Jeff Davis. He took his daughter and son to the carnival setup on the west side the stadium. The good times quickly ended when Emily started up the rock climbing the attraction and let go.

In the video you see her fall back and hear her father scream, “Jesus! Help! Help!”

From the video, it appeared the safety harness didn’t catch, or may have broken off. Davis’ camera phone kept rolling for another seven minutes; recording a nightmare in which you hear him assuring his daughter he’s not leaving her side.

Davis recalled the accident Monday afternoon.

“She let go and it was like she wasn’t attached to anything. She just…there was no jerk and then fall. There was no slowdown. It was just straight down onto the back. Her head went straight back onto the pavement,” Davis said.

Paramedics quickly rushed her to Jackson Memorial hospital where she’s been lying flat ever since. As doctors evaluate her injuries, Davis is in disbelief.

“All that was attached to her when she was on the ground was the harness and the rubber sheath, where the cable went I don’t know,” said Davis.

At Monday’s Miami Marlins game things were quite different. The carnival was gone, replaced by simple blow up games.

The Marlins issued a statement saying in part, “The rock climbing wall was closed immediately following the incident Saturday and the matter is being investigated to determine the cause of the accident.”

Davis said his daughter is in good spirits despite not being allowed to move. He, on the other hand, can’t get this out of his head.

“I heard her body hit. I heard her head smack the concrete. It was just the worst thing I had ever seen,” Davis said.

He wonders if someone even checked the ride out before allowing kids to start climbing.

“If the guy running the ride or the person in charge of the rides had given it just a little pull and just pulled on it, this wouldn’t have happened at all. Because she’s a hundred pounds tops,” said Davis.

CBS4 asked if Davis believes the Marlins were at fault for this. He said he didn’t want to comment. However, he did point out if the rock-climbing wall was in his yard he would be held accountable.

The latest numbers from Miami Beach Police were a total of 321 arrests over the weekend. Last year, during one of the most controversial Urban Beach Weekends, there were a total of 332 arrests.

Miami Beach Police said one of the biggest differences from last year to this year was the number of calls requesting police assistance. Last year, there were 2,664 calls made asking for police help. During this year’s Urban Beach Weekend, there were a total of 2062 calls, or 602 less calls.

“We’re really happy to see there are crowds here that are enjoying themselves,” said Miami Beach Assistant City Manager Hilda Fernandez Sunday. “They’re doing so without making a mess of the city, without creating any issues for themselves and especially for us as a city.”

Still, some visitors said the stepped-up enforcement is overkill.

“I think the police presence is a little overwhelming,” said visitor John Greene. “I believe that some of the barricades that they have, it’s not as personal as it used to be.”

Cops explained it’s better to be proactive than reactive.

“What may be overkill for some, in the end is a prevention tool,” said Miami Beach Police Det. Vivian Hernandez. “Our goal is to prevent that one major event from happening. That’s why we’ve placed all different prevention methods this year.”

The shooting happened on SW 72nd street west of an area known as Horse Country around 3:30 Monday morning, according to Miami-Dade police spokesperson Det. Aida Fina-Milian.

She said the officer, whose name has not been made public, was on what she called a ‘routine patrol’ when the officer spotted the man walking on the sidewalk with a shiny object in his waistband.

Det. Fina-Milian said the officer stopped the man and ordered him to show his hands. The officer told investigators that the man tried to reach for the item in his pants, so the officer fired at the man, wounding him.

Det. Fina-Milian said the man survived the shot and was taken by paramedics to Kendall Regional Medical Center in critical condition.

Police have not released his name, or explained why the officer decided to stop the man as he was walking along the street.

The storm made landfall in Florida early Monday near Jacksonville Beach around 12:10 a.m. with near-hurricane-strength winds of 70 mph (113 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

The weather system was expected to continue dumping rain over parts of Florida and Georgia on Monday. It was forecast to weaken as it moves inland Monday and Tuesday, and as a frontal system comes down from the Great Lakes, Beryl was expected to move out into the Atlantic Ocean.

At 5 p.m., the storm was 10 miles (80 kilometers) east of Valdosta, Georgia and was moving north-northwest near 5 mph. The storm’s maximum sustained winds had decreased to 30 mph (65 kph).

Flood warnings were issued for areas in Florida around Jacksonville. Thousands in Florida were without power, The Florida Times-Union reported early Monday.

Beryl was expected to bring 4 to 8 inches of rain to parts, with some areas getting as much as 12 inches. Forecasters said the storm surge and high tide could bring 2 to 4 feet of flooding in northeastern Florida and Georgia, and 1 to 2 feet in southern South Carolina.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott urged Florida residents in the affected areas to “stay alert and aware.”

“Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to bring heavy rain and winds, and it is vital to continue to monitor local news reports and listen to the advice of local emergency management officials,” Scott said in a statement Sunday evening.

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Major League Baseball announced Monday that Marlins relief pitcher Juan Carlos Oviedo will be suspended for the next eight weeks for engaging in age and identity fraud. That means, Oviedo will be eligible to return to the team on July 22.

Oviedo played for the Marlins the last several seasons under an assumed name of Leo Nuñez. It was only last year the scam unraveled and Oviedo was sent back to his home country.

Oviedo has worked through countless legal issues in the Dominican Republic after admitting falsifying documents. He recently received clearance to return to and play baseball in the United States.

MLB said Oviedo could “participate in extended Spring Training during the period of his suspension.” Oviedo is also eligible for one rehab assignment with one of the Marlins minor league affiliates, but it can’t exceed 16 days.

The Marlins are likely to use Oviedo as a set-up man for closer Heath Bell, assuming Bell can hold on to the closer’s job. Bell was paid big money in the offseason, but so far all he’s put together is a very off season.

The Marlins were led by Giancarlo Stanton who tweaked his swing a bit before the calendar turned to May and has been homering almost at will since then. Stanton hit his 11th homer of May Monday, which is one short of the Marlins record for one player in a month.

Stanton tied the score in the sixth with his homer, his 12th of the year. Logan Morrison homered and scored twice, and Hanley Ramirez had three hits and a sacrifice fly.

Reliever Edward Mujica got five outs while facing only four batters, and struggling closer Heath Bell pitched a perfect ninth for his eighth save in 12 chances. Bell had failed to finish the ninth in his previous two outings.

The Marlins improved to 19-8 since May 1, best in the majors, and broke the franchise record for victories in any month.

They’re 5-9 against the NL East, while Washington fell to 11-4 within the division.

Carlos Zambrano (3-3) rebounded from his worst start of the year, allowing three runs and seven hits in six-plus innings to pick up the victory. Jordan Zimmermann (3-5) hit his first career homer but couldn’t hold a 3-1 lead. He gave up four runs in six innings, including both Miami homers.

Zambrano took a 4-3 lead into the seventh but departed after the first two batters reached. Left fielder Coghlan made a running catch of Bryce Harper’s fly, and after Mujica entered the game, Ryan Zimmerman grounded into a double play.

Zambrano, standing in the dugout, let out a celebratory “Wooo!” The Nationals went 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position.

Jose Reyes’ hustle produced an insurance run for Miami in the seventh. He kept running after hitting a blooper to short center and barely beat the throw to second for a double. He took third on a groundout to the left side, then scored without a play when center fielder Rick Ankiel juggled Ramirez’s shallow fly in his haste to throw home.

Bosh has been on the sidelines since he strained a lower abdominal muscle in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Indiana Pacers. Bosh went through a “very-light” on-court workout Sunday, but the Heat have no timetable for a possible return.

“I wouldn’t over-read into his workout yesterday,” Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said Monday. “We’ll continue to reevaluate him every day. He’ll continue to do his rehab. When he starts legitimate basketball work, I’ll pay attention a little bit more.”

Bosh was averaging 15 points and 7.2 rebounds per game in the playoffs before his injury in Game 1 against the Pacers. In his absence, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have elevated their game even further, combining to score 65.7 points per game over the final three games of the Pacers series.

In many ways, the Heat came together as a team and began playing at a championship level. James and Wade were much more aggressive after Game 3 against the Pacers and the Heat saw plenty of rewards for their effort. Celtics coach Doc Rivers knows the Heat may be even tougher now.

“You can say they’re more dangerous because now those 15 shots that Bosh had, they’re going to Wade and LeBron,” Rivers said. “So in some ways, they have the ball more. They’re more aggressive. It almost activated them to be more aggressive, which puts a lot of stress on your defense.”

The Heat will welcome back a key piece to their rotation, power forward Udonis Haslem. He had missed a game for a flagrant foul in Game 5 against the Pacers. Haslem rediscovered his jump shot against the Pacers and if he can keep up the pace against the Celtics, the Heat may be unbeatable.

But, the Heat would be an overwhelming favorite if Bosh was in the lineup. Most expect Bosh will be out through the remainder of the Celtics series, unless something goes very wrong for the Heat.

If the Heat want to beat either the San Antonio Spurs or Oklahoma City Thunder, they will definitely need Bosh’s tall body, long arms, and scoring ability.

But job number one is simple, get past the Celtics. Miami starts that mission Monday night.

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This week, jury selection will begin for the only alleged attacker who hasn’t taken a plea bargain, Matthew Bent.

Bent, Denver Jarvis, and Jesus Mendez were all accused of pouring alcohol on Brewer and then lighting him on fire. Brewer survived by jumping into a swimming pool, but suffered Burns over most of his body.

Bent stands accused of starting the fight because Brewer owed a $40 debt.

Jarvis admitted to being the one who poured alcohol on Brewer and was sentenced to eight years in prison and more than two decades on probation as part of a plea deal. Mendez admitted his role in the incident, setting Brewer on fire, and received 11 years in prison for his guilty plea.

Bent initially was going to accept a plea deal offered by prosecutors, but at the very last minute changed his mind and opted for a jury trial. Jarvis and Mendez are expected to testify against Bent during his trial.

Bent was arrested a day before the burning for allegedly trying to steal a bike from the Brewer’s home. Witnesses said it was Bent who ordered Jarvis to pour the alcohol on Brewer.

At the Veterans Tribute Tower in North Miami, Memorial Day took on a special significance for those in attendance as the sound of “Taps” slowly played.

“We don’t honor them enough,” said veteran Walter Heinzinger. “They’ve done a lot for this country, and people take it for granted. They just assume we have what we have because we have it. We have what we have because the military has fought for what we have.”

Airman Joseph Mintz has been in the service for two years but knows exactly what it is he fights for and what others should remember the millions of have fallen in defense of their country.

“This day is a day to honor those who have given their lives so that we could have the freedoms we have today,” said airman Mintz. “To remember and to let them know we will never forget how much they have done for us and how much they mean to us.”

In Fort Lauderdale, Vietnam War veteran Bill Vasquet has buried several of his fellow soldiers and said that the United States is a nation “that’s based on freedom and the rest of the world deserves that freedom.”

“These guys [his fellow troops] have done what they needed to do and done what they should have done as far as I’m concerned, and it’s just wonderful that they’ve done it, and that’s the thing to remember,” said Vasquet.

Vasquet’s fellow veteran, Thoman Burgess, said there are simple things Americans can do every day to honor those in service.

“What people could do and should do is if they see a veteran say ‘Thank you for your service,’ and shake their hands,” said Burgess. “They can also visit a cemetery, a veteran in a cemetery, and say a little prayer or at least a moment of silence to honor them and pray and things like that to keep them in their thoughts.”

One of the most moving parts of the ceremony was a fly-over to honor Lt. Matthew Lowe of Plantation. He was killed April 6, 2011 along with Lt. Nathan Williams when their F-18 crashed during a training mission in California.

Tracy Egan, who said she lost her husband while he was on a training mission for the Grenada invasion, was on hand for the ceremony.

“When it well up in you, this is the moment to let it well up to say thank you and I miss you and to say we love you and you are always with us,” Egan said. “Every year, I take the moment to remember the people we lost. Afterwards, I breath again, let it out and go and live life the way they would want.”

In the nation’s capital, President Barack Obama participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tom of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. President Obama has touted his work of bringing home soldiers from Iraq and other military successes, but said that’s only half the job.

“We have to serve them and their families as well as they have served us,” President Obama said. “By making sure that they get the health care and benefits they need; by caring for our wounded warriors and supporting our military families; and by giving veterans the chance to go to college, find a good job, and enjoy the freedom that they risked everything to protect.”

For the families of those who have members serving in harm’s way and for those who have had loved ones make the ultimate sacrifice for this country, every American give thanks for their service and honors their memory each and every Memorial Day.

Spirit Air will be holding a job fair on Wednesday at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Airport on Griffin Road. The job fair will be in two sessions with the first session from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and the second session from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Spirit is looking for A&P licensed mechanics and A&P licensed mechanics with Airbus experience for full-time work. The Airline is also looking for part-time customer service agents and ramp service agents.

If you are interested in applying for the positions, go to Spirit’s website and click on the “Careers” section, or click here.

Broward County officials said consecutive days of tests revealed the water for the impacted area is once again safe for use.

The boil water order was first issued on Friday after tests showed E.coli and fecal coliform in county-operated wells. The affected well has been taken out of service, officials say.

As a precaution, residents were being urged to boil their drinking water or use bottled water until further notice, a real annoyance on a busy holiday weekend.

Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs drives to the basket against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals during the 2012 NBA Playoffs on May 27, 2012 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. (credit: Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Trailing in the fourth quarter, Gregg Popovich snarled an order in the huddle that the NBA Coach of the Year punctuated with a sharp and angry sweep of his hand.

“I want some nasty!”

But truthfully, Popovich was already getting what he really wanted: the San Antonio Spurs finally in a game they might actually lose.

Popovich’s caught-on-camera “nasty” command in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals is likely coming soon to T-shirts, Internet memes and the lexicon of the NBA playoffs for the foreseeable future. But after beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 101-98 on Sunday night for their 19th win in a row — tying the NBA record for longest winning streak kept alive in the playoffs — Popovich wasn’t flustered by the near-loss.

He was almost grateful for it.

“We wanted it about 15 games ago,” Popovich said. “At least I did.”

Manu Ginobili scored 26 points as the Spurs escaped a tantalizing near-upset for the young Thunder, who came closer than anyone to beating the Spurs for the first time in 46 days. But a nine-point lead didn’t last after the famously mercurial 63-year-old Popovich huddled his lagging team together in the fourth and told them to “get nasty.”

“I said that?” Popovich said afterward.

A nationally television audience heard it.

“The heat of the game, stuff comes up,” Popovich said. “So I talked to them about they’ve got to get a little bit uglier, get a little more nasty, play with more fiber and take it to these guys. Meaning you have to drive it, you have to shoot it.”

And when they did, the Thunder couldn’t keep up.

Kevin Durant led the Thunder with 27 points. Russell Westbrook had 17, and insisted he was OK after taking a spill that was nasty in its own right — face first, bracing his fall with his hands and sitting under the basket for more than a minute while the entire Thunder bench walked across the court to check on their All-Star point guard.

“I shot good shots, made good passes,” Durant said. “Unfortunately, we lost.”

After being held to just 16 third-quarter points, San Antonio scored 39 in the fourth. Westbrook chalked it up to a defensive breakdown that “got out of hand” but it still left the Thunder in search of the road win they’ll need to in this series to reach the NBA finals for the first time since the franchise moved to Oklahoma City in 2009.

Game 2 is Tuesday night.

“How it happened is irrelevant,” Thunder guard Derrick Fisher said of letting a lead slip away. “Whether we lose by 20 or lose by one, we lost.”

That’s something the Spurs haven’t been able to say since April 11. They joined the 2001 Lakers as the only other team to carry a winning streak this long in the playoffs — and that Los Angeles team did so on its way to a championship.

The Spurs matched the fourth-longest streak in NBA history, and with one more will become just the fourth team to surpass 20. Tim Duncan had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Tony Parker shook off a dismal start to finish with 18 points.

And of getting “nasty”?

“Pop’s always trying to motivate us,” Parker said.

But it was Ginobili who steered the Spurs to strike first in a highly anticipated matchup of the West’s top two teams for practically the entire regular season. In his first game against the Thunder this year — he was sidelined by injury in the three regular-season meetings — Ginobili put up a playoff high after sputtering through the first two series.

“It just happened,” Ginobili said. “I don’t know how exactly because I haven’t scored like this all season long, but it happened and I am very happy about it.”

On the other end, Oklahoma City’s own Big Three struggled to find its shot early before awakening in the second half. Durant, Westbrook and James Harden at one point through the second quarter were 5 of 21 — a typically ominous stat line for a trio that had been responsible for nearly 70 percent of Oklahoma City’s points through the playoffs so far.

The Thunder were ousted in the Western Conference finals a year ago and were in position for home-court advantage throughout the playoffs until being overtaken by the Spurs in the final month of the season. But it was a fittingly close opener for two franchises with so many similarities.

That includes Thunder general manager Sam Presti — the architect of the Thunder’s rapid turnaround from a 23-win season to consecutive Western Conference finals in just four years — getting his big break in the NBA as an intern in San Antonio.

And the Thunder didn’t even need their own Big Three to keep things close.

They leaned on none more so than Fisher, whose famous game-winner for the Lakers on this same court in the 2004 playoffs has made “0.4 seconds” a phrase that needs no further explanation to the Spurs. Eight years later, and the oldest player in this series at 37, Fisher already met his playoff average at halftime and finished with 13 points.

Gary Neal added 12 points and was the only other Spurs player in double figures.

Harden lost in the first round of his matchup with Ginobili, who’s also a lefty and a former Sixth Man of the Year winner. Harden finished with 19 points on 7-of-17 shooting but started by missing nine of his first dozen shots.

Tipping off another conference finals couldn’t happen soon enough for Oklahoma City. With nothing to do but prepare for the Spurs all week — and be asked about the Spurs — the Thunder grew weary of questions about being perceived underdogs. About not having the same championship pedigree. About how they’ll possibly stop a team rolling through one of the 10 longest winning streaks in NBA history.

So repetitive were the questions that Durant, visibly annoyed, suggested earlier this week that someone instead ask how the Thunder are going “to come at” the Spurs. That didn’t stop Oklahoma City from facing more of the same at shootaround Sunday morning, when Thunder coach Scott Brooks tried quashing again the idea his team was somehow intimidated.

“They’re not going to be in awe. They’re going to have respect for them,” Brooks said. “We know we can beat them.”

They’ve still got to prove it.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS
(2) Miami Heat vs. (4) Boston Celtics

The Celtics handled the Heat rather easily during the regular season going 3-1. The Heat won in the second game of the season while the Celtics took the latter three, but with one of those was a meaningless contest at the end of the season when playoff seeding had already been set. These two teams, more importantly, also met last year in the playoffs with the Heat easily winning 4-1. That was in the second-round, but LeBron James treated it almost as if he had already won the title claiming how much it meant to finally beat Boston. The Celtics had been his tormentor quelling his championship dreams while with the Cleveland Cavaliers previously in 2008 and 2010. This will be James’ fourth go-round in five years to face the Celtics. Also, in 2010, Dwyane Wade and the Heat were swept by the Celtics in the first round.

So the players all know one another very well. But one change, however, from last year’s series is that power forward Chris Bosh’s status is uncertain as he is healing from an abdominal strain suffered in Game 1 of the last series against the Indiana Pacers. He is participating in drills, but Game 1 may be a game-time decision. But even if he does play, his production may still not be optimal out the box. However, the Celtics’ upgrade from last year would have been second-year guard Avery Bradley, but he suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in the last series versus the Philadelphia 76ers. Bradley received more playing time in light of the sharp-shooting vet Ray Allen suffering through numerous injuries this season, but did bring a ray (no pun intended) of hope with hitting a few long strikes in Game 7 against the 76ers.

HEAT ADVANTAGES

One-Two Punch: The Heat has in James and Wade, perhaps, two of the top five players in the league. James capturing his third MVP award in the last four years makes it pretty clear that he is considered by most to be the best player in the game. Former 2006 Finals MVP, Wade, recaptured some of that glory with a dominating performance in the final three games versus the Pacers, especially the clinching game with 41 points, 10 rebounds and three assists. In last year’s playoff matchup against the Celtics, James averaged 28 ppg, 8 rpg, and 3.5 apg while Wade was even better with 30 ppg, 7 rpg, and 5 apg.

Team Bonding: The skinny and the scoop on the Heat has been that it liked to strut and preen when things are going well, but the first sign of adversity it would become stagnant like humidity. The Heat faced a mountain of pressure after losing Game 3 going down 2-1 to the Pacers. The situation was made worse with Wade openly and angrily reacting to head coach Erik Spoelstra’s critical comments during that blowout loss. In the past, that disharmony would negatively impact the team for a couple of games. However, this time, after trailing at halftime in Game 4, the Heat responded and pulled out a comeback win to tie the series. In Game 5, Udonis Haslem’s hard foul on Tyler Hansbrough following the same on Wade and little-used Heat reserve Dexter Pittman’s flying leap into Pacers’ Lance Stevenson, who gave James the choke sign for missed free throws, may have brought the team together. Haslem earned a one-game suspension and Pittman earned a four-game suspension, but perhaps it was worth it as it brought the team together.

Defense: The Heat, when focused, can play suffocating defense. Ranked fourth in the league during the regular season in points allowed, the heat defense is sparked by James and Wade patrolling the passing lane while Shane Battier playing tough on the ball defense, perhaps on Paul Pierce, to allow James to roam or play Rajon Rondo. With the perimeter on lock, big men Joel Anthony and Udonis Haslem provide steady baseline protection and the ability to fan out to check Kevin Garnett if he’s hitting his jump shot.

X-Factor: The health of Bosh could turn the series. If he can’t play or is severely limited until Game 3, 4 or later, the Celtics will need to capitalize on a weakened foe. The Heat would likely have to remain a two-man show, unless point guard Mario Chalmers can find a steady shooting stroke. That remains the big question as the Heat, unlike the Celtics, have not consistently shown the ability to rally as a team as the C’s did when Pierce fouled out late in Game 7 against the 76ers.

CELTICS ADVANTAGES

Defense: Wait, you might say, didn’t you just rank defense as an advantage for the Heat. Yes, but the Celtics’ defense is that good The Celtics ranked second in the league during the regular season allowing just 89.2 points per game. In the playoffs, the defense has gotten even stingier allowing just 83.9 points per game; the best in the postseason. The Celtics do not have any player that is considered a great one-on-one defender but as a team they play together and with a purpose.

Mystique: In the past, teams have openly spoken of the ghosts that haunted the old Boston Garden. It’s been several years since the move to the new Garden, but for the franchise with the most titles, there seems to be a lingering effect. Calls seem to go their way, like the refs in their Atlanta Hawks series not giving the Hawks free throws and possession of the ball late in a tight game after a Celtics foul occurred while the ball was still out of bounds, as the rules clearly state.

Coaching: Head coach Doc Rivers, by way of leading the Celtics to a title in 2008 and another Finals appearance in 2010, has earned the respect of his players. He can squeeze out that extra ounce of effort that can be the difference between two evenly matched teams or make an inferior team rise above their physical limitations.

X-Factor: If Rajon Rondo can control the tempo and the game with his all-around point guard play that leads to triple doubles, the Celtics will be tough to handle.

Heat in 6

Martin Sumners is an NBA columnist for IamaGM.com. Find out more about Martin at sumsoul.com and follow him on Twitter @sumsoul.

According to AAA, drivers in Florida are paying 34 cents less per gallon of gas than they were paying one month ago. Additionally, drivers are paying nearly 30 cents less per gallon than they were on Memorial Day 2011.

The prices have been dropping as the European economy has declined, but oil prices still haven’t settled below $90 a barrel just yet. As consumer sentiment in the U.S. increased, prices could show a slight increase if it’s enough to overcome the European economic woes.

Statewide, drivers in Florida are paying $3.47 per gallon for a gallon of regular unleaded. Locally, drivers in Fort Lauderdale are paying $3.57 per gallon, which is down roughly 27 cents from the same time one year ago.

In Miami, drivers were paying slightly more at $3.59 per gallon. Last month, drivers in Miami were paying $3.88 a gallon and one year ago, gas was selling for an average of $3.85 on Memorial Day.

The cheapest gas prices in the state were in Pensacola where drivers were paying an average of $3.36 per gallon.

Arrests are down this Memorial Day weekend on South Beach, and so are the crowds.

“We know it’s not over ’til the fat lady sings clearly, but so far so good,” said Miami Beach Assistant City Manager Hilda Fernandez. “We’re really happy to see there are crowds here that are enjoying themselves. They’re doing so without making a mess of the city, without creating any issues for themselves and especially for us as a city.”

After months of meetings to discuss the major event plan for Urban Beach Weekend, it’s finally implemented. Fernandez said all the planning was well worth it.

“Hopefully tomorrow morning we’ll wake up and say it was another successful plan and another successful Memorial Day weekend and that our visitors were able to have a good time and go home and come back,” Fernandez said.

Still, some visitors said the stepped-up enforcement is overkill.

“I think the police presence is a little overwhelming,” said visitor John Greene. “I believe that some of the barricades that they have, it’s not as personal as it used to be.”

Cops explained it’s better to be proactive than reactive.

“What may be overkill for some, in the end is a prevention tool,” said Miami Beach Police Det. Vivian Hernandez.

As of Sunday evening, police said they removed 25 guns off the street, including a shot gun.

According to police figures, between Thursday night and Sunday morning, 228 were made. The majority were for misdemeanor offenses.

Authorities said calls for service are down significantly this year compared to 2011.

“Our goal is to prevent that one major event from happening,” Det. Hernandez said. “That’s why we’ve placed all different prevention methods this year.”

From the watch tower between 7th and 8th streets along Ocean Drive to the traffic loop between Washington St. and Collins Ave., the message for those looking to stir up trouble was clear.

“The folks that want to come take advantage of our tourists, take advantage of our residents this weekend, we don’t need them here, we don’t want them here,” Fernandez said.

The Assistant City Manager told CBS 4 News fewer police officers are on duty this year compared to last year. She said they’re just more visible this year because of the proactive enforcement.

Reports of squealing in a storm drain brought firefighters and paramedics to NW 5th street and 7th avenue about 7 a.m. Sunday morning.

The noise made it easy to find the trapped victim. Somehow, a kitten had fallen into the narrow drain, a perfect job for the department’s Hazardous Materials and Technical Rescue teams.

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Someone had to go after kitty, and after setting up special equipment to keep firefighters safe, rescue operations began. It took the teams 45 minutes, but in the end, they recovered a small male cat. No momma. No owner. No more nine lives, because the kitten used one up Sunday morning.

Firefighters would like to keep it to just one. They took the cat back to the fire station for a bath and a meal, but the arrangement is just temporary. What they really need is someone to take on the job full time, to feed it and keep it away from dangerous drains.

If you’re interested, there’s a firehouse who’d like to meet you at Station 6, 701 NW 36th street in Miami.

Police have received 1500 calls as of Sunday afternoon. That’s well below the nearly 3000 calls they received over the entire Memorial Day weekend period last year.

Businesses say they’ve noticed smaller crowds along Ocean Drive.

“This is a little more calm this year,” said Kristina Jones Barahona, the manager at Bellini Italian Bistro on 5th and Ocean. “A lot fewer people.”

Next door at Maya Tapas and Grill, the owner says it’s been slower than most typical South Beach weekends.

“It’s much, much slower,” said Sara Maya. “Because people from Miami leave. They go out of town. They go to Key West or somewhere else, because they don’t want to stay in town in Miami during this weekend because it’s known for being not secure and not safe.”

Businesses are crunching the numbers and noticing a difference.

“A little less revenue but not much,” said Tommy Wilcox. He manages a beach rental business on South Beach. On Sunday afternoon, there were plenty of lounge chairs and umbrellas still available.

“It’s been pretty quiet this year compared to last year,” Wilcox said. “Last year it was a little bit crazy, but I’m quite happy with the way its going this year.”

Those who came looking for a wild weekend, feel let down.

“I think the police presence is a little overwhelming,” John Greene said. “I believe that some of the barricades that they have, it’s not as personal as it used to be.”

Between Thursday Night and Sunday Morning, 228 arrests were made. 33 arrests were for felony offenses.

Authorities tell CBS 4 News they’ve taken more than 20 guns off the streets.

Some guests like the extra crowd control.

“Their presence is letting a lot of people know you’re not going to get away with things and the crime rate has actually gone down from it,” said Julian Martinez.

Businesses say safety over sales is fine with them.

“It’s been bad, but at least its been safer,” Maya said. “So I think that’ a good thing.”

Miami Beach police say they’ve made fewer arrests this year than in the same time last year.

In a Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll released last week, a majority of voters said the candidates’ stance on same-sex marriage would not affect the way they would vote.

But a significant minority say the issue is likely to move them away from President Barack Obama and toward his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

One in four respondents told pollsters Obama’s support of gay marriage would make it more difficult to support the incumbent president. That’s more than twice the number of voters who say it makes them more likely to support him.

Conversely, Romney’s opposition to the concept makes 23 percent of respondents say they are more likely to cast their ballot for him, while fewer, 19 percent, say his stance will hurt.

Meanwhile this week, votes by the Orange County Commission and public hearings in Jacksonville underscored the growing attention being paid to the issue following the 2008 constitutional amendment defining marriage in Florida as an institution solely reserved for unions between one man and one woman.

Over the past several months, voters in several cities have passed local ordinances or proposed referenda that guarantee domestic partner rights, whether for same-sex or unmarried heterosexual couples.

Backers say the efforts signify the growing acceptance of nontraditional relationships, both straight and gay, by providing protections for committed couples similar to those enjoyed by married pairs.

“In some ways the 2008 ballot measure on marriage really made people stop and think about and have to acknowledge the discrimination that gay couples face,” said Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida. “The irony is that in passing the amendment, the folks behind it have accelerated the conversation and the growth of support for domestic partner protections and civil unions.”

Critics, however, say the local votes are incremental attempts to weaken and ultimately overturn the 2008 amendment that was approved by 62 percent of voters and is similar to those in place in 31 other states.

“I think our opponents realize that they can’t win on the gay-marriage issue,” said John Stemberger, president of the Florida Family Policy Council. “It’s very hard for them to win, so they are trying to advance their cause any way they can. From our standpoint, their real goal is incrementalism and trying to chip away at things.”

Domestic partner initiatives are popping up around the state.

Orange County Commissioners voted 6-1 this past week to follow Orlando city officials’ lead and passed a local ordinance creating a “domestic partner registry” under which residents, straight or gay, can designate a partner who can make hospital visits, health care decisions and burial arrangements among other duties.

Similar initiatives have either taken place or are underway in Volusia County, Gulfport, Tampa, St Petersburg, Pinellas County, Clearwater, Sarasota and elsewhere.

“There is a great deal of interest and support for providing a handful of vital protections for gay couples and unmarried straight partners,” Smith said.

Opponents of domestic partnership arrangements say that by carving out yet another special class, the initiatives weaken the legitimacy of same-sex marriage bans that have proven popular around the country.

“It undermines the basis legally for the marriage amendments, whether that be in law or whether through a state constitutional amendment,” Stemberger said.

It remains unclear whether the domestic partnership issue and Obama’s recent public support for gay marriage will have any impact in November on an electorate expected to be fixated on the economy, health care and other issues more commonly dealt with on a day-to-day basis.

Stemberger said that a candidate’s stance on domestic partnerships may not equate to huge swings in the polls, but Obama’s support for same-sex marriage may elicit a more dramatic response.

A Q-Poll released this week indicated that while two thirds of voters don’t care about the president’s stance, more than twice as many of those who do, say it makes Obama a less attractive candidate.

“The president has taken an enormous risk politically and he is seeing the fallout of that,” Stemberger said.

Smith agreed it is a risk – but said that’s exactly what will push the outcome the other way.

“When we get to November it is going to be a net positive for the president,” Smith said. “I think people respect it when someone takes a principled stand when there are political risks involved.”

Quinnipiac pollster Peter Brown says the issue won’t make a huge dent in the president’s re-election chances in the fall, but even a small swing may prove critical in swing states like Florida, which have been hotly contested races in the past.

“The economy is what matters overwhelmingly and it moves both men and women,” Brown said. “..(Gay marriage and domestic partnership) issues rank relatively low on the priority scale, but the numbers are the numbers,”

Across the nation and around the Sunshine State, gas prices have been dropping since the first week in April, when unleaded regular was nipping at $4 a gallon and some were predicting $5 a gallon gas by summer.

However, since a peak of $3.96 a gallon prices in South Florida have dropped more than 50 cents a gallon in some places, with CBSMiami’s Pump Patrol reporting the cheapest gas in the area at a BJ’s wholesale store in Homestead, at $3.399 a gallon.

A year ago, Miamigasprices.com reported regular unleaded at 3.83 a gallon, and statewide, the AAA put it at $3.90.

The price cuts are a bit unusual because traditionally they rise as Memorial Day approaches, as it’s seen as the gateway to the summer driving season. However, with crude oil prices dropping and gasoline prices following suit, talk that high fuel prices would be a major theme of the presidential campaign have all but disappeared.

Jessica Brady, spokeswoman for AAA Auto Club South in Tampa, said she expects the price decline to continue for at least a few more weeks.

“As a result of the falling gas prices we have seen, and they are forecasted to continue to decrease, we could see more people traveling,” Brady said.

However, at least one source is giving us reason to enjoy the lower prices while we have them.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest forecast earlier this month predicted that gasoline prices will average about $3.79 a gallon this summer. about what fuel cost a year ago, but no where near the dire $5 per gallon predictions.

Tickets have already been selling for Monday’s game 1 at the American Airlines Arena. The Celtics have just hours to get ready.

Boston will have a chance to show if it do in the playoffs what it did in the regular season, when it beat the Heat 3  to 1.

The last of those meetings was in the final game of the season and came on a night where LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all sat out for Miami, while Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen got the evening off for Boston.

The lineups will look more normal Monday, though Bosh will remain sidelined because of a strained lower abdominal muscle.

“Let’s do it,” Garnett said Saturday night, just before leaving the floor after Boston’s win.

It’ll be a quick turnaround for Boston, with Game 1 in Miami starting about 46 hours after Game 7 against the 76ers ended. The Heat finished off their East semifinal series against Indiana on Thursday night, took Friday off and held a light practice Saturday — focusing on themselves and not starting to work in details either the Celtics or the 76ers.

“We’ll be well-prepared,” Heat forward LeBron James said Saturday, before Boston and Philadelphia settled their series. “Our coaching staff will put us in position to win ballgames.”

The Heat ousted the Celtics in last year’s East semifinals, doing so in five games. Boston topped Miami in five games in the opening round of the 2010 playoffs, the last series the Heat played before obtaining James and Bosh to play alongside Wade.

James also faced Boston in the 2010 playoffs, the end of that series marking his final time in a Cleveland uniform before deciding to join the Heat. He was planning to watch the Boston-Philadelphia game at home Saturday night, then get into his usual game-preparation mode Sunday.

“There’s enough time for us to get ready,” Wade said.

Having only one day to get ready would make it seem like both sides would be signing up for a cram session, but it’s not like there’s going to be any real secrets on either side. James, for example, has already played the Celtics 48 times in his career, the last 44 of those coming since Doc Rivers took over as Boston’s coach.

“I mean, I’ve played Boston enough with Doc Rivers at the helm and those guys, they don’t change,” James said. “They shouldn’t change. They’ve been successful. They won’t change.”

The Heat erased a 2-1 deficit in their series with the Pacers, eventually winning in six games with James and Wade combining for 197 points in Miami’s final three victories.

Miami clearly hopes some of that momentum carries over to Monday night.

“The most important thing is us playing to our identity,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “We improved the last three games. We were able to play our type of game, to defend and rebound. We did a much better job of that the last three games, and then played at a pace that was more appropriate for us. We were able to score more points that way, but more important get the type of actions that we like.”

The five winning numbers were 13-14-41-49-59.

Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $1 million each, and there were five of those, but none of the lucky winners was in Florida. They were sold in: Maryland(1), New York(1), Pennsylvania(1), Tennessee(1) and Texas(1).

There were no Power Play Match 5 winners.

For Florida players of the Florida Lotto game, the winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the Florida Lottery’s “Lotto with XTRA” game were:

15-23-30-48-49-52

There was no winner so the jackpot rolls over to $3 million for Wednesday’s drawing.

Florida Sen. Paula Dockery posted pictures on Facebook of the wedding party on their flight to the islands and later posted a picture of Bondi serving punch to friends. Bondi’s wedding to ophthalmologist Greg Henderson was a small ceremony with close friends and family, and her office has released no photos to the media or the public.

Gov. Scott and his wife attended the wedding.

The Celtics will open the third round of the NBA playoffs in Miami against the Heat on Monday night.
Rondo scored nine straight Boston points, helping the Celtics turn a three-point edge into a double-digit lead after Paul Pierce fouled out with 4:16 left in the game.

Andre Iguodala scored 18 points, and Elton Brand and Jrue Holiday had 15 apiece for the 76ers, who eliminated the top-seeded Chicago Bulls in the first round but couldn’t do the same with the Celtics.
Kevin Garnett had 18 points and 13 rebounds, and Ray Allen hit a pair of fourth-quarter 3-pointers after missing his first five attempts. Pierce had 15 points and nine rebounds before fouling out.

That’s when Rondo took over.

The point guard, rebounding from his worst performance of the playoffs in Game 6, scored on a baseline drive and followed it up with a long 2-pointer (originally scored a 3) with 2:47 left. Then he made a 3-pointer with a little more than 2 minutes left to make it a 10-pont game and, after Brand scored on a tip-in, Rondo went to the line as the crowd chanted “M-V-P! M-V-P!” and hit a pair of free throws to
leave Boston with an 80-70 lead with 1:44 left.

The Celtics will now face the actual NBA MVP — LeBron James — along with Dwyane Wade and the rest of the Heat. Miami advanced to the conference finals by eliminating the Indiana Pacers in six games.

Miami beat Boston in five games in the conference semifinals last year. In 2010, the Celtics eliminated the Heat in the first round and then knocked James and the Cavaliers out in the second — his final game with Cleveland before defecting to Miami.

Philadelphia had one last chance to cut the deficit with 100 seconds to play after Holiday made a 3-pointer to cut it to seven points. Pierce was left with nothing to do but cheerlead, waving his arms to encourage the crowd as Garnett went to the line with just under a minute left.

He made one of two, but Holiday lost the ball on the way to the basket and Rondo made a pair of free throws with 54 seconds left and then Allen, who had just three points to that point after missing his first 5 attempts from 3-point range, made a pair as the crowd chanted “Beat the Heat!”

Jodie Meeks’ 3-pointer rimmed out, the ball bounced to the floor and Rondo got his hands on it for his 10th rebound. He chucked it over his head into the frontcourt, where the Celtics dribbled down the 24-second clock.

Pierce picked up two fouls seven seconds apart with about 8 minutes to play, then his fifth with 5:16 left. Coach Doc Rivers left him in, and Pierce picked up No. 6 a minute later — a charging call against Thaddeus Young out by the free throw line;.

Boston got off to a fast start, taking a 10-2 lead thanks to four assists and two rebounds from Rondo in the first 3 minutes. The Sixers tied it before the end of the quarter, but the Celtics again pulled ahead and took a 41-33 lead into the half.

The lead grew to 11 before the Sixers scored seven straight points and then, trailing 53-45, they scored another seven in a row to cut the deficit to a point. Garnett made a high floater at the buzzer to give Boston a 55-52 lead at the end of three quarters.

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The number of FDIC insured banks and savings and loans dropped from 243 last year to 222 during the most recently reported quarter. Nationally, FDIC insured commercial banks and savings institutions reported aggregates profit of $35.3 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a $6.6 billion improvement from the $28.8 billion in net income the industry reported in the first quarter of 2011.

“The condition of the industry continues to gradually improve. Insured institutions have made steady progress in shedding bad loans, bolstering net worth, and increasing profitability.” FDIC Acting Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg said in a statement.

“It’s almost more enjoyable than usual,” said resident Gregory Valadie. “It’s just more quiet.”

This is Valadie second year living on South Beach. He recalls last year’s Memorial Day festivities being much more chaotic.

“It’s not that bad as a matter of fact,” said Valadie’s neighbor, Raphik Ouahsine. “I’ve heard so many things about you know this particular Memorial weekend, and everything I’ve heard is not really what I’ve experienced. It’s pretty much like a regular weekend for me.”

Just blocks from the bustle of Urban Beach Weekend festivities, South Beach residents enjoyed their Saturday evening routines.

They rode bikes, walked dogs, or spent quality time with family.

“We prefer for it to be quiet and not be around all the people especially with the kids,” Linn Guerra said. “We just stay around home.”

Many residents packed up and headed west for the weekend, but some decided to stay put, despite the chaos and crowds nearby.

“A lot of people told me, you gotta get out of South Beach, you have to find a friend who lives in Brickell or somewhere else and stay with them for the weekend, and I was kind of concerned,” Ouahsine said. “But it’s not that bad.”

Some say cops should get the credit for a decent weekend so far.

“There was a lot more traffic last year,” Miami Beach resident Darren Townend said. “The system they have in place with it all being one way is pretty good, because last year it was just chaotic.”

Police officers are standing guard at neighborhoods and restricting traffic to locals only. Drivers are being funneled along Collins Ave. or Washington St.

“We do have the traffic loop in place, which is catering to if we do have a lot of traffic coming in to the city, we want to control it a little bit,” said Miami Beach Police Det. Vivian Hernandez.

Even with the stepped up enforcement, some people just aren’t willing to join in on the fun.

“My feeling is avoid it like the plague,” Townend said.

For those not avoiding the party, they’ll have to wait in traffic on the MacArthur and Julia Tuttle Causeways. Both are reduced to one lane of traffic eastbound as cops use license plate scanners to check for stolen vehicles or drivers with open warrants.

Police arrested 24 people at a DUI checkpoint Friday night.

93 people were arrested total on Friday, according to Miami Beach Police.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami police are still tight-lipped about the man they shot and killed on the MacArthur Causeway Saturday afternoon, but new details back claims they had no choice: the naked man they shot was trying to chew the face off another naked man, and refused to obey police orders to stop his grisly meal, which one source now claims included his victim’s nose and eyeballs.

Surveillance video taken from security cameras at the nearby Miami Herald building show a police officer arrive on the scene, appear to be startled by the spectacle of two naked men lying on the street, and draw his service weapon. It appears that the officer shot one of the men, but it was difficult to tell in the video.

The bizarre shooting happened shortly after 2 p.m., when police responded to a 911 call about two naked men fighting on a bike path along the Causeway, which was packed with traffic on a busy holiday weekend.

Miami police have not confirmed the details of what happened next, but sources close to the investigation told CBS4 News that officers found one man gnawing on the face of another, in what one police source called the most gruesome thing he’d ever seen.

The fight was taking place at the causeway exit near the Miami Herald building, and amazed officers tried to stop it, ordering the man making a meal out of the other man to stop.

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The head of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Armando Aguilar, said drugs are at the root of the attack.

“We have seen, already, three or four cases that are exactly like this where some people have admitted taking LSD and it’s no different than cocaine psychosis,” Aguilar said.

In the cases Aguilar mentioned, he said the people have all taken their clothing off, been extremely violent with what seemed to be super-human strength, even using their jaws as weapons.

“Extremely strong, I took care of a 150 pound individual who you would have thought he was 250 pounds,” Aguilar said. “It took six security officers to restrain the individual.

Emergency room Doctor Paul Adams agreed with Aguilar saying similar cases have showed up in the ER.

“We noticed an increase, probably after Ultra Fest,” Dr. Adams said.

Adams said the new LSD is commonly called “bath salts.” The drug, Adams said, can raise a persons body temperature to such a high degree that logic and the ability to feel pain are lost; then delirium sets in and that often leads to disaster.

“We’ve had several deaths,” Dr. Adams said. “Earlier last year, we probably saw our first death from bath salts where people were running on the MacArthur Causeway, under the MacArthur Causeway being chased by the police and then all of the sudden just collapsing.”

Aguilar, who heads the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he has spoken with the officer who responded. Aguilar said the officer saw what the man was doing, and ordered him to stop. He said the man growled at the officer, and then returned to his meal.

Aguilar said the man ate his victim’s nose and eyeballs.

The officer then used his service weapon and shot the man, Aguilar said, but the gunshot had no effect. Other sources confirmed that the man refused to obey, and continued his attack. Aguilar said the officer had no choice but to keep shooting until the attacker was dead.

Investigators are sharing limited details about the confrontation, saying only that the two men were fighting and the officers felt they had no choice but to take deadly force.

“During this confrontation an officer did discharge his weapon striking one of the individuals, said Det. Willie Moreno, spokesperson for Miami Police.

But sources close to the investigation said that dry recitation of the facts apparently doesn’t go far enough. They said the man still would not give in to police commands, so officers fired again.

“That individual has lost his life right now,” Moreno said.

With the attacker dead, lying nude on the pavement, officers and paramedics were able to get to his victim and rush him to Jackson Memorial Hospital. Police sources say the man had virtually no face and was unrecognizable.

Police have shared no information about his identity or condition.

The surveillance video supplied to CBS4 by The Herald under a news sharing agreement is disturbing. At one point, whomever was controlling the cameras zoomed in to the two men lying nude and partially obscured by the MetroMover track. One man is motionless, but the other, presumably the man whose face was attacked, can be seen flailing his legs, possibly in pain.

The Herald used video editing tools to obscure portions of that man’s body as he moved.

The video covers a time frame of about 8 minutes, but despite the shooting of the attacker and the obvious distress shown by the victim, paramedics are not seen attempting to rescue him.

Dr. Adams said when people use the bath salts, they are a major danger to police, medics, and hospital workers.

“They come in and have to be restrained both chemically and physically, and you’re asking for someone to get hurt,” Adams said.

The victim was eventually taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Once the bizarre confrontation came to an end, police were left with the task of figuring out what had happened. The investigation forced the closure of the causeway from Miami Beach to Miami, and also closed an exit to the causeway from I-95.

The investigation snarled traffic for hours and delayed thousands of motorists until ways could be found to get them off the causeway.

Police have had little official to say about the details, and have not released the name of the cannibalistic attacker.

Aguilar said the case also serves as a warning to drug dealers.

“If you are selling this LSD to people, unsuspecting people, on the street and somebody ends up dying as a result, you will be charged.”

It happened shortly after the Bank of America branch on Prospect Road opened for business Saturday morning. A manager had called out sick for the day, and was not using the office assigned at the branch.

(Source: CBS4) An employee of the Bank of America branch in Oakland Park looks past an SUV that slammed in the manager;s office.

That’s a good thing, because somehow, and police still are not certain just how, a jeep SUV driven by 57 year old Henryka Arciszewska of Lauderdale Lakes ended up through the wall of the branch and inside the manager4′s office.

People at the scene said nobody appeared to be hurt, even though the bank was open at the time of the crash and people were startled by the sound.

Police said there were no witnesses, and Arciszewska told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that she had intended to go to a drugstore but somehow she ended up at the bank.

If you’d planned to do business at that branch Saturday, don’t make the trip. The damage forced bank officials to close the branch for repairs.

In South Florida, the only beach to make it is Cape Florida, on the tip of Key Biscayne.

The “Best Of” list is compiled annually by Stephen Leatherman, director of Florida International University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research., who has been ranking sites for summer beachgoers for the past 22 years.

This is the first time he has given the top spot to a California beach in 2 decades. The reason is the sparkle; the sand at Coronado beach contains mica, which causes the beach to glitter. “I think it’s one of the most super beaches around,” Leatherman said. It’s also chilly.

Siesta Beach in Sarasota took the top spot in last year’s annual countdown, with Leatherman lauding the area’s wide, brilliant white sand beaches and warm, emerald water. Siesta Beach, 40 acres of almost pure quartz crystal sand on the Siesta Key barrier island, was runner-up in Leatherman’s rankings the past two years and was third in 2008. Based on his rules, it can never be number 1 again.

It didn’t even make the top 10 list this year.

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne snuck in at No. 8, 2 better than the ranking it held last year.

Leatherman ranks beaches on 50 criteria, including the look and feel of the sand, water quality, weather, facilities and crowds.

A No. 1 spot on the popular list annual typically brings a 15-to-20-percent boost in visitors for the beach destinations.

Here’s the rest of this year’s entire list:

No. 2, Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii

No. 3, Main Beach, East Hampton, N.Y.

No. 4, St. George Island State Park, Florida Panhandle

No. 5, Hamoa Beach, Maui, Hawaii

No. 6, Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod, Mass.

No. 7, Waimanalo Bay Beach Park, Oahu, Hawaii

No. 8, Cape Florida State Park.

No. 9, Beachwalker Park, Kiawah Island, S.C.;

No. 10, Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.

Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world’s first commercial supply ship.

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, the first one inside the docked capsule, said the Dragon looks like it carries about as much cargo as his pickup truck back home in Houston. He also commented on its “new car smell.”

“I spent quite a bit of time poking around in here this morning, just looking at the engineering and the layout, and I’m very pleased,” Pettit said from the brilliant white compartment.

The station sailed 250 miles above the Tasman Sea, just west of New Zealand, as he and his crewmates made their grand entrance. The atmosphere was clean; no dirt or other particles were floating around.

The California-based SpaceX — formally Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — is the first private company to send a vessel to the space station. SpaceX contends its Dragons could be carrying space station astronauts up and down within three or four years.

Flight controllers were ecstatic to be at the cusp of this new commercial era.

“It’s great to see you guys inside Dragon. It looks great,” Mission Control radioed.

The Dragon contains 1,000 pounds of food, clothes, batteries and other provisions. It will bring back 1,400 pounds’ worth of gear.

Until now, only major governments have launched cargo ships to the space station. Russia, Japan and Europe will keep providing supplies, and Russia will continue to sell rocket rides to U.S. astronauts until SpaceX or other companies are ready to take over. Several American enterprises are competing for the honor.

Pettit noted that the Dragon — 19 feet tall and 12 feet wide — is roomier than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft he rode up in.

“Flying up in a human-rated Dragon is not going to be an issue,” he assured reporters during a news conference.

City officials implemented a plan to help with crowd control, blocking access to residential; areas, banning cars from Ocean Drive, and implementing a traffic loop to keep traffic flowing, and by Noon Saturday those plans appeared to be working.

After meeting with the various agencies working on the Beach Week plan, City spokesperson Nannette Rodriguez said the DUI Checkpoint on MacArthur Causeway was an apparent success. More than 1200 cars went through the checkpoint, and more than 20% of the drivers stopped were cited for some kind of violation.

Rodriguez said 24 people were arrested, and 4 guns were seized.

Police were also using an electronic tag reader, and out of the 1200 tags scanned, 30 drivers were given criminal citations.

Calls to the city’s call center were almost insignificant, and Rodriguez said towing was down from last year, possibly because visitors are being restricted from those areas and that’s where last year’s major problems were reported. Noise complaints are down.

One problem was reported with the Johnny Rockets restaurant, which police said was allowing people to take alcohol out of the store. The manager was warned, as that violates the Beach open-container laws.

Urban Beach Weekend is a loosely organized series of events which draws mostly young black people to Miami Beach for a long weekend of clubbing, parties, and fun on the beach.

As many as half a million people have attended, causing problems for Beach residents who have, in the past, felt like they were under siege by the crowds, which caused traffic problems and invaded residential neighborhoods looking foe places to park. City officials are predicting about 200 thousand people will visit Miami Beach this weekend.

This year, $1.5 million a city plan to restrict access, direct traffic flow, stop DUIs and potential law violators with a traffic stop and tag check., better lighting, zero tolerance of open container law violations, and enforcement of beach restrictions after hours were supposed to allow residents breathing space while allowing visitors to party, within limits.

While the plan drew criticism as too restrictive, at first glance most elements appear to be working as planned.

At the 2011 Urban Beach Weekend, police shot and killed a suspect and wounded a number of bystanders in an early morning fusillade of gunfire after the man refused to stop for police. More than 100 shots were fired, and the resulting video captured from a hotel balcony gave the city a large black eye for its handling of the incident.

Residents demanded the event be canceled, but since there is nothing “official” about the weekend, there is nothing to cancel. The plan in effect Memorial Day weekend is the city’s effort to respond to resident concerns while protecting the rights of visitors.

So here’s how it all breaks down:

Miami Beach wants to minimize the impact for residents so certain streets will be open for local residents only.

The roads that closed Friday morning will remain closed until Tuesday May 29th.

There’s a Traffic Loop in effect.

Ocean Drive is shut down to vehicular traffic from 5th to 15th Street until Tuesday at 7:00 a.m.

Collins Avenue is northbound traffic only between 5th to 15th Street until Tuesday at 7:00 a.m.

Washington Avenue is southbound traffic only between 5th to 15th Street from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.

Proof of Residency will be required to enter the following residential areas:

North of 5th Street to Lincoln Road from Washington Avenue west to Alton Road

South of 5th Street to Government Cut

Dade Blvd to 41st Street and Pine Tree Drive

Proof of residency is required to enter the residential areas north of 5th Street – 11th Street from Washington Avenue west to Alton Road.

The Florida Ports Council released a five-year mission plan showing Florida continues to lead the nation in cruise operations while waterborne cargo, the true money-maker of port operations, increased 18.2 percent to $82.7 billion in 2011.

Florida’s ports moved 100 million tons and three million 20-foot equivalent containers of cargo last year.

The 15 seaports contributed to Florida’s record year for international trade — $149 billion.

Florida’s $6.3 billion annual cruise industry, led by Port Miami, Port Everglades and Port Canaveral handled 13.5 million passengers in 2011, accounting for 60 percent of all U.S. embarkations on just 3 ports.

Other Florida seaports are in Pensacola, Panama City, Port St. Joe, Fernandina Beach, Jacksonville, Citrus County, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Manatee County, Fort Pierce, Palm Beach County and Key West.

That was the extent of his celebrating after the Miami Heat ousted the Indiana Pacers.

A return to the Eastern Conference finals — no small achievement by any measure — is nice, though it’s far from the oft-stated goal for the reigning NBA MVP and the Heat. They’ll host Game 1 of the East title series on Monday night against either Philadelphia or Boston, both of those teams having been ousted from last year’s playoffs by Miami in five games.

“You can’t just show up, no matter who you’re playing against,” James said Saturday, when the Heat resumed practice after taking one day off to rest up and recover from a grind against Indiana. “We have to prepare the same way we’ve done the first two rounds — and even prepare ourselves even more. As the rounds go, the competition grows, so we look forward to the challenge.”

The way James sees it, there’s not a lot of reason for celebration yet. After all, he’s not wearing the letters VIII across his upper teeth.

Over the past couple seasons, James has worn mouthguards with fangs, others with the Heat logo, and some with no adornments whatsoever. For these playoffs, he’s broken out something new: A mouthguard embossed “XVI.”

It doesn’t take much to decipher what those Roman numerals are supposed to signify. It’s 16, the number of wins that the Heat would need to capture the NBA championship. Miami has the first eight of those out of the way, but in this all-or-nothing season for the Heat, that’s far from enough to satisfy anyone. Beating New York brought one or two quick moments of excitement, as did topping Indiana, but neither provided the ultimate moment.

“The first year in Cleveland, when we beat Washington in that first-round series, it was an achievement for not only myself and my teammates but for our franchise, which hadn’t been to the playoffs in a long time,” James said. “Those days are over. My aspiration is to go win a championship now. So those days are over.”

They’ve been over for a while, of course. And as if anyone needed any reminder of the goal, James started wearing the “XVI” mouthguard. The idea came from Mike Mancias, a trainer who has worked with James for years, first in Cleveland and for the past two seasons with the Heat.

“We always look for inspiration throughout the playoffs and throughout the season to just kind of get me going,” James said. “He knows that I’m a big Gladiator fan, of course Maximus, the Roman numerals, all that stuff. So that’s where the inspiration came from. Sometimes I say I want something, sometimes Mike surprises me with a lot of it. I like that. I like the inspiration.”

Of course, the main source of inspiration remains the championship trophy.

Saturday was essentially a tuneup day for the Heat, given that they couldn’t exactly plan for an opponent because Game 7 of the Celtics-76ers series was still hours from tip-off.

Miami practiced again without All-Star forward Chris Bosh, who remains sidelined indefinitely because of a lower abdominal strain that kept him out of the final five games of the Indiana series. Bosh has been able to resume some light conditioning work, but his return to the court hardly sounds imminent.

“For me, it’s my responsibility right now to prepare this team without him,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “If and when it gets to a point where he starts to emerge into the picture, we would gladly deal with that, because we’re a more dangerous offensive team, a more dangerous defensive team when he’s in the mix. But for our mental state of health, I love you Chris, but our preparation is without him.”

Without Bosh, James and Dwyane Wade predictably were asked to do more, and responded.

Wade scored 99 points in the final three games of the Pacers series — all Miami wins — while James scored 98 points in those games. James finished the six games against the Pacers with 65 rebounds, his most ever in a postseason series, topping the 60 he grabbed in a seven-game matchup with Detroit in 2006. And Spoelstra isn’t shy about suggesting that the Heat need Wade and James to stay at that level to keep winning, saying Saturday what happened in the last three games against Indiana “has to be the norm.”

Wade and James indicated they welcomed that.

“You prepare to go out there and try to play at a high level,” James said. “Does it always happen that way? It doesn’t. Sometimes the ball just doesn’t go in for you. We’re not just shooting all layups. We’re also making jumpers and floaters and things of that nature. He said the right thing. He said the right thing to just keep us on our toes and let us know we can’t have a relaxed moment.”

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It was a tape-measure homer off a pitch from San Francisco’s Tim Lincecum. The ball got closer and closer to the animated statue, and then, suddenly, popped it on the site, the first homer to hit the million dollar home run celebration machine.

The Giants could only watch as the animated sculpture sprung into motion.

“That thing is crazy,” left fielder Melky Cabrera said through an interpreter. “You never expect to see it, especially at a ballpark. It’s pretty sweet.”

The home run was the 10th this month for Stanton, and his 11th of the season. The estimated distance was 409 feet.

Stanton broke a section of the left-field scoreboard with a long home run Monday. He has five homers this month in the Marlins’ new ballpark, despite the vast dimensions in the outfield.

“He’s a good hitter,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “There’s not a park that’s going hold him, I don’t care what they say about this park.”

Police found the victims after a call to the Shack Lounge, a bar in the 20000 block of South Dixie Highway.

People in the bar heard the shots fired at about 3 a.m. and started to scatter. As people fled the bar, the victims were found and Miami-Dade police were called.

Police closed US1 for a time as part of the investigation, but it has since re-opened.

Police have not yet identified the victims.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The memory of missing the playoffs for first time since 1996 and the ghost of an 18-year-old wound were wiped out with a sweep of rookie Adam Henrique’s stick.

The New Jersey Devils are going back to the Stanley Cup finals, thanks to Henrique, a 40-year-old goaltender and a coach who’d never been to the postseason in the NHL.

How’s that for a turnaround?

Henrique scored off a wild scramble in front at 1:03 into overtime and the Devils defeated the rival New York Rangers, 3-2, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals to advance to their first Stanley Cup finals since 2003.

“It means a lot,” Devils leading scorer Ilya Kovalchuk said minutes after reaching the Cup finals for the first time. “It’s a great feeling. Last year was a tough one, but this year was totally different. We played well all year. The first round of the playoffs was a little tough but after that, I think we figured out our game and what it takes to win.”

After beating Florida, Philadelphia and their biggest rivals, the Rangers, only the Los Angeles Kings stand in the way of a fourth Cup for New Jersey.

The title round begins here Wednesday.

This series win came against the Devils’ most intense rival, and it was that much sweeter.

“That one was like Christmas,” said Henrique, who also scored the series winner in overtime as Devils’ first-round, Game 7 win over the Panthers.

It also was needed. The Devils blew a 2-0 first-period lead and didn’t want to head back to New York for a Game 7 on Sunday.

“It didn’t matter how it got to overtime, we were in a good position,” Devils captain Zach Parise said. “We were at home. We just needed one shot.”

Actually, the Devils needed four shots to win the game.

Henrique’s winner came after Henrik Lundqvist stopped Kovalchuk twice and Alexei Ponikarovsky. The last shot lay in the crease and Henrique tapped it home.

“We caught them on a line change and their defensemen were tired,” said Devils coach Peter DeBoer, who was fired by Florida after missing the playoffs in his three seasons. “We found a way to jam one in. That’s the only way you’re going to score on Lundqvist. You’re not going to get a clean one. You’re going to have to work for it around the net.

“And that’s what we did.”

Ryan Carter and Kovalchuk also scored for the Devils, whose biggest move this year was hiring DeBoer. He has more than proved his coaching ability.

Ruslan Fedotenko and Ryan Callahan tallied for top-seeded New York, which had a good flurry just before New Jersey scored to end it.

Henrique, who is nominated for the Calder Trophy — given to the NHL’s top rookie — skated away from the crease and jumped against the end boards in the corner as his teammates hopped off the bench and mobbed him.

The six Rangers on the ice just stayed down in disbelief and frustration. This was very much like Game 5, which the Devils won 5-3. New York carried the play after the first period and had a 35-29 edge in shots.

But when it came time for a game-deciding play to be made, it was a Devil who made it.

“When they scored, it was such an empty feeling,” said Lundqvist, who said the puck took a weird bounce on the final play. “It is shocking.”

Henrique overcame injury to score this one. He seemed to take a stick from Brian Boyle in the groin area late in the third and had to leave the ice.

He felt no pain after the game winner.

All the Rangers could do was bow their heads and then line up for the traditional handshake after losing to their cross-rival rivals in a series that was close.

“That’s playoff hockey, and that’s usually where you get an overtime goal,” Rangers veteran Brandon Prust said. “Just whacking away in front of the net, getting rebounds.”

Martin Brodeur, 40, kept the Devils alive in the third. He stopped a power-play shot by Brad Richards, made a save on Artem Anisimov between the circles and used his stick to deflect a pass from the boards by Carl Hagelin in the final minute just before it got to Marian Gaborik on the edge of the crease.

“You could tell he was in the zone. He led us,” Parise said. “He made some big saves tonight.”

Lundqvist’s best stop in the third was on Dainius Zubrus on a shot from behind the circles.

Facing elimination and down 2-0 after 20 minutes, the Rangers found their game in the second period and tied the game at 2-all on goals by Fedotenko and Callahan in a roughly four-minute span.

Defenseman Ryan McDonagh, who assisted on both goals, made the big play to get New York back in the game. He collected the puck above the left circle, skated around the net and tried a wrap around. The shot didn’t go on goal but it turned out to be a perfect pass to Fedotenko who a tap-in into an open net at 9:47.

Callahan, who had a New York goal go off his leg in the Devils’ 5-3 win on Wednesday, tied the game at 13:41 when Dan Girardi’s shot from the right point deflected off his leg into the open lower corner of the net. Callahan’s sixth of the postseason was set up when Brandon Dubinsky won a faceoff in the left circle.

Carter, who scored the game winner in New York on Wednesday night after the Devils blew a 3-0 lead, put New Jersey ahead again at 10:05 of the opening period.

The play started with a bad pinch at the point by Rangers defenseman Marc Staal. Steve Bernier led a 3-on-1 and found Stephen Gionta coming down the middle for a solo chance against Lundqvist. The Rangers goaltender stopped the shot, but Carter swatted the rebound home for his fourth of the playoffs.

Kovalchuk’s seventh goal of the postseason and fifth on the power play was a thing of beauty. All five Devils skaters touched the puck with tape-to-tape passes with Zubrus finding Kovalchuk alone low in the left circle for a shot that Lundqvist had little chance to stop.

The Devils — as is the tradition for many Cup finalists — did not touch the Prince of Wales Trophy that was presented at center ice. As the team skated off to their locker room, “Glory Days,” the 1984 hit from New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen serenaded them.

The game was played on the 18-year anniversary of the Rangers’ dramatic, 4-2, Game 6 victory over New Jersey at the Meadowlands, a victory that pushed that classic Eastern Conference final series to a Game 7 and eventually led New York to its first Stanley Cup in 54 years. That game, of course, was preceded by a guarantee from Rangers captain Mark Messier, who delivered three goals en route to the victory.

This time, though, there will be no Game 7.

NOTES: The Empire State Building’s tower lights were lit in red and blue on Friday to cheer on the Rangers. … Mogul and TV personality Donald Trump was at the game. … Devils C Travis Zajac left the ice briefly in the second after being slashed on the left hand by Prust. No penalty was called. … New Jersey is 4-1 in overtime in the postseason. New York finished 2-3 after regulation.

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Stu Jackson, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations announced Friday that Spoelstra has been fined $25,000, “for critical public comments about how the Miami/Indiana playoff series was being officiated.”

The league did not specifically say they fined Spoelstra for the comments about the fouls, but the timing makes it likely.

“The league does not have a problem with hard fouls on our two main guys,” Coach Spoelstra said. “In nine games now, there’s been over a dozen hard fouls to the face, some of the tomahawk variety, some have drawn blood. They don’t have a problem with so don’t have a problem with it. We’ll focus on what we can control.”

Haslem fouled Indiana Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough hard in Game 5 after Hansbrough had a flagrant foul against Miami’s Dwyane Wade. While Haslem’s flagrant foul was upped and he was suspended, Hansbrough will be allowed to play in pivotal Game 6 Thursday night.

“I mean, Hansbrough, it’s not the first time he’s gone after one of our players this year,” Heat forward LeBron James said. “We have two guys suspended and basically they have no one suspended.”

Pacers president Larry Bird seemed to indicate the Pacers would play even harder and more physical when he said after Game 5 the team was soft. Still, LeBron and Wade have said that attempts to get into their heads with hard or flagrant fouls aren’t working.

Still, as ESPN.com reported, the NBA has assigned a veteran crew of referees to Game 6 and all of them have reputations for being more than willing to throw a player out of a game in a heartbeat.

While Spoelstra’s words may cost him a bit, it could be part of his plan to try and finally get the officials on the Heat’s side. The Heat will need a lot of help because even though Haslem and Pittman are out, they can’t dress extra players to fill those spots; so two players will be inactive in Game 6 and two spots will be open.

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