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>> disturbing new development tonight in the search for morgan hill teenager sierra la mar. >> volunteer searchers find 2 items not far from where she disappeared. good evening everyone. >> what they found if connecte connected, if connected to the sierra case is troubling sign. nearly 2 weeks since the 15-year-old vanished. late today searchers found items just mile or so from her home and the bus stop where sierra was headed the day she disappeared. lisa leif in san jose where investigators met this evening about her disappearance. lisa? >>reporter: that is very true. deputy and investigators got a full briefing on today's developments her at the sheriff's department.

officials are not ruling out the possibility that the items found may connected to sierra's case. this is video from sky 7 hd above the west end of palm avenue in morgan hill. to the side of the road near the parked cars a volunteer searc searcher found an empty box labeled stainless steel happened cuffs and about 5 feet away, 2 used condoms. >> we don't know if these items are going to be related to the la mar case or fought but we are going to have these items submitted to the crime lab for further testing. >>reporter: this location is just a mile and half from sierra la mar's home. those who live nearby are surprised by the discovery. >> it's not a lover lane or party alley or nothing like. that once in awhile you see a car down there but it's not, nothing like that. >>reporter: the items will be tested for dna. prints. other trace evidence. this comes nearly two weeks after sierra la mar disappearance. no one

has seen the 15-year-old since march 16. she never made it to school that morning. hundreds of volunteers have searched a 12 mile radius from sierra home and investigators are now saying sierra may have been abducted. and full scale volunteer search effort will continue every day until sunday. live in san jose tonight, lisa, abc 7 news. >> all right thanks lisa. >> antioch police are investigating reports of an attack on high school campus. police say student at dear valley high school may have been sexually assaulted in rest room on campus before 3 this afternoon. officers are trying to gather information about the attacker. man wanted for one of 2 stabbings this week at the occupy san francisco camp under arrest tonight. but witness to the sunday night stabbing made citizen are arrest this morning when he saw the suspect walking by herman plaza. >> i have been a peace keeper with occupy from the beginning.

kind of my job. i was veteran in the military so i just got another criminal off the street. >> friends said man stabbed sunday night remains in critical condition. nobody arrested in another stabbing that happened mopped night. abc 7 has rate there when group of students made surprising discovery in oakland today. sixth graders from the school here uncovered sunken treasure in lake merit. they were pick up trash but found 2 bag full of jewelry and other valuable items including silver and gold ring bracelet watches candle holder and silver spoon. >> that's a lot of cool stuff that we are finding here. we usually find pants or shirts maybe like some other things that maybe i wouldn't say on the news. >> i have heard of stories of william whether was found a ring diamond ring in the grass but it's kind of amazing. >>reporter: it really is amazing after examining the

loot they turned the bags over to police. if nobody claims the items in 90 days all the treasure will go become to the children who found it. >> they were exited today. >> to politic. republic cap presidential hopeful rick santorum came here to fun raise. he's vowing to press on despite pressure to bow out. we are live where the reception took place tonight in alamo. >>reporter: fundraiser took place at a home up this private road. there seem to be a good turn out despite the that santorum is way behind in delegates and money. rick santorum motorcade arrived at alamo this evening. republican presidential candidate came to collect much-needed campaign cash. supporters paid from 125 to few thousand $to attend the if you said raiser. held at the estate of mark and becky pine. for many people it was money well spent. despite the fact that in their estimate santorum won't end up being the republican nominee.

>> he's a good guy. i think he's got some decent ideas and i have no problem giving him a little final surge. competition is good. >> even if he dent get the nomination he might be the presidential nominee in the party so who knows. >>reporter: earlier santorum made an appearance at the jelly belly factory in fairfield. candy made famous by former president reagan who santorum mentioned repeatedly in his speech. >> went out and talked about cutting taxes for everyone. not just those at the upper end. cutting taxes for everyone. creating opportunity for everyone. that's the message i have been taking around this country. >>reporter: in addition to comparing himself to reagan, santorum took jab at front runner romney. brought a minieven sketch poking fun at comment made by romney aide who said the former massachusetts governor would be able to reset his campaign after the primary. >> governor romney said that after the sketch flap he would run as conservative in the fal

fall. i'm not going to run as a conservative in the fall. i am a conservative, period. [applause]. >>reporter: it's up clear how much money was raised tonight but over all santorum trails romney by a huge margin. 15 million i don't know to romney 75 million. live inal month, abc 7 news. >> thanks for. that romney was endorsed today by former president george hw bush and his waive barbara. romney joined them in houston for announcement. former florida governor and george stayed out of the fray. >> apple manufacturing plant in china. audit at the plant found health safety and excessive over time violation. workers building i.phone and i.pad often worked 60 hours or more a week and not always paid for the over time. fox con will raws the weekly work time 49 hours legal limit in china and raise wages to compensate for the lost salary.

>> tomorrow night half bill i don't know dollar mega million jackpot just unprecedented. 6 little numbers separating hopeful to the biggest jackpot in world history. >> look at the line overhead the cavanaugh liquor in san lorenzo that has sold 4 wing tickets. you we are at the luckiest store in the state. >> they sold a 5th inning ticket years ago for 20 million dollars but nobody claimed it. how does that even happen? i'm think that go if somebody wins tomorrow night they will be claiming the 5 40 million dollars jackpot prize. cavanaugh closed at 9:00 o'clock. reopened tomorrow morning at 9 and with the turn out they had today they said you may weren't to get here at 8:00 a.m. >> no more. come back at 9:00. >>reporter: they couldn't stay open all night. much to the dismay of many lottery hopeful.

if you wanted to buy a ticket to have a chance at winning the 5 40 million dollar mega million jackpot, you had to get here early. >> well the lines all the way at the back an hour wait. >>reporter: but some say cavanaugh is worth the wait. >> this store has a reputation cavanaugh for winners. most in northern california. we just had one in january. and now this big mega million jack pot. looks like everybody knows it. >>reporter: they have had 4 claimed jackpot. latest 11 million dollars. >> she was a regular. she just played one quick pick for advance play and it was her husband number. he passed away a few years back but it was cool. >> we bought 800 quick pick numbers. >>reporter: danielle barns of livermore hope her work pool has the next wing combination. >> probably about 150 of alameda county finest paramedic and emt.

>>reporter: they play for more than 5 40 million. >> as it gets higher it would be higher by the time we hit tomorrow's draw. >>reporter: but ask anyone here and they will tell you the winning ticket has already been sold. >> we know we have the winning ticket so please don't try to mug us open the streets when you call 911. >>reporter: the manager here told me tonight after they closed they sold 80,000 ticket tickets. not to add any fuel to the fire that is the mega million frenzy but lotto officials are saying that it is very likely that so many people bought tickets that every 6 digit combination has been played which would mean that somebody has to win tomorrow night so either concentrate on the fact that your chances are 1 in 176 million or that somebody has to win tomorrow night. abc 7 news. >> thanks very much. is in woman you interviewed i know she hopes she has the right ticket but she couldn't because we did. >> we have list of bay area stores where most wing ticket

sold go to our web site and click on see it on tv. good luck. we will medley send out a breaking news alert on twitter facebook when the number comes out tomorrow tonight at 8:00 o'clock. not connected with us for breaking news update go to twitter at this number. good luck tomorrow. >> up next. rocket into the hand of logical police department. millions of dollars of used military gear that is being put to good use. >> also. major security problem personal information belonging to hundreds of thousands of californians maybe you appears to be lost. >> very will you do and colorful message that forced forced down this meeting. >> coming up next on "nightline". pick up the coverage of the game changing report on working conditions inside apple factories. did it raise the cost of all high tech electronic.

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california police department have been getting millions of dollars worth of surplus military equipment. that's according to our media partner california watch, non-partisan project center for investigative reporting. they have been pouring through data to determine where much of the extra equipment has gone. >> u.s. military requires a lot of equipment obviously to conduct operation over seas. but when military operations in iraq wound did you know last year, local police departments were among the biggest beneficiary of the troop draw down. concord police got the 300,000 dollar armored personnel carrier for free. >> we are going to be using that inform our s.w.a.t. team. >>reporter: in the early 90's congress passed legislation that allowed excess military equipment to be transferred to local police departments when it noise longer needed. since 1997 concord police have received more than 5 26,000 dollars in military surplus. one of the reasons we do it is because of the budget craze we have had really in the exist it

allows to us get goods and materials we normally wouldn't be able to get l for essentially free. >> 2011 was record bricking year in terms of state police agencies participating in the program. >>reporter: california watch reporter andrew becker examined the federal database to determine where the equipment ended up. he found that more than 17,000 public agency around the country have received an estimated 2.8 billion dollars in military surplus since this program was created. california received 26.two million i don't know of that last year alone and the bay area snapped up nearly 11 million. >> some equipment they have gotten over the years everything from helicopter to m-16 rifle, left over tooth brush, bath mat, camping gear you name it. one person trash is another person trishtion many law enforcement agency access the surplus list for years. alameda county sheriff

received 85 foot patrol craft in 2005 and patrol port of oakland and bay. it's worth 4.4 million dollars. they payed? just 1 dollar for it. >> you can get ship like this for a dollar it's a no brainer. >>reporter: program is run on line. >> what we do is we look at the catalog of the items being released and see if it is something we can use within our particular agency. >>reporter: police then request the item from the department of defense. it's accepted the equipment is transferred and the civilian police department take over responsibility for maintenance and storage. things they later determine they don't need can be sold or turned back over to the federal government. >> interesting process. now you can read the full california watch report on line l or look up what your local department has received by will will going on to our web site. >> 2 companies manage store record for the state department of chilled support service have lost sensitive information connected to about 800,000

californians. ibm and iron mountain say 4 missing disk held social security and driver's license numbers as well as addresses. back up storage did he vases disappeared while being transported from ibm facility in colonel republican and democrat 0to sacramento by fedex. people whose data is miss ring being notified. >> student protestors interrupted this morning university of california of regent meeting [ yelling] the students called it a spring broke protest. demonstration group so rowdy they shut did you know the meeting and left the room. protestors are upset they met at the mission bay campus during spring break limiting stawpt participation. >> weekend almost upon us and weather is changing. >> that's right. rain will come become on a saturday for us let's check in with sandy. >> yes. the storm is going to come in open sachlts i thought it was interesting. i pose a

question on facebook are you ready for another storm this weekend. majority said no. there were only a couple people that said yes and one had stipulation. if it rains when i'm work are or i'm asleep then it's fine. live doppler 7 hd and see where it is raining rate now. ukiah steady rain tonight over quarter inch so far. santa rosa picked autopsy if you sprinkles and still not out of the question later on tonight heading that tomorrow. take a look at the time lapse from high definition east bay hills camera. many dealing with this. we look towards mount diablo. cloud cover out there and cloud with us it pretty much all day long after morning fog and drizzle. we have fog out there right now. half moon bay is reporting really low visibility. temperatures in the 50's but most other areas are reporting quite a bit of cloud cover and numbers being held up because of the clouds so in the 50's at this hour and not expected to fall much. here are the highlights occasional spring el in the north bay. mild conditions for the south by.

this is tomorrow forecast. windy and rainy for your saturday and even potential for some thunderstorms. so here's satellite radar this storm is pray mayoral a northern california event but some of this moisture is getting into our area so we are seeing it in the form of clouds although someplaces lick san jose got up in the upper 60's today. pretty mailed day away from the coast lane. moisture makes it in far enough to our viewing area that the north bay will continue to remain on the southern end of the system keeping the sprinkle in the forecast for your friday. this is the blustery storm due in on saturday. getting more organized in the pacific and when it arrives you will feel the effects of it beginning tomorrow night not much happening. storm not here yet. lit showers expected tomorrow evening. possibly some drizzle along the coast license and then as we head that saturday morning that storm moves in rain and wind out ahead of the cold front, cold front continues to pretty south. 10:00 a.m. steady wide spread rain and whipped. hane the

front showers continue pretty much all day long that the evening. in the weigh hours of sunday morning we see everything winding did you kno know. so rainfall total lack like this. 1 to 2 inches expect in the north by mount. half inch in the north by through sunday morning. 3 quarters inch to inch and a half. quarter to half inch peninsula east bay and less than that in the south by. sierra nevada certainly see snow winter storm wendy burch late tomorrow night continuing until late saturday night. 1 to 2 feet of new snow expected with gusty winds. tomorrow morning pretty comfortable lack at the numbers in the 50's with cloudy skies fog at the coast. upper 40's santa cruz morgan hill. tomorrow afternoon most areas in the 60's but we'll see some sfwlis we see partly cloudy skies like livermore, san jose, monteray bay 72 in will go roadway. forecast few sprinkle in the north bay. windy. wet. saturday. dry

sunday all right upside with weekend plans. dry monday tuesday another chance of rain wednesday. >> all right. we have heard it now. >> that's right. >> winning the lottery so who cares. >> who cares. >> toll freeway could be headed your way. >> lanes into cash machines. stay with us. news continues >> lanes into cash machines. stay with us. news continues right after this

is before. >> new at the advice increasing survival rate of stroke patients. >> that's according to the silicon valley business journal. stanford no, sir palo alto first in northern california to use the did he advice. in clinical trial it had 60 percent success rate in removing clocked. >> express toll lane in the area. public private partnership being considered for the 3.6 billion dollar proposal expected to be completed by 2030. tomorrow print edition of silicon valley business journal. >> but on to sports. lets talk some shark hockey tonight. >> larry has that. >> do we have to. >> i guess. >> goals are lick gold for the sharks right now. rapidly

running out of time and hope denied in phoenix. early and running out of time and hope denied in phoenix. early and afternoon. sports next.

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before. >> good evening. sharks are heading to a cold and dreary place. where play off hopes go to die. another frustrating loss tonight in phoenix. joe thornton pulling off goalie smith snow shower for you. the shower didn't phase him. denies jason smith. 38 saves and blank the men in tee. hard to win if you score sear o. power play but redemanded for wide open net 1 nothing. to the third phoenix dagger here 3 on 1. perfect pass. second goal of the night. sharks fall 2 nothing. drop to 9th in the standings 4 games left. a's finish the smoke throwing and assessment is going deep. h and m in the land of rising so son. cologne mountain of man at age 38 can till bring it. 8

innings. striking out each ichiro there. got smoked by justin smoke in the 7. score less tie broke. one nothing seattle. took 2 gyms for the new slugger here to hit the first major league home run. 2 run cloud. gave them a lead. after that, josh went deep and john i did the same. 4 one when it heads back to the bay area. they are died for fifth. stand with assistance. 44 year coaching career with mit championship. he has been packing lately because he knew the listened was there. stanford in the final and writ that's 4 point play. arrested national open it with a birth and says i'll take that. thank you very much. throw down. 10 under in coming back future light. 15 points to lead the

way. app touring the mit 75-5 75-51. green. jackson players hopped on bart to hand out clipper car to passengers many had no idea they were warriors. jackson said one guy he met was covering a coaching tip. >> gave me suggestions on how to run the 2-3 zone so very interesting. i almost hired im as assistant coach. >> no these true. tracy to think about that. i used object on the every weekend toton to be back here is your record. a lot of have coaching advice for you. >> koym mement whatever he said. >> try it hot. >> couldn't hurt. >> at this point. >> up next carolyn johnson for all of us here thanks for joining us everyone. >> appreciate your time so much and we'll see you tomorrow. >> appreciate your time so much and we'll see you tomorrow. >> good night everyone

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