live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> santa cruz police believe they have found the body of a missing 8-year-old girl following an intense search for maddy middleton. a teen boy is being questioned and police are about to hold a news conference. >> i am eric thomas here for christian. >> this is an excruciatingly difficult day for everyone after a child's body was found in a dumpster behind the apartment complex which maddy lived with her mother. a news conference is about to get underway in santa cruz. that is where janet o has the latest.

janet? >> what started off as a case of a missing child is now a murder investigation. police will be addressing many questions at the news conference that is about to get underway. back at the sketch the coroner was seen leaving this morning after spending hours on site along with investigator whose have been at the art center throughout the night and morning gathering evidence from the garage where the dumpster was located and where maddy's body was found yesterday evening. they have been gathering evidence and what appears to be the suspect's apartment on the third floor. that is where neighbors say the 15-year-old teen lived with his family. thestein in police custody being questioned in connection with the death of 8-year-old. many parents have been coming by to pay respects leaving a flower at the growing memorial in honor of maddy too close to home of a tragedy. >> you realize you have to be vigilant all the time. it is sad we have to live in a world where these things occur.

you want to held them tight and hug them and protect them. >> many community members were part of the city-wide search for maddy starting on sunday evening when she was first reported missing and many are expected to be at the tannery later this evening where a vigil be held for maddy. >> janet, thanks very much the we are waiting again for a news conference to begin on the discovery of a child's body in a dumpster behind the apartment complex where madyson middleton lived with her mother. this is a soft the podium where we expect the police chief to be speaking at any moment. stay with us for continuing coverage of this story and we will steam it for you on abc7news.com. >> 15 homes in berkeley are still without water at this hour. east bay mud shut it off at 5:30 when a 6" water pipe burst near hearst. crews are trying to figure out what happened. water should be restored to

customers by early evening. another water main break near folger was capped quickly. selling cars is not normally dangerous but do not tell that to a car salesman who went through a terrifying test drive when a customer asked to test drive a van drove his home in pittsburg end with a police chase and crash in antioch. amy hollyfield joins us. colleagues say the sales associate was pretty shaken up but he is okay. fortunately, the march who kidnapped him wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. the car he stole had a tracking device in it. it started out as a routine test drive. the customer ever drove the van to the by birth home to the family. >> the seams man went to the house and the three year old son was running in the car, saying,

daddy, it has tvs, it has leather. kind of weird. >> the sales associate say that the test drive turned into a crime. the customer left his home and became threat being. >> gentleman turned to him and said we are not going back to the dealership. you are coming with me. the salesman was, like no, we need to get back to the dealership and the man grabbed his shirt and slammed him against the window of the passenger window of the car and the salesman was freaked out and the guy was hitting high speeds and driving crazy. i believe he smashed two cars. >> when heavy traffic forced the driver stop the salesman jumped out of the car and called police. >> finding the stole card was not hard. >> onstar located the car and remain swad in. can you not get away. that is the best thing about g.m. >> they have the man's driver's license on record standard procedure. he was booked into jail.

the van appears totaled. here are pictures of it at crash scene. the victim is going to be okay. >> he was shocked and shaken up. my general sales manager went to pick him up himself and you can tell he was frazzled. >> the victim is off today and he has to go to the police lineup for investigators. he will be running to work his colleagues tell us, and they will continue to do test drives. it is business at usual. it is the end of the month and they have quotas to make. >> memorial plans for fallen hayward police sergeant slung have been finalized. a viewing will be held tomorrow at the chapel of the chimes in hayward from 4:00 people until 9:00 people. on thursday, a police motorcade will escort his body to the arena. in oakland a moment service will be held at 10:00 a.m. law enforcement from around the country expected to attend. the efferent is open to the

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repairs to a water main break on friday. workers have collected samples to determine when the water is safe to drink again. >> crews still battling nine wildfires across california right now two of the biggest close to the bay area firefighters have the 6,500 acre wragg fire near lake berryessa 80 percent contained with gulf containment expected by thursday. evacuation warnings are still in affect for those living near the lowell fire northeast of sacramento. it has burned 2,200 acres since saturday and it is 30 percent contained. the willow fire has burned 1700 acres since saturday and crews have it only 5 percent contained. >> parts of the bay area could be so hot we could hit triple digits today because of a heat wave. >> meteorologist mike nicco is here with the forecast and he has been wanting us. >> we have been watching it for a couple of days so well jump right into it by opening the

weather window on our east bay camera and talking about how yesterday we jumped double death degrees into the 70s and 80s and 90s and today we will go 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s like the 102 in walnut creek. in san jose down in the south bay you are the most likely to have poor air quality today. inland, east bay for tomorrow. and thursday our first and possibly second and third summer "spare the air" alert. here is a look at walnut creek right now all of our neighborhoods the air quality is good but as the temperature rises this afternoon and more people get back on the road to head home i expect that to change. >> thing you mike. can you track the heat without live with the abc weather app free on apple app and google play and more information at abc7.com/apps. >> if you are one of one billion customers with droid phone i could be vulnerable to a hack

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that is scary leaving users in the eleven. >> the company that identified the flaw said it told google about it in political and provided a fix. google said they sent the fix to the pans but after more than three months the fix is still not widely available. >> a costly mistake by an a.t.m. worker sends him into shock. >> the seven underway after a bag of $140,000 cash was left on the street. >> we are waiting for a news conference in santa cruz after the discovery of what is believed the body of a mission 8-year-old girl. you can see the officials are lining up at the mike -- microphone. >> here is the chief of police for the santa cruz police department. >> good morning, everyone, before i begin i will actually have the mayor make a statement to the media.

i inrow dues the mayor. >> thank you, chief. on behalf of the santa cruz community, the city of santa cruz and the santa cruz city council i want to begin by expressing my deepest sympathies to the parents, the family and friends of madyson middleton. our thoughts and our hearts and our prayers go out to those chose to madyson middleton who have been devastated by the tragic loss of this very precious life. i know thousands of members of this community are joining with her loved one in greening the loss and will continue to provide support. while it is important we seek justice and i have great confidence that everyone involved in our criminal justice system will continue to work toward that end today is also a day to honor the life of madyson

middleton and offer our support to those who have been most profoundly affected by her death. thank you. good morning, everyone, thank you for being here. i am the police chief for santa cruz kevin vogel. i express my sympathies to the family of madyson middleton. this has been just a horrific experience for the family and our entire community and i express sympathy from the santa cruz police department and from myself. i am going to go through a chronology of evens starting with sunday evening when mad was first reported missing to the santa cruz police department. the first report came in at approximately 6:08 p.m. on sunday, july 26 from the tannery art center located on

river street where madyson lived. she was last seen on that evening at approximately 5:05 p.m. where she was captured on a video system at the complex lying her scooter around the complex. when we first received the call we dispatched officers and upon learning we had a missing 8-year-old we flooded the area with police officers and detectives in an effort to locate madyson conducting an extensive search of the area she was last seen clouding the surrounding wood land areas and open spaces, the river levee and the entire tannery arts center complex in our effort to locate her. we realized quickly that we needed additional resources to assist us in the search. therefore my staff contacted santa cruz county sheriff's

office on sunday evening and requested the assistance of their search-and-rescue team. we also requested specially trained k-9 units from the california state office of emergency services to assist us with our efforts. the police department staff in santa cruz as well as our other allied law enforcement agencies worked throughout the night to follow up and consider the search for madyson and hopes of finding her safely. we reached out to the f.b.i. on sunday folk their assistance. they sent a team of agents to us to assist with the search for maddy with additional resources to be brought in on monday morning. all available personnel and f.b.i. personnel and search-and-rescue personally from santa cruz county and adjoining counties conditions the search for maddy hoping to find her safe.

last night at 7:55 p.m. a santa cruz police detective conducted a secondary and more thorough canvas of the complex which included the search of a recycle bin located in an enclosure on the first floor parking structure at the tannery arts center complex. maddy's body was located in that recycle bin. without compromising the integrity of this investigation, i will merely say that maddy's body was concealed if a recycled bin in a way that was not obvious or readily appoint. there was a 15-year old male juvenile who resides in an apartment on the property in the location where her body was pound and he was near when maddy was located. he was subsequently taken into custody. he was property back to the santa cruz police department and

interviewed. investigators from the santa cruz police department interviewed this interview into the early, early morning hours this morning. he was subsequently arrested for the murder of madyson middleton. additionally investigators have located evidence that links the suspect to this horrific crime. we have determined that maddy was an aquantitiesance of the suspect by both being residents of the complex and it appears she was lured to the suspect's pant willingly. additionally we have determined that made was murdered inside of the suspect's apartment. she was then carried downstairs to the recycle bin where she was concealed in the recycle bin. we have determined that the suspect acted alone. not in cop sort with anyone -- in concert with anyone else. there is no risk or threat to our community at this point.

the suspect is currently in custody. he is being housed at santa cruz county juvenile detention facility. i would like to thank the members of my staff who worked relentlesslies many working 36 hours straight driven by our desire and hope we would find maddy safe. our investigation is still in full swing and we have many hours of work in front of us. i also would like to thank our law enforcement partners who assisted us and contributed with personnel and other resources. specifically, i thank the sheriff of our county jim hart and his search-and-rescue team and his staff who searched relentlessly in the trails, woods and waterways and open spaces in the hopes of finding maddy. i also want to thank the san mateo county sheriff who provided resource if the search-and-rescue efforts. standing behind me is our

district attorney, jeff rosewell. we have worked together for a long-term and every case of this magnitude or any case where there is a criminal prosecution goes to the district attorney's office. jeff and his staff have been right beside us throughout the entire investigation. i could not think of anyone else i would rather work so closely with throughout a case like this in our district attorney's office and they have opinion magnificent so i extend my thanks. i also thank the any my and specifically special agent mall con palmore who assisted us. in hours the f.b.i. brought in 50-plussing as and set up a command post and assisted us with the investigation. i want to thank the american red cross. they sustained our first responders throughout this investigation and they were out and still are i believe, at the

complex where this occurred. they were a great community partner in this. i want to thank the communities members would came forward and offered assistance and support. we had -- i would not hazard a guess how many came out but they helped canvas and they were this for whatever we needed throughout the entire investigation. we could not do something like this without the support of our community. our communities really showed up in force after maddy disappeared. i want to extend my sincere thank you for the community and really the message here is how much this community comes together when we are in a time of crisis hike we have been for the last 36 hours. lastly, again, to the family of madyson middleton, i am sure all of you can relate to this as a

parent myself and many of you i am sure are parents, this is just been devastated for me personally and for my staff. my staff was so hopeful we would find her alive. when the news came last night that she was not alive it was horrific. it was horrible. with that i want to extend our sympathies to the family of maddy. i want to thank the media, also, for making sure we got all of this information out to our community. with that, i will close. we will answer questions when we are done. now i want to turn this over to our district attorney jeff rosewell. >> i want to --. >> you have been listening to the police chief kevin vogel talking about discovery of the body of madyson "maddy" middleton, a 15-year old suspect has been arrested in connection

with the death and charged with murder according to the police chief and the police chief, eric had no words over than "horrific, horrific." >> this is something the police take personally. as a parent himself the police said it was devastating and totally horrific. they got the call that the child was lost and it was not until the next day in a recycling bin that the body was found and quickly identified and the 15-year-old suspect has been taken for questioning and arrested in connection with maddy's death. >> we will continue to stream this news conference for you on air open our website at

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>> cannot give you enough warnings about the heat. >> we are in a heat wave. meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> good morning from the broadcast center where we can look from sutro tower do the golden gate bridge and the beaches, there are no more clouds or marine layer or free air conditioning as we look at sutro tower and gill pop up our forecast highlights hot and hazy sunshine and poor air is possible today and tomorrow and thursday night. never remain too warm and that is why we do not have the heat advisory, seasonal highs this weekend are humid and unfortunately it looks like the storms will stay away from us. check out the lack of cloud cover and with the north and

northeast light breeze it will be hazy from the smoke due to the fires from the north and east. 91 at fairfield and antioch. 93 in san ramon. those areas will hit 100 and 76 in san francisco, and oakland is 73 so we have a ways do go before we reach our highs. look how calm the bay is from the south beach camera because the winds are light and variable and they could pick up. the weather service, believes from the west to the golden gate bridge and north of the bay bridge from noon until 9:00 with small craft advisory. 72 at half moon bay. 78 in san francisco. low-to-mid 80s in richmond and oakland. mid-90s in the south and north bay and triple digits inland east bay. if you going to the game expect delightful weather, 69 degrees at 7:15 dropping to 65 with a light breeze and sunshine to start. my seven-day forecast is hotter tomorrow and a better chance of setting record highs and the heat will leave but city pretty bad on thursday and by saturday and sunday we are 60s at the coast 70s and 80s

around the bay and 80s to 90s inland and remember, it will be humid. >> heat and water right? we need a glass of water but this is a big problem. >> breaking news from san bruno the estimate is that millions of gallons of water have been lost, a broken 54" regional transmission line is to blame. sky is over the park where the pipe was reported protecten around 9:30 last night. this are problems with the feed, and water is flowing through the park and into a creek that runs into the bay. no customs are affected and craws inspecting the pipe for damage. how long will it take? no one knows. >> a news conference you continues on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. back in a moment. we have had a lot going on today. coming up at 4:00 how much is a human egg worth? a woman is going to court to

fight prices that are not fair. a rage against robocalls and solutions to stop that big problem. >> a last news going on today. well keep you inform all day about the latest on the madyson middleton case and we have just a couple of days a memorial service for the slain police officer. >> you can follow us online and we will streak the news conference talking about maddy middle ton. thanks for joining us today. >> try to stay cool. it will be a hot one.

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