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developments in the case of the market held teenager that has been missing for a week. 15 year old sierra lamar, she was last seen leaving for high-school from her home. there have been new developments in this case. will tran has been following this story and is driving us live from morgan hill. >>will: and about 90 minutes, they plan to set up a roadblock either in this area for at the bus stop which is a quarter of a mile away and stop at the drivers to ask any questions, if they know sierra, if they were in this area last friday. we are exactly one week for the time she will cut it got ready for school and started heading towards her bus stop. here is video that we got yesterday from the search. on sunday afternoon, about a half mile from this location, they were able to locate her back.
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inside the foul clothing in the league folded. i asked the investigators, did she normally go to school with extra clothing it they said they are not sure. they have to talk to her mother. they raided until thursday morning to reveal that information. they wanted to confirm if it was her bed and the clothing inside, if they belonged to her. the answer to both questions was yes. that is the latest. they will also expanded their search to waterways did speak with registered sex offenders not only at morgan hill, but they plan to go all the way to gilroy to see where those registered sex offenders or on friday morning. despite finding herself of interbank, at this point they're still calling this a missing persons case. they say despite all of that there is no evidence that she ran away or if she was abducted. >>darya: for us, we'll look
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at that and say, isn't that evidence? >>will: i asked the same thing. they said because of herself fog. even mark klass said it is highly unlikely that she would not be with her cell phone. something stood out to him about that and they failed not only a cellphone but a half mile away, they found her back. those things to a layperson would lead to the abduction but they still say there is no evidence of foul play off which is why they're searching as a missing persons. perhaps they want to continue to leave everything on the table so that it can be approached from both directions. it seems like they are stepping up the pace now. the deputy behind me says he is not sure if in fact the day or days after she
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disappeared that in fact they did set up the road blocks. >> tire tracks, footprints, in general we could be looking for weapons of different types. clothing, any number of small things might be related. the difficulty is not in finding things. in the bay area, stuff is. -- stuff is eerie. the hard part is finding out what is pertinent to the case. craig skalar is joining as from the spot where police will be setting up the command center.
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>> this is a key location. they found her back just a quarter of a mile from here. the dogs were in grass like this as well as in open fields. they are hoping that when the rain hits the tomorrow morning that it actually will not be a hindrance on their search. they believe the rain could enhance the sense. that is what they're hoping for. the area is very rule in remote. >>darya: i like the fact
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the you're showing us how deep in the thick brush is. it is very difficult to see things in there. >>darya: how far are you away from will tran? >> about a quarter of a mile away. >>darya: of will continue team coverage this morning. we will show you a maps of you to get an idea of where the locations are. will also update our web site as well as facebook and it twitter. >>justine: there is now no sign that the french shooting suspect had al- qaeda ties.
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the investigation into the government is now showing that he was not trained or whatever in contact with run organized groups cordial ties. he is accused of murdering seven people and was killed in a gunfight with police on thursday. the kron4 news will be right back. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind.
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>>james: here is a live look on the bay bridge. our eyes are glued to their raider. we do expect rain to begin entering the bay area later tonight. we will probably weaken tomorrow morning to a wet start career saturday. >>darya: it has been one week since a suspicious naphtha tried to lure a 13 year old girl into his car.
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one day later, the same man was seen outside of the girls middle school. here is an enhanced sketch from the police police have stepped up patrols around the campus of the school as well. the pta president says that parents are concerned about this suspected child stalker and also add that the young girl that all of the right things. >> she did the right thing. she left school on her on the next day with a friend. kudos for her. she is not living in fear. they are not sheltering her. >>darya: school officials will continue to monitor the area of ramos will. >>james: here is a live look outside this morning showing you conditions in this city. they are called for now but we are expecting pretty big
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>>erica: right now we are calm around the bay area. a little chilly in the north bay, temperatures are sitting in the mid '30's. as we head into the afternoon we will continue to see mild conditions and plenty of sunshine bay area wife. we do have a lot of changes on tap. the big story is what will happen overnight. on satellite and radar, a
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little bit of rain fall but nothing to speak of. as we headed to the evening, in increase in cloud cover. future cast 4, you can start to see some rain fall approaching from the north is defeated by the yellow and green. as your sleeping it looks like the rain is beginning to shift eastward. everyone will be contending with wet weather. we are dealing with moderate-heavy rain. very steady and costed in nature.
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>>erica: we will see reval all the way into the work week. let's give it a contract with george. >>george: of which are looking at a pretty quiet start to the commute. the metering lights have not been activity get on the bay bridge and typically they are turned on a little bit later on fridays. the ride on 80 westbound across the upper deck is
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getting fairly busy for a set heading into san francisco. on the san mateo bridge ride we have been problem free all morning long. no problems or delays in and we are not tracking any hot spot on the freeways here if looking at the ride from marin county, an easy trip south out across the golden gate. we're looking at very light conditions on interstate 80 in the westbound direction. that is the commute side. 680 looks good, 580 westbound heavy traffic coming into livermore out of the altar of has. we're still keeping it on over here of the castro valley, there is road work leading in this direction. it is not to be direction. the rest was shut down from 2 38 ft. headed this way of turning onto 580 headed that way. again, it was reported as the emergency road work. some san girls were damaged. looking at the ride in the south bay, to 80, 101 and 70 arts a late freeze so far this morning with no slow
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traffic on the drive into mountain view whether from 85 or highway 101. >>justine: for here is what we're watching right now the kron4 news of. a minnesota congresswoman michelle bachman now owes more than 1 billion from are unsuccessful if to become the republican presidential nominee. half of that debt is owed to a fund-raising consultant in to the other half goes to her campaign manager. bob left the gop race after philistines -- finishing last in the iowa caucuses. she is now trying to run for a term in congress. >>darya: at 6:20 a.m., san francisco's suspended share of ross mirkirimi reported to probation at the hall of justice. the cameras were there following and even though he would not say anything. this is a part of his sentence after he struck a plea deal ed pleaded guilty
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to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge. a mercury me also attended a mandatory orientation for the domestic violence intervention program that he has to do. he has been suspended from his job of by the mayor. he is fighting back and says he will not step down. >>james: in belmont police are looking for a man who robbed a base wearing a mask that made him look elderly. the robbery happened just before 9:30 a.m. at a citibank on roles about it. the suspect headed the bank teller a note demanding money. he made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. the fbi is now a part of the investigation. set this is the police arrested a man they say is irresponsible for a string of burglaries. he's a three strikes parolee with a history of burglarizing homes. when police searched his homes, one in oakland at 1
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in the city they found the stolen items. here are the actions of just some of what he found. third >>darya: abb terra drill instead the go scared a lot of people because of will and so realistic. it did cause some minor panic. people did the it was a real terror attack. some >> it is going full tilt ever there was smoke billowing out and i thought, they shut the engine on that! >> it was big cannon fire. it was pretty exciting. when you hear gunshots 500 yds away in the ec blue and red lights on the patrol boats and smoke and guns >>darya: similar drills took place at bases all over the country. the navy says they were flat annual exercises. while
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>>darya: bills shot afghans while they were sleeping in their beds and some of the bodies were burned. he is currently being held at a military prison in fort leavenworth. one of the country's largest mortgage lenders is testing a new program that could keep more families from becoming homeless. bank of america is offering a mortgage to lease program allowing preselected customers to stay in their homes. those customers will not own their homes anymore but they will not owe any money on the mortgage. instead, bankamerica will let those customers read their own home from the bank. >>james: a hundred games opens today. a lot of the shows after that are sold out. this is the scene in new york city, fans were lined up to catch the shelling.
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>>darya: morgan hill teacher sierra lamar was seen a week ago this morning. police found her first 2 mi. from her house. inside the bag, it your pants and a t-shirt be the folded inside. we will be following the developments this morning. also, the what we get we are looking at, today we have nice weather gear ready for the rain, it is arriving tonight started in the north bay. >>james: a quick update on both whether it traffic. >>erica: all is quiet on the weather front right now. plenty of sunshine bay area wide. we are tracking the storm over night. the clouds will increase. we will see heavy rain and waking up tomorrow morning. moderate-heavy rain in the north bay at the entire bay area. it looks like saturday after did will continue with cool
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and rainy conditions stretching into the evening and potentially next week as well. >>george: i have not seen anything in the way of a hot spot. looking around the bay at the starting with your east be right, good conditions for 880, 80, 680 yen to the mets. a 280 ed 101 of the peninsula looks good. the southbound 101 the drive time is still under 25 minutes from novato to the golden gate bridge. >>darya: let's get back to the big story which is everything going of this market in the search for sierra lamar. as we told you at the top of the half hour, the fbi is now involved in the search year they have found some significant evidence which includes a bag with some of her clothing.
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joining us live from morgan hill is will tread. he has bid on this story from the start. >>will: said they revealed that they had found it four days after. they said they needed to confirm that it was her purse and that everyone -- that the clothing inside did belong to sierra. if the mother did confirm to investigators. searchers will be back out again. so far those two things have not given them any solid leads to where sierra might be this morning.
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the >>darya: the mother came out of the house and went down to the bus stop the day after. he saw her handing out fliers and stopping drivers. >>will: we ask the deputy if he knew whether his colleagues were out there and he said just by him not knowing, you would think this story is so big that he would know just from being in the office they guess they were in fact out there.
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>>darya: mark klass has been very active in getting children found after his own daughter was abducted and killed. this is her congress across across and and asked why the maummar home. we have team covered with craig skalar at the command center. that is where the focus is this morning as they will be searching the area where they found the back. let's go live to craig skalar and talk about some of the things that they will be looking for into the conditions of the search.
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>>craig: you can see the entrance of the gate where the command center will be. this area is typical of what they are looking at. the talks were out here yesterday, off i have seen them looking intensely in these areas. the rain is coming tomorrow. peccaries concern that maybe it would throw off the scent but they are saying that that actually enhance the sense and make it easier for them to figure out or find any clues. fasad this is the dirty work that has to be done into the places they have to go with
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dogs and personnel to try to find anything of what might happen to her. >>darya: it is a difficult task. now you zoom in on the grass and how tall is it is, there are so many places for things to hide or be lost. that will be a big search this morning. our team coverage will continue, stay with kron4 for the latest. we will be right back. for the latest. we will be right back. whatcha lookin' for hon? ah, these new jeans i want. i've been looking everywhere. new blue jeans? oh, don't be crazy, i've got tons of blue jeans. frank! frank! get my jean bin, susie wants my jeans. no she doesn't. here we go. nice and loose. ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay.
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neighborhood watch capt. there are hundreds of kids in the streets. there are protesting its debt. we will be back with an update in a few minutes. >>james: here is a live look outside, we will check in on the view from mt. tam. we are looking for the weather to really change on us this evening. this afternoon will be fine, is this evening going into tomorrow morning where wet weather will make an entrance. a full look at the forecast coming up in just a moment.
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visibility. cooler in the north bay would temperatures registering in the '30's. as we take a live look at the golden gate, the main thing is, it is dry. as we head into the afternoon, plenty of sunshine bay area wide. temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s. hough fuhr fill looks like modern-heavy rainfall indicated by the yellow and orange on the screen. with that, we could see a steady rain, heavy at times.
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where roadways are certainly in abundance. as we head into the afternoon and looks like everyone is dealing with a heavy dose of what weather stretching into the evening and overnight. pretty much the same story wickiups and a morning however it looks like a moderate-heavy rainfall will be reserved for east bay in the south bay locations. scattered and light showers along the coastline in portions of the north bay. in terms of rainfall totals in looks like by 2:00 p.m. on saturday we will see it in the north bay, about an inch for santa rosa, a half inch for napa and san rafael. twitter dealing for trace amounts of rain in the livermore valley and forces of the south bay. by sunday at 2:00 a.m., if you will see almost an inch and a half expected for santa rosa, over an inch for oakland, downtown's advances gulf in the san mateo. ha brill looks like the south bay could get some pretty significant accumulations, especially compared to the last series.
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your 7 day around the bay forecast shows nothing there rain headed into the weekend and a chance of showers are rabin next work week. you will certainly want to keep your umbrella handy for the next workweek. let's get a check on your morning commute. >>george: things are still pretty quiet in the traffic department. the chp is not tracking in the hot spots. there are no major incidents or delays. looking at the upper deck of the bay bridge, is live ride into san francisco across the suspension span into the drive time is still pretty low for the trip in the east bay. on the san mateo bridge, here is the camera looking westward from the toll plaza. no problems. but not commute direction volume is a little higher than usual. the golden gate looks good. there are no problems or delays there. as you can see, it is an
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easy commute as the head southbound coming in from marin county. let's take a look at traffic maps in the east bay and looking at your ride on 680 south. 80 west is still a light and easy commute. no problems for your ride of 580 westward. we are still keeping an eye on to 38 in a cast of valley. there was road work in a non commute direction. the connecting ramp from 580 has shut down. 101 northbound, a little bit of slowing but not the result of any accidents or problems. if the north bay ride is still light with no delays out of novato heading down to the golden gate. >>james: a quick reminder for drivers, the entire dumbarton bridge will be closed during memorial day weekend for seismic retrofit work. during that 3d closure a major expansion joints will
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be replaced on the western side of the bridge across six lanes of traffic. the bridge will be closed from 10:00 p.m. on may 25th until the following tuesday at 5:00 a.m.. use highly to 37 or the san mateo bridge to get around at work. >>darya: lines full of former auto plant workers showed up at every of women job fair in fremont. it would like their jobs back. most of these job-seekers have been out of work since the plant closed two years ago. if the job training coordinator says time is of the essence when it comes to getting back to work. >> one of the reasons is the fact that many clients are coming out of training. now, the unemployment insurance is also in think here is a double situation for them. because there's no more unemployment insurance, we have to be pro-active in assisting them in finding employment.
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