surreal shock state. >> reporter: the support from friends has been overwhelming. steve said yesterday was a first time investigators told him that they believe his daughter is no long era live. >> it was -- tough to hear. we are -- we are still hoping, somehow they are wrong. >> reporter: its been nine weeks since she went missing. >> missing her like crazy. hoping you know i'm still hoping. >> reporter: at washington high in fremont where she went to school last year, friends are clinging to a sliver of hope. >> i believe she is a live. until there is a body found i think they is out there and nothing, nobody can tell me otherwise. >> i miss her. >> reporter: her best friend showed us a matching bracelet, they got it at disneyland a

year ago. >> hers says sierra and i got this. >> feels like someone grabbed my heart and took a part of it and they won't let go. i feel there is something missing. >> reporter: the family is asking volunteers to continue the search until sierra is found. meanwhile fines plan another vigil here at washington high school for next friday june 1st. we are live in fremont. >> all right. we go to robert honda live in san jose with the lengths that investigators went to make that arrest. >> reporter: the suspect is going to be officially charged in court for murder and kidnapping this thursday and right now he is in custody here at the santa clara main jail. today we fund out more details about what led to the arrest. >> investigators believe they

have a lot of evidence linking the 21-year-old to the kidnapping murder of sierra lamar. the teen disappeared on her way to school on march 16th. today the mother of the suspect spoke to us at their mobile home park. she said her son said he was fishing during the time lamar wenting missing, one that's been searched several times. >> he is -- it's hard to believe all this but i don't know what happened. >> reporter: investigators don't believe it as we reported at five the sheriff's department said they have dna evidence linking him to belongings found in lamar's bag and physical evidence connecting him to his red jetta. they said they have been watching him around the clock at his mobile home. >> we had an undercover team inside the mobile home park

inside an vv like they were residents. >> reporter: the sheriff's department is investigating the suspect in three assaults in 2009, one involved a stun gun and day the sheriff said in that case they have evidence linking him to that attack. the sheriff's department said it believes lamar was a random victim and didn't know the suspect. >> her mother had a message today for the suspected killer. >> have a plea to him, to please, please give the information if you have -- that you have to lead us to sierra to help end this nightmare. >> reporter: news of the arrest and murder charge spread quickie today at the high cool where sierra was attending school when she disappeared. parents are glad somebody is in

custody. >> reporter: volunteers promise they won't give up on their search. another effort is planned for tomorrow. today people spent so many hours looking for her, hugged each other at the search center. >> we opened and let everybody know we are here not to support only the family but the community. they are coming out and show their support. >> the search -- volunteers will hold their regularly scheduled search tomorrow morning at eight. our coverage continues on the website. you will find more of the video of the suspect's arrest and more details about the progress of the investigation. >> the laura accused in a deadly hit and run appeared in court this mourning. police arrested 32-year-old spencer smith last thursday. he made a brief appearance today in court in pleasanton. police identified him as the owner of a car connected with

the crash that killed a 57-year- old may 15th. >> he is very, extremely stressed and this is a horrible event in someone's life. horrible event for the person who was killed no question but you ask how spencer is doing he is hurting. >> smith is now free on $60,000 bail. his attorney said arraignment was put over until june 27 president. >> oakland city leaders are talking about banning protesters using home made shields in demonstrations. rob roth is in oakland where he spoke to a member of the occupy movement defending the use of the shields. >> reporter: right now here in side the city hall the council public safety committee is considering a new law. it's aimed to ban protesters carry what should call tools of violence. police have been seeing more subpoena more of these home

made shields. this man said he is a protester who has brought it cut from a can to demonstrations. he said they are necessary because police have used weapons to control crowds. >> the people that had shields, they were able to stop some of those from hitting other people. >> reporter: city officials say the protesters use them to advance on police lines. city councilmembers are considering a new ordinance to ban protesters from bringing the sheils, clubs, paint cans and other dangerous tools. >> we don't want people who really are justin tent on doing harm to use that as a cover for really destroying a lot of innocent people's property. >> i think it's a bunch of bull. it's another way for the city to try to remove more of our rights. >> reporter: here at this shoe shine shop, ground zero for many protests you can see a cracked window. the owner said it was from a protest in february. he supports the proposed ban on

protest item that would carry a thousand dollar fine and six months in jail. >> i don't think it's fair for them to carry sticks and stuff because they get out of hand. >> reporter: the proposal could go to the full city council in two weeks and could be law perhaps by july. occupy protesters say if it does become law they will find other ways to get the message across. reporting live. rob roth. >> the alameda da has dropped robbery and hate crime charges against three occupy protesters. they were accused of surrounding a woman who criticized their demonstration insulting her perceived sexuality and taking her wallet. one of them pleaded guilty in a separate case. he was ordered to stay away from the plaza as part of his probation. a business located in the middle of the occupy protest is now closed. we found this notice at the

coffee shop near the plaza. it said it was a business decision. they it say the coffee stop experienced a up if sales during the protests but that was not a factor in their decision to close. >> a san francisco jury found a richmond man guilty of murder in a shooting that had a ripple effect on night life in the city. the 22-year-old was convicted of shooting killing a 19-year- old outside club suede on february 7th 2010. the city's entertainment commission came under criticism for not doing enough to crack down on violence in nightclubs. a judge later ordered that the club be closed. sentencing has not been set. >> a sacramento jury has convicted a man of rape in part because of a 17-year-old jailed as a witness. the unidentified teen spent 27 days in juvenile hall to ensure her testimony. she said she was working as a

prostitute when she was assaulted. another prostitute also testified. >> more than a dozen babies in solano exposed to tb. health officials say 15 in the icu at fairfield's north bay medical center were exposed to someone with a active case of that disease. it happened between march 31st and april 2nd and from april 11th to the 19th. officials say the risk of contracting tb is small. facebook is already the focus of an investigation now on just it's third day of public trading. securities regulators in massachusetts today suspect is investigating if the bank warned certain clients that it's future earns were being downgraded. shares fell 8% today. >> google's block buster

purchase of motorola is now a done deal. the $12.5 billion deal is the biggest in their history. it gives the company ownership of valuable patents for it's mobile phone operating system. >> today tesla set a date for its new car to hit the road. the electric car maker said customers will start to drive away in the new car on june it '22nd ahead of schedule. it'll start at a invite only event event. they said it mope hopes to sell five thousand. the shares jumped 7% today to $30 and 79 rent cents a share. >> the welfare to work program apparently working. the institute of california said cal works helped families in need get back on their feet. the report shows about half of those have been on it for less than two years. the study comes as lawmakers

decide whether to make more cuts to the program? >> he savored their lives and now they are honoring his life. the moving memorial to a bus driver who saved 26 children kidnapped in 1976 and then buried alive. >> and saving hour school. the one thing lawmakers say can be done to end the cuts in california classrooms. >> back in just ten, we will track some of the winds, chewing up the fog and it's cooling down the temperatures. ♪

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. >> governor mead a pitch to business leaders to rally support for a tax increase on the november ballot. >> lot of individual businesses are supporting the tax. i don't know where the chamber

will be because they have a very diverse and large membership. we are getting a lot of support and financial support from the business community. >> the governor spoke at the california chamber of commerce breakfast. critics argue higher taxes will hurt business but he says cuts teeming indication and as harmf >> two republican lawmakers proposed an amendment they say will help save california's schools. supporters say the state has short changed education for years by deferring scheduled payments to public schools to help balance the budget. they say since deferrals started in 2001 the state has io u's of $10 billion . they have the prosser child for the disfunction here in sacramento. it's a really the largest shell in the shell game that is us used with a budget. >> supporters did not offer options for the state to fill the budget hole if the deferrals are banned. >> some bay area schools

marked harvey milk day. he would have turned 82 today. he was assassinated back in 1978. at this hour san francisco's castro theater is paying try but to a screening of milk based on his life. >> new at six it was a story that shocked the world more than 30 years ago. a school bus in the central valley hijacked, 26 children kidnapped buried alive. today the driver who saved them was laid to rest. ken pritchett was the only reporter as he was remembered. >> reporter: perhaps there never was a mano linked to a school bus and onto day his friends and family said good- bye that old bus was there at his gravesite, along with the children now grown that he saved. >> i loved him. he was very special. i -- everybody else.

>> reporter: three gun men walked the bus on a rural road and forced them into two windowless vans, the bus ditched in -- the kidnappers drove for 11 hours before putting them in a van buried in a quarry and covering it with dirt. it was a five million dollar ransom plot filed when the driver two other boys dug their way out. >> he was very calm. just followed instructions, not to put us in danger, to make sure we were safe, not to put us at risk. >> reporter: he was called a hero but his wife of 69 years said he never felt that way. >> no he didn't. he said -- i was just doing my job. >> reporter: a job he retire from in 1988. this bus which still runs after all these years is not just a symbol but also another story. the driver bought this bus in the years after the kidnapping and kept it on his property

until very recentury. he kept the bus as a memory of one extraordinary day, those at his service remember his 91 years, as a honorable man. >> what a man. that's ed. >> reporter: ken pritchett. ktvu channel 1 news. >> the kidnapper was three bay area men in their 20s who said they hatched the plot after losing money in real estate. they were sentenced to life in prison and so far have been denied parole. >> after months of desperation it's finally official. the warriors moving back to san francisco. the mayor joined team executives this morning to make the announcement. the warriors are set to move to or acle arena. by the team --.

>> when i came out we were playing in san francisco. >> officials say if all goes according to plan the team will play in the new arena. >> may say they worry the warriors won't be the only ones leaving. >> when you have them saying this -- the other two teams aren't far behind. >> reporter: officials and fans are -- the warriors move could be the first of three big losses for the city. leaders say they are moving forward with s to build a city with three new venues on the site for the warriors, rays and the raiders play. >> bill martin now from the weather center where he is tracking wind. >> yesterday the fog burned out. it'll be back tonight but the

wind will be the lead story. the wind is mixing out the marine layer and keeping the fog from being substantial along the coast. the winds going to 21. concord to near 30. you can't quite see it. they are gusting to near 30. the winds are out. the winds backed down a little tonight but pick up again tomorrow. the forecast -- a lot like today. the temperatures in the 70's. couple low 80's. as we head into tomorrow we will wake up with fog, temperatures like these. these were the highs from today. the highs tomorrow will be similar to these. we will see a lot of upper 70's. away from the coast and 60s around the bay. about 73 in san jose for daytime high which is what we had today. more of the same. kind of a windy, mild spring like weather pattern. the winds, these are the overnight lows, winds that will continue overnight into tomorrow are stirring up the tree pollen and the grass

pollen. a lot of people as you go out and about. you notice the sneezing, tree pollens high to method rail. the winds mix it up. tomorrow more of the same. pollens little more noticeable. extended forecast into a cooler period as we go into thursday and friday. when i say cooler but not that much cooler, kind of -- 70s and mid70's. gusts tomorrow could make it to 30 miles an hour by the two, 3:00 hour. we go into the -- the forecast highs for tomorrow. we are looking at what we looked at today. it's kind of same old pattern really but the winds, on the bridges they are coming out of the west and northeast. some of the bridges noticing wind advisories, the san rafael bridge. the yhp issues those, the weather service doesn't. the forecast highs are out there and they will look ache lot like today and the five-day forecast with the bay area weekend in view is one of those deals like last week where it cools off, especially on friday. starts to peak up for the bay

area weekend. the changes subtle, the wind the most notable right now. >> it's --. >> hard to complain. >> coming up at seven our team was the first to tell you about last night's arrest in the sierra lamar case. the latest on the investigation and what was happening today at her high school. and. >> small, cute and they just got noticed. why they have 90 days before they face eviction. join us at seven on tv36. >> a new training program kicking off here in the bay area. >> up. up. >> we go inside the new facility at virgin america.

. >> these pilots on the ground on board a new state-of-the-art simulator. it'll help the airline bring all of its pilot training here to the bay area. >> we were doing the training previously in miami and in dallas. it got more efficient.

>> officials say that is an 11 million-dollar investment in green pilots training. >> i want to try that. >> mark joins us now. >> they are a team needing to put together a winning streak. early going still in milwaukee but take a look at posey, yesterday, three run homer in the first, not quite that this time but they will take it. that is the automatic double to left center field. crawford comes in, 1-0. have you to see that play. look at the shot to left. the brewers have a runner at third. cabrera, you want to see the big league throw right here? on the money. out and cabrera says yeah, mess with my arm pal. the giants also get a first -- first big league homer it's a shot to left center field

with a man on, in the bottom of the 4th. giants take care of their business 4-0. got to show you this. one of the most powerful hitters in baseball a grand slam but the ball hits the scoreboard and as he crosses the plate you will see what it did to the scoreboard. completely knocked it out in that new stadium down in miami. not so happy about his blacked out scoreboard. >> the warriors announced the move to san francisco but one of their players, that's -- something the fans would like to hear about. something good happening. clay thompson named the all rookie first team. he averaged 12.5 points a game this year in his first season with them but in the final 26 games, he got to play every

night. more stuff tonight at temperature but that's the sporting life. >> that home run was something. >> that's a blast. >> bulls eye. >> thank you. >> young girls hit with flooded faces, tonight the new way bay area teens are facing the altered images they see every day. >> thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2news. >>