now at noon police name a person of interest in the case of missing oakland woman sandra koch as search crews spread out in vallejo to look for her, plus major new developments in the search for a car at the center of the multistate amber alert carrying a suspected killer and kidnap victim. plus headed into another weekend of last minute negotiations to try to avoid a bart strike. both sides are at the table but tensions are high. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now.

this is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. >> good afternoon, i am tori campbell. we begin with developing news on the search for a missing oakland woman sandra koch. police have identified randy alana as a person of interest in this case. several hours ago crews resumeed their search of a three square mile area in vallejo, mike nemack joins us with that. >> reporter: we will get to that in just a bit. we want to get you up to speed on a new development. 10 minutes ago i saw a sheriff's boat being pulled out of the water here so i called him. i said hey what is happening. why are you pulling them out. he said there has been a new development. i said did you find a body. he said i can't confirm that, all i can say is we are expanding to a new area, we will get more on that later he said possibly 30 minutes.

meantime we got new video we shot 30 minutes here north of us shows search and rescue crews pulling and poking at a comforter along the shore and also found an old white boat they left alone but definitely checked out. i would say in all 70 search and rescuers are looking for one missing woman. they are on foot, they are on the water. this is the search for oakland's sandra koch. >> we are also going to use dogs. they do have specially trained dogs that can search lakes. >> the lake is adjacent to 6 flags discovery kingdom and last night police requested the sheriff's office assistance in combing a three mile raid isaround this body of watered and that continues this afternoon. >> investigators received enough information that identified this area as being an area of interest. we want to be able to factually verify whether or whether or not we have identifiable evidence here or if we would have a recovery here.

>> the 50-year-old koch was reported missing sunday night. police say 56-year-old randy alana a convicted rapist and kidnapper is considered a person of interest in her disappearance. he was arrested on an unknown parole violation and was last seen the night she disappeared. >> i can't share with you where they were seen together. >> police say they will stay out here as long as it takes, and that includes other agencies called to find her. >> if something is find or something indicated on the lake via the dog or personnel we do have a dive team that is prepared and will dive if necessary. >> and oakland police say while they are focusing on this area detectives again still pursuing other leads that could take them elsewhere. that goes back to what i told you, a new development as the search expands here in vallejo, live, mike nemack, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. the father of a six-month- old baby boy is behind bars and

charged with the child's murder. the sheriff's office says deputies responded to a home on buena vista avenue in livermore 11 days ago on a report of an unresponsive infant. he was taken to the hospital with a head injury and died three days later. investigators determined the father was responsible for the injury. livermore police arrested the child's father, 26-year-old robert daily the third yesterday after a brief chase. we have developing news that just came into the ktvu newsroom in the last 30 minutes. the man suspected of kidnapping a teenage girl out of san diego county has been spotted in idaho, the sheriff's office says people on horse back saw james dimaggio and 16-year-old hannah anderson in a rugged area of cascade, idaho. authorities later found dimaggio's car covered in brush. they say the license plate had been removed from the car but

the vin number matched. the horseback riders who spotted dimaggio and anderson said they appeared to be in good health but right now they are both still missing. dimaggio is suspected of killing anderson's mother and another unidentified child, likely her eight-year-old brother and then setting the home on fire, we are now just two days away from another deadline and another possible threat of a strike by bart coming monday morning. negotiations between the two sides resumed just a few hours ago. ktvu's brian flores joins us live to explain where the talks stand and what needs to happen in the next 48 hours to avoid a strike. brian. >> reporter: good afternoon, tory, tensions are high and time is running out in the bart labor talks, a notice may go out to commuters later today but it depends on how the talks are progressing as we speak. the tone at the negotiation table heading into another weekend of talks. >> no one is yelling, screaming, it is just -- it is their talking to you or i am

talking to them rather to me the same way i talking now, i don't raise my voice or yell or scream, they don't yell or scream. >> some are hopeful. >> we are. >> how close are we. >> we are close, we are getting there. >> others are not. >> i don't have hope. i did four days ago. not after yesterday. >> both sides are still far apart on the issues of pay, pension and healthcare. even on sun mental issues like safety still need to be ironed out according to the unions who say they put proposals on the table only to get rejected there are a lot of safety rules in there and work rules and, of course always financials but we need to talk about everything and come to a resolution. >> bart says they will continue to meet for as long as it takes to reach an agreement by sunday but in case there is not 1 the governor can call for a 60 day cooling off period to keep them running but it appears worlds apart. >> as long as we keep meeting

everybody is working in the right direction, everybody wants a settlement and i don't know what else to tell you, everybody is trying to get to that point. >> i seriously doubt that, i seriously doubt that. >> now i just got off the phone with the governor's office who say they expect a report from the bart inquiry board and have until sunday to present to the governor but say they expect that before hand. brian flores, ktvu channel 2news. >> thank you, stay with us for continuing updates and download our april and follow us on twitter or like is on facebook and if there is a strike monday we will be on the air early with special coverage beginning at 4:00 a.m. here. another families filed a

lawsuit over the crash at the airport last month. the latest targets boss asiana and the maker of the boeing 747 and claims pilots training were rushed and boeing could have installed a low speed warning system that might have helped prevent the crash and claimed that passengers in coach seats suffered more serious injuries because of different seat belt configurations. they have not commented on the lawsuit. police are investigating a shooting at an apartment complex that left at least three people injured. it happened after 4:00 this morning at the complex on cunningham avenue. police did not find victims at the scene but two men and a woman showed up at a nearby hospital with gunshot wounds. >> i am really upset because this can happen to anyone, including my, my family, and we need to do something as a

community. >> police do not know who carried out the shooting or what their motive might have been. san jose police have made an arrest in the shooting of a san jose state nursing student. johnny lozano faces homicide charges for the shooting death of kimberly chico, killed early saturday morning by a stray bullet in downtown san jose. police say lozano was arrested yesterday by a member of the gang suppression unit. the oakland police department plans a gun buy-back this weekend. it is scheduled to run from 10:00 to 3:00 at youth uprising at ev11 mcarthur boulevard. police will pay 100 dollars for handguns and 200 dollars for assault weapons, the buy back is restricted to oakland residents. a gun buy-back in san francisco last night took in 157 guns, that is the word from

the office of supervisor david campos. they hope to raise more money to buy more back. they announced the arrest of a former foster parent accused of child molestation, investigators say steven weissman was arrested last week after a teen boy said he was molested by the 57-year-old, investigators later identified a second victim and say they may be more. he has been as forker parent for 16 years and worked in the community with young people. right now 200 high school students on the peninsula are retaking advanced placement tests. the students at mills high school first took the tests back in may but the college board invalidated their scores because it claimed that students were seated too close together. the board is not accusing the

students of cheating but says they may have have had an unfair advantage over other students taking the test across the country. more than two dozen homes destroyed by a fast moving wildfire that is continuing to burn out of control. and slight warming into the weekend. ktvu's rosemary orosco will be here for a look at your weekend forecast. >> it sold out in record time this year and now the outside land festival is officially underway in golden gate park, we will show you what you can expect and tell you how things have gone high tech.

we have breaking news now on the case of the missing oakland woman sandra koch, we understand the search is no longer taking place in the vallejo area, let's listen in to this press conference underway. >> -- sheriff's office search and rescue, they have already been deployed into that area so the search has already begun, it is just a matter of moving the entire operation up there at this point. >> -- up there. >> as long as it takes, the same thing when we were here, we are going to take as much time and do as well, a search as we can, if it runs into saturday then we will continue to search on saturday as well. >> we can assume you have not found anything in this area. >> we have for the found anything of an effortary value or anything that points to mrs. koch at this point.

>> you develop information in your investigation, is that by talking to mr. alana? >> we develop information during this investigation that led us to this specific area but what i can tell you is we are leaving this area, we will be happy to have more conversations there but we want to move this operation to vacaville. we will answer additional questions up there but right now we need to pack up and leave. >> where will the command post be? >> it is located at lagoon valley park. we will position that in the park somewhere, have not set it in stone yet, obviously you will see it when you get there, it will be quite obvious. you will take alamo, flip back on and take that. >> thank you very much. >> all right. >> all right. you have been listening live to a very brief press conference

there on the case of the missing oakland woman sandra koch. they are wrapping up their search. they have finished -- completed their search in vallejo and they are now moving to vacaville. no specific reason as to why they are moving the search to vacaville but we continue -- we will continue to follow this story and bring you updates as soon as we get them. meanwhile moving on to other developing news, a small plane has crashed in a suburban neighborhood in connecticut, setting two homes on fire. investigators say at least three people are missing, including two children inside one of the homes. the federal aviation administration says the aircraft flew out of a small new jersey airport and crashed as it approached an airport in new haven, connecticut this morning. a fast moving fire in southern california has destroyed 26 homes and threatening hundreds more. the so-called silver fire is in a desert mountain range near the town of banning in riverside county, east of los

angeles. fire officials say strong winds are fanning the flames which have torched 16,000 acres. the fire has left 1 man with serious burns. five firefighters were also injured, including two from heat exhaustion, flames forced the evacuation of 1800 people. it is about 25% contained. >> we have fire extreme, erratic. >> understand how fast these fires are moving and getting fire engines to those places is very difficult under those kinds of conditions. >> also in southern california firefighters in san bernardino county are battling a fire in the angeles national forest that has prompted evacuations also and scorched 100 acres since it broke out yesterday. happening now the outside lands music festival just getting underway in san francisco golden gate park, the first performances started 17 minutes ago at noon and as

claudine wong reports more than 65,000 are expected to flood golden gate park every day for the next three days. >> reporter: people begin lining up very early this morning, including this man who has 1 goal, to see headliner paul mccartney tonight. >> i am the biggest fan you will ever meet who is not crazy. i don't have a shrine to him or spend money on collectible just love his music and never had really good seats to see a show and thought this would be the best opportunity. >> more than two dozen acts a day will grace four different stages but it is not just about the music, it is also about the experience and organizers say they had to be smarter. >> the stuff we had last year was slower equipment, didn't have the capacity and we didn't need -- >> -- top of the line -- >> -- 100 times smarter. >> 100 times faster. >> yeah. >> which would still be probably pushed -- >> -yeah -- >> -- all the park -- >> -- yes. >> things are also going green,

mass transit is set up, walking or biking is being encouraged and one stage is billed as the largest solar powered stage in the country although this one fan is focused on that. >> i am hoping some place center to the right where the piano is close enough so that if he looks in my direction and i point at him and he will point back, i will never get to meet him so that is the best. >> if you are interested in doing that great if you are not the best advice we can give you is avoid the area and the weekend, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >> if you are going out to outside lands this afternoon dress for the cool weather. a look at that forecast in just a moment. let's start with a look at aquatic park where we are finally seeing low clouds clear from the berkeley area. some of us dealing with plenty

of sunshine and some of us still socked in, these temperatures right now low 70s and mostly sunny conditions in fairfield, 71 livermore under mostly sunny skies. you can almost point out by the numbers where the low clouds remain. hayward, oakland, santa rosa, yes, under mostly gray skies still at this hour, a look at storm tracker 2 here. so we have the drizzle out there this morning. that has since passed but plenty of low clouds still along the coastline, along the peninsula, into the east bay, and again santa rosa dealing with mostly cloudy skies at this time. if i back it up a bit this system we continue to monitor and will drift north and we will see a warm up in time for the weekend. today temperatures a tad above yesterday's highs and in some cases a lot like yesterday. so if you are going to outside lands for the afternoon temperatures warming to the 50s to low 60s the entire day with partly to mostly cloudy skies.

74 nest that, 68 berkeley, 71 oakland, 65 san francisco, low 80s inland east bay, upper 60s to low 70s for east bayshore line, 76 san jose, low 80s morgan hill, sunny and 74 for the afternoon in santa cruz. your extended forecast here with your weekend in view again showing you that gentle warm up as we get into your weekend, temperatures in the low 80s for today, slightly warmer tomorrow. sunday will be the warmest day. it is a warming trend that will continue monday, tuesday, takes us all the way until about tuesday before temperatures actually get to back the seasonal average for this time of year, so it is going to be a slow crawl. >> all right. a lot of people looking forward to the weekend, a little warmer weather. thank you. >> you got. >> it thousands of people in the south bay are receiving free backpacks, you will hear what the think. community's generosity. ♪ all right, let's go

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checking in on stocks today a disappointing cap stone to a rather pointing week, trading volume very light, typical for a friday in august, there was really little economic news, the dow down 58, the nasdaq down four, s&p also down four. the start of a new school year is just around the corner and today thousands of low income south bay kids got the help needed to get off on the right foot. ktvu's janine de la vega tells us how the generosity of the

community helped give these orter: 14-year-old helen e. reyes waited patiently in line in front. she knew what was waiting insight would make her sophomore year easier. >> my mom was not able to get me a new back pack so we with try to salvage whatever we could from last year's. >> as helen enters the room there are hundreds to choose from, all are free for kids who come from struggling families, the need so great families lined up the night before to ensure they would be registered to receive one. >> there is a record number given away today for them. even with the economy improving there are many still struggling to make it in the valley. >> i have been out of work since december, keep struggling looking for jobs. >> backpacks and things for his daughters could cost up to 300 dollars, he is relieved they will benefit. >> i like it when i get new

ones because my old one keeps ripping and getting old and dirty. >> their generosity made it possible. sack raid heart says its goal to give kids who pay already be behind because of their cosh 0 economic background a boost in confidence by being prepared. >> to be here is a privilege and i am grateful for it. >> that is the attitude they hope they keep as they strife to learn this school year. >> ktvu has a special back to school section to help you get ready for the school year that includes start dates for all bay area school districts, ways to save on back to school shopping and more. we also posted school pictures of our k ktvu reporters and photographers including this young lady on the back to school tab on our home page. today at 5:00 we are following new developments out of vallejo about an oakland woman missing now for five

days. we just learned the search is now moving for a new location, our crews are following officers. we will have the latest for you at 5:00. thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. we will see you the next time news brakes, be sure to join us gain at 5:00. we are always hear for you on ktvu.com and mobilektvu.com. have a great weekend. send comments to comments@captioncolorado.com captions by terry james, caption colorado, llc. 5ñ

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