. >>> the family of a missing nursing student is a mapping out a plan for 26-year-old michelle le. le'sence to provide details on a three-day surge created le was last seen may 27 at kaiser permanente hospital. volunteers are being asked to show up at 8:00 tomorrow morning at the command center in hayward. you are asked to bring a photo id, close for hiking, and all volunteers must be 18 years old. >>> investigators filed a 2- year-old boys fall from a window a tragic accident, not a crime. he leaned against the screen of the open window. the boy is being treated at children's hospital. police say no charges are expected in this case. >>> some residents in santa cruz county are taking matters into their own hands to keep smartmeters off of their property. some had padlocked there old leaders to prevent pg&e from replacing them. >>> the sixth annual dump the pump day is under way in the bay area this morning. the sheer bar is highlighting the price of gas compared to the cost of writing public -- part is highlighting the price of gas compared to the cost of writing public transit. >> bar

in hayward as friends and family members hold out hope for the safe return of nursing student michelle le. lepeared seven days ago walking to a parking garage in hayward. >>> digital billboards in the bay area began showing pictures of le today along with a $20,000 reward being offered for her safe return. family members are trying to keep the search alive as police and the fbi search for more clues of her where abouts. >>> 14 girls that were shot and wounded at suites ballroom are now suing the ballroom. nine people were hurt. no one has been arrested. suites and the party promoters failed to provide adequate security at the door or inside the event, say attorneys of victims. >>> 61-year-old debby maddon was ordered yesterday to go into rehab for one felony count of cocaine possession. maddon was accused of taking small quantities of cocaine from the drug lab. >>> some custodians are doing much more than just keeping classrooms clean. they are awarding scholarship money to african american students. ktvu's paul chambers found out what inspired them to act and how their work is helping one st

the woman was once a friend of 26-year-old michelle le. le was last seen friday after a nursing class at the kaiser permanente building in hayward. so far, investigators say they have talked to several friends and a ton of acquaintances and issued four separate search warrants but no suspects just yet. >>> we will apparently never know the results of the two lie detector tests on the bryan stow beating suspect. giovanni ramirez was in handcuffs when police took him for a polygraph exam yesterday. his defense team had administered a similar test in his jail cell tuesday night. the man who administered that test hinted that ramirez passed but officials say they are not going to be revealing the results. >>> it is 6:05. he is used to being mr. congeniality here in the -- >> but everyone is avoiding him because you're like pigpen with a rain cloud over you. >> i'm like the plague! nobody wants to be around me. we have more showers out there folks scattered around the north bay. it's falling apart as it moves through. just light showers now. i thi

the woman was once friends with 26-year-old michelle le. le was last seen friday after a nursing class at the kaiser permanente building in hayward. so far, investigators say they have talked to several friends and acquaintances and issued four separate search warrants. >>> they call him the bluetooth bandit. san francisco police are trying to track down a clever con who is stealing credit cards from women's purses. unser hasan in san francisco with how this guy operates. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. san francisco police department are looking for a man they are calling the bluetooth bandit. they are calling him that because of the bluetooth earpiece he wears to coordinate his attacks. he is known as the bluetooth bandy the preying on female victims. san francisco police have surveillance video of the man who robs women who drape their bags on chairs on coffee shops, restaurants and muni. he will then use his bluetooth to talk to accomplices who will distract victims as he robs them. sometimes he will put his coat to

get to hear what jaycee dugard per told the grand jury and what led up to the >> the latest on michelle le lethe nursing student from hayward. herself always getting paint on cellphone towers and in oakland, fremont, union city as well. authorities are now trying to obtain cellphone records to find that a specific location and they are looking at surveillance video near the hospital. >> we see what appears to be machel's car leaving, we can determine what is in the car or determine that is >> authorities have interviewed 15-20 people, at this point no arrests have been made. >> live to springfield, massachusetts. a chopper over head of the damage caused by tornadoes. >> the chopper is zeroing in on the damage, trees have been uprooted, some homes are left in splinters, some homes are left standing. over in joplin, missouri, where they have the deadliest tornado, everyone has been accounted for that was listed as missing. that means either that were located where the deaths have been confirmed. at one point more than 1300 people were listed as missing. that tornado on may 22nd killed more than

pick >> family of michelle le le handed out fliers yes today, police are calling her disappearance aomicide. her family is hoping she is still alive. >> we are seeing some pretty nice shots. the usual clouds this morning. >> mainly at the there is patchy fog and low cloud cover but mainly along the coast. this afternoon is slightly warmer, temperatures in the '80s. except here is where we are waking up this morning, temperature wise, 53 in san francisco, similar charges in redwood city. mid-50s south bay. cooler in the north. we're reforming back up to the mid-50s in concord and the upper 50s as you head toward antioch. we also are seeing fallog, mainly alonge peninsula. as we head towards noon most of the fall burns off. all in all more sunshine near noon and even fall along the coast will diminish as we head into the afternoon, by 4:00 p.m. it is pretty much nothing but a memory. here is for temperatures will go during that 3:00 p.m. hour. here is your 7 day forecast, sunny weather and dry . tuesday and wednesday a little heat wave, a 90 degree chelate. there is a weather, now let'

. >> michelle le le was last seen may 27th taking a break from version of the kaiser medical center inuthorities are confirming the blood evidence was found in her car. there was a second vehicle involved in what they are calling their homicide investigation. video from the parking garage where authorities believe she was killed has also been useful. when >> the arizona wildfires are growing out of control. it is the second-largest wildfire in the state's history. it has course over 300,000 a. and has destroyed 10 structures. 27 other people have been evacuated. containment is an 0% in the fire is burning close to the new mexico >> we have a low clouds with blue skies up above. patchy fog this morning. temperatures are in the '50s. partly cloudy this morning and a lot more sunshine. this evening in the clouds will roll back and and we will go back down to the '50s. is mild any way that you look at it. a nice day to the outside. this is what we see on the satellite you. the fog is heaviest right now in the north bay. we have visibility for 1-2 mi.. widespread a low cloud cover this morn

. >>> new details are emerging in the case of missing nursing student michele le. leed may 27 in a shift at hayward kaiser hospital. sources close to the case say several calls were made from her cell phone after she disappeared. hayward police travelled to arizona to interview a woman there. and also, le's suv was spotted by witnesses four hours after she vanished. the suv was found parked a mile from the hospital with blood splatters inside. >>> today, nobody will take the plunge in the richmond plunge. the popular indoor swimming pool has been closed for a couple of days to repair a sewer problem. city officials are using cameras to figure out what is causing the blockage. repair crews are digging on the site and promise to get the pool open before the long holiday weekend when temperatures are expected to soar. start soon. >> when you say "soar" you don't mean a little. stratosphere. >> mike means a lot. >> yeah. >> days. >> we haven't had weather this long. >> it will last as long as the last one. maybe not quite as hot, but mid-to-upper 90s inland. we'll run air

. >>> missing student michelle le -- le's family says they are still not giving up hope. volunteers once again joined the family yesterday to search trails, neighborhoods, and industrial areas around hayward. michelle's father tells us the only present he wanted for father's day was his daughter's safe return. >> it's emotional every day. it's not just today. but we just have to keep going. because we believe in our heart we believe michelle is still alive. waiting to be rescued. >> hayward police are investigating michelle le's disappearance as a homicide. but her family says that they plan to organize more search efforts until she is found. >>> time now 6:27. ground will be broken today on the largest bronze monument in the west and it's right here in the bay area. it's called champions of diversity. the beautiful project was created by mario. today's ground breaking ceremony marks the construction and installation phase of the monument. >>> a weekend trip to a contra costa county river turned into an eight hour ordeal for two men. the overnight search and rescue effort

. >> it was a week since nursing student michelle le vanished. le has been missing friday night when she left a mentoring program to retrieve things from her car which was parked in the garage. le's white honda was found on the street. they are looking at cell phone records and garage security and they have a person of interest. our reporter spoke with michael, her brother and cousin who are somber but hopeful. >> we hope she is somewhere healthy. >> we are like every other family. we want to spend a holiday with her. >> abc7 learned the person of interest is giselle estaban. they seized her cell phone and computer and took her in custody. she has been released but is a person of interest. the family is planning a vigil in hayward. >> san francisco police and city hit a road block in trying to avoid more lay offs. they are going to deal with 122 lay offs. negotiations are under way to avoid a 156. they agreed to a 10 percent pay cut to help the city solve the budget short fall . the talks broke down for an optimal reform plan. >> it was clear to us

michelle le. we talk to le's family about why they are hiring a private detective to help find michelle. >>> it has in general been an entire month since michelle le disappeared during her nursing classes at a kaiser perm nentet facility. they believe le is the victim of homicide but le's family is not giving up hope. they have now hired a private investigator in hopes of finding her. kron4's reggie kumar tells us that detective has already started working on the case. >> reporter: they already posted this letter of appeal on the help us find michelle le website, asking those who know something about le's disappearance to come forward andneck remain anonymous. le's cousin says they still trust the heyward police department, although hiring a detective she tells me would increase the family's chances of locating the 26-year-old. >> his goal is writing a letter of appeal to question whoever may have michelle or whoever's involved in her disappearance to just come forward, letting the family know without that feeling of all the fear. we know that people out there know something. someone out there know

el cuerpo, pero descartaron cualquier conexion con el caso de la estudiante de hayward "michele le," debido a que "lees asiatica, y los restos son de una mujer hispana.---el hallazgo se produjo ayer en la cuadra 800 de "ticonderoga drive." ---la policia de "east palo alto" arresto al sospechoso de haber desatado una balacera que acabo con la vida de un bebe de tres meses el domingo por la madrugada.---y como nos cuenta "edgardo quijano", el detenido es un menor de edad. ---en respuesta a la ola de violencia, un grupo de residentes de oakland realizara una "caminata por la paz."---durante el fin de semana se registraron 5 tiroteos... en una de las balaceras perdió la vida una persona.---la marcha comenzara a las 3 de la tarde mañana en la escuela primaria "greenleaf whittier" localizada en el 63- 28 de la calle "east 17". ---despues de la caminata habrá una reunion a la que asistiran funcionarios de la ciudad, entre ellos el jefe del departamento de policia "anthony batts." ---siguiendo en oakland, las autoridades develaron un nuevo sistema para facilitar la comunicacion en casos de emergencia.---se t

terisa estacio, kron 4 news. >> the family of michelle le le has engaged a private investigation agency the search. the agency will serve as a conduit for those in a of information but are reluctant to speak with law enforcement. a letter posted on the web site for michelle l saide help anyone with information can contact the private investigators. in a word, kron 4 ms. >> in san francisco, scuba teams spent a good portion of wednesday in the water behind me. they are looking for clues in a case where a man was found stabbed to death numerous times. his body was recovered tuesday morning. i did talk with another man who was one of the last to see this victim alike. this is what he had to say. >> but i woke up in the morning, i came to talk to his friend and said, they found a body in the day, let's go see if that might be dennis. we walked down, we found his shirt, his buddy pick it up and he could not believe it. he threw it on the floor in tears started coming down his eyes. he was scared, not knowing what to do. if >> that was george rodriguez. you will hear more of his accounts of w

michelle le may have been murdered. samuel merited university released a statement that michelle le was student and it's with heavy heart that michelle le's missing person case is now a murder vision. the pain we feel is indescribable. they called michelle, energetic and compassionate. >> police are behind closed doors with investigators and yesterday their actions said a lot. they revisited the home of le's friend gizelle esteban. they already searched her home butthey went back for more evidence. she has told "abc 7 news" she openly hates michelle for stealing her husband but she has nothing to do with the disappearance. they have named her as a suspect but have said they believe le was murdered. >> forensic examination of the car and the parking structure where it was parked, information gleaned from multiple interviews including those of friends, family and of persons of interest. >>> le was last seen two weeks at kaiser hospital where she was working. she said she was going out to the garage to get things out of her car. her car was found half a mile away. they say they don't think it was a random attack, they beli

michelle le may have been murdered. samuel merited university released a statement that michelle le was student and it's with heavy heart that michelle le's missing person case is now a murder vision. the pain we feel is indescribable. they called michelle, energetic and compassionate. >> police are behind closed doors with investigators and yesterday their actions said a lot. they revisited the home of le's friend gizelle esteban. they already searched her home butthey went back for more evidence. she has told "abc 7 news" she openly hates michelle for stealing her husband but she has nothing to do with the disappearance. they have named her as a suspect but have said they believe le was murdered. >> forensic examination of the car and the parking structure where it was parked, information gleaned from multiple interviews including those of friends, family and of persons of interest. >>> le was last seen two weeks at kaiser hospital where she was working. she said she was going out to the garage to get things out of her car. her car was found half a mile away. they say they don't think it was a random attack, they beli

michelle le. kraig debro has the story. >> reporter: we just learned that michelle le's family is going to be here at hayward police headquarters. dramatic turn of events here just after a day police announced that they were turning the missing person's case into a homicide case. the family is coming here to say that they believe michelle le is still missing. not only that they are upset that police have turned this case from a missing person's case to a homicide case. the family said to speak to the media here at any moment. we don't expect to see what we saw here yesterday. which is the le family coming out of hayward police headquarters with a lot of heart ache and sorrow. the police officer department have told the family that they are looking at recovering the body of michelle le and not finding her alive. >> we have considered the examination of the evidence that has been collected during the service of several search warrants in this case. >> reporter: michelle le was last seen walking to the parking garage at kaiser hospital in hayward. the 26-year-old student at samuel merit was pursuing a lifelong goal to becoming a n

he talked to other members of michelle le's family. >> i want to look out right now. >> reporter: michelle le's brother says despite police investigators reclassifying the disappearance as a homicide case they believe she is still alive and now they want to get involved with searching for michelle le who has been messing for two weeks. he says police told them to hold off for now. >> friends wants to organize a large-scale search party. they advised against it. they didn't say much. but they said there will be a time but now is not the time. >> do you agree with that? >> um, i mean, i am not the police, i don't know how to do their job. for me, we don't care about a successful prosecution. we just want to find her. >>> the family refuses to give up hope on her being alive. >> she is out there. we need double efforts to find her. >> haaziq madyun kron 4 news. >> still with kron 4 news and www.kron.com for continuing coverage of michelle le. >>> we are going take a peak of what is -- peek of what is ahead to come. weekend a morning fog. highs to the 60s and 70s and a warm up in store for next wee

michelle le. it was a very difficult father's day for the father of michelle le. >> reporter: armed with bug spray, and sung le was going with them. >> the only present i want for father's day today is michelle le. >> reporter: she went missing three weeks ago. police are investigating her case as a homicide. but her father's determination does not waiver. >> we just have to keep going. because in our heart we believe michelle is still alive. she needs to be rescued, that's why we're here. >> reporter: since friday more than 400 people have volunteered to help with the search and the le family says they are moved and overwhelmed by the turn out. >> you can feel the support. it's-- you can't touch it, you can't see it but you feel it. >> reporter: police warn the family not to publicize exact search locations. they were afraid someone might plant false evidence. volunteers combed through several square miles of land this weekend. >> they've eliminated a lot of area that michelle is not in. and that's definitely helping law enforcement. >> reporter: this is the second day this volunteer came out. >>

. >> the family of michelle le le is requesting that the fbi take the lead on her investigation.e family says it took police four days to search her apartment and the family was told it would take two weeks to analyze evidence from her car. hayward police say that several persons of interest have been identified but no arrests have been made >> hundreds of people are lined up right now, they were lined up since early this morning in san francisco waiting for the apple developers conference and ceo steve jobs is supposed to make an appearance. he is supposed to announce a new service called icloud. when it will allow customers to store music online. the company has been in talks with all for recording companies -- all four major recording companies. >> which are following the big wild fire that is burning in eastern arizona, we are just off the wires. it is now at 200,000 a.. i found the pictures to illustrate how horrible the fire is getting. this man is trying to save some items from his home. how pave lot of major roads in the area are closed. block officers have their faces co

. >> after breaking the sad news to michelle le's family members, a captain told reporters police will now investigate le's disappearance as homicide. >> we realize this is the worst possible news that michelle's family and friends and everyone who has been looking for her would want to hear. >> they believe she was murdered in the kaiser hospital garage where her car was parked on friday. they say it was not a random answering that the killer targeted her. her honda was found half a mile away. police say there is compelling evidence that leads to a homicide. >> forensic examination of the car in the area of the parking struck where it was parked, information gleaned from multiple interviews including those of friends, family and of persons of interest. >> investigators were searching the apartment of one person of interest. gi sell esteban a former close friend of le. they brought out more evidence and sealed the a-. they first searched the place after le's disappearance. esteban told abc7, she quote, openly hates michelle because of stealing her former husband but she is innocent of her disappearance. sh

. >> on sunday, volunteers and family of michelle le will continue their search for the missing student. michelle le has not been seen for three weeks. we join today's surge in hayward. >> the organizer 4 michelle le, the nursing student that disappeared on may 27th to continue on saturday when searchers and volunteers combed the areas near her disappearance. >> the family needs answers, they need to know what happened to their child. >> to conduct research, the family has brought to and trainers to organize the more than 100 volunteers that volunteered to go over several large sites. >> that is how you search, you narrow it down. to >> this became the natural next step for the family to do try to set up a committee to search effort. we wanted to search areas that will be beneficial to their investigation. they have been the ones that said this was a good location this is not. >> the search of the location does under the cloud of the hayward police department conclusion that this is not a homicide investigation. >> the family understands what law enforcement is stating as far as what the evidence is

michelle le. the family has now hired private eyes. >> reporter: that is right, pam. michelle lewent missing more than three weeks ago. her family set up this website to help gather information to find her. the family made the announcement on this website. they sent out an e-mail letting everyone know they hired a private investigator to continue the search for michelle le. according to this posting that investigator comes from a firm called the frame group. not sure if it's pronounced frame or frame because there is an e on the end there. the investigator will be working independently of the hayward police and fbi. michelle le was last seen on may 27th. he was leaving kaiser medical center in hayward where she is a nursing student. this week they organized a volunteer search party. more than 400 people showed up on friday, saturday, and sunday. they combed through several neighbors and parts of the hayward area. her family says they have seen no evidence of that. so for now they are not giving up hope that they will still find her and they have actually organized another volunte

. >>> in news around the bay, the family of michelle le is refusing to give up hope. michelle le last seen leaving kaiser permanente hayward medical center on may 27. today her family met with police to organize several searches this week. they start tomorrow, saturday and sunday on cypress avenue and they are asking people to help. >>> an arrest has been made in a shooting that killed two people and wounded four others. police announced announced the arrest of clem thompkins. he has been charged in the hop side. the sooting took place at sweet restaurant. >>> police are looking for this woman, expected of steeling a car with a baby a in the back seat. they were seen walking out of a food bank last month as the baby's mother was walking in. that's when the car was stolen. investigators linked the couple to the case after they were captured on a surveillance video. the couple is believed to be driving a dark blue 1988 toyota camry. >>> shot in the head in san francisco, south of market district. happened here as you see on our map. police believe it happened after an argument betw

the woman was once friends with 26-year-old michelle le. lehe kaiser permanente building in hayward. >>> and san rafael police hope surveillance video will help lead them to the man who robbed a sandwich shop. he was armed with a black semi- automatic handgun when he hit a subway outlet on friday. anyone who may have recognized the suspect is urged to contact the bay area crimestoppers. >>> traffic and weather coming right up. stay with us. ,,,,,,,, [ sea gull squawking ] [ waves crashing ] [ gasps ] brrrr! [ giggles ] >>> good morning. into oakland we go. we have delays if you you work your way northbound 880 at 29th. we have reports of a broken- down big rig blocking the road. they are trying to push this to the right shoulder soto trucks and chp are on scene. yellow on the sensors so 880 busy stacking toward the coliseum. give yourself some extra time there. southbound though check that out, not too bad towards hayward. golden gate bridge not bad. most delays south 101 away from 37 to 580. that's about a 13-minute ride through there. and if

throughout it all, michelle le's family is staying focused on one thing, finding her. >>> reporter: this was the first vigil for michelle le one week after she disappeared. tonight's vigil will be smaller, more intimate and clouded by the fact that investigators say she is no longer alive. >> i looked up to her a lot when i was younger. but, you know, we focused and we stayed strong and we do whatever it takes to get her back. >> reporter: a brief moment of emotion from le's cousin christine beaten back by the kind of laser focus that has marked the le family's search for michelle t hasn't been easy. yesterday, disturbing details emerged about a former friend of le's named a person of interest in her disappearance. according to this restraining order in the days before levan i should, giselle esteban stalked an ex-boyfriend who had briefly dated le. >> we definitely read it in terms before it has an impact on the fact that we are optimistic in finding her home, no. we are determined to get her home and we're not about to talk down anyone or, you know, dig into the petty stuff. >> reporter: the le family has declined to com

. >> we are learning new details in the michelle le investigation. le shown here is the nursing student that when missing the friday before memorial day weekend. after their search, the police ruled the disappearance a homicide investigation. as kron4 teresa estacio reports, the police have obtained new video surveillance in the case. >> kron4 is learning that the new surveillance video provides a different angle than the previous videos examined by the detectives. we're also learning that the detectives plan on seeking the assistance of the fbi crime lab to see if the video can be enhanced, and it could provide new information in the michelle le homicide investigation. the 260 nursing student was last seen leaving a class at the hospital to go to her car in the rise. her car was later discovered several blocks away. that was three weeks ago. she has not been seen since. hayward police say that the evidence collected so far including witness statements, her cellphone records, and the evidence collected from more than five search warrants lead them to be

. >> reporter: the le family gathered here at hayward police station earlier this afternoon and told me they think michelle le is still alive and needs to be rescue. the le family said this afternoon despite hayward police changing the investigation from a missing person to a homicide case, the only thing that will convince them michelle le is dead is proof. >> we want to see the body. they just can't tell me they found something and say that she's dead. >> reporter: le disappeared during a clinical rotation shift. police found her honda suv the following day. police tracked her mobile phone and said lab work including evidence from that suv convince them that she was killed. >> a totality again of everything from the phones, to the evidence that was found in the vehicle to the vehicle itself, to the interviews, again everything is leading to a totality of circumstances. >> reporter: police have confirmed they have interviewed a friend of le. >> we've interviewed more than 25 folks so far and that list will grow today. >> reporter: investigators have spent the day talking to people connected with the case and will release evidence that will lead to an ar

weekend search for missing nursing student michelle le did not end on the happy home coming that their family was praying for. volunteers once again joined the le family yesterday. they searched trails, neighborhoods, and industrial neighborhoods around hayward. michelle le's father says the only present he wanted for father's day was to have his daughter safely home. >> happy father's day. he always calls and wishes him a happy father's day. he told me if she comes back he will quit smoking. he cares and he's trying his best to find her. >> hayward police are investigating michelle le's disappearance as a homicide. le's family say they plan on organizing more search efforts until she is found. >>> a new study shows a lot of trash where it comes from. 68% of the trash was used for food or beverage backaging. 70% came from mctornados, burger king, 711, wendies, taco bells. they said there were so many cigarette butts they found counting them overwomenning and stopped during the project. >>> a big apartment house fire in sunny vail. >>> 14 hours what activists plan to do within those hours to try to save oakland libraries. >>> and a rescue and po

not only for michelle le's body, but for evidence that they believe could be related to this case. >> to help with the investigation, there are several billboards now featuring michelle le set up around oakland. this one is near the oakland coliseum along 880, the billboards were put up before the reward was increase, is now standing at $65,000. >> this is where michelle le was last seen, at 7:00 p.m. on friday may 27th she grabbed her cellphone, told a friend she had to get something from her car and headed to the rise. surveillance cameras show that a car drove out of the ground, but they do not show who was driving. her white honda crv was found the next day half a mile away in a cul-de-sac known as a pound rose accord. her cellphone was not inside, the investigators say that it pinged cellphone towers in these three cities before going silent midday saturday. her family reported her missing on saturday but the police did not search her home until tuesday, four days after her disappearance. it was not until two days later that they turn herself on records over to the fbi. as for any evidence recovered from her car, the family says that they were told it would take on

investigation, that after michelle le disappeared, her cell phone was used to make two calls, one to reno and one to a woman somewhere in arizona. the station says that woman then called le'samily. here's michelle's brother, michael, who confirms getting a call. >> i did get a phone call from her. and i just relayed that to the police. every day gets harder, and so my resolve has to be that much stronger. >> now, we don't know anything about this arizona woman who supposedly got a call from le's phone. but the san diego report says hayward police did then go to arizona to investigate. they will not talk to us about that though yet. now, we did get this statement from le's family overnight saying, quote, we want to emphasize that the facts in this article have not been acknowledged by the family and were not given out by the hayward pd, which she goes on to say says makes these facts untrue. and potentially damaging to the case, as well. now, there is of course a $65,000 reward out for le's return. and also, the search for her is going to continue this weekend. they have been ramping that up for the last several weekends. she has now been missing last seen here in hayward t

---la policia cataloÓ el caso de "michele le" como un homicidio, pero los padres de la mujer de 26 aÑos dicen que no lesacientes de la muerte de su hija, por lo que la seguiran buscando. ---"michele le" fue vista por ultima vez el 27 de mayo en el hospital "kaiser permanente" de "hayward" donde tomaba clases.---sus parientes ofrecen una recompensa de 65- mil dolares a cambio de informacion sobre el paradero de "le". --el cuerpo de un joven de 19 aÑos fue descubierto flotando en aguas de la bahia, justo frente al distrito de la marina en san francisco.--el hallazgo se hizo a eso de las 6:30 de la maÑana de este martes, luego de que la noche anterior se reportaran algunos rastros de sangre que iban desde la calle "beach" hasta el lugar donde se encontro el cadaver, muy cerca del fuerte "mason".--la identidad de la victima no fue revelada de inmediato, ni las posibles causas de su muerte.--solo se dijo que era un joven de la raza blanca. --a nivel nacional, ha bajado el numero de vehiculos robados, pero para nosotros, eso no es una buena noticia. --en california, la cifra va en aumento, y eso no es todo...

le as a -- michelle le as a homicide. kron4's dan kerman has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: >> the number one goal is the recovery of michelle. that's been from the very onset, that we have to find michelle. we are still doing everything humanly possible to recover michelle, dead or alive. >> reporter: heyward police say, despite the reclassification of the michelle le missing person to a murder investigation, they are not letting up in the search for her and her killer. >> interviewing more witnesses, analyzing again, the evidence that we have, working with the alameda county lab, the fbi and evaluating the evidence. >> reporter: police did confirm on tuesday that blood evidence was found in le's car. they also say a second vehicle may have been involved in the murder and that video from the parking garage where they believe le has been killed has been useful. >> any time you get a victim vehicle leaving the garage, it puts a time stamp on it. it has a basis for us, something to carry out from there. >> reporter: monday night for the second time, police did search the union city home of esteban, a norm friend of le's, but they refused to say she is the subject of the investigation. police have said le's cellphone was on for approximately 15 hours after she disappeared on friday, may 27th. previously, they indicated it pinged in three locations. now

michelle le disappear. haaziq madyun, kron 4 news. >> reporter: a week since michelle le was last seen taking a brake from kaisermanente hospital. the center is a few blocks away from this neighborhood where her car was found. friends and relatives are hoping for their safe return. >>> rain back in the forecast tomorrow. starting in the afternoon. showers move into the north bay. by the evening, widespread rain. 9:00, light showers bay area wide. heavier rain during the middle of the night. saturday morning, the yellow indicating moderate rain showers continuing to the north bay. we will see more heavy rain through the evening. the rain will be steady throughout the day on saturday. lull in the rain sunday morning but it picks back up. sunday looks drier but a few areas of moderate rainfall. look at rainfall totals. this is incredible. it is june. 2 inches of rain in the north bay. 2.5 in the santa cruz mountains. this is through the weekend. friday through sunday could see up to an inch of rain. temperatures running below average for this time of year. tomorrow in the 60s. we should be in the 70s, 80s. livermor

michelle le's. they searched her apartment again, they first searched it a day after le's i peews. they have interrogated her. she said, she quote, openly hates michelle for stealing her former husband but she says she is innocent of anything associated with the disappearance. michelle le is missing more than two weeks and police say she was murdered. >> the examination of the car in the area of the parking structure where it was parked. information gleaned from multiple interviews including those of friends, family and of persons of interest. >> le was last seen in the kaiser hospital garage. she told her friends she was going to go out to her car to get something. of her car was found half a mile away. investigators say they do think she was targeted. they don't think this was a random attack. michelle le's brother, michael posted on facebook page the family thinks she is alive and asked people to please not give up hope. >> kristen: the alameda city council will talk respond to questions over a man drowning at a beach. aelgsz accusations that the department did not do everything

michelle le is dead. cops say evidence shows that le died in the parking garage at kaiser permanente medical center. cheryl, just to be clear, they have not found michelle le's body? >> reporter: they have not found her body, but they are looking for it. in fact, a total of 10 officers from the heyward police department are concentrating on the search. right now, they say they are concentrating on catching a killer. >> she's not found yet. so, you know, until we know otherwise. >> reporter: michelle le's family visibly shaken, and by a family friend's statement, not giving up hope to find the missing nursing student alive. but according to police captain darrell mcalester, evidence collected so far leads them to believe that she was killed in the kaiser permanente parking lot in hayward. >> based on compelling evidence that we have recovered during the course of our investigation throughout the week, the hayward police department is now officially classifying this case as a homicide. >> reporter: le vanished on may 27. she told colleagues she was going to her car while on break to get some items. whe

michelle le. take a look at missing michelle le last seen six weeks ago at kaiser hospital in hayward. 25 people havestioned by police and there have been no arrests. this is a homicide investigation. last week they searched southern alameda county and this time it's going to be based on evidence including cellphone, call times and contact numbers. >> from our interviews, our phone forensics, f.b.i. as well as independent contractor as well as our own personnel in house have all come up with ideas what the phone forensics mean. >> the family put out the word for a massive search yesterday at the hayward police department. the polly klass kids foundation will give them brief training. a young girl kidnapped back in 1983, she was found murdered. they have to wear long pants, long sleeves and closed toed shoes. you'll be going into areas that will be rough going as you search for michelle le. for more information on this, go to our website at abc7news.com and click on see it on tv. we have the address, the time of today and tomorrow and sunday, as well. and address is 25350 cypress avenue here in haywar

. >>> the family of missing nursing student michelle le will hold another vigil tonight in san diego where le grew up. relatives and friends gathered for a vigil last night in hayward. le disappeared may 27 from kaiser permanent hayward medical center. police are calling it a homicide investigation. but lee's family says they won't stop looking. >> michelle is so important to me that i just -- i just -- i don't want to believe that anyone is capable of taking her away from me. >> we know she is out there waiting for us, you know? we are going to bring her home. >> police call le's former friend giselle esteban a person of interest. her ex-boyfriend there took out a restraining order against esteban two weeks ago because she said she threatened him. he is also friends with michelle le. esteban openly admitted to hating le but said she did not kill her. >>> some new criticism of both pg&e and the public utilities commission concerning that san bruno pipeline explosion. a five-member panel which the puc appointed finds that pg&e workers to be undertrained and understaffed. the problem is so seri

michelle le saying they have evidence that she is dead. if they have seen that evidence the family is not convinced it means michelle is dead. they passed out fliers with michelle le's picture on it and promoted this weekends search effort. even police are noticing the familiesties in -- families tenacity. >> our inspiration is inspired by the resolve that the le family shows. >> reporter: the 24-year-old nursing student was reported missing may 27th at kaiser hospital in hayward. she was there to take a nursing class. the searchers are not revealing the area that will be searched. they are not revealing the area they are searching on that day pause they think it will impugn the integrity of the search area. people might go there on their own and trample over evidence. the hayward police are not revealing what is on that video tape that they sent to the fbi. we will try to get ahold of the people associated with the search and find out where the search will be today. reporting live in hayward kraig debro. >>> time now 5:05. martinez man who was hit by an amtrak train is recovering now. this happened yesterday afternoon just west of fairy street. the unidentified man

. >>> the family of missing nursing student michele le issing can for volunteers -- michele le is asking for volunteers to help ceremony for her today. sky7-hd was overhead yesterday as dozens of volunteers fanned out to search an area previously searched by police. they're checking areas based on her cell phone signal after disappeared on may 27. they're being asked to check in at 25350 cypress avenue. the search will go on same hours tomorrow. >>> convicted sexual predator carey verse will be released from state mental hospital in the next few days and no longer be under supervision. a judge decided that verse should go three after two state appointed psychologists determined he was no longer violent. verse spent most of his adult life in custody. he's now 40. has be chemically cast rated. verse was released from custody in 2004 and lived in bay point until being sent to the hospital on a parole violation. he has a history of sexually assaulting men. >>> coming up next, bay area homeowners in desperate need of help with the house payments. thousands of families seek rescue from foreclo

last picked up the car that belonged to michelle le and the family is hoping that by going door to door they could find any clue that could help them lead to michelle le. >> i just found out that ... >> reporter: the family is not giving up. today they passed out more flyers, still hoping michelle le is alive. even if hayward police have announced the missing person case has turned into a homocide investigation. >> we don't have any proof that she has passed on so, to me, she is alive somewhere. seeing her somewhere, i don't know, but she is miserable and i want to find her and every minute i'm spending not doing something to try to find her is minutes wasted. >> reporter: and on the family side, mark glass, whose own daughter was kidnapped and murdered in petaluma back in 1993. >> i don't see why one shouldn't be optimistic, they say the case has been reclassified as a homocide, what's that based on? we don't know what it's based on and they certainly don't have a body. as far as anybody knows there is a young lady out there some place desperate to be recovered and brought home. >> reporter: he lent his own help to help them through the nightmare tha

michelle le. they went from carmel high school. they were friends when le followed her to be a nurse . six years ago esteban and le had a huge falling out. >> we know that she is a former friend of michelles. they have been disgruntled with each other in the past. esteban le dated her boyfriend and claimed that ruined her relationship with a man who fathered her five year old child . we spoke with a boyfriend who lived in the neighborhood and declined to go on camera and said police talked with him. le disappeared where she was attending a nursing mentoring program. le told a colleague she had to get thing her car which was parked in the hospital garage. they have not given up hope of if i understanding le. it is five-days since she disappeared. >> as time goes by, there is a greater and greater concern for michelle's safety. esteban told us. i hopely hate michelle, but she also said she's innocent of anything to do with her disappearance. hayward police say they are looking at other people in connection with the investigation. vick lee, abc 7 news. >> activist plan to protest on the tr

le. police say the two had a falling out. the search has been intensified for le. michael le, michelle's brother says his family is doing all they can to find her. he says his brother just flew into town to help. >> i am only 22 years old, i don't have resources available other than facebook and fliers. but my family has come in and they have new ideas on the table. >> reporter: michelle le's white honda was last seen driven out of the parking garage. the surveillance video did not show who was driving the car. it was later found a few blocks away. people say they have questioned several people they are calling persons of interest. >> this is an in-depth interview. we've done 15 to 20 of them. we have many more to do. >> reporter: police say they are waiting for cell phone analysis to be done for more accurate cell phone usage data. the fbi and the alameda crime lab have put that on expedite. so the information will be coming in a few days. the family says they will be holding a rally right here where he car was found beginning at 7:00. sal castaneda, ktvu channel 2 knew. >>> a new rulin

michelle le begins this morning in hayward. volunteers will missing nursing >>> in the headlines, a three- day search for michelle le begins thisers will look for the missing nursing student in undisclosed locations in the east bay. le disappeared three weeks ago. >>> 20-year-old deshon marmon will find out this morning if he will be charged with various crimes or if he will be released. he has been in the san mateo county jail since wednesday when a u.s. airways pilot had him removed from a plane for refusing to pull up his saggy pants. >>> homeowners are already lining up this morning outside mcenery convention center in downtown san jose. many are desperate to get free help with their mortgages. the event begins at 8:00 this morning and it runs through wednesday. >>> all right, friday, time to start thinking weekend. i think the weekend weather will be nice especially on father's day. mostly clear inland. patchy fog beginning to develop inside the bay and at the coast. more fog a sign of cooler temperatures but not bad toward the afternoon. 70s and 80s again in some of the interior valleys, 60s inside the bay 70s at the sant

michelle le is making a new call for help. ktvu's tara moriarty joins us now from hayward where le vanished nearly three weeks ago. good morning, tara. >> reporter: good morning. we are at the parking lot at the hospital which is off of sleepy hollow avenue. it's where michelle le was last seen alive. now le's family and the class kids foundation are asking for volunteers to help look for her starting tomorrow. hayward police have already reclassified this case as a murder investigation. the organization founder mark class said that the goal is to find le safe and sound. le's father has said that until police can show him some compelling evidence, he will not give up hope that his daughter is okay. hayward police are recommending some areas for the teams to search. >> you know some of the areas that we have in question are large land masses with a lot of trees and shrubbery and although we feel that we were very extensive in our first searches, it's possible we missed something small. by all means there's still evidence out there that we'd like to collect. >> reporter: now sources tell ktvu that investigators were

. >> another vigil near san diego where michelle le went to high school. le disappeared two weeks ago today from kaiser hospital in hayward. police now call the case a homicide but family and friends gathered last night to keep the spirit of hope that she is alive. david louie reports. >> nearly hundred people stood in silence in a hayward park to show support for family and friends. le's cousin from san diego spoke directly to her. >> we know you are out there. we're going to find you and we'll bring you home. >> even though police say evidence from le's car lead them to call it a homicide. they are distributing t-shirts and asking volunteers to post flyers across the bay area. her brother understands that investigators may not be able to disclose every detail they know. >> this is a missing person's case because they believe it's a homicide case now. they don't want to trace the investigation. >> it remains mystery when she left the hospital to get something from her car. the car was found a short distance away. her disappearance bother people that live and

le was cold in a parking garage may 27. police have interviewed several persons of interest, including le's former high school friend giselle esteban. she admitted to hating michelle lee her boyfriend. the "oakland tribune" reports esteban's ex-boyfriend has taken out a restraining order, he took it out against her three days before le disappeared. he said esteban was stalking him and making threats after he was granted primary custody of their 5-year-old daughter. >>> it is 6:36? >> i think it was a couple of days ago we were talking about chain requirements on 80 and 50. and now we have 70s and 80s and all is well with the world. >> we are certainly going to enjoy t lawrence tell us more about this beautiful forecast because some of us are already thinking about the weekend. >> yes. i know. we have earned this weather, folks. we have been through that very rainy spring. now the sun showing up around the bay area. mount vaca looking good as we are seeing mostly clear skies there. there is a low deck of clouds making its way onshore but that's typical for this time of year and that's going to begin to break up and as it breaks uhm, it will reveal lots of sunshine pul