believed to be headed to thailand or mexico reporter elizabeth cook talk to the children's mother. >>om this at the suspect and suspected of stealing a sail boat and taken off with his two children authorities from south san francisco alameda and insurance company skandia open waters looking for them according to the children's mother he has limited experience in sailing. >>> i want the coast guard and navy and when you as a bold look for my children. bring them back to me. >>> i'm afraid for my children's lives >>> three days since she has seen her children three year-old brooklyn and to erode devon according to coast guard there with their father on a stolen boat. >>> he has a sailboat and somewhere out in the ocean i'm not sure where he sat. >>> jennifer says christopher kidnapped them from her home she is covered in bruises trying to stop them from taking the kids >>> i lost my balance and felt myself all he would of ran over me >>> police say there is nothing they could do to help >>> he had parental rights and they consider this parental abduction so no amber alert announce to t

lassie yesterday near vallejo >>> the suspicion he was trying to leave the country we have heard thailand or mexico is just speculation at this point. right now not enough information for the coast guard to launch a search if you see the bogus the unleashed call 9 1 1. >>> his campaign 2012 and president but obama and vice- president joe biden will accept their nominations tonight. randall pinkston in charlotte north carolina with more on the final night of the democratic national convention. >>> we will hear from joe biden this week to take care of that tonight the president obama will talk about taxes we've seen an excerpt he said voters face a clear choice for a fundamentally different vision where america should go. final day of the democratic convention packed with star power. ♪ >>> they gear up for president obama's to except his nomination >>> he will not get at the ball park >>> the president has a lot to show for his first term as and the show that to voters >>> he must give a complete list of his accomplishments it is an extremely long list >>> president obama expected to focus on the eco

the children's mother says the book may be heading to thailand or mexico. investigators tracked into and out of me that arena. the unwished yacht was last seen wednesday near vallejo production happen on tuesday. the children's grandmother is covered with bruises after she tried to stop him from doing that. >>> i was running so fast that i lost my balance. >>> steve kelly spent on federal agencies have been alluded to watch for christopher matthey. >>> such a rescue teams are looking for the gun man from the fed to disappear from the banks of the sacramento river over the weekend. he was glass and had to impeach your chico. france and a bit over highway 24 on lafayette to publicize the case your love people are following this story on month. >>> within 24 hours of the 35,000 to 40,000 people were on the base will page. >>> his parents contacted authorities on monday because the bill to return home. >>> a third camera has died from the anti virus outbreak of the seventh national park. the victim as the the park in june. officials have expanded the morning to

the children's mother says about might be heading towards thailand or mexico. thus the distract a man who is christopher matthey to an atom to read up. this city he stole a 40 ft. yacht and sell the way with the kids. the yacht was last seen wednesday near vallejo. the abduction happened on tuesday. the children's grandmother is covered and bruises after she tried to stop the man from taking the kids. >>> i was running so fast that i trips. i felt myself all. if he could be one of right over me. >>> state county and federal agencies have been alerted to watch for christopher matthey the art and two children. >>> switches in the sacramento valley fur a young man from lafayette to vanish over the weekend. 22 let olson was last know what the sacramento river near chico. family friends hold a vigil in the fight yesterday. lot of people are following the story on why. >>> committee for is the pitch that was expected to of about zero thousand members but within 24 hours a 35,000 to 40,000 people out on the page. >>> he was student and his parents contacted the author

. >> we have heard thailand or mexico, but again ... >> thailand? >> exactly, that is all speculation at this point, it is hard to say. >> the charter club believes that the suspect may have been casing the arena for weeks. >> in his early '40's, he said that he was a defense analyst and work in switzerland, and that his wife wanted to move back here and he was looking at a 50 ft. boat to purchase. >> so they showed him around and got a close look at the sailboats, and then they got suspicious. >> our efforts to contact him at the e-mail address we have does not work anymore and like i say, he would give us a phone number but he did not. he told us that his last name was mess, it did not seem real. >> today's out san fransisco police track down a rental car in the marine a lot, possibly traced to the suspect and instead of that car, children's books. people here at the marina tell me that i have seen his father with his young children several times in the past several weeks, in fact someone saw him on tuesday night, loading up a car with supplies, p

the children's mother says the boat may be headed to thailand or perhaps mexico. the susan g.eman walk begins today. these are live pictures as they get ready for the big walk, the annual three day event benefits breast cancer research and starts this morning and will go on all weekend, a 60 mi. route through several parts of the bay area. they are easy to spot because they are all in pink. >> lots of sunshine coming our way, high-pressure is going to sneak in overhead, '40's and '50's with partly cloudy skies. some eighties inland and sixties and seventies around the bay. 50's to 60s coast side, the hottest day saturday, cooling off sunday and monday. warming up to the middle of next week. >> out to the bay bridge, pretty busy for a friday, it is stacked up to the macarthur mays, a 20 minute wait to get you onto the stand. san mateo bridge traffic pretty light this morning on was down 92. a quick heads up, the accident still in lanes. and unfortunately continues to stack up, it is jamming up towards crockett. >> i promise to shout out to to devoted viewers in pacifica, slow a

year-old matthey affected them on tuesday the children's mother said they may be headed to thailand or mexicoate county and federal agencies but alerted to watch out for him the yacht and two children. a pair of northern california wild fires threatening 23 homes and colusa county now burned more than 1,200 a.. traffic and weather coming up. >>> toward this in detail bridge to take awhile for the traffic to cover westbound 92. it's been clear for nearly a half-hour but it's still stop and go as you had passed the pace gates. at this morning at the bay bridge to the accident but the metering lights of the johnson 615 stacked up fully into the maze. in oakland northbound 880 heavy traffic passed the coliseum towards downtown oakland and a similar story westbound 580 because of an accident approaching keller avenue blocking one lane. >>> the skies looking very nice outside with the tropical moisture moving on by a beautiful starts the day. otherwise looking very nice expecting a high pressure to build in the and the next couple of days with the temperatures running low 50s in the north they have

he went to the ballena isle marina in alameda they are concerned he may be sailing to mexico or thailand he used to live in thailand he mentioned monterey and mexico to friends. the mother understandably is beside herself. >> i'm afraid if they back him into a corner, i don't want him to snap and do something really stupid any more than what he's already done. i'm really worried for my kids, i want them to come back safe and unharmed. >> reporter: the her mother says she was in the process of getting a restraining order against maffei. the boat may have been spotted wednesday 6 p.m. but unable to be located and hasn't been seen since. police are treating this as a child abduction case and they've called in state as well as federal investigators. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> our time is 5:02. developing news from vallejo. police in that city are investigating a murder that claimed the lives of two people. we have a live picture from the scene. a lot of police vehicles out there. officers received a 911 call reporting gunshots after 9:00 last night. when police got there they found two

it's believed that he may be heading to mexico or even to thailand.n notified, south san francisco police and alameda police also involved at this point. christopher is 43 years old, one of the children brooklynn is three, wearing a white dress with blue and green designs on it. devin is 2, had a sponge bob square pants shirt on and a diaper, an arrest warrant has been issued for christopher maffei. the children are considered abducted. >> we have a search to tell you about, this one a missing man from lafayette. brett olson disappeared over the labor day weekend during an inner tube trip down the sacramento river. his friends have launched a facebook page, let's bring brett home. a lot of action, 66,000 followers, twitter has been abuzz with people tweeting and repeating the #find brett olson. star power behind the tweet from howie mandel and miley cyrus. family and friends say they are very grateful for all of the publicity that olson is getting on line and they do hope that these efforts will pay off. >> two people are dead in vallejo and police ar

mom thinks that dad has taken these kids and headed to mexico or thailand. police do at this point? >> these are tough cases. the statistics are horrible. about 200,000 abductions a year, not necessarily flying to the high seas but when people divorce and they have these issues it's really sad. that's the latest statistic 2010 department of justice. it gets more difficult when it's an international issue. the event that a father or mother would take their child out of state we have here laws within domestically but when you start going internationally now you have to examine extra diction treaties which is our ability in the u.s. to pull someone back in our jurisdiction. if he does go to mexico, we do have an extradition treaty. >> you might have a parent as the abductor, do prosecutor treat the parents as a stranger kidnapping a child or is that different? >> it's a bit different because what you have in federal law, even state law you have what are call aggravating and mitigating factors. there's some factors that aggravate and there are other factors that