que "si" es la misma que llevaba puesta la adolecente, el viernes cuando sali de la casa de su mama marlene lamar rumbo a su escuela "sobrato high" en morgan hill alrededor de las 6 y media de la maÑana y desaparecio. --hoy... se cumple una semana de la intensa busqueda y segun el portavoz del alguacil del condado de santa clara, jos cardoza, buzos han comenzado tambien a buscar en el estanque "ogier" y otros grupos de agua de los alrededores. --informan que la policia conduce adems cateos en las casas de los vecinos, y todos.... explicaron, estan cooperando., esto solo como una medida "mas" para encontrar pistas que los lleven a dar con el paradero de sierra lamar. --de lo que no han comentado es...sobre lo que la policia y el fbi hacia anoche por 2 horas dentro de la casa de lamar. blanca live --cesar esta es la informacion mas actual sobre este caso, y la busqueda continuara este fin de semana, vuelvo contigo. cu ---esta noche familiares y amigos de sierra lamar en el area de fremont,

marlene lamar made a plea last night at that vigil. the property owners in morgan hill asking them to please search their land especially for those pieces of property posted with no trespassing signs. to see if anything turns up. the only item that has turned up so far is sierra's cell phone that was found alongside a road down from her home here in morgan hill. the sheriff's office is now saying that that, unfortunately, that cell phone along with her computer have not revealed any information about her whereabouts. in another development, sierra's biological father steve lamar released a statement after it became known he is a registered sex offender. and this is what he says, quote, i ask you please not shift the focus away from the investigation and from finding sierra. i also ask you please not let my past shape your opinion of sierra and my family. please understand i'm a dad and want nothing more than to find my missing daughter. the sheriff's office says that steve lamar is not a person of interest. and has been cooperating fly

sierra lamar's mother marlene has reached out to mark klaas. he's a father whose own daughter was murdered and abducted. he now runs the klaas foundation to help find kids. the foundation is trying to assess how it might be able to help out the lamar family. he tells us, mark klaas tells us on the phone that marlene lamar is convinced her daughter did not run away. the sheriff's office of santa clara county does not know whether or not she ran away or was abducted. the sergeant tell us us is what makes this case so rare is that there's no evidence pointing one way or the other. sierra was last seen at 6:00 last friday morning at her home in morgan hill. at 7:15, she was supposed to catch a school bus a couple of blocks away and we were at this intersection of palm and dougherty where she is a sophomore. she never made that bus. a search party eventually saw her cell phone, and as you can see on this map, that's in the opposite direction of her school bus stop e less than a mile from her home and incidentally, that location of the cell phone is

que "si" es la misma que llevaba puesta la adolecente, el viernes cuando sali de la casa de su mama marlene lamar rumbo a su escuela "sobrato high" en morgan hill alrededor de las 6 y media de la maÑana y desaparecio. --hoy... se cumple una semana de la intensa busqueda y segun el portavoz del alguacil del condado de santa clara, jos cardoza, buzos han comenzado tambien a buscar en el estanque "ogier" y otros grupos de agua de los alrededores. --informan que la policia conduce adems cateos en las casas de los vecinos, y todos.... explicaron, estan cooperando., esto solo como una medida "mas" para encontrar pistas que los lleven a dar con el paradero de sierra lamar. --de lo que no han comentado es...sobre lo que la policia y el fbi hacia anoche por 2 horas dentro de la casa de lamar. blanca live --cesar esta es la informacion mas actual sobre este caso, y la busqueda continuara este fin de semana, vuelvo contigo. cu ---esta noche familiares y amigos de sierra lamar en el area de fremont, take full screen ---se congregaran para realizar una vigilia para pedir por su regreso a casa.. ---el e

after that, we saw marlene lamar, her mom and her boyfriend, rick gardner get in the car and they took off for a while and they came back. the mother did not appear distraught. at this point we still do not know if investigators have found sierra lamrar. her mother believes the sharks jersey is the same shirt search and rescue teams found inside her purse in a field near sierra's home. today marlene lamar made a plea to anyone who might know where her daughter is. >> if somebody is holding her, find it in your hearts to release her. >> reporter: sierra left this home one week ago for school and hasn't been seen since. this morning fbi agents stopped motorists near sierra's home hoping to get leads. marjorie walker says the community hasn't done enough, so she's xeroxed 100 fliers and put them up around town herself. >> morgan hill is our community and she is one of our girls. we need to find her. >> reporter: sheriff deputies say a more exhaustive search is planned for this weekend. tonight, at 7:30, there will be a candlelight vigil at washington high school with sierra used to attend

. >> marlene lamar has shown strength and tonight beginning at 8:00 the community will stand with her and her family during a candle light vigil. >> thank you very much. and we'd like to repeat good news we brought you at 4:00 a 12-year-old san ramone girl reported as missing has been found, safe. the little girl ran away from home monday night because of her age and ability to make decisions police began searching for that girl this morning. again, that young girl has been found, safe. >> and there is a woman raped by her husband is asking lawmakers to change the law. she wants to be sure victims of assault don't have to pay alimony to rapists. we're live with the story tonight. >> california judge said he couldn't order no spousal support in a 12 year marriage. he made $100,000 a month and she made $11,000 a month crystal harris says she feels victimized twice. there was no happy between this marriage. a couple from san diego. it ended in divorce. he was convicted of sexual assaulting her and sentenced to six years, one tack caught on tape. he also choked me. beat me. and threatened

we got a chance to talk to marlene lamar, ciera's mother. here is what she had to say about the discovery. >> i want to tamper with the evidence. >> reporter: did they tell you describe the clothing to you? >> well, i knew that the shark sweatshirt. >> reporter: shark sweatshirt. was that -- did they show you pictures? >> no they didn't. >> reporter: do you believe that's the shark sweatshirt she was wearing? >> i believe that was what she was wearing. when she took a picture on her laptop. >> reporter: she believes it and there's one glimmer of hope. she believes her daughter only owns one shark sweatshirt. she did admit a lot of girls in school exchange clothes. she cannot say with certainty. >> that's fine, if the mom is saying, those are the clothes she thinks she was wearing, my question, she snapped the picture of herself wearing the sweatshirt. that sounds little odd and you getting ready for school and you taking a picture of herself on your laptop? >> reporter: apparently that's what teenage girls do. that's what ciera does. in fact

marlene lamar says it was not unusual for her to bring clothes to school to swap with friends. >> they have done that quite a few times. >> reporter: investigators will plan a search and rescue party to scour the area this weekend. in morgan hill, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the coast guard and san francisco rescue crews responded to a call of a booed capsized. that was before 8:30. news chopper two as there as it san francisco's police and fire boats and fire crews on shore joined in the search. but they did not find anyone around the boat or ansigns of anyone who had been on board. they called off the search and towed the boat to shore >>> the contra costa county is joining a police officer- involved shooting, officers were looking for suspects in other crimes when they spot add fugitive in a blue compact car. they then gave chase. when police stopped him, a gun battle began. a teenage witness whose face we will not show describes what he saw and heard. >> they said, put your hands up. he didn't listen. firefight four or pfeiffer shots, boom, boom, boom, boom. >> reporter:

and a little new bit of information coming out from the interview we just had with marlene lamar. you know, there's been questions about whether or not sierra lamar was wearing those clothes that had been found in the field last sunday. that was new information released yesterday by the sheriff's office. well, her mother tells us this morning that she believes that sierra lamar was wearing a sharks jersey when she left home because they found a picture of her wearing it on her home computer and they tell us it's not unusual for her before she went to school to take pictures of herself with what she was wearing and leaving it on the home computer and she believes that's the same jersey found sunday in a field not far from her home by search and rescue personnels. they found the jersey in her pink juicy purse along with a pair of pants, both neatly folded. the sheriff department tells us there was some undergarments in there, as well, even though the sheriff's office has found no evidence of foul play. marlene lamar, sierra's mother is concerned for the worst. >> very convicting tha

it's like a bad dream and i don't understand it. >> marlene lamar reached out to marc klaas whose daughter was abducted in murdered in 1993. >> i received a call from marlene this morning. she reached out to the foundation and asked if there is anything that we might be able to do to assist her. i told her that we would be happy to assist. we can offer services anywhere from counseling family members to providing a full-fledged search effort as we did in the michelle lei case last summer. >> as businesses post flyers, the neighbors are still wondering what happened to the 15-year-old who left her home friday morning and has not been seen since. >> we are all dumbfounded by all this stuff. nothing like this has happened here. we have been here for 20 years. it's quiet as you can tell. >> they said sierra's cell phone found in a field less than a mile from home provided few clues. they continue to interview students as well as registered sex offenders in the area. in a public statement, sierra's father said i am releasing this statement to address a recent report that i am a registered sex o

and in her quest to find out why her daughter didn't make it here last friday, marlene lamar is turning to friends and the people of morgan hill for help. last night at another prayer vigil, this one in fremont where sierra lamar lived before moving to morgan hill last fall to live with her mother, she made a plea to property owners here in morgan hill, please search your land, especially those posted with no trespassing signs. the idea of being to see if anything turns up, any evidence, any clues that would let people know where sierra lamar is located. the only item that has turned up so far is sierra's cell phone down from the family's home here in morgan hill. the latest, though, from the sheriff's office is that that, unfortunately, along with her computer have not revealed any information about her whereabouts. if sierra was abducted, there was one person at last night's vigil who could relate. mitsy sanchez who was 8 years old when she was kidnapped back in 2000, she escaped after being locked in her abductor's car for two days. >> it definitely brings back a lot of bad memories.

. >> reporter: marlene lamar had no idea her 15-year-old daughter, sierra, didn't make it to school friday until getting an e-mail from sobrato high school that evening. alarming because sierra usually walks to a school bus before dawn, but the bus driver saw no sign of her and neither did her friends, all day. >> i can't believe that she would not contact her friends and let them know she is okay, and do this. she would never want us to go through all of this pain. >> reporter: search teams have been probing creeks and fields near the lamar home and scanning for clues from above in the sheriff's helicopter. >> we have searched most of these fields, all the way up to the foothills as well. >> reporter: working oval her scent, the dogs have traced sierra's half- mile walk to her bus stop, but the trail goes cold beyond her driveway, suggesting she was pecked up. investigators are mining her laptop for recent contacts, but sierra is described as "happy at home and school." no relationship trouble or history of running away. >> did she purposely run away or does something happen on the way fr

marlene lamar last saw her daughter friday morning at 6:00 a.m. when sierra left for school. but sierra never made it to the high school. investigators say there are no signs of a struggle and no indications foul play may be involved. search teams spent most of the past two days looking for sierra in the fields around her home. other than the cell phone and laptop, they have little to go on. they're running forensic tests on both items. we spoke with her mother an hour and a half ago. >> no way she could have run away? >> i don't think so, i don't think so. even though i wish it was, and i would be come back home, i love you very much, you're not in trouble. >> she has a twitter and facebook and no activity on any social network accounts since her disappearance. >> reporter: this is the first year for her at the high school. she spent freshman year at fremont washington high school. investigators are also talking with students and staff there. investigators tell me they've gotten tips from as far away as lake tahoe, but so far nothing has panned out. live at morgan hill, dami

marlene lamar made a plea last night to those gathered at the vigil and to property owners in morgan hill, please search your land, especially those posted with no trespassing signs to see if anything turns up. the only item that the investigators say has turned up so far is sierra's cell phone found alongside a road down the home here in morgan hill where she lives with her mother. the sheriff's office saying now, unfortunately, that cell phone along with her computer have not revealed any information about her whereabouts. now, in another development, sierra's father steve lamar, he released a statement yesterday after it became known that he is a registered sex offender. and this is what he said. i ask you please not shift the focus away from the investigation and finding sierra. i also ask you please not let my past shape your opinion of sierra or anyone in our family. please understand, i'm a dad and i want nothing more than to find my missing daughter. investigators did say that he is not a person of interest. and that he has been fully cooperative with the investigation. and i

and mother, marlene lamar, her mom, is trying to stay hopeful that in spite of the discovery of sierra's personal items, the sheriff office still says there is no evidence of foul play. though they still don't know whether she ran away or was abducted. reporting live, "today in the bay." >> another candle light vigil will be held. that is held where sierra attended school as a freshman before moving to morgan hill. >>> possibly some closure this morning for friends and family of a missing gilroy mother. police found the body of 52-year-old martha gutierrez yesterday in a rural area outside of hollister. gutierrez had been missing for more than a week since her son, iraq war veteran abel gutierrez shot and killed his 11-year-old sister before killing himself. last night, family and friends holding a prayer vigil. >> just gives you a little bit of peace, you know. just everyone getting together and really supporting each other. >> the family says 27-year-old abel gutierrez suffered from ptsd after serving several tours in iraq. >>> an investigation is underway in antioch today after police

. >> reporter: marlene lamar had no idea her 15-year-old daughter sierra didn't make to school friday until getting an e-mail from sobrato high school that evening. alarming because sierra usually washings to a school bus before dawn, but the bus driver saw no sign of her and neither did her friends all day. >> i can't believe she would not contact her friends and let them know she is okay and do this. she would never want us to go through all of this pain. >> reporter: search teams have been probing the creeks and fields near the lamar home. and scanning for clues from above, in the sheriff's helicopter. >> we have scoured most of the these fields all the way to the foothills on west side as well. >> reporter: working off her scent, the dogs is traced severe's half-mile walk to her bus stop. but the trail goes cold rondher driveway, suggesting she was picked up. investigators are mining her laptop for recent contacts, but sierra is described as happy at home and school and no relationship trouble or history of running way. sierra's cell phone charger was left behind in her room. and

rest at night because she's going to get sick if she doesn't. >> marlene lamar spoke emotionally last night at a candle light vigil. >> just realize how much i love you and i want you back. i want you back. >> sierra had a regular routine of catching the bus every morning at an intersection near her rural home. the only clue is her cell phone found less than a mile away. mark klaus whose 12-year-old daughter, polly was kidnapped in killed believes she was taken against her will. >> someone was probably stalking her, laying in wait for her z took advantage of the situation at hand. >> detectives have conducted 100 interviews. they've talked to registered sex offender ndz the area, neighbors and friends and classmates. hundreds of people came together for the candle light vigil. many are holding on to the feeling of hope, support. >> there is. >> this is emotional exhaustion. >> and the they're taking toll and will be announced soon. there are other individuals and this one in fremont. was sierra and her mother used to live. >> and a new memorial honoring four oakland police officers wi

this morning marlene lamar returned to the intersection where her daughter was supposed to catch the bus friday and didn't. >> someone might have seen something and that, you know, they might have seen something out of the ordinary. >> santa clara county sheriff detectives are asking similar questions going door to door and reinterviewing neighbors like iris whi. the 15-year-old sierra lamar disappeared with out a trace, there are few clues. her cell phone found in the opposite direction from school. >> i don't see her every day. i didn't notice on friday. i won't pay attention she's not there. >> the case of the twist when her father, steve lemar told abc news he's a registered sex offender and says he's innocent of the crime only pleading guilty in 2007 because of bad legal advice. and authorities say he's not a suspect, and family and close friends are frustrated by this distraction. >> he's not a suspect. he loves his daughter and wants her to come home. let's just focus on sierra. you know? and keep our attention where it should be. >> flyers are posted at virtually every busine

. >> reporter: marlene lamar is trying to stay positive, but as the hours tick by, her frustration and confusion over what happened to her daughter intensifies. kimberly terry, today in the bay. >>> sierra lamar's family is getting support from a young woman who understands their agony. 12 years ago missy sanchez was kidnapped and after two days in captivity the 8-year-old girl managed to escape. >> at lo of kids do get to come back home. and it could be her. you know, it is not too often, but whose to say that she can't do it. >> sanchez was kidnapped in vallejo and escaped from her captor in santa clar she's now 19 years old and her kidnapper died in jail. >>> the santa clara county sheriff's department set up a special mailbox for tips in the disappearance of sierra lamar. the web address is here and detectives set up a special e-mail address we put on nbcbayarea.com. >>> two men are in the hospital this morning after a huge brawl at a napa county golf course overnight. sheriff's deputies responded to the chardonnay golf club at 11:00 last night when a private party got out of hand

earlier this morning marlene lamar made a plea to the public to keep searching for her daughter. >> every little bit of information is going to help lead the sheriff's did department to my daughter. don't hold any information back. >> reporter: investigators say they will hold a more extensive search in the area tomorrow. and tonight at 7:30 at washington high school in fremont there will be a candlelight vigil in honor of sierra. reporting live in morgan hill, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >> thanks for the update, marianne. it is one of the deadliest days in san francisco. five bodies found dead inside a home. the discovery was made this morning on house street in the city's ingle side district right across the street from san francisco city college. >> reporter: janelle, they haven't released much information on what happened here. all we know is there are five people dead behind me in san francisco. they are not calling this a murder/suicide but all information seems to point in that direction. investigators spoke with neighbors but many say they didn't hear gunshots. >> nothing

i spoke with the boyfriend of marlene lamar. he said that she is at work and that he did not want to speak on camera at this time because he was also getting ready to work but says he is aware of the very latest on the search. in the meantime, what ever happened to sierra, whether she was abducted or ran away, the fact that she is not here has rocked this neighborhood. >> it is possible that it is the guy across the street were down the road. who knows. this is possible that they have been watching her. maybe someone saw her waiting for the bus and saw that she was alone and grabbed her and threw her in a car. i have a five granddaughters. they are told-18 years of age. for first this is hitting close to home. you feel it! it could be one of my granddaughter's. >>will: he said abducted. i asked the sheriff's department why they are not calling this an of death, everyone believes that including the girl's mother. she said there is no with her daughter would run away. they said for now it is still classified as a missing persons c

. >> reporter: now, shortly after she made those remarks, marlene lamar confirmed to kron 4 that she and her family have undergone polygraph tests. santa clara sheriff also confirmed to us that the tests did indeed take place and were given by the fbi. she would not divulge the results of the tests but said that more tests are pending. the search for sierra continues here. >> stand five feet apart and work our way up there. >> reporter: on wednesday, a small army of citizen volunteers combed the countryside around morgan hill for any sign of the missing team. they believe the teen was abducted possibly by an acquaintance. santa clara sheriff laurie smith. >> the focus is on what do you know about the person that took her. we want to know from everybody, is there someone acting suspiciously, if someone changed her appearance, we understand sierra, we've talked with her friends, we don't believe she is a runaway. >> anything that could be used to cover up evidence, like a tarp, blanket, garbage can. >> reporter: after a briefing at the elementary school, they searched a creek near ande

then, for the first time we're hearing from marlene lamar talking about the abduction and a plea to whoever is holding her daughter. >> i would like to cut out eight cleave to whoever is holding my daughter against her will. we understand there may have been events that have led you to this situation and i understand that things can happen, things spiral out of control and get out of hand and you do not know what to do. we are now focusing on getting you in trouble. we just want to end this nightmare. >>will: volunteers say they are not giving up until they find sierra. more news when we come back for. a little theater as a folk where a man accidentally left fireworks inside of his carry-on bag. we are hearing it now that he was about to board a united flight into the flight will arrive at and settle at 9:20 a.m.. the 29 year old man says that he forgot he had fireworks in his backpack. sources are saying that he had three different am-in the fireworks and a canister containing black aluminum powder that was wrapped in black electrical tape with a lighter. that was all that was found in his

>> reporter: we talked to steve and marlene lamar at 4 this morning. they reported their daughter's disappearance to the national center for missing exploited children, and they're working closely with the klaas foundation that helps organize volunteer searches. 15-year-old sierra lamar, their daughter, went missing one week ago today. she was leaving for school, supposed to take the bus, she never arrived at the school and she has not been seen since then. now the fbi child abduction team is on the case, they're agents were in the neighborhood near her home yesterday afternoon. so far this is considered a missing persons case, investigators have not found any evidence that sierra lamar was abducted or any signs of foul play. but the sheriff told us this morning that the circumstances of her disappearance are suspicious. so far, investigators have interviewed more than 150 people. they recovered the teen's purse, some of her clothing, her cell phone, and they still just don't know what may have happened to her and where she could be. >> our hearts are

marlene dodge and her horse dolly traveled 100 miles from king city to help search for sierra lamar. >> we can see pretty well from up here, further than people that are up to maybe 6 foot tall. we're way higher. >> reporter: this is the first equestrian team to participate in the public search for the teen last seen march 16. today nearly 450 volunteers headed out on foot to scour areas near sierra's home. her father stopped by to thank the volunteers. he says he is overwhelmed by the community response, also says he's hopeful his daughter is still alive. >> we're pleading if there is someone out there that has her, we're just pleading for them to release her. all we care about is getting her home. >> reporter: investigators say for now they are done conducting searches in ponds and reservoirs. while detectives work round the clock, volunteers say they will keep returning to search. >> people have closed their businesses to come and search for sierra. there's an obvious anger at what might have happened to this girl and very strong resolution on the part of the community to get to t

sierra lamar's parents marlene and steve, and her sister danielle, are now joining us, along with lori smith, the santa claire are county sheriff. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i know that as hard as it is to be on our television this morning, you are here because you want to do everything possible to help find sierra. so, marlene, you know, knowing your daughter, knowing what these new details that the police are now releasing, what does your gut tell you about what happened to sierra? >> well, as every -- each day goes on i just have this gut feeling that she's not willfully choosing to be away. she loved her family. and she loved her friends. and i just know that she wouldn't -- wouldn't intentionally be away as the day goes on, my heart aches for her. i know she's out there. you know, i keep praying and i have faith that she's going to find her way back to us. and we're all going to embrace her. we loved her so much. we're praying for you, honey, we just want you back. we want you coming back. i can't wait to see you again. >> i k

we talked to her mother marlene about this latest finding. she says now she's more worried about than ever. she said, quote, i'm terrified. what happened to 15-year-old sierra lamar, the morgan hill teen missing more than a week? investigators say they have new clues. they found a purse in this field and have confirmed it belonged to sierra. >> members of the sheriff's office search and rescue team found this juicy bag belonging to sierra. inside the bag was some of sierra's clothing, a pair of pants and a t-shirt neatly folded, neatly put inside this bag. >> reporter: investigators tell nbc bay area news they also found sierra's underwear inside the bag. the items were all found sunday. >> the reason the information wasn't made available immediately to the public was that we had to confirm that the clothes did belong to sierra, and we had to do some further investigative follow-up on that. >> reporter: now the santa collclara county sheriff's department is intensifying its search, looking inside shacks and barns and combing fields within a 3