Park in east oakland. Reporter julie, were now entering the 11th hour since the young girl was reported missing. Opd has several scenes that theyre working at this hour, clueing one near the airport. From chopper 2, you can see Police Officers searching the park area at Martin Luther king regional shore line. There are also k9 units on the ground. The search is for 21monthold daphne webb. It is possible that the child was not in the car. It is possible the child was taken. Reporter police say after 11 00 a. M. This morning daphnes father entered this market. Police say he left the girl in this dark colored suv. When the fir came out of the store, daphne was missing. I happened to see the car seat, and it was empty. His mom was sitting there, kind of like, just, you know, kind of distraught. Reporter since then, officers, fbi agents and k9 agents have continued to search for daphne. The Oakland Police chief also came out to look at the scene. The suspect is described as a female african
Focused their search effort on Martin Luther king jr. Regional park in east oakland. Reporter julie, were now entering the 11th hour since the young girl was reported missing. Opd has several scenes that theyre working at this hour, clueing one near the airport. From chopper 2, you can see Police Officers searching the park area at Martin Luther king regional shore line. There are also k9 units on the ground. The search is for 21monthold daphne webb. It is possible that the child was not in the car. It is possible the child was taken. Reporter police say after 11 00 a. M. This morning daphnes father entered this market. Police say he left the girl in this dark colored suv. When the fir came out of the store, daphne was missing. I happened to see the car seat, and it was empty. His mom was sitting there, kind of like, just, you know, kind of distraught. Reporter since then, officers, fbi agents and k9 agents have continued to search for daphne. The Oakland Police chief also came out to
Now explaining why the father is, in fact, under arrest. Christie, good morning. Reporter Oakland Police say the little girls father, john webb is under arrest for child endangerment, basically for leaving that little girl in the car. We spoke with neighbors who say they havent spoken with the father since the girl went missing. Police are not calling him a suspect they say their focus today is still on finding little daphne viola webb, 21monthold little girl who was the subject of an amber alert. His father says he went to a market on 79th and International Late yesterday morning, left her in the car for just a few minutes while he ran inside. He says when he returned, she was gone. His 87yearold mother was in the car, too, but she suffers from dementia and unable to help investigators. This morning, search dogs were back at his apartment on greenridge street in east oakland. Police and the fbi have been there several times. One neighbor says she knows that daphne webb was staying acr
July 11th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Good morning everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer with natalie morales. I am not a child of the video digital generation, but i can tell you right now, if my car were being swept away by a mud slide my first instinct would not be to take up my camera and Start Recording the entire episode. You wouldnt be instagraming it . No, i would be screaming and trying to steer out of it. Remarkable video though. Scary. Well have a little more on that in a moment. Meantime it is a busy morning around here. We expect closing arguments today in the George Zimmerman trial, and the judge has a key decision before her. Should the jury be given the option of convicting zimmerman on a lesser charge than murder . We will have that story and be live at the courthouse. We want to begin on this thursday morning with the overnight release