good afternoon. we have breaking news to report from the central valley this noontime. a child s body has been found in a canal. though the body has not been identified, there s word that it matches the description of a 4-year-old patterson boy kidnapped two weeks ago. jade hernandez has learned who spotted the body and where it was found. jade? reporter: well, that s right. this story unfolded in a way no one wanted it to. the amber alert issued two weeks ago was supposed to bring little juliani cardenas home, instead it led to a recovery effort of the delta canal. a man noticed the body in the water, found 30 miles near patterson. the clothing and description of boy in the amber alert does match the body found. just 30 minutes ago, i spoke to the stanislaus county deputy sheriff. it s a saddening to it s a saddening that he was sad ending to this. we were hoping he was somewhere else. reporter: this discovery comes 1 days after juliani cardenas went miss 14 days