Waiting. Debora villalon is live with new leads in the alyssa case. A ping that they got from the cell phone. They thought it was near a soccer field, baseball feel area. So at least now they are able to have a footstep of where to go. Im gone a party. Reporter alyssa and a few friends were at a concert when she returned to the hotel alone. A friend who saw her there said she seemed fine. On a hotel lobby, you could tell she sat for a minute, got up and walked out. Reporter walked where or with whom a mystery. We all started to worry and freak out a little bit. Reporter alyssas friend waking up to check out realized she was missing. We started to call everybody we knew, called the hospital, called the police. Reporter one of the calls was to her father kevin bryne who went to search for her. He is studying to be a firefighter and at the restaurant where she waitresses, coworkers describe her as reliable, energetic. She was like yeah im going and then she didnt come back. And its crazy because you never thought it would happen to you. Reporter posters with 19 yearold alyssas picture are going up all over petaluma. And on a larger scale, a Facebook Page is also helping spread the word. Were live in petaluma, debora villalon. Law enforcement officials in lake tahoe say their search has not found any foul play. Today teams from several Law Enforcement agencies took place on snow shoes and a helicopter looked for clues from overhead. They also went room to room in a Horizon Hotel where the girl and her friends were staying. Were worried for her, the nighttime temperatures here are very cold. So shes exposed to elements that could be a major concern. The search stopped at nightfall. The teams plan to resume at morning. As debora mentioned, the last time she used her phone was a few minutes after midnight on new years. Then there are two disturbing messages on alyssas twitter account. One of them reads, just lost all my trust in the person i trusted most. And the second reads, after tonight youll never be a part of my life, you wont be a memory of 2013 a new year youll never be apart of nothing to me. It is unknown if she posted the tweets. The Technology Based tools include a wristwatch with a gps locator and Smart Phone App that lets people know if theres a missing child alert within 15 miles. Today would have been polys 32nd birthday. We have new details tonight about a deadly confrontation in san jose that maybe a case of vigilateism. Part of it is creating an open house of sorts for criminals. Matt keller has details on what led up to the confrontation. Reporter this is the murder complaint filed today by the District Attorneys Office three days after the shooting at this apartment come lek. C o m p lex. This parking garage on lewis road was a crime scene after two maintenance workers confronted hernandez. It was shocking and now to know who they are, you think oh my god, they are so good people. Its sad. Reporter the other maintenance workers said the area has been plagued by burglaries and despite frequent Police Reports the crimes have continued. An officer revealed to me today this apartment complex had 11 car thefts in the last year. Maisha taylor said her car was broken into several times and people are frustrated. Stop breaking into peoples cars everywhere not just summer breeze. Reporter the San Jose PoliceOfficers Association says the department has 920 officers able to patrol the streets after 30 registration 30 resignations over the last 30 days. It creates a climate that people think police are not able to help when they need them. I think its important for people to know what they have available. We dont have enough. We dont need to see more citizens trying to take things into their own hands. Reporter Christopher Soriano had a lengthy criminal record and a bench warrant for failing to appear to a court date and they the not know why he was at the apartment and they do not know why he was at the apartment complex on the day of the shooting. Police are crediting shot spotter system for finding two shooters. Police flooded the area then minutes later someone called 911 with the description of the car carrying the shooters. Partially injuring an officer and causing minor injury to a police car. Reporter they recovered an assault weapon with a cliff that could help 20 20 amunition. An international crack down on child pornography has netted hundreds of arrests including some here in the bay area and have resulted in the rescue of 123 exploited children. We arrested 245 people on criminal charges of child exploitation. 222 in the united states, and 23 people overseas. Homeland securities operation sunflower began back in november and spanned 46 states and six countries. 36 people were arrested in california the most of any state including three from the bay area. One in san leandro, one in San Francisco and one in sonoma county. Police in daly city say a fight between a father and son ended with both of them hospitalized with serious injuries. It happened around 2 30 this morning at the crown county apartments on emperial way. Both are expected to survive. One thing that happened in vegas did not stay in vegas. Tonight San Francisco giants pitcher sergio romo is apologizing for an incident at the vegas airport on new years day. Tsa agents detained romo at an Airport Security checkpoint. They said he couldnt provide the proper i. D. Police say the world series champ became upset and began acting aggressive so they handcuffed him. After romo calmed down he was sited for breaking rules and released. A statement tweeted by romo was released by the giants tonight. It said i would like to sincerely apologize about the recent events atlas vegas airport. I love and respect my team. And david akers closed his twitter after getting death threats. He suffered a flair up in november and needed injections. Akers is in a slump this season. Later tonight sports director mark ibanez will show us the second kicker the team has signed ahead of the play offs. Gavin newson says he is giving up his show on San Franciscos current tv now that the Media Company is being bought by aljeze era. As we reported yesterday, aljeze era is planning to purchase the company for 5 million. The new Congress Took the oath of office at the u. S. Capital today with about 100 freshman now serving in the house and senate. As ktvus Rita Williams reports its a blend of old and new faces. Reporter a touching beginning for the 113th congress, back for the First Time Since a massive stroke a year ago, illinois senator mark kirk pain stakingly climbed the 45 steps. The Vice President and colleagues from both parties cheered on the 53yearold republican. Speaker boehner is a leader who has earned the confidence of his conference and the respect of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Reporter in the house more public goodwill as pelosi handed the gavel to boehner after both were reelected. Soon though, the talk turned to cut, taxes and spending. Pitting the two parties against each other. The people will not tolerate the kind of crisis weve seen again and tkpwaef. Reporter same leaders, same party majorities in the house and senate, same partisanship, same issues. Yet more diverse. 98 women, 43 african americans, 31 latinos, 12 asians and seven gay or bisexual. Its good to see Congress Starting to look more like the rest of america. Reporter one day down, two years left to see if looking like more of america helps end the gridlock in congress. Rita williams, ktvu news. More details, there are now more women than ever before. Today the Democratic Women of the house posed for a class photo on the steps of the capital. In all there are 79 women in the house and 20 in the senate. That is five more than the previous congress. A councilman elect is in a coma tonight and is likely to miss the citys swearing in ceremony. Gary bell is hospitalized following two neurosurgeries for swelling on his brain. Bells family released a Statement Today saying a severe bacterial sinus infection was detected. How new video tonight of a water main break in the east bay. Started about 3 40 in berkeley on dwight way. An east bay mud person said a water main ruptured. Workers shut down the main about 6 30 tonight affecting about 15 homes. Theres a controversial new ad campaign in San Francisco that focuses on the word jihad. That is a word that strikes fear in a lot of people but amber lee is here and tell us why the people behind the campaign say its also a word that is misunderstood. Reporter the words are in some nummi buses in San Francisco. Tonight we spoke to people downtown to gauge their reaction to the use of the word jihad. Reporter the campaign is designed to bring awareness to the true meaning of the word jihad. Which the Muslim Community says is often misinterpreted by americans. A group of islam people that are the bad guys. It means killing people. Reporter but care of the council of islamic relations a Civil Rights Group says jihad is an arabic word which means an uphill struggle to get to a better place. It can be a struggle to be patient, to make friends or to stay in shape. Unfortunately the word jihad has been hijacked by muslim and anti muslim to put forward war struggle. Reporter we showed the ads to people who had not noticed them. I dont particularly like them. No. Reporter why not . I just think its not making me feel comfortable. If they put that up its probably going to create more confusion but at least itll get the conversation going and the conversation is good. I think anything thats going to help raise peoples awareness, maybe help diminish stereo types people have will be a good thing. Reporter the tads will be on buses until the end of the month. The campaign will also take place in other major cities. Saying it is time for islams to take back a word that is part of creed. Victims of a Home Invasion robbery in San Francisco say the robbers were looking for one thing, marijuana. Now police are looking for the men who broke into an apartment in the Richmond District at about 3 00 this morning. The people inside that apartment said they didnt have the 50 pounds of marijuana that was demanded. The robbers then took their cell phones, electronics and cash. Police are looking for those five robbers. Google scored a partial victory today when federal regulators found that google did not place any special ads. Online Holiday Shoppers spent more money this year compared to last year. According to a new com score report that came out today. Holiday shoppers spent 42. 3 billion in november and december. Thats a 14 increase compared to the same months in the previous year. The report also found spending picked up in the final days of the holiday season. U. S. Car sales have now hit prerecession levels and in 2012 auto makers saw the biggest one day spike in 30 years. Consumer editor tom vacar tells us why so many people are now ready to make such a big financial commitment. 141 2 million vehicles sold last year, thats 14 more than the year before and sales we have not seen since the hay days of 2007. Were seeing a tremendous amount of people coming in and being happy to buy cars and not just because they have to because they want to. Reporter for 2013, many analysts are now forecasting sales to top 15 million vehicles. The failure to resolve the fiscal cliff could have derailed it. But just in the last few days, general manager malone says business has been brisk. I think the value is good for the money, and with Interest Rates and things like that are really good right now. That makes me happy because im car shopping right now. My transmission went out so im shopping. Reporter are you happy you will get a good deal . Im very confident. Reporter when people decide to spend money on high ticket items then that means that confidence is solid. In 2008 when everything crashed, i included i put off buying a car. I thought i dont know whats going to happen so i waited until just last year. I think its improved a lot over the last couple of years you look at the home prices they pretty much stabilized. You look at a lot of companies are actually hiring now. Reporter economists say future success depends on the new car buyers putting the economy over the rescission. The dow lost 21 points, nasdaq dropped 11. Stocks fell after word of disagreement among Federal Reserve officials about how long the feds should keep buying bonds to support the economy. The city of East Palo Alto is asking for 2. 7 million from the state for emergency levee repeers. The levee was damaged when the frito creek flooded. Seven homes were damaged and seven people evacuated from their homes. Tonight the city council ratified a declaration making the city eligible for the funding. Another cold night across the entire bay area. Heres a look at some of the current numbers at the 10 00 hour. Already dropping back down into the 30s out toward santa rosa, fairfield, concord and livermore. Livermore checking in 32 degrees. Tomorrow morning just a little more than the very cold reads we had this morning. Some areas of frost. Especially out toward the inland valleys. The temperatures from the 20s to 30s in the coolest locations. Low of 42 degrees, san jose 36 and fairfield one of the spots in the upper 20s at 29 degrees. So here we are tomorrow morning, were all cold at 7 00, 20s, 30s and 40s. Into the afternoon hours a warm recovery with more sunshine. They will be dry for your friday but that could be changing by the weekend. Ill be tracking rain chances coming up in the five day forecast. In just under an hour, crews will begin working on what is sure to be a spectacular light display. Heres a live look right now at the bay bridge. Where crews will begin installing lights along the citys western span. 29,000 white lights will sprinkle across the bridge. The light project is expected to be complete this spring. A day of new beginnings. The students of Sandy Hook Elementary School resume classes. The extra steps taken to help ease them into the new transition. The ke [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. 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Much of the campus was relocated to monroe. Even the pet turtle made the move. There were counselors, therapy dogs, there was a little bit of anxiety but everybody was happy to get back in the swing of things. Reporter in the days after the shooting i took these photos in monroe. You could see police cars blocking ago access to the campus as they are this week. The efforts to know that they are not forgotten and everybody understands and empathizes with them i think theres some benefit to that. Reporter this is a good time for the students to get back to class but that many will feel the effect of the trauma for some time to come. Kids not being able to sleep. Having nightmares. Acting out in one way or another. So i think people have to be really attentive to catch that in the early stages. Reporter abramson says its important to resume a normal routine as soon as reasonably possible so that childs fears do not have too long to build up. Im john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. In new york city mayor Michael Bloomburg had a meeting with another survivor of a shooting, gabrielle giffords. Giffords says she plans to visit newton tomorrow. And a clinton spokesperson says she will return to work tomorrow. Secretary clinton was releaseed from the hospital yesterday. Shes being treated with blood thinners to desolve a blood clot from her brain. The illness began last month with a stomach flu. Clinton remains committed to testifying before congress about the benghazi consulate attacks. California is one step closer to helping low income residents to receiving health care coverage. The Program OffersHealth Insurance at a lower price to qualified low income residents. Its estimated 1 Million People in the bay area and 6 million statewide have no Health Insurance. A lesson tonight on paying it forward. How a childs small donation resulted in hundreds of dollars for one bay area shelter. And one of there is no massproduced human. 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