Wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. mark we are just two hours away from learning the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. darya a jury is set to announce their verdict at 9 00 this morning. Kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. will jurors in the sierra lamar murder trial have reached a verdict, Santa Clara County superior Court Officials announced this afternoon. The verdict will be read in court at 9 a. M. On tuesday at san joses Santa Clara Hall of justice. Antolin garciatorres, 26, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 15yearold sierra, who has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and to the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. If garciatorres is found guilty, the jurors will weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors and select between death and life without the possibility of parole. Both sides would be allowed to present evidence during this phase of the trial. Garciaarrested on may 21, 2012, two months after sierra went missing and after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside morgan hill. Sierras dna found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in 1998 red Volkswagen Jetta. Defense attorneys for garciatorres have alleged cross contamination during the evidence collection process, pointing to sloppy techniques by the Santa Clara County district attorneys crime laboratory. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. mark and stick with the kron 4 morning news all morning as we wait for the verdict. We will bring it to you as soon as it is read at 9 00 this morning. We will also have a criminal defense attorney on set to discuss the jurys decision. And if you are away from your tv make sure you download the kron 4 mobile app. We will send out a breaking news push alert as soon as the verdict is announced. mark this morning we are hearing from a victim of the bart mob attack last month. darya anny hong is here with more on the lawsuit against bart. Anny . anny land rusty stapp and his family are now suing bart for three Million Dollars. They were returning from a Birthday Dinner in San Francisco when the mob began pounding on the train as it pulled into the coliseum station. Stapp and his family claim bart did nothing to prevent the attack and robbery. They say the person driving the train should have realized people were pounding on the doors and never opened them. anny stapps Attorney Says bart must answer for its lack of security at fare gates. Bart now has 45 days to respond to the claim. Acting bart police chief Jeffrey Jennings says bart Police Officers were working extra hours before the mob attack and continue to add increased security after the attack. < Jeffrey Jennings, acting bart police chief this past weekend i dont know if they are juveniles or adults we arrested 16 people with my extra staffing which thwarted a lot of activity. anny land jennings says only one juvenile is being linked to the mob attack. Bart doesnt plan on releasing video of the incident saying it is against state law since they might be juveniles. Back to you guys. mark breaking overnight. Bart police are now investigating a hate crime at a station in San Francisco. It happened last night before 1130 at the powell bart station. A man was standing at the platform when another man came up to him and called him several gay slurs. The man then punched him in the face. The victim reported the crime to a station agent as the attacker fled. Police say the attacker was wearing a black security uniform and a silver badge on the right side. darya a vallejo mother is demanding answers after her 6th grade daughter was attacked at school. The attack was all caught on camera. mark Spencer Blake has the story you will only see on kron four. pkg looklive at Solano Middle School, plenty of students have seen the video that somebody uploaded of a sixth grader getting pummeled during pe. This is that video. It starts with the victim seated in her spot, ready for pe. If you listen, you can hear taunting from others. She said, hello and i was sittin there ignoring her and she just started beating on me. The girl came home that day in early march with some knots on her head. Someone in the School Office called her mother, emma simms. But simms says the administrator only said her daughter was upset. had i known that my daughter was beat up like that, i wouldve been here quick and in a hurry. The sixth grader did tell her mother what happened, but when the video got posted on youtube she kept that to herself. People wont stop talking about it. Who . Everyone at school . Everyone in my class. Simms didnt know the video existed until sunday. She says her daughteris fearful, scared to come to school, she wants me with her. A teacher at Solano Middle School told me she too had seen it. She called it assault, and said she already had to discipline other students for having it or passing it around. The teacher also told me the attacker had been suspended for multiple daysbut ashe feels it wasnt enough. Now simms is trying to bring the avideo to the attention and the district. To be one of those thats trying to commit suicide. By law, the district has 15 days to receipt of the complaint form simms is filling outand another 60 days to investigate it. In vallejo, Spencer Blake, kron four news. darya police have identified the man who shot at officers over the weekend in san jose. He is 29year old kevin riley. Police say riley started firing at them sunday morning on tully road. Police shot back, but did not hit him. Riley was later arrested at a Mobile Home Park in the area. This was the third officer involved shooting in the last week. mark if you drive in the north bay you could soon be charged a toll to use highway 37. Officials say the highway is prone to flooding and Traffic Congestion and charging a toll could help fix some of those problems. Marin county officials it can take years to get the money to fix the highway and a toll could help speed up the process. But some Business Owners in the area say a toll will be too costly for them. mark fortythousand people use highway 37 every day. It connects solano, marin, napa and sonoma counties. mark we are learning how much it is going to cost to fix some of the roads damaged during the winter storms. 37Million Dollars is needed to fix highway 35 in Santa Clara County. Highway 35 washed out in the Santa Cruz Mountains in february. Caltrans says it will need to build a retaining wall to get the road repaired and back open. According to caltrans, this road will cost the most to fix than any other road damaged by the winter storms. mark happening today. Wells fargo is in court and accused of targeting undocumented immigrants to open up bank accounts. That is according to a lawsuit filed by a wells fargo shareholder. It claims that bankers and tellers scouted the streets and Social Security offices for potential clients. Their goal was to find undocumnted immigrants and persuade them to open a bank account. The lawsuit claims that personal bankers and managers turned to unethical and potentially illegal ways to reach their daily sales quotas. A spokesperson for wells fargo called the lawsuit offensive, and denies the allegations. darya land a closely watched proposal to eliminate sales taxes on tampons and diapers has failed at the state capitol. Under the bill, taxes on hard liquor would have gone up to make up for the lost money. The bills sponsor says the state should not be taxing necessities for women and children. The bill didnt make it out of a legislative committee yesterday after lawmakers expressed concern over raising taxes. mark the Valero Oil Refinery in benicia is being fined for violating regional air pollution rules following the flaring incident. The bay area air Quality Management district says it has issued four violations. One for causing a public nuisance and three for releasing excessive smoke. It all started with a power outage at the refinery on friday morning that led to flaring which released massive plumes of thick, black smoke into the air prompting a shelter in place. There will be continued flaring at the valero refinery this week while crews work to restore operations at the facility. darya the Golden State Warriors are heading to the western conference finals for a third year in a row. mark after taking a commanding 3 to nothing series lead over the utah jazz, the dubs dominated them last night to seal the deal. They sweep the 4 game series after a 121 to 95 win in game 4. Steph curry led the way with 30 points. Klay thompson scored 21, kevin durant added 18. And Draymond Green had a triple double. After the game draymond talked about how the warriors have been able to dominate the competition in the playoffs so far. And. New information about the man who confessed to killing a woman in the east bay and burning her body. The Evidence Police used to track him down. anny land and. The marin county coroner accused of sexually assualting a young girl made his first appearance in court. Youll hear from his attorney and what they think of the charges and heres a live look outside. Bay bridge Weather Center with james tracking the forecast. james james were waking up to clear and Cool Conditions this morning as we look forward to a warmer day today. Lets check our 4zone Camera Network and see what its like outside. As i said, its cool to start. Were seeing 40s at the coast and in the north bay valleys. Were waking up to 50s elsewhere. Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and upper 60s at the coast. The shortterm outlook has temperatures cooling starting tomorrow with a chance of a north bay sprinkle on thursday. In the long range forecast, temperatures will stay unseasonably cool as we head into the weekend with dry conditions expected for saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 mark the marin county coroner accused of sexually assaulting a young girl made his first court appearance. darya anny hong is here with more on the trial. Anny . anny land prosecutors say Darrel Alan Harris started sexually assaulting a girl in 2008 and then assaulted her again when she was older. Harris was arrested in eureka and brought back to marin county. He is now in jail on 750thousand dollars bail. Harris attorney and family believe he is innocent. mark no one was injured in the fire and Church Officials say much of the damage happened outside the main chapel. mark this morning. The parents of a man who was murdered along with his fiancee are one step closer to finding closure. Jason allen and Lindsay Cutshall were murdered on a beach in jenner in 2004. And now the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office says the killer is in custody. Shaun gallon has been named as the main suspect. And this morning we are hearing from jasons parents for the first time. mark investigators say the killings were random and that gallon had no connection to the couple. Gallon was already in Police Custody when investigators linked him to the murder. He had been arrested in march for the murder of his brother in forestville. darya one person is dead and two others injured following a shooting in fairfield. Police say, they received calls at about 430 yesterday morning. When they arrived at the scene on crowley lane. Officers found three victims. We know the two victims that survived the shooting remain hospitalized this morning. The extent of their injuries are not clear. Police have not said if any arrests have been made. mark the San Francisco Police Department is reporting a drop in officers using force. In the First Quarter of 2017 force was used in less than one percent of incidents. Thats a nearly sixteen percent drop compared to last year. Police chief William Scott says it shows the departments training and deescalation tactics are paying off. darya opponents of californias bullet train are again trying to put the brakes on the project. But yesterday a judge rejected another lawsuit. It was aimed at blocking the states 64billion dollar high speed rail project that would link los angeles to San Francisco by 2030. Opponents say they may file an appeal. The judge hearing the case says he will hear an appeal from the group buy says they must present different arguments for blocking the project. mark california is borrowing up to a half billion dollars to repair the nations tallest dam. Heavy waters damaged the oroville dam in february. It tore giant craters out of both spillways. Forcing nearly 200thousand people to evacuate their homes. The state department of Water Resources is rushing to repair the main spillway before the next rainy season. President trump already announced more than 200 Million Dollars to pay for the repairs. Repairs are expected to take up two years to complete. mark Richard Simmons is taking the National Enquirer and radar online to court. Simmons filed a libel and invasion of privacy suit against the two tabloids. He says both ran false stories that he was transitioning into a woman. Simmons, who walked away from the public stage in 2014, has long denied that allegation. The company that owns both the National Enquirer and radar online says the stories were based on credible sources who were in simmons inner circle. It says both tabloids plan to defend its claims. darya the kron4 morning news wants to send you and a guest to see hamilton keep watching the kron4 morning news and we will give you the secret word of the day. Then go to kron4. Com and enter the word for a chance to win a pair of the hottest tickets in town keep watching every day for a new word and another opportunity to win todays secret word of the day will be revealed in our 8 oclock hour so keep watching and you could win hamilton tickets mark still ahead. A sex offender arrested at a Junior College while using a fake identity. Kron fours Lydia Pantazes live on campus with the details. And after the break. Well explain why a teenager throws a 68yearold woman into a swimming pool. And heres a live look outside. San mateo bridge. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Heavy traffic on wb 4 out of antioch darya a 68yearold woman is bodyslammed and thrown in a pool as she tries to get a group of kids to turn down the music at a pool party. This was near fort lauderdale, florida over the weekend. Police say she was out walking her dogs when she went to her apartment complex pool to tell the group of kids to quiet down. The 16 year old who lifted the woman up was trying to throw her in the pool but slipped, slamming her against the concrete. He then dragged the woman into the pool. darya the victim was taken to the emergency room. Shes expected to recover. The teen turned himself in and is being charged with battery. james tracking your morning forecast. Details coming up. will in just a matter of hours we will learn the fate of teh man accused of killing sierra lamar. I am live at the courthouse as we wait for the verdict to be wait for the verdict to be read in court. More people than ever are making the move to nissan. 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Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and upper 60s at the coast. The shortterm outlook has temperatures cooling starting tomorrow with a chance of a north bay sprinkle on thursday. In the long range forecast, temperatures will stay unseasonably cool as we head into the weekend with dry conditions expected for saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. No p roblems on 92bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. mark in less than an hour and a half, a jury will announce if the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar is guilty of murder. darya a jury is set to announce their verdict at 9 00 this morning. Kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. will jurors in the sierra lamar murder trial have reached a verdict, Santa Clara County superior Court Officials announced this afternoon. The verdict will be read in court at 9 a. M. On tuesday at san joses Santa Clara Hall of justice. Antolin garciatorres, 26, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 15yearold sierra, who has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and to the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. If garciatorres is found guilty, the jurors will weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors and select between death and life without the possibility of parole. Both sides would be allowed to present evidence during this phase of the trial. Garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, two months after sierra went missing and after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres 1998 red Volkswagen Jetta. Defense attorneys for garciatorres have alleged cross contamination during the evidence collection process, pointing to sloppy techniques by the Santa Clara County district attorneys crime laboratory. On virtually every aspect in the case. From the forensic evidence to the defendants statements to the issues of sierra lamar being a runaway. Im surprised the jury was able to condense that and come to a verdict so quickly. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. mark and stick with the kron 4 morning news all morning as we wait for the verdict. We will bring it to you as soon as it is read at 9 00 this morning. We will also have a criminal defense attorney on set to discuss the jurys decision. And if you are away from your tv make sure you download the kron 4 mobile app. We will send out a breaking news push alert as soon as the verdict is announced. mark a sex offender is behind bars after using a fake name to attend santa rosa Junior College. darya kron 4s Lydia Pantazes is live in santa rosa this morning with the details. lydia political here on campus became aware of daniel lee because they received a report of him acting unusual in one of his classes. take vo police followed up and found out lee wasnt who he claimed to be. He was on the run, wanted in Orange County since october for failing to register as a sex offender. His past offenses include indecent exposure, child molestation, attempted lewd acts on a child under 14 and assault with intent to commit rape. Lee was arrested outside a class monday morning and he had been attending classes for nearly a semester. Students we spoke with are pretty shaken up by the whole incident. sot i guess things like this could happen anywhere but the fact that that this person could be in your classroom the whole time is pretty scary. oncam lee remains in Sonoma County jail and will be extradited to Orange County. Reporting live in santa rosa, Lydia Pantazes kron4s news. lydia lee has been convicted of child molestation, indecent exposure and attempted lewd acts on a minor under the age of 14. Right now police are working to find out if lee has been involved in any illegal activity here in the bay area. Back to you. Thanks lydia. We will check back with you the morning. darya in the east bay. We are learning more about the murder of a Castro Valley woman who was found dead inside her burned out home. mark anny hong is here with more on the murder suspect. Anny. anny land the Alameda County Sheriffs Office says this man. Luckie dacaney confessed to the brutal murder of andrea st. John police found the 59yearolds burned body inside her Castro Valley home back in december. Investigators say in addition to confessing to killing saint john, Video Evidence also helped confirm dacaney was the killer. anny land dacany is in custody for a Sexual Assault in san juaquin county. Officials say it appears that their was no prior connection between the suspect and the victim. mark the body found near a chuckecheese restaurant in concord has been identified as 66yearold loreto reyes. And this morning we are learning that a person has been arrested for his murder. Police say reyes was a transient and his body was found in some bushes on willow pass road near Market Street on saturday. Police have arrested a person on suspicion of murder. The suspects name has not been released. Police have not said how reyes was killed. mark one person has been arrested in connection to a deadly stabbing in oakland. It happened yesterday afternoon on san leandro street. aaatriggeraaa when police arrived, a man was lying in the road dead from stab wounds. Police have arrested a suspect but are not releasing the persons name. darya coming up on the kron four morning news. Is Draymond Green calling the Draymond Green calls the cavs boring. Does that mean the warriors are boring too. We finally found out why steph has a beard. And how you can save the day and impress your girlfriend. The world according to gary is in a few minutes. And. Well explain what caused this scene of angry passengers at a busy airport. And heres a live look outside. Golden gate bridge. Everything we stock at Grocery Outlet has crazy low prices. Do you know how we do it . How . Bargainomics say, if california has a bumper crop and produces too many oranges. Or a winemaker in sonoma suddenly has 1000 bottles too many. Weve got namebrand, topquality groceries priced 4070 off every day. Bargainomics. Thats our Business Model. 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It has sued the association over unlawful job action. mark United Airlines is apologizing to a french woman after she wound up on a plane to San Francisco instead of paris. The woman, who only speaks french, was scheduled to fly from newark, new jersey to paris last month. darya family members say there was a last minute gate change that she missed. Then united staffers scanned her ticket and seated her in an open seat to San Francisco anyway. mark she eventually made it to paris after an 11hour layover in San Francisco and 28 hours of travel. United says it is working to prevent this from happeneing again. darya the kron4 morning news wants to send you and a guest to see hamilton keep watching the kron4 morning news and we will give you the secret word of the then go to kron4. Com and enter the word for a a pair of the hottest tickets in town keep watching new word and opportunity to todays of the day will our 8 oclock hour so keep you could win tickets james tracking your morning forecast. The world according to gary is after the break. Our story begins more than 60 years ago inside an abandoned chicken coop. Where our founder discovered a retired teacher living. No home. No healthcare. So she said no to this injustice, and yes to transforming lives. Its this drive, this compassion, that inspired aarp. Today, we empower people to choose how they live as they age. We advocate for health and financial security. We strengthen communities everywhere. We are aarp. Creating real possibilities. Are boring what do you say to that. Draymond green blah blah blah blah blah. darya the Golden State Warriors are heading to the western conference finals for a third year in a row. 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Former San Francisco 49ers legend joe montana filed a lawsuit against the developers of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. The luxary highrise condominium has sunk about 16 inches and is tilting 12 inches since it opened in 2009. Montana is accusing millennium parterns of hiding the buildings troubles when he and his wife bought a unit in 2013. This is the latest in a string of lawsuits against the tower including giants outfielder hunter pence. Former Miami Dolphins linebacker Nick Buoniconti told Sports Illustrated he feels lost and feels like a child. He has suffered falls, memory loss and confusion. He played on the dolphins for seven seasons. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. mark a marine has accomplished his dream, graduating from the university of kentucky. Back in 2007 Matt Bradford lost his vision and his legs. Then he made history, being the first blind and double amputee to re enlist in the marines. But once he retired he made a promise go back to school and attend the univerisity of his dreams he says being a College Graduate has a special place in his heart. Mark Bradford says he never doubted he would graduate. And says if you have a goal, go out and do it. darya ahead at eight on the kron 4 morning news. A mother is outraged after her daughter is attacked at school. And its all caught on camera. What the girl says lead up to the attack. Plus. Breaking news overnight. A man is attacked at a bart station. Hear why bart is now investigating it as a hate crime. In just one hour, we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing sierra lamar. 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We will get to will tran live at the court house in a minute, first we want to check in on weather and traffic. james were waking up to clear and Cool Conditions this morning as we look forward to a warmer day today. Lets check our 4zone Camera Network and see what its like outside. As i said, its cool to start. Were seeing 40s at the coast and in the north bay valleys. Were waking up to 50s elsewhere. Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and upper 60s at the coast. The shortterm outlook has temperatures cooling starting tomorrow with a chance of a north bay sprinkle on thursday. In the long range forecast, temperatures will stay unseasonably cool as we head into the weekend with dry conditions expected for saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Stop and go traffic on wb 80 wb 24 mark in less than an hour we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. darya a jury is set to announce their verdict at 9 00 this morning. Kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. will jurors in the sierra lamar murder trial have reached a verdict, Santa Clara County superior Court Officials announced this afternoon. The verdict will be read in court at 9 a. M. On tuesday at san joses Santa Clara Hall of justice. Antolin garciatorres, 26, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 15yearold sierra, who has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and to the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. If garciatorres is found guilty, the jurors will weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors and select between death and life without the possibility of parole. Both sides would be allowed to present evidence during this phase of the trial. Garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, two months after sierra went missing and after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres 1998 red Volkswagen Jetta. Defense attorneys for garciatorres have alleged cross contamination during the evidence collection process, pointing to sloppy techniques by the Santa Clara County district attorneys crime laboratory. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. mark and stick with the kron 4 morning news all morning as we wait for the verdict. We will bring it to you as soon as it is read at 9 00 this morning. We will also have a criminal defense attorney on set to discuss the jurys decision. And if you are away from your tv make sure you download the kron 4 mobile app. We will send out a breaking news push alert as soon is announced. darya a vallejo mother is demanding answers after her 6th grade daughter was attacked at school. mark anny hong is here with the video of the attack. Anny. anny the entire attack was caught on camera. Emma simms says most of the students at Solano Middle School have seen this video of her daughter getting beat up by fellow students. It happened when the girl was waiting for her pe class to start. Simms says a School Administrator called her and told her she needed to go to her Daughters School but wouldnt say why anny a teacher says the attacker has been suspended. The School District told simms she could file a formal complaint and they would see if the situation was handled appropriately. Back to you. darya this morning we are hearing from a victim of the bart mob attack last month. Rusty stapp and his family are now suing bart for three Million Dollars. They were returning from a Birthday Dinner in San Francisco when the mob began pounding on the train as it pulled into the coliseum station. Stapp and his family claim bart did nothing to prevent the attack and robbery. They say the person driving the train should have realized people were pounding on the doors and never opened them. darya stapps Attorney Says bart must answer for its lack of security at fare gates. Bart now has 45 days to respond to the claim. Acting bart police chief Jeffrey Jennings says bart Police Officers were working extra hours before the mob attack and continue to add increased security after the attack. < Jeffrey Jennings, acting bart police chief this past weekend i dont know if they are juveniles or adults we arrested 16 people with my extra staffing which thwarted a lot of activity. darya jennings says only one juvenile is still being linked to the mob attack. Bart doesnt plan on releasing video of the incident saying it is against state law since they might be juveniles. Back to you guys. mark aaaboxesaaa bart police are now investigating a hate crime at a station in San Francisco. It happened last night before 1130 at the powell bart station. A man was standing at the platform when another man came up to him and called him several gay slurs. The man then punched him in the face. The victim reported the crime to a station agent and the attacker went onto a pittsburgbay point bound train. Police describe the attacker as a black man, five foot eight and 135 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black security uniform and a silver badge on the right side. anny still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. The marin county coroner accused of sexually assualting a young girl made his first appearance in court. Youll hear from his attorney and what they think of the charges. mark and. Flaring at the valero refinery is now in its 5th day. After the break. The punishment the company is now facing. darya and a reminder. The kron4 morning news wants to send you and a guest to see hamilton we will be revealing the secret word of the day sometime within this newscast. Once you get the word. Go to kron4. Com and enter it for a chance to win a pair of the hottest tickets in town keep watching every day for a new word and another opportunity to win. It will al robin no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Heavy traffic on wb 580and nb 880 mark the Valero Oil Refinery in benicia is being fined for violating regional air pollution rules following the flaring incident. The bay area air Quality Management district says it has issued four violations. One for causing a public nuisance and three for releasing excessive smoke. It all started with a power outage at the refinery on friday morning that led to flaring which released massive plumes of thick, black smoke into the air prompting a shelter in place. There will be continued flaring at the valero refinery this week while crews work to restore operations at the facility. darya coming up. Your drive to work could soon get more expensive. There could be a new highway toll. Well tell you where. james and im tracking your morning forecast. A full Weather Report right after the break. More people than ever are making the move to nissan. Because of rogue, the best selling suv in america. Titan, with americas best truck warranty. And the most advanced safety features on altima and other best selling models. Thats why were americas fastestgrowing auto brand. Get 0 financing for up to 72 months on 11 models. The home of wow savings. Wow means you save 50 or more. There are three stages of wow. Denial. Is this price right . Acceptance. And boooyah. Wait for it. Boooyah has three os. Grocery outlet bargain market. Stop in right now and save on top name brand juices. darya welcome back. Lets get a check of the weather this morning. james were waking up to clear and Cool Conditions this morning as we look forward to a warmer day today. Lets check our 4zone Camera Network and see what its like outside. As i said, its cool to start. Were seeing 40s at the coast and in the north bay valleys. Were waking up to 50s elsewhere. Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and upper 60s at the coast. The shortterm outlook has temperatures cooling starting tomorrow with a chance of a north bay sprinkle on thursday. In the long range forecast, temperatures will stay unseasonably cool as we head into the weekend with dry conditions expected for saturday and sunday. james and its time for the kron four word of the day. We want to send you and a guest to see hamilton todays word is honor so right now. Go to kron4. Com and enter it for a chance to win a pair of the hottest tickets in town keep watching every day for a new word and another opportunity to win. It will happen all week during the 8am hour. Again. Todays word is honor. No major hot spots. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Wb 580 a crash before the tolls. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. mark the marin county coroner accused of sexually assaulting a young girl made his first court appearance. darya anny hong is here with more. Anny . anny land prosecutors say Darrel Alan Harris started sexually assaulting a girl in 2008 and then assaulted her again when she was older. Harris was arrested in eureka and brought back to marin county. He is now in jail on 750thousand dollars bail. Harris attorney and family believe he is innocent. Address the flooding problems. Under normal circumstances, it could take caltrans years or decades to secure the necessary funding and fix the roadway but the Committee Says that charging tolls could be a way to speed up the process. Maybe getting the work done in less than a decade. Sotwe are at the beginning of this processmarin county supervisor Damon Connolly sits on the committee. He says that so far there are no specifics on how much the tolls would be or how that money would be collected. Sotwhat we are seeing is some sort of Public Private Partnership Potentially and tolling could be a part of it. Monday afternoon, i asked several people in novato what they thought of the idea of paying a toll on 37. Amanda drives that way almost every day. She would be ok with a toll as long as the highway gets an upgrade. Sotsure, if they ad another lane. Sotvic barlogio runs a business in marin. He worries that paying tolls could impact his companys bottom line. Sotpersonally, it would be an excessive expense for me because we use that road frequently. At this point, the idea of charging commuters a toll is just that. An idea. Connolly says that if it happens at all, tolling on highway 37 is still years away. In marin county, Charles Clifford kron 4 news. darya we are learning how much it is going to cost to fix some of the roads damaged during the winter storms. 37Million Dollars is needed to fix highway 35 in Santa Clara County. Highway 35 washed out in the Santa Cruz Mountains in february. Caltrans says it will need to build a retaining wall to get the road repaired and back open. According to caltrans, this road will cost the most to fix than any other road damaged by the winter storms. mark President Trump is considering sending more troops to afghanistan. Military leaders are expected to propose three to five thousand additional us troops to speedup Training Missions for afghan forces. Sources say the pentagon is also discussing plans to increase air strikes against the taliban. The final proposals are expected to cross the president s desk sometime this week. darya still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. A big break in a north bay murder case that has taken 13 years to solve. See who is behind bars charged with murder. And heres a live look outside. Bay bridge. Discover card. How can i help you . Oh, youre real . You know im real at discover, were always here to talk. Good, cause i dont have time for machines. Some Companies Just dont appreciate the power of conversation you know, i like you i like you too at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card and talk to a real person. robin no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. darya this morning. The parents of a man who was murdered along with his fiancee are one step closer to finding closure. Jason allen and Lindsay Cutshall were murdered on a beach in jenner in 2004. And now the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office says the killer is in custody. Shaun gallon has been named as the main suspect. And this morning we are hearing from jasons parents for the first time. darya investigators say the killings were random and that gallon had no connection to the couple. Gallon was already in Police Custody when investigators linked him to the murder. He had been arrested in march for the murder of his brother in forestville. lydia coming up. A fugitive and high risk violent sex offender found right here on a Bay Area College campus. We show you how he was able to attend classes for nearly a semester with being caught. will in just 30 minutes a jury will announce the verdict in the sierra lamar murder trial. I am live outside the court house with a preview. james tracking your morning forecast. What to expect as you head out the door right after the break. [birds chirping] [computer keystroke] click click male announcer hit escape with great deals on great gear. Like bass pro canopy chairs for under 20. Only at bass pro shops. mark darya welcome back to the kron four morning news. Lets start the half hour with a check of weather and traffic. james were waking up to clear and Cool Conditions this morning as we look forward to a warmer day today. Lets check our 4zone Camera Network and see what its like outside. As i said, its cool to start. Were seeing 40s at the coast and in the north bay valleys. Were waking up to 50s elsewhere. Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and upper 60s at the coast. The shortterm outlook has temperatures cooling starting tomorrow with a chance of a north bay sprinkle on thursday. In the long range forecast, temperatures will stay unseasonably cool as we head into the weekend with dry conditions expected for saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. mark in less than 30 minutes we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. darya a jury is set to announce their verdict at 9 00 this morning. Kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. will jurors in the sierra lamar murder trial have reached a verdict, Santa Clara County superior Court Officials announced this afternoon. The verdict will be read in court at 9 a. M. On tuesday at san joses Santa Clara Hall of justice. Antolin garciatorres, 26, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 15yearold sierra, who has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and to the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. If garciatorres is found guilty, the jurors will weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors and select between death and life without the possibility of parole. Both sides would be allowed to present evidence during this phase of the trial. Garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, two months after sierra went missing and after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres 1998 red volkswagen Defense Attorneys for garciatorres crosscontamination during the collection process, pointing to sloppy techniques by the Santa Clara County district attorneys crime darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. mark it has been five years since sierra has gone missing. darya kron 4s cathrine heenan takes a look at the events that have lead up to this day. Natearly morning on a lonely rural road in morgan hillthis is where sierra lamar disappeared on march 16th, 2012 she was headed for the School Bus Stop just a few minutes walk from her home. That evening her mother got an automated call from the school that her daughter was absent. Marlene lamar insists her daughter is not a runaway, whoever is out there, please please let her go. The next day, sheriffs deputies began searching nearby fields. They discovered sierras cell phone in a field a couple of blocks away. And then her purse was found. A Juicy Couture bag containing pants, a t shirt and underclothes, all neatly folded. F b i agents joined the investigationdivers searched nearby reservoirs. Missing kids advocate marc klaas mobilized hundreds of volunteers to comb through the surrounding farmland. No piece of information is too smallall of their efforts proved fruitless. But away from the cameras, investigators already had a suspect. They began monitoring Antolin Garcia torres twelve days after sierras disappearance. On may 8, sheriffs deputies reveal they impounded a red Volkswagen Jetta with a distinctive black hood. This car was seen in the general area where sierra disappeared. The car was owned by garciatorres. Police arrested him after his dna was allegedly detected on sierras belongingsdo we have a motive . Nono motive, and no body. For the two years searchers combed the area for clues as Court Hearings were postponed time after time. Finally in february of 20 14. Garcia torres pleaded anota guilty to kidnapping and murder. Jury selection began in october of last year. The prosecution asked for the Death Penalty mark and stick with the kron 4 morning news all morning as we wait for the verdict. We will bring it to you as soon as it is read at 9 00 this morning. We will also have a criminal defense attorney on set to discuss the jurys decision. And if you are away from your tv make sure you download the kron 4 mobile app. We will send out a breaking news push alert as soon as the verdict is announced. mark a sex offender is behind bars after using a fake name to attend santa rosa Junior College. darya kron 4s Lydia Pantazes is live in santa rosa this morning with the details. lydia political here on campus became aware of daniel lee because they received a report of him acting unusual in one of his classes. take vo police followed up and found out lee wasnt who he claimed to be. He was on the run, wanted in Orange County since october for failing to register as a sex offender. His past offenses include indecent exposure, child molestation, attempted lewd acts on a child under 14 and assault with intent to commit rape. Lee was arrested outside a class monday morning and he had been attending classes for nearly a semester. Students we spoke with are pretty shaken up by the whole incident. sot i guess things like this could happen anywhere but the fact that that this person could be in your classroom the whole time is pretty scary. oncam lee remains in Sonoma County jail and will be extradited to Orange County. Reporting live in santa rosa, Lydia Pantazes lydia lee has been convicted of child molestation, indecent exposure and lewd acts on a right now find out if lee involved in any area. darya thanks lydia. We will check back with you through out the morning. mark coming up. We will check back in with kron fours will tran as we wait for the verdict of the man accused of killing sierra lamar. After the break. Why Church Members in the south bay are fearful they will be the target of another attack. And heres a live look outside. Richmond san rafael bridge. robin no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 mark members of the Assyrian Church of the east in san jose say they are scared after someone deliberately started a fire at the church. The fire happened early sunday morning. While there was no threat against the church, federal investigators were called out because the fire was at a place of worship. Those who work at this church fear the person who started the fire will return and do more damage. james were waking up to clear and Cool Conditions this morning as we look forward to a warmer day today. Lets check our 4zone Camera Network and see what its like outside. As i said, its cool to start. Were seeing 40s at the coast and in the north bay valleys. Were waking up to 50s elsewhere. Your daypart forecast shows that by mid morning we should be looking at low 60s inland and by the bay. Around lunchtime, temps will warm to the mid and upper 70s. Then, by later this afternoon, well hit our peak temperatures for today which should be in the low 80s inland, mid 70s around the bay, and upper 60s at the coast. The shortterm outlook has temperatures cooling starting tomorrow with a chance of a north bay sprinkle on thursday. In the long range forecast, temperatures will stay unseasonably cool as we head into the weekend with dry conditions expected for saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 mark breaking news. A massachusetts judge has just agreed to erase Aaron Hernandezs conviction in a 2013 murder because he died before his appeal could be heard. A judge just ruled that a legal doctrine that calls for vacating convictions when a defendant dies before an appeal was the law of massachusetts. And she said she was compelled to follow it. The former new England Patriots tight end hanged himself in his prison cell last month while serving a life sentence in the killing odin lloyd. Prosecutors argued that dismissing his murder conviction would reward hernandezs decision to take his own life. mark in just 15 minutes we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. darya a jury is set to announce their verdict at 9 00 this morning. Kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. will jurors in the sierra lamar murder trial have reached a verdict, Santa Clara County superior Court Officials announced this afternoon. The verdict will be read in court at 9 a. M. On tuesday at san joses Santa Clara Hall of justice. Antolin garciatorres, 26, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 15yearold sierra, who has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and to the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. If garciatorres is found guilty, the jurors will weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors and select between death and life without the possibility of parole. Both sides would be allowed to present evidence during this phase of the trial. Garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, two months after sierra went missing and after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres 1998 red Volkswagen Jetta. Defense attorneys for garciatorres have alleged cross contamination during the evidence collection process, pointing to sloppy techniques by the Santa Clara County district crime laboratory. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. mark the body found near a chuckecheese restaurant in concord has been identified as 66yearold loreto reyes. And this morning we are learning that a person has been arrested for his murder. Police say reyes was a transient and his body was found in some bushes on willow pass road near Market Street on saturday. Police have arrested a person on suspicion of murder. The suspects name has not been released. Police have not said how reyes was killed. darya one person has been arrested in connection to a deadly stabbing in oakland. It happened yesterday afternoon on san leandro street. aaatriggeraaa when police arrived, a man was lying in the road dead from stab wounds. Police have arrested a suspect but are not releasing the persons name. darya investigators are trying to figure out what caused a deadly plane crash near lake berryessa. Two employees of icon aircraft operated out of vacaville were killed. 55yearold jon karkow was the pilot and 41yearold cagri sever was the passenger. The crash happened just after 9 00 yesterday morning between pleasure cove marina and markley cove resort. Here is a map showing the area. The crash site was not accessible by vehicle. Emergency responders got to the area by boat. The faa has taken over the investigation. mark one person is dead and two others injured following a shooting in fairfield. Police say, they received calls at about 430 yesterday morning. When they arrived at the scene on crowley lane. Officers found three victims. We know the two victims that survived the shooting remain hospitalized this morning. The extent of their injuries are not clear. Police have not said if any arrests have been made. mark the San Francisco Police Department is reporting a drop in officers using force. In the First Quarter of 2017 force was used in less than one percent of incidents. Thats a nearly sixteen percent drop compared to last year. Police chief William Scott says it shows the departments training and deescalation tactics are paying off. darya new this morning. Former San Francisco 49ers legend joe montana filed a lawsuit against the developers of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. The luxary highrise condominium has sunk about 16 inches and is tilting 12 inches since it opened in 2009. Montana is accusing millennium parterns of hiding the buildings troubles when he and his wife bought a unit in 2013. This is the latest in a string of lawsuits against the tower including giants outfielder hunter pence. darya Richard Simmons is taking the National Enquirer and radar online to court. Simmons filed a libel and invasion of privacy suit against the two tabloids. He says both ran false stories that he was transitioning into a woman. Simmons, who walked away from the public stage in 2014, has long denied that allegation. He calls the story cruel and malicious. The company that owns both the National Enquirer and radar online says the stories were based on credible sources who were in simmons inner circle. It says both tabloids plan to defend its claims. mark coming up on kron four news at nine. We are just minutes away from the jury announcing their verdict of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. We will have complete Team Coverage of the decision. We will also have a criminal defense attorney on set to discuss the jurys decision. And before we head to break. Heres a live look outside. Golden gate bridge. More people than ever are making the move to nissan. Because of rogue, the best selling suv in america. Titan, with americas best truck warranty. And the most advanced safety features on altima and other best selling models. Thats why were americas fastestgrowing auto brand. Get 0 financing for up to 72 months on 11 models. mark any moment now we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. darya kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. mark any moment now we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. darya kron 4s will tran is live outside the court house in san jose this morning with the details. Will. mark any minute now we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. Taking a live look outside at the court house in san jose. Good morning im mark danon. darya and im darya folsom. We have complete Team Coverage this morning. Kron 4s rob fladeboe is inside the court room he will let us know as soon as the verdict is read. mark and now we want to get to will tran who is live outside the court room this morning as we wait for the verdict. Will. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. darya thanks will. We will check back with you will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. mark it has been five years since sierra james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. mark it has been five years since sierra has gone missing. darya kron 4s cathrine heenan takes a look at the events that have lead up to this day. Natearly morning on a lonely rural road in Morgan Hill James i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. mark any minute now we will learn the fate of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. Taking a live look outside at the court house in san jose. Good morning im mark danon. darya and im darya folsom. We have complete Team Coverage this morning. Kron 4s rob fladeboe is inside the court room he will let us know as soon as the verdict is read. mark and now we want to get to will tran who is live outside the court room this morning as we wait for the verdict. Will. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. james i am here with criminal defense attorney curtis brigs. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. darya darya thanks will. We will will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will any minute we are expecting a verdict from the jury. will Antolin Garciatorres found guilty of murder. will Antolin Garciatorres found guilty of murder. County superior court jury in san jose today for the firstdegree murder of 15yearold sierra lamar in 2012. Sierra has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside of morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres vehicle. The jury, which began deliberating thursday morning after a threemonth trial and announced that they had reached a verdict monday afternoon, also convicted garciatorres of the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. More than 100 members of the public attended this mornings verdict reading, requiring the courthouse to provide a live stream of the proceedings in a second courtroom. Jurors will now select between a sentence of death or life without the possibility of parole, and prosecutors and Defense Attorneys will be allowed to present evidence. will Antolin Garcia torres, 26, was found guilty by a Santa Clara County superior court jury in san jose today for the firstdegree murder of 15yearold sierra lamar in 2012. Sierra has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside of morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres vehicle. The jury, which began deliberating thursday morning after a threemonth trial and announced that they had reached a verdict monday afternoon, also convicted garciatorres of the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. More than 100 members of the public attended this mornings verdict reading, requiring the courthouse to provide a live stream of the proceedings in a second courtroom. Jurors will now select between a sentence of death or life without the possibility of parole, and prosecutors and Defense Attorneys will be allowed to present evidence. will Antolin Garcia torres, 26, was found guilty by a Santa Clara County superior court jury in san jose today for the firstdegree murder of 15yearold sierra lamar in 2012. Sierra has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside of morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres vehicle. The jury, which began deliberating thursday morning after a threemonth trial and announced that they had reached a verdict monday afternoon, also convicted garciatorres of the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. More than 100 members of the public attended this mornings verdict reading, requiring the courthouse to provide a live stream of the proceedings in a second courtroom. Jurors will now select between a sentence of death or life without the possibility of parole, and prosecutors and Defense Attorneys will be allowed to present evidence. will Antolin Garcia torres, 26, was found guilty by a Santa Clara County superior court jury in san jose today for the firstdegree murder of 15yearold sierra lamar in 2012. Sierra has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside of morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres vehicle. The jury, which began deliberating thursday morning after a threemonth trial and announced that they had reached a verdict monday afternoon, also convicted garciatorres of the attempted kidnappings of three women in safeway parking lots in 2009. More than 100 members of the public attended this mornings verdict reading, requiring the courthouse to provide a live stream of the proceedings in a second courtroom. Jurors will now select between a sentence of death or life without the possibility of parole, and prosecutors and Defense Attorneys will be allowed to will Antolin Garcia torres, 26, was found guilty by a Santa Clara County superior court jury in san jose today for the firstdegree murder of 15yearold sierra lamar in 2012. Sierra has not been seen or heard from since march 16, 2012, and garciatorres was arrested on may 21, 2012, after investigators found his dna on her jeans, which were recovered near where she went missing outside of morgan hill. Sierras dna was also found on an interior backseat door handle and on the outside of a pair of work gloves in garciatorres vehicle. The jury, which began deliberating thursday morning after a threemonth trial we put 200 effort and theyll still search until we find something. Help yeah. Closure, no. Theres no closure. But yeah like i said it helps. What would you like to say to this jury . Just they made the right decision. They based it on the facts and yeah. Did a great job. What would you like to see next as far as the penalty phase. Im not going to comment on that right notch. Because thats still pending. So but yeah we are thinking positive and we hope for a good turn out there. Just pretty much the same thing they said. Well obviously never get sierra back so its not closure but it is a good first step and the jury did the right thing. Thank you. Thank you. And you are hearing from the lamar family, five years two months since the disappearance of segura. And the conviction of the man who the jury just decided killed her but without a body they continue to search as soon as this weekend. Weve got a legal analyst here with james and as we look at some of the activity outside of the courtroom and we heard from the family and how desperately they still want to find sierras body what could happen next out of this and would he, Garcia Torres, ever help with locating the body. Thats the big question. We heard that from searchers. The family has wondered that as well. Now that we are past the conviction stage is there any motivation for Garcia Torres to give up the location of the body. They are going to keep searching until they find it. From a legal standpoint is that a possibility in this stage of the proceeding. Its a possibility. Its a bargainingship he could use to gain lean frequency. Its illadvised. How so . He maintained his innocence throughout the trial and to do a 180degree turn theres no guaranty but it may slid phi the Death Penalty. He also has a series of appeals in front of him so if he has any hope of getting out and this is a case where the opportunity and probability of success are a lot higher than other cases because of the way the prosecution put this case together then hell go to prison and whether hes on death row or not hell always want help to get out and giving up the body will not get him out any sooner. We want to go back out live in front of the courthouse. Whats happening now . Joining me now is marlene lamar. You were just at the podium. Let me ask you a little bit more questions. Your moments before the verdict feelings, there must have been knots in your stomach. There were. I was pretty confident. I feel the da did an excellent job, david boyd has been so supportive and taken us through the process and made it easy for the entire family to be prepared for anything. And honestly you cant be prepared for Something Like that before the verdict is announced. And we are just grateful and blessed that the jury came up with the verdict that they did. And its going to be a safer world because of them. It is on their conscience and i was just praying that they would remember that. You were making a comment at least no child will be harmed by him again. Yes and the streets are going to be safer. That gives us some peace. It doesnt give us closure but knowing this is not going to happen to another young child is definitely part of the healing process. When you speak a lot about your faith and god, what role did your faith play in helping you through all of this . Well if they didnt reach the verdict that i was praying for i knew that justice would happen no matter what. That we would surrender to god and pray that justice will happen in a different way. When you heard the g there was a lot of sighs and emotion in the court from the family and sierras friends. It was like they were releasing their pain when that was announced. Ive seen cases where people need to be held up when the jurors went g a few people would have collapsed if they were standing. It was that emotional. Any release from you . Any kind of sigh . It was definitely something thati was over come by the its been a journey. Its been very difficult and the angst its like reliving the nightmare going through the trial but much worse with the gory details that you have to hear. Its something i am grateful that another parent will never have to go through. They kept saying she was a run away. For this case to happen prosecutors have to say she was not a run away. That she was dead. Was that hard to hear them hit that angle . Thats right. Well there were a lot of witnesses, sierras friends and family members. Im pretty sure that the presence of all of us showed our commitment and love to sierra lamar. And that she will not be forgotten. This is five years later and her friends have been there for her this entire time. You know how sometimes High School Friends drift . Well thats not the case so if shes up there she knows that and that gives me peace knowing that shes gotten the communitys support, familys support and her friends have been consistently there for her. How do you cope . Faith. I tell you, im surviving because of the faith that i have. When we found out that the verdict was going to be read at 9 00 this morning there was so much anxiety on my part i would imagine i barely slept. You probably didnt sleep a wink. I barely slept. Theres no guaranty until its announced. What did you think about when it was a sleepless night what did you think about . Im thinking please god let the verdict be just. Let justice prevail. I just surrender through you and just hope that the truth comes out. He seemed a cool customer today. Did that bother you at all . I wasnt able to see his face but i wish i could have. What sort of things went through your mind. Tell us your range of emotions whatever flashed through your mind when you heard guilty. Im just thinking this is a horrible horrific thing a parent should ever have to go through and im so grateful and blessed that the verdict came out the way it was. Truthfully i was with all of the evidence the dna the fingerprints that if that wasnt even a people wouldnt depend on the judicial system when you think about it and there would be more crime and a lot of children that would be victimized if this court set precedence for both the community and safety and for the people of our criminals as well. You leave here completely satisfied . What more in your mind needs to happen for you to beto say that justice was fully served . This was the start. This was the first milestone. This was the first step and it was the right thing to happen. What else for you though . What else do you need or want . Right now i cant look that far ahead. Im just grateful for what i heard today. Thats all i can handle right now. Is that important for you . I have no comment about that right now. Are you glad to hear that hes at least eligible for that punishment . Im glad to hear that there is a great possibility he will never be released and do this to another person, another child. Are you blown awayive covered this case from that weekend that sierra disappeared on a friday and we started covering this on a saturday. The days, the weeks, thousands of volunteers who never met sierra showed up. You remember at the morgan hill search center. Five years later we talked to one of the volunteers and came out and was in tears. Are you blown away by the overwhelming love for your daughter . Well the community has definitely stepped it up and i just hope that this never happens again but there is hope for people. And i dont want this to ever happen to another parent but there are people out there that care. Your child matters in this world and thats whats important. Why do you think it made such a connection with this community. This is something weve seen before. This volunteers for this long. Because this type of thing has been happening a lot on the news in the last ten years. Ive been following every case and the way it happens, walking to a bus stop and they have this special uber now that picks up kids, they have life 360, find my friends. People are becoming more aware that this is not really a safe world anymore. Thank you so much. Marlene lamar giving us an indepth interview. There will never be closure. She could not comment on whether or not she believes in the Death Penalty, whether Garcia Torres should receive the Death Penalty. Prosecutors should not go into that as well. We do expect an appeals process. At least this is one step of the journey. In her words at least no other child will be harmed by this man. Back to you. Thank you. We continue to cover the guilty verdict in the kidnapping and murder of sierra lamar. And its not unprecedent but rare that there is a murder conviction without a body. Weve got a legal expert talking to James Fletcher about just that. We pose the question to you. Doesnt seem like we can draw many memories of a case thats gone this far where the suspect has been convicted in a case where there is no body and you were saying yeah that actually is pretty rare. Its extremely rare. The defense only found three instances where its happened in the past. I believe that was federally but i cant recall if that was just california. I think it was federally. They had to go pretty far back to find these cases. One in the 50s, one in the 70s they all involve different facts than were present here like a motive, blood stains, things like that. This is definitely an extension of what it takes to convict somebody without a body. Okay so we heard comments from sierra lamars mother and other family members and searchers talking about the first good step in their mind in getting closure. The penalty phase is coming up next. Walk us through Going Forward what are the steps. What happens in the next phase . The penalty phase will be another trial essentially. The jury will be there. The prosecution will put on witnesses. Theyll put on witnesses for the prior kidnappings that were alleged, maybe other incidents where its a lot broader than it was in the guilt phase. So they can put on for example maybe an exgirlfriend who said he was violent, things like that. Sure. Theyll put on essentially their case again in a way directed at showing that hes just morally corrupted. And the defense of course will try to do the opposite, paint him as a victim of circumstance and that other exterior factors led him to this moment in life. Lets say the penalty phase finishes. There are appeals down the road. Once he isonce the penalty is delivered what happens . He goes off to prison. And his defense team moves on with what an appeal right away . It will either be his team or another team likely paid for by the state of california who will make pretty decent amount of money to continue his appeals for the rest of his life whether he is put to death or dies of natural causes. It will probably be the latter. Now you were saying while we were talking off air there is the possibility of an appeal which in all likelihood is what will happen but they may try to retry it all over again. Its common. We did it in a case where we file a new trial motion before sentencing to try to bring out issues in the record which are so appealable that maybe the Trial Court Judge would want to give them at this point save the taxpayers money, save the family and everybody a lot of anger because as relieved as everybody seems to be with the fact theres a verdict and closure times by a thousand when it gets over turned on appeal. Right and you say that process may happen before the it has to be done before the penalty phase . Theres several opportunities but this is a Good Opportunity now to file that. Wow. So we saw the attorneys come out, we heard from the prosecutors. The Defense Attorneys didnt come to the podium at all. What do you think was happening with them and their client in the room and the fact they didnt want to speak to the media they just left. Is that typical . M my opinion its unfortunately typical. Its important for a client that the attorney be their voice and they dont have an opportunity to speak to the public like their attorney would and i think its unfortunate that the attorneys didnt come out and advocate for some aspects of the case that was unfair because there are obviously aspects that were unfair from a legal standpoint and defense attorney standpoint. However they went through three months of trial they are emotionally exhausted, heart broke and let their client down. Its not the best time to face the public especially in a case like this where the public is overwhelmingly anti mr. Torres so maybe they werent up to it. Going forward between now and when the penalty phase begins i guess his Defense Attorneys will meet with minimum start lining up their witnesses and the prosecution will do the same thing is that whats going to happen between now and when the penalty phase starts . Thats correct. Id be surprised if the penalty phase resumes in three weeks. It will be a month to two months at the soonest. Good enough thank you. It was march 16, 2012 the bay area was searching for this girl who disappeared and now five years and two months later a guilty verdict in the case. Antoine Garcia Torres found guilty of murdering sierra lamar five years ago. No body has been found. We are going to continue our Team Coverage. We have interviews with the family, with the attorneys and where this case moves to next all going to be online on our website kron4. Com and our mobile app as well. Stay with us for continuing coverage on our Website Facebook twitter and the kron4 mobile app. Our next newscast is at 5 this evening. Dr. Phil coming up next. Lights. Camera strike a pose your eyes work as hard as you do. But do they need help making more of their own tears . If you have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation, restasis multidose™ can help. Th continued use twice a day, every day, one drop at a time. 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