is that agricultural employers don t like it very much. because it includes they re required to pay temporary workers more than they would have to pay u.s. workers because it s designed to protect u.s. workers. and so agricultural employers have found it cumbersome and inconvenient to use. and because we don t really enforce employer sanction laws they ve gone around it and hired a lot of unauthorized workers instead. the h2b visa is for low-skilled nonagriculture workers in temporary jobs. the reason i don t consider it a fix and employers are willing to use that because it offers less protections than h2a to workers. the reason it s a limited fix is that it s only limited to seasonal jobs. so if you want to hire a worker to work in your restaurant or your factory or, you know your service sector job as a janitor, none of those jobs are covered. it has to be a job that is time-limited and it s limited to 65,000 visas a year. so it only covers it basically covers people
nannette miranda joining us live from morgan hill community center which served as the searchers home base. yes certainly a sad day. this case captivated so many people bringing strangers together. more than 50,000 hours combined have been spent looking for esera lamar and now those strangers leave as friends. we never thought this was going to happen to us. but it did. sierra lamar s mother tearfully thanked the hard-core volunteer who have been so dedicated to helping look for her missing daughter sierra. but after almost three years since the girl s disappearance on her way to school the near weekly searches will no longer take place. at this point, we re just we ve exhausted our inventory of viable search areas. so that s why we re suspending for now. the final search concentrated in the coit creek area of morgan hill. dressed for rugged terrain, teams looked under thick heavy brush, looking for a sign any sign of the 15-year-old. we re especially looking f
decision. no more formal searches as there have been nearly every saturday. at this point, we re just we ve exhausted our inventory of viable search areas. so that s why we re suspending for now. reporter: the end marked a remarkable journey, total strangers drawn to this case. now leaving as close friends. they ve developed a bond that will last longer than this final day i have searching. it s brought people together for three long years. and it s driven me that hope to find sierra to bring her home for the family. antolin garcia torres has been charged with her kidnapping and murder and searchers believe he knows where her body is and begged him to end their pain by telling the location. one person knows who did this. and he can end this agony for this family right now. reporter: in a way, the volunteers who gave up their saturdays helped ease the pain. over sierra s mother tearfully thanked them. we never thought this was going to happen to us but it did.
honor student with dreams of a career in music but tonight he can t even open his eyes. the last time i saw him on wednesday, he was dancing to a favorite song. he ate something and hugged me and kissed me and said i love you mom. and i asked him where are you going? and that s it. and now he s on a breathing tube. tonight her 17-year-old son is hospitalized in intensive car after two men punched him in the head and he fell to the ground. the attack happened at a parking lot on wednesday. two of christian s friends who were with him during the attack told them a third man stood nearby watching the beating. christian s parents say police told them what they suspected. he told us it could have been a gang initiation. maria and her husband say they are frustrated now four days later police haven t contacted them about the investigation. it would be nice if somebody gave us a five minute call and tell us where they are. the case has been assigned to our gang investiga
critical condition. she has been upgraded to serious and should pull through. this pile-up that came out of no where took her husband s life. vhp sees rear end accidents all the time. when officers got here it was pretty chaotic. getting calls of 15 to 16 vehicles. reporter: 7 vehicles in this bluster of crashes and 7 more that collided a bit further east as they were swerving and braking to avoid the mess. you heard it but then there s nothing you could do. reporter: drivers describe a helpless feeling bracing for impact. brakes slamming on. the traffic just stopped. everybody was just driving and then in front the traffic stopped. i didn t think i was going to make it. reporter: the driver of this dodge truck sandwiched between two other vehicles didn t make it. he was slammed from behind by a heavy ford pickup. yeah. which is really sad. really sorry to hear that. reporter: those who weren t injured climbed out of their cars but ambulances were needed for