relief. reporter: joining them sierra s older sister danielle with tears in her eyes. obviously not going to see sierra back, so it s not closure but it is a good first step. and the jury did the right thing. reporter: antolin garcia torres was convicted of kidnap and murder even though the body wasn t found. it was on dna evidence. in 13 weeks of testimony it s difficult to say what is most compelling. it s the whole package. reporter: the jury will convene next week to start the penalty phase. garcia torres could face life in prison without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty. in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. today s verdict came as a huge relief to the hundreds of volunteers who searched for the teenager. abc7 news reporter jeannine de la vega join us from morgan hill where sierra attended high school before disappearing. jeannine? reporter: well, nearly everybody here knows the name sierra lamar even though they don t personally know her or k
was little less like the hassle chris dodd will pettifog will be a concern this morning keep that mine across the golden gate and low-lying areas as of right now we have some temperatures that are on the slightly cool side across novato and 48 degrees across half moon redmen for is a handful of 50th for the rest of the bay with slightly warmer temperatures across the east valley is in jamaica when out the door the temperature is could you expect for areas across the east with shoreline daytime highs will continue to warm up into the mid 60s for some areas in richmond berkeley alameda fog will be ride run average this afternoon. michelle apon: temperatures will continue to heat up into the low to mid 70 s we are talking about the rest of the peninsula and about the south bank, is what we can get we re looking at how much how we can get. rebecca: said but so far so good on the roadway traffic is pretty light at this hour in the morning especially at the bay bridge toll plaza
we ll talk more about that next. showing you live doppler 7. you see scattered, lighter showers dropping there. even yellows off the peninsula coast. those will fall apart as they head through the santa cruz mountains. but it will make the commute through there a little difficult. you can see some of the drizzle to light rain still hanging around. temperature, 47 to 55. dress warmer. mid to upper 50s. dry around noon. the showers will pick up at 4:00, becoming more numerous at 7:00 and much more numerous tomorrow. alexis? looking at one of the alerts this morning in the mel pedis area. due to a tree northbound 680. cal tran is en route, if not arriving on the scene. hopefully, they can get it cleared shortly. live look at the bay bridge toll blah z plaza. stacking up in the toll lanes. likely, they need to open a few more booths. spin outs this morning so drive for conditions, though it is raining lighter than yesterday. couple other sig alerts next. thank you. impassab
i ve seen just about enough of this rain. we all wanted rain at the beginning of the winter, but this is too much. reporter: and we re back live here. you can see the force of the slide basically knocked the door of the rear of this house off of its hinges. check this out. here, this is about a foot of mud up to the back door here of the dining room. the folks who live here are not staying here tonight. as you can see, it s not terribly safe at this point. the concern is that the hillside above is still moving. so, it could be a long time before folks can get back into this house, at least to stay overnight. live in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. all right, laura, thank you. there is more rain on the wave unfortunately for those poor people that live there. the nasty weather also caused a barge to sink south of the bay bridge. sky 7 shows us the area where that vessel went down and the oil sheen left behind caused by leaking diesel fuel. the barge was performing
impacting any shipping channel or any commercial operations. reporter: the barge belong to vortex marine company of antioch. they were hired to do maintenance on the tube. vortex was not talking today, b.a.r.t. was. the barge has a crane and some extra cabling and it s just what the divers use as their base and then they dive down to the replace these metal pieces that a track it so the tube doesn t get corroded. reporter: the barge sank at midnight after being overrun by wind and waves. if has leaked a small amount of diesel fuel, hence the yellow containment bowies and the president of the department of fish and wildlife. could the leak be a problem? it s possible. at this point right now the amount of action going on out there, the birds are staying away, and right now there is a sheen and that s not a huge cause for concern. reporter: huge, no, but at 112 feet long and 50 feet of water, not small either. the vortex marine construction has hired a salvage company