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announcer: live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. now at 11:00, the desperate search for a missing 15-year-old girl shifts to the sonoma county coastline. crews are now combing rural wilderness for the high school student who has not been seen in more than two days. good evening. i m dan ashley. and i m ama daetz. she was abducted kicking and screaming on wednesday. police say she was taken in vallejo. today efforts to find her shifted 70 miles west to the coastal town of jenner. the latest on the developing story. reporter: investigators say a strong lead brought them here to the willow creek area just outside jenner, california. why here has been a big question. reporter: it s one investigators say they are not ready to answer. more than a dozen people spent the day searching four square miles for 15-year-old pearl pinson, with additional crews in the water and air. this is still very much a search and rescue effort and our number o ....
announcer: live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. now at 11:00, the desperate search for a missing 15-year-old girl shifts to the sonoma county coastline. crews are now combing rural wilderness for the high school student who has not been seen in more than two days. good evening. i m dan ashley. and i m ama daetz. she was abducted kicking and screaming on wednesday. police say she was taken in vallejo. today efforts to find her shifted 70 miles west to the coastal town of jenner. the latest on the developing story. reporter: investigators say a strong lead brought them here to the willow creek area just outside jenner, california. why here has been a big question. reporter: it s one investigators say they are not ready to answer. more than a dozen people spent the day searching four square miles for 15-year-old pearl pinson, with additional crews in the water and air. this is still very much a search and rescue effort and our number o ....
pinson, with additional crews in the water and air. this is still very much a search and rescue effort and our number one priority is bringing pearl home safely to her family, and we do believe that is possible. reporter: pearl s family also believes she is alive. it s heartbreaking knowing that she s still not found. reporter: pearl was last seen wednesday morning near the foot bridge on her way to catch the bus to school. witnesses say 19-year-old fernando castro kidnapped her. police shot and killed him following a high-speed chase that ended in santa barbara county. we needle him. he was our main source. reporter: with castro gone investigators are combing through countless tips. they say the most promising ones are here. this road will stay closed overnight. search and rescue efforts will pick back up in the morning with additional efforts to search nearby waterways. in sonoma county melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. back in vallejo friends and supporters ....
ktvu paul chambers who is live in our newsroom. the search was suspended at dark, but there s a lot of questions out there. is the 15-year-old alive and if so, where is she? questions would like to ask the suspect but that can t happen since i died in a shoot-out with police. the search is on in jenner as at least a dozen people in two and two dogs were look forking this girl looking for this girl. she s the missing girl last seen wednesday morning. this is very much a search and rescue university. our number one priority is bringing her home safely to her family. we believe that is possible. sky fox was overhead this afternoon as crews searched through dumb centers in wooded areas. they also looked along the shore and used a boat to search in the russian river. authorities say a significant tip led them to this area after receiving a call on the sheriff s department hotline. we are following up on every lead possible. the strongest leads right now are in th ....
on the playground sped off. with the intake and response of a million 911 calls a year to the central dispatch, human error is a factor. was there any mistake made? unfortunately, we souhould he sent pen socken. the street here is the border and i think it was some confusion whether pen socken township. don t hang up. reporter: because of the confusion and lack of response to the call, authorities learned the 911 function from the lanline wasn t working properly. it s now fixed. we are entrusted with the lives of 600 children every day and as we can t call 911 and get a response, we can t protect them. reporter: the police realized from the onset the county should have dispatched them that day, pen socken will be the primary responding agency. call, we ll be here. there s human error in everything and hope think this does not occur, specially with the magnitude at a school. reporter: an incident that did occur here yesterday had police arrive in 40 secon ....