http://www.kwwl.com/category/195327/kwwl-live-streaming
(I missed the name and position of the first man speaking related to the searches)
Maintained searches on the water
Water has been stirring things up, shifting things around, we are getting close ruling Wolf Creek in or out
Over weekend will bring additional teams to clear the water, will use side sonar and K-9s
Need to take advantage of the warm weather to continue clearing the water
Q: number of searchers in water? A: 6-7 people. Boat using side sonar and focusing more on Cedar River. Will hopefully have 3 K-9 teams and 4-5 fire departments sending personnel to help. Drones also being used.
Q: [unclear] A: These are our Saturday/Sunday plans. With water up, will allow boats to get in places unable to go before.
Q: How many sonar? A: One sonar will be brought in, side sonar that will give images and can look for anomalies along banks.
Q: How far down Cedar River will be searched? A: All of Wolf Creek is in play, looking at dropping into Cedar at Vinton and heading north.
Black Hawk County Sherriff Thompson speaks about investigation.
Continuing to look into leads with emperical evidence related to videos
120 uploads to FBI website.
Thank you for sharing theories and images with me on Facebook, but I am not the one analyzing. Please upload to the FBI site.
https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/3d0172758feedf3
Excited that we finally have Mother Nature working with us. We have been fighting weather since the inception of this operation.
Good weather will allow to bring in drones, sonar, K-9's. With weather this has changed some tributaries, filling them up and that may help to bring him out if he is in the water.
Encouraged to contact tip line with any leads because we are running out. This looks like a missing person and we don't have anything else to disprove this theory. In the same vein, not dismissing possibility of a runaway or abduction.
Frustrating to admit the investigation is not developing huge leads.
Q: Still looking for photos of the person walking between 8:30-9:00? A: don't misconstrue that to think we have a suspect, it may very well have been Jake walking. Looking for others to corroborate this sighting. Timeline is about 8:30 in area of Commercial and Bishop. Have not been able to shore up much more on this sighting.
Q: Is there one thing sticking out according to the timeline? A: According family, what we know about Jake, we are still slightly leaning toward him going to creek and something bad happening there.
Q: Were you able to see Jake on any of the video? A: some evidence is anomolys, which is why looking for additional corroboration.
Q: [question regarding technology] A: some of the technology we have used to talk with people. One guy at the biking event called us and said, "Hey i'll come in and talk but get my picture off the internet." We've not had a lot of fruitful leads from technology.
Q: have you been able to shorten the 30 minute window? A: between first 911 call and from other videos, we are confident in 20-30 minute window.
Q: what is the city still doing? A: this morning they began putting up blue Autism ribbons. This is such a tight knit and community-centric city. Community recognizes the importance of keeping Jake in the news. We are prideful with how transparent we've been with you. We are hoping you can help us get this information and details out. Just takes one bit of info to steer in the right lead.
Q: [family and volunteers]? A: Family has been focused on helping and important to them to help.
Q: Will the family say anything else? A: I don't know, family continues to hold out hope that thd next message will be he is located safely.
Q: Is the investigation located in the right place? A: the investigation is where its needs to be [police dept]. Have moved some things like record keeping back to Waterloo.
Q; Timeline for search and investigation? A: The investigation and search parallel each other. One is not dependent upon the other.
Q: With the search and K-9s, lots of people in and out, can they still find something? A: K9s did some scent tracking, we had human remain detection K-9s and we are focusing on what the dogs find.
Next briefing will be dependent on what we find. Operations planned into Monday/Tuesday so we know what we are doing over the next 3-4 days. Be ready for a press release and if we are able to call it we'll give you enough time to react. Thank you for all the volunteers, we want to bring this to resolution both for the family and the city.
note: two thumbs up for a press conference that started exactly on time! My apologies for missing some of the questions, I had a hard time keeping up with it going on live
