Police Turn to Sonar in Search for Pregnant Woman
BLITZER: The search for a missing California woman has suddenly focused on a corner of the San Francisco Bay where authorities have detected what may, repeat may, be a body. CNN's Rusty Dornin has been following the case of Laci Peterson. She's joining us now live with the latest -- Rusty.</s>RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Wolf this has been such a frustrating case from the very beginning. There have just been very few leads, almost no clues, and now they have something that could be a lead or it may not be a lead. Now, divers have been searching the Berkeley Marina. That's in the San Francisco Bay area where Scott Peterson says that he went fishing the day his wife, Laci, disappeared. Now, divers late yesterday afternoon discovered, using side scanning sonar, an objection they say resembles a body. They only say it resembles a body. They could not pull it out yesterday and they could not pull it out today because of very bad weather. There's been a storm in that area, also the currents are very heavy, and they say the divers are also very fatigued. Now meantime, police have been very tight lipped. They will not talk about Scott Peterson whatsoever, and they also say that there still have been no credible witnesses that have placed Scott Peterson at the Berkeley Marina when he says he was there. Now, despite this new speculation with this object in the bay, Laci Peterson's family says they still stand firmly behind Scott Peterson.</s>BRENT LAROCHA, BROTHER: You know my confidence is so high that Scott had nothing to do with it. I'm not really that concerned. It's not bothering me too much and it seems to me if it really was something significant they'd be out there today to take care of it.</s>DORNIN: Now, we're looking right now at a live picture of the Berkeley Marina in the bay area. It's been very quiet there all day. None of the divers, none of the search teams have shown up there. We understand they will be coming very early tomorrow morning to start the search to see exactly what that object is. Now meantime, here at the Modesto Police Department, it's also very quiet here today and they say there will be no press conferences until something significant happens, until they pull whatever that is up out of the bay and let people know exactly what they found -- Wolf.</s>BLITZER: It may or may not be something. We'll have to wait at least until tomorrow. Rusty Dornin with us on the latest. Thanks, Rusty, very much. Shot down over Iraq during the first Gulf War, is Scott Speicher still alive? The search for answers continues. We'll talk to Senator Pat Roberts. He's the new chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He has information on this case. Plus, starved to death how three innocent kids fell through the cracks again and again. And, are we becoming a nation of voyeurs? America's obsession with peeping sparks the network ratings, but first, a look at news making headlines around the world.</s>BLITZER (voice-over): Banking on change. Bank workers have joined the general strike in Venezuela aimed at the ouster of President Hugo Chavez. In Washington, the White House says it's looking for ways to restore stability. Dead end, London police say a gunman who held them at bay for 15 days set fire to his apartment. After the fire was put out, the gunman was found dead. It's said to have been the longest domestic siege in British history. Alpine accident, a key highway through the Austrian Alps was closed after an Italian truck crashed into a Belgian bus in Germany. Three people were killed and 45 others were injured. Icy conditions may have played a role. Deep freeze, humanitarian groups say authorities should be doing more to help homeless Russians survive frigid temperatures. Cold kills about 400 people each year in Moscow alone and this winter has been harsh. Moscow temperatures are expected to drop well below zero this weekend. Spying a spider, a crowd in Bangkok, Thailand watched not one but ten spider-men climb down a 32-story skyscraper. It was a stunt to publicize the opening of a new hotel. "Tomb Raider II," Hollywood comes to Hong Kong. They're shooting a new "Tomb Raider" movie in the Chinese city, "Laura Croft Returns." One again, Angelina Jolie plays the lead role, and that's our look around the world.