The search resumes in Volusia County for missing Deltona mother Yessenia Suarez and her two children. A second search begins this morning.
Suarez's family is hoping for a big turnout for their own search. That starts at 9 a.m. at the Iglesia Adventista Hispana de Deltona. Anyone wanting to help should go to that church, which is at 1180 Doyle Road, blocks from the command center set up by Volusia County's sheriff's office.
In addition to Volusia, sheriff's deputies from Brevard, Lake, Orange and Seminole counties, as well as Orlando and Ocala police officers, will be back Sunday for the official search.
Saturday's search was focused on the area around State Road 415 and U.S. Highway 19-72, but search teams may also start looking in some new areas this weekend, including private property.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said it's alerting residents that search teams may need to go into their neighborhoods and asked property owners to be patient with them.
The sheriff's office said the day's search ended around 5 p.m. with no new findings or updates.
Suarez and her children, 8-year-old Michael and 9-year-old Thalia Otto, have been missing since Oct. 22. Deputies said they believe all three are dead. Suarez's husband, Luis Toledo, has been charged with murder for Suarez's death, but not the children's.
In the last week, dive teams and crews on boats searched more than a dozen bodies of water with side-scanning sonar for any sign of the missing mom or her kids. Wooded areas have been beaten down by searchers on foot.
The search expanded Friday to about 6 miles from around Suarez's Deltona home. The ramped-up search in the area around Lake Monroe failed to turn up any sign of the three, but search teams have not given up yet.
"We're going to search, and we're going to keep searching for as long as we have a reasonable hope of finding them and good search areas to cover," said Gary Davidson, with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
Davidson said the sheriff's office has gotten the same calls from law enforcement agencies from across Central Florida, asking what they can send to help.
"It takes an enormous amount of resources to conduct a search like this, and the help that we've received from the other agencies has been extraordinarily appreciated and put to very good use," said Davidson.
Friday's warm weather had search crews moving a little more slowly, and showers and storms moving across Central Florida early Saturday morning weren't helpful, either.