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Backpack of missing 10-year-old found in Colorado

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    Alicia Acuna reports from Denver

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Have a missing ten year old girl Jessica Ridgeway is -- name.

Police say Jessica was last seen on Friday morning walking to school and then she vanished.

Well now police have extended their search in the town of superior Colorado now there's just a bit north of Denver after the discovery of a new clue there.

-- -- Acuna is on that story live in Denver now Lisa good morning.

Hi good morning bill Westminster police say that on Sunday some -- in the neighboring suburb.

Of superior found a backpack and a water bottle on a sidewalk now investigators won't say.

What they found inside the backpack but they do believe that it belongs to ten year old Jessica Ridgway who disappeared on her walk to meet friends to head to their school bus stop on Friday.

More than 800 volunteers searched for her over the weekend police expanded their search area when that backpack was found more than.

Six miles away from where Jessica vanished she was last seen by her mother Friday morning as she watched her daughter.

Head off from the front of their home Jessica's father lives in Missouri and was -- a child custody hearing that day police went to the home he shares with the girl's great grandmother.

Asked him if they get -- -- to my house to see of there was.

Any.

Signs that she had been there of course she had been.

Who'd love to have -- there but that can happen to anyone out there -- those -- -- SEC's.

Return her.

Investigators have since ruled out any connection to this custody hearing now well what about authorities focusing today and the FBI's involved as well is that right.

Yeah that's right the FBI got on board.

Over the weekend and investigators were actually working overnight in searching that search continues this morning.

Blood hounds are also on the case investigators say that they are going to once again go door to door.

In Westminster that's a suburb -- Jessica lives they're doing this also in superior where that backpack was found additionally cops are asking the school district for help on this they want to know if kids who know -- -- went to school with her go to school with -- have heard or seen anything that might appear suspicious.

They are not at this point asking for any additional.

Volunteer searchers now let's hope for the best -- -- -- -- -- live in this story cholera.

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