debora patta is following all of this for us. debora, children as suicide bombers? what you can tell us? >> reporter: well, they've been two attacks by child suicide bombers just this weekend, both in crowded marketplaces, and doctors believe that one of the children was no more than 10 years old. now, this whole development came to light when a 13-year-old girl was sent on a suicide mission with two other women to kano. the women blew themselves up and after she watched this, she refused to detonate her vest packed with explosives and was arrested by police. she said that her father had given her to boko haram. it's known that the group does pay the families of suicide bombers. she told police that she was forced to put on this vest, but it's unclear whether she even knew it was a bomb until she saw what happened to her companions. >> pelley: do we know why boko haram is using children? >> reporter: it's hard to tell, but it's obviously a very worrying trend if it continues. some of the my sources think it signals desperation on the part of boko haram. their extrem

debora villalon at the golden gate bridge tonight, debora, thank you. >>> a bay area alert with temperatures falling below freezing. that has prompted a third night of frost advisories and freeze warnings. >> reporter: bill martin is watching those temperatures for us and some relief in sight. >> reporter: it's going to warm a little bit but not before some very cold overnight lows are back into the freeze warnings. for tonight, third night in a row julie mentioned. i have numbers outside right now that are in the low 30s and it's already cold. these were the last night's numbers. tonight's numbers not far off. 27 in santa rosa. it's going to be real cold out there. low 30s and low or upper 20s around the bay. frost advisory that's the area in the powder blue there, fremont, san jose and oakland. in the much more frigid freeze warning as this area in purple in santa rosa, napa, fairfield, livermore, fairfield and parts of livermore county. here's how it shapes out. it's cool out there right now around the state. take a look at the current temperatures. it's already 33. frank eluded to change

. >>> debora villalon live for us in oakland. >>> hundreds took part in a pro- police officer rally in washington, d.c., marching from the capitol to the officer's memorial. like others across the nation the safe blue protest was to

and debora it's nice to know that waterproof case held up. >> that's true.looked good. >> debora villalon, live tonight, thank you. >>> president obama is giving a leave for the birth or adoption of a child. the president signed a memorandum today. the memorandum has the same legal effect as an order. the aim is to require companies to give workers up to seven days of paid sick leave a year. >>> it was another down day on wall street, the fifth in a row. the dow dropped 106 points, nasdaq dropped 68. >>> closing argumenting are expected tomorrow in the trial of a bay area teacher accused of 22 counts of molestation. he's been retried on charges he molested several male students at wood side elementary school. today he testified that any time he patted a student on the head or shoulder it was to reassure or calm that student. if convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison. >>> we're learning more tonight about the driver of a car who plowed right into a macy's store in newark. several people were injured. anne rubin spoke to the woman's family about wha

julie. >> debora villalon live tonight in san francisco. debora, thank you. >>> on ktvu.com we posted more of jeb bush's remarks tonight. look for the video player right on the front page. >>> california's unemployment rate dropped to 7% in december. that's .2 of a percent better than the previous month. it hasn 't been this low since 2008 before the recession. only 700 net jobs were added last month. california has added 1.5 million jobs since 2010. >>> here in the bay area the unemployment rate in all nine counties is well below the state average. marin has the lowest unemployment rate at 3.4%. san francisco and san mateo countys are less than 4%. that number is actually better than the previous month. >>> some state lawmakers plan to fight the department of motor vehicles over its plans to require uber and lyft drivers to acquire commercial license plates. today republicans in the state assembly said if the dmv does not change its position they will introduce legislation that will allow ride share drivers to operate while using personal

debora villalon is there live. >> reporter: heather, the group by that time was down to just a few dozens. they left the barricades here and aded to the mcdonalds next door to wait for rides back to fruitvale bart, when the calm evaporated. protesters were pulled out of fast-food restaurant, and officers had one man on the ground as a fragile peace fell apart. >> they were going in there and they just rushed us and thought the cameras were off of them and they rushed us. that is what they did. >> reporter: as protesters were led away, the now familiar face-off formed in the parking lot and the stragglers fired up. >> let him go! >>. >> reporter: it was an emotional end to a day of protest that started small outside of lake merritt bart station. >> we're going form five teams. >> reporter: this group encouraging unity, thinking local on this nationwide weekend of action. >> we live anyway so-called democracy and if we're going to have real democracy the government and police have to be accountable to the community and the people. >> reporter: activism was alive at this house where discussi

okay, thanks debora. >>> the bridge isn't scheduled to open until 4:00 a.m. on monday and while it's closed anyone wanting to drive between marin and san francisco will obviously need to take a longer alternate route. if you're headed into the city here's what you'll need to do. cross the richmond san rafael bridge and then follow 580 to 80 then go over the bay bridge and obviously just reverse that rout if you're headed out of the city. the alternate rout from san rafael is roughly 25 miles that's about 7 miles longer than using the golden gate. >>> a private ferry will be running from tiburon to sausalito. that's in addition to expanded service on the ferry. 2-1/2 times the normal service out of sausalito. >>> you can check traffic conditions any time on our ktvu website. look for the traffic section where you can check for back ups in realtime. >>> stay with us for continuing coverage all weekend long. ktvu crews will be live at the bridge following the work being done. we should get our first real indication of how it's going during mornings on two tomorr

this comes days after another attack that left hundreds possibly thousands dead, here is debora patta. >> this past week boko haram this could be boko haram's deadly massacre to date, marking another hideous milestone in the group's the increasingly violent campaign. >> the latest massacre is in the baga in the far northeastern region of -- >> they estimate hundreds of people, possibly as many as 2,000 could have been killed. >> we are hearing reports people going to the village are walking over dead bodies, men women, children. basically signs of an indiscriminate attack and certain major war crime by boko haram. >> the nigerian military has been unable to to contain boko haram as it has rampaged through the north over the past year alone more than 11,000 people have been killed by the group and in the past five years one and a half million have been displaced. >> there is a lack of leader snip the nigerian military. >> the evidence does indicate a strange lack of awareness or ability to the protect nigerian civilians and it is very disturbing and it will have implication for the who

those taken into custody are now just being released, debora. >> reporter: we've been watching as they walk out of this door. they're calling themselvesless the stanford 68. 68 students that decided to show civil disobedience. >> we can organize you can drivers and get you in a car and back home. >> reporter: misdemeanor citations in hand. every student who went on the bridge got arrested. >> unity is permeating all of these actions. this is a call that ferguson put out. i think it's quite amazing that we're unified this way. >> reporter: evening commuters may have been unified in their aggravation as they sat in stopped traffic for more than an hour. one driver posted this video on instagram. idled by a line of determined students. >> it's stuff. unfortunately it's something we try to prevent. >> chp had a heads up it might happen and staged cruisers at both ends of the bridge but it was mobbed from the middle not the side. students road in cars up to the high rise section then fanned out and spread over lanes in both directions. traffic started to squeeze through when they were convi

debora villalon is in the city and tells us the incident is sending chills through the up and coming neighborhood at 11th and market. >> reporter: there's a lot of chatter about this gruesome discovery made about half way down this block in front of the goodwill docks. and it's chilling because police haven't said if it's a man or woman, age or race. >> it's obviously horrific. i mean i hope they figure out what happened. >> reporter: the mid-market area. home to twitter and the up and coming. >> to work around this area is, it's frightful sometimes. >> reporter: but also home to the city's trouble. the downed and out. >> i don't want the other -- >> reporter: everyone talking about what the police found. >> if it's going to happen it's going to happen right here. >> reporter: a report of a suspicious package on the sidewalk and stuffed inside a headless torso. an immediate search found other body parts. >> i was sitting here. he was looking in the garbage can and -- i was like, what did you seen there, what did you find there. he said you don't want to know. >> reporter: today polic

as debora villalon reported then, it was watchful passengers who jumped into action to stop the attack. >> reporter: this dark grainy pictures shows the suspect detained in the plane. he launched from across the suspect from the seat after he saw smoke coming from a blanket as the jet prepared to land. >> i was thinking he's trying to blow up the plane. and so, you know i was trying to search his body for any explosives. and then i took some kind of object that was already melting and smoking out of him. >> reporter: water and a fire extinguisher followed with other passengers and crew helping. >> i grabbed him with another attendant and we took him to first class there we stripped him and contained him with handcuff s and we made sure he had no more weapons, no more bombs on him. >> reporter: the bomb that he carried contained betm. it's the same substance convicted bomber richard reed lit in his shoes trying to bring down a jet in 2001. police searched abdul metalab's last known address. an upscale apartment in london. his father is a prominent banker who says he warned u.s. embassy

frank. >> debora villalon in san rafael tonight. deborah thank you. >>> a man from east palo alto was due in court for sexual battery as he was working as a masseuse. roberto valle ran an unregulated massage business in his backyard. he was arrested in september and again on new year's eve after word spread of his previous arrest. >>> governor jerry brown took the oath of office to begin an unprecedented fourth term. on friday, he is set to reveal his state of state statement. >> reporter: he enters his fourth term with momentum as he works to establish major and difficult goalless. >> cutting the use of gasoline by half. fixing all roads in need of $60 billion in repairing and pushing ahead with high speed rail. >> i jerry brown do solemnly swear. >> in 2011 we had a mess. through solid steady work we turned it around. we have not reached the promise land we have much to be proud of. >> reporter: tkpwáfr forbrown said admittedly 15 year environmental goals including 50% reduction in gasoline use in cars and trucks -- governor brown

debora villalon has the story. >> reporter: she was a girl who grew up mostly in san jose.but ends up dead in oakland. from news chopper 2, a gray volkswagen riddled with gunfire. >> this is the worse part. that's why we need to be real close to the family. and help support them in any way that we can. walk them through what they're going through. >> reporter: family arrived even before the coroner. and said that 19-year-old alexis randolph was never in any trouble. >> i think the boy friend was involved in a lot of stuff, yes. i think so. >> the couple met only recently. at work at the ups facility in oakland. randolph grew up mostly in san jose with her grandma and graduated high school there last june. >> i would tell lexus just come home. i feel safer with you being at home. san jose. this is not the place i want my grand kids to be at, oakland. >> reporter: the shooting drew a crowd. school children -- >> this is my community. >> it's always that hits you in the heart. >> it's frustrating. i'm about to throw my hands up and say, i'm frustrated. let somebody come in. wh

debora villalon, ktvu news. >>> a shake up tonight in california politics. senator barbara boxer says she will not seek reelection next year and she's coming home after 40 years in congress. we have more on the early front runners for her seat, ken. >> reporter: when senator boxer says she wants to come home to california to be closer to her family she could mean around here. boxer has a home near jack london square. her departure of course, raises the question who will take her place and head to washington. >> reporter: it was an unusual presentation. a taped mock interview between boxer and her grandson playing the role of a reporter released online. the announcer said boxer was not in retirement. >> i'm never going to retire. the work is too important but i will not be running for the senate in 2016. >> reporter: 74-year-old boxer certained in the house for more than 30 years. she said her age was not a condition. >> congresswoman nancy pelosi seemed stunned when a reporter asked her reaction to the news. >> she called me and said she wanted to talk to me

this is enough for us. >> reporter: in wilitz, debora villalon. >>> sounding hopeful that the oakland a's will get a new stadium. the commissioner says he is optimistic the new ballpark will be in oakland. this is his first day on the job. the previous commissioner, bud selig set up a committee to study the idea in 2009. they rejected san jose's latest effort to move the team to the south bay. >>> the fire was reported at about 3:30 this morning. in rockaway canyon on the south end of town. extra crews were called in, because the fire was burning close to a residential neighborhood. 80 to 90 homes were evacuated, as firefighters battle the fire in the dark. residents say they fled with little, but the clothes they were wearing. >> my pajamas, thank god they were on. then i put shoes on, and that was it. >> i got a phone call from a friend. he said you need to evacuate, your hill's own fire. >> reporter: the fire was controlled by 8:00 a.m., and the evacuation order was lifted. fire officials are still looking into the cause of that fire. >>> police in san pablo tonight are searching f

debora villalon has the story. >> reporter: tonight unity is what they aimed for. >> reporter: oscar grant's uncle talks to people everywhere about how his nephew was shot by a b.a.r.t. officer. >> people call me, the people's uncle today. >> reporter: he calls white audiences game changers. >> i am trayvon. >> i am trayvon. >> i am eric. >> i am eric. >> i am mike. >> i am mike. >> i am oscar. >> ♪ we shall overcome, some day ♪ >> reporter: at a time that many shall honor martin luther king, this congregation chose candles, song determined to see the energy behind black lives matter is not just a moment in time but a movement that lasts and spreads. >> injustice some where is injustice everywhere. >> reporter: nonviolence was a key to dr. king. >> i believe he'll be part of the movement. maybe one of the major leaders in the movement. >> i think young leaders have to bring this forward. but i think we have grown up in a time when we were not there for the beginning of the civil movement. >> reporter: reclaiming dr. king's message and moving it forward is a great time for everyone. >

debora villalon with reaction from shoppers startled by signs at a cosco. >> reporter: notices are at the entrance and cash registers. warning shoppers that someone with measles was here last sunday and potentially exposed hundreds of people. so now, the health department is getting the word out. a walk through any cosco store presents a sea of people, products, places where a stubborn virus can survive. measles is contagious in the air and on surfaces. >> we weren't there, we were here. >> reporter: shoppers were thinking back to whether they were here on sunday. that's when officials say exposure was possible and it wants shoppers to be alert for symptoms until february 8th, two more weeks. >> there may be measles circulating in our community undetected that's what's concerning to us. >> i don't know maybe because i don't know too much about it. i think about it like chickenpox, i don't know. >> i don't know. i just know it was in disneyland. >> reporter: disneyland theme parks in anaheim is where most of california's 68 measles cases stem from. but bay area doctors say that it's be

. >>> debora villalon, live in the newsroom. >>> world leaders are heading to saudi arabia to pay their respects following the death of king abdullah. the king's half both salmon bin abdul-azizi has been installed as the new monarch. 90-year-old king abdullah died this week after being hospitalized with pneumonia. the new king saysly continue to follow the policies his predecessors. >> the white house said that president obama will shorten his trip to india to meet with saudi arabia's new king. saudi arabia is one of washington's most important middle east al lies despite longstanding criticism by human right groups about the kingdom's human rights abuses saudi arabia is one of five arab nations is that currently helping the u.s. fight isis. >>> many san francisco streets were shut down for an anti- abortion march. today's event coincided with the 42nd anniversary of the landmark roe v. wade decision. as christien kafton reports. >> reporter: tens of thousands filled civic center plaza in san francisco for the annual walk for life west coast. >> among the speakers, julia hole co, former

debora villalon is live where district officials say for some dogs it's a little too late. >> reporter: if you're heading to lake chabot with your dog, we have to warn you about this. never before seen, but because of the drought, it's blooming now. >> healthy as can be. walked her about five miles every day. >> reporter: when she let josey splash in lake chabot. >> completely unbelievable. like a nightmare. like when am i going to wake up. >> reporter: a few hours after the walk, vomiting, shock then coma. >> a complete shock. our kids are teenagers and they're devastated by it. >> reporter: the lake is showing a green tint. chabot is not a swimming lake, but off leash docks like to get wet. >> liver failures are the cases that we have. >> reporter: three dogs dead in two months. the poison is untreatable. >> three dogs, wow. in lake chabot. >> not this guy though. >> reporter: there are sign at the lake but barely visible. most people walk right by them. >> they could be bigger. >> we took the kids in the boat and they were dragging the hands in the water. it wasn't until we got back