. >> reporter: he called kenzie mom. the family had reason to rejoice -- kenzie was pregnant with a baby boy. >> i always wanted a little brother. it was a boy so that was what i was going to get. >> reporter: february 20th, 2009, a cold, frigid morning, that happiness shattered. >> i remember getting up that morning, running a little late for work. she'd asked me to stay home that day, i didn't. that's something that's haunted me. >> what do you remember? >> it was just a normal morning. my sister janessa woke me up. >> reporter: 8 1/2 months pregnant, kenzie stayed in bed as they got ready for school. >> angie told us to go, because the bus is coming, we were going to be late. we hurried up, went out the backdoor, ran down the driveway, went to school. >> reporter: after they got on the bus at 8:15, it was just kenzie and addeline, asleep in her bed, inside the house. fin: 9:00 a.m., a crew of men arrived to cut trees on the property and spotted adaline at the door. she says her mom is dead. they call the police. >> th

<kenzie smith/oakland city council candidate: "my face was crossed out on at least three of them and there was the n-word transcribed on my poster. it is only going to motivate me much more. like i said in the video i am going to continue to push no matter what. you can't intimidate voters in oakland. that's a no go! voters should be able to vote for whoever they want to, whoever they choose">( robin ) kron4's viewers might remember kenzie smith from the now infamous #bar-b-que becky incident earlier this year at oakland's lake merritt. he's the person on whom the police were called...for using a charcoal grill in an area where only gas grills are allowed. ( robin ) kron4 is your local election headquarters. we will have expanded election coverage starting at 8 p.m. tonight. be the first to know of local election returns and hear expert analysis. you can also head to our website for the locations of local voting sites. ( robin ) facebook has taken down a network of facebook and instagram pages just hours before the polls open today. law enforcement tipped the company about the pages

district-2 city council candidate kenzie smith says he recently found several of his campaign posters corner of 14th avenue and east 12th street. ( james ) you might remember kenzie smith from the bar-b-que becky incident earlier this year at oakland's lake merritt. she called police on him for using a charcoal grill in an area where only gas grills are allowed. now that polls are open across the country --- it's now just a waiting game. but before today, millions of dollars were spent on ads. thousands of hours pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, making calls or sending texts. natasha chen is in washington watching it all unfold. after months of stumping and hitting the campaign trailrep.

district-2 city council candidate...kenzie smith...says he recently found several of his campaign posters vandalized at the corner of 14th avenue and east 12th street (grant) kron4's viewers might remember kenzie smith from the now infamous #bar-b-que becky incident earlier this year at oakland's lake merritt. he's the person on whom the police were called...for police were whom the police were called...for using charcoal (vicki) new details tonight into the deadly officer involved shooting in danville over the weekend. neighbors of the suspect -- who was killed in the shooting -- say they believe he may have suffered from mental illness.(grant) kron4's michelle kingston visited his apartment complex

my daughter kenzie is 17 going on 18, looking at colleges soon. my little guy liam is in the seventh grade. really wonderful kids. i'm very proud of what we have produced. the kids are full of empathy and care about other people. and they're not selfish i think casey in particular, she is with them more than i am because of this job. they are quality people. steve: if you could change one thing about the house of representatives, what would you change? rep. crowley: i think there's a lack of interaction between members of the republican conference and the house democratic caucus. i don't know if there's much that can be done to change that. i think a lot of good laws were passed in terms of, they had some effect of making us more distant from each other. where people actually get a chance to get to know folks on the other side. or, through some trips, weather if you sit on the foreign affairs committee, which i did. i had an opportunity to work with republican colleagues, including mike pence, where we traveled to iraq and afghanistan in the mid t