Before the power turns off. Jackie ward spoke to the parents. Reporter Hidden Valley is one of four Santa Rosa City schools that have an early dismissal because they are smack in the middle of the blackout zone. We have to get babysitters and get to work. Reporter as if getting to kids on time wasnt a big enough feat, they have to worry about after school. I think it is bad luck that were in the zone that theyre closed. But for safety its fine. Reporter but it is a hurdle a lot of parents told us was worth it if it meant keeping their kids safe. It is worth the inconvenience. I think so. If there is danger, i think we need to be dismissed early and go home and be safe. We need to accepted out the message that they need to pick up early but we have done that with phone calls and emails and hope that parents can come a little earlier. It will be safer for everyone. Reporter beth burke is with the School District d says e early dismissals are being done at the request of the city to prevent traffic problems when the lights go out. Changes to School Schedules create a huge ripple effect. I think what were learning with the pg e Public Safety power shutoffs is we have to be ready for anything and were doing the best that we can to cooperate. Reporter some parents say they are tired of this pattern. Every time the wind, pg e turns off the power. The kids are going to be out of school. Its not good for the kids, you know. Reporter they say pg e needs to improve their infrastructure. Pg e needs to work on that. Wind every year. All year long. Right. And turn off every time. It is no good. Reporter the same four school thats have an early dismissal today will not tomorrow. We have learned that three other santa rosa schools are ending classes early and staying closed tomorrow. The high school, rincon middle and santa rosa accelerated charter school. At last check pg es website for the page was the shutoff was not working during that shutoff earlier. But we have your Survival Guide for the outages online and on air. We have a checklist of what to get at the store before the next power shutdown and what to do if your power is turned off. Any red flag warning in effect for the entire north bay, the east bay mountains and valleys. The red flag warning is in effect starting at 3 00 p. M. In the Santa Cruz Mountains starting at 7 00 p. M. This red flag warning is in effect through tomorrow afternoon. Because the northeasterly winds gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour. Mountain peaks up to 60 Miles Per Hour winds. So an extreme fire danger. Lets check the winds. We are watching the off shore winds kicking in, especially inland. 16 Miles Per Hour winds in pleasanton, 16 in antioch. And 22 out of the north in fairfield. In the north bay mountains already seeing gusts up to 30 40 Miles Per Hour. And were watching the relative humidity values drop. 24 in livermore. 23 in concord. 20 in fairfield right now. We will continue to see very dry air move in with this with these off shore winds. I will show you futurecast, when we will see the peak wind gusts and a second wind event this week. We will talk about that coming up. Thank you. One sheriffs deputy is dead and another wounded after a shooting in el dorado county. Deputy brian ishmal and another deputy were responding to a call for service. They were shot by an unknown number of people when they arrived. Two suspects are in custody. No word on the condition of the second deputy. His body was taken to the Sacramento CountyCoroners Office by a large procession. First responders parked on overpasses, they stood atop their vehicles and saluted the procession as it passed by. Closing arguments are underway in the murder trial of a heiress accused of killing her boyfriend. Lee and her boyfriend lured the victim to her mansion in 2016 where the man shot him. The body was later found off of the side of a road in sonoma county. The case is expected to last a month and not clear when a verdict will be reached. Taking a live look at capitol hill right now. Facebooks Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is in the hot seat in front of lawmakers. He was called to testify about facebooks involvement in a controversial Digital Currency project called libre but it was clear that lawmakers had other ideas. Maxene waters slammed facebook about concerns about data privacy, election interference and discriminatory housing ads. She steered the line of questions towards political ads asking why they dont use Third Party Fact checking. You dont do any Fact Checking on political ads. Our policy is we do not fact check politician speech. The reason for that is that we believe that in a democracy, it is important that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying. Political speech is some of the most scrutinized speech already in the world. Zuckerberg also tried to clear the air about the Digital Currency project. It is billed as a way to bring Digital Banking to millions of underserved people. But backers like master card, visa and stripe have dropped out. All because federal regulators scrutinize the plans about consumer protection. Zuckerberg assured he will not launch in the u. S. Without approval from the feds first. Rapid changes are happening along turkeys border with syria today. President trump discussed the situation from the white house. Early today the government of turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in syria and making the ceasefire permanent and it will indeed be permanent. I have therefore instructed the secretary of the treasury to lift all sanctions injured reserve posed on october 14th in response to turkeys original offensive moves against the kurds in syrias northeast border region. U. S. Forces are withdrawing from northern syria. Now turkey and russia have cut a deal to patrol border positions that u. S. Troops occupied just days ago, pushing kurdish troops back. On capitol hill this morning, lawmakers held a hearing to discuss what some consider betrayal. They battled isis side by side for five years. We handed them over to be slaughtered and ethnically cleansed in a region they have lived for generations with no warning and no good reason. It is the duty of the commander in chief to make such decisions with the support of the consultation of the u. S. Congress and the american people. Some of the u. S. Troops that had been in syria are now in iraq. Theyre expect today stay for about a month. The impeachment inquiry is looking into why the white house withheld aid to ukraine. Nicole killion reports that lawmakers are questioning an official over policies. Cooper was on capitol hill for her testimony before congress. She faces questions about why military aid was withheld from ukraine. Get Background Information based on her knowledge and experience. Reporter tuesday bill taylor the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine told lawmakers the money was held up for political reasons. In his prepared testimony he said by mid july it was becoming clear a meeting the ukrainian president sought with mr. Trump was conditioned on the investigation of Energy Company that employed the son of president ial candidate joe biden. Taylor said he was told everything including millions of dollars in u. S. Security assistance to ukraine depended on the president releasing an investigation about the bidens and the election. Taylor took meticulous notes that aided his testimony. He had a detailed account of what he saw in his service in ukraine as it related to this shakedown scheme. Reporter the white house contests taylors testimony as part of a coordinated Smear Campaign and insist theres was no quid pro quo with ukraine. They dont even let the president s Legal Counsel question people who are making baseless allegations. Reporter republicans are demanding access to transcripts of the interviews already conducted. By golly if theyre going to do it, do in public. Dont hide it from the american people. Show your face where we can all see the travesty that you are trying to hoist on america. Reporter democrats say the transcripts will be released when the investigation is complete. Nicole killion, cbs news, capitol hill. A grim scene in britain. The Murder Investigation underway after dozens are found dead in the back of a truck. Plus, keeping your teenagers safe while behind the wheel. What chp suggests to take away cell phone temptation. British police have launched a Murder Investigation after dozens of people were found dead in the back of a semi truck. Sydney palm reports from london. Reporter paramedics spotted the truck on an Industrial Site in the county of essex about 25 miles from central london. Sadly all 39 people inside of the container had died. Reporter police say all of the victims were adults except for one teenager. At this stage we have not identified where the victims are from or their identities and we anticipate this could be a lengthy process. Reporter authorities believe the truck traveled from belgium and entered the u. K. On saturday through a port in eastern england. Police arrested a 25yearold driver on suspicion of murder. This is unimaginable tragedy and truly heart breaking. I know the thoughts and prayers of all members are with those who lost their lives and loved ones. Reporter the bodies were reportedly crammed inside of the truck, leading to questions about whether the victims were smuggled in. If it transpires that this was a case of Human Trafficking gone horribly wrong then the question needs to be asked why people feel that they have to submit themselves to a trafficker. Reporter there have been similar tragedies before. Nearly 20 years ago 58 chinese migrants suffocated in a truck in southeastern england, seal touchdown in a container in searing heat. Only two people huddled by the door survived. Many questions remain in this case, including who tipped off paramedics about the bodies. Sydney palm, cbs news, london. Taking a look at the big board right now. Lets see how the stock market is doing. The dow is down 38 points. We are in the middle of National Teen drivers safety week. Law enforcement agencies are encouraging parents to discuss driving safety with their teens. We spoke to one chp officer from Contra Costa County on what a parents should focus on whentalkg teens about driving. Parents be the driver you want your child to be. Theyre watching us, right . Or how about you challenge yourself. Ask your teenager, hey, i know youre important and we love you. But when youre on the road how about you put your phone in your trunk or somewhere you cant access it and drive to your location and see what happens. Nothing. Because thats the point. Youre not distracted. You will be a more safe driver consistently if you do that over and over and over. Speeding and distracted driving are in some of the leading causes of vehicle crashes with teens. We posted the full interview on kpix. Com. Just look under videos. The largest affordable complex for senior citizens. The landlord has raised rent 13 times in the past 16 years. Rent increases are perfectly legal and tied to rising income levels. For seniors on a fixed income, it is tough. And i dont think that our representatives understand that the end result these days is that there are seniors living on a fixed income are being evicted and driven out right and left. Ill have to look for another place to live. I mean, i wont be able to afford it. It will just be too much. The seniors are asking the city to now step in so they dont lose their homes. You can catch the full story in our original series called project home tonight at 11 00. Many of us can relate to this one. A new study shows there is a scientific reason that you crave junk food when you dont get enough sleep. People who were sleep deprived have bigger appetites and had a tough time controlling urges for carbs when youre sleep deprived a hormone increases in your body and that leads to hunger. And they say a naturally occurring cannabis like substance in the human body triggers cravings for fatty and sugary food and not getting enough sleep makes that worse. This all explains it. Mary and i were good today. We had salads. We were very, very good. Nice and healthy for our lunch. Boy, that explains a lot. It makes a lot of sense, especially for us on the morning shift. Well, we are looking at temperatures warming up for sure in the 70s and the 80s right now. We will continue to see those temps warm up as we head through the rest of our afternoon. A live look with our Sales Force Tower camera looking south with that sunshine. So the satellite and radar view, the strong ridge of High Pressure continues to build in for us over california, over our state and ushering in the off shore winds. Again, thats why we have the high fire danger and we are going to see the winds kick up even more. Stopping the clock at 8 00 p. M. You can see the winds picking up for us, especially up in the north bay mountains where you see the purple and red colors indicating winds gusting 5060 Miles Per Hour. Especially in the Higher Elevations. As we look ahead to 4 00 a. M. Tomorrow, still some strong winds with. So peak wind gusts tonight over into and into tomorrow. Really for the Higher Elevations we will see the winds ease through tomorrow and the afternoon. But still very dry with low relative humidity values. Pinpointing the north bay. You can see at 2 00 a. M. Looking at 43 Miles Per Hour wind gusts at hillsberg. Looking at 37 in calistoga and santa rose a the purple colors indicating a strong gusty conditions. As we look at 6 00 a. M. For the north bay, still strong winds and the winds will ease tomorrow afternoon and especially by tomorrow evening. Our sunset at 6 21. And sunrise tomorrow at 7 26. Daytime highs for today above average for this time of year. Upper 80s from fairfield, concord. 83 in oakland. And upper 70s to near 80 for San Francisco. Here is the extended forecast and what you can expect. We are looking at temps heatg up even more for your thursday and friday. The hottest days of the week. And then looking ahead to the weekend, another wind event with off shore winds. It could actually be stronger with the wind for sunday. Watching that closely for you. Temps will be cooler early next week. After this wind event, we have another one behind it. Thank you, mary. Sure. Before we go to break, a reminder as pg e shuts off power due to the fire danger today remember kpix5 is your Survival Guide on aiand online. Head to kpix. Com. We have a checklist of what to get to the store before the power shutdown and what to do if your power is turned off. Well be right back. Announcer 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Its an epidemic fueled by juul with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. But then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. The San Francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. Prop c means more kids vaping. Thats a dangerous idea. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. Good housekeeping announcing the winner of the best toy awards. Classic reinvented is among the top toys this year. Mr. Potato head. Has a moving lips and 40 songs and phrases. It scored a high for educational value. It will cost you 25 bucks. The 20 crayola spin and spiral art station was a hit. It allows two kids to play at the same time and no batteries are need. And this 50 mini robot that is teaching coding is also speaking kids language. Were teaching kids as young as three how to code and theyre not even realizing it. And toys with four wheels also scored high like this 69 transforming batmobile. That looks cool. Look at that. The winning toys range in price from 17 to 200. My favorite thing is the batmobile. First things first before you go Christmas Shopping even before thanksgiving, halloween of course is coming up. 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About aarp Medicare Supplement plans. Coming up tonight at 5 00, we head to bay area neighborhoods where the lights are expected to go out in three hours. Plus a live update from pidgeon how long the power shutoffs could last. That will do it for us here at noon. Hope to see you tomorrow morning, 4 30. Steffy these arent bad, actually. Ridge well. Positive critique of your brothers work. Its a start. Steffy hes oddly talented when he wants to be. Ridge he gets the oddly part from m im glad you can keep this professional after everything that hes put you through. Im thinking of working on this hemline a little bit, though, right . Maybe keep it, uh, asymmetrical. That do you think . Steffy mmhmm. That could work. Ridge you know, a compliment from you would mean the world to thomas. Give him a call, maybe . Steffy mm, yeah, i dont think so. Ridge come on, steffy. Steffy i know you want to bring the family back together, but thomas betrayed me. I cant just forgive and forget