Reporter with the power is going out the inconvenience bens again. I understand they are trying to keep it safe from the danger of the fire but there is hardships too the come along with it. We are really trying to be prepared as much as possible and we understand this will be the quote normal. The new normal. I spoke to county emergency officials earlier today as they were lurching towards that 3 00 shutdown time. I asked them if they were Getting Better information this time around than last time and the answer was, a little bit. They have an earlier phone call that starts at 7 30 that will give them a head start on the day but what they prepared for today was based on what happened last time. They are not armed with any more information. They are going by what happened last time and there are some surprises to exactly where the power is out so far. There could be more to come. We a live on the western edge of santa rosa. Kpix 5. You can hear it there. The gusting winds beginning to mount on st. Helena. This is why pg e says it made the call to set up power. Our meteorologist is tracking the red flag warnings. I like what wilson said and the woman who he interviewed. They use the word normal because as far as the weather was concerned this is a normal and moderate situation for offshore wind events. We should get three or four of these every fall. It does not change the fact that weve got to have significant preparation, but lets talk about the wind speeds. A red flag warning in place for all of the hills with wind gusts to 60 miles per hour. Announcing collegiate, on mount st. Helena it has already started. Overnight tonight this is 2 am. There might be a 22 mile per hour gusts, it is not santa rosa we are concerned about but the mountains up. In the bright colors of purples. Those are in the northbay and oriented perfectly so when these northeast winds come they go over the main front of the mountains and that is why we keep pointing out mount st. Helena. We had a 75 mileperhour gust two weeks ago. Those at the differences. It is what happens in the mountains that matters most and we have another one coming on sunday. Back over to you. With these outages raising concerns about traffic accidents during the school rush. The city of santa rosa want schools to be canceled. Hidden valley elementary opted to dismiss classes before the first wave hit. Parents told kpix they are tired of this pattern and other say better safe than sorry. Every time there is wind pg e will turn off the power. The kids are out for like three days and is not good for the kids. Hidden valley will remain closed tomorrow. Three other santa rosa schools are also following suit. Maria careerhigh, Rincon Valley middle and the charter school. We have posted a Survival Guide to help you get through the emergency power shut off. We will bring you a live update that scheduled to start at 5 30. Street kings, gangs and a 17yearold student that used to handgun to shoot another 16 yearold in front of Ridgeway High School twice. That gun was found stashed in the bushes. Not only that, it was stolen in a robbery in 2016. Investigators say the suspect and victim were affiliated with street gangs. Police are still trying to figure out the extent of that students involvement. Police do believe it was an isolated incident. The suspect was arrested and booked. At last word that victim was in stable condition. Take a live look a capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg is on the hot seat facing tough questions. He was there to answer questions about a Digital Banking problem but lawmakers had a different agendaing into camp from citizens privacy to protecting elections. There are concerns about protecting user data. Reporter lots of finger pointing and browbeating on capitol hill today. The one thing that everyone agrees on is when it comes to developing crypto currency here in the u. S. Doing nothing is not an option. Reporter Mark Zuckerberg said it will be a Payment System utopia. Sending money should be as easy and secure is sending a message. Reporter he is trying to get the blessing of lawmakers. After a series of scandals like cambridge analytica, he addressed the elephant in the room. I get that im not the ideal messenger for this right now. Im sure there are people who wish it was anyone but facebook helping to propose says. Reporter facebook is working with the Libra Association. Some lawmakers have their doubts. You are trying to help those for whom the dollar is not a good currency. Facebook doing this frankly i do not trust it and i dont believe the American People trusted. The assistant professor of economics at san jose state says hes concerned like Major Players have pulled out of the project. That does suggest these other big players leaving the regulatory pressures and political pressures are outweighing the benefits. Reporter this engineering professor says someone from the u. S. Needs to take the lead on developing a global currency. It is something the United States should lead. Reporter while they had Mark Zuckerberg in the hot seat, he was lectured about everything else. Russia, brexit, facebook has been at the scene of the crime. You plan on doing no back checking on political ads. Our policy is that we do not fact check politicians speech. Reporter if the Libra Association moves forward without regulatory approval, he will pull facebook out. We are life in san jose. President trump is calling a new deal to stop the bloodshed a big win. Turkey agree to a permanent ceasefire. I havent structured the secretary of the treasury to lift sanctions on october 14 in response to turkeys original offense. The sanctions on turkey after troops invaded Northern Syria to battle the kurds. The president pulled back american forces. A small number pasta to protect the oil fields along the northern border. Troops will patrol a newly established safe zone. Kurdish forces who helped to u. S. Will be pushed back. Lawmakers for both parties for critical of the withdrawal. How could the United States do something so senseless, disgraceful and contrary to our values . It is the duty of the commanderinchief to make such decisions with the support of the u. S. Congress. Some of the troops that have been in syria are now in iraq. A protest by House Republicans delayed the testimony from a pentagon witness today in the impeachment inquiry against president trump. Dozens of gop members stormed a room where laura cooper was set to testify. Some republicans brought their cell phones into the secure hearing room. Officials say that is a major security breach. We came today to express our strong outrage of whats happening in that secret room. We did what we could to get the witness out and make her protected and not affected by these tactics. The standoff follows testimony tuesday from the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine. Phil taylor said he was told that millions of dollars in security a to ukraine depended on the president publicly announcing an investigation related to the bidens and the 2016 election. The white house says that taylors testimony as part of a coordinated smear campaign. A Northern California deputy gun down. He was shot in an ambush at a marijuana garden. How his passenger tried to save him. Judge judy makes her first ever president ial endorsement. A couple survived the call accessible rampage, but the shooting change their daily routine and a major way. The gift that will help the recovery. Jill jill has entresto, and a na Heart Failure pill that helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. Where to next . We continue to monitor the pg e Emergency Powers shutoffs. In santa rosa, they have been without power for more than two hours now. We sent chopper 5 over to get a sense of whats going on. Cars are stopping at the lights and treating it like a four way stop. That is causing traffic to backup. Another busy intersection is of highway 12 which is a major road for people who live in the area. A longer evening commute and one of the residual effects of the power shut off. We will continue to monitor this. Pg e executives will have a live News Conference in the next 15 minutes and will bring that to you live. In the sierra foothills in El Dorado Deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty. A second deputy was also injured. Vehicles accompanied the body to the Sacramento County coroners office. The husband and father of three was just 37 years old. The deputy and another offduty deputy for responding regardint an unknown number of people when they arrived. Officials are searching for additional suspects and no word yet on the second deputy. A berkeley man has died after falling hundreds of feet from one of californias highest mountains. His name is neil carpe and he was killed on sunday as he was hiking on mount cell on the eastern side of the sierra. His kingpartner called for help but to do the gusting winds a helicopter was not able to get there. A Murder Investigation in the uk. Surveillance footage shows a Truck Driving through the county of essex minutes before paramedics bided it on the Industrial Site and discovered the bodies. They believe the truck traveled from belgium tered the uk on saturday through a port in Eastern England and the bodies were cramped inside leading to questions about whether the victims were smuggled in. Police arrested a 25yearold driver on suspicion of murder. The Trump Administration is taking on california on the issue of climate change. Theres a civil complaint against Governor Newsom and claims the california exceeded its authority when it signed an agreement with quebec to limit fossil fuel a missions. They are fighting to overturn California Authority to set tougher mileage standards. This latest attack shows the white house has its head in the sand when it comes to ime chanand service no purpose other than political retribution. For the first time in her career judge judy is making a president ial endorsement. In an oped with usa today she endorsed michael bloomberg. The 77yearold says she knows shes taking a career risk i speaking out about her political views. She says the times have changed and the country is hopelessly divided. Judge judy who has delivered verdicts on her tv show for years believes that bloomberg would make a nononsense president. He may have judge judy and his corner but he does not intend to run for president. Tesla is back in ac and shares are soaring effort or the Company Reported their thirdquarter earnings. They posted a surprise profit of 342 million. Wall street insiders have projected the company would have a net loss of 257 million. This marks the first profitable quarter for tesla since the second half of 2018 following the news tesla shares soared 20 in afterhours trading. Lets get over to darren tech whos been watching the wind and hot weather. We are all focused on what the winds will be doing and i dont want to leave out the story that we will be 2 degrees shy of records for a lot of the bay area. The place that will notice this the most is anyplace for you can see the water. This is the view from our tower. You can see the water from here. San francisco, 82 degrees today in the city. 69 is a average daytime high for rest this time of year. We have cooled down 6 degrees from the daytime high and we are still above average for the daytime high. Lets talk about what happened to him. We will take that 82 and bump it up to 88 and stay there on friday. In general the next two days at the peak of the heat that goes through this offshore wind event. For San Francisco, youve got to overachieve to break records. For this downtown site they go back to the gold rush. Look at sunday. 71 degrees. That will come along with another offshore winds event we will take these one at a time. Morning lows, dont those lukewarm . 53, santa rosa. Along with the warm daytime highs, morning lows are ing up and that downsloping helps to keep the temperatures warm and certainly for tomorrow. I just spent all that time in San Francisco. 90, concord. 90, san jose. It is weird. There is a 2 degree difference between San Francisco and concord. Knowing what weve got happening over these next two days, this fits in line perfectly. Santa rosa, 93. We have covered the wind and i spotlight how the northbay is where the main concern is for those 60 mileperhour wind gusts. There is one other item to factor ran which is how dry it will get under this scenario. Starting at 3 am today, humidity was in the 60s for santa rosa and 30s on mount st. Helena. 24 hours later, look how low they are. That is the scale to show you how dramatically the humidity levels will plummet as a result of those strong northeast winds as they dry things out. And in the east bay, we are looking at the potential for 40 mileperhour wind gusts to the diablo range and lets not forget grizzly peak as well. 35 mileperhour wind gusts. What i pointed out at the top of the newscast, this is a moderate offshore wind event. Ytime you hear red flag warning we take it seriously. But there is nothing that out of the ordinary with the scenario and we should expect several of these to happen in fall and we should be prepared for 12 to be noticeably stronger than this. On sunday we have another one coming. Its early to dive deeply into the specifics of sunday but sundays with the vent looks Even Stronger than this one. So one at a time. We will start looking at sunday and we also get cooled down. More coming up later and back over to you. A gilmore couple entered in the garlic festival shooting and they lost their main way of getting around. The community rally to help them out. 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. Funeral Services Held today for Elijah Cummings in baltimore. A long line of speakers pay tribute at Morgan State University and historically black college. It is the first in a series of services. Tomorrow he will lie in state at the capital. Debilitating leg injuries left a couple unable to drive their car with a manual transmission. Thanks to the community, they are getting some independence back. [ applause ] the couple is now the proud owners of a Dodge Journey with an automatic transmission. The Gilroy Community foundation nominated them for the gate and Allstate Insurance delivered the couple the vehicle. Wendy has permanent nerve damage and francisco has a long recovery ahead. The gesture is humbling. I have limited feeling in my foot and my leg. It is not possible to drive a stick shift and we have been relying on borrowed vehicles to get around. And will help us to get to her doctors appointments and bring him to school. Their son who was with them was saved by a young girl. He received the gift too. The truck was filled with toys. With Bader Ginsburg will be getting a one milliondollar award and not cash will head to a charity of her choice. It honors her contributions to social justice and gender equality. She will be getting it in december. The power is out to parts of the bay area, but for how long . We are minutes away from a live update. Pg e could give us some updates on how long this emergency shut off will last. Luxury vehicles are destroyed when a building goes up in flames. You are watching kpix 5 news at 5 30. We are taking a live look inside of pg e headquarters in San Francisco. The Utility Company is getting ready to give an up date on the Emergency Powers safety shut off. Want to fully begins we will go ahead and bring you the rest of the conference live. Our other top story is a scare in marin county after flames from a garage fire threatened to spread to some nearby vegetation. It started that one 30 this afternoon. A large column of smoke was visible for miles. We report on the tricky nature of fighting this one. Reporter the garage was fully involved when