police responding to the parking lot say that wynette's children suffered in the hot car so she could enjoy her habit. >> she left to go do something for her pleasure. >> reporter: today, her attorney argued the 37-year-old mother should be released from jail because she has other high school age children and never needed the court to step in before. the judge kept bail at $100,000 citing the serious nature ofñr e offense, saying wynette told the officials she went inside the casino to use the bathroom, however video doesn't support the claims. the children were not injured but local paramedics say it doesn't take long for a child to overheat. >> if you have a 90 degree day like it is today, i mean, the average temperature for ten minutes in the car is up to 109 degrees, 90 minutes, about 138 degrees. >> reporter: today in washington, d.c., officials kicked off a where is baby? look before you lock campaign. one father who lost his child shared the pain of forgetting. >> to my horror i realized payton was still in her car seat. and it is the last thing i remember. >> reporter: it is m

charged with child endangerment after police say she left her kids in the car. 37-year-old faley wynettewas arrested after her children were found strapped to car seats inside livermore. police believe the kids were in the car for about an hour and were not injured. her public defender claimed she went in to use the rest room. the prosecutors dispute the claim. yynette did not enter a plea. >>> and three people were dead including a hostage after bank robbers drove away in a black 1997 buick century. you're looking at it there. the car was found but police still do not know who the driver was. misty singh, was shot and killed after the robbers used her as a human shield. >>> and a dramatic arrest on interstate 880 causing a big backup this morning. abc 7 news reporter nick smith has more from the chp office in oakland with the latest. nick? >> reporter: but larry, get this. we now know that the first hit-and-run may have happened in castro valley, miles away. all of this as we watched a dramatic end to a driver that chp says was high on drugs. chp got their first call to 911 around 8:30

we picture her at night kicking away anxious elves and listening to tammy wynette. [laughter] >> i like that. >> i like her. >> now, i mean, do you think that there's, are there more, you know, folk tales or myths in our culture that you would have a different perspective of or the jezebel january voice would kind of look at differently? >> yes, although i can't think of any off the top of my head. but i, you know, part of what we wanted to do when we talked about culture whether it was contemporary culture or ancient history or religion or really anything was to look at it critically which isn't to say to be critical in a negative way, but to look at the gender politics of it. so even santa claus is not immune to that. i'm not even sure who wrote that industry, and i feel like it was probably one of those entries that was more, more interstitial to provide some breathing room and some humor between more serious entries. i don't really think that anyone's trying to take christmas away from santa claus, just in case -- [laughter] >> and, you know, you did mention thi