Alcatraz. And it even affected construction sites. Some crews had to use their lights in the middle of the day. And this is what travellers leaving or arriving at sfo were seeing. A passenger took these photos from a window seat as his plane was landing. You could smell smoke in the cabin. And we could he see outside, so it wasnt like engine fire smoke. It was just burning. You could just smell it. You could see the ground on that side, you couldnt see it on this side. And it was just dark, dark burnt orange. Crazy. Sfo says that air quality did not affect departures or arrivals. So the air quality hasnt taken a big hit with air readings painting a different picture. And chris nguyen has the story from the south bay. Reporter as wildfires burn, a combination of smoke and haze made for a rtli ow it feels like it is the end of the world or something is lurking. Something is in the making. It is a very eerie feeling. Reporter with ash falling from above, the darkness during the day could almost be mistaken for an early evening. Just stay indoors kind of makes me go crazy, so going out even if it is just for a quick walk is my outlet to freedom at the moment. Reporter in san jose, air readings were considered unhealthy for those with breathing or other understand lying conditions. Many expected the numbers to be worse. However that smoke from the wildfires is being trapped in a layer of air above the aired of what were actually breathing. Reporter and dr. Sharon with the Parker Center for allergy and Asthma Research at stanford says while the ash may be alarming to see, it is actually easier for our bodies to keep out of our systems. Reporter it is the smaller particles that actually get inhaled through our nose and through our mouth that we worry about causing the inflammation. Reporter and so it is important to continue monitoring the aqi. In your nose is running, if you are having breathing symptoms, that is where, you know, you should seek medical attention. Reporter chris nguyen, abc 7 news. And in the north bay, smoky skies slowed pg es efforts to restore electricity after those public safe at the power shutoffs. 16 held coppers being used to inspect the power lines were grounded because of advisability issues. The company says that it had to cut power because of dangerous wildfire conditions, but fortunately the lights are back on for almost all of the 172,000 affected customers. And that includes more than 122,000 residents in sonoma and napa counties. A lot of people were taking pictures of the skies, sharing those photos with friends. And we have a Photo Gallery on abc7news. Com along with an explanation of why the sky looked so strange. The north complex of fires burning north of sacramento is responsible for some of the smoke that has been drifting our way and one of the fires in the complex exploded in size and has now turned deadly. Terrifying individual why shows the fire whipping along the road in oroville yesterday. To provide some help, firefighters from several east bay departments left for the bear fire last night. That fire has thousand burned more than 252,000 acres in plumas, yuma and butte counties and is 24 contained. Parts of oroville are still under threat and some of the surrounding area as already burned. People come around, have breakfasts there, ive that had christmas there and thanksgiving before. The fire has forced evacuation warnings for part of paradise. Three people have died, two people are unaccounted for. You can follow the very latest details on the fires across california with our wildfirer tracker. It is always updated with the latest containment information. The abc fire tracker is available right now at abc7news. Com and the abc 7 news app. President trump goes on the offensive after comments he made about coronavirus. The explanation he is giving for town pl down playing oig the viruvirus danger. And coming up next, the help available to parents struggling to balance work and child care. But first, it is 4 35 and were checking in with mike nicco. Good morning, mike. Let me tell you about the challenge today. Most of the smoke sensors are at ground level, they are not above the marine layer. And not well up into the atmosphere where that saturated air mass with ash was yesterday that brought the orange glow. So we have to concentrate on the winds. And they are different today, they will come out of the southeast more and we talked about the layer cake and above that, they will come out of the northwest. We have smoke all around us, so it will be pouring smoke on top of us and that is why you can see that it will be unhealthy all day today. Look at what happens overnight through tomorrow morning, unhealthy air over all of us once again and that will continue into friday evening. There is a slight chance as we head from saturday morning where it will be unhealthy once again to the afternoon hours, that we could get a more southwesterly push with some cleaner air, but for now, it is the dolan fire in monterey that will bring with the smoke that well deal with today. And so right now temperatures mainly in the mid50s to low 60s, about 58 to about 61 degrees. Our temperatures this afternoon, while not quite as cold or chilly as yesterday, 60s to 80s from the coast to inland. Well talk more about the smoke and the weekend forecast coming up. And how about the commute . What did it looks like where you live yesterday . Oh, my goodness, it was so eerie to see. And i was wondering too, because as the show went on, i was expecting the sun to come through the window and it did not. But good morning, everybody. I just have a couple quick things to show you with our cameras. Is this a live look in oakland at our 880 at the coliseum camera there. Just out of the line of sight of this camera, you will run into slow traffic in both directions between 23rd and 29th avenues due to road work. This caused quite a bit of backup questioned for people traveling in the southbound direction, so a heads up to possibly plan accordingly. And as we move to a live look showing you the golden gate bridge, chp has issued a fog advisory for this area. So be mindful of the low visibility. But we dont have any major inflammation in your eye might be to blame. Ck, looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is that . Xiidra, noooo it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Dont use if youre allergic to xiidra. Common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and unusual taste sensation. Dont touch container tip to your eye or any surface. After using xiidra, wait 15 minutes before reinserting contacts. Got any room in your eye . Talk to an eye doctor about twicedaily xiidra. I prefer you didnt xiidra. Not today, dry eye. Lets talk about what will happen today with your temperatures real quick if you with planning to head outside, air quality right now is already unhealthy. Ill show you that in a second. Temperatures 60s and barely 70s yesterday, and i think that well get into the 70s and a few 80s inland neighborhoods. Let me show you what is going on outside and you can see a lad more red and orange out there right now. Well start in the north bay where you can see places like sachbts rosa, is santa rosa, in and flee moentd oremont and red all with unhealthy air. And it is down where we are breathing, so you need to be careful. Wear the n95 mask if you can today. President trump is accusing bob woodward of a political hit job. Woodward releasing recordings of interviews with the president from early in the covid19 crisis. Here is faith abubey. Reporter good morning. The president saying that he agreed to sit down with bob woodward for his upcoming book because it wasnt a big deal. And this morning many believe that the revelations in those interviews are a big deal. On camera, on fox and on twitter, President Donald Trump still on the defense after admitting on tape that he down played the coronavirus which has killed nearly 190,000 americans. Im the leader of the country. I cant be jumping up and down and scaring people. Reporter and the audio recordings are part of 18 on the record interviews bob woodward did with the president for his upcoming book rage. It is more deadly than even your strenuous 234r50uflus. Reporter just three weeks later trump contra difficuk dif position in plub. It is like the flu. Reporter and then in march i still like playing it down because why want to create a panic. Reporter joe biden calling the president s actions totally irresponsible. He failed to do his job on purpose. It was a life and death betrayal of the american people. Reporter and trump says that he gave woodward access to the white house to, quote, give it a shot. The white house says that proves the president is transparent with nothing to hide. Faith abubey, abc news, washington. The pandemic has provided an option for some Remote Workers to move to less expensive cities or states, but there is growing evidence that remote work and low Interest Rates could also be giving Remote Workers a crack at home ownership. Real estate site zillow says there is a window 6 opportunity. A study indicates that 22 of Remote Workers in the city could afford to buy a starter home in the u. S. If they move somewhere else. 10 could do so if they are about willing to bae outside of San Francisco but still be in the bay area. For the same price that we could a got a one bedroom condo in San Francisco, we got a four bedroom house with beautiful views and trees. They paid just over 1 million for their montclair home after losing bids on three other houses. Bay area workers are all facing obstacles from safety protocols to working from home to managing worklife balance, everybody is looking for solutions right now. So that is why weve been focused on the changing workplace all week here on abc 7. And most parents will agree that working from home and managing a childs Remote Learning is pretty much impossible. Parents are making really tough choices in their professional lives in order to accommodate the lack of child care. And Lyanne Melendez found that some may qualif for paid leave. Reporter when schools announced that they would not reopen in the fall for inpen learning, many plts had to make some important decisions and came career moves. Care. Com is a Service Helping families find and manage child care. They survived 1,000 parents with children under the age of 15. 73 said that they plan to make major changes to their professional lives to address the lack be of child care for the current sdoom year achool y those, 15 are considering leaving the work field. This summer when this family realize that had 6yearold oliver would not bei returning o school, he quit his job to help supervise the Online Education at home. I cant read that. Oh, come on. Reporte reporter and it requires one on one attention. Im worried that zoom is not going to provide that and there is a big downstream effect. Reporter and for now they can manage on one salary, but other parent s cant. But many may qualify for a paid leave through the familys first Coronavirus Response act which passed last march. If you are a parent and you have a child under the age of 18 whose school or child care has closed, then you are entitled to up to 12 weeks of time away from work at betweenthird twothird. Reporter and the company you work for could make up the difference, but people who are essential workers dont qualify and your company has to have 500 or less employees. The act is expected to expire in december. Congress is now trying to pass the heros act which would extend those benefits. But it is stuck in the senate. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Weve been talking about our changing workplace all this week. Focusing on a variety of topics. And you can find all of these stories at abc7news. Com and on the abc 7 news app. Happening today, you can go to the gym for an indoor work sdwro out in santa clara county. But it will be a different experience. So this is video provided to us by 24 hour fitness. The chain will require members to make reservations for 90 minute sessions. It will limit hours too with clubs being open unand i will 5 open 5 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Mike, are you ready to go back . This would be the one area where i would take a chance, yes. I think that i would do that for my Mental Health and for my physical health. I would have to see specifically exactly how they are doing it, maybe id spend more time in the pool and less time around the elliptical and weights, you know, just adepending. Hopefully if they do it right, it does spread to other areas like where i live so i can get there too and you also if you miss it. Lets jump right into the forecast. You can see san jose is and lets go back to the highlights. So unhealthy air everywhere today unlike yesterday. Spare the air through tomorrow because i think that it will be extended into the weekend, that is the bay area air Quality Management districts forecast. But the conditions im seeing would warrant that extension. And then there is a pattern that will bring us cleaner air next week. We are not giving the fires in oregon enough respect. They are just as poe looting as ours is. And look at that little kurlg in the atmosphere, that is what entrained the smoke in the marine layer this morning and the reason why were waking up to unhealthy air just about everywhere. Will it be as orange . Probably not, but it will be close because the smoke is not concentrated in such a small layer of the atmosphere, it is kind of spread out now. So that is something that remains to be seen. But it will be unhealthy today. 60s along the coast, 70s around the bay, 80s inland. And tonight, mid to upper 50s, so even cooler than this morning with a deck of clouds and smoke out there. And you can see temperatures will be pretty close to average through saturday and then you can see that little bit of wind shift come sunday into monday and tuesday and wednesday back to average and more of the smoke is blowing to the east away from us. The bay area is well represented at the top of walnut hubs list of the best community colleges. Four local schools are in the top 19 with the college of san mateo at number three. Ohlone college is 7th and Las Positas College is number 14th. Rankings are based on factors like affordability per pupil spending. And twitter is trying to offset the impact of the pandemic on its bottom line. Many employees are working from home, and not at theed headquarters in downtown San Francisco. So now twitter is trying to sub be lease a big portion of its office space. It is making nearly 105,000 square feet available for up to five yearsoffice space. It is making nearly 105,000 square feet available for up to five years. And los angeles was ready to ban trickortreating, but parents got angry and said wait. And now a new challenger to tesla is unveiling electric cars. What makes the lucid air so unique . In techbytes, the smallest xbox ever. Microsoft is releasing the new series on november 10th, said to be 60 smaller than normal. And it doesnt have a bluray disk drive. All games are downloaded. And there is a ban blocking facial recognition technology. Ed a vow indicates say that it is known to have biases. And finally, your wall marlt order may soon be delivered by drone. The retail giants has launched a Pilot Program to use cloud control drones to drop off groceries and other we sand my heart fell. Oke i knew wed lose our home. And we did. Over 24,000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the past few years. Wildfire victims need help so im voting yes on 19. It limits property taxes on wildfire victims so families can move to a replacement home without a tax penalty. You never know what youll be faced with. Please, vote yes on 19. Inflammation in your eye might be to blame. Ck, looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is that . Xiidra, noooo it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Dont use if youre allergic to xiidra. Common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and unusual taste sensation. Dont touch container tip to your eye or any surface. After using xiidra, wait 15 minutes before reinserting contacts. Got any room in your eye . Talk to an eye doctor about twicedaily xiidra. I prefer you didnt xiidra. Not today, dry eye. We know these are challenging times. Rest assured, you are not alone. Weve all had to adapt. And with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. Together, we can save energy and money. Try closing your shades during the day. Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. Look at pier 15 through the fog and smog in San Francisco. We have poor air quality in San Francisco right now. And look at this, 25 consecutive spare the air day, that record will go through at least tomorrow and i think that it will be extended into at least saturday. Here is a how things are l. Change. Temperatures pretty warm. Even a few 90s out there. Saturday even warmer, so im thinking the unhealthy air lingers, but then look at the push of some cooler air as the winds shift and sunday could be the dana we start to see an increase in the air quality. Los angeles county is putting the brakes on the push to ban trickortreating. This is after complaints started pouring in. Now they say that it not recommended but not banned. The guidelines do call for bans on carnivals, festivals and Haunted House attractions. So we talked to bay area county officials about this. While trickortreating is discouraged in some areas, there is no official ban here just yet. 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All right, mike, what do we have in store today . Unfortunately, all the smoke that was in the upper parts of the atmosphere has worked its way down to where we live. So we will breathe unhealthy air today. Will it glow quite as much as yesterday . I dont think so because our layer cake is made with different ingredients meaning the winds are coming from Different Directions from yesterday. So the particulate matter that was so concentrated right above the marine layer should be a little less. So if we have a glow, which i think we will, it may not be as intense as yest