Climate Health Crisis. From the orange skies yesterday to gross airquality today. The 25th spare the air day. Tonight a popular restaurant in Santa Clara County said it could have survived the pandemic by cannot survive the smoke. We used every penny we had. The startling discovery inside big basin state park and why experts are hopeful about the famous redwoods. At 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area we begin with something we have not seen in quite some time. A view in the night sky over the bay area. Dont be fooled. There is tons of smoke. While it may have looked a little less scary than yesterday, the airquality actually was much worse today. Take a look at the dramatic change in just 24 hours. That other worldly once glow has turned gray. I almost dont want to ask, what can we expect to find tomorrow . Pretty much what we had today in terms of bad air quality without the otherworldly glow. The bad air quality is an immediate concern. This is the airquality a 1 00. Lets go through the rest of the day. It goes downhill. As we go through the afternoon into this evening you see the one in red be replaced by more red and even purple and maroon indicating very healthy and even hazardous airquality conditions. Especially around the city on the east bay and the tri valley, north bay. The least bad air has been in the santa clara valley. The official forecast tomorrow, this is for unhealthy for sensitive groups. But there is nothing that will change the forecast for tomorrow. Think back to the purple and maroon dots, those will be with us tomorrow. We will look at what i expect to happen tomorrow coming up. Now for some bay area communities dealing with bad air is nothing new. As we report from venetia, the combination of poor air quality from the fires and the pandemic has created a Health Nightmare for some residents. Reporter according to the state, refineries like this one email 200 different chemicals. That can have an impact on those with respiratory issues. But now they have to deal with the smoke from the wildfires. These are huge health concerns. We are at the beginning of a Climate Health crisis. Reporter this dr. Is extremely concerned for some of her patients. Where i practice in richmond, the rate of asthma is twice that of the national average. Reporter she suspects some of the refineries in the bay area maybe leading to an increase of Young Children diagnosed with asthma. Add on poor air quality we have seen and the pandemic, those with respiratory issues are struggling to breathe. As these things become more and more common every year as a result of climate change, we are talking about our house. We are talking about our kids health. And we have got to figure that out. Reporter another concern is how this Health Crisis has disproportionately affected low income communities. The chair of the west oakland environmental indicators project said in a statement, poor people also rely on a minimal system of healthcare through local overworked Public Health clinics or reliance on emergency rooms. The smoke exaggerates deep systemic racism in our society. Residents who do not suffer from any respiratory issues say, it is been hard for them to go about their normal lives and cannot wait for the smoke to clear out. Everything that has gone on this year, it is adding to the stress. It is too much. One thing on top of another. It is like the apocalypse right now. Reporter medical experts fear those suffering from respiratory issues will be less likely to seek out medical care. In fear of being exposed to the coronavirus. New at 11 00. Tonight the bad air is also making Outdoor Dining nearly impossible. Leaving Restaurant Owners scrambling once again. We spoke to one owner who said it has been one hit after another. Reporter the owner of southern kitchen said he is barely managed to keep his doors open through the pandemic. Now the smoke from the wildfires is keeping his Outdoor Dining area nearly empty. I feel bad even opening. It feels selfish of me. Come sit in affordable hair so i can survive. Reporter for nearly 30 years, Michael Williams and his family have served hot meals at the restaurant. It was my moms restaurant. She works very hard. We used every penny we had. Every cent we had. Reporter he said they have used all their savings including the money for their kids college tuition. In order to stay in business. This was michael days after the shelter in place began in march. This is our lifeline. This is what we do. Without customers, we will not stay afloat. Reporter the customers showed up for take out and then Outdoor Dining. Michael said it became too hot to sit outside and he was on the brink of shutting down once again. That is when he wrote this post on next door. Com after an employees home burned down. He wrote that he would feed evacuees and firefighters for free. Until he ran out of food. Evacuees and firefighters showed up, and so did the donations. Everyone started donating money and donating food and coming in and supporting us. It literally overnight changed our life. Reporter he said they were busy again until smoke from the fires blanketed the south bay a few weeks ago and stayed. He said he is back to wondering, how long is restaurant can survive. This is what we love to do. I dont know what else i would want to do. Reporter he said he is still offering a hot meal for free to firefighters and anyone who has been impacted by the fires. Lets take a look outside at San Francisco tonight. Kpix5 has learned the first students could have back to the classroom in less than two weeks. Hopefully the air will be better by then. 53 private and charter Elementary Schools have filed for waivers those who are approved could reopen as soon as september 21. While uncertainty is there for Public School students who will not go back until the church is unit and the district hammer out a plan. A lot of businesses got the green light today to reopen on monday. That includes indoor hair and nail salons, tattoo and massage studios and jims, all that limited capacity. Outdoors a, open air and bus tours can resume on monday along with drivein movies. Family entertainment like minigolf and Church Services for up to 50 people. A fire watch. Families are left clinging to hope in butte county. We learned a few hours ago that seven more lives have been lost to the socalled, north complex fire. Bringing the death toll to 10 people. And over a dozen people are still missing. Fire crews have been fighting to keep a wall of flames away from the town of paradise. The same Little Community is still on a very long road to recovery from californias deadliest wildfire ever. The campfire. It was just two years ago. Now the orange skies have been triggering feelings of dc for survivors. It looked like the same type of plume. It brought back a lot of memories. You dont want to get caught in the same situation twice. A startling discovery inside big basin state park. Weeks after it was ravaged by wildfire. We have a look at what is lost forever and what will recover. This is a third trip to big basin after the fire. And while it is still sad and heartbreaking, at least this time there is hope. Reporter at the base of the 2000yearold father of the forest, we are on the hunt for optimism. We are seeing scorch very high into the chemical. Reporter she said some flames crept underneath the base but the thick bark made of naturally fire resistant chemicals protected the main body. I have to do a careful assessment but i feel good. Reporter it is been three weeks since flames roared through big basin. We are learning that nearly all of the park burned to some degree, but damaged very widely. At headquarters, extreme heat and flames destroyed other buildings and reached into the canopies of many of the taller trees. While other parts of the forest only burned in the understory. Trees that are burned in severe fire intensity, almost 90 of the redwoods do survive. I am expecting that is what we will see. Reporter theres been an outpouring of support and donations from all over the world into the Mountain Parks Foundation and friends of santa cruz state parks. They will make the planning and rebuilding process more diverse. Opening the door to a lot of new voices to think about how recreation might be different here and how it can be more inclusive and welcoming. It takes a lot to kill a redwood tree. Reporter he is the ceo of save the redwoods league. We have an opportunity to create a new generation of memories and design a park that welcomes the broad, diversity of today and tomorrows california. Reporter there is no timeline for reopening. Ranges will reassess in the spring after the winter rain. Major will endure that ways we dont understand. Still ahead tonight. Bay area cities have been order to build nearly half 1 million homes over the next eight years. What happens if they fail . What are we doing to make sure people are not massively displaced . Bay area nfl fans tonight the bay area has a new assignment from the state. Build 450,000 homes in the next eight years or risk losing control over where they go. Tonight in our original series, project home, we explain the new mandate and the acronym local leaders want you to know. Reporter have you heard of arena . No. Reporter you probably have not heard of it. Rhna stands for the Regional Housing needs allocation. It is the number of homes that each region needs to build to work to combat the ongoing housing crisis. The new rhna numbers are out and they are higher than ever before. The bay area is now required to build nearly 450,000 homes over the next eight years. That is more than double the previous requirement of around 190,000 homes. The goals have changed because we are looking backward and looking at how big a deficit we already had. And cities need to be held accountable for making sure we are producing that. Reporter he is the director of Sacred Heart Community service in san jose. We have to really have a reckoning as a community and this happens to be a community about what people are doing about massively displaced. Reporter he wants to see homes built. I was home was before. And it was very tough. Reporter at sacred heart, the need is painfully obvious. Every day there is a winding line out front filled with people who need help with housing and food. Covid19 has only made things worse. It is hard. You have to pray and pray a lot. And have faith that tomorrow will get better. Reporter previously the bay area has failed to meet its rhna goals, especially when it comes to low Income Housing. Last cycle the region issued permits for 9 of the low Income Housing it was required to create. Market rate housing permits better at 71 of the way toward hitting the goal. There has been a cat and mouse game where the state says, here is a big housing minimum goal that you have to hit this minimum. And cities treated like a ceiling instead of a floor. Reporter she is the executive director and she is excited about the fact that the new housing goals also come with teeth. This time we seem to mean it. Which is very exciting. We will have housing goals and the state has said, we are serious this time. Reporter if cities dont hit the rhna goals, the state can intervene and force the community to build housing without much review at the local level. Local control means you get to choose how you meet your state housing goals. Not whether you meet your state housing goals. Reporter Affordable Housing advocates say the goals represent a real opportunity to execute and that if this goes well, we can see substantial impacts on affordability, equity and homelessness. We can address that if we all do our part and all sacrifice a little for the greater good. Reporter the final allocation for where these homes will be built is not due until the end of 2021. By local leaders want people to start paying attention now. They are hoping to educate people about what rhna is and will prevent the pushback that often gets in the way of the goals in the first place. It sounds like it could make a huge dent in the housing crisis. I could not help but notice, it adds a lot more jobs. A lot of people are out of work right now. Building things creates jobs. Reporter it could be a win win. Keep sending your stories and ideas to project home keep sending your stories and ideas to project home cbs. Com and see all of the reporting on our website. A big announcement from cal state tonight. Because of the pandemic the University System Just Announced that students will continue Virtual Learning in the spring. They will not return to in person classes. The system is one of the first University Systems to make that call. The cdc said that dining out is one of the riskiest things you can do during this pandemic. New a new study found covid positive patients were about twice as likely to report visiting a restaurant prior to getting sick. That makes sense. Since you cannot eat or drink with a mask on. It is important to know. The study did not distinguish between indoor or Outdoor Dining. New video out of oakland tonight where football fans brave smoky skies for the nfl season kickoff. They gathered at the Athletic Club to watch the texans take on the chiefs. Coming up next in sports, there will be a full list of highlights from the Opening Night of nfl action. Lets check in with paul again. A little better looking outside. But the reality is, the air was much more toxic today. We are leaps and bounds worse in terms of air quality and it will be similar tomorrow. I have the official forecast from the epa with all the orange dots indicating unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups. But the current air quality is over here in the red, purple and maroon where it is unhealthy and even hazardous and there is nothing in the weather pattern that will change that as we head to the rest of tonight and into tomorrow. My forecast is we are going to be in the unhealthy category will be an issue throughout the day. It may tip over into the hazardous category. Through the weekend, things will improve but it will be a slow process. The whole weather pattern right now is stock which is why dont think we will see much of an improvement tomorrow. We have this weather pattern called an omega block. The shape the wind follows look like the greek letter omega. It is a stubborn pattern to get rid of. It is sending the smoke to us from Washington State and northern california. Over the next couple of days it will gradually break down. It will shift further inland and a storm system off the coast will shift the upper level winds to the southwest and that will move the smoke out. Some of it. Not all. As we head into the weekend. More signs of hope further down the line toward tuesday and wednesday of next week. An early season storm system will send some rain to help the firefighting efforts. It will also prompt a wind shift over the bay area and that will help to bulldoze some of the smoke out. It will be a long road between now and then. The temperature in the city is 57. 59 in livermore. 54 in santa rosa. The numbers will not change a lot through the rest of the night. Everybody levels off in the 50s. Another day of substantially below average temperatures tomorrow which is why things will not change very much. Not much of a difference between the coast and inland. The onshore breeze will not kick in to stir around the lowest level of the atmosphere and that is where the smoke articles have settled. Temperatures warm up into the weekend but the smoke will be a factor on saturday. Then we gradually warm up as we see more sunshine breaking through over the bay area. Hello everybody. The giants may be the hottest team in baseball but they say goodbye to a fan favorite today. The nfl picked up right were left off. 49er fans the last time we saw the chiefs, they scored 21 points in the Fourth Quarter to beat the 49ers in the super bowl. Tonight the Season Opener and may pick up right where they left off. Kansas city raising the super bowl banner, the first in 50 years. About 16,000 fans were in the stadium and they booed the chiefs and texans locking their arms in unity against racial injustice. Patrick mahomes signed a half billion dollars deal in the off season. 2nd quarter, watkins gave the chiefs the lead. Patrick mahomes at three touchdown passes of the games. It is possible that they have improved. 3rd quarter, first round pick, 27 yard touchdown run. He rushed for 138 yards and the chiefs win the opener 3420. The giants released Pablo Sandoval today. He was hitting. 220. Back i started his career with the giants in 2008. Won the world series mvp in 2012. He is no longer a San Francisco giant. The giants in san diego visited the padres and a young star, served up a no batter. Dickerson barely moved. Smiley has been on the injured list since august 1 and he struck out eight and four innings of relief. The padres won the game 61. Oakland down in the sixth inning. He puts one into the smoke. That is his 12th of the year. The as take the lead. 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