Bazaar, surreal, ominous, how would you describe it . This day was different. Good evening, im julie haener. It was crazy, julie. Im frank somerville. Just when you thought 2020 might run out of surprises we are created with one of the most bizarre days in memory. Im 62, grew up in the bay area and never seen anything like it. Headlights on noontime, ash falling from the sky and body clocks wrist disrupted. For some, a sense of being completely out of sync. The dark sky during the daytime had folks grabbing their cameras. Ktvu was flooded with pictures from our viewers. Photographer kevin shane sent this picture from the embarcadero in San Francisco. And john warren sent this this picture from the Golden Gate National conservancy. It was taken on alcatraz island. You can see there is San Francisco completely disappearing in the background. And karen keller sent us this picture from hillsboro with trees creating silhouettes against the backdrop. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief meteorologist phil martin is tracking this month for us. We also have several reporters looking at the impact of this weather. We start though with ktvus jana katsuyama. Reporter the surreal skies by themselves would have been unsettling, but the ash and darkness today really dealt a blow to businesses that already have been struggling to survive the pandemic, record heat and wildfire smoke. Almost like a dream, the entire bay area woke up to this. It felt like we were living on mars. We couldnt figure out what time it was, even in the afternoon. It was so dark and it was apocalyptic. By 10 00, 11 00 in the morning it was darker than it was at 7 00 a. M. Reporter the darkness stretched from the bank across east Contra Costa County like a nuclear fallout. Ash falling from the sky in brentwood covering cars and goi on in 2020 that we would this orange black like sky hell sort of thing. Needless to say its been a very bizarre sort of day. Reporter rory cox, fitness gym you balance training clients. The air didnt smell too bad but there was visible slit everywhere. Your hands wicked gray and black. Reporter but for him and Business Owners is not the smoke that stings. Its surreal skies, yet another pernicious and unrelenting assault on their livelihoods in the fight to survive. Wednesday was the first day San Francisco officials relaxed pandemic restrictions and let gym omers conduct business outdoors. I would welcome the officials to not only come outside and work out with the , but get a haircut outside can get a massage outside committed conduct their own business outside. See how they like it. Reporter restaurant, Outdoor Dining and parking were completely empty. The dogpatch neighborhood just finished holding their click. We needed to do ing in order to stay afloat and retain our business. Reporter wednesday was supposed to be the grand opening. Hard work and now, more heartbreak. This morning when i woke up it was all dark. Its just crazy. Its just crazy. I dont understand whats, you know, what else we can do. Reporter gilbert, like many other restaurants, attending to online go funny fundraisers to dedicate some help. But every setback, like today, just pushes them closer to danger of permanent shutdown. Now to ktvu chief meteorologist phil martin weather work and whether it will clear any thompson. There has been a lot of smoke and ekeler dealers in the bay area. Record number of inequality lights. The fire, of course the bear fire up around butte county has produced a lot of smoke in the last 24 hours. You can see heres where its gone, right on the coast. Its right over the top of his. Then what happened . It just stopped everything down. The wind died down and all of this ash in the atmosphere began to filter down to what happened on the upper level wind died down. The ash began to come out. Thats what we are seeing in continuing to see. The upperlevel winds were carrying most of the smoke. Thats the reason you are not selling that much smoke. You are seeing ash, because its heavier. In fact, most of the smoke is in this area. I have good news. The good news is that the system is producing the northeast winds and is done. Now we are already seeing an onshore flow, kind of a south southeasterly wind at the lower elevations and other elevations. So all layers of the atmosphere flowing everything towards these. Everything should begin to clear out. Its not going to be great tomorrow. The trend will continue. We went to know if you will share your incredible photos of todays sky. Emailed them to ktvuphotos foxtv. Com. The ominous skies are adding some peoples stress and anxiety. The darkness and daytime can even affect sleep patterns. We talked experts on how to cope. Reporter the dark gloomy day can be worrisome, another reminder of how tough this year has been. Some people may be feeling a little off, not themselves. Experts say normalize, dont make it worse than what it is. Adding to the list of hardships 2020, people in the bay area struggled to find the sun, low wednesdays when chains. Its crazy miscarry. Almost like apocalypse. Reporter the apocalyptic looking sky making some feel an edge, out of balance, unhinged. I feel like i was in the swelling them. Which is interesting. This year hasnt been short on terrifying things. Reporter the doom and gloom sky following a storm of calamities, a pandemic. Then raging wildfires, blackouts, recordbreaking heat. Everyones asking, what else could go wrong this year . Its like almost surreal. Its like one of those movies, you know . Youre in a bad dream and you cant wake up. I think people discombobulated. Reporter psychology professor dr. Thomas plant says the smoky conditions can contribute to peoples anxiety, angst and depression on top of everything else. It can also disrupt sleep. Light serves an important function to help regulate as. Sleep, it wakes us up. Reporter dark skies get feel more sluggish and tired. Advice, sticking to a sleep schedule system healthy. This is probably the time to be a little bit more watching the clock and saying hey, if i wake up every day at 7 00 a. M. Going to wake up every day at 7 00 a. M. Whether the sun is shining in my window or doesnt. Reporter its important to connect and check in with others, find humor where you can. Look at what you can control what you do have. County people make away to make us feel more empathetic, sympathetic like i can cope with this . I cant complain. I have my health, i have a job. Reporter remember, comes a strength and can lottery. I hope so. We have a lot more thats common thats different. I really hope that people recognize we are stronger together. Reporter Mental Health experts also remind people the smoke will pass and hopefully, by weeks end there is some relief. Now to the wildfires. Words in it that three people have died in a fire that is forced thousands from their homes. The bear fire is part of the north complex fire burning east of paradise in butte county. Strong winds caused a flare up yesterday in the bear fire exploded of an eight. County sheriff says one person was found dead in a car trying to escape the flames. Two more people were found in another location. The fire leveled the foothills town of perry creek, destroying the store, fire station and school. Some 20,000 people enter evacuation warnings and orders. Tonight, cal fire urged people to listen and follow orders. When we talk about evacuations, every single fire, bulldozer and fire engine becomes a premium resource. We need to use those premium resources where they are most effective. We cannot be using premium resources to assist in rescues for people who refuse to evacuate. The north complex fire started three weeks ago and burned more than 250,000 acres with containment currently at 38 . The town of paradise is in the path of those flames. Evacuation warnings are in effect for parts of paradise and con cow. We are told many people have already left. The town was under a power shut off and residents were worried they would be able to get updated information. We found others packed up today and ready to go. There has been a line of cars all day. People hauling boats, trailers, trucks full of stuff. Theres just been people packing up and going just in case. I have some stuff in my car. Just those things i cant live without. The deadly camp fire back in 2018 killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes. Governor newsom says 14,000 firefighters are now on the fire lines in california with more favorable conditions i had. We are encouraged that the wind activity appears to be dying down, which is encouraging. The rest of the week looks a little more favorable from a wind perspective and a weather perspective. That will aid our efforts on these 28 major fires in the state. Three wildfires in Northern California are the focus of the greatest concern. They are the north complex in plumas and butte counties and two new fires, the fork fire in El Dorado County and the will of fire in yuba county. The Forest Service says they are now closing all 18 National Forests in california because of the fires. On monday eight forests were closed due to the unprecedented fire conditions. The Fourth Service says the shutdown will help protect firefighters in the public. For the north dozens of wildfires in oregon have destroyed hundreds of home and left nearly 100,000 homes and businesses without power. The Oregon Office of Emergency Services says at least 35 wildfires are burning across the state, including fires near the cities of eugene, salem and medford. Most of medford remains under an Evacuation Order tonight. The governor of oregon said today this could be the most severe wildfire season and that states history. Still to come, the race to create a coronavirus vaccine. How drugmakers tried to reassure congressional leaders today that vaccines will be safe and wont be rushed. Plus, help for Small Businesses with California Workers who have been laid off. Up first, an update from pg e as the company restores power to more than 150,000 customers. Propit provides property tax mostfairnessble. For disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. Nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 whove lost their homes to fire. And seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. Prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. Yes on 19. We love our new home. Theres so much space. We have a guestroom now. But, we have aunts. Youre slouching again, ted. Expired, expired. Expired. Thanks, aunt bonnie. Its a lot of house. I hope you can keep it clean. At least geico makes bundling our home and Car Insurance easy. Which helps us save a lot of money oh, teddy. Did you get my friend request . Uh, ill have to check. doorbell ringing aunt jonis here for bundling made easy, go to geico. Com. Hello . The power is back on tonight for much of Northern California after pg e cut off power monday to prevent equipment from starting wildfires. We have todays smoky darkness affected the process. What a strange day today. Reporter wasnt it . The Poor Visibility to ground the inspection helicopters for a time. But the utility expects to have 90 of its hookups restored by midnight and the stragglers by noon tomorrow. Rickys eastbound is serving santa rosa customers again. The restaurant among the 85 of pg e customers with electricity restored by 6 00 p. M. But it takes a day for the pizza oven to fire up hot enough and the owner admits hes over these planned shutoffs. I do hope it helps people save peoples homes though. If thats the case, then im happy. If we are just doing it i think we have to reassess the situation. Reporter locals dropped by, glad their homes are back on too. Were talking about how normal it has become a look at these announcements and we pull up the generator and the cords and fire things up. Reporter as signals came back to life and generators were stored away, pg e said its inspections by air and ground discovered 27 instances of wind damage. Each one of those damaged cases presents an opportunity for an arc flash event, a spark event. Reporter damaged equipment, lines snap and tangled entries, or on the ground. It can cause an ignition, and ignition i can be very very difficult to control. I want my electricity. I dont want to keep going through this. Reporter residents at this Mobile Home Park in rankin valley are less likely to have generators. While they understand outages are all about fire prevention. Many want more of the burden on pg e. I kind of get it, but still its, you know its getting old. Its really old, it needs to be repaired and fixed. Reporter its pretty scary being elderly and being disabled. The utility has said it will be at least a week before there is another planned outage somewhere. I know, i know. There is no place to run [ laughter ]. Not here in california and anywhere else. Reporter food truck fired up and people came to dying in the dark. Covid make that impossible the season. Its just one day at a time. We just opened a year and a half ago. In our first year, and one point we that we were closed more than we were open [ laughter ]. We are hoping our Community Supports us on days we are open and able to take care of us that way. Reporter the few thousand customers still waiting for power are mostly in humboldt and butte county. Pg e does expect to find more instances of damage in the lines , but the system is not linked to any of the new fire starts with the last couple of days. The number of new cases of coronavirus continues to fall in california. 1600 cases reported today from yesterday for a total of 739,000. The last time the daily case number was that low was mid may. 83 more people died of covid 19. That death toll is above 13,000. More than 12 million tests have been performed in the test Positivity Rate is down to 4 . Both hospitalizations and icu admissions, which had been on a downward trend, ticked up by about 1 . Governor newsom designed a bill today to help Small Businesses with coronavirus restrictions. Anna, yairo who co authored the bill. It would give a new tax break for companies who rehire employees who were laid off during the pandemic. One of the most pressing and important issues this city, or state, needs to face is the state of Small Businesses and the imperative importance we do everything in our power to support our Small Businesses all throughout the state of california that have been hampered and hammered by this pandemic. Under the bill companies could receive a 1000 tax credit for each employee they rehire up to a maximum of 100,000. A critical vote is set to take place tomorrow in the u. S. Senate on a federal Coronavirus Relief bill. The republican proposal needs 60 votes to move forward. Thats unlikely because it doesnt have support from democrats. The bill includes 300 a week and added unemployment benefits. Also, more than 250 billion for a second round of paycheck action program. It also provides 105 billion to help schools reopen. What it leaves out 1200 stimulus tax, money for state and local governments and money for the u. S. Postal service. All of which are supported by democrats. On wall street tech stocks reversed their sellouts with a rally today. That i was at 439, and then asked taking 293 and the s p was up 67. That was a 2 gain for the s p, its best day in three months. It cooled off a lot today. Didnt notice it much because of bad air quality, but temperatures 20, 30, 40 degrees within two days ago. And many degrees cooler than they were yesterday. Is where the highs from today, look at the differences. Fairfield was 68 degrees. Had a liup the sun. If you have solar panels and you are like me and check out to see how much youre bringing in solar panels are not producing son tvs today, or photons today. There was just that much smoke. Temperatures were cooler, as i mentioned. Outside story right now is a lot of fog at the coast. A lot of smoke around, but the winds from the surface to above , from the service to say 15,000 feet, are generally trending the right way. Which means they are blowing the smoke towards the east. Which is bad for tahoe, good for us. The current temperatures, you can see the seabreeze has been pretty robust. Then right now it is 12 degrees cooler in fairfield than it was last night. And 13 degrees cooler in livermore. A forecast overnight is back to rio expect. The airconditioners will be on tonight. When i get back we look at that five day forecast. In Union City Police officer shot at a driver today who officers say rammed a police vehicle. Nobody was hit by the gunfire. It happened this morning in the parking lot of an extended Stay America Hotel on myers street. Police were investigating reports of a woman being held against her will. Officers said they found the victim and suspect inside a parked car. When they tried to make contact the suspect ran to the police suv. No one was hurt in the suspect was arrested on multiple felony charges. Oakland Police Released this photo today showing a cash of weapons seized during a homicide investigation. Five guns were recovered from a criminal search warrant served at home on fairfax avenue. The arrest at the home was on a four homicide arrest. Oakland police have made in the past 10 days. Still to come after the break, evidence President Trump deliberately downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. How he is defending a recorded interview with a legendary Washington Post reporter. The net 10 30, more on the verifier and butte county. Another day, another chance to bounce forward. Lets do this. By making internet speeds fast and reliable. So you can keep up with your customers. By ensuring those speeds have wireless internet backup. So if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. And by covering all your connected devices with serious security. So we can handle this. And this. While you get on with this. And this. Be fast, be secure. Bounce forward. With comcast business. Get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Well, dr. Farrell, it feels really good. Thats good. And. Im sorry. Baby, dont touch that. I dont want you to play with that. singing twinkle, twinkle little star. How i wonder what you are. still singing up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky. Im so glad that your shoulder is feeling better. But, how are you doing . Im hanging in there. Schedule a video visit with your doctor. And get quality care with no copay. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Today doctors in the Trump Administration went before congress and testified pharmaceutical companies can remain on track with the development of a coronavirus vaccine. The administrations bullish outlook comes as one company halted their late stage vaccine study. Reporter operation warp speed is living up to its name and its quest to find a coronavirus vaccine. According to administration officials, testifying to congress on wednesday. But the Surgeon General told senators that quality wont be sacrificed for speed. There will be no shortcuts. The will be safe, it will be effective or it wont get moved along. Reporter that assurance comes after British Pharmaceutical Company astrazeneca suspended the final testing of its version of the vaccine to investigate why a study participant became ill with a spinal problem. The director of the National Institutes of health said the suspension shows safety procedures are working in Great Britain and americans can expect the same. Science and science alone will be the way in which this decision is made. Otherwise i will have no part of it. Reporter there are two other vaccines already undergoing largescale testing in the u. S. And three more set to start later this year. Were outside boards, data and safety monitoring boards. There are committees that advise the fda about this. Have confidence things will be done in a scientifically sound manner. Reporter President Trump has said he believes the vaccine could be ready before the election, drawing squadrons from some democrats. He is implicitly tied Vaccine Development to his reelection campaign. Americans will choose to take the information they need from scientists and physicians are not from politicians. Reporter nine drugmakers have issued a pledge to about the highest ethical standards as they develop the vaccine, in an effort to reassure the public. A new book by legendary Journalist Bob Woodward offers evidence that President Trump is deliberately downplayed the threat posed by the coronavirus. Is new book, rage, captures 18 interviews with the president s permission. Woodward says the president told him back in february he knew covid19 was airborne and much deadlier than the seasonal flu. Today President Trump defended his stance after tapes of those interviews were released. I wanted to, i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down. Because i dont want to create a panic. We dont want to instill panic. We dont want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem that is a tremendous problem scare for everybody. Democratic nominee joe biden said the statements show President Trump quote, knowingly and willingly lied about the threat of the virus. Writing call that a trail of the american people. Still ahead, letters from the and implement office sent to the wrong addresses again and again. Is it evidence of fraud . The huge red flag that one expert is pointing to. Later in sports, the Atlanta Braves scored the second most runs in Major League Baseball since 1900. Have a career night for a former giant added to the ridiculous number of runs. Plus, wildfire coverage continues. The latest electric fire that has devastated mountain communities northeast at fresno. Of first, the bear fire burning in butte county. Jackie, im looking at your mri. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Well, dr. Farrell, it feels really good. Thats good. And. Im sorry. Baby, dont touch that. I dont want you to play with that. singing twinkle, twinkle little star. How i wonder what you are. still singing up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky. Im so glad that your shoulder is feeling better. But, how are you doing . Im hanging in there. Schedule a video visit with your doctor. And get quality care with no copay. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Weve been telling you about the bear fire that exploded overnight, forcing evacuations near the devastated town of paradise. Our reporter went to butte county today with a look at the explosive growth. Reporter at high was 62 circling scenic lake or about, its not so majestic since winds threaten orval proper, which is under an evacuation warning and forcing mandatory evacuations in many nearby villages and hamlets. At one point the fire was incinerating 2000 acres an hour tuesday pine forest, which went up like roman candles. It was so fast. It sounded like a jet plane kind of. There was fire, 360 degrees around me. I had to go into a sheet metal shop on this property and everything burned to the ground except for the shop. Reporter here is an object lesson in why fires are so dangerous. When the wind calms down the flames calm down. But when the winds calm back up there is plenty left to burn. Reporter now that the winds are picking up, a lot more fire activity. In the background we had a lot of popping, trees exploding and a lot of crashing. Trees falling down to the ground. The fire started blowing up about 2 00 p. M. Today when winds picked up fanning the flames trees. And major problem as major hotspots throughout the region that only need a stiff wind to become a raging fire again. This is the kind of fire we can expect from now through early november as diablo and santa ana winds blew through the golden state, leaving black tar and destruction behind. It is during september, october and early november california has seen its biggest most destructive and deadliest fires is directly year after year after year. The simple fact is the fire is nowhere close to being done. Should those winds come on us they could cast embers for at least a mile. Out of the Central Coast with a delon fire is burning in the Los Padres National forest south of big sur. The fire has grown to more than 94,000 acres tonight, an increase of about 20,000 acres compared to yesterday. The u. S. Forest Service Authorities say much of the growth is in the antenna alternates area. Containment was at 40 yesterday. Today dropped to 46 26 because of the rapid growth of the flames. Crews focus their efforts near king city, lockwood, pine canyon along highway 101. 14 firefighters were hurt fighting the fire yesterday. One remains hospitalized, in critical condition. In a fire that started yesterday as bring about 25 miles west of south lake tahoe. Is called the fork fire and is barnett was 2500 acre so far and a 0 contained. Evacuation center has been set up in El Dorado County town of cool. The u. S. Forest service expects flames to spread west towards towns of gwinnett, volcano ville and georgetown. Northeast of fresno the creek fire continues to race through the Sierra National forest, taking down homes and commercial structures. The fire is being fueled by dead trees, along with high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds. The fire started last friday your mammoth full reservoir in the communities of shaver lake, big creek and huntington lake. The fire has burned 163,000 acres and has destroyed at least 60 homes. As of tonight, still 0 contained. Evacuations were ordered today in yuba county after wildfire broke out overnight east of yuba city. The will of fire started before 1 00 a. M. In the community of loma rica and has burned 1300 acres and at least 14 homes have been destroyed. Reporter mike lori has the latest from the fire lines. Reporter cal fire marshaling resources today to knock on the flames from the will of fire. A blaze that blew up overnight, sending residents fleeing for cover. He call me at 1 30 and sent it out. We drove down the road a little bit inside wall of flames. Reporter a wall of flames fueled by gusty winds, creating a fury of destruction. Too much to take for some residents here. Its the last i will be in. Im ready to go to some greener country [ laughter ]. Reporter this fire season is still active. Fire crews are using water trucks and every resource they have to put out the flames here. Last night heavy wind influence, heavy wildland urban interface area around here. Reporter homes in the path of the powerful fire, no match for mother nature. Here in the bay area containment is up on the three big fires, the lnu lightning complexes 92 contained. The scu lightning complex fire in contra costa, alameda, santa clara, stanislaus and san joaquin counties is almost fully contained 96 percent. And the cz you lightning complex fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains is now 83 contained. Coming up the main electric vehicle promising to be foster, more efficient and more luxurious than tesla. But can it catch up . Up next, the governor addresses huge problems of the edd as the agency makes big mistakes trying to fix a big backlog. A big cooldown today, a lot of smoke but a big, big cooldown. Thats the plan the next couple of days. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. So youre a small businor a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. Powered by the largest gig Speed Network in america. But is it secure . Sure its secure. And even if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. So how do i do this . You dont do this. We do this, together. Bounce forward, with comcast business. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Last night we told you about a San Francisco woman who received 97 pieces of mail and one day from californias Employment Development apartment. All had her address, but different names. Then contained the check she has been waiting for. Tonight ktvu is tracking more cases of potential Identity Theft and fraud involving the states Employment Development department. Our Investigative Reporter has been taking a deeper look at what is a growing problem. Reporter as a retired police officer, eric fred print found it suspicious mail from californias Employment Development department sent to his address with someone elses name on it. I dont know how they got my address. Have never filed for unemployment in my life. Reporter he reported the edd. Then another letter offering pandemic benefits up to 70,550 and they could be delivered through the mail by check or debit card. If i wasnt an honest person i could have filled that box out, signed and name, taken the atm card and i wouldve started spending. Reporter instead he contacted dangelo police department. Investigators havent gotten far, especially with a. D. D. , but freddie gray and is in can. Jason del rosario lives in San Francisco. He says dozens of people edd mel show up at his address after day. This is not my mail. Reporter he also has no idea what happened to his edd benefits. Once an uber driver, he filed for some out months ago. I am paying interest on some of my debts. I need the money. I cant wait much longer. Reporter the governor addressing concerns, saying the problems are unique to california. This is unacceptable, but so is the condition of the system when we inherited it. I dont look at that as an excuse, but having talked almost every governor in this country they are experiencing similar challenges with their systems that were not designed for the kind of level activity is pandemic has advanced. Reporter data shows 12 million claims have been filed with edd since march. The state has paid out 77 billion. The big question is, where did it all go . There is nothing more important going on in getting people their ui checks on time. Reporter Michael Bernick is an attorney at edds former director. He was alarmed that recent numbers. More than 400,000 pandemic and employment assistance claims are filed in one week. Thats more than half of all claims across the country. Our numbers are higher, our Unemployment Rate is higher than the nations. Not by this amount. Some element of fraud strongly appears to be coming on. Reporter california makes up 11 of the civilian labor force but 50 of all claims. That is a huge red flag. There is something wrong in california. Reporter a red flag is caught the attention of 40 lawmakers calling for an emergency audit of edd. Governor launched an investigation and assembled a strikeforce look specifically at payment of claims. Still, problems persist. This is what my constituent got in two days. Today i can do 97 total. The edd acknowledged fraudsters exploiting the system. Saying our investigators are working with local and state and federal partners. And has accelerated during the pandemic. Largely because of the amount of money at stake. Reporter it is upset to those left waiting or wondering why they received unsolicited mail in their mailbox. As a taxpayer im pest off. This is taxpayer money being wasted. Reporter we took the money the mail and try to check this table down. Every person i spoke to said they never applied for edd assistance. Many fear fraudsters may have their personal information. Still ahead tonight, more in todays surreal orange sky and how it left many disoriented. Plus, shes meteorologist bill martin is back with the forecast. vo i have the best job in the world. I get to remind people of their grandmothers conchitas. Give the little kids cookies. And celebrate birthdays with all our neighbors. Hopefully, well be part of this community for many, many more years. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Well, dr. Farrell, it feels really good. Thats good. And. Im sorry. Baby, dont touch that. I dont want you to play with that. singing twinkle, twinkle little star. How i wonder what you are. still singing up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky. Im so glad that your shoulder is feeling better. But, how are you doing . Im hanging in there. Schedule a video visit with your doctor. And get quality care with no copay. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. The skies above the coliseum jokes with smoke before 10 00 this morning. All across the bay area daytime was as dark as night with the eerie orange glow. We talked with people about the uneasy feeling theyre getting from the smoky skies. My wife says it cielo and i would say its more orange. Reporter wednesday feels like we woke up on a different planet. Mars perhaps . Or a world filled with falling ash . Its crazy. The street lights are on by my house. It looks like its nighttime. Reporter angelo was a bit disoriented when her alarm went off. I woke up this morning and it was a really eerie feeling. I felt like, did i mess up . Is it nighttime . Whats going on. It kind of feels like armageddon. Reporter ktvu viewers are sending in snapshots of the orange hayes on the bay area courtesy of the California Wildfires from nevada to dublin. You can barely see the sun, its just warmup there. People are still up for daily walks. Its disappointing, but didnt hold us back. Some people find it unhealthy to beer so they choose not to. However we are the healthy ones. Or maybe the stupid ones. Reporter the orange black drop making some appreciate its ordinarily blue skies. Looks like we are in an apocalypse [ laughter ]. Whatever you think think we were in the zombie a lot apocalypse in the world is ending, thats all you look like right now. All the world is an ending. At least not that we know of. We appreciate all of your your photos our tip line. We have composed them on our website and social media pages. Checking in on all that smoke on their, tony times of weird apocalypse today . Or dystopia or whats the other one . Its been described, everyone is describing the situation the same way with the smoke coming in. Thats the smoke from the bear fire coming down. It will be around tomorrow, should not bs prolific as it was today. At the airport is just cloudy and foggy and hazy. The pictures i saw today from the coast seemed to be the earliest in terms of smoke. We had fog, smoke and just really a toxic kind of soup of air. The pictures, if you will. The plan should be a little bit better quality, but still not great. This is the stuff, this particulate matter, the ashlyns following. Is not going to brief, its just not for anybody. A lot of times air quality folks take into consideration ozone, carbon dioxide, all the different pollutants. But we are talking business a piece of ash, a piece of particulate that winick is in your long it can cause problems and infections too. I do you know that, but just beware of the. A lot of times which require quality alerts, we talk about ground level is on , not particulate. So in this case it is particulate. It shouldnt be as much tomorrow. In San Francisco tomorrow kind of cloudy and yucky. By the afternoon hazy, smoky. You see little blue sky coming through. I hope the model is right. It is hard to get smoke forecast right. More relief in the afternoon according to this particular model. It will be gunk in the atmosphere with the smog and fog in the morning hours. Remember a couple days ago 110, 115, record, record, record . Today, just a big drop off in temperatures. Could imagine today with some heat . Holy smokes that would have been brutal. Here are the forecast highs for tomorrow and here is the five day forecast for the next five days. Smoke is going to be a part of our life, but it shouldnt be as bad tomorrow in the subsequent days. Today was just like nothing i have ever seen. Lucid motors revealed an electric car. The air is more efficient, more spacious and faster than the teslas model s. It is estimated to have a range of 517 miles on a single charge. Thats more than the 42 on teslas model s longrange plus. Here is what i care about. The car also has 1000 horsepower and does 0 to 60 into enough second. That is so lightning fast. The air will have a base price of less than 80,000. First models are set to go on sale in the Second Quarter of next year. Coming up in sports, the giants continue to discredit doubters as they extend their winning streak to five games. Then on the 11 00 news, a 17yearold girl critically injured in a car crash. Who is usaa made for . Its made for this guy a veteran who honorably served and its made for her shes serving now we made it for all branches and all ranks whether they served one tour or made a career of it. We also made usaa for military spouses and their kids usaa is easy to work with and can save you money on auto, home and renters insurance. Become a member today. Get an insurance quote at usaa. Com quote usaa. What youre made of were made for get an insurance quote at usaa. Com quote if i could, baby id how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. As a going, everybody . The as and giants, two different paths to victory. We will start with the giants. Sometimes you can file team, together with the chemistry and that certain swagger. Have definitely got it going on now. No need for a come back in this one as they lay waste to the seattle mariners. Even with that weird red sky, red orange above oracle. Two on for Mike Yastrzemski in the third. Ticket to ride, thats a three run shot and a quick lead. I double with two strikes this year. The giants had so much trouble in the early part of the season with the defense. Not now, mauricio dupo with a nice catch to help ted anderson who in six innings of shutout. Depaul eventually gets the win in the giants continue to get the clutch hits. Here is Evan Longoria with two outs, basesloaded, shot to right centerfield. Got himself a clean signal, couple rbis. Like i said, no need for come back. They were two games over 500. On the other side of the bay the as revert to the walkoff homer. The major leagues has done it more often than the oakland as and they too were dealing with some strange looking skies in the east bay at the coliseum. Erie, but no damper on the mood of matt chapman and matt olson as they collect their gold gloves. As usual she clayton 2 0. Two runs are going to score, that the bigtime planets tied 22 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Ralph lorianna hammers it into the gap of fran presley. That is the fifth walkoff win from lorianna there. A 3 have a 2 final. As take three out of four from the Houston Astros that have a 5 1 2 game lead. Youve seen lorianna seems thoroughly annoyed by his dousing afterwards meth. He did not seem happy about that at all. Have you watched any major league as well as here . You would know the ball is juice, balls are just laying out at an incredible rate and at great distances. Here is an example. This is just crazy. The braves hammer miami tonight 299. 23 hits, seven homeruns for atlanta. Freddie freeman had six rbis and former giant adam devol three homers, nine rbis, including this grand slam. Of Major League Baseball. Nba, weve got the western conference finals. You know, the clippers are going to take care of denver. That they did tonight. Kawhi leonard no problem, 30 points. Its a 3 have 1 lead for the clippers. The game you had to see occurred earlier as the toronto raptors, they are the champs. You got to knock them out and they are not about to go down easy against the celts and the sun. Norman powell comes to bigtime. He had a three here in the first overtime period and boston looked again like they are going to be able to put them away as they seem to control things. Second overtime and again follow with the big play. Steel, you will go to the other end and make a very difficult shot. He is followed, it counts and they look like theyre going to win in. Kyle lowry needed to make this great shot. He works for, fadeaway. He had 33 points from the demanding champs. 11 seconds left, they stave off. Boston 125122. Double overtime, serious ty at three apiece. All right, opening for the 49ers on sunday, they too had to deal with the clear skies as they get ready to face arizona. Jimmy jay and company are also happy to have back with them a very healthy linebacker at the name of fred warner who looks ready for an allpro season. Our quality is kind of contradicting the Denzel Washington movie for the coach kyle shanahan. I feel like i am in the book of eli. Its like an apocalyptic stayed out there. Surprisingly their quality doesnt seem as bad as it looks. A few weeks ago when we had it, elastic got past 150 for us. But today when we were out there 15 minutes ago their quality was a 69. Which isnt even close to what its been. Definitely look different out there. Hopefully will clarify sunday. That is the sporting life at this hour. Stroman coming up next 11 00 this morning i woke up and sold our. Its just crazy. Its a day that will go down in the record books as an unprecedented layer of smoke transforms the bay area sky. It almost seemed fitting, given what 20 20 has delivered us so far, and erie apocalyptic sky that, for many, captured much of the anxiety brought on by the pandemic, politics and social unrest. Smoke t