Haze. Lets bring in Frank Mallicoat who will talk about the air quality. Here we are, today feels different, not quite normal yet. Not quite normal but were certainly getting there. No bright orange glow, gasia. What a site it was yesterday. Today were back to our old faithful fogfilled sky. Theres plenty of smoke in the sky. That means two thirds of the air quality is poor quality, especially if you live in the east bay or north bay. This bears repeating. What a difference a day looks. Heres a look at oakland, wednesday draped in that bright orange hue and then back to the well take it. This is looking down on highway 24, foggy and gray there and as we go into the Rockbridge Area much of the same area. After fires, extreme heat, blackouts, anything that resembles normalcy in 2020 well take it. Its nice in the moment but scary and sad to think about the environment and think about the fact this will be yet again another new normal. But there was nothing normal about this. Actually had a tee time around 10 30 yesterday morning. This was my writeup. Strawberry canyon in the canyon. Surreal . It gave me an uneasy feeling and apparently i wasnt alone. People are freaked out, discombobulated. I should say a psychology professor said the conditions can correct to peoples anxiety and also disrupt your sleep. Bright light is not your friend if youre trying this get a right now a 17yearold good nights sleep. Our sky will be smoke filled girl is in the hospital and a for days, if not weeks to come. There are currently 28 fires Good Samaritan is credited with burning not to mention in washington and oregon and today saving her life. Is a record 25th straight spare the accident happened on interstate 80. Reporter 17yearold alyssa the air day. Torres had just finished her im Frank Mallicoat for ktvu shift at target on friday fox 2 news. Unprecedented all over night. I got worried. Again. Okay. Frank, thank you. Mark, all that talk was reporter branndi torres called her daughters cell phone. Williams eberly came across a that red orangish sky. Crash. He answered the teens cell when will it be gone. Theres a chance we could phone and told her mother she was hurt. Have it in different she was not doing well. I could hear her gasping for quantities. We are seeing a change in air. Tuesday or wednesday. That smoke will probably be reporter as they rushed to part of the forecast. As we take a look at the the scene the Good Samaritan graphics were showing you the stayed there. Upper level wind pattern. Words will never express it. Its up before 5,000, maybe reporter eberly said hes 10,000 feet. The air quality sensors are not not a hero. I was just here to help. Too bad. What has changed today, that reporter she is at john norm wind. Its really backed off. In some cases it has reversed. As a result the smoke has been muir medical center. Shes on a ventilator in allowed to move closer to the surface where we live. Icu. Reporter shes taking classes at Contra Costa College its mixing with the fog layer, in hopes of becoming a child so its hard to define it. Heres the satellite just like yesterday. You can see all the whites over psychologist. Her medical background makes a good portion of northern things challenging. Part of it is helping, part california approaching the bay area. The one change, were seeing a little bit of a southerly flow. Of it is hindering. These are bring in the smoke reporter traffic had slowed because of an accident in another direction. The other driver stayed on from central and Southern California closer to the bay area. As we check out the air quality scene but the chp is asking for anyone with information to come sensors, this is definitely a forward. The Good Samaritan said his gps change. Were showing you oranges and had told him to take a red closer to santa rosa, san different way but he went his rafael. We were talking about this usual way with the help of divine intervention. A man is under arrest after yesterday. Once that flow fell off, its officers said he rammed an suv. Being picked the air it happened outside the quality. It keeps the smoke in the bay area mental shifts out to the extended stay america on dyer street. Officers found the victim and east as we head into your suspect inside a parked car. When they got closer, the friday. Suspect rammed the police suv. Well see in that would improve the air quality, maybe a step no one was hurt. The suspect was arrested on in the right direction. This will have a huge impact on multiple felony charges. Now to oakland. Temperatures. The city is demanding records well have more coming up in just a bit. From the trump administration. The wildfire threatening itincludes oakland, six cities both paradise and oroville in butte county didnt grow significantly. Firefighters said they are taking advantage of those calmer winds. We heard mark talk about it. Want to understand the administration sending in allie rasmus has more. Deployments. Other cities in the coalition reporter the berry creek include new york city, atlanta, community church, a modest wooden building standing chicago, philadelphia, portland against a smoky gray and seattle. Background. The bear raising homes along with the the campaign to defeat Village Market near the support proposition 20 is getting momentum. There was a virtual News Conference about prop 20 just camp for children battling cancer. This morning. There were signs of several it was attended by crime buildings destroyed or heavily damaged. Its been around for 38 years. Survivors, victims rights up until now the fire has been called the bear fire. Organizes. Its been renamed to the north it included jeff rosen, Diana Beckton and george gaston. They said prop 20 will roll complex west fire. Its threatening about 20,000 back criminal justice reforms. Homes in butte county. I think what the question the u. S. Forest firefighters said today the towns of that propositions 20 is putting toward the voters is this. Paradise and oroville are less do we want to turn back the threatened than they were 24 clock 20 and 30 years immigrant when we had prisons that were hours ago. No direct impact at this bursting at the seams that were time. You have the camp burn scars. Unconstitutionally overcrowded reporter they confirmed it that we had to send our prisoners to other states where killed three people. Two were found together. We had if passed prop 20 would make a third was found in their car specific types of theft and trying to escape. As of last night. The butte county sheriffs fraud crimes including Vehicle Office said there missing still theft chargeable as misdemeanors or felonies. Still to come at noon, unaccounted for. The north complex fire has wildfires devastate neighborhoods throughout the west forcing thousands from their homes. Well have the latest from the burned 394 square miles. State of washington to southern drier warmer weather is california. Plus cities and states continue expected throughout the their reopening plan despite a weekend. Allie rasmus. Northeast of fresno the creek continues to take down second coronavirus phase in the fall. Ill have details coming up. Homes and businesses. Its being fueled by dried trees the community of shaver lake, big creek and huntington lake. Its destroyed at least 60 homes and still at 0 containment. The lnu is 94 contained. The scu is 97 . The czu fire is at 84 containment. Pg e said the power is back on for 97 of the homes and businesses. The utility did cut off electricity starting on monday to more than150,000 customers. It was done when the weather conditions do indicate a high fire risk to keep pg e equipment from starting fires. So the question is did it work. Well, pg e said it discovered 27 instances of wind damage to its equipment that could have potentially caused a wildfire. Each one of those cases presents an opportunity for an arc flash event, a spark event. It can cause an ignition, an ignition that could be very difficult to control eye want my electricity. I this. Still, its getting old. Its really old. It needs to be repaired and fixed. The utility said it expects to find more wind damage as it continues to inspect all of it is equipment. It did emphasize the equipment did not spark any of the fires burning. Coronavirus cases continue to rise. In the next half hour the update we received from state health officials. Plus President Trump defendants his comments on the coronavirus vo i have the best job in the world. Saying hes the takes on i get to remind people of their grandmothers conchitas. A new relief package. Ill have the details straight give the little kids cookies. And celebrate birthdays with all our neighbors. Ahead. You have the power to know before you go to wake up to mornings on 2. Hopefully, well be part of this community for many, you always have the power to know everywhere you go when you download the ktvu fox2 news maars. App. Downtown oakland today compared to yesterday. Theres one image that shows deep orange in the sky. The other has less color. A smoky overcast that we see today. Also, i want to show you a different perspective. San Francisco International posted a time lapse video of an airplane taking off. Operations told us the eerie conditions did not affect flight scowpsd. Schedules. However they said its time to osha commitment to show a commitment to the planet. He said he worries about the long streak of spare the air days. Theres a persistent inflammation and challenge to peoples systems. So thats a problem. The previous streak was 14 days. That was two years ago. Many californians saying having wildfires is something theyre used to but for the sky to become this strange amber orange color experts say it has to be higher than normal. The sun is being absorbed we left with is all this orange glow outside. Its like a perpetual sunset. Weve been sharing some of the photos weve been getting from the viewers showing the strange sky in their neighborhood. Pretty much bay area wise it looked the same. It did look the same. You saw a lot of those images posting the golden gate, bay bridge and beyond. What a difference a day makes. I remember yesterday seeing people surfing at cronkite and welcome back. A huge fire has broken out at the port of beirut, the same headlands. Yes. It had a huge factor. What caused that. Well if you think about the bear fire, thats extreme fire place that killed many and behavior the night before. That put up a lot of smoke. That was the main source, the injured thousands. Army helicopters are at the scene and police are still main cause of why we had working to determine the cause yesterday being such a strange of the fire. Day. As we take a look at the tomorrow americans will satellite on wednesday, look observe the 19th anniversary of how defined it was. Im putting this Boundary Line here. To the east of this, we the september 11th terror actually had a clear sky. Attack. The National September 11th memorial and museum will i was looking at tahoe, observe it by honoring those completely sunny. No cloud in the sky. Killed in the world trade no smoke in the sky. Center, pentagon and aboard west of that covered in smoke flight 93 but this year there will be no live reading of the and we had those pictures. Today things changed a little bit. Its a change in the wind. This was the case yesterday. Names. Both President Trump and democratic nominee joe biden we have the upper level wind transporting the smoke. Will mark it in shanksville, what has changed is the wind the place where flight 93 has weakened and seeing a lithat smoke crashed when passengers and crew stormed the cockpit after which is aloft has been allowed realizing their plane was being to move closer to sea levels. Were showing you lots of hijacked. Today the president is doubling down on his comments made to bob woodward. Oranges and reds. Reporter President Trump now admitting he downplayed the that red is unhealthy. Thats the case up in Sonoma County for santa rosa. Coronavirus earlier this year but told fox he had a ar leader oranges indicate unhealthy for country. Woodward sensitive groups. Oakland, san rafael, closer to palo alto and portions of the released several audios with east bay. The spare the air continues President Trump. Some of the president s statements are in sharp through friday. Some areas right now are in the reds. I think that will continue to be the case on your thursday. Contrast with public declarations that the virus was now into the weekend and next deadly. Its a very tricky one. Week, we could be talking about its a very deadly one. A pattern change. Its also more deadly than even well have more on the forecast coming up in just a little bit. Mark, thank you. Your strenuous flus. Cal fire is working to reporter thursday Morning HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at the president s strengthen fire lines which actions while vicepresident mike pence defended his boss. Will be as the theres that old saying from world war ii, keep calm and north complex west fire. This exploded in size. Carry on. The north complex west zone has burned more than 70,000 acres that was the president ial leadership that i saw. What the president showed in those comments showed his contempt, contempt for the in butte, yuba and plumas. American people. Reporter across town in the senate theres north battle. 2,000 structures have been republicans and democrats destroyed. Reporter jeff paul has the squaring off in a series of latest on other wildfires test votes on a 300 billion burning across the west coast. Reporter orange sky blankets the west coast as firefighters continue to battle Coronavirus Relief package. More than 880, 000, americans dozens of fires in california, oregon and washington state. Flames devastate neighborhoods. Filed unemployment claims. Somewhere in that pile i had all right. That orange reddish sky may be my mothers rings and tore my done as we get back to mark. Heart up. When we came back, our house its a lot more purples, reds was the only one standing. Reporter officials hope and oranges compared or hinting at the change as the calm come winds will help. Dry winds aloft. That allows the smoke to fall closer to the surface. Vegetation and dry heat. Thats why the sensors are picking up that change for today, your thursday. Governor jay inslee calling the as we take a look at the map, event catastrophic. People who have lost their take a look at the air quality sensors, the greens and the homes lost their sense of security, lost their family yellows. Youll notice whats happening today. Were in the oranges and red. Memorabilia. Reporter the u. S. Forest right now you cant see unhealthy air quality levels up in santa rosa, a bunch of service caused the closure of oranges. Orange reports out to all areas. Yeah. Like theres been more upsetting ones, but this is the livermore, fremont and redwood city. Moderate levels in the south fieriest one. Reporter officials said smoke and haze from the fires bay but that could be changing. Could remain in the air through we have the spare the air through friday. I think that will be extended into the weekend. Next week. Jeff paul reporting. As we showed you, some areas the town of paradise is in already in the red. Here is our live camera looking the path of the flames. Out at sfo. Evacuation warnings are in we have a mixture. Effect for paradise. The town was already under a we have low clouds mixing in. All that cloud cover is having public power safety shutoff and the community was worried it a huge impact on temperatures. Wouldnt get information including the bear fire. We had temperabove we found some people packing up 100 degrees. One spot 70s. 71 in fairfield. And preparing to leave. Lots of 60s and Half Moon Bay there have been people in the upper 60s. Hauling boats, trailers. So we still have the areas of theyre packing up and going just in case. I have some stuff in my car, fog, still some smoke. Highs this afternoon mainly in you know, those things i cant the 60s. The warm spots approaching the live without. The town of paradise is lower 70s toward concord, still trying to recover from livermore and antioch. The temperatures are being pushed down with all that smoke the 201 2018 campfire. Drifting overhead not allowing san mateo declared a Health Emergency because of the czu too much sunshine. Smoke could be a part of the fire. The Public Health officer said forecast on friday and possibly the problem is from hazardous into the weekend. A lot of it depends on the waste thats burned. The Health Emergency behavior. It could push some of the smoke declaration allows the county to the east, especially toward and its private contractors to nevada over the next few days. Enter private property and dispose of Hazardous Materials some of the forecast models into next week suggesting that before they spread. We have expanded coverage maybe some rain chances, not in the bay area but up order ukia, at ktvu. Com wildfires. You can also open the ktvu that could be into wednesday and thursday. That would be a nice change to mobile news app to get updates. Welcome rain chances maybe Coronavirus Infections are moving into california. That could be next week. Down nationwide but college were watching for that change campuses in every state are now a few days away. Nice to say the least, mark. Reporting clusters of cases. Thank you. Work to develop a vaccine has the u. S. Is said it hit yet another road block. Reporter there have been more than 900,000 coronavirus deaths around the world, more than 190,000 in the u. S. But rates of infections are leveling off or declining and dozens of states are moving forward, including new york city where Indoor Dining will resume at the end of the month. It also comeses a major cuts are being made to Public Health services, prompting fears of a safety surge. Our frontline workers reporter most say the virus wont be fully contained until a virus is available but they said theyre having trouble recruiting asian, black and hispanic volunteers. We want to make sure whatever vaccine they come up with will be safe and effective. Reporter meanwhile cases continue to spike including the university of wisconsin madison where more than 20 have tested georgia with 2,600 confirmed cases. Dr. Fauci said all schools should be stepping up their social distancing. Part virtual, part in person. Wearing a mask and all of thfor a few minutes ago dr. Mark ghaly said the states 14day Positivity Rate is now down to 4 . He also said cases and deaths are still most common among black people, Pacific Islanders and latinos. The group most impacted, nearly 60 of our cases in california have been among latinos. Nearly 50 of the deaths among latinos. Yet, they make up 40 of the population. Nearly 14,000 people have died in the state since the start of the pandemic. The number of unemployed filing for benefits is at 880,000. The number of people seeking Unemployment Benefits each week far exceed those who did so before this year. Here in california unemployment claims rose for the Third Straight week. More than 237,000 new claims were filed. Thats up 18,000 to the week before. To wall street following a week of sudden jarring shifts. The dow is down sharply losing about one and one quarter percent. The s p is down by 1 1 2 . The nasdaq is down by one and three quarters perminutes. The school said it will get 22 million less than it expected from the state. Enrollment is expected to increase but not enough to make up that money. Staff members have scheduled a protest on saturday. Labor groups are praising a new law extending sick leave in california. Governor newsom granted up to 80 hours of sick time for those who tested positive or exposed to covid19. It applies to full and part time workers and will take effect in the next week and a half. Still to come at noon, the newest season of the show extra. Host billy bush joins us live and talk about what we can expect this season. 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When this launched, i was eight years old. I have to say i love the fact that im seeing you in a real studio. Ive been working home for five months. You never missed a beat. When this hit i went in and talked to our producer and said we cant leave. We will lets do this straight. Lets give people what they need to know. Warner brothers supported it. Were very lean in here. Most of the people are at home but we have enough to pull the show off in studio. Thank you for noticing that. We all love it, too. You also have been growing your team. I know bachelorette fans are thrilled because they get to see rachel. She did an interview with don jr. , so shes been awesome. I know a years to extra as escapism as celebrity right but you are as political and entertainment. They have intersected. Look at the president. He is the former host of the celebrity apprentice. Do you find that these hollywood stars are opening up on a level of either politicals, black lives matter protests or things we didnt hear hollywood speak out on. Hang on, i have to take a break. Sorry. You better go to commercial. I just got a little light headed. Okay. No problem. This is part of live television. I will put a pin in that. We can see billy bush, all new episodes starting this week. Thats 2 30 in the afternoon. I apologize. Well see if we can talk about billy, soon. Mike, you and i ve been living the big story out of our window. Still smoky out. I know the safeway opened. The pga tower got underway in napa. People are out there. Hopefully theyre wearing those masks. Hopefully theyre protecting themselves. Thats a good cause. The smoke is part of the forecast. In fact, the sensors are picking up on the change today. The satellite in general looks the same as yesterday. Were seeing an increase in just the smoke levels closer to the surface in fact, the particulate matter. So heres the satellite for today. Youre seeing a big blanket of that layer of smoke over a good portion of the state. Not only here in the bay area but central and Southern California as well. As we come in closer, thats the case for today. The key difference, why was it so dark yesterday, not so much today, it depends on the upper level winds. Most of it was above 10,000, 15,000 feet. That wind is backing off. In fact, were seeing a little more of a southerly breeze. Thats allowing the smoke to settle. The weaker wind is bringing it closer to the sea level. This is a live look at sfo where we have smoke and fog. Its jumbled up with the g show current numbers, at a huge impact on temperatures. Sunday into monday, temperatures 110, 112 degrees. Yesterday a big dropoff. Today only right now in the 60s to the lower 70s out toward fairfield. 71 degrees. In fact, fairfield has to bump up the temperatures a little bit. So you get the idea. The warm spot only in the mid 70s. Well keep the smoke in the forecast and haze as well. Temperatures in the 60s closer to San Francisco and in oakland. Heres a look ahead, your five day forecast. Unfortunately, theres nothing defined to mix out the smoke instantly. The only thing i can say is well have a different level. Impacting areas like tahoe, the at all. Thankfully, were not talking about any red flag fire warnings. Mark, thank you. Still to come at noon, are you ready for some football what fans can expect and how the niners are preparing for their game on sunday. vo my n my grandparents came here in 1939 and weve been serving this community for over 80 years. My dad always said, take care of your community and they will always take care of you. And they have done so. Through the ups and through the downs. My name may be on this building, but this place belongs to all of us. A popular San Francisco bakery is permanently closing two of its location on College Avenue in oakland and the store on sutter street. Both are due to not being able to work out a reduced rent with landlords. Right now all other stores are operating except for the on montgomery. Happening today gyms and Fitness Centers welcoming their members back indoors. Also, they did have classes inside during those months. We talked to people who were excited to be able to work out again at a 24hour fitness in san jose. Extremely important not only for my physiques health but to relax. A lot of people use it to destress after a long days work, so it really helps a lot. Fitness centers will require members to maintain social distancing, wear face masks and increase their cleaning of equipment and changing rooms. The Oakland Unified School district has their meal service. Barbara plea stopped by on 95th avenue. There are Distribution Sites at 22 oakland schools. The distribution is on thursdays and mondays. All children deserve to have a meal to be able to eat. There should not be hunger in america. No child should go to bed hungry. No family should go without food. Food security is a big issue in our country. Representative lee is working on a waiver with the department of agriculture which who extend the Food Distribution through the end of the school year. Across the bay people who live near twin peaks in San Francisco said closing down that popular vista point during the pandemic has caused problems in their neighborhood. People used to drive to the top and hike up or party around their cars. Neighbors said if the idea was to prevent people from gathering close together, its not happening. The San Francisco 49ers are practicing in the smoky sky. Yesterday there was a strange atmosphere. They took the field for a walkthrough and practice outside the facility. Coach shanahan said the air quality for now has not turned. Surprising lit air quality is not as bad last it looks. Last week it got past 150 but today the air quality was at 69, which is close to what its been. The National Football league will not allow teams to practice outside if this rises to 200 or box. The team and the nfl are monitoring air quality as game day approaches. Many wish it was the 49ers, but its the chiefs. The Kansas City Chiefs will be kicking off the nfl soon tonight when they host the houston texans. They will be a joint demonstration against social injustice. Meantime 22 of Stadium Capacity or 17,000 people will be allowed inside. Still, fans will be there. Coach andy reid said the last time he can remember so few fans is in 1985 is when he was with the gators. Thats when the school still had a football team. The giants bid to reach the playoffs this season will not include one of the giant announceed that pablo san doe val has been placed on unreleased waivers. It began in 2017 after his stint with the red sox. 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