Is exercise. Psychology professor said the smoky conditions can contribute to anxiety, angst and depression on top of everything else. It can also disrupt sleep especially on days like yesterday. Heres how the smoke looks like in space. The satellite show winds pushing south to Southern California from as far away as oregon. Smoke advisories continue for our region. Of the National Weather service said there will be little change in the smoke across the bay area in 18 hours. Were joined now with more on the air quality. There will be a change in the atmosphere over the next 24 hours. We do have the winds blowing the right way. This is a smoke and i want to show you the surface winds. Which way are they blowing . Thats at the surface, thats a good direction. We are getting that went. Lets go up to the next level above the surface, by thousand feet. The winds are blowing southwesterly or blowing in a southeasterly direction. Now what weve discovered is that layer from 5000 feet down to the surface is generally pushing smoke out. Some areas will continue to be bad tomorrow, but at other areas will improve i would suspect significantly because of that flow. Theres plenty of smoke out there but airquality sensors throughout the area today, xhosa winds die down, smoke fell out. Anytime you see red, orange or purple its not good. Purple in San Francisco, first time weve seen that. Oakland, unhealthy range. Concord, livermore. All with the winds dying down and smoke falling out. The winds on the surface look like they will have an opportunity to push some of the smoke out of the area. That should help conditions tomorrow. It will still be smoky, still spare the air alert but it should improve slightly. The deadly while fire is burning out of control. This is the north complex west zone fire instead of the bear fire. To three people are confirmed dead in butte county and thousands of people have been evacuated. Orville is being threatened. Evacuation warnings for these areas were lifted. To decrease winds overnight help them build containment lines. The map shows the fire zone. Is burned more than 70,000 acres. Berry creek where the fire swept through yesterday is towards the left side of your screen with the towns of paradise farther west. Orville is on the western edge of the fire. The bear fire roared through the community and among them is camp okizu. We spoke to a father whose son attended the camp. Reporter the cruelty of these fires. Many say the camp was a very happy place. Our cameras got a look inside and very little of it now is Still Standing. The sign on the gate is one of the few items the bear fire did not destroy. Inside it look like a bomb went off. This was not just any summercamp. For the parents 20 years its been a safe haven were children with cancer can just be kids and enjoy the outdoors and at no cost to the family. My son and family has been going up there for long time. Reporter ethan was diagnosed with leukemia at age two. Hes recovered now. They let the kids go together and be normal and play like normal children like they should be doing every summer. Reporter it sits on a large plot of land surrounded by trees. By tuesday night the bear fire was on the move. It hit hard. Some of the early communities that it hit. That is where we saw the most destruction. Heart wrenching. Weve been at that space for 20 years, a lot of memories. Reporter 700 children come through the camp each summer. Before covid it also hosts family weekends during the school year. This was with kids that have all facets of cancer. They have a helicopter landing up there and fully suited with doctors and nurses. Reporter it was here kids could go on hikes, rights applying single fishing. My son blossomed up there for 10 years. He made lifetime friends. The camp said it will try to find a way to keep going. Right now, no one is sure what rebuilding will look like. Lets hope they can rebuild. The creek fire continues to rage through the Sierra National forest northeast of fresno with zero containment. The flames are being fueled by dead trees, high temperatures, low humidity and strong wind. It started last friday in the community of shaver lake. The fire has burned 175,000 acres and destroyed 60 homes. For the latest developments of the fires burning around the state, visit ktvu. Com wildfires. Jobless claims remain at high levels according to new data. 884,000 people have filed for benefits. In addition 840,000 people filed claims for the self employed and give workers. To 30,000 americans are receiving federal or state Unemployment Benefits. California makes up one quarter of the weekly numbers. More than 247,000 californians filed claims. And many selfemployed and good workers filed for separate benefits. Thats half of the national total. There was extra assistance approved by the trump administration. Details of another benefit for people affected by the wildfires. More problems outside of the current and past disaster zone that weve seen. Many people dont even know the disaster employment assistance exists. It has existed for generations. Reporter the edd continues to be overwhelmed. That means many more unhappy state and Unemployment Insurance pandemic release seekers. California has 11 of the nations total work force. The golden state is sliding into an economic abyss. We have 28 of the regular ui claims. And 50 of all the unemployment assistance claims in the nation. No significant increases in job postings or hirings. Reporter those whose jobs were affected by wildfires can now apply first date Disaster Unemployment assistance. Whenever theres been National Disasters for california in the past 40 years. We had a system for disasters. Reporter there is angry responses for those waiting for state and federal covid aid. Randy said you cant pay covid victims how could you pay these people . You think people dont need this money . Rosie tweeted about the federal supplement. Has any people received the 900 . Many applicants are working catch as catch can. I filed back in march. Something happen come i never received anything. A couple months and i started calling them. It took forever to get a hold of them. Reporter jr russell waited three months, meanwhile surviving on food stamps and eviction prohibition. It drained my savings and put my Checking Account into the negative by seven or 800. I had 40 cash on hand to last until the unknown date of when i was going to get paid. Reporter in spite edds massive staff hiring and updates, the claims backlog will remain until california reopens its economy or a vaccine or effective medicine comes to be. Numbers keep going up. Between claims we have another 600,000. Publicsector employees, state and local governments as well as education are finding their way on the main chopping block with no federal relief in sight. Reporting live, fox 2 news. A new Coronavirus Relief package failed to advance in the senate today. The republican bill needed 60 votes to pass. It did not receive in a democratic vote. It was smaller and only a 10th of the size the democrats passed in may. It added Unemployment Benefits but not stimulus checks for individuals or money for state and local governments. So it makes seated and filled with poison pills. Hard and slowly designed to fail. Nancy pelosi said she is hopeful of a relief bill can Pass Congress before the november election. Stocks gave up the gain and was lower today. Erasing most of yesterdays rally. Nasdaq fell and smp down 58. San francisco announces more businesses can reopen next week. What businesses will be allowed to open indoors, very soon. Those businesses reopen and more people are taking bart. Of the action they are taking to keep up with ridership and what the future of bart might look like. Vallejo Police Department addressing a recent spike in crying crime. vo my name is cynthia hawkins, the owner of Hawkins House of burgers. 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. Its a beautiful thing. Superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, shows, news, sports and more. And with flex, its all at your beck and call. Show me parks and rec see . The best really did get better magnificent. Switch to xfinity internet and get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. Twitter sublease their space in San Francisco is employees continue to work from home during the pandemic. While employees are currently working from home because of the coronavirus, back in may the tech Company Announced a new policy giving them the option to permanently work remotely. The company told us that subleasing spaces not new for twitter as a continuingly evaluate their office space needs. Starting monday, commuters will see more bart trains. The move is necessary to catch up to current ridership. Reporter this is the biggest service increase since the pandemic hit. Transit agencies around the bay area are still reeling with the sudden drop of ridership the fall of the pandemic and shut down. Bart is seeing some of those passengers are starting to come back. The rider will begin running trains at 50 minute intervals on some of the busiest lines. We will add more frequency during commute peak times on several lines to help our writers to be able to maintain social distancing. Reporter bart is planning for the longterm. Is facing a 975 million short paul over the next three years. As with most transit agencies across the country, bart saw a dramatic decrease with the governors shelter in place restriction. We know the containment is necessary but it may not be sufficient for rider recovery. Even after the rail rest is diminished it may time for workplaces and ridership to return. Reporter they are trying to figure out what the future will be is restrictions are loose in. Art anticipates that some writers will return but Many Employers may not require their workers commute into the office. The number that stands out is 71 of our precovid ridership using bart to go to work. We all think the world of work has changed for the time being. Reporter the week day commute will be increasing there will be longer waits. They are following the data and tailoring service to meet the need. San Francisco Giants infielder, Pablo Sandoval has been cut by the team. In an Instagram Post sandoval wrote its been an honor and privilege to play for you, my heart will forever be in San Francisco. Fans called sandoval the kung fu panda. He was a two star all star. He struggled at the plate hitting only. 220 with one home run and 82 at bats. The big story is the smoke. The last couple of days or three days ago we had the record he. It cooled off 30 to 40 degrees in the last couple of days. The smoke is a story. The reason its noticeable is winds came in from the north. That was yesterday. Wins died down and the smoke filters down. Thats where we are now. Is not as thick a layer as it was. Ill illustrate this. Mark put this together for me which i always appreciate. Hes good with these graphics, he set me well with this. This is the bay area, the textures have depth to appeared watch what happens today. You will see the textures go away. A lot of the smoke is already falling out. But its a much better set up. The other thing to pick up is the winds. The surface winds are going in the right direction. Its all about surface winds go this way and upper wins go this way, that happens all the time. Thats why all the smoke coming in from upper level winds. Surface winds were doing this, not just what the surface winds were doing its a good direction for us. Going westerly. Thats at the surface and this is up 5000 feet. Thats still good. Its taken that smoke from the bear fire and pushing it back away. The trend here is good, we know that. Tomorrow will be another spare the air alert, probably through saturday and sunday. The smoke does not clear out easy. At this point we should have a better air quality day tomorrow and especially right along the coast. Will track that for you. Its been a mess of poor air quality. At least the heat is gone and soon the smoke will be gone, not tomorrow but its getting there. I will see you back for the five day. The owners of the tribune tavern in the landmark tribune towers said the restaurant is closing for good. They tried to work out a deal with the landlord on the rent that were unable to do so. The restaurant reopened one year ago under new ownership. They are working with staffers now to help them find new positions. The other two restaurants in oakland remain open. A man accused of stealing from a dozen restaurants around the bay area have been arrested. The other crimes hes also accused of, after the break. We saw the cloud of smoke and my heart fell. 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. A transient from fremont is facing a slew of charges related to a dozen commercial burglaries beginning in july. He was arrested on sunday. He drove a stolen bmw with paper dealership license plates. Video of the suspect was recovered from 10 different commercial burglaries. Officers lauded him riding a bike and caught him after a brief chase. He put the zest burglary tools. The city is speaking out about an noticeable uptick in Violent Crime. The lay whole police discussed the issue and the step police are taking to cut crime in the city. Theyve launched an operation called peace. Predictive Enforcement Community engagement. A year with Global Pandemic and civil and social unrest and much uncertainty, is critical we come together and take back our city and take hold of the unique act liberty to see the lay hope become a better place. This is a fourpart plan and focus on Crime Reduction and includes Community Policing and involvement. The Law Enforcement is asking people who live in vallejo to join them in taking back the city by joining Neighborhood Watch programs and maintaining relationships with officers in the city. The campaign to defeat a police back to ballot measure in prop 20 is picking up steam. There was a virtual news conference. It was attended by victim survivors, Law Enforcement officials and city officials. If pass, prop 20 would reclassify some theft, fraud and sex crimes as felonies. Opponents of the measure say it will rollback criminal justice reform. The question that proposition 20 is putting towards the voters is this, do we want to turn back the clock 20 and 30 years ago, when we had prisons that were bursting at the seams, unconstitutionally overcrowded, we had to send our prisoners to other states. Prop 20 is supported by Law Enforcement agencies. It would reclassify ball aint climbs crimes and prevent the Early Release of violent criminals from prison. San francisco can spend money raised by a 2018 tax for homeless and Mental Health services. Some of the money will be going to build permanent housing for people who used to be homeless. Plans are moving forward because the state Supreme Court declined to review a Lower Court Ruling that found prop c is legal. The measure propose 1 2 tax on businesses with revenue over 50 million. Is expected to raise 250 300 million a year. Is been caught up in the courts since it was first passed two years ago. A long road ahead for californias oldest state park. We take a tour of the damage the complex fire left behind at big basin. Also ahead. The first time in six months, indoor gyms are reopening in the south bay. Owners say they are cautiously optimistic that they will be able to stay open. Football starts tonight. Bay area sports bars will open up in the age of coronavirus. Everyone wants to drink a beer outdoors anyways. Everyone is eager to watch a game and pretend things are normal. 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. No for the latest on the coronavirus. Almost 743,000 cases of the virus in california. Thats more than 4300 new cases in the past 24 hours. 14,000 people have died in our state since the start of the pandemic. That includes 137 people who died yesterday from the virus. State health and Human Services secretary provided then up tick of coronavirus care in california. The 14 day test Positivity Rate is now down to 4 . Most cases of coronavirus and deaths are disproportionally among black people, Pacific Islanders and latinos. The group of californias most impacted, nearly 60 of our cases in california have been among latinos. Nearly 50 of the deaths among latinos. Yet they make up just shy of 40 of californias population. Health experts say many of the latino people make up a greater risk because they are essential Health Workers and living conditions. A legal claim over the death of an inmate in n quentin. They filed the claim on behalf of the family of daniel ortiz. They transferred prisoners from chino to san quentin leading to an outbreak of more than 500 cases of coronavirus. Ruiz who was 61 years old was serving a last month of the nonviolent drug conviction and he was told he would get an Early Release. Big step forward for some businesses. Salons another personals businesses will be able to open indoors with limited capacity. Of the city previously now sell hotels, outdoor Family Entertainment centers, drivein movies and out your tors could reopen on monday under the new rules. In Santa Clara County they took another step along the road to recovery. Workouts and classes are allowed inside gyms. We have a reaction to the shift in what it means for the county moving forward. Reporter the strain of operating a gym in the mists of the covid crisis in Santa Clara County, a little easier. Now patrons are allowed insides for the First Time Since they were closed in july. We are ready for the state claims space for you to take care of your physical and mental wellbeing. For this reopening is a godsend for fitness enthusiasts who have had to dy i it or see their tones soften. They are cautiously optimistic that this time it will hold up. This is something thats in our control. Its important to keep a routine back. Working out has alwa bly and physically. All these moved from purple to red. Reporter the state sighting santa claras flowing Positivity Rates as factors moved up from tier 1, purple to tier 2, read. They allow 10 occupancy inside. Its important to keep in mind that wrist reduction framework. That overlay continues to exist. Reporter team members will submit to temperature checks. All who enter must wear mass, do social distancing in Group Classes are things of the past. Reopening these types of businesses is a shot in the arm to the overall economy. As long as they can cover their costs, it will be a great thing even partial cost, that will extend their lifetime to support the business until they can get back to full operation. Reporter Santa Clara County could move up another tear in the coming weeks or revert to a lowest level. That direction depending on how well the populace keeps up with his struggle against covid19. Despite fears of delays, the nfl kicks off his season tonight. Sports bars are gearing up for the return of football. Many are hoping that fans will head to the outdoor bars since they cant attend the game in person. Were joined now with how businesses are looking forward to a boost. Reporter some bars have not reopen. Others are seeing reduced customers because of covid. One sports bar reopen for the first time today right at the start of the big moneymaking season. Reporter the long wait is over for the Athletic Club on grand avenue. There kickoff to reopening to the start of the nfl season. Weve been looking forward to today. Reporter a lot of thought and work went into reopening outdoors. Theyve trained staff on safety protocols for their new space. The towns sports garden complete with tvs and tables on artificial turf. Reporter Everyone Wants to drink a beer outdoors anyway. Everyones eager to kick it and watch a game and pretend like things are normal. Reporter loyal customers have already been hanging out at patio bars. This one ready for footballs return. We love the support from the community and the surrounding cities. Football brings everyone together. Is a good reason to smile and grouper something. Reporter some owners will miss the booze to altogether. This owner of the blue chips sports lounge round restaurant did not survive the pandemic. Everything changed in march. The shutdown dug them into a whole even with loans. It was not enough to pay off the landlords. They gave us the option to walk away. We thought it would be the best option at the time. Reporter he plans to reopen at another time in hopes bars staying open will have enough customers to keep them sustained. We can do 200 people out here but it will be a lot less. We are concerned about hopeful and up domestic and we plan to be here for the next 20 years. Reporter some are concerned about business. This one thats been around for decades, thinks they will be able to bake it through the end of the year. They will bring in extra tvs from outside. It will be a long time before they recover. Nfl coverage starts sunday with a doubleheader right here on ktvu. Its the seahawks in the falcons and then the burner for the 49ers. They host the cardinals to get the 2020 season underway. President trump doubling down. Why he says he was not lying to the American People when he told bob woodward that he deliberately downplayed the threat of the coronavirus on purpose. Why the salon owner that hosted nancy pelosi said shes been forced out of the city. We know the castro district. San jose has their own district. This is for the lgbtq community. Many people say its about time. San francisco hair salon that nancy pelosi visited the is officially shutting down. E salon made headlines after pelosi visited there last week. The owner released surveillance videos to fox news. Salons are only allowed to operate outdoors. She said shes closing down because she no longer feels like she can safely operate her business. I started to get a ton of phone calls, text messages, emails, all my yelp reviews, all this saying they hope i go under and that i failed. So a lot of negativity. Towards my business. s beaker so pelosi stylus said the owner approved the appointment. Of the stylus quit along with other stylists that showed the speaker with no mask in the salon. President trump continues to defend himself after his admission that he downplayed deliberately the seriousness of the pandemic. In a taped book interview, President Trump also said he knew the virus was airborne and much more deadly than the flu. Democrats including joe biden, the president s stance may have cost americans their lives. Today the president said he was only trying to keep people from panicking. I didnt like what i said is we have to be calm, we cant be panic. If he thought that was a bad statement he wouldve reported it because he thinks you dont want to have anyone suffer medically because of some fact. He didnt report it because he did not think it was bad. President trump is holding a rally in it he swings state of michigan with little sign of social distancing or mask wearing. Congresswoman barbara lisa President Trump irresponsibly withheld information that couldve saved lives. He is not lived up to his oath of office. And he has been responsible for withholding information that could have saved lives. By him doing that, this is exacerbated the covid pandemic. More people died and more people got sick because of withholding the information that he shouldve never done. Representative lee said no president should abandon the people he represents. Reporter this Community Gives us a place to belong and a place to dream and more importantly, a place to thrive. San jose has a new lgbtq space downtown. While fire tears through the big basin state park. We will tour the damage left behind. Were looking at the smoke. Air quality is still an issue. Fiveday forecast coming up pg e said the powers back on for most of the homes and businesses in Northern California that had their power cut off because of the high risk of wildfires. Pg e shut off electricity on monday to 170,000 customers in 21 different counties mostly in the sierra foothills. Those shutoffs are done when the weather conditions have a high fire risk. 10,000 customers remain without power tonight. Pg e discovered 52 instances of weather related damage and hazards that could have caused a wildfire. Big basin redwoods state park will remain closed for at least a year because of all the damage from the lightning fire. Today we got a tour of the park. Flames engulfed historic areas with long standing structures. Including big basin headquarters. It also damaged the redwoods. The trees are Still Standing but not stable. Its hard not to feel like we have lost a very old and dear friend. I know that feeling is shared by millions of people. Before the park will be able to reopen to the public, the redwoods will have to undergo stressed testing against storms, soil erosion and flooding. Big basin was established in 1902, californias oldest state park. Californias have made good progress. The lightning complexes 84 contained. In all, flames have burned 86,000 acres. In the north day there is good news from the new lightning complex fire. They are reporting 94 containment. And the complex in the east and south bay is fully contained at 97 . It has been a rough time with all those wildfires. We want to thank the First Responders who have risked their lives to keep us safe. We are asking you to send us your signs of support. This was sent in. It has an americans flag and saying we love you. You can take a photo of your sign of thanks and upload to honor First Responders throughout the month of sit timber. You can scan the qr code or go to signs of support to upload your photo. We will show the signs in our newscast throughout said number. We are tracking the bad air quality. It is bad, not good. This is not as thick a mess as it was. Were not seeing a red atmosphere. We are not seeing as much ash, which is a good thing the smoke itself has settled down. Thing to point out. Look at the flow. Its pushing the smoke away from us. Most of the smoke is coming from the north county. The other winds you see the higher elevation, the winds are going that way also. Overall, the atmosphere is taking the smoke and pushing it away from us. Thats the plan. Is a lot of smoke. A Record Number of acres burned. Record number of wildfires. You get the picture. It will be a wild to clear it out. Thats why the quality has been extended through the weekend. Temperatures have dropped dramatically over the last couple days. 30 to 40 devry drop after temperatures in the recordsetting range. Sunday and monday some of the hottest temperatures i can remember across the board from coast to inland that ive seen. Now temperatures are falling off. As you look at the fog along the coast. There it is for tomorrow morning and then it burns back. Air quality still a thing i suspect tomorrow as a westerly wind pushes things towards the east. Tahoe will get worse, we will get a little bit better. It will be incremental but better. The thing i think is there is a system out here that shows up next week thats reminiscent of the late fall system that could bring of rain to Northern California and a nice cool pattern to us. Every week we go without having a big heat up, thats good news. This week is good. Look at the next week coming up next five days. Temperatures on the top tier not out of control. Next week similar. We will get a couple weeks here in september where the fire danger should remain. There is the fiveday forecast, ill see you back here at 6 00. Tomorrow the observance of the 19th anniversary of the sip timber 11th terrorist attack in new york city, will still take place but changes because of the pandemic. The memorial and museum will observe the anniversary by honoring the men, women and children killed in the attack at the World Trade Center site, the pentagon and a board flight. There will be no live reading of the names. President trump and joe biden will mark the anniversary in pennsylvania. Thats a field where united flight 93 headed from San Francisco crash when the passengers and crew stormed the cockpit after realizing there plane had been hijacked. Fewer teenagers are vaping. Why experts believe the teen vaping rate is dropping. Reporter according to a new report from the cdc, 20 of High Schoolers and 5 of middle schoolers say they recently ecigarettes and vaping product. Those numbers from last year. Officials believe 2019 rash and vaping related illnesses and death may have scared off kids. As the use declines, the data shows ecigarette is on the rise. They can sell disposable products with sweet flavors. The drop wouldve been more significant have the fda outlawed all flavored project products. When Companies Make flavors like Sour Patch Kids or banana eyes or blue razz, these are targeted towards the younger demographic. Reporter the federal government raise the minimum age to 21. Some companies are still illegally marketing and selling their products to kids. I smoked when i was 12 years old. It never wouldve stopped me. Reporter many vapors say this has helped them keep their smoking habits. To put the numbers in context. Team teen vaping is at the same rate as it was in 2018. Coming up on channel 2 news at 6 00, a deeper look at the lay hose increase in Violent Crime and the detailed, for part plan. One of the states raging fire complexes becomes the lay just largest wildfire in californias history. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Prop 19 helps californias most vulnerable. It provides property tax fairness 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. A lot of families caught nutritious food today from the unified School Districts grab and go student meal program. Barbara lee help distribute the food on 98th avenue. There were Distribution Sites at 22 different schools. Of the food is handed out on mondays and thursdays to all families with children in oakland. New hiv diagnosis in San Francisco are at a record low. Thats according to a report today. 2019 epidemiology report found new hiv infections in San Francisco declined to a record low of 166 in 2019. Thats in 19 percent decrease in cases since 2018. The positive trend of achieving zero new hiv infection. More work is needed to support vulnerable populations that are disproportionately affected by hiv. San francisco has castro, San Francisco has lender highs but san jose did not have a designated lgbtq district until now. Community leaders have a new vision for post street downtown. Reporter its a first for san jose. Is section designated to the hub for the l bg tq community. Located on the historic section of post street. This will ultimately be a pillar for lgbtq folks in the community. Reporter phase 1 includes new l. E. D. Lighting, banners, trees and art. This has been a labor of love for the last few years. Reporter phase 2 will have community input. The owners of splash bar hopes the business will become more vibrant. When you have people around you that have the energy, you can go wrong. Reporter this is about belonging and inclusivity and having an area to call your own. We are prioritized by your community and you are welcome here and safe here. With the space we, the lg bt q community in san jose will not go back to the closet in any literal or metaphorical way. Instead, we will be infuse in the heart of downtown. Reporter organizers say they see Great Potential here for dining and culture and more. The community is looking for lgbtq artist to mural their planning and organizing townhall meetings to discuss what comes next. Smoky skies like in the bay area as the air quality moves back into the unhealthy range, marking the 24th consecutives there the air day. Air quality sex today its really bad, one of the worst. Gray instead of orange. The air quality is worse, good evening. Not just the smoky skies but theres ash that covers cars, buildings and more. Our camera above the studios in Jack London Square gives us a live look across the oakland estuary. Normally we could see across the bay to San Francisco. As you can see, you can even see the bay. The city is off in the distance, cant see it at all. What a difference a day makes. And downtown oakland has the erie hue. Exact same shot on the right but now its shrouded with haze and smoke. As the day progressed the air quality got worse. You can see it on the time lapse map. We talk to some people out and about today to see if they notice the difference in the air quality. We just have to deal with it and wear a mask. The way it looked yesterday you thought it was worse. But da