from all of the smoke being blown here from wildfires in central canada. new york says -- encompassing 75 million people with health emergencies now in effect. earlier today, new jersey governor phil murphy told jake tapper that the conditions in his state are, quote, either bad or really bad depending on where you are. cnn's miguel marquez is near manhattan's union square for us tonight. you have another most of the day and there were times today, michael, that new york city had the worst air quality of any major city in the world. people describe smelling the smoke, even tasting it. how about isn't our? >> you can still smell it. i, mean what is amazing about that as well as something you have covered many fires in the west. it's that typically when los angeles or san francisco gets sort of smokes in by a fire those nearby, it's ten or maybe