Sticking around for a bit longer. That wildfire smoke is still lingering. Heres the air quality map. You see a lot of red. You see orange. Thats not good at this late hour. Lets get to jeff raineri. What are they going to wake up to tomorrow morning . A lot of the smoke. Were going to get improvement in the next 36 hours. Weve seen the smoke from the wildfires from the north. The thing were seeing right now, as the temperatures cool off, its creating an inversion layer thats putting a cap or a lid over the bay area. Some of the cities are seeing the worst readings were seeing all day long. At santa rosa, 168. San francisco, 152. A lot of unhealthy air here throughout the bay area. Limiting your outdoor exposure is how to stay away from the impacts. Tomorrow, with the 12 hours moving to the north, we see the plume of smoke moving to the south. Im calling for unhealthy in the bay area. Friday night into saturday, im expecting some improvement in that. Coming up, ill have details on what everybody wants, some rainfall to help us out with the forecast. Okay. Well see you in a little bit. What about the 49ers . Will the game go on in all this smoke . This is what it looked like at levis. The 49ers are set to take on the giants tomorrow at 5 15 p. M. We reached out to the team about air quality concerns. The 49ers arent comments but it points us to the nfl policy, that an air quality of 200 in the immediate vicinity of a stadium, is unhealthy conditions for exercise. Well keep an eye on it. The smoke keeping Urgent Care Centers busy and hardware centers, too. People trying to get air filters. Pete suatos is going to fill us in. Reporter even at this hour, you can smell the smoke in the air in concord. I spoke with someone at the urgent air center who says it may be more patients in the coming days. Were seeing an uptick of patients coming in. Reporter the medical director for instant urgent care. And all of the locations across the area, are seeing more appointments from the wildfire smoke. Allergic system, dry eyes, wateringy eyes. Reporter san ramon is where some are masking up. Air filters are in high demand. The manager telling me, sales for the item are up 40 in the past two weeks. A customer who is a former firefighter, says he changed his filters today. Even change the filters in your car. Everybody has the one in the glove box they should change out after environments like this. Reporter as for the coming days of wildfire smoke, dr. Carr warns to avoid outdoor time, if possible. She says that this is arriving during asthma peak week when hospitals see the most asthmarelated hospitalizations. If you do not feel comfortable, you should be seeking care right away because, just never know what the respiratory symptoms. Reporter in contra costa county. If you want to know what the air quality is in the neighborhood, go to nbcbayarea. Com air quality. You can type in your address in the map search box to see what its like where you live. And on the trending bar, too. Developing out of los angeles, there could be a Significant Development on the Writers Strike continue. Cnbc is reporting it could be over tomorrow. Sources close to the negotiations say, after successful talks today, a deal is anticipated for tomorrow. The source noted if a deal is not reached, the strike could last through the end of the year. It comes as the action is stretching into its fifth month. Neither side, the Writers Guild or the actors and producers. They are not tipping their hand. Want to mention comcast, the Parent Company of Nbc Universal is a member of the amptp. A Small School District with a big problem of a pride flag. The banning of a pride flag had parents packing a meeting today. We have more on the principal and the superintendent who stood up against her school board. Reporter parents we talked to said this meeting was scheduled quickly to avoid descenting voices. This meeting today, which looks rushed and closed, is another way of stopping residents from participating. Reporter parents packed the cafeteria today, despite the lastminute scheduling of the meeting by the School Board President and testee. The board voted 21 last week to ban pride flags on campus and only allow u. S. And california flags. Deputies cleared the room when parents started to scream at each other. They were back to keep the peace, as parents said they are fed up with the decisions by two trustees. Every meeting is showing high attendance because people dont want it. Reporter the districts attorney warned against banning the flag on campus and did trustee ted romo. He was not available for comment afterwards. And the two trustees hired another lawyer. And jergenjergensen said no com. But the crowd director of schools warned the board not to put their politics above pupils. Weve seen a trend of School Boards dismissing superintendents for political reasons. That would be in no way in the best interests of the students of the community. Reporter most of the crowd cleared the staff tier ya while jergensen was still talking. In the end, todays decision to hire outside Legal Council might not be valid if the meeting itself was deemed to be illegal. New at 11 00, Health Officials in some bay area counties have issued new mask mandates has covid cases are beginning to rise. Masks could be required in contra costa and sonoma counties. It brings high rates of the clue and other illnesses. Crews in livermoore, will be spraying for mosquitos after several dead birds tested positive for west nile virus. This is the area that will be treated. The third is along a small, undeveloped section of 580. The county is asking people to stay inslide while spraying is taking place. Emergency shutoffs tomorrow morning. The increased fire risk by dry and windy conditions. The shutoffs could impact 4,200 customers. Orange areas are the communities that might be impacted. Most of the areas are the north bay area. Kaiser hospitals could be less crowded soon but not because of fewer patients. More than 70,000 Kaiser Health care workers preparing to hit the picket lines nationwide. New contract negotiations between kaiser and its workers are stalled. Workers want more staff and better situations. The workers will strike if a few contract is not reached by the end of the month. Kaiser has not commented on the situation. Another San Francisco neighborhood on the brink of condemnation. They have found a way to alleviate the problem. We go to how north of the panhandle they are taking a page from the playbook of another neighborhood. Reporter shortly after this fire was left in peaces, and torched a nearby car in nofa, residents raised money to place these, planter boxes. Im tired of the screaming. Reporter julia wants to be anonymous. In the last six months, she has been threatened by the unhoused. A new group of people have come in. And theyre very, just, lawless, for lack of a better description. I think we took a lesson from the mission district, where planters are proliferating anywhere. Reporter walgreens installed planters to deter loiters. It boils down to the same problem. We dont have enough housing for these folks. Reporter the coalition on homelessness is also on the federal law enforcement, limiting the cities to forcibly move homeless encampments. And recently, new numbers from the city says 609 tents were counted in july, the highest its been since february of 2021. The coalition saying homelessness is the Biggest Issue facing the city. We need to make sure their needs are being addressed. We are humanizing them and not valuing planters and plants more than human lives. Reporter a hard sell for this resident. I would like to see solutions. I would like to see all of the energy thats placed on residents just trying to live, applied on actually finding solutions. Reporter a department of public works spokesman tells us after reviewing the planters, they appear to be in compliance with the rules. Were back in 60 seconds. Just ahead, if you filled up your tank recently, you already know, gas prices, keep climbing. Whats to blame for the latest spike . When do we see relief . Have you damt of having your own island . Heres your chance. Specialty land up for sale. And how much it will cost you. And we do have a fire warning for the mountains in the north bay, around st. Helena. Rain chances that help us out with the forecast. When we could sesome. E its a tough pill to swallow. Tough to report, as well. Gas, weighing on our whole economy. If youve been to a gas station lately, you know what were talking about. Gas prices have spiked. Its brutal. Why were seeing the increase and how long its expected to last. Reporter here we go again, right . Lets look at the numbers in california. According to aaa the average price is about 5. 80 a gallon. Thats a 30 cent jump a week ago and a 50 cent jump from a month ago. People we spoke with tonight, as you would expect, are not happy about it. Its hard to make it in the bay. This makes it harder. 1. 15 more than the state im in. Im in agriculture and it affects us more from starttofinish. Makes me not want to drive as much. Reporter youre likely wondering how did we get here again . This time, geopolitics is to blame. The russians and the saudi arabians Just Announced another cutback in oil. Theyre not producing or sending oil into the global marketplaces they were before. Reporter and creating problems for the transport of goods and services. Leaving stores and restaurants to pass on higher costs to us. Expect to pay more for flood, clothing, shoes, construction, et cetera. I wouldnt be surprised if this essentially could cause additional inflation in the next couple of months. Producers and travel all adjust prices in response. Production cuts are expected for the rest of the year. Gas prices wont be coming down anytime soon. Thank you, audrey. The actions of a con conservative Advocacy Group has been handing out fliers outside of south bay schools, blasting the teaching of Critical Race Theory and Sex Education that includes any information about homosexuality or gender identity. Today, people gathered to protest. It wants to protect children. But critics say its hate speech. Handing the flyers to every car and every parent. It was another reminder of how much work we have to do. The hate behavior that is occurring targeting our children. Its inappropriate and unacceptable. The resolution con demting the groups activity, that resolution will be voted on in the next few weeks. An Influential Group of bestselling authors is suing chatgpt creator open a. I. , saying the company used their work to create the chat bot. Game of thrones author, is among the authors. Say theyd that the company fed that content to the algorithm to create humanlike text responses for its users. Two other authors filed a similar lawsuit in july. The cdc is pushing for everyone to get the covid booster. But for the First Time Since the pandemic began, the federal government is not paying for the public to get that shot. Some getting it say they were charged up to 190 even if they had insurance. Some insurancers are not recognizing the vaccine as a covered expense. Some of the people we have talked to says the price have them holding off the booster. I got the first shot. Okay. That might be enough. And i think the cost factor might be pushing it too far. I think it depends on where youre going and what your insurance is. I wouldnt tell people to wait. But its good to know what your Insurance Coverage is ahead of time. Those that have a copay or uninsured can get the shot coveraged through the Bridge Access Program until the end of this year. The white house is ready for a possible winter covid surge. The Biden Administration says its bringing back the program that offers free covid tests. The shots arent free. The tests are. Its cost 600 million to pfr manufacture the tests. The tests will be available starting monday. The orders are limited to four per household. It is slow going. Golden gate bridge here. Expect delays. Construction is going to begin on the bridge. It will stay open. It will be slow going. They will be repaving it. It will start monday, the 25th. Southbound lanes will be closed 10 00 p. M. Monday through wednesday. But the northbound lanes will be closed overnight on thursday. More lane closures on friday. The bottom line, a bit of a pain. And it will be much clearer by then. By friday night. Yeah, were looking a lot better. Everybody wants to get the smoke out of here. Tomorrow, we have unhealthy air across the area. It could dip into the moderate category. And friday into saturday improvement the other thing were tracking is the rainfall in the specific. And we, tomorrow, will have a system to the north. Thats pushing down the smoke, the circulation around it. And wind in the north bay, where we have a 15 to 20mileperhour gust. Friday and saturday, this system from the south is going to move in. And that will clear out the air, the way it looks now. For tomorrow mornings forecast, it will start off and you will feel strange with the smagy conditions. Temperatures in the 50s. 58 in the peninsula, over to the eastbound, 56. And the 50s continue for San Francisco and the north bay. Temperatures tomorrow, at least, we dont have to deal with tripledigit heat. This will help with the smoke. 77 in napa. 75, palo alto. And lets move along the forecast. This is impressive for september. Come to your tv and listen right now. Take a look at this. Were dogging about a widereaching system in the pacific. The heart of the storm will be hitting the pacific northwest, where theyre looking at 2 to 4 inches of rain. Not as much for us. But will hang on for rain chances, monday morning for eureka and monday night. And we could hold on to spotty showers for tuesdays forecast. Totals for this, with the bulls eye, up near the cost line. For us, trace amounts to a quarter inch. And some of the north bay could get in on quarter to a halfinch. Promising in the forecast. On the sevenday forecast, well hold on to typical temperatures in San Francisco with the 60s. And rain chances here monday and tuesday. Superexcited to see the forecast models. Im going to stay up late to see the next forecast model update. Dont make me laugh. Stay up late and watch those. Sports guys stay up to watch anything sportswise. Hes a weather guy. Thank you. Fantastic, jeff. What is left of the famous nordstrom in the city. 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