Two chemicals that are part of a family of pfats. Its persistent, and bio item lattive, so it doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays, and the Health Impacts are grave. Reporter pfats were first made to make the stickless coating in pans, and then came Firefighting Foam and other chemicals. What characterizes this class is that the strongest chemical bond that we have is in them. Reporter amy kyle is with the u. C. Berkeley school of public health. Its the quadruple whammy. We have band these chemicals, and some of all three, and also money until water. So its not only bad, but its going to get everywhere. Reporter according to the centers for disease control, the link with Harmful Health effects sin crease something studies have shown that exposure might affect growth, learning, and behavior of children, lower a womans chance of getting greg pant, increase cholesterol levels, and increase the risk of some cancers. Thats dupont, Better Living through chemistry. Its ou
Now at 11 00, catastrophic wildfires, awful air, and we still have two more months of fire season. So what is the strategy . Its a fine line to watch between pushing people and equipment too hard and not providing the help we feel like we need. Tuesday will be our 29th straight spare the air day in the ba amg relief fro poo forecast. Ingnstead. County decid rngct. Plus, whats in your water . Hundreds of wells revealed to contain potentially toxic chemicals and some of the worst are here in the bay area. It doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays. And the Health Impacts are great. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, four weeks of bad air and its not over yet. The unhealthy conditions forcing some south bay high schools to cancel the first day of practice for fall sports. Our chief meteorologist paul hagan joins us now. Theres actually a little glimmer of hope that we may see some healthy air coming in here soon.
We need. Tuesday will be our 29th straight spare the air day in the bay area but im tracking relief from the poor air quality in the forecast. One bay area county decides its reopening plan is too strict. What its doing instead. Plus, whats in your water . Hundreds of wells revealed to contain potentially toxic chemicals and some of the worst are here in the bay area. It doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays. And the Health Impacts are great. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, four weeks of bad air and its not over yet. The unhealthy conditions forcing some south bay high schools to cancel the first day of practice for fall sports. Our chief meteorologist paul hagan joins us now. Theres actually a little glimmer of hope that we may see some healthy air coming in here soon. I think the worst of it now is behind us, assuming nothing else changes, but were going to be heading into the right direction through th
Quality get a little bit better. Yesterday, we started off the day with unhealthy to very unhealthy air and now were looking at some spots even moderate air quality this morning. So that is the difference compared to what we have experienced over the last several days. Moderate air quality in santa rosa, and that is great to see it is or and starts in San Francisco, napa, fairfield, rio vista, unhealthy for everyone for san rafael, oakland, redwood city, livermore, and san jose. We are beginning to see a little bit of improvement and we will continue to improve with the air quality as we go through the workweek. Looking at that spare the air alert that remains in effect for the bay area, it is going a record 29 days in a row with our smoky skies and that spare the air alert. Our smoke model, as we got through the next couple of days does show the improving air quality. So there is hope as we go through the next few days. We will talk more about that, the better days for air quality, co
Seeing inferior framing that is shown on the plans to remain, and it cant because its inferior, they should contact the department of building inspection, get an inspector out there, we will actually issue an inspection notice. The project would have to go back to planning, and that changes the democounts, and thats a process that we have in place for those types of projects. Were trying to get away from people saying oh, it was rotten. We just took it down and ask for forgiveness. Were actually calling people ahead of time and making sure they dont get into that situation. This sounds like they may, based on some of the comments that ive heard tonight with framing and touch with soil and contact with wood, thats never a good thing. So with that, id say its a good enough permit, as long as they go down the line and follow the process. Commissioner honda so joe, is there no excavation here . I dont know, to be honest. I didnt see the drawings, and commissioner honda and im satisfied tha