Into the moderate and yellow color for parts of the east and also the south bay. You can see our live monitoring sites right now. Look on my left dashboard, you will see all the different sky cameras continuing the show the blue skies. What has been the key driver getting the smoke out of here. It has been all of the storm system offshore. Down at the surface, what we have happening right now is the storm front is stationary so this is acting like a big block of buffer and helping they continually push the smoke to the north and the east. I can show you a better view of that right now. The three large fires been the largest culprit of the smoke. You will see the plumes from the satellite moving off to the north and east. This is what we have wanted to see. The forecast as we move to the next 12 hours, no big changes here, well stay to that good to moderate rain. The one thing i want to caution everybody on is well have a change in the wind this weekend. A little bit out of the north, t
Strank avantage of it while they can. The previous record was 14 days and that was in 2018 during the camp fire. Of course well continue to monitor the air quality as the potential for unhealthy air returns for us this weekend. Mike will have updates for you right here. You can always see the levels at abc7news. Com on our air quality tracker. President trump is once again challenging the nations top health officials, this time at odds with the head of the cdc. And they are disagreeing here on the time line for releasing a covid19 vaccine. While testifying under oath, dr. Robert red field told lawmakers no to distribution to the general public until late spring or summer of next year. Hours later President Trump said redfield was wrong, he claims that the government can start giving the vaccine as early as next month. The president also suggested that redfield misspoke when he said wearing a mask is the most effective way to fight the virus. It is not more effective by any means than a
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live out at the city of san jose. Good morning everyone, it is wednesday, august 26th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. First up on this wednesday morning, a check of our forecast. Mary lee standing by with that. Mary, good morning. Good morning to you len and michelle. And we are looking at unfortunately, another day of hazy and smoky skies. Now this morning, its not quite as bad as what we have seen even yesterday morning in comparison here. So those green and orange colors, yellow colors at least indicating that good to moderate air quality. But if you can see still some dots of red and purple and that indicates unhealthy air quality in spots for the north bay and portions of the south bay. And east bay. So because of the unhealthy air, the smoky and hazy skies, we have a spare the air alert in effect once again for today. And it has actually been extended through friday. So we are still looking at that smoke through the
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Marin county is forcing new evacuation orders tonight. The rush to get out. This is our third scare here in the last three years. At the same time, people forced out by the flames return home for the first time tonight. Stories of heroism, how one man ended up saving his neighbors homes. I am happy that people get to go homes. We begin with that breaking news out of marin county. Good evening. The woodward fire is now threatening three dozen homes. Residents who live south of Inverness Park , fox drive, and northway are told to leave immediately. Emergency crews are asking those evacuees to go down first serve branches drake boulevard. Evacuation center is open at the marina center. Across the state, it has already been an historic wildfire season. Currently, more than 7000 buyers scorching more than 1. 4 million acres. Three of the biggest are right here in the bay area, in the north bay. The lnu complex fire has burned 352,000 acres. Five deaths are blamed on that fire. After that is