The worst air quality in the entire world believe it or not experts say it is actually worse today than yesterday look at this video this is what it looked like just hours ago pure hasan gray skies, according to purple air dot com. The particulate matter in the air around the San Francisco bay reach the 200 to 300 parts per million range which is considered very unhealthy. Heres a look at purple airs air quality map of bay area, including San Francisco, the east bay, the peninsula and the north bay are in that purple range that is the worst its considered unhealthy for everyone. But especially dangerous for people with prior Health Conditions as he had a little farther east and south the air quality gets a little bit better, but you have to really get outside of the immediate bay area out there in santa cruz mountains, its bad but not quite as bad even in the central valley. Lots of red and purple is out there. As we know the wildfires and weather conditions are combining to create thi
A somber ceremony marking the 19th anniversary. Of the september 11th terror attacks but this years rememberance has a different look because of the pandemic good evening. Everyone, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us tonight at 8 our top story this evening. Still smoke from those wildfires raging across california and oregon leaving the bay area with some of the worst air quality in the world tonight. And that smoke is expected to linger through the weekend. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with the details on what we should expect lawrence we need that out of here. Yeah we certainly do and to get that out of here we need really a push for some good gusty winds right now were not getting that we just got a light breeze so there you go youve got sites like this all around the bay area that smoke. Just sitting right down on the ground and its unhealthy all around the bay area in fact right now youre looking at some very unhealthy smoke sitting acros
Company says its a spending trials for its covert 19 vaccine after an unexplained illness and extreme fire warnings for the entire u. S. West coast as dry winds ignite new blazes across california. Thanks for joining us an overcrowded greek island camp that had become the makeshift home for thousands of refugees is now a smoldering ruin and a desperate effort has begun to work out what to do with those now homeless fire burned for hours through maurya camp a state of from urgency has been declared on the isle of the laura Borden Family reports. Before i was still burning through moria camp at the new day began on the greek island of blood spots. Around the camp thousands of refugees again in search of a home sleepy wherever they can. Move a nights more than 12000 people fled as flames began to the largest refugee camp a grief. Many looked own as the homes were destroyed in the past who gets the 5 made more difficult by storm when. They are out there. Today for parts very tiny. Growing.
This afternoon that there is enough energy to power. The state and that your conservation efforts helped. However pg any which supplies power to most of Northern California says that due to weather conditions. Safety power shutoff could happen for 2 bay area counties starting as soon as 09 00pm tonight, those 2 counties are napa and sonoma counties this interactive map on the pga any website shows the areas where customers could be affected. We should add that parts of lake county will also be affected in total more than 158,000 customers across 21 counties could be affected tonight. I want to bring in Lawrence Karnow water talk about this excessive heat warning. And the weather conditions that might prompt a shot off port yeah were going to see some very gusty winds developing overnight tonight. Its tomorrow week air of low pressure kind of dropping over the top of that ridge and moving to colorado eastward as that moves through of some of High Pressure building in behind it. We start
The spread of the fires that continue to rage. Temperatures tomorrow still above average for most of us a little cooler in the city but stronger on short breezes. Back up into the mid90s in concord. We will show you all the high temperatures we expect on saturday. Regardless of whatever you have planned on saturday try to limit your time outside. The air quality will be the dominant feature of whatever kind of weather is directly overhead. The smoke near ground level will slow you down. Mears mid 60s on the coast. Mid to in santa clara you are watching kpix5 news at 5 30. Right now, and streaming on valley. Hottest temperatures on the cbs sunday more breaking news from the Santa Cruz Mountains. East side of the diablo range we take our cameras into the upper 90s. Low to mid 90s for most the tri valleys with upper 60s low 60s sorry low 70s around the bay. Decimated Scotts Valley neighborhood. A first look at the damage from there are fires off to our henew nstingdscan north as well but