Tourists. So are you ready to get away . This is a notable night for all of us. Exactly six months ago our lives changed. We were ordered to shelter in place. Among the questions now, are we even halfway even at the Halfway Point of this pandemic . And are we ready to loosen up and get on a flight out of town . Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is at sjc with the story. Sergio. Reporter traffic officers here say San Jose International has been getting pretty busy in the mornings and evenings. More people are flying, but theres still a lot to consider before booking a ticket. This is the first flight for this family since the start of the pandemic. Theyre making a short hop to palm springs. Its just far enough to get away from home. When the smoke started happening with all the fires, we couldnt go outside and enjoy it, so we said lets go somewhere where air is fresh so we can get out and enjoy the sun. Reporter her son is playing in a Golf Tournament there, so they decided to fly the whole
Parked across the bay area. We are entering week five of this unhealthy air. Lets get right to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. What are you seeing, jeff . We are seeing some improvements here as we head through the next 24 and 48hour timeline, but its going to be a little bit slow going. We are still in the unhealthy range here for much of the bay area with that smoke and that haze staying pretty constant. But we have started to notice a key change as of the past several hours, and thats a look at these smoke plumes. You can see how the smoke plumes today were moving more off to the north and the east from the fire near fresno and also those two large fires to the away, an this storm system developing off the coastline. This is a real slow mover. Its going to take its time getting here, but as that surface cold front and the upper level low pressure system moves across, it will begin to change our air quality. Tomorrow morning we are still forecasting some unhealthy air, but in the c
But first escaping the were trapped. Flames. Tonight inside those daring reporter while multiple agencies are making sure there helicopter rescues near yosemite are no hikers still trapped in the fire zone, those who were c. I was a little bit anxious because you dont know how rescued, are grateful. Quickly its coming up the hill. Were just so lucky and two people from the bay area with stories to tell after being fortunate to have made it out and to have been helped by all airlifted to safety by the those amazing, amazing people. National guard. Reporter in the south bay, tonight we have that inside ian cull, nbc bay area news. Story of those helicopter were seeing dangerous fire rescues. Among the 200 people who were weather across much of the state. Here in the bay area, the heat and the wind and the smoke rescued, some hikers from the bay area who didnt know if they remain a big concern. This is what it looked like all would make it out alive. Their Labor Day Weekend road afternoon
Burning in the Angeles National forest near pasadena. The mountains continue to glow from the flames. So far more than 26,000 acres burned, and this is just 6 finding clean air to breathe contained. We have our own problems here. Has become a struggle. Air purifiers are hard to find. The smoke and the ash. Our air quality is the worst this is coal hardware north beach in San Francisco. Its been in weeks. They tell us they only had one you can see all that red on the air purifier in stock this aqi map. That means unhealthy air. Morning, and then their supplier this is a Staggering Amount of is nearly sold out. But an employee says you can smoke covering the west coast. This satellite image taken this actually make your own. Afternoon, you can see if you have a box fan at blanketing california and up to home, theyre relatively oregon and washington. Lets get right to our chief inexpensive. Meteorologist jeff ranieri. You can buy a filter, a 20 by 20 jeff, we know this is challenging beca
Weather alert. Lets start arigright away with chief meteorologist jeff temperatures are going to play ranieri. We are talking unbearable out. Near the bay and the coast, temperatures. The tables look a little youre under this heat advisory. It will be brutal as we head different. Tuesdays and thursdays and maybe saturdays or that means 70s and 80s for san throughout this fourday heat francisco and the coast. Wave event that officially close to the bay, 85 to 98 vall that has a pretty similar impact starts for tomorrow. Sanitizer. Inside theres hand s to work from home. Look at this first map. This really explains it all. Reporter while every city is and geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, different, experts say they do we have so much heat that most have one thing in common to 110. Of the state of california is so very, very dagh tomorrow covered in this excessive heat sanitation stations everywhere. Masks make a difference. So to help even more, warning. Now, as we m