Thought i was on mars. It looked orange outside. Let me give you a quick explanation for why it appears orange in the sky. The smoke particles scatter blue light, which leaves us seeing what appears to be yellow and orange. Any particulate matter in the atmosphere affect the way we see light, the way our eyes and brains translate light. Water droplets can do that and smoke particles can do it. All kinds of pollutants can do it. You look at a satellite image to show you how thick the combination of smoke and coastal fog we have. Let me move along from the satellite image now and give you another view of the conditions outside. This is going to give you a look at conditions above 1,000 feet, where most of the smoke saand aw 1,000 feet and the marine layer that brought us some cooling and brought fog and some lower spots. The layer cape effect at the surface but weve got a smoke deck or smoke layer above where the winds are a bit lighter s. Its just collecting up there, the marine layer i
2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William
Was on fire. Reporter thats andy immel standing in the photo surrounded by whats left of the home he built over 42 years. H nifds gandline. Nd tdher, j s big cry. Before that it was we dont know, maybe. We kept hope. Reporter but on that morning that the immels were still hoping, this is what was happening in their neighborhood and all over boulder creek. By morning it was all rubble. The bits and pieces that make a home completely charred. This street, fallen leaf drive, completely devastated. Still there were streets that prove just how unfair a fire can be. Her burned to eground. That just goes to show that we dont have the resources on it that we would normally. If this were a normal situation where, say, this were only one or two fires within the state, we would have more resources here. Reporter cal fire crews stretched thin, dealing with this kind of work. Spot fires that are smoldering slight change in weather conditions. You dont really grasp what it really means to be in that
All the smoke looks like big bank of clouds. The smoke coming down in our direction from the oregon fires and the fires of california and it is just collecting in the upper levels of the atmosphere. And then the low clouds and fog, the marine layer, down at the surface level. A layer cake effect with the smoke layer above and the marin layer below. And we had a rather vigorous onshore flow with weaker winds aloft. Right now, theyre getting a little stronger but not enough to change the setup that ive just explained to you. Fog. Air quality right now, be nearly as red as you might think by looking at the ugly air. We have yellow dots indicating moderate air quality. We have poor air quality in ukiah and vacaville. Looking southward, oakland, San Francisco, fremont, livermore, san jose, we even have good air quality indicated by the green dots over parts of, well, parts of the santa cruz mountains. The marine layer will push locally inland. We might see some drizzle in the overnight hour
Honestly unlike anything ive ever experienced and i lived in Northern California for 36 years. Born and raised in oakland and everything before. Just so strange. I dont understand what is going on. I know there is fire but it doesnt smell super smokey, doesnt seem super ashy. Just really weird. Weird is the word of the day. This was the scene a short time ago driving along interstate 280 near stanford. The saying is red sky at night, well, not this time. And we could rephrase mark twain, too. The darkest night i ever spent was a day in San Francisco. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. That is a good take on the classic. Theres never been a day like this one. On the peninsula take a look. An orange haze in san mateo is one indication of the intensity of the wildfires and smoke in california. Another is the visible ash. You can see it. Cars are coated in it. The smoke layer makes it so dark. Sensor lights are staying on in the middle of the day and crickets were confused and chirpin