Haze. Lets bring in Frank Mallicoat who will talk about the air quality. Here we are, today feels different, not quite normal yet. Not quite normal but were certainly getting there. No bright orange glow, gasia. What a site it was yesterday. Today were back to our old faithful fogfilled sky. Theres plenty of smoke in the sky. That means two thirds of the air quality is poor quality, especially if you live in the east bay or north bay. This bears repeating. What a difference a day looks. Heres a look at oakland, wednesday draped in that bright orange hue and then back to the well take it. This is looking down on highway 24, foggy and gray there and as we go into the Rockbridge Area much of the same area. After fires, extreme heat, blackouts, anything that resembles normalcy in 2020 well take it. Its nice in the moment but scary and sad to think about the environment and think about the fact this will be yet again another new normal. But there was nothing normal about this. Actually had
This photo sent by les carr. Lets look at live conditions. This is our camera on top of our studio in jack london square, looking out towards San Francisco. You cant even see the city there in the distance. Some are describing the key is as having a post apocalyptic look. Here is another camera at sfo. The sky appears more gray than orange. Flights have not been affected by all of the ash in the air we are told. And finally a live camera in the east bear on highway 24 in laugh fayette, looking toward walnut creek. Our view from mount diablo has been obscured. You cant even see it, for the past three weeks now. Lets go for more on this s bill, weve all been talking, never seen anything like it. No, this is, in our tenure, definitely, julie, this has been unprecedented. I saw something similar to this, like i mentioned earlier, when Mount Saint Helens blew in 1982 in eastern washington. The skies looked like this. But that was a major, massive volcano. I mean, the smoke from these fires
Skies today in san jose. The skies werent as orange there, but you can still see the thick of smoke around the city. Even at 12 30 this afternoon. Tom vacar is live in beauty county with the latest on the north complex fear that has for thuses of people to evacuate. We begin, though, with Cristina Rendon for a closer look at todays weird weather. Cristina in. Reporter well, julie, weird is right. Its still raining ash here in my backyard. The Patio Furniture is still covered in ash. It was the difference, he, this morning of that or an sky. It felt like night in the middle of the day. My wife said its yellow. Would say its more orange. Reporter wednesday felt like we woke up on a different planet, mars perhaps, or a world filled with falling ash . It looks like nighttime. Its insane. Reporter angela was a bit disoriented when her alarm went off. I woke up this morning and it was a really eerie feeling. I felt like did i mess up . Is it nighttime . Whats going on. Its disorienting. Feel
Smoke so thick the sunlight could barely shine through. Across the bay area people woke up confused as they looked like night. Ktvu was flooded with photos from our viewers who pulled out the cameras to capture the eerie orange glow that lasted for much of the day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama joins us with more on how it all unfolded. Reporter this really was a first for many people here. This darkness during the day and the orange glow, for many businesses this was yet another setback. Almost like a dream, the entire bay area woke up to this. It felt like we were living on mars. Weed couldnt figure out what time it was, even if the afternoon was so dark and orange and red. It was apocalyptic. By 10 00 it was darker than it was at 7 00 a. M. Reporter the darkness and orange tent stretched from the bank and east contra costa county, like a nuclear fallout. Ash flying from the sky covered cards and straits. In San Francisco my friend said she had a hose down her car twice before it got all off.
But this lack of data doesnt allow us to know where the epidemic is heading. The state department of Public Health has deployed a tech team to figure out what happened. Until it is fixed, labs are being told to manually report all positive cases to local health departments. Heres a new program, getting paid to stay at home. Alameda county will pay people who cant afford to selfisolate. The goal is to slow the spread of the virus. Melissa colorado is in oakland with the details. It was not like a cold. People go to work with a cold. This will affect the whole community. Reporter its the coronavirus conundrum impacting low income people who test positive for covid19. Go to work and expos others or stay at home and lose your paycheck and maybe even your job . These are individuals that work in construction, work in restaurants, work in grocery stores. Reporter ceo jane garcia treats uninsured and undocumented patients in oakland. Their employer is asking them to provide documentation that