The skyline just as hazy and smokey. Taking a look from our east hills camera, definitely you can see the same smokey conditions in its glory. Glory is probably not the right word. This is nonetheless a reality. Lets look at the air monitors right now, you can see it is mostly red or even dark red, maroon, meaning very poor air quality, certainly you should avoid exexertion being outdoors. The reason we are getting such poor air is we have hold on, my director is talking to me. Go ahead all right. Certainly that air quality is not good for people so we want to bring in dr. Hung who often joins us to talk about covid19. Right now, i want to get you talking about the poor air quality. Weve had, of course, for such a long people. Whats the advice for folks . Folks may know the regular mosque isnt filtering that air. You need to breathe in an n95 if you will go out. Unfortunately, this is a time not to spend too much timeout doors. They will be checking the air quality but be very stay hom
Put it in gear and take off. , next thing you know, the phone is in your hand stop we should be holding the wheel, not holding the phone. Its a busy world out there. And were all in it together. Go safely, california. Welcome back to kron 4 news at 6 the air quality as you know around the bay area is bad in fact it is among the worst in the world right now, heres a look at purple airs air quality map much of the bay area including San Francisco oakland daly city and nevado are in the purple range which is considered very unhealthy and even dangerous for people with prior Health Conditions and as he had a little bit farther east and south the air gets slightly better but its still considered unsafe to breeze for long periods of time take a look at how things look at this hour outside a live look outside at the Golden Gate Bridge where you can barely see one of the towers there and the rest of the bridge disappears in the haze cheaper all just. Maurice carroll here to tell us whats going
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Were in for another day of sweltering heat across the bay area. The heat wave has prompted a Public Safety power shutoff over the next few days, all while people try to get out this Holiday Weekend afterpendg months inside because of the pandemic. Good morning, everybody. It is sunday, september 6. Thank you for joining us. Im liz kreutz. Today is the 20th straight spare the air alert for the bay area. Lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at what we can chargexpect today. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. From the mid60s t the delta. Winds are light so the offshore component isnt with us yet, that will be late tomorrow. Water view shows the smoke smoks the various fires burning in california. A high of 94 today at the host. 80 in mountain view. 72 downtown. Mt. Tam a little hazy there, 18 already in 79 in livermore. Our 24hour temperature change, were building on the warmth of the overni
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
Bay area. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think its going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. Stay. I think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. Little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the Golden Gate Bridge weve got some fog rolling on shore thats good. Unfortunately. It just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and theyre just so small so much smoke around right now back weve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all across the bay into