all that smoke is affecting major league sports. the yankees and phillies postponed their games last night. wnba scrapped the liberty s indoor game because of poor air quality. the new york post cover with the old joke today blame canada. let s bring in nate foye from jersey city overlooking downtown manhattan. nate, what does it look like there today? well, gillian, the smoke is certainly more noticeable at this point today than it was yesterday. but as you showed in the time lapse we ll be watching the next few hours. it was at about 2:00 yesterday where conditions really got at their worst. take a look behind me at the new york city skyline across the hudson. you can see the smoke still lingering over the city. we are seeing a lot more people wearing facemasks today. the mayor expects conditions to get worse throughout the day. this is having a big impact on travelers. let s take a live look from the philadelphia international
airport. ground stop just ended here. a ground stop still in effect at new york s laguardia airport and seeing delays at newark international here in new jersey. i want to show you how bad things got yesterday in new york. look at this. in the middle of the afternoon for a time it was so dark from all the smoke that we could not see the sun for about 30 minutes. people told us in central park they were experiencing physical symptoms as a result of the smoke. these conditions are expected to last for a couple more days. here is new york city mayor eric adams. at 5:00 p.m. the air quality index hit 484. hazardous condition we re facing. on the levels of health concern, this is the highest level index of our knowledge since the 60s. look at this where the smoke is going. you can see the pittsburgh area will be hit hard over the next day.
east coast is set to clear out by early saturday morning. the effect of all that smoke. you see new york in the unhealthy category in this next map as well as new jersey, maryland, virginia and delaware all in the very unhealthy category today. pennsylvania is the worst today in the hazardous category. as you mentioned in your intro , this is having a big impact on sports. the phillies and yankees games were canceled last night. yankees hope to play a double-header today. we ll see if they can squeeze it in. conditions are expected to get worse. first pitch in game one is set for after 4:00. we ll see about that. look at all the events impacted by this, wnba game in brooklyn was canceled. multiple broadway shows including hamilton were canceled. races at belmont park today are canceled. the belmont stakes on saturday is still set to happen. back here live we re waiting on
where particularly those vulnerable are affected. young, healthy people should put things in perspective. they are far more likely to get into a medical harm from a car accident driving to buy one of these than they are from the actual fire smoke if we talk about short duration exposure in someone who is otherwise healthy. gillian: this is our top story today but i want to ask you about something else we ve spoken about many times and get your quick take. the rise in social media use by teens sparking new grave concerns about their mental health. some are dubbing teens as generation isolation. there is a new study out that shows teens are hanging out with their friends less and less now. this chart here shows how real life interactions have plummeted since the emergence of the smartphone. 60% of high school goals feel persistently sad or hopeless way up from 36% a decade ago.
you go out in the fire smoke. it s the duration of ex potion. you don t want to be in it all the time. if you re healthy you re relatively immune from the problems. use recirculated air in the car. masks are polarizing since we put cloth masks on kids for three years with no benefit and some harm. but the high-quality masks, n-95s can be helpful with people with asthma or seniors who a vulnerable. gillian: i was reading earlier this morning it s about the risks of the particles you can inhale. i understand that contained in this smoke and this smog is not just burned up trees and leaves and natural material but really bad toxins and chemicals and plastic particles. is that true what i just laid out there? by far compared to