Afternoon. We do have the entire north a from the coast, valleys, as well as the hells last until 5 00 this afternoon. Associate to the east bay, the wind advisory expires for the bay area but the red flag warning continues for east bay hills as well as the valley locations until 5 00. One more shift along areas are the Santa Cruz Mountains stretching along the san mateo coastline in parts of the peninsula there. Also going until 5 00 this afternoon. We will check in with the winds briefly, we have lost almost road in the north reporting 21 relative humidity. The winds are sustained at 22. Not quite as gusty as early on, 65 degrees no. Santa rosa, take a look at that number, 27 degrees, 27 Miles Per Hour for the winds, relative committees 21 . Very warm, very dry and as we know, the winds are still blowing. Better details in what you can expect for today, the red flag warning set to expire later this afternoon and your extended forecast, coming up just a little bit. Millions of people
Health, so i spoke with pulmonologist dr. Vinny job, to get some answers to your questions. We have been dealing with the smoke for weeks now, what are the longterm risks from breathing all of the stuff in for so long . Is there a cumulative effect as one of our viewers asked, is it going to be affecting us later like the coal mines did for people . We look at wildfire smoke, there is been, shown to be an increase in respiratory problems. Meaning bronchitis, potentially pneumonia, etc. , but not, not, the other things have not been shown meaning an increase in an increase in mortality due to cardiovascular effects. The jury is still out on those, the research is mixed on those endpoints. People with heart and lung problems honestly have risks with this air quality but what about the people who come you know, were otherwise healthy . How much of a risk is it for most people . If you are talking about air lein thred little bit each day, just a little bit of daily activity, then that is p
The air quality has been so bad that San Francisco closed a number of services today. The Citys Department of Emergency Management closed down some coronavirus testing sites. The National Park service is shutdown alcatraz, fort point today. We are activating whether these centers for people who need access to weather relief. We will give you the Current Conditions on what to expect this weekend. First we take it to ktvus ann rubin with how people are handling the Health Effects with all of the smoke in the air. People are doing their best to stay indoors. Doctors say they are already seeing the impacts of all of this bad air. Day after day of awful air quality is starting to take its toll. I have had like three migraines this week. Carbon health, which runs care clinics around the bay area has seen an influx in complaints and not just for people with asthma or emphysema. What you miss is that there is a higher risk of things that are sinus related as well. The irritation of the air par
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