The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
Grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 the highly unusual sight all across the bay area skies. Its just better. All people are talking about today indeed taking a live look outside right now across the bay from the bay bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. The san mateo bridge to the richmond sandra fell bridge. It looks normal right now, but all day. It was just about as dark run for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage explaining. What weve been witnessing in how long the skies could stay like this lawrence whats going on yet let my entire life here in california have never seen a day like today wake up to the orange skies and certainly. Was concern looking at the maps though you can see where it came from not the more fires locally but number we have the paradise fire a few years back that but all the smoke in the bay area will now weve got another fire near theyre called the bear fire. Weve also got the august complex and t
The bay area and beyond so many viewers, sharing pictures and videos like these today, thank you so much for sending them in helping us understand the scope of this problem, the smoky air mostly coming from wildfires, burning north of us. Yes for the air alert spanning woodburning as you can imagine is going to be in effect through at least friday now in the bay areas thick smoke from wildfires continues to envelop the region creating this orange hazy sky businesses is the 25th straight day. The air district is issued a spare the air alert. And here to explain the Science Behind all the weird colors out there Lawrence Karnow the guys just when i thought this is going to be kind of a slow weather day done with all the heat waves and everything else. Here we go one of the strangest days ive ever experienced in weather waking up to the orange skies outside. And all that smoke coming down from the fires and certainly it moved along want to push on through bringing with a lot of smoke not f
Skies blanket the bay area from dawn till dusk. Thanks for joining u. S. Attorney and everybody high Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus certainly surreal lot of people saying these ominous skies were in a way stunning yet certainly. Unsettling to wake up to hard to know what time it was all day long want to check in first with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow. Obviously everyones wondering lawrence is going to happen again tomorrow. Yeah i think well start to see some improvement tomorrow were not going to see asked smoky conditions around the bay area but certainly. Theyll still be some smoke out there we had those north northeasterly winds remember were talking about the high fire danger yesterday, were worried about the real gusty winds. Well, those winds didnt cause or sparking fires around the bay area but we did have a fires that were already burning in far Northern California up you county near paradise they another fire burning there the bear fire lot of smoke filtering i
Look at still winds across the region all the smoke is going to start start to settle down in the bay and that means worsening air quality likely over the next couple of days that smoke is of being pushed anywhere because winds have calmed down so much right now were in the 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with a word in oakland at 63. Concord and Fairfield Beach at 58 while dublin and livermore 57 to kick off this morning. As we look at wind speeds across the bay area you see how calm things are that northerly flow that brought us the smoke, its all but gone at this point. Now we just have a weak onshore. Wind that is pushing in just a touch of fog at the coast. That likely has a bit of smoke imbedded in as well as we do look at calm winds that smoke is it going to be pushed anywhere else so now its just settled right here in the bay area meaning likely to be hazy skies well through the afternoon. These hazy skies. Theyre going to keep temperatures cool way cooler than we hav