Now at 11 00, catastrophic wildfires, awful air, and we still have two more months of fire season. So what is the strategy . Its a fine line to watch between pushing people and equipment too hard and not providing the help we feel like we need. Tuesday will be our 29th straight spare the air day in the ba amg relief fro poo forecast. Ingnstead. County decid rngct. Plus, whats in your water . Hundreds of wells revealed to contain potentially toxic chemicals and some of the worst are here in the bay area. It doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays. And the Health Impacts are great. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, four weeks of bad air and its not over yet. The unhealthy conditions forcing some south bay high schools to cancel the first day of practice for fall sports. Our chief meteorologist paul hagan joins us now. Theres actually a little glimmer of hope that we may see some healthy air coming in here soon.
We need. Tuesday will be our 29th straight spare the air day in the bay area but im tracking relief from the poor air quality in the forecast. One bay area county decides its reopening plan is too strict. What its doing instead. Plus, whats in your water . Hundreds of wells revealed to contain potentially toxic chemicals and some of the worst are here in the bay area. It doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays. And the Health Impacts are great. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, four weeks of bad air and its not over yet. The unhealthy conditions forcing some south bay high schools to cancel the first day of practice for fall sports. Our chief meteorologist paul hagan joins us now. Theres actually a little glimmer of hope that we may see some healthy air coming in here soon. I think the worst of it now is behind us, assuming nothing else changes, but were going to be heading into the right direction through th
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
Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our Treasure Island camera out at the city of San Francisco. Good morning, it is tuesday, september 15th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Glad to have you with us. Lets get to the forecast. Another smoky day with mary but we will see a little relief . That is right, just a little bit and this is the start of that improving air quality. It has been a slow start but for sure it isgoing to be e d o woek, especially compared to what we have been dealing with. We are starting off our day with smoky skies and unhealthy air quality and we have another spare the air alert for the bay area going a record 29 days in a row with that alert for the bay area and with that unhealthy air. I think it will get a little better in spots. Yesterday, some reporting some blue skies. We are going to continue with some improving air quality conditions as we go through the week. Still looking at below average temperatures for ma
Quality get a little bit better. Yesterday, we started off the day with unhealthy to very unhealthy air and now were looking at some spots even moderate air quality this morning. So that is the difference compared to what we have experienced over the last several days. Moderate air quality in santa rosa, and that is great to see it is or and starts in San Francisco, napa, fairfield, rio vista, unhealthy for everyone for san rafael, oakland, redwood city, livermore, and san jose. We are beginning to see a little bit of improvement and we will continue to improve with the air quality as we go through the workweek. Looking at that spare the air alert that remains in effect for the bay area, it is going a record 29 days in a row with our smoky skies and that spare the air alert. Our smoke model, as we got through the next couple of days does show the improving air quality. So there is hope as we go through the next few days. We will talk more about that, the better days for air quality, co