forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city s history, yesterday. the smog, the smell. i feel i am getting a headache. feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. asthma. when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new york further south where it will smother even more states. 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 bla
gillian: all right. jason, thanks so much for joining us on this wide-ranging journey we took in the segment. appreciate it. hope you stay safe in new york, by the way. thank you. gillian: thank you for watching the faulkner focus. i m gillian turner in for harris, outnumbered is coming up right after the break. my name is joshua florence, and one thing i learned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don t know what you re getting into, but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you.
seems to be unwilling to do. one of those things right now that needs to be done is indoor mask mandates. ideally, there are also vaccination requirements and there will be ways to increase the vaccination rate substantially over time. but the immediate step that needs to be taken is masking because masking does work, and we know that crowded indoor settings, that s the breeding ground for all these coronavirus transmissions that are currently happening. we also know that it s not just care to coronavirus patients who are impacted. it is also patients coming in with heart attacks and strokes, car accidents. medical care doesn t stop during covid-19. and those patients are being impacted, too. you re so right. if they could just start embracing masks down in florida, it would make a huge difference. thank you so much for being with us this evening. hope you stay safe. talk again real soon. appreciate it. thank you. all right. just ahead, a live report from
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tornado. and when my niece told me to get into the shelter, that it was hitting my neighborhood right now, that s when i went ahead, you know, and discretion was the better part of valor, i guess, and got in the shelter. we re thankful for that. we ll check in later. hope you stay safe. hope your sister is okay. the national weather service has issued a warning, dangerous storms in the oklahoma area, multiple tornado locations. please take cover. they have made it very clear that there may be another tornado forming north of mustang. we also already know of one large violent tornado east of highway 81 near el reno that hit roughly half an hour ago. if you re just tuning in, there is a national weather service tornado emergency that is a more serious warning than a tornado warning. a tornado emergency means that a large destructive tornado is moving into a densely populated