A new spare the air alert has been issued for tomorrow and one is already in effect today. In fact, you can see the haze over San Francisco in this video from our tower camera. And look at the colors and the time lapse of the sun rise over the bay. Tomorrows spare the air alert is the 18th one this season. We are joined live from the newsroom to explain the health impacts. Health experts are telling us 2017 was one of the worst for bay area air quality because of the wine country fires and then the thomas fire in Southern California which is still burning and has sent smoke drifting our way. Stagnant weather is creating unhealthy conditions. And triggers spare the air alerts day after day after day. There were 30 in two previous seasons, the winter of 2013 2014. So we have not set a record, thank goodness, because these alerts mean our air quality is extremely poor, down right dangerous for some people. According to a pulmonary specialist. People with asthma, chronic pulmonary disease
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