President trump today in california walking through the burned out remains of family homes in what was the town of paradise. Its gone. 90 of the houses and buildings there consumed by the wildfire. A reporter there asked the question if seeing this destruction, smelling it, feeling it has changed his opinion on climate change. His answer, no. Does it seem to change your opinion on climate change, mr. President . No, no, i have a strong opinion. I want forests that are very safe because we cant go through this every year. We are going to have safe forests. And thats happening as we speak. You said there needs to be changed in fire management. Well Work Together with the federal government. State, local and federal government. Federal government will work with the state and well help them with funding. Its going to take a lot of funding, ill tell you that. Should they have done things differently before this . A lot of things have been learned. Also today for second straight day the pres
than 150 miles away in san francisco, dozens of schools and transit systems forced to close due to the low advisability and the toxic air quality. cnn meteorologist is joining us now. jean, how far could it spread? you mentioned we have some of the worst air quality in the world right now. even worse than china and india. hive been tracking it throughout the day. san joaquin valley. here s what we are looking at healthy and very unhealthy range colored in red or purple. the arrows indicates the tendency in the last couple of hours. in many ways while this is a bad news story because of bad air quality, but good news chico has come down below 200 and change from purple to read. but everyone else in the red category definitely not a good situation but the values have been coming down a little bit.
as you saw from the other video, it s not just that there are trees on fire. of course, structures have burned. and that is adds go to the toxic problem for the air. carbon monoxide is being released and poisons the blood cells. secondly, nitrogen dioxide which is in the lungs which is like acid. where is it going to spread? it s going to head on into sections not only california but the pacific northwest, there is an air quality alert in effect for the san joaquin valley as we head into through actually until tuesday, then there is also an air stagnation alert for the pacific northwest. good news, ana, is we are expecting a series of storms to move in between now and just after thanksgiving that will help bring this area some much needed relief. fingers crossed. jean mormon, thank you for the information. you can find out how to help people affected by the fires by going to cnn.com/impact.