Difference in death rates between the 2 will shock you tonight, San Francisco has recorded 99 covid related deaths while new york city has recorded close to 24,000 covid related deaths. Earlier this evening. I talked with doctor bob wachter chair of the department of medicine over at ucs us who says the 2 main reasons for our lower numbers is good leadership and good citizenship. Doctor wachter says people have been diligent about Wearing Masks for the most part he also says that shutting down the city as early as we did prevented our Hospital System from becoming has overwhelmed as new yorks was. But it is important to remember that its not this is not the time to become complacent and let your guard down doctor wachter says despite the lower numbers in San Francisco, we could still see a spike. So theres nothing about the virus that has changed from march to now it is every bit as capable of causing infections, your chances of dying if you get the virus is a little bit lower now than
The oranges we have seen the past couple of days once the sun eventually does come up, you will notice that the air the smoke has a bit of a tinge to it but its going to look more just and healthy than anything else air quality continues to deteriorate and now almost all of the bay area is in our very worst category as far as air quality goes this is the worst weve ever put on this smoke map. Not all season long so far weve seen some bad air so far but as that smoky level continues to sink further and further down. Now this is where were sitting and likely will be sitting throughout the course of the rest of the day so its not just fog. Its a lot of smoke imbedded within that fog thats making its way on shore visibility in Half Moon Bay below a mile right now San Francisco also has some visibility problem spots as do the hills above the east bay and fog is going to be sitting with us for some time so do expect kind of a gloomy start to this friday morning and not a friday that you want
The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news at night youre just looking at really bad air quality continue from yesterday and unfortunately we continuing on through the weekend 40 things took a turn for the worse on friday. Were seeing a lot of smoke mixing down from a number of sources. Unhealthy air is just sitting over the bay area this weekend. The extremely poor air quality just doesnt want to leave. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall right now air quality levels across the bay area needless to say are at unhealthy levels get this. Some areas like livermore seeing air quality levels at nearly 500 thats dangerous folks we have Live Team Coverage of that bad air including one event held today in the east bay. Despite the spoke it conditions forced gayle ong is live right now for us in livermore with details good evening, gayle. Good evening just cnn jonathan where you are in the bay area, the smoke is bad. Organiz
John youve been calling it right all week long so we want to get a look at the weather patterns that are affecting the air quality, yeah guys because what weve seen already is obviously smoky skies for the past few days that existing smoke is just been sinking closer and closer down to us. And now has officially sunk into the bay itself. Plus some wildfire smoke thats making its way in from the coast. This morning, San Francisco cant see much it is another gray morning yet another day without much sunshine. Air quality as you mentioned the worst it can be the worst weve seen it in this 25 consecutive days of spare the air alerts so weve been saying how unhealthy areas. Today is the worst of that so even though you may have cut you still less than ideal conditions today is not one to stepping outside and doing much, especially avoid those workouts i know weve still been getting out there for jogs today, it is a rest day it needs to be if you care about your lungs and your health because
Moderate conditions in yellow for most of the east bay and peninsula and then good conditions once you head north of petaluma up to santa rosa. So its definitely a mixed bag this morning as far as what were talking about some of us sitting a little bit nicer than others. A lot like we have the past couple days right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s low clouds overhead business as usual weve been this way the past few mornings were keeping the nice conditions around as we will into the afternoon to daytime highs, nice and moderate with highs at their warmest only in the upper 80s to add one low 90. Vacaville Hayward Fremont in the 70s will 60s up the coast. I am talking a lot hotter of weather just around the corner stay with us for that rob. All right. Thank you lets check in on your morning commute for those of you heading out there getting ready to roll around the bay area this morning. Oh im so sorry thats a graphic thats actually left over from yesterday i should have delete