As it has been theres a look at the current particulate matter levels they particulate matter levels in the air much of the bay now in the yellow and orange which is much better than the dark purple and reds weve been seeing this past week and heres a look at the current air quality in the bay area as you can see. Much better tonight than the past few days the whole country theres feeling some sort of the bay area obviously. Producing a lot of it california producing a lot of it oregon washington, the whole west coast really for the most part. An incredible change from yesterdays air quality and that is good good news. No doubt about it. All right want to check in with our chief meteorologist right now. Lawrence karnow please tell me this trend will continue yeah going to get better to was certainly nice to see the skies begin to turn a little blue outside of weve been looking at this shot over the past few days we have been able to see the Golden Gate Bridge. How about that the Golden
Today, it might seem odd but yesterdays marine layer that created that orange glow actually provided us with some relief from the smoke but today, the air quality has dropped to his unhealthiest in days, youre all just want to issues out there and joins us now with the very latest orange, yeah, this looks very similar to a couple years ago with the paradise fire. We have the offshore winds. And all the smoke up or back in the bay area boy just very thick out there right now this looking from timber on back toward the Golden Gate Bridge lost in some of that smoke and fog outside right now the air quality. Very bad around the bay area in extremely unhealthy specially in a San Francisco right now i want you to look at this you see the darker shade here the purple here that is the most unhealthy air quality in the entire bay area right now very unhealthy but everywhere you go just about in the san mateo you get Fremont Hayward you names in the areas shaded in red here actually a little bit
Outdoors but its of course been challenging especially with the bad air quality now and these new restrictions loosening assign san franciscans are doing their part to slow the spread of covid19. Its unbelievable fritz clay owns hair play salon in the city and has been closed since march constantly like people hearing about yes other counties of all and so can make an and micah, you know. You know listen to the is not San Francisco yet we were there when clay was getting ready to reopen in june only to have held orders reversed after a spike in covid19 cases hair salons are allowed to operate outdoors but not for clay salon he says hes ready to get back to work a lot more on my smock so now i have socks city. A lot of a lot of hand mask mask mass thursday, the city released this statement detailing the additional reopening starting on monday september 14th allowing Indoor Personal Services with limited capacity that includes hair and nail salons gyms and Fitness Centers. It remains to
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
Percent now this is a downgrade of 6. 3 Percentage Points from general 2020 Major Division over a very short period of time. This makes the Great Lockdown last recession since the Great Depression and far worse than the Global Financial crises the i. M. F. Chief economist said there will be a partial recovery in 2021 adding the overall g. D. P. Will remain below previous levels the comments come weeks after u. N. Secretary general and tony terras made similar comments saying the pandemic will bring a recession that has no parallel in recent years and that it is the worst crisis since the 2nd world war meanwhile the w t o said last week global trade will fall by between 13 and 32 percent this year alone now theres a lot of great down here so lets go ahead and bring in some expert analysis from cohost ben swann and christiane i guys thank you so much for joining us christy this contraction of Economic Growth is it simply because of supply chain slowdowns or are there entire industries th