Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The west Coast Wildfire crisis causing smokefilled skies to dominate the bay area. From the Serious Health effects to todays niners game potentially put on pause. And mental stress for some. The gloomy air affecting all of us. Good morning, everyone, im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Today is the 22nd executive spare the air day. Meteorologist lisa argen is here. Good mornin sig relief . Well, liz, were in a complicated blocked pattern in our atmosphere. It will change but it will be slow. Theres even smoke offshore, as well as to the south of us with the many fires burning. So it is going to be a while. But things are trending better as we get into the next 24 to 30 hours. Theres a look at the fog off the coast and smoke all throughout the state of california. Visibility continues to be reduced with the fog and haze and smoke entrained in this marine layer. A mile and a half, a mile and a quarter, peta
Its sunday, september 13th. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Todays a record 27th consecutive spare the air day. Meteorologist lisa argen is here. Lisa, good morning. We are seeing some signs of relief . The forecast is pointed in the right direction. We have unhealthy air. Count me as one of the ones taking a toll with the weather. Its been hard on us all staying inside and having day after day of the very unhealthy air. Live doppler 7 picking up on the fog, the dense fog advisory through about 9 00, not as foggy as its been the past couple days but check out oakland over a mile is not great and a mile and a half in petaluma, a mile on the coast, six miles by the delta. Temperatures from the low to mid50s in the north bay to near 60 in brentwood. The reds indicate the unhealthy air once again, our spare the air alert. Onshore flow is with us, we need for it to strengthen today and as it does, it should help out in small amounts as we get looking bett. Ater afternoon,ayn for th
Be fast, be secure. Bounce forward. With comcast business. Get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. Gyms like this one, salons and tattoo parlors finally will be opening up in San Francisco. I will tell you when. A beloved summer camp that helped many bay areas through cancer has burned in one of the wildfires. Coming up, how you can help. Thick smoke. I will let you know how the air quality looks going into the weekend. South bay residents demanding answers and action. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. The ominous orange skies on wednesday morphed into a concrete gray layer of smoke and ash and conditions went from bad to dangerous across the bay area. More than 100 monitoring stations reporting very unhealthy air. Look at this. This is incredible. No matter where you are, the air is bad. You can blame it all on the smoke from the dozens of wildfires
Francisco skyline encased in gray and the freeway almost invisible through the haze. This is sfo. You can see the smoke blanketing the state in this satellite image. Children and people with respiratory issues are told to avoid all physical activities outdoors and doctors say inhaling wildfire throat can cause smoke and throat irritation, coughing and more. Longterm exposure increases your risk of cardiac disease, stroke, and also it actually reduces your life except aens, so you have increased mortality. The bad air forced San Franciscos nine9 11 ceremony t move indoors. This is the 25th save the air alert in a row. These comparisons show the transformation from the pumpkin orange that was so eerie to the smokey gray skies we got today. Because the smoke was trapped above the fog and now is reaching ground level some residents can say they feel the change. It is bothering my eyes and making it harder to breathe. I find myself wearing my mask inside and out. The picture on the left is
Live camera to from Mount Jackson points to the west here you can see the smoke coming off the fires, theyre filling the valleys and also overhead firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire so at least theyve been able to accomplish that. Speaking of the fires more breaking news to our south military helicopters are attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire burning in Fresno County. Now today will be their 3rd attempt to try and get these hikers out the rescue operation had to be called off last night because as you can see in this video the smoke just got too heavy and too dense for the helicopter crews. We have a picture of the hikers they seem to be doing in fact this photograph shows you theyre all hunker down right now at the vermilion. Campers and lake edison volunteers are helping them stay fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued again theyre in good spirits for now because they are still a little bit of ways