Strank avantage of it while they can. The previous record was 14 days and that was in 2018 during the camp fire. Of course well continue to monitor the air quality as the potential for unhealthy air returns for us this weekend. Mike will have updates for you right here. You can always see the levels at abc7news. Com on our air quality tracker. President trump is once again challenging the nations top health officials, this time at odds with the head of the cdc. And they are disagreeing here on the time line for releasing a covid19 vaccine. While testifying under oath, dr. Robert red field told lawmakers no to distribution to the general public until late spring or summer of next year. Hours later President Trump said redfield was wrong, he claims that the government can start giving the vaccine as early as next month. The president also suggested that redfield misspoke when he said wearing a mask is the most effective way to fight the virus. It is not more effective by any means than a
Is exercise. Psychology professor said the smoky conditions can contribute to anxiety, angst and depression on top of everything else. It can also disrupt sleep especially on days like yesterday. Heres how the smoke looks like in space. The satellite show winds pushing south to Southern California from as far away as oregon. Smoke advisories continue for our region. Of the National Weather service said there will be little change in the smoke across the bay area in 18 hours. Were joined now with more on the air quality. There will be a change in the atmosphere over the next 24 hours. We do have the winds blowing the right way. This is a smoke and i want to show you the surface winds. Which way are they blowing . Thats at the surface, thats a good direction. We are getting that went. Lets go up to the next level above the surface, by thousand feet. The winds are blowing southwesterly or blowing in a southeasterly direction. Now what weve discovered is that layer from 5000 feet down to t
All the smoke looks like big bank of clouds. The smoke coming down in our direction from the oregon fires and the fires of california and it is just collecting in the upper levels of the atmosphere. And then the low clouds and fog, the marine layer, down at the surface level. A layer cake effect with the smoke layer above and the marin layer below. And we had a rather vigorous onshore flow with weaker winds aloft. Right now, theyre getting a little stronger but not enough to change the setup that ive just explained to you. Fog. Air quality right now, be nearly as red as you might think by looking at the ugly air. We have yellow dots indicating moderate air quality. We have poor air quality in ukiah and vacaville. Looking southward, oakland, San Francisco, fremont, livermore, san jose, we even have good air quality indicated by the green dots over parts of, well, parts of the santa cruz mountains. The marine layer will push locally inland. We might see some drizzle in the overnight hour
Fire otheir progress, but say they dealt with issues on the east side of the fires throughout the afternoon yesterday. 7 00 last night, the lnu lightning complex has burned nearly 550 square miles, and is 25 contained. 908 buildings are destroyed. 248 are damage. More than 30,000 are threatened. Six people have died including a pge worker. Theres a lot of work to be done. Any evacuation orders remain in place. If you get to go back to your property, there is a reentry point set up for those who live within the myers fire zone in sonoma county. Its not required to check in, but it could be helpful. We are going to stop here because cal fire is about to start a News Conference with an update to the czu morning complex. My name is jonathan. And deputy chief. A quick reminder, if you could mute your telephones and take conversations outside the press conference area it would be appreciated. Please keep your masks on when not speaking. A quick update. 6 00 this morning, this incident is 78,
Connection with their peers and teeners than was possible last spring. The your honor president Susan Solomon saying it mean this safe educational requirements, and now that both of sides have had a chance to sit down and figure out however Distance Learning will work, they hope it will work better for families. This is what were striving for, is something that is clearer and better than it was in the spring. The agreement would also mean teachers receive their regular pay and a stipend to help pay for any expenses, such as making sure their Internet Speed is fast enough to teach effectively. The unions 6500 teachers began discussing the new plan at 4 00 p. M. , and will vote whether or not to approve it over the weekend. While many parents in San Francisco say they are happy that a Distance Learning plan is in place for the august 17th start to the school year, others say they want their students back in the classroom. They want to be in chase class. They miss their friends. On top of