The sky filled with smoke, a blanket of unhealthy air is choking much of the area. Pretty bad today. Is it going to be better . Well see some improvement throughout the bay area. Ill explain why coming up in the 2nd. Not uncommon to have fires burning in fire season. What is uncommon, winds from the south carrying smoke from other parts of the state 300 miles away and transporting that smoke into the bay area thats what you were breathing this morning. Its always ozone. Air quality managers say its a bad combination of both. In the bay area, were being contacted impacted by impacted by smoke from several wildfires, ozone due to high temperatures inland. Those two factors have come together and created a number of spare the air alerts in recent days. This evening, the air quality got better. T because the winds are beginning to change. Im going to call it elevated smoke tomorrow. Itll still be there tomorrow. But where were breathing, it will not be there. The onshore flow will get stro
The weekend. Is your microphone working. For some it will warm up today, for others wait until the weekend. Inland temps look like they will jump up. Warmer over the weekend, certainly sunday for sure, when it looks to be the warmest day of the weekend for everybody. Pretty good fog bank out there, ill say for mid september. Got chewed up on tuesday, boom, there it is. Much of this is making a pretty good surge here for some. For others its cloudy on the cool side. Not much of a delta breeze. Some upper 40s for some. 50s for others. Very cool. Look at the 40s here, black hawk, danville. Lafayette, walnut creek. Yet it is clear for many. Fog will retreat. High pressure is building in, and the north, northeast breeze, hints developing by tonight into tomorrow. But today, 60s, 70s, coast and bay. 80s to near 90 for some inland. What do you have on a friday. Friday light . Friday medium. You know, we do have slow traffic out there. But its not quite as robust as the commutes have been for
An update on the top stories. Police are looking for a hit and run driver who killed another driver. Investigators say a Toyota Sienna van clipped a toyota scion in redwood city. This happened just south of woodside road. The scion lost control and crashed into the center divide. That driver died and driver of the van never stopped. Officers believe the hit and run driver was in a light brown 2000 Toyota Sienna similar to this one. San jose police have released new video of a 7eleven robbery. They are hoping someone will recognize these two thieves. Take a look. The men walked into the store six months ago on sixth street and grabbed several cases of peer and just walked out the door. When the cashier confronted them, the man in the black there threatened him with a knife. Plus, pinpointing the Homeless Population in the south bay. A new map is helping relief workers coordinate their outreach using census data it can pinpoint where homeless encampments are forming. Daniel trujillo has
Coming up over the next several minutes. Details on. That mike has been tracking something happening in union city. Thats right, kari, we have two incidents, one looks big, one is bigger, though. We look at the map. We see the Speed Sensors are fine. This is the big one, folks. Northbound side. We had a disabled big rig blocking the slow lane a. Minivan couldnt avoid that rig. Someone crashed into that van. There is all this Police Activity and emergency vehicles on scene. Only your fast lane the far left lane is opened. You travel north at niles, union city, jammed up from alvarado boulevard. That will be an issue for folks traveling through that area. They may be dire. Well take you over there. This one looks like a big deal. Its off the berkeley curve. There is a medical emergency. Its not blocking any lanes. Its a distraction. Back to you. Mike, thank you. Breaking news overnight. Another major aftershock rattling ecuador. The 6. 1 quake struckoff shore about 2 00 in the morning ou
The giants are going to the National League championship series. The giants get it done. San francisco defeats the Washington Nationals tonight in front of a hometown crowd. They now move on. One step closer to the world series. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama dates. Cornell bernard is live outside at t park where fans just went wild. Hi, cornell. Hi, ama. The giants have done it again. They are National League champs after beating thes 32. Most fans have left at t park after hoping to get a glimpse from the favorite players. Truly an evening they will not forg g giants fans rocked at t pa park clinching the division series. The party spilled out on to Willie Mays Plaza and the fans went crazy. It is awesome i had so much fun. Giants fans made it clear they had no time for game five. Fans started waiving the orange rally rags early in the game generating good luck. The team broke a 22 tie in the seventh inning. The crowd went wild. They took the credit. It is bringing great luck. T