Yesterday and that is definitely a nice little shift look at this lightning up his first colors go on the map which is a very noticeable difference that deep deep red now right there clumped up on the eastern end of the Central Valley were worst of air quality of settle down ahead of the Sierra Nevada foothills deep here across the bay area indicating poor conditions which weve become familiar with for nearly 30 days to spare the air alerts now and then conditions up in portions of the north bay for the first time in multiple days, so these are some positive changes working your way in a good direction and will continue to slowly do that for out the rest of the week eventually setting us up for a better weekend air quality wise. And what we have this past weekend. Still winds light enough that we are seeing a light on shore breeze pushing in just a bit more of that smoke thats hovering out in the pacific and to light to be seeing much of our air quality just being pushed out of the reg
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
Mountain and this is what has been vacaville and it was bring to the northwest and so its closing in pretty quickly. Thats why people are quickly having to flee their homes covers will tran is there this morning and will we moved to vacaville because things change so fast. Whats going on right now. Well right now im off a highway 80 off a cheery glenn exit and you can see over my Left Shoulder jeans and yuri of the fire along the ridgeline these people these poor people have been up all night watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes and then. Just a short time ago they got the knock at the door from the Sheriffs Department take get out. This is obviously a very busy street as far as people hopping on to highway 80 instead it has turned into a parking lot with a lot of evacuees at this location just pulled over sitting in the back of the pickup truck. Just helplessly watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes. This whole area jeans and area. It is just glowing
City with the exception of the coastline. Were all getting a good dose of sunshine later on today in addition to that sunshine were going to be looking at temperatures a little on the cooler side with upper 50s to low 60s for todays daytime highs napa in petaluma at 61 degrees for your current temperatures. And oakland at 61 degrees now temperatures later on today. These are your daytime highs, rising into the upper 80s inland with 60s 70s near the coast and a james all right. Thank you very much john want to begin this morning with the latest on the coronavirus the numbers show that we have 33 states now seen cases on the rise week to week and this map shows you by just how much. Those numbers are going up there are 8 states that we see here in red those deep red states are where were seeing cases jumping more than 50 . From week to week and that includes as you can see california the states in orange, the 25 of them. Those are cases are going up 10 to 50 again week to week in total,
Across the state received a notice the Public Health mandate must be enforced. But how it will be enforced is still a question. What we do know is the state is not issuing a penalty for those who do not come my. Ahead of the holiday weekend, governor gavin newsom announce ad new Awareness Campaign hoping to encourage compliance. Messages that we think can hit home in traditional ways, emotional ways. Reporter while the videos may spread awareness, some criticize it is not enough to solve the problem. What do you say to critics who suggest that psas may be great but its time for your office to get tougher on y imposinfi orter the reon ptily answered the wiheld funng to thosemand but it is still foggy. What enforcement means. Look. Were not going into peoples back yards to enforce it. I encourage peopled the the right thing. Reporter even Scientists Say encouragement isnt going to cut it. If you want to solve this, we need to enforce it. Reporter dr. Wit with Kaiser Permanente said there