So please stay indoors if you can. Because we are looking at that air quality you can see those red and purple dots from unhealthy to hazardous air quality conditions. So looking at very unhealthy air to hazardous for redwood city and down through san jose and fremont and the trivalley as well as for concord. The east bay, walnut creek. Looking at very unhealthy air for oakland and hazardous air in the San Francisco area. Up through sausalito. You can see all of those purple dots. That is very unhealthy air to hazardous up through san rafael and petaluma and for santa rosa. We also have, because of the foggy conditions, the smoky conditions, low visibility. We have a dense fog advisory for the San Francisco area as well as the peninsula, coast and north coast. Visibilities down to a quarter mile or less. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and the foggy conditions. Yeah, most of the foggy conditions affecting the bridges as well. Fog advisories for the Golden Gate Bridge as
Bay area skies scribed as eerie and a apocalyptic. Some saying they were even scared. The orange atmosphere has quickly turned into a dark night here in the east bay. What people are doing to both remember and cope with the unearthly sky. Smoke choking our skies today. Ill let you know how much longer the air quality will suffer coming up. Purifiers and filters. Air quality experts with tips on how you can take safety a step further. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. If i can imagine what the end of the world was going to look like, it would look like this. Honestly, unlike anything ive ever experienced and ive lived in Northern California for 36 years. Its so dark. Its scary to me. Ive never seen anything like this before. This is strange. Its weird. Its. A dlie like no other in the bay area. Our entire region bathed in an eerie glow of orange and red. A look at why it happens. What a strain day we had. Good eveni
Lifetime snaps of San Franciscos skyline cloaked in a cloud of orange. Its really sad that its the condition the way it is, but it makes for some really dramatic pictures for sure. Reporter both automobile photographers trevor joelen and daniel turned their back to the road and pointed up. Even with the fog, its usually just gray and neutral colors, but today its a lot more orange and red. Reporter in walnut creek, cars were covered in arab and in oakland the zoo closed because of poor air quality. The solar panels on a abc 7 photographers home in pinole generated a fraction of electricity when the suns rays actually reach the earth. Out here in the bay exercising, fishing, doing whatever they can to find some slice of normalcy. I was pretty disoriented, honestly. I missed an appointment. I almost never do that. Reporter Jason Johnson says the weather reminds him of growing up in the midwest. A storm would blow in around the time of a tornado or Something Like that and it would be pitc
Alcatraz. And it even affected construction sites. Some crews had to use their lights in the middle of the day. And this is what travellers leaving or arriving at sfo were seeing. A passenger took these photos from a window seat as his plane was landing. You could smell smoke in the cabin. And we could he see outside, so it wasnt like engine fire smoke. It was just burning. You could just smell it. You could see the ground on that side, you couldnt see it on this side. And it was just dark, dark burnt orange. Crazy. Sfo says that air quality did not affect departures or arrivals. So the air quality hasnt taken a big hit with air readings painting a different picture. And chris nguyen has the story from the south bay. Reporter as wildfires burn, a combination of smoke and haze made for a rtli ow it feels like it is the end of the world or something is lurking. Something is in the making. It is a very eerie feeling. Reporter with ash falling from above, the darkness during the day could
Ban on evictions in place really big win and just a huge relief for tenants across the city in a district overwhelmingly filled with renters city supervisor dean preston says he introduced the legislation to protect people. He feared without covid19 rent forgiveness, a wave of evictions would follow the small Property Owners of San Francisco weighed in on their failed attempt at suing the city over the eviction ban saying in part quote we are very disappointed in the decision we are not looking for ways to evict people we simply want the same rights in access to the state courts that any other citizens have the county board of supervisors has overstepped their Legal Authority they have the right to appeal and maybe theyll do that, but thats up to them but in the meantime, we know that for the foreseeable future this law will take effect it will stop any evictions preston has maintained the law does not mean the rent is wiped out renters will still have to eventually pay whats owed but