Tourists. So are you ready to get away . This is a notable night for all of us. Exactly six months ago our lives changed. We were ordered to shelter in place. Among the questions now, are we even halfway even at the Halfway Point of this pandemic . And are we ready to loosen up and get on a flight out of town . Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is at sjc with the story. Sergio. Reporter traffic officers here say San Jose International has been getting pretty busy in the mornings and evenings. More people are flying, but theres still a lot to consider before booking a ticket. This is the first flight for this family since the start of the pandemic. Theyre making a short hop to palm springs. Its just far enough to get away from home. When the smoke started happening with all the fires, we couldnt go outside and enjoy it, so we said lets go somewhere where air is fresh so we can get out and enjoy the sun. Reporter her son is playing in a Golf Tournament there, so they decided to fly the whole
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. N cbsn y area, were looking from our transamerica pyramid. It is friday, and i said friday. It is september 18th and i am michelle griego. It is friday. Good morning, i am len kiese. Glad to have you with us. I am sure mary lee is happy this friday. We have the weekend in view. How is it looking . We are so thankful it is friday. We are looking atity inueday but some changes for the weekend. I will get to that in just a moment but lets talk about the air quality. Looking at good air quality, that clean and fresh air across the bay area. Great to see all of that green indicating the good air across our region. Now lets show you a live look outside with our Treasure Island camera. It is a cloudy and foggy starting even some patchy drizzle because of that strong onshore flow. Temperatures are running in the upper 50s to low to mid 60s at this hour. Through the day, we
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Breathing it in more. I bought for error purifiers from target. So i have air purifiers in my apartment. I close the windows. Thats all i could do. Its the new toilet paper air purifiers. Personal care businesses that have seen customers outdoors, are being forced to shut down again because of the smoky conditions. They just opened up an outdoor area after being closed for six months. They are eager to go back to work but not with the current poor air quality. You can see the fine layer of ash on all the furniture. Many salon operators feel the cities restrictions are not there. Y we are high risk rather than retail that cant Contact Trace and dont have a questionnaire and we are doing all these things to be as safe of as possible. We are left behind and later than these other things that are open. The salon owner got new and good news from the city. They will be able to open indoors with limited capacity beginning on monday. Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric A
Contra costa, santa clara, san joaquin, and stanislaus. Nearly 230,000 acres have burned. The fire election and now 10 contained. Cal from their homes d. The czu complex is burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the southern end of San Mateo County. 50,000 acres have been charred, and the fire is still zero percent contained. 64,000 people are under evacuation orders. Cal fire said at least 50 structures including dozens of homes have been destroyed, but that number is expected to grow. For those frying to get out of the Santa Cruz Mountains today, it has not been easy. Gridlock was described as they tried to leave. You could see people packed up, trucks backed up, trailers backed one motor homes leaving. It was have a very slow crawl. Reporter multiple towns in the Santa Cruz Mountains and toward this coast have been evacuated, including boulder cream, davenport, and pescadero. This is a live picture. This is jonathon cox of cal fire. Lets listen in. So seven clear on what that means