Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The west Coast Wildfire crisis causing smokefilled skies to dominate the bay area. From the Serious Health effects to todays niners game potentially put on pause. And mental stress for some. The gloomy air affecting all of us. Good morning, everyone, im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Today is the 22nd executive spare the air day. Meteorologist lisa argen is here. Good mornin sig relief . Well, liz, were in a complicated blocked pattern in our atmosphere. It will change but it will be slow. Theres even smoke offshore, as well as to the south of us with the many fires burning. So it is going to be a while. But things are trending better as we get into the next 24 to 30 hours. Theres a look at the fog off the coast and smoke all throughout the state of california. Visibility continues to be reduced with the fog and haze and smoke entrained in this marine layer. A mile and a half, a mile and a quarter, peta
It has deadly weaponed abeen on. I will show you our moderate quality. Cant wait. Thanks jeff. All the smoke is sticking around because of the wildfires across our state. North complex fire is continuing to spread. It is only 26 contained. Cal fire says there are still 26 fires burning across the state, you can see them all here from the top of california down to Southern California near san diego. Since the beginning of the year, a record of 3. 2 million acres burned. President trump sat in on a wildfire briefing and had a lengthy exchange with Governor Newsom and other local leaders. Reporter President Trump arrived to sacramento. He told the states wildfires are largely of the results of californias mismanagement forest. Instead of leaving the leaves and drying out. Reporter the president met Governor Newsom and other local leaders. The state Natural Resources encouraging the president not to ignore climate change. You just watch. I think science know. Four more years. Reporter hund
Coming up next, anore presentation of saturday night live, and tomorrow, the western conference final begins as the dallas stars will face the Vegas Golden Knights on nbc at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. For keith jones and brian boucher, this is john rsnd yi slong from toronto. birds singing bouncy keyboard music [announcer] food delivery just got more rewarding. package crashing into ground now that gruhhub gives you rewards when you order. dog barking did you order tacos again . device beeping boom, rewarded with a perk like 5. 00 off. Ordering dinner for the family . Voila rewarded with free delivery and a side of quiet. Grubhub gives you rewards for rewarding yourself, with food. doorbell ringing [crowd] grubhub scooter horn beeping Power Outages tientd tonight and next week as the heat continues to cause problems. Hotter temperatures expected tomorrow. Wow. Across the state, several new fires have taken off today fuelling more concerns as crews already stretched thin. We have complete cove
That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8