20 miles away. these fires are hundreds of miles away. these are such massive fires to have this smoke this far south inundating. ac looking york. even farther south, philly, washington d. c.,. all suffering the effects of this as well. just incredible. in new york and in the area major league baseball games have been postponed. a wnba game broadway shows being postponed. there was an actor who was in the middle of imagine who had to stop today because she was unable to go on. so health professionals saying the best thing that you can do, the air quality has improved. it is much much better right now than it was earlier today. but it will be with us for the next 24 or maybe 48 hours where we will have this smoke. and then we actually moved further west, to pittsburgh and other cities in the west. but all officials say the best thing you can do now is stay indoors, if you have to go outdoors and you do have underlying issues with breathing and your lungs, a kn95 or n95 mask is the best
of philadelphia where the air quality has been declared very unhealthy. you can see the haze sitting over top. we want to show you also, take a look, this is a life picture from new york city right now. that is a vast improvement and it s not good. the smoke gave new york a new distinct and one it has never wanted. the city with the world s worst air quality right now. incredibly today appears to be a slight improvement from yesterday when new yorkers were facing this. it was this strange other worldly orange world that you could not escape. let me show you a time lapse that we put together. the city skyline disappearing over a period of hours in behind this orange haze. the poor visibility is forcing more delays today. laguardia airport facing another ground stop. this was yesterday shows what it was like for passengers landing at the airport. you can imagine coming in, descending through this cloud of
in our health lead now, the source of that all that east coast united states smoke, more than 430 wildfires that are pushing right now up north in canada. the hazardous smoke caused by these canadian fires is creating this ominous and apocalyptic orange haze throughout the new york region and now that nearly inescapable smoke is covering other lockales such as baltimore and washington, d.c. thick smoke is seeping too buildings and into transit systems. cnn s brian todd reports now from the nation s capital where the air conditions are so bad that officials say it s unhealth for everyone. reporter: thick haze rolling into the mid-atlantic today causing more health warnings and scattered cancellations. around 75 million americans now under air quality alerts as the smoke from canada s wildfires continues to move south, philadelphia, baltimore and d.c. showing readings today that ranged from very unhealthy in purple to even hazardous in maroon. getting ostomy tree i felt
according to a group that tracks gun violence, tuesday s mass shooting was one of at least 279 that have happened in the u.s. so far this year. we ll continue to bring you the latest developments as we get them. new york city s mayor is urging people to limit their time outdoors as smoke from canadian wildfires drifts over large parts of the northern u.s. this was the scene at yankee stadium tuesday night. new york s air quality was among the world s worst on tuesday due to the smoke. it is just one of several states warning of hazardous unhealthy air quality. alerts remain in place for more than 30 million americans. this orange haze was hanging over ottawa. officials say they are tracking hundreds of fires, dry conditions and searing temperatures have ignited an extreme and early start to the summer wildfire season. nasa captured this image from space. you can see on the left side smoke blanketing much of ontario