Clerk members of the public, the m. T. A. Met in closed session discussing hiring of a secretary to the board of directors and also discussing litigation with the City Attorney but took no action with either matter. Item 10 will be a motion to disclose or not disclose matters discussed in closed session. Motion not to disclose. Second. Madam secretary, roll call. [roll call] clerk madam chair, the motion to not disclose is approved. Moving on, at this point, madam chair, is approval of minutes from the september 15 regular meeting. Anyone on the board have any additions or corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, we can open it to Public Comment for the addition or corrections to our minutes. Moderator, is the phone line open . Operator you have one question remaining. Wonderful. Commenter . Mr. Pillpow, is that you . Hello . Hi. I think i dialled in by mistake. Okay. Are there any other commenters on our minutes . Operator you have one question remaining. Okay. Commenter . Hello . Hi
The hazy us but none are looking all too great and everybody has these apps on their phones. Now right a look at the air quality. And how it is around the bay area you see it is fairly uniform. This thats updated in real time, its purple air shows the amount of particulate matter in the air the dark purple. Represents the worst air that dark red is only slightly better and then the lighter shades or even better, but we dont have that much see a Little Orange and yellow well near ukiah almost but the bay area pretty red at least were not purple. Like parts of sacramento, all the way up into portland that is really bad right now, but the air we have its considered dangerous for all sensitive groups and for the general population. If theyre exposed for too long and by the way general. Sensitive groups that includes kids. The elderly and people with heart and lung disease called for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now. Lawrence when can we expect some relief from the smoke in
It is another morning of smoky, hazy skies across the bay area and when is it finally going to clear up . Cruises scrambled to clean up the toxic waste and ashes after the lnu fire raced through the area. We have the new Police Body Cam video releasing what he showed on the night of the George Floyd Protests in san jose. Good morning on this saturday, september 12th. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely. The air is still hazy smoke lets look at an update on the weather and when we get some relief from this bad air. It will take a couple of days. Lets start off with the right now air quality readings and no doubt youre familiar with the color coding on the map. Red is unhealthy for everybody. If it is purple you are in the very unhealthy category. San rafael and oakland, here is you right now with everyone else in the red on here. North bay looking at red as well. That will not change today but ictly. Early next week things will get better. There is a lot of fog in addition to the smoke
Now at 3 President Trump visits california today amid the states deadly and historic wildfires, several fires have burned more than 3 million acres. So far this year at least 20 people have died in the devastating fires up and down the state. Thank you for joining us at 3 today im Sanaz Tahernia on the campaign trail President Trump made a pit stop in california for a briefing on the states historic wildfire season. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains how the briefing went up between the president and the governor actually. Its not yet. This was a very quick trip here to sacramento for the president he was only here for about 2 hours and the primary reason for his visit was to get a briefing from state Emergency Management officials on this wildfire situation here now the president approved 14 federal firefighting grant an emergency disaster declaration along with that so far this season. Trump told reporters just before the briefing he has serious concerns about californias
And then he will travel to thanksville to pay his respects in the afternoon. Mike pence plans to participate in new york city at 5 40. And senator Kamala Harris will deliver remarks at a remembrance ceremony in fairfax, virginia. Abc news will have a special report to observe a moment of silence marking the moment the first plane crashed into the north tower. Well bring that to you live at 5 45. Back here at home, here is a look at just how dramatic the air quality has changed in San Francisco. So the picture that you see on the left, that is from the end of august. The middle is wednesday and the one from the right is what it looked like yesterday afternoon. And it is not just unhealthy air. These wildfires are making it rain ash around the bay. In the east bay, drivers were racing to get their cars cleaned up in oakland. You put your windshield wipers on, it was just brown yucky stuff, gunk. According to driving. Com, ash mixed with fog, rain, can create substances that are really ha