We certainly have the smoke, haze and some stratus out there. A dense fog advisory along the shoreline. You can see the fog lined up there, and unfortunately no good news in terms of our air quality today. The winds are going to be light and the sun has to bust through that smoke layer to get that sea breeze going. As we look at visibility right now it is just reduced everywhere from a quarter of a mile in santa rosa, nothing petaluma to half moon bay. If you have to get out good idea to get out later. Three quarters of a mile sfo, just 2 miles hayward, a little better than that in concord, and the current air quality indexest there as that haze mixes with the fog. So were not looking at big changes today. Maybe a little sun working through that marine layer later on today. But as a result the air quality will be bad today. Its going to get better as we get into the second half of your weekend and should be even better into next week. Warm and hazy out there, and well look at the tempe
A more forceful approach towards dissent. D. W. Correspondent florin missions in bangkok and he says these latest protests are extremely high stake thailands students are risking it all by challenging not only the incumbent military backed regime but also the until now untouchable monarchy this is nothing short of revolutionary in a country that has had its fair share of violent crackdowns against dissenters now the genie is out of the bottle and its not likely to go back in any time soon many expect this weekends protest leaders to be slapped with lawsuits and long jail terms for what the government calls inciting unrest or for supposedly defaming the monarchy but the self declared leaderless revolution is set to continue protestors are vowing not to stop until their demands are met whatever the costs may be. Opponents of bella who says hardline president Alexander Lukashenko a gathering for more mass protests in the capital minsk weekly demonstrations have become the focus for prodem
To stay with us. So you have more sunshine working its way and its going to look brighter but its definitely going to appear smoky all day long today, very light winds just enough to push fog in overnight, but not enough to push the smoke out of the region were going to be holding on to that today tomorrow through the weekend with only gradual improvements as each day goes by today being the worst one of your forecast even worse than the past few have been 50s for our current temperatures with pittsburgh, the only exception of the warmer side at 62. Well santa rosa and lena down into the upper 40s this morning later today, daytime highs sticking with the 70s for warmest of temperatures with 76 degrees, your average inland temperature 60s near the bay and the coastline. Ive got more details about what to expect in the long range forecast ahead of us still to come robin all right, thank you folks can expect a foggy commute heading into San Francisco. Its a little dance out there check th
San Francisco Muni is free today to help get people to contained. Whether relief centers. Attractions including near woods, alcatraz and fort point are all closed today due to the poor air quality. The fire has now damaged or destroyed at least 2000 homes and buildings and is what are the effects of this threatening about 4000 more. Poor air quality on our health . Today governor newsome toward the massive fire area around orville as a break in the weather and the slight dr. Stephanie christiansen possibility of some rain joins us live this afternoon. Provided a small measure of she is an assistant professor hope for people in that region. Of medicine at ucsf. Tom vacar joining us with more on what the governor sought to day and what he had to say. The dr. Thank you for being here. We are going on nearly 4 weeks in a row of these conditions. It was a very somber gavin what are the dangers of the extended exposure to this newsom. Wildfire smoke . I think especially for people with preex
Contained. 80,000 acres of burned there so far. Cal fire is expected to give an update on the ccu fire any moment now. We are monitoring the briefing and will update you with any new information a bit later in the newscast. In the meantime, progress made by cal fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains may allow for people to return to their homes by early next week. More on that from ktvus jesse gary. Backfiring like they call it is under very specific conditions. We dont just use it for whatever. It is not just a random action. It is a very planned event that we use for the fuel. We bring that fire line to a safe area. Reporter late wednesday, cal fire cruise intentionally lit fires in the missive and make a brush fire, burning portions of santa cruz and san mateo counties. Firefighters are testing the viability, doing multiple controlled burns in the area bounded by l soil road to the south and how low road to the north. We want to contain the fuels between the control line and the main fire