Orange haze, apocalypse. And at 4 00, it is almost dark out in some areas. This is a live look from our roof top tower camera. We have Team Coverage today. Well have a look around the bay. Lets begin with Spencer Christian and a look at what is behind this eerie looking sky. Ominous, spencer. It is. No doubt about it. I dont think ive seen anything quite like this myself. Heres the satellite image showing low clouds, of course, with our marine layer, and tons of smoke above in the upper layer of the atmosphere. It has contributed to this orange look in the sky. It appears to be the orange. It is bringing up some cooler air and keeping it from getting, the air quality from getting too bad. Above the marine layer is where all the smoke is collecting. The marine layer o orso. Smoke is still collecting in the atmosphere. So weve got the stronger sea breeze at the coast and the weaker winds aloft. Despite that, the air quality is not terrible and you can see from our air quality indicator, the yellow dots indicating e merate air quality and most quality right so good aloft thos we go to the santa cruz mountains. A couple locations, Boulder Creek and Scotts Valley have good air quality. Until that smoke dissipates aloft, we may continue to have this eerie, smoky, hazy s orange. Larry . Spencer, this is a pretty unappetizing layer cake. Check out San Francisco, the darkness bhixd the orange sky which has lingered throughout the day. Hive from the embarcadero with reaction to todays odd events. And as i look behind you, day, night, not sure. Reporter ill say good day to you. My internal clock feels all messed up. I went around the city and we talked to a lot of people and of course we heard the usual words. Crazy, scary, yes, apocalyptic. How many times did i hear that word. My favorite was this has been a lousy 2020. Some of you may have wondered if this was the day the earth stood still. There were many words to describe what we were experiencing. I just think it is really insane. The zombie apocalypse. It was 7 30 in the morning. We opened the kurt ans and it looked like nighttime. Reporter some were compelled to record the San Francisco iconic sites when day turned to night. I think it is magical. It is amazing to be here for Something Like this. Reporter humans werent the only ones confused. I think he woke up and went back to bed thinking it was nighttime. Even the mayor thought it was necessary to reach out explaining how the combination of wildfires changed the sky. It hasnt really impacted our air quality yet because of our marine layer and because the smoke is so high. Reporter construction workers used lights this morning to work in the dark. In any given afternoon, johns grill in San Francisco is packed with customers having lunch. The darkness kept them away. I have never seen Something Like the in my life. Its quite frightening. I hope everyone keeps safe. Reporter it is a reminder for whats going on in the state. I feel bad for people right in the heart of this. This looks terrible but imagine if youre right there. Reporter thats right. And thats a very good reminder. All of this, of course, is very strange. But again, it could be a lot worse. Larry, i feel like ill living in iceland in the winter time. I dont know about you. Very strange. Yeah, welcome. You mentioned a warning about conditions possibly getting worse . Is that the case . Reporter thats right. I jotted some of the things that she wrote. I thank you it was important for viewers to know this. She said if the winds weaken, then the smoke which is very high up can fall to the grounds and then of course that will create some problemsld bring, o ashes and could even get darker than it already is. She wants people to know, dont panic. She will give updates today, tomorrow, whatever it takes. In the east bay, we saw ash covering cars and orange apock limitic skies there. Live from down walnut creek. Reporter good evening. What a week it has been for businesses. A globalem, esive recrk, the onge sk ma. Its eneebeleed driveth a. M. Felt more like 10 00 p. M. You say good evening instead of good morning. Reporter he is the general manager at walnut creek ford. Where i know what the star wars like skies is the ash. This is the worst its been. Reporter sales have been steady during the pandemic. But a few customers did call to cancel appointments. The biggest challenge is it felt like it was nighttime. It didnt come like we were coming to service cars. It is a mental battle. Reporter the band played on where rich comes for a daily walk. Looking at this, the skies are completely blocked out. I thought it was still, you know, 4 00, 5 00 in the morning twilight when i woke you will around 8 00 or 9 00. Reporter he said he was surprised to learn the air quality was much better today compared to the past few days with the extre ht so it was iis muchlthieroo onip watchint the orange umbrellas at jacks bar matched the sky. A business client for lunch. I woke up thinking it was 8 30 at in it. Its wild. Ive never seen anything like it. Reporter as far as 2020 goes, he said the orange skies seem to be right on cue. Are there forms of 2020, just on 2020. Thats it. You cant get away from it. Not until january 1st. Reporter back out here at the dealership, management says theyll wait to see what the weather is like for the rest of the week before they decide to wash the entire fleet. Abc7 news. All this smoke is a. All of it coming from the north. Its like nighttime out here. If you look at the cars coming down the mountain, they all have their lights on. So bizarre. Well have more from wayne coming up. The orangeiness left people stumd. Le woke up dumb founded. So strange. I dont know whats going on. I know there are fires going on but it doesnt smell super smoky. It doesnt seem super ashy so its so weird. He said he wanted to go online to find out what was happening but the power is turned off because of the wildfire threats. If its not one thing, its another. Heres how the skies looked if novato to richmond. A surreal scene. So bad people had to turn their lights on. Were not only seeing the effects in the sky but on the cars. Outside surfaces, a ton of ash everywhere. This was in san mateo this morning. The accumulation only car, thats like an inch of snow or something considering the fires responsibility for the smoke and ash more than 150 miles away. This is remarkable. People all over the bay area have been sharing their photos. Remarkable photos on social media. These are just a few that weve seen from our viewers and reporters. If you would like to share youring thats, use the hash abc7 now to help us find them. Most of the smoke blotting out the sun is drifting in from three fires burning east of oroville. In all, cal fire says 28 wildfires have burned 2. 5 million acres. The most active fires right now, the creek fire, the doleant fire, the august complex, the north complex. Thats the fire generating the blanket of smoke. It has exploded to a quarter million acres. Heres eric thomas with more. Reporter this is what extreme fire behavior looks like. Flames jumping, towering, burning at a rate of a thousand acres every 30 minutes. Overnight, 80,000 acres. The fire is generating extremely dense smoke which creates pyro clouds known as thunderstorms. It is pumping into the atmosphere as high as 50,000 feet, 20,000 feet above the cruising level of passenger jets. This shows it turning up toward bear fire and moving into the bay area. On the ground, manner to evacuations are expanding into all three counties. Very apprehensive. If fire gets in that drainage, serving gone. It will burn to the lake. They issued an Evacuation Order for an area near oroville. Another was issued for paradise which burned in the 2018 camp fire. The u. S. Forest service is temporarily closed because of the unprecedented and historic fire conditions. You can follow the latest details on all the fires burning in california. And there are a ton of them with our exclusive wildfire tracker which is updated with the latest containment infoe from cal fire. The abc7 fire tracker available now at abc 7. News. Com and the abc7 news app. Wild times. From covid to fires to orange skies. Is it all just too much . 2020 gets a little bit crazier. How you can cope. Census 2020. It is not too late to make hey, my twitter is blowing up so many about spicy chicken strips. Wow, i hear you. So im bringing back my juicy 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99 my psoriasis. Cosentyx works on all of this. 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We are making sure that every person in the bay area is counted. Getting count is necessary for our communitys access to money and power. So once in a decade opportunity for to us claim resources for fundamental human rights like health care, food, hosting, and a fair say in policies that support our communities. Keep going. Sure. Well, the covid19 pandemic is definitely a very real and relevant example of why police and accurate census data is so important. Theyll be used in the coming years for economic programs, health research, and to create policies to help the long recovery of our hardest hit communities. When youre looking at every person who is not counted in the census this year, our state can lose 1,000 per person per year for the next ten years. And where do we see that loss . In overcrowded classrooms, underfunded services, inaccessible transand it unaffordable housing. Has it been difficult to get census takers . Some people might be reluctant to go door to door and others may not want to open the door. Its been a challenge for sure, especially because the time line has been extended due to the pandemic. It is an inclusive process. The Census Bureau has been managing that part and census takers have been following one Community Members who havent yet responded and theyre doing so until the end of this month. What are the current Response Rates like . Do you have concerns about certain groups being left behind . Obviously the homeless. Thats always a concern. But young kids maybe. What are you seeing . Sure. So the San Francisco bay area actually has some of the highest census Response Rates in the state of california. As of today, over 74 of the Housing Units here have completed the census. And thats despite all that 2020 has thrown at us. And thats thanks to the tireless efforts of hundreds of organizations on the ground who have been working on outreach with us for the past couple years. For our most Vulnerable Community member, the hardest to reach and our hardes hit by the pandemic, we are looking at Response Rates that are 10, 20, 30 points behind. You see this across the bay in San Francisco, in oakland, in san jose. Any chance of a reextension guideline . We are watching it play out now. The Census Bureau is currently attempting to rush to the finish by reducing the followup visit by census takers and reducing the quality checks theyre supposed to do during data processing. And all of this is to meet the apportionment dead line that they need according to the constitution by the end of the year. So shortening the time line shortens it for communities that are undercounted and at high risk of it again. People of color, low income communities, people who are lgbtq, homelessness, et cetera. So we are trying to call for accountability. While continuing outreach to our neighbors to make sure that a fast track census does not lead the an incomplete census. The best way to avoid that is to respond as soon as we can before the end of the month. All right. Thank you. Testify any equipment the ubl id way. If you have questions, you can get answers right now. A team of experts answering your calls. Heres the number again. Ill go over it slowly. 8444329832. You can call in. Get answers and make yourself count. Now back to a wild view of the sky. Weve been showing you images through the day. Now to a look at the tower cameras. This was the rif mond bridge around 10 00 this morning if you go believe it. Its not sunset. Take a look at ourxprarium camera. It is starting at 11 30 tomorrow morning. It doesnt look that much different right now. Look at this one. A street cleaning view out there at noon and it is still dark outside. Sorry, spencer. What is making that happen . Well, weve got an atmospheric layer cake. With low clouds and then the higher level atmosphere. Take a look at this. We have the smoke up above. Thats the top layer. And the top combination of the two has caused the sky to look yellow. The smoke particles scattered blue light rays and allow us to see yellow and orange and various shades of those two wev g lower level winds associated with the martin layer at the surface. But it is only about 1,200 feet deep. Fires are still burning and more smoke is being lifted into the upper levels of the atmosphere. And we could have orange skies with us for a while. This is the view from our roof top camera. Mid 60s also. 59 at half moon bay. Heres the view from east bay hills. Low to mid 60s. Novato, napa, 70 degrees right now in livermore. Really, really cool for this time of the year. And especially compared with th gate. More fog, more haze. Maybe some patchy morning drizzle. We cant say for sure if the sky will be orange but some of the sail factors will be there. And spare the air through friday. A look at our air quality. We can see through friday, we have spare the air alerts being issued. That will give us 25 consecutive days of spare the air alerts. Were expecting improved air quality but that could change. Well see the low clouds and fog, the mash layer pushing across the bay much as it did last night. If it lipgers, as did it this morning, we could have that ain. N looks like it will pull back giving us maybe a different brighter sky view. Low 60s at the coast. Low to mid 70s at the bay shoreline and mid to upper 80s inlandnot much of a warmup is way. At temperatures. Mid to upper 70s around the bay. Mid 60s at the coast with minor cooling early next week. But. Of what were forecasting truly does depend on what happens with the wildfires and the smoke. Well keep watching and looking for rain. Unreal. And earlier this week we told but a campaign to lure workers out of bay area. Theres new evidence that lots of workers w oh, oh, oh, ozempic® announcer onceweekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. 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David louie shows us some examples. Reporter tulsa is trying to lure Remote Workers with 10,000 in cash to relocate. But there are signs a much shorter move might lead to home ownership. Zillow believes theres a window of opportunity for San Francisco rentalers. A study just double indicates 22 of Remote Workers in the city could afford to buy starter home if they moves elsewhere in the u. S. While 10 could do so if they were willing to buy outside of San Francisco but in the bay area. Millennials are the likely candidates as they start planning for children. Maybe one kind of Silver Lining of the societal changes weve got right now, that it may free people up. Even if their job is in a really expensive area. Remote work