Im markicus washington. But, first, lets start with meteorologist kari hall with a look at that forecast for today and, of course, everybody is talking about that air quality, kari. Its looking a little bit more unhealthy for this morning. A lot of that smoke pushing down and also being trapped in our valleys. Its also being trapped in the fog that were seeing near the coastline and San Francisco over towards oakland, as well as parts of our north bay valleys. So, expect their time outside to be very short especially with 6 24 and the countdown is this unhealthy air quality for on. Nfl fans who wondered if a everyone. Well talk more about this and season would even happen during the pandemic really have why the sky was orange. Something to celebrate this morning. Game day is finally here. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right hard to believe. The super bowl champions kicking now for the commute . Kari, its looking better. Things off hosting the texans weird to say we have today in the bays jay gray is improvement, but we do. Early slowing on the span itself. Lets look at the approach. Live in kansas city, missouri, covering all the anticipation by the span i mean the bay bridge. For the players and the fans, as were looking at berkeley and well, jay. Berkeley curve and westbound 80 jammed up here and thats the tough part. Yeah, laura, marcus. Look at your map. Starting to improve for the i think everybody is ready for a speeds through mercury and little football and i think we all need a bit of a diversion. Emeryville and early problems on 2020 has been a rough one to the span of the bay bridge this point. Caused big backups at treasure look, its not going to be the same, obviously. Island and now back to the toll covid19 playing a role in that. Plaza and the berkeley curve and the rest of the approach through wed normally be outside the Contra Costa County looks great stadium. Its locked down this morning with typical slow spots like and only open to the fans and the personnel going into the Castro Valley and vallejo, back stadium. The parking lot would be open to you. For tailgating for a bit fewer thanks, mike. That is what is happening on the ground. What is happening in the air . Than 17,000 compared to what would be more than 76,000 the smoke from so many fires normally. Making for ominous skies across still, as you talked about, the the bay area. Players, the coaches, the fans. We have Live Team Coverage for you. Today in the bay kris sanchez everybody very excited about this evening. Is tracking now what is a deadly were kicking it off were fire in oroville and lets check in with bob redell live in the head honchos for the nfl and the chiefs to be able to show dublin on this record run of spare the air days, bob. And see what the 2020 season is going to be like. And, laura, youll recall 30 theyre going to be loud. Minutes agdublin. Thats the u. N. Wione thing i d. I was showing you westbound 580. Theyre winners and theyre going to be winners. Now you cant see anything. Yeah, look, not only the visibility has already covid19, but with the nation dealing with the effects of gotten much worse. But when we were able to see the headlig social injustice and equality headlights, we were able to see the orange glow to it like we saw yesterday. We are presuming we are going to issues, thats going to play a role in tonights game, as well. See the orange skies. We do know that the players will today as you mention, another spare the air day and one be allowed to wear helmet tomorrow. The number 24 and 25 in a row emblems and also allowed to wear breaking a new record. The names or initials of those and the forecast calls for winds who have suffered social injustices. We dont know what is going to off of the Pacific Ocean to keep happen during the national pushing this smoke over our anthem pregame for each team. We do know lift every voice and area. Until those winds subside or sing often refer to as the black change, it looks like well be stuck with this stuff. We expect sunrise this Morning National anthem will be played to be just as weird as not only tonight but before yesterday. You can take a look at this video from 24 hours ago. Every week day game in the nfl. This is when we woke up to ash on our cars like we did today. Well be watching. Thanks. And an orange glow in the sky. You know where you watch right here on nbc bay area. In San Francisco, the smoke and its a special edition of sunday soot shrouded the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge for several night football on thursday hours. As bad as the air looks, night. However, the bay area air precoverage gets under way at Quality Management district says 4 00 p. M. And game kicks off a the air quality is still little after 5 00. Moderate. Another programming note for you its not the worst possible. Nbc bay area will air special doctors are also reminding us this is not only bad for your newscasts at 3 00 and then 9 00 lungs, but your eyes, as well. P. M. Following the game. We all have your news covered for you. We continue to track what use the over thecounte tthe everyone is talking about when it comes to the bay area skies. Lubricating and avoed wearing contact lenses outside, if you you might even say orange is the can. New blue. If smoke fwets under the contact lenses and dense enough you may be wondering why orange . It can cause significant irritation. So, look, kari is going to so, in cases like that, you may want to consider wearing glasses explain all of that. Whats causing this strange, eerie glow for us. As opposed to wearing contact lenses. Plus those wildfires still and during any spare the air burning across northern day, you do want to limit your california. Well talk about the harrowing time outdoors. Ordeal for one family as they if you are going to exercise, do escape. A lot more news ahead. That in the morning. Youre watching today in the bay. Coming up in a half hour, an explanation to why this soot and ash and smoke is giving us that orange glow. Reporting live here in dublin, bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you. Another look at what were talking about when bob was talking about the skies. Yep, our cameras capturing this across the bay area. This is all day yesterday. The orange i and yellow mostly everywhere and we actually expect more of the same thing this morning as the sun comes up. Thats just an eerie sight. I know we keep talking about it, but everyone is. Lets check in with meteorologist kari hall because you have a better explanation of why this is happening across the bay area. Right. And, so, lets take it back to Elementary School science when we learn about white light and sunlight. How its comprised of all the primary colors during the middle of the day, the sun is shining directly through that atmosphere and doesnt have much of that atmosphere to go through. So, it gives us the blue colors. So, short waves. But in the mornings and the evenings, those longer waves travel through the atmosphere when the sun is lower in the horizon and thats basically what the smoke is doing. Its keeping those short waves. The blue end of the spectrum from coming through and were getting those long waves from the reds, the orange and the yellows and as that comes through, its also reflecting and bouncing off of everything in and around the b gives us th. Most likely theyll see it again today. Talking more about that and our air quality coming up in a few minutes. All right, thank you very much, kari. Well, there is such concern with all these fires that the wind with the fire burning near oroville killed three people as it exploded in size. At least a dozen others are missing. The fire spread to nearly jean, did you know geico is now offering 100,000 acres in just 24 hours. An extra 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies . Thats great today in the bay kris sanchez thats 15 on top of what geico could already save you. So what are you waiting for . Joins us live with what we know about those victims and still a john stamos to knit you a scarf . Lot of people at risk here, all finished, jean. Kris. Yeah, laura. Enjoy we know at least a dozen people are still missing and that one thank you. Of those three people who was i give. The stitch work is impeccable. Found dead was definitely trying to get away at the time. Its just a double fleck pattern with a reverse garter stitch. This time yesterday we were no big deal. Showing you what it looked like is your hair this soft . For those people who were trying to evacuate. Softer. Geico. Save an extra 15 when you switch by october 7th. The butte county sheriff now confirms that one person was found in a car trying to escape. The other two people who died were found at different locations. The bear fire is part of the north complex, which is now more than a quarter million acres. Its burning in the plumeth National Forest and the u. S. Forestry service is in charge. They took a different route than cal fire. They say that the fire was unprecedented which is how two evacuees described it to us, breaking right now at 6 30. Too. They told us they spent hours in a swamp escaping the flames. Breaking records and bringing skies like we have never seen we drove through here and before. Heres a live look outside across the area at current just like driving through hell. Conditions today marking the just flames everywhere. 24th spare the air alert. I have no idea how to describe that. We were trapped for eight, nine this after an eerie, ominous and orange glow filling the skies hours. This bridge was on fire. We couldnt get out. Yesterday. Our team tracking whats ahead containment of the north and when this will all end. Complex went from 51 to 24 the air quality all depends because of those howling diablo on the fires still raging out of control. Winds and now the evacuation the race to contain the flames warning includes part of the in the evacuation under still under way. Here we go on this g town of paradise where so many people died and lost their homes to the camp fire a few years ago. Adding to the challenges, the thursday morning. Thanks so much for starting it escape route is very dark pau right here with us. Im marcus washington. Because the area is part of a and im laura garcia. Well get to traffic with mike pg e Public Safety power in just a little bit, but were talking about this eerie glow. Shutoff. The signals are not working and were waiting the sunrise in just about 15 minutes. The advice here is that if were in a pandemic, as well. Youre asked to get out, you should do it because you dont know what the conditions are or fires. Oh, kari, whats going on . Going to be once you hit the road. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Good advice, thank you. Well, im looking closely at closer to the bay area, the this walnut creek shot. It looks a little grainy but im czu fires now 84 contained and more evacuation orders are being wondering if that is ash falling or the camera looks that grainy. Downgraded toern warnings. Of course, weve seen ash San Mateo Health leaders are falling around the bay area because of the fires that continue and we should at some declaring a health emergencies. Point start to see the sun also declaring a local rising, but we havent so far yet. Emergency. The fire destroyed some 1,400 and as we look into the day, structures. Well, full containment now temperatures, who knows. It is like we have a lot of forecast for saturday in this smoke and thats going to keep those temperatures down for today. Scu fire. It destroyed 138 structures, well talk about this, our air quality and, of course, why the burned nearly 400,000 acres in skies are orange. Seven counties, including santa thats coming up. Mike, hows it looking for the clara, alameda and contra costa. Morning commute . Well, were looking at a lot new data showing more people are having trouble making it in of green from the sensors. The bay. Thats good news. The number of tenants who but the orange on my map shows couldnt pay rent jumped this the slow down. The little slow down popping up month. Thats according to the data in usual spots like san jose and hayward heading down towards the firm real page reported by the san mateo bridge. Mercury news. Rent payments in the three the big focus has been for most of the morning, the bay bridge largest cities dropped nearly approach, the bridge span itself 10 over the year. One of the largest drops is clear. The metering lights are on and actually in the nation. The number of renters making at now as we look at the berkeley least some payment fell to 84 and emeryville camera things in the south bay. Continue to build and a lot of in the east bay, San Francisco haze or something going on in and san mateo county, theyre this view. Thank you very much, mike. Now all slightly lower than that. So, those orange skies are i can tell you right now expected to return to the bay it is 6 09 right now. Area when the sun rises this morning. Check out this time lapse video. I was going to say, now is this is taken by one of our not a day to move because the air quality out there make it photographers on Treasure Island looking out towards san hard for those movers. Meteorologist kari hall tracking francisco. This really ominous and eerie. What we can expect from the air today in the bay bob redell is and the quality of it. Kari, how is it looking out live above dublin this morning there . Okay. And, bob, you can say you we need some changes, right . Were looking at our overall already see how bad that air is weather patern and whats going on. So, we had High Pressure just to out there. You can. Thats one reason why today is the north of us and bringing in a northerly wind with this going to be another spare the air day today and tomorrow. Clockwise wind flow and whats coming down the line is low tomorrow will make it 25 in a pressure and as that storm row. That would be another record for system moves in, it will bring in some cooler temperatures but the most consecutive spare the air days that weve seen. Havent seen that many since, itscounterclockwise wind flow weve never seen that many. Will bring in more westerly wind we saw 14 in a row back in 201 to the bay area which will help during the camp fire. This is a record. You can see with your own eyes improve the bay area and that just how bad the air is. Happens this weekend and also bring in cooler temperatures. Looking at video from earlier this morning. This is a viewer in gilroy who well talk more about the impacts of that and what is shot this video around 2 00 this ahead in the forecast coming up. Lets head over to mike where were telling people turn that morning of ash falling in her air conditioning in the car and backyard. We saw it again on our cars this morning as we were coming in. Recirculate. Thats right. The smoke and soot coming from recirculate. Keep that air going because that ash is outside. The bear fire which is burning over 100 miles away in oroville overall, were looking at a pretty smooth drive outside but north of sacramento. The focus has been on the bay yesterday was a strange one to bridge toll plaza and the span. Early this morning, we had say the least. Much of the bay area was basked problems getting across the span in this orange glow and street because i believe a crew that lights well into the morning and was there at Treasure Island. You notice the focus on the some places to the afternoon. A lot of comparisons to the approach towards the bay bridge where the metering lights are martian sky. We caught up with san jose state still on. 580 westbound and 880 northbound meteorologist professor craig and 80 all slow feeder route in clemens who showed us the smoke towards the maze and berkeley layers. He said it will take a change in curve. Starting to ease up a bit as the wind direction for this stuff to go away. Traffic continues to flow to the area, though. A little bit of slowing on the san mateo bridge. Off the pacific or some southerly winds approaching that the live look showed a flashing would push it up to the north. Light set right there and that now, there is smoke over off the look like it was cleared coast so, as we get our sea whatever was going on. Back to you. Coming up on today in the breeze, some smoke might come back in. But it wont be this dense. Bay, thousands of new jobs at it wont be this thick. The job fair. Ill tell you all about it coming up. We asked our own nbc bay area sometimes moms have to ruin everything. Details, yep, behind that meteorologist due to the t interruption that has gone viral. Smoke and ash particles im bigad shaban and we just filtering out and emphasizing the longer wave length orange and red light from the sun. Released our Second Season of derail Digital Series about all things b. A. R. T. Similar to what we see at s sunrise and sunset. How b. A. R. T. Is coping with the reporting live in dublin, bob pandemic, financial fallout and racial reckoning and you can redell. Four of those major fires binge watch all our new episodes raging out of control. Primary on our app, youtube and apple tv and nbcbayarea. Com derail. Give you my world culprits causing the bad air quality. Tens of people have been forced to evacuate and hundreds of buildings have been destroyed. The bear fire exploded earlier wednesday. This is east of oroville advancing nearly 100,000 acres in just 24 hours. The sheriff there announcing three people have died. In butte county, this is the same area hit by the camp fire two years ago. About 20,000 people are evacuating. One family, they tried to escape their bear creek home. This was on tuesday night. But they had to shelter in a swamp. This wasnt until fire crews were able to clear the path across the bar bridge. I have no idea how to describe that. We were trapped for eight, nine hours. This bridge was on fire. We couldnt get out. Meanwhile the creek fire east of fresno still out of control. The National Guard telling us they rescued 385 people by helicopter. This morning all new video to show you inside one of California AirNational Guards helicopter as it was actually flying over fresno. They were trying to rescue people that were there from the creek fire. For days, crews have been working just to get people out that have been trapped by the flames. On twitter the guard said visibility has been very low, making it difficult for them due to all the smoke from the fires. A vast majority of othose who had their power shut off in the north bay until tuesday are now waking up this morning with the power restored. Now, the current outage map you can see r