And its still showing a lot of Forest Management to creating smoke for the bay area. Innovative policy to battle those red and purple colors Climate Change. Its 35 35 right now. Indicating all of that smoke even up in the higher lets get a check on traffic elevations and thats the reason why we saw those orange colors in the sky yesterday. With gianna. As we head through the day, hey there. Hey, good morning. Taking a look at the roadways. It is an early start to the because of that smoke, kind of backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Inhibiting the heat, so our temperatures will be below this is the work on the upper deck and you are looking live average once again. Here and metering lights are mid 60s in San Francisco and turned an this morning and ll t upper 60s in oakland and mid 70s for san jose and upper 70s 880 overpass. That road work on the upper for concord. Were going to talk about the deck of the bay bridge just before the tunnel has a couple science of why we saw those orange colors in the sky of lanes blocked. Causing us delays as you head yesterday and what you can out of the east bay into the expect as we head through the city. You can see all that red on our in just a w minus. G sensors. So definitely seeing slower speeds as you work your way through there. So headed out early this michelle . Images of the unpren or y across thbaarea morning expect brake lights there. If you want to use the san mateo bridge instead, its looking much better to get plenty of people say the smoke across the bay this morning. There are changes to mass choked skies is giving them anxiety. Transit and ill have that in kpix 5s Katie Nielsen joins us live from Treasure Island with my next report. Its 5 36. How the eerie skies are really a live look at capitol hill taking a toll on peoples where today, a vote is expected in the senate on a scaled back Mental Health. Katie . Reporter yeah, michelle, bill for coronavirus relief. Some people were describing it the procedural motion faces opposition though from almost like the apocalypse and others said they felt like they democrats who say the bill is were living on another planet. Insufficient. Some saying is this what it it includes 300 a week in enhanced jobless benefits but feels like to live on mars . Any way you want to describe no stimulus checks or aid to it, we know that those skies states. A developing story. Were not what we would consider normal. A new book by Journalist Bob Woodward called rage is ominous, ominous and bleak. Sparking anger toward president its apocalyptic. Trump about how he handled the just kind of feels like the sky is falling. Coronavirus early in the pandemic. I honestly felt like wo s the president were under attack or more than a dozen mes ile something. [ laughter ] g resech fobook. Reporter me l and corded the conversatibrry o meteorologists with the National Weather service says the reason the sky changed ashin st, the colors yesterday is because the smoke was higher in the admitted to the atmosphere than where it severity of the virus. You just breathe the air, normally settles. And then as the sun filtered thats how its passed. Through, all of that and so thats a very tricky particulate matter, thats what one. Thats a very delicate one. Created that orange halloween like glow. Therapists say even though its also more deadly than people can understand the your, you know, your even scientific explanation for the your strenuous flus. Phenomenon, its still completely normal to feel this is deadly stuff. Shortly after that was recorded the president told the unsettled or anxious right now. A Pretty Healthy reaction. Public that covid19 was we are wired to have a what nothing to worry about. Yesterday, President Trump said that was because he wanted to is this reaction to something thats potentially dangerous avoid creating panic. And especially something thats very new. Reporter now another big democrats arenow criticizing question that a lot of people have is, is all of this the president. Wood word withheld the tapes until now because he needed dangerous . According to doctors with all this particulate matter in the time to verify what the air, they are warning people president was saying. Looking live at the white who are considered high risk to house now. Limit their time outside. Where President Trump added 20 now coming up at 5 30, hear more names to his existing list from National Weather service meteorologists about whether they think we could see this of 25 potential picks for a Supreme Court vacancy in the type of phenomenon again today. Future. Those on the list include tom cotton and josh holly and ted live in Treasure Island, Katie Nielsen, kpix 5. Cruz. The decision to release them up this morning, three people front is a way to win over are dead and a dozen are conservatives who may have been missing as the bear fire rips althe campaign through butte and plumas counties. Meanwhile, people in butte county who were devastated by the camp fire two years ago are battleground. Joe biden and the dnc announced reliving that nightmare once again. We spotted many homes burned to raising 365 million outraising the ground and so far 200 the president by over 150 structures have been damaged or million last month. A recordshattering total the lost. This deadly wildfire now has a rnc has yet to match. Mother searching for her uvote. R 19th to register to il missing son. Hes smart and a good kid. For more information on how to hes athletic. I cant get ahold of him. Nobody can find him. I love you. Please call me and let mom know register, online, just go to where you are at. In southern california, new kpix. Com campaign2020. Evacuations were ordered all new data shows nearly a because of the wildfire caused Million People sought jobless bid a gender reveal party in benefit last week. San bernardino county. Yesterday, a fire chopper Diane King Hall of cbsmoneywatch. Com joins us live dumped water on the flames to from new york. Diane, good morning. Reporter good morning len. Extinction wish flareups and thats right. Hot spots around structures and a weekly snapshot of the labor market is in focus this morning more than 12,000 acres have burned since saturday. And according to the labor department, 884,000 people the fire is not even 20 filed for Unemployment Benefits contained. The historic fire conditions last week. Have forced every california that number was worse than expected. And amazon on the flip Side National forest to shut down. Is going on a hiring spree eight closed on monday and ten staying it plans to hire more more shut down yesterday. Officials say theyll evaluate than 30,000 additional workers. The conditions daily to its the ecommerce giants determine reopening dates. Single biggest hiring surge and this could be the greatest the positions would be on the loss of human lives and tech and corporate side. And amazon plans to host a property due to wildfire in our virtual job fair next week and states history. Hundreds of homes in oregon then the new hires would initially work remote. Have been destroyed by growing the average starting salary is wildfires. Fueled in part by strong winds. About 150,000. And teens vaped less last more than 470,000 acres are burning with at least five year. According to the cdc, fewer towns substantially gone. Than 20 of High Schoolers and officials are calling for mass evacuations. Im anne makovec at the 5 of middle schoolers are live news desk. Using them. And some breaking news thats down. Overseas. 2019 saw a significant number a huge fire at the port of beirut. Weve just got this new video of vaping relatedillnesses and in. This is just a month after a deaths causing officials the crack down on teen vaping massive explosion at the same believing e zigs can be just as location that was when 3,000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate blew dangerous as regular cigarettes. Paerer yea is offering free up. Killing more than 190 people. Coffee and wifi for the next month. Reporter yes. A double jolt of work from home and injuring about 6500. Damaging thousands of buildings in the lebanese capital. This is at a warehouse that fuel starting today, the first 2,020 people who sign up for stores tires but obviously seeing that is triggering for the people in that country. The chains coffee subscription at this point, we dont know service will get a 75 visa gift card plus the coffee will flow free for the first month of the subscription. The cause of that fire. Gianna . That deal is good for anyone taking a look at the who signs up regardless of if roadways right now, it is a you are among those who win the busy ride along in nimitz freeway. 880 southbound. Weve got Road Construction wifi. Len . All right, coffee and wifi. Blocking several lanes right around 23rd. Its going to be out there at two necessities. Especially these days. Least until 6 00 this morning. Reporter hand to hand. So traffic is really backed up in that area. Diane, thank you. Northbound 880 moving at the see you again at 6 30. Reporter thank you. Coming up, on kpix 5 and speed limit. Theyve since opened the lanes and if you want to use 580 as the alternate. Streaming on cbsn bay area, a you can see much better speeds along there. If you go out about and early this morning that might be your multimillion dollar rent best bet to avoid the delays dispute playing out over levis along the nimitz freeway. Weve got some brake lights stadium. The bay area city going headto coming out of 580 as well head with the 49ers. Westbound as you work your way thats next. I want to show you our from tracy getting over into Mount Hamilton camera from the the Altamont Pass area. Lick observatory. Hard to make out anything on pretty typical for this time of the camera because its just so this morning. Smoky out there. About a 35 minute drive time to we have unhealthy air for the go from 205 over to 680. Bay area this morning. Ill have the full forecast coming up. And theres a crash on 84, calaveras road westbound right before 680. Traffic is slow anyway as you work through there. Ville a look at mass transit coming up in the next report. Michelle . All right, gianna, thank you. And update on pg es emergency power shut offs now. Some good news, service is now restored to everyone in sonoma county. Approximately 97 of customers who can have their power restored now have power. In napa county, there are still some Power Outages but pg e says service is expected to be restored for those customers by noon today. And today the cpuc will hold a meeting on power shutoff power safety preparedness beginning at 9 30 this morning on the agencys website. Some good news on the States Coronavirus fight. California is reporting its lowest single day increase in cases since may. There were 1600 new cases in 83 new deaths yesterday. The seven day Positivity Rate is now just 3. 6 . Thats less than half the rate during the surge in july and early august. And today, gyms in Santa Clara County will resume indoor services. This, after the county met the states covid benchmarks for new cases and positive testing rates. For now, fitness clubs can only have a 10 occupancy. Today at noon, californias Top Health Official will give an update on the states covid 19 response. New this morning, piedmonts police chief says the city is experiencing an uptick in crime. 168 offenses were reported in the Second Quarter this year in comparison to 104 at the same time last year. Burglaries doubled from 17 last year to 34 this year. Motor vehicle thefts also doubled from last year from 11 reported then compared to 24 this year. Vallejo. The Police Department will host an operation peace News Conference today. This is to discuss the sip cant increase in Violent Crimes in the city. Chief of Police Williams will i announce the plans to address the problems. There have been 21 murders in the city this year. Ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, trouble for thousands of reers li market rate housing. Why theyre about to lose their homes. Thats next. All right, we are tracking the smoke. This is our smoke model and ill let you know what you can expect taking you through the day and through the week coming up. And Road Construction causing delays along 880. Plus theres road work on the upper deck of the bay bridge. Welcome back. 5 43 on this thursday morning. Its a slow ride this morning an we are dealing with unhealthy air to start off our day a spare the air alert that remains in effect. A record 24 days in a row with our spare the air alert for the bay area. And check this out. Take a look at this. This person compared a photo of San Franciscos smoky skies yesterday to Ridley Scotts blade runner movie. Ill tell you what you can expect today coming up in the full forecast in just a few minutes. Yeah, looks very similar to blade runner. Well, developing this morning, even the 49ers arent immune to the pandemics economic toll. The team is asking santa clara for a rent reduction. The city says the niners failed to pay last months rent. Nearly 3 million. And they only plan to pay half a million this month. In a letter to the city, the niners say they had to cancel two preseason games and Health Orders dont allow gatherings. So they want their rent reduced by 20 . The City Attorney says the nfl commissioner and Player Association canceled the preseason games. So thats not one of the grounds under the lease for not paying rent. We did inform the 49ers and they nevertheless said that they did not intend to pay rent and when the rent came due, they did not pay it. 49ers released a statement saying in part mr. Doyle is again misrepresenting the fangs. The september rent payment will be paid in full. I feel like im in the book of eli. But its like an apocalyptic state out there. But surprisingly, the air quality doesnt seem as bad as it looks. The 49ers have their sights set on a return to the super bowl. But yesterdays practice felt more like the orange bowl. The team was getting y the first game of the season sunday. Linebacker fred warner has been cleared to play in sundays opener against arizona after nine days on the covid list. Meantime, nfl kickoff is happening today for the texans and chiefs. Fans may have less enthusiasm about the season this year but certainly not the gamblers. More than 33 million americans are expected to make bets. According to the american gaming association, 6 million will wager at physical legal sports books. 11. 3million will bet through legal and illegal online platforms. Other 6 million will wager with the bookie and 8. 6 million bet but pools and others will bet casually with friends. Update on l. A. Countys halloween restrictions. County officials now say trick ortreating is quote not recommended, rather than prohibited. The shift comes after some residents complained and said social distancing is still possible for example by leaving new this morning, twitter plans to rent out part of its out candy in a bowl. The latest guidelines block San Francisco headquarters as Haunted House attractions and encourage online parties and staff continues towork from car parades. Home. More than 100,000 square feet well, new this morning, this is pretty cool. Of office space is available weve been waiting for this. Its this Years National toy for sublease. The space includes nearly 900 hall of fame nominees. They just been announced and workstations at twitters headquarters in the mid market len, i have to tell you a few area. Since may, the company has had of my favorites on the list. A permanent work from home option for most of its employees. Time now 5 12. Mine michelle as well. Lots of people have been my little pony, jenga and masters of the universe and struggling to pay rent during the pandemic. Also retro board games yahtzee and now this. Thousands of Affordable Housing units are expected to and sorry. Even bingo and sidewalk chalk be converted to market rate have been nominated. Three toys will be chosen on housing. In the next decade. As kpix 5s Susie Steimle shows november 5th to be placed in the hall of fame and masters of us in our original series project home, tenants often the universe definitely gets my dont find out until its too vote. Late. Ive lived here over 30 you cant go among with heman years. Reporter Vanessa Franklin will never forget the feeling and skeletor. She had when she first walked you pegged me as a my little into her home at fosters landing all those years ago. Pony . Light bright. I love that when i was a kid. I saw all this doesnt look like that bui saw all this the papers though i got really sad when they kind of got worn out. And i says my god this would be i think they make them better these days. All right, taking a look at a blessing. The roadways right now. Turned out to be that way. If you are headed to the Branch Reporter she just gotten bay bridge, brake lights this out of a bad marriage and was morning and road work on the staying family and needed a home for two this place. 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