Anything. Reporter it is emptier than usual, with far fewer people walking around, and walking out today. The airquality has reached unhealthy levels for all groups in San Francisco, and beyond. San francisco landmarks at the bay bridge and if i can see ash on cars are not trying to be outside to breathe that in. Reporter they try to minimize their time outside. This normally busy was nearly empty around lunchtime. We met matthew and his dog. Shes a puppy, we dont have a choice to go so we really try to limit our exposure,s though we take her out to go to the bathroom, and maybe five minutes of just some roaming time for her. I feel bad for my dog because we are inside all day and he has to go to daycare but now that we all work home, i just happen at home. It is fully booked for the second day in a row. Yesterday was the first day it was permitted to operate outdoors. The gym has not been open for five, six months, and i was really excited when i saw that they were doing this outdoor tent, and i reserved this time three days ago. Demand has been so strong, they were setting up more equipments this afternoon. It is kind of ironic that you know, the city has been saying that it is unsafe to work out in the died, and there were, telling us to work out out side, now we are outside in the to contend with, like you mentioned, unhealthy air, the heat. And after making the decision to close for dinner yesterday, they are open tonight. Reservations are about two thirds of what they normally do outdoors. We have to try to balance the needs of all the stakeholders, so do have reservations. And guests do want to still go out to eat, have to take into account the safety and well being of the employees. And so we really watch the situation on an hour by hour basis. The smoke in the air quality are expected to stick around a little bit longer at least through monday. In San Francisco, betty yu, kpix5. Coming up at six, chances are you have been checking the hui numbers, how are they generated and where are they coming from . We explain to you why some numbers are different. Several people are missing an explosive fire east of chico. The devastation in butte county, houses are destroyed, cars, trucks was still smoldering, thousands of people were forced out of their homes when the north complex fire exploded in size. Officials say three people died as they were trying to us eight those flames. A dozen people are still unaccounted or. This is what it looks like earlier near perry creek and butte county, still a lot of flames, many of the homes there burned down. A lot of evacuees did not have time to prepare, including this man went asleep in his car. Last night a their blue ligh antheyjust that everybody out. So my neighbors left before i did and i just do the things you do before fire hates. Gift of out of the way, and i got in my car and came down here. They joined the u. S. For service to try to protect the homes, earlier today, House Speaker nancy pelosi the address the ongoing firefight here in california. My prayers the firefighters were so courageous. The party lost one. We also lost a oneyearold boy among the 15 dead in these fires. Some encouraging news on the three bay area lightning fires, two of them almost fully contained. The cz you complex fires burning and the santa cruz mountain, now at 84 containment. All the wildfires combined have now scorched more than 3 million acres across the state. In the past hour, flail Police Announce the launch of a new effort to address this 80s bike and Violent Crimes. It is called operation piece. Details on the new plan from police. Reporter there is a call nationwide, here in vallejo they want more officers on the streets come the chief of police is that this is just one way to stop the increase of Violent Crime here in the city and as you just mentioned this is part of what is called operation peas, the goal here is to use his officers to do more outreach and to try to prevent crime and use less enforcement. The chief of police is the city needs 180 officers right now, and it currently only has 60 of his deafness is very to patrol vallejo. According to Police Officers association here in vallejo, it has six office hours on duty per shift and feels the city needs at least eight. The chiefs is crime increased as a pandemic hits and theres a direct correlation between crime and poverty. Unfortunately will we look at gun violence in our city, the last, this last august, we had up to 209 shootings. In our city. We have had 21 murders. That is a 300 increase from last year. That is significant. And that is why i call the Public Health crisis. Reporter the effort to bring peace on the streets of vallejo comes at a time of the department is under scrutiny for two Deadly Police shooting, the city is facing a lawsuit from the family of after falling asleep with a gun on his lap and talk about drive through. Police were responding to reports of a looting outside walgreens. No City Council Members were also here at this press conference this afternoon, they did say that this is just one option and they would like to also invest in programs such as crating jobs, with livable wages. Light in vallejo, kpix5. We first brought you the press Conference Live on cbsn bay area, you can stay updated 24 7 by streaming us on kpix. Com and other digital devices. In the past hour San Francisco announcing another round of reopenings, set for monday, and possible timeline to get kids back in the classroom. Lets start there. Kids up to grade 6 could return as early as september 21, if San Francisco holds steady in the red zone. The city has a goal of the middle schoolers back in october, and High Schoolers in november. As for what is reopening on monday, the list includes indoor hair and nail salons, tattoo and massage studios, and james, all that limited capacity. And allowed outdoor serving monday, Church Services for up to 50 people, open air bus and boat tours, drivein movies and other Family Entertainment such as minigolf. Helplessly this converse numbers are encouraging, according to state Health Officials but they say it is too early to tell if the new tiered reopenings are having a big impact. About 3300 new cases were just added, that is lower than our seven day average. And there are 137 new deaths bring the state total to just under 13,000. Over the past two weeks of test Positivity Rate is 4 . City Officials Say they are already looking ahead to halloween. The way of we have trickor treat in the past not be the way it is done this year. We are working hard to come up with good, clear and consistent guidance while recognizing the Important Role that halloween and other events really play. 191,000 people have lost their lives to coronavirus. Some experts say nearly 36,000 lives could have been saved if social distancing was implemented one week earlier nationwide. Lets take a live look at freeland, michigan. President trump speaking to a packed crowd in the key battleground state. An airplane hangar. Right of the president try to rally support of grow amid a growing crisis looming over his campaign. He is trying to move past the released recordings in which he admitted to downplaying the danger of covid19. Reporter natalie brand of the white house now the president is responding to the fallout. Reporter lets start with his campaign speech, still underway, he spent much of this speech attacking joe biden, and focusing on Common Campaign teams. The economy, the border security, the president also again claims that we are rounding the turn, regarding the coronavirus, even as case is rise in some states, including in the midwest, and before he left for michigan, the president very much on the defensive over his handling of the pandemic and intensifying fallout over his interview with bob woodward. Tonight President Trump holds a Campaign Rally in michigan, a state he narrowly one in 2016. I think hes done a wonderful job. Reporter the latest Battle Ground tracker poll shows democratic president ial candidate joe biden ahead there. He brought in economic message on wednesday. In my first week i will sign a series of executive actions to make sure we enforce by america. Reporter he also condemned residents of the released audio recording show the president intentionally misled americans about the severity of the coronavirus back in february, and march. The comments are part of the conversation with author bob woodward for his up coming book rage, published by an assignment in schuster, division of viacom, cbs. I didnt like what i said as we to become. Reporter he called the book of political hit job. If bob woodward thought it was bad, then he should have immediately gone out publicly, not wait for months. Reporter President Trump also acknowledge the existence of systemic racism. Okay, but is it here in a way that is having impact peoples lives . I think it is, it is unfortunate but i think it is. Reporter Kamala Harris travel to the battleground state of florida, to meet with black leaders. Real leadership will always be about leaders having the courage to speak the truth. Reporter a recent poll shows both president ial candidates in a dead heat in that state. Do we know what the president s supporters on the ground are saying about the woodward case . We have a producer on the ground in michigan, asking that very question, and the number of supporters he has talked to indicated they are not bothered by the discrepancy between what the president told woodward versus what he said publicly. One person even said they are glad that he did not cause panic. They thought that was a good thing, meanwhile sen. Kamala harris reacting to the audio on the campaign trail today, called it outrageous, and also described it as reckless disregard of the lives held and wellbeing of the american people. Still ahead, streaming on cbsn bay area, it looks like a scene from a movie but this happened on a Northern California freeway. Hart county video of the disasters pile up. A rubber target the bay area family shop and torches all of their inventory. The plea for help to stop it from like cordless phones. ringin big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Visit right now or call during business hours. And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state Program Visit right now or call during business hours. New video of a deadly Chain Reaction crash involving about a dozen cars. Have an on interstate new video of a deadly Chain Reaction crash involving about a dozen cars. Have an on interstate 5 tuesday night. In sacramento. You can see the moment of impact as a big rake hits three cars directly and then set off a violent Chain Reaction crash. The according was captured by passing tesla. The 39yearold was killed, siege pieces to other people suffered minor injuries. Investigators do not believe alcohol or drugs were a factor in this crash. San cisco hop are aski for hetracki criminal who set their place on fire. The Surveillance Video from dragon printing on caravelle street about 2 am. Police say someone broke in, and set fire to pretty much everything in sight including all of the machines and inventory. Here is look at some of the damage left behind. The owners say times are tough and this makes it even harder, especially since the crook is still out there. As the bipartisan san jose worked for hours putting out this house fire. Interrupted earlier this morning, on brook tree court, near the expressway. Now Officials Say that one firefighter was rushed to the hospital, but is going to be okay. The five people who live there and the dock were able to make it out. Firefighters believe it started as an electrical fire. Between the Police Officers are being held as heroes for saving a choking toddler. These the officers rushed to the scene, responding to a frantic mothers call for help. She explained that her three yearold son had choked on a great. Happened yesterday afternoon. One officer says his cpr training kicked in, as he sympathized with the parents and out of his own child. Personally ive been two different call comes kind of similar situations but nothing like this where i would have to do the lifesaving measures on a child, so it was new to me and as a parent, i was very frantic, as it hits home as it does we have a child yourself. Reporter the threeyearold is still at the hospital where doctors are running some tests. Getting back to the bad air come worsening before and after. 24 hours apart at sfo, the color may look better. The airquality certainly is not. It gives you a headache. Physical lowgrade sinus thing that maybe youre fighting authors is not great when youre dealing with also a pandemic that everybody is worried about that has some of the similar symptoms. The smoke will not go anywhere for a little while, still plenty of it out there, just blanketing the whole west coast. Action on the satellite fire toward the bottom of the screen but all of the smoke continues to be funneled down toward this by the upper level wind comes lets take a look at the big picture. If we follow the white arrows it makes the sheep of the greek letter omega and that is the atmospheric flow farther off the ground. Tens of thousands of feet up there but that went at the north way up there is pulling that smoke down from california. This is a very stubborn byg abo storm system, early seasonable one, bringing some rain. I dont think it will bring rain to the bay area, there is a chance, some 20 there is a chance, but it is likely to bring more of a wind shift and hopefully enough to bulldoze the smoke out of that is farther down the line. The worst of the northbay, in central bay, and the South Central bay down the peninsula, tomorrow, the bay area air Quality Management district has outlined orange dots come unhealthy for sensitive groups. I think therell be plenty of spots tipped into the rental purple. Category, maybe not all the way to marin where it is final hazardous but still, degraded airquality likely once again friday and then we have to keep evaluating things, maybe we get some shifts as we head into the weekend. Just awful out there, this is all smoke with that marine layer as i mentioned earlier has little fuzzy. Temperatures in the 60s once again. Warmer than we were. Bounces us online off into space, temperatures tonight only dropping down into the 50s, not too far from where we are right now. Ordinarily you see a lot of 50s on the map and say windows open weather. No. Not with better body and that simple keep settling down as what breeze there is will calm down overnight. Temperatures tomorrow, maybe a couple of degrees warmer than today, a very slow climb as we head towards weekend. Mid 60s around the bay, low 70s for the warmest spots farther inland. Fairfield might make up into the mid70s. These numbers are way below average. We will cement for a closer look at more high temperatures, qucbec 5 30. Limited early the marine layer has been affected by the sea breeze, or lack thereof today. We talk about why the ocean breeze does kind of fell apart, also coming up at 5 30. As it gets reset was we had in with the weekend, we start to return to maybe a more normal weather pattern which is just hazy smoke overhead, instead of choking smoke we have had for so much of today. Still ahead, more good news for the 49ers line up ahead of their season opener. Into the giants say goodbye to a fan favorite. The coach speaks out about the tough decision. How this mysterious the prop 19 helps californias most vulnerable. It provides property tax fairness for disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. Nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 whove lost their homes to fire. And seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. Prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. Yes on 19. When this unusual baseball season began the giants had four players on the roster connected to the world there is years but now that number is cut in half. Dennis has more on the departure of a fan favorite, the kung fu panda. Say its not so. Tough day, elizabeth. Humor that song by bob seger . Turn the page . Right . The giants are right now turning a lot of pages, just last month, they said goodbye to her depends, today releasing pablo sandoval, and that means only brandon bell and Brandon Crawford are the two players on this roster left over from the world series era. He was just 22 years old, when his career began in San Francisco. He became a legend when he hit three homeruns in a single World Series Game back in 2012. He was hitting just 220 this season, and dealing with family members who contracted covid 19. The Giants Front Office decided that the required was the better fit on the roster, but the manager said the decision to release him was not easy. It was very difficult to deliver that news. Very difficult for him to receive it. He was a pro and a gentleman every step of the way. Definitely a loss, conversation where both sides were thinking each other for the opportunities and i thank him for everything he brought to the clubhouse. His departure to the red sox back in 2015 was a messy one, but when he came back, fans welcomed him with open arms to the day he made sure to thank the fans on social media. 49ers rookie receiver brandon aiyuk, number 11 for most back at practice today. The team said he was limited but this is good news. He