7 is giving us that shot in san jose. So when the sun comes up. Weve got you covered, yeah and masks masks masks covering you today because the bad air quality john what expect. Yeah i agree we need those mass today youve been wearing in many ways, but today were going to have significant ash falling from the sky even if you can smell the smoke. So the mask will be very helpful and yes as we make our way through the next hour or so well see eventually what you those skies eventually do take what we are looking at is going to be a darker a smoky day much like yesterday smoke is a little bit lower in the horizon than yesterday its gradually sunk been very slow in doing so though so for some parts of San Francisco. Youre not quite smelling it yet. As that marine layer was still president overnight. Even in areas with slightly better air quality you still need that mask because we do have ash if you had your car outside overnight youre seeing it having settled on your car and as you step out you want to be breathing that in so you may not smell it, but you do need to have those masks on to protect yourself from that impact 50s and 60s are current temperatures this morning. It is cool it stayed cool yesterday part of that was due to the dense layer smoke overhead blocked out the sun felt like it should be dawn or dusk rather it was the middle of the day and with calm winds overnight smoke didnt have anywhere to go so its still sitting right above us if not down at the surface for inland areas where air quality is already at its worst. It was transported our way from the north as we saw strong winds overnight the night before last last night winds come down so now its here to stay and will stay with us like the through this forecast even as we do see fog pushing into our inland areas. Youre going to have that fog with some smoke in bed in it so marine layer or not we are going to have poor air quality as we round out this week and start the weekend todays daytime highs barely the 80s for just a couple of inland spots. Most of us really are going to hold on to the 60s and 70s. Thats your forecast robin ill send it over to you all right, thank you john checking in on the traffic its much heavier now. Heading into San Francisco. They turned the meteor lights on at the bay bridge toll plaza and that sort of kicked off our back up thats why its so slow. We dont have any problems right now with the lights are on their cycling slowly and its stacked up from the maze will not only is it slow from the maze but its actually backing up onto all connectors the back of that you see here it goes to 5 8424 and the east shore freeway coming out of berkeley, so be prepared for that some minor crowding 5. 80 west as you leave Castro Valley merging onto to 38 and then after that a great connection over to the nimitz freeway darya james all right, thanks a lot robin and lets get out there and continue our Team Coverage and see what conditions are like will begin first with kron fours will tran hes arise on Treasure Island this morning looking back at the city morning. Well. James i think i might have the best Vantage Point come sunrise, well just have to wait and see right now theres nothing to really show you the city is often the distance but it is dark. Hazy conditions. John was talking about it might not look like what we saw yesterday so we cant get enough of it lets get right to the pictures and the video from yesterday. I can see some stories feeling vindicated like yes, we are right to sell halloween night whom so early because it looked like halloween all over the bay area people saw it when they woke up in the morning that wait a minute why is it or why my waking up on mars when it just turned this area to orange to reddish hue color. Hopefully wont be the same if youre wondering about the smoky conditions. I dont smell smoke, i dont see the embers flying around at my particular location yes i see it biddy embers from time to time but nothing like what we saw yesterday and its a little bit chilly. I am happy to say that especially with the heat wave that we saw just last weekend so bring it on as far as the chilly conditions. But the smoky conditions not so bad and changed area. I dont know about you, but my sleep schedule as off its already hard to work the morning shift, but it felt like night all day long i just wanted to sleep stayed its nice that it was in hot so. I this i feel like im in soup. I wasnt even set theres too much ash around will you went running yesterday which i find cant believe you did that but i i had to go get a haircut and just getting in and out of my car you get in your car to slam the door all the ash kind of swirling around us is that was in is that the. Is wow youre going show you real quick thing though i have a firefighter friend and there was ash all over my car so he swears you better watch that ash off it can get possibly wet and it sits on your pain. He says it will ruin your pain series, its still dry now. Wash it good tip. Thank you know is different than dirt and you know john wright once a year he washes his car with sights sounds like we do thank very much well. All right, well just one element of our Team Coverage we want to go now to the north bay weve got kron fours stairs tense out there for i like the way well put it when he says the tough times are calling in pumpkin skies yesterday its better selves like a latte it sounds like a little bit a bit more positive actually government is pumping life after work as write after breathing in all that air and i cant believe he said he went on a run i got off of work yesterday and i grow up in a ball state on my couch for hours. Because it just felt so disorienting and were going to see if that will be a case this morning again as you can see the light behind me its pretty foggy here in sausalito reporting live for you. Where the air quality in her in county is definitely suffering its unhealthy you can see a nap there theres purple theres red theres a little bit of yellow sprinkled in there. The purple is hazardous. The red is unhealthy so definitely going to be wearing a mask, but its very deceiving because you feel like the air is its crisp it doesnt smell smoke be its a little foggy things were used to but it definitely is poor air quality that yesterday there was no if ands or buts about it you can see it it could was just so much more real bad and it was definitely carry out it was the word of the day as our executive producer said is the apocalyptic and it looked like there was sepia filter over your eyes so it was definitely sure that you take that precaution, you stay indoors as much as possible because as i said it can be quite this evening as you head out this morning were going to be live for you. All morning all my mates had deported era, wherever its really bad show you and tell you what its like for now its dark its chris and its deceiving so make sure you are heading out the door right now you stay protected have amassed orrin for sure now send it back to you guys in the newsroom and just seeing the bus just go by sarah minds me because what happened yesterday was people you need to drive. Really carefully. Its dark youre looking around youre distracted. That was a bad combination so be safe when you drive out there and sir also brought up a good point about you know looks can be deceiving it looked cool. But it has a very real effect an impact on people, respiratory systems and if youre prone to having a bouts of allergies where its tough to breathe, you know you want to probably stay indoors and do what you can to to alleviate that throughout the day. Yeah lets go to rain rv whos got allergies in Alameda County this morning doing the best she can right now are you okay. You know a day of the night, thanks for checking in on the other doing the best i can on here have been able to breathe through my nose since yesterday so hopefully well get a break in the next few days but the most to say anything about the east bay across the area is the air right go ahead and zoom in so you guys can take a look and see what im seeing here on this roof top the love. The air looks really but thats really deceiving because its not there are loads. Particles floating around in the air out here this morning in fact all across the areas of hayward cast a rally, san Leandro Fremont the air quality is over a 100 soup or unhealthy. Specially like you mentioned james, if its a difficult for you to breathe, look at this red and orange everywhere looks like its even worse, then it was yesterday out here in terms of air quality this morning its not expected to get any better because you guys are talking about that air and the smoke still city over the east bay now all my drive through ill Alameda County this morning. I could see some areas on here that were covered it would appear to be fog or smog in like a mixture of smoke and bold so you could also see that as you wake up early this morning. In addition to all of that. Yeah, there are ways all that you can protect yourself because look at what we saw yesterday lau lie. Red skies ash falling and i know you guys mentioned that were going to see more of that today. But its important to reduce your. Activities outdoors if you can know daria you suggested, here a fire that could be a great thing for people as if you have a mask and a really heavy duty star to wed like what i have all right now todays the day to wear it and put it on james and darya. I mean those air cleaners are expensive to i got one hamad out for my brother and i understand theyre kind of selling out anyway you might want to try like amazon or something in reyna your advice was good too so not only have the mask when you go out but stay inside keep the windows closed. Thats the best way to keep the bad air out well and rain and one of the thing to you i know you are having some respiratory issues with the allergies and stuff. And i get seasonal allergies to and although it didnt affect me so much that way i notice my eyes i couldnt go very long outside without having to do a lot of blank because all those little bits of ash were getting in my eyes and it was irritating me in that way on a few experience, the same thing. Well i mean it she eyes and you know its really hard, you know days where you where you know the eyelashes like as lady was so i was trying not to take off my eyelashes but sometimes you just got to scratch, you know, i help for community all all right good anyway. Yeah. Time now is never mind we got a lot more on our website to including a lot of the pictures that you sent in yesterday and a lot of by the he showed us the camera on the phone is insane and its all arent just kept scrolling which im sure it is like on your phone too. And thats just a quick reminder if we have another morning like that and you didnt get a chance for even if you did send us a picture yesterday sent us another one because wed like to document what todays going to be like all around the bay too as we all wake up and get on with our day 6. 12 right now were going to see some sun and about a half hour so stick with us. The reason. Were not is of course because of the fires and you can see theyre still raging all around the west coast. Were going to tell you where the out of state help is coming from and the smoking skies cause delays at sfo and some confusion for travelers landing at what time in the dark. And in specifically to update on the creek fire yeah, those fires putting up a lot of smoke still darya and that smoke is still going to be with us today, what color those skies take all that remains to be seen, but well find out within try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. 6. 15 right now and where we looking okay, i can still tell this as well that makes making yes, but if youre used to driving in the light were going to see about that 6. 15 still dark. Thats the big question. Yeah that is going to the question and were talking to john earlier he says a lot of the conditions we saw yesterday seem to be repeated this morning. So i dont know what you think thought wed see it again thought it was a oneday deal right well know yesterdays brilliant orange was. Definitely something ive never seen before and i think for most of us that was the case. Today i think is going to take a bit of a different color, but its still going to be eerie and its still going to be darker than usual. We will see sunrise within the hour. So definitely keep your eyes peeled for what were about to see another look at the walnut creek am definitely shows a noticeable hayes so we still have the smoke sitting right above the bay, although that smoky layers a little lower than it was yesterday and smoke is going to continue to sink gradually in the days to come worsening in worsening air quality even though you might not smell smoke in your area there is ash fall and you dont want to be breathing that in so you want to have the mask on wherever you are across the bay. The highpressure ridge that brought us the northern winds that pushed in the smoke is weakening now we have another High Pressure ridge thats building in can result in sinking air still winds in just the slightest of an onshore breeze. What does all this mean for us well with calm winds. You dont have the smoke getting pushed out it is still sitting there right overhead really all across the state that includes us here in the bay area. And its only going to gradually seeing through the course of this forecast meaning were likely to have smoke and haze well through the upcoming weekend. Thats kept temperatures down yesterday most of us were in the 60s to 70s and today, the vast majority of us are going to keep those cooler temperatures than what we had earlier this week palo alto and Mountain View at 74 for your highs today, south bay temperatures also low to mid 70s for the most part. I do anticipate a couple of 80 sprinkle then theyre likely not a lot though most of us are going to stay on the cooler side yet again. A lot of that depends on if we do get bits of sunshine, shining between this dense layer of smoke that we do have blocking out most of the sun which is gonna hurt for most of the day. Tomorrow temperatures remain similar for most of the bay area were going to hold on to the grey and likely a few orange colors in there too on through the start of the weekend gradual improvements through this forecast its going to take time to get the smoke filtered out as we really dont have a big weather maker coming through thats going to do that for us things will gradually improve temperatures during this time will remain cooler than we have been thats your forecast weve got robin in the Traffic Center. Good to see robin how are the roads get see to john and i appreciate those cooler temperatures it feels much much better than triple digits, were checking out the traffic out there and the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza just continues to grow. And this is what about any major problems no crashes no stalls but the metering lights or cycling slowly and that has traffic backed up all the way through the maze check this out its on 5. 80 from 24 its emerging on to the east shore freeway youre backed up through berkeley there toward university avenue. So all of your approaches are quite tight over to 92 of the san mateo bridge westbound a busy year now that were in the 6 oclock hour but no big problems still 13 minutes off to one oh one. Ill give you one more we see some busy traffic here too at the richmond sandra fell bridge. No big problems is going to be an easy trip across the span, a nice connection into the north bay. So if you get out there right now its only 8 minutes from the tolls off to one o one james all right, thank you very much robin. Lets go to Fresno County now where the creek fire is burned more than a 166,000 acres right now still threatening more than 5,000 structures. Weve got maderas bab with the very latest now from fresno. The wind is pushing the smoke up and out of the way but that also increased fire behavior. And when its fired. Downed power lines in hot spots flaring up on the side of one 68 has around a 1000 firefighters stand their ground against a fastmoving flames and its just devastating al gonzales has a place up near shaver everybodys just hurting right now is this. Its just just its just this fresno fire crew along with 80 other firefighters protecting littlefield road where a lot of homes are threatened. So we still have the engines plugged into the areas the communities, the subdivisions weather. Theres a lot residents and homes and were still protecting those homes just a couple miles south of the neighborhoods, firefighters are currently protecting this is an area where the creek fire has already blaze through and this is exactly what theyre trying to prevent the devastation and destruction left behind their success dependent on the winds. Its still a very dynamic environment and there is still a lot of hot spots around. Well that wasnt theirs bap reporting. Cal fire has confirmed that more than 360 structures has burned in that fire. And the creek fire still 0 contained this morning. Well the creek fire burning there in Fresno County not close to i should say as i mentioned a 167,000 acre 0 contained. So far were looking you know conditions there still on the dire side daria but. Hope that maybe in the next week they can get some advantage here on the containment. Yeah were now and then theres the bear fire. That killed 3 people and hurt several others, this is the one in butte county. Spread very quickly there. It part of the north complex fires that started on august 17th. And these fires have burned more than 250,000 acres. Many homes near the berry creek area, worst destroyed. Last nights hot spots or no line ordering im not no longer threatening portions of north of the lake so thats the good news, but again that fire has now killed 3 people. The latest containment numbers from the fires around the bay the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay. Thats 93 contained, gosh they look at the video of this destruction, you know that were still dealing with 362,000 acres burned in that one. The scu complex fire which has burned close to 400,000 acres is 96 contained czu in san Mateo Santa Cruz counties. Have burned 86,000 acres plus 83 contained. And the woodward fire 95 contained thats the Point Reyes National seashore in warren county. Its burned almost 5,000 acres. Meantime firefighters are needing help you know and there are other states that have fires raging as well so its been difficult to get the help we need california cal oh, says that even a few weeks ago we couldnt get all of the out of state fire engines that we requested through federal programs and now california is competing wit