Cars back on its tracks. Good evening. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus thank you for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight once again a dense layer of smoke from dozens of wildfires. They darken the skies around the bay area again today, this is a live look at the bay bridge. Those lights really illuminating just how smoky and hazy it is once again. Yeah well the orange glow from yesterday is mostly gone the poor air quality sure isnt. We kick off our kron 4 Team Coverage with the latest air quality checked around the bay from chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lawrence yeah thats kind of the irony we dont have that orange glow today, theres less smoke in our atmosphere, but the smoke that youre next all the way down to the surface and the spore quality out there right now and you can see out toward sfo you see the lights out there you see the haze that smoke down below as a small continue just to flow around the bay area and it is bad in some part of very very unhealthy air quality in the San Francisco you can see a purple here also across the bay in oakland and richmond all the way up now extending in the north bay get near a nap or so youre still looking at some very poor air quality and around the rest the bay areas bad 2 in red, so that all the way down the Mountain View in a on extending into livermore. And concord and also into fairfield so certainly very bad out there looks like one minor changes come as we head toward tomorrow, were going to a little bit of a breeze not much but a little bit stronger breeze by tomorrow afternoon. Were hoping that will some of the blues long so still very poor air quality expected for tomorrow looks like some improving conditions though as we head in toward the weekend right now weve noticed a change in this is helped out number we have that offshore wind a couple of days ago that was bringing all the smoke from the bear fire back into the bay area weve cut that off and you can see why wind direction here coming more of a westerly wind direction coming from the ocean pushing me so thats the good news. The bad news. Theres so much smoke was transported here already from that offshore wind so that is actually sitting off the coastline and still blowing back on shore so weve got a long way to go. Of course a nice a wind event get some pretty gusty winds around here that would help remove a lot of the blues of course thats of concern with some of the fires other right now winds beginning to calm down a spot you can see that around the bay at this time. Those winds likely to pick up again tomorrow afternoon but only minor changes. So pretty smoky around the bay area tomorrow guys. At lawrence yeah and the east bay, the air quality hovered in the unhealthy range for most of the day and it got worse as the day unfolded in many spots are kron fours terisa stasio shes live for us in the city of alameda where some restaurants, a guest decided not to offer their outdoor dining. I mean theyre so bad teresa. Well vicki, the restaurant right behind me here in the city of alabama alabama and alameda decided to take action. And because of these horrible conditions. At the star restaurant in alameda and the lights are up but they are not on the outdoor patio shut down due to this study smoky skies we have a better air quality and we are more concerned about our customers have a healthy and. That are eating experience though is unsafe for our customers as well as our as our employees. There were some that brave the outdoors here and there its a little worse than it was yesterday. Yesterday was higher today is a. One 57 on yelling 57 if it was 67. We have a special umbrella to capture all the almost this low some people tell me that they came out to help out like paul macmillan. Who owns a small i can tell that its bad. Its obvious that is bad not as bad as yesterday yesterday was horrible. But im glad that its breaking away a little hopefully theyll contain those fires as soon as possible. Lisa krause close her shop lawrence closet named after her daughter on wednesday when the orange glow was just too ominous. She opened her doors thursday but shared with me this year. It has been quite a lot to deal now is when covid19 air quality reading the shutdown not sure its opening when its opening. Who gets to open. Its real its confusing for everybody i think its affecting everybody. And back here in the city of alameda. The restaurant behind me just to be clear in these very cloudy times it is open the star restaurant is open just decided today to close the outdoor patio and then they will figure out. Tomorrow tomorrow. Depending on the weather. Reporting here in alameda theresa stasi, a back to you. And take it day by day thank you theresa in addition to the east bay, poor air quality extends to the south bay, the north bay, San Francisco you name it and kron fours dan kerman continues our Team Coverage. Unlike wednesday the skies were not a moody orange, but instead a grayish white visibility was limited. Ash was all over cars and smoke made for another day of unhealthy air quality. Its so thick and it you feel it in your chest and. Its just gross is why i wear double mask got to them on because i said one mask doesnt really work for the smoke. So im hoping the 2 will work better in fact air quality was worsen thursday because a layer of fog that kept the smoke aloft wednesday. Had dissipated weve lost or inversion protection and were getting a lot more mixing enforcing that means that all that smoke thats been aloft is mixing down and its affecting portions of the bay area were seeing some unhealthy for sensitive groups and even some red on healthy readings today. And while some people were still out and about its definitely curtailing a number of activities. I wont be running jogging or in in this weather and for some this unhealthy air coupled with the fires coupled with covid19. This all become too much. I dont know i feel like i should start investing in the bunker in new zealand. Im not sure i ever expect everything to be normal again on friday, the bay area air Quality Management district will decide whether or not to extend that spare the air alert. They say with all the smoke aloft, its very likely. In San Francisco dan kerman kron 4 news. Taking a look now at the major wildfires that are burning around the bay area tonight containment continues to increase thats the good news, the lnu lightning complex in the north bay. Is 95 contained right now nearly 1500 structures though have been destroyed there. Containment of the scu complex fires in the east and south bays thats up to 98 nearly 140 structures have been destroyed. The czu see lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties, those are up to 85 containment more than 900 homes have been destroyed. And the woodward fire at the point raze National Seashore in marine county that is now 95 contained. Even with the higher containment numbers there are still hazards that county officials want people to be aware of kron fours Maureen Kelly reports now on the warning from authorities in San Mateo County. Im in unincorporated San Mateo County not far from the town of pescadero and behind me you can see how the czu lightning complex fires scorched. This ranch land behind me. It actually if you look over here you can see how it came right down to the roadway. Im on cloverdale road and you can see that the fire basically stopped at this Drainage Ditch right here. Now cal fire says they are at 84 percent containment. And theyre basically in mop up mode but they do still stressed that they dont want people coming out here nonresidents to the fire zone we have had issues with look you lose. People who want to stop and see whats going on which is obvious its their community and theyre very interested in whats happening so its only understandable but when you do that sometimes youre not paying attention to where youre driving and we definitely weve got a good Safety Record right now and we definitely want to keep it that way not just with people who are working on cal fire incidents, but you know the other agencies as well theyre working on the roads and they ask you to slow down just please do so so that everybody can go home safely and no everybody works to support that. Theyre also saying that there are still hazards out trees, especially in a wooded areas. That are in danger of falling and there is also something that they say could happen around the roots of the bigger trees. They call them ash pits and say that if you know people could fall into these ash pits because down below its where the fire is still burning. In the root system of these trees and they see those fires can sometimes burn for months, reporting from unincorporated San Mateo County im Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. So cal fires battling multiple wildfires across the state up in butte county fastmoving flames have burned more than 250,000 acres and killed at least 10 people deputies found 7 more bodies today after discovering 3. Yesterday thats right near the town of paradise that burned in 2018. 16 people are still missing and more than 2000 buildings have burned there this year the creek fire in Fresno County meanwhile has burned more than a 175,000 acres. Crews though are making some progress tonight that fire is now 6 contained and down in Southern California the eldorado fire has burned more than 12,000 acres. After it was started by a smoke machine at a gender reveal party over the weekend our coverage of the wildfire smoke continues at kron 4 dot com there you can see a timeline of before. And after pictures from around the bay as well as a gallery of pictures sent to us by our viewers and full forecast to track air quality or lack, thereof is all at kron 4 dot com. San Francisco Mayor london breed making a major reopening announcement this evening indoor personal care services, and outdoor family activities can resume starting next week. This includes indoor hair salons barber shops and gyms they can reopen inside starting september 14th at limited capacity. Also allowed to reopen outdoor Family Entertainment things like many golf gokarts the following week september 21st indoor museums and in class learning from k through 6th grade can resume with limited capacity and if you have a safety plan in place and by the end of september San Franciscos goal is to allow 25 capacity at indoor places of worship could that. Coming up next here on kron 4 news today. Theres no stopping outdoor animals from being exposed all the smoke in the air, but theres one east bay Animal Rescue group thats offering a very different kind of animal 8 ill have that story coming up. Closing up shop for a week after House SpeakerNancy Pelosis controversial hair cut the owner of the San Francisco salon is making a major announcement. Plus as more residents return to work around the bay area popular motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken strips, still waiting for the spicy chicken strips, 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 is it the juicy 100 allwhite meat . Or because you can spice them up or cool them down . Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back really bad. Get my spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99. Were running were safe. We have good air flow. We have mask requirements we have hand sanitizers at every single station. Marta is increasing Weekday Service for the First Time Since the pandemic hit starting monday commute trains on most lines will run every 15 minutes during peak hours. Kron fours michelle kingston now takes a closer look at the trains and the traffic on the road showing us it appears. More people are heading back to the office. Bility broadly speaking is back to about 80 of where it was. A year ago. Theres no doubt traffic in San Francisco is busier now than it was back in late march just take a look at the numbers total bridge traffic in the bay area was down nearly 52 on a tuesday in april of this year compared to a tuesday in april of last year and now total bridge traffic is down just 18. 6 when compared to a day in september last year you look at you look at all of this data. And very the bay area. Came almost to a halt. For a couple of weeks this is the bay bridge back on march 26th barely anyone on the road and this is the bay bridge today smoky skies and more cars transportation Officials Say commuters had been slowly getting back on the move since mid april we saw a big rise over the summer and it has remained fairly steady ever since. The fact is that. Car travel rebounded a lot faster then transit bart is used to about 400,000 commuters a day they bottomed out earlier this year at about 25,000 riders today there at about 45 to 49,000 ridership is really really low which is a huge financial burden on us. But right now our focus is getting writers to feel comfortable riding the trains beginning monday riders will find trains running every 15 minutes during peak times on most of the lines this is to reflect their current ridership levels and welcome more riders back to bart officials there say commuting on their trains is safe right now our focus is getting writers to feel comfortable riding the train, michelle kingston kron 4 news. Marte is looking for ideas on how to use some train cars that are no longer running the Transit Agency is currently in the process of swapping its old train cars. Some that have been in Service Since the 70s for the new upgraded ones youve likely heard us reporting about this in january bart will allow the public to submit proposals on how to turn some of the old cars into things like museum exhibits restaurants, bars, i dont know would you go to a bart bar. Training tools even for law enforcement, you know potential bart merchandise stores. So there are plenty ideas out there and people will be allowed to submit their own and bart will decide what they do with the old cars you maybe even a small house. The terrible air quality from these wildfires, not just bad for us as the animals to everybody everything one east bay Animal Rescue group is trying to help horses stay safe with all the smoke in the air or Justine Waltman live in the newsroom here with details just in. Just no way for animals not to be exposed all the smoke right now so check this out it was shared with us from hold your horses, the nonprofit is based in Contra Costa County and they rescue livestock. During fires and disasters all over the state and this is of course here wearing a soft robert breathing machine to help this horse cope with all the smoke and for the volunteers to save animals during disasters, the relationship doesnt stop after the fire is out. My group is very good with maintaining relationships with these families once there. The homes and ranches are destroyed we go back in after the fire has been distinguished and we go and im currently provides aid and medical supplies for everybody is pretty much lost everything. That is nebulizers are helpful because its hard to limit horses exposure to all the smoke outside. And most recently the group rescued about 20 horses from the deer fire that burned in Contra Costa County. In august. So the owner of the rescue group is also telling us here at kron 4 that the horse is like wearing the breathing machines even though they cant talk and tell er that she can just tell by how they behave and how much healthier they are. Live right now in the newsroom, im Justine Waldman kron 4 news. Thank you justine there doing good work right, lets go and take a look at this forecast model from the National Weather service. So it shows what they call integrated smoke or total smoke through a deep layer of the atmosphere. And you can see just how much if it there is blanketing the entire west coast basically the increase in concentration is projected to continue into the weekend that the purple thats no good for more on when we can expect some relief chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by lars is really cant come soon enough yet no we would love to get an event here maybe a storm may be some rain of course dont have that coming so we talk about improving air quality its just going to be slow going here so. Well take some time to move out the smoke you can see it out there right now all around the bay area weve had images like this today of course yesterday or sky was orange today, not orange that shows you there wasnt as much smoke in the atmosphere, but it was all the way down to the suruace and that made it more this is whats happened. We have that offshore wind we have the fires with the august complex where the bear fire. We had those offshore those north northeasterly winds. They brought that smoke into the bay area. Heres the good news. That is changed the pattern has changed no longer we look at an offshore wind were getting more of a westerly component to the wind and so that is cut off some of that smoke and sitting in a way thats the good news. The bad news is during that period with the offshore winds that sent so much smoke or way it continues even set off the coastline. So it with the sea breezes leather c