Smoke at levels releasing. Rarely seen. Today mark 25 days of spare the air alerts and they are now extended through at least monday. Take a look at this view from jack london square. Visibility severely limited. The oakland estuary disappearing into the smoke. He was was to blame, a massive smoke plume that extends off the california coast, breaking it up wont be easy. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Our meteorologist tracking changes that will start to help. And how much exposure is too much. First we go to how the smoke is affecting everything from trash pickup to whether the 49ers home opener will even happen on sunday. The air quality has gone from simply being a nuisance to downright dangerous for a lot of people. Especially those with respiratory problems. Its also forcing some to respond in ways like weve never seen before. Folks, its smoke all over the place. No matter where you go. Mcnair quality expert assuming the big picture view of what many throughout the bay area are seeing with their own eyes, a thick layer of unhealthy, smoky air difficult to escape in making some sick. I felt congestion and headache and everything. Reporter in oakland the city has responded by creating socalled respite centers, sanctuaries where people can burley esc the bad air. Mainly focused on our seniors and homeless populations , those that cannot get out of the bad air easily. Reporter the Diamond Library and a Senior Center are two locations chosen specifically because of their filtration systems. Susan took advantage of the opportunity, saying that smoky warm air made it uncomfortable at home. I have a very sensitive respiratory system. It kills me. And basically kills me. So i try not to be out in it as much as i can. Reporter the city of berkeley postpone fridays trash collection for at least a day and also closes recycling center, giving outdoor workers a break. The Golden Gate NationalRecreation Area has temporarily closed alcatraz, mere woods and four point. The danger is in the data, with air quality index numbers in many cities registering in the mid to hundreds, well above the good zone that tops out at 50. Air quality right now widespread as pockets of very unhealthy folks. Closed friday afternoon could potentially remain closed for the 49ers Season Opener sunday if air quality doesnt improve. My understanding is if it gets to do hundred, thats another felber start discussing what to do with the game. I would be kind of upset. But it is what it is. Were dealing with tough times right now im a safety is first. An unprecedented times calling for unprecedented action. All any of us can really do is try to be patient, take the necessary precautions and maybe repeat the phrase, this too shall pass. That is a good point. On that point, a lot of people getting irritated and wanting to get outside. We bring in our meteorologist with a look now of where the smoke and air quality is the worst. Thats right. As you know, we have been reporting on this all day. Its a very good portion of the bay area in general. There has been so much smoke with these devastating fires surrounding the bay area. We have basically a little mixing that helped to push out the smoke. The smoke has been settling and theres not too much change in the saturday weather pattern. Lets go back and show you the satellites. On wednesday this was the deep smoke layer. It was basically an orange sky all day. The smoke layer flattened out yesterday and moved closer to the surface. There Quality Centers picked up on the changes on this was the case for today. We check out there quality and we would like to be reporting green conditions in the good range. Of course that is not the case. Unhealthy and very unhealthy and basically the headlines, you could limit Outdoor Activity for both of these groups. These are the current observations. Right now we are showing you a bunch of red indicating unhealthy air across the bay area for san rafael, San Francisco, oakland and livermore toward the peninsula, fremont, san jose. Everybody kind of universal right now in terms of their quality. Here is our live camera above San Francisco where we have the dense fog layer. Write up above it we have the smoke settling in. The spare the air alert extended through monday. Here is a projection for tomorrow, very unhealthy or unhealthy throughout the day on a saturday. Always tough to forecast, especially with the forecast model. This one is keeping the smoke around, the dense fog and smoke monday or saturday forecast. But sunday, possibly a different story. We will have more on that coming up in the little bit. For people who work outdoors , smoke exposure becomes unavoidable. We talked to an expert about how much is too much. Reporter even at the current ratings, plenty of people are outdoors figuring small doses wont hurt them. The problem is researchers dont really know. Servers may not have a choice, their customers do. My hunger is overcoming the dangers, i guess. Reporter this dad and daughter aware smoke is bad for them. So was the pollution and Everything Else in the air. Its bothering me, i just dont think it should inhibit my life in any way. Reporter but modify is exactly what doctors order. With West Coast Air quality they warn dont risk it. The particles the right through this mask. Reporter vinnie john is a pulmonologist and says only n95 is can keep particles from the lungs. May not be able to find one. The second best is just avoidance. Reporter eating out, not something hed do. You can get symptoms pretty quickly. The irritated eyes, sore throat, cough. Reporter those are signs of inflammation in the body. Until the numbers drop, its best to avoid long walks or back rides since exertion requires more air. In terms of the number of hours when can be out in order to be safe when its in the red zone or in the purple zone, that information is not known. Thats why we say, minimize it. Weve been out there in the smoke. Reporter the san rafael tree service is out on jobs but gives workers the option. If they dont want to work, they dont have to go out in this stuff. We dont, we will let a guy go home as paid. Reporter like grocery workers fetching shopping carts or letter carriers getting the mail delivered, employees with sustained exposure are most at risk. A little hard to breathe with the ash and everything, but we have to work. We have to. Reporter days like these make working inside of boom. Its kind of been like a volcano erected or something. Weve been trying just to hang tough and make it through this. Im praying the wind will start blowing and blow it all the way. Its just weird. Reporter wildfire smoke clearly makes respiratory conditions worth, but the research is mixed on its link to heart attack and lifespan. He advises let the air quality numbers be your guide. Tonight butte county officials lowered the death toll from the wildfire from 10 down to nine. Incredibly, what investigators thought was a set of remains, turned out to be a model skeleton used for study. With complex west zone fire is burning north of orville. It has tarred about 190 square miles and is 5 contained. Tonight 22,000 buildings were threatened and at least 44 homes are destroyed. At least 19 people are reported missing. The county has requested help from search and rescue teams. Authorities are urging residents to stay out of the areas until its safe for them to come back. Cal fire says improved weather is helping them build containment lines. Governor newsom got a firsthand look at the damage today. He, and others, say what we are seeing right now with the massive wildfires could be a sign of more things to come. If you do not believe in science, i hope you believe in observed evidence. Reporter the 7700 fires california has consumed this year has consumed about 2 million acres. The fires have taken 20 lives and 6400 structures have been destroyed. Yesterday, the august complex fire in mendocino county, 747,000 acres became californias largest wildfire, dating back to 1932. Five of the 25 largest fires in the states entire history are raging right now. Stick mike we are experiencing what so many people predicted, decades and decades ago. But all of that now is reality. Reporter the year 2020, by far, will go down as the worst fire season on record for lost acreage and two of the worst months still lie ahead. Right now the governor says firefighters are in a pitched battle against 28 largescale magnifiers in the state. Plus, many, many smaller fires. We are seeing impacts today without would materialize by midcentury. Thats a really important point. We are experiencing temperatures, world record breaking temperatures in the state of california. 130 degrees. Reporter uc berkeley professor Scott Stevens as last month lightning storms astonished him. It really is unprecedented. I dont know if we have ever had Something Like that in recorded history. We had lightning that hit the Sierra Nevada in klamath mountains, not iny area. Reporter that we have done a lot in the last two years, most fire signs believe we have to far better manage vegetation, as well as making people and communities fire safe. If we dont change those fundamentals there is no way we will get out of this mess. Mother nature is physics, biology and chemistry. Reporter the need for personal is so great now the governor also signed into law a controversy or bill that would allow former inmate firefighters to qualify for firefighting jobs as released citizens. Coming up the search for a sex crime suspect. The two encounters in palo alto parks hours apart. Plus, tonights giants game abruptly postponed. After the break, restaurant risk, new research from the cdc on whether dining out carries a higher risk of catching coronavirus. Ur home. And we did. Over 24,000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the past few years. Wildfire victims need help so im voting yes on 19. It limits property taxes on wildfire victims so families can move to a replacement home without a tax penalty. You never know what youll be faced with. Please, vote yes on 19. Minutes before it was scheduled to start tonights game between the San Francisco giants and San Diego Padres was postponed. This, after someone in the Giants Organization tested positive for covid19. Players from both teams lingered in and around the dugouts about a half an hour after the game was started. The padres announced the reason for the postponement, this was the first coronavirus related postponement for both teams. The latest numbers on the coronavirus pandemic show california is still moving in the right direction. Cases are trending down, more than 3300 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. There are now over 746,000 cases here in california. 111 more people have died from the virus. Statewide more than 14,000 people have died. Here in the bay area the state says there are 522 new cases reported yesterday and two deaths. Over a week ago the bay area sire Record Number of deaths with 21. A new warning tonight that in person dining at restaurants could carry a higher risk of virus transmission and other activities. That study was released today by the centers for Disease Control. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama spoke with one of the researchers and joins us live to explain. Reporter the study collected data from adults who both had covid19 and those who did not. It came from 11 different facilities throughout the united states, including Stanford University. The researchers say the results were interesting. In napa tables lined main street , Outdoor Dining and Indoor Dining are now allowed. But with strict coronavirus prevention protocols. At pasta prego only 15 people are allowed inside at a time. We went from having tablecloths to plastic coverings that we disinfect in between every guest. Reporter from the kitchen . To staff and customers, masks are mandatory, except while eating or drinking. Wear to the table, take it off when you are having a meal or drink. But it back on if you need to use the restroom. Reporter a new study by the centers for Disease Control suggests there is a higher risk for in person dining than some other community activities, such as shopping or salons. The researchers compared data from adults who tested positive for covid19 with a control group that tested negative. Those who tested positive for more than two times as likely to have eaten onsite in a restaurant in the proceeding two weeks. Reporter dr. Jennifer wilson at Stanford University is one of the researchers. She said the study did not explore one big distinction. The study did not look at the difference between indoor and Outdoor Dining, but i think thats going to be an important followup question. Reporter Public Health experts note one big difference between dining and entering the Shopping Mall or religious gatherings or salon. If youre getting a pedicure manicure you can still wear a mask. You cant really do that in a restaurant. Reporter Public Health experts as the study did not impact tables facing, air circulation and other cautionary protocols. All of those are not the same. If youve got a restaurant that has excellent air circulation moving away from people exchanging the are frequently in the room, thats probably a much lower risk. Definitely open up all the doors and windows and we have a lot of air flowing through the restaurant. I feel like as long as i am able to distance and there is flowing that i feel safer. Each of us has to make an individual decision about our risk tolerance. Reporter bottom line, the researchers say their study reinforces the need to comply with masking, social distancing and other Public Health measures. A ucla study finds its doctors may have been treating covid19 patients weeks before anyone knew the virus arrived in the u. S. An analysis of medical records says doctors at ucla reported a significant spike in patients with respiratory problems in late december. But there is no way to determine if the patients have the virus. The First Official coronavirus case was recognized by the cdc in midjanuary. A lab worker with the San Francisco medical Examiners Office is facing several charges after allegedly being caught with an evidence bag of methamphetamine. Justin volk was arrested in utah on august 31st. He was pulled over for speeding. Authorities said they found meth pipes in an evidence bag containing crystal meth inside of his car. The 40yearold has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. Investigators in San Francisco are conducting a massive review of cases he worked on over the years. San francisco public defender mayor roger released a Statement Today on the arrests. It reads in part, our office will be seeking records from the medical Examiners Office and demanding an independent audit of the medical Examiners Office. This is the latest in a seemingly endless series of events plaguing the medical Examiners Office. And bay area whether we continue to track the poor air quality out there. I think as we start off the weekend that will be the case. Is taking a look at some of the higher numbers across the region right now, a quick sampling for livermore of 198, oakland 196, san jose 194 in San Francisco 192. Most of the bay area in the red right now, indicating unhealthy air for tonight. Here is what happened a few days ago on wednesday. We have the strong northerly wind that transported the smoke way up above our heads, weigh in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Over the past two days gravity is kind of worked with the smoke to push it down closer to the surface. Also with that weaker wind and that is why we have such poor air quality in the bay area. Here is our live camera. It looks like we are looking out toward San Francisco with a mixture of fog and all of that smoke. Here is the smoke forecast model. You can see into tomorrow morning the brighter white indicates more intense levels here. Is and into the afternoon hours possibly could be backing off and then into sunday this is what we are watching, we are seeing a change in the wind direction that may help push some of that smoke out to the east of the bay area. Current numbers right now in the 50s to 60s to right around 70 degrees. We are tracking a change next week though that can actually bring cooler air and maybe rain to the north of the bay area. Will have more on that coming up in the little bit. Still ahead, fighting fraud at the end implement office. Why some worry that new security measures might hurt the people who need help the most. A new look at San Jose Police tactics used during mass protests in may. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. Police in palo alto are looking for the publics help in finding a sex crimes suspect. There hoping these two images or sketches will generate some tips. The man described as hispanic between 40 and 50 years old, about five foot nine inches tall. On labor day a man resembling these images approach two women. Investigators say he exposed himself to one and touched the other inappropriately as she was