forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city s history, yesterday. the smog, the smell. i feel i am getting a headache. feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. asthma. when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new york further south where it will smother even more states. all that smoke is affecting major league sports. the yankees and phillies postponed their games last night. wnba scrapped the liberty s indoor game because of poor air quality. the new york post cover with the old joke today bla
where particularly those vulnerable are affected. young, healthy people should put things in perspective. they are far more likely to get into a medical harm from a car accident driving to buy one of these than they are from the actual fire smoke if we talk about short duration exposure in someone who is otherwise healthy. gillian: this is our top story today but i want to ask you about something else we ve spoken about many times and get your quick take. the rise in social media use by teens sparking new grave concerns about their mental health. some are dubbing teens as generation isolation. there is a new study out that shows teens are hanging out with their friends less and less now. this chart here shows how real life interactions have plummeted since the emergence of the smartphone. 60% of high school goals feel persistently sad or hopeless way up from 36% a decade ago.
theirs was a pivotal partnership. williams was obsessed with racing cars from boyhood. he didn t succeed behind a wheel himself. we shouldn t cruise too much because we want to sort this car out. get on the gas straight away, ithink, yeah? but as a team principal he guided the careers of the world s leading drivers. commentator: and damon hill wins the japanese grand prix and i ve got to stop, because i ve got a lump in my throat. ayrton senna was the driver frank williams idolised. in 1994, the great brazilian crashed and died while driving for williams. that piece of their history, the williams family describe as heartbreaking. it was a car accident driving to an airport in france which left frank williams unable to walk. inconvenient, was how he once described it. it did not stop him, most of the world titles came after the accident. sir frank williams dedicated his life to the team which bore his name and for years.
school? you know, you ve seen some of meetings, board yelling at the principal and teachers, their hands are tied, they have to listen to their local public health authorities. it really comes from the governor s office. if you want to make a difference, you need to be getting on the phone talking to your governor because ultimately it s up to the governor what the local minister polities are doing and ultimately what the schools are doing because i can tell you if the local public health department is saying they have to wear masks where they have to do this, it s going to be very difficult for a school to make any other decision. because we know it s not going to but if something were to happen, they ll have some sort of liability. the cdc has to get back to a normal level of risk. children have more chance of getting in a severe car accident driving to school then they do from covid-19.
season for the pitcher from the red sox, jon lester. but it s nothing compared to the challenge that he faced seven years ago as a rookie. cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has his story in the human factor . reporter: a 22-year-old pitch for the boston red sox when a trip to fenway park in 2006 changed his life. i had gotten in a car accident driving to the field. reporter: the accident seemed to make lingering back pain worse, sending lester to the hospital where doctors threw him a curveball. sitting there one minute think, you know, in my case, i have some back pain, need to get anti-inflammatories, maybe rest or something like that, to you have cancer. reporter: diagnosed with an aplastic large cell lymphoma. a treatable form of blood cancer. enduring six rounds of chemotherapy. by the end of the year ct scans