The hazy us but none are looking all too great and everybody has these apps on their phones. Now right a look at the air quality. And how it is around the bay area you see it is fairly uniform. This thats updated in real time, its purple air shows the amount of particulate matter in the air the dark purple. Represents the worst air that dark red is only slightly better and then the lighter shades or even better, but we dont have that much see a Little Orange and yellow well near ukiah almost but the bay area pretty red at least were not purple. Like parts of sacramento, all the way up into portland that is really bad right now, but the air we have its considered dangerous for all sensitive groups and for the general population. If theyre exposed for too long and by the way general. Sensitive groups that includes kids. The elderly and people with heart and lung disease called for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now. Lawrence when can we expect some relief from the smoke in
President trump arrives in california today in a smoky haze is blaming the wildfires plaguing the west coast. Not on Climate Change but on the failure to properly manage the forests this came up in a public discussion between the president and governor newsome and those 2 kept a very civil very point. The governor has acknowledged that Forest Management is an issue but not the issue newsome pointing out that most forest land in california is federally owned still should our leaders be addressing more thoroughly both concepts Climate Change and Forest Management i asked our political analysts. Over 45 of californias 33 million acres are controlled by the u. S. Forest service and therefore its measured budget has all gone to fighting fires. So trump can blame this all in california. And you can remove Climate Change from the equation. The droughts are killing all vegetation that are tinder for fires. We didnt have fire tornadoes before the world got warmer, super fires are now the norm n
Rigorous outdoor workout were still very poor to pour across the bay area. We do have the return of a little narrow moderates lot up in a maroon county this morning though little signs of hope as we work our way through this forecast light winds across the bay this morning, nothing enough to be sweeping out the remaining haze across the bay just yet. But we are seeing improvements gradually in the days ahead of us 50s and 60s for current temperatures, a cool start to yet another hazy morning. Go ahead and step outside with a light jacket on hopefully for no more than just a few minutes as for temperatures later today, youll notice a little bit warmer and a little bit brighter than yesterday was with highs in the 70s and 80s for most of our beside and inland areas. Darya and james. Thanks a lot john lets get to our big story this morning more businesses are going to be allowed to reopen indoors. Sorry not indoors yet outdoors in Contra Costa County and this of course comes as the bay ar
County that wasnt there yesterday so we can be thankful that we are making progress albeit slow progress so far and as james mentioned still in the midst of a recordbreaking streak of spare the air alert days, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with concord and pittsburgh each at 60 degrees. Oakland at 61 right now while San Francisco berkeley much of the north bay hanging out in the 50s to get things started. Robin. Thank you have some trouble spots and lots of heavy traffic to talk about crews are wrapping up a car fire on vasco road right now at one point we had all southbound lanes closed on southbound vasco at the south end of the last week Harris Reservoir but it looks like theyve just released traffic which is good news for people coming out of iran Discovery Bay brentwood trying to get south into livermore but still a lot of heavy traffic there are residual delays leading up to the scene we still have an overturned crash active in san leandro 80 south before to 38. Theyr
Yesterday and that is definitely a nice little shift look at this lightning up his first colors go on the map which is a very noticeable difference that deep deep red now right there clumped up on the eastern end of the Central Valley were worst of air quality of settle down ahead of the Sierra Nevada foothills deep here across the bay area indicating poor conditions which weve become familiar with for nearly 30 days to spare the air alerts now and then conditions up in portions of the north bay for the first time in multiple days, so these are some positive changes working your way in a good direction and will continue to slowly do that for out the rest of the week eventually setting us up for a better weekend air quality wise. And what we have this past weekend. Still winds light enough that we are seeing a light on shore breeze pushing in just a bit more of that smoke thats hovering out in the pacific and to light to be seeing much of our air quality just being pushed out of the reg