Two chemicals that are part of a family of pfats. Its persistent, and bio item lattive, so it doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays, and the Health Impacts are grave. Reporter pfats were first made to make the stickless coating in pans, and then came Firefighting Foam and other chemicals. What characterizes this class is that the strongest chemical bond that we have is in them. Reporter amy kyle is with the u. C. Berkeley school of public health. Its the quadruple whammy. We have band these chemicals, and some of all three, and also money until water. So its not only bad, but its going to get everywhere. Reporter according to the centers for disease control, the link with Harmful Health effects sin crease something studies have shown that exposure might affect growth, learning, and behavior of children, lower a womans chance of getting greg pant, increase cholesterol levels, and increase the risk of some cancers. Thats dupont, Better Living through chemistry. Its ou
Now at 11 00, catastrophic wildfires, awful air, and we still have two more months of fire season. So what is the strategy . Its a fine line to watch between pushing people and equipment too hard and not providing the help we feel like we need. Tuesday will be our 29th straight spare the air day in the ba amg relief fro poo forecast. Ingnstead. County decid rngct. Plus, whats in your water . Hundreds of wells revealed to contain potentially toxic chemicals and some of the worst are here in the bay area. It doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays. And the Health Impacts are great. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, four weeks of bad air and its not over yet. The unhealthy conditions forcing some south bay high schools to cancel the first day of practice for fall sports. Our chief meteorologist paul hagan joins us now. Theres actually a little glimmer of hope that we may see some healthy air coming in here soon.
We need. Tuesday will be our 29th straight spare the air day in the bay area but im tracking relief from the poor air quality in the forecast. One bay area county decides its reopening plan is too strict. What its doing instead. Plus, whats in your water . Hundreds of wells revealed to contain potentially toxic chemicals and some of the worst are here in the bay area. It doesnt just enter your body and flush right out. It stays. And the Health Impacts are great. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, four weeks of bad air and its not over yet. The unhealthy conditions forcing some south bay high schools to cancel the first day of practice for fall sports. Our chief meteorologist paul hagan joins us now. Theres actually a little glimmer of hope that we may see some healthy air coming in here soon. I think the worst of it now is behind us, assuming nothing else changes, but were going to be heading into the right direction through th
Quality get a little bit better. Yesterday, we started off the day with unhealthy to very unhealthy air and now were looking at some spots even moderate air quality this morning. So that is the difference compared to what we have experienced over the last several days. Moderate air quality in santa rosa, and that is great to see it is or and starts in San Francisco, napa, fairfield, rio vista, unhealthy for everyone for san rafael, oakland, redwood city, livermore, and san jose. We are beginning to see a little bit of improvement and we will continue to improve with the air quality as we go through the workweek. Looking at that spare the air alert that remains in effect for the bay area, it is going a record 29 days in a row with our smoky skies and that spare the air alert. Our smoke model, as we got through the next couple of days does show the improving air quality. So there is hope as we go through the next few days. We will talk more about that, the better days for air quality, co
The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam president , i rise today to discuss our federal finances and the need to address our unsustainable fiscal debt and deficit. The federal budget has already been on an unsustainable path before covid19 reached our shores and before the pandemic and our governments response to it, which has accelerated what i believed is a coming day of reckoning. I recognize the unprecedented crisis presented by th