Be fast, be secure. Bounce forward. With comcast business. Get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. Gyms like this one, salons and tattoo parlors finally will be opening up in San Francisco. I will tell you when. A beloved summer camp that helped many bay areas through cancer has burned in one of the wildfires. Coming up, how you can help. Thick smoke. I will let you know how the air quality looks going into the weekend. South bay residents demanding answers and action. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. The ominous orange skies on wednesday morphed into a concrete gray layer of smoke and ash and conditions went from bad to dangerous across the bay area. More than 100 monitoring stations reporting very unhealthy air. Look at this. This is incredible. No matter where you are, the air is bad. You can blame it all on the smoke from the dozens of wildfires
Francisco skyline encased in gray and the freeway almost invisible through the haze. This is sfo. You can see the smoke blanketing the state in this satellite image. Children and people with respiratory issues are told to avoid all physical activities outdoors and doctors say inhaling wildfire throat can cause smoke and throat irritation, coughing and more. Longterm exposure increases your risk of cardiac disease, stroke, and also it actually reduces your life except aens, so you have increased mortality. The bad air forced San Franciscos nine9 11 ceremony t move indoors. This is the 25th save the air alert in a row. These comparisons show the transformation from the pumpkin orange that was so eerie to the smokey gray skies we got today. Because the smoke was trapped above the fog and now is reaching ground level some residents can say they feel the change. It is bothering my eyes and making it harder to breathe. I find myself wearing my mask inside and out. The picture on the left is
Low visibility. All of us one to three miles as you see from our exploratorium camera there appier 1 peeat pie. And the air is calm, so it wont move. We wont see the sun for the third consecutive day. And remember when you are driving this morning, advivisiby is low so use your low beams. The only escape is around the monterey bay. Well will have better air quality this weekend and ill talk about that coming up. So there is some light at the end of this tunnel. In case you forget what it is supposed to look like outside, here are two videos. You see the dramatic difference in air quality from late august to just yesterday as the cameras pan on a clear day, you can see all the way to twin peaks. Now it is totally smoke. I think we have those flipped. Julian glover is live for us in san jose this morning. Reporter pretty hard to keep track of it all at this point. You might as well spare the air month at this point. The 26th consecutive day of the spare the air alerts pretty much as long
And sewer pipes overhead and there were suers in the ground and sometimes were wood, rats ran freely and so did roaches. Bakers worked exceedingly long hours and exceedingly difficult work. It wasnt as difficult as a lot of work during that time, its true, but the title of my first chapter, by the way is not my grandma used to bake. They were handling 100 to 200 pounds of sacks of flour and its hard work and it was dirty and filthy and difficult work for long hours. But it wasnt just that it was difficult conditions for the bakers. There was also the Public Health was endangered by the conditions that these people were working in because the bread wasnt very sanitary. What was also happening in the country that people were beginning to look with Public Health and public safety. Well, i think this is a really good time after that clip to talk about the bake shop act and what the legislature of new york did to address the conditions that you so there were so well described in the video.
Credit suisse posts 75 increase Standard Charter ceo tell cnbc the pandemic could still negatively impact the sector despite the early resilience the shock we are experiencing in the first place is as severe. As this pandemic unfolds and we wont know exactly or generally how this will progress, we have to suspect that impact is very, very material. The pope extends a prayer for european unity but divisions are expected to still dominate eu leaders go on line in a Video Conference meant to talk about further assistance to fight the pandemic a crude comeback buyers rush back sending u. S. Oil prices up almost 40 in overnight trade. Surprising tensions between u. S. And iran also supporting the price. Welcome to street signs. Lets kick off the hour with fresh eurozone pmi numbers we have heard of the french and german numbers now for the eurozone as a whole. The april composite pmi flash number has come in at 13. 5 that is much worse than the market was expecting we were looking for a num