The air quality has been so bad that San Francisco closed a number of services today. The Citys Department of Emergency Management closed down some coronavirus testing sites. The National Park service is shutdown alcatraz, fort point today. We are activating whether these centers for people who need access to weather relief. We will give you the Current Conditions on what to expect this weekend. First we take it to ktvus ann rubin with how people are handling the Health Effects with all of the smoke in the air. People are doing their best to stay indoors. Doctors say they are already seeing the impacts of all of this bad air. Day after day of awful air quality is starting to take its toll. I have had like three migraines this week. Carbon health, which runs care clinics around the bay area has seen an influx in complaints and not just for people with asthma or emphysema. What you miss is that there is a higher risk of things that are sinus related as well. The irritation of the air par
Spare the air days. This is completely unusual. This is not something usual. I have never experienced anything like this. That was aaron richardson, a spokesperson for the bay area Quality Management district. He went to urge people to stay inside as much as possible when air quality levels reach the very unhealthy level. We talked to some local Hardware Stores who say air purifiers are flying off the shelves. We sold out of them very quickly and have not been able to get any out of the warehouse. We have almost sold out. We have at this location when left. We are expecting more on monday and tuesday. Lets bring in meteorologist mark tamayo with more on the air quality. The question everyone is looking for is if there is any relief in sight from the unhealthy air. We may have to wait a little bit but we were starting to see some changes showing up on the weather map as we head into as early as sunday but a better bet into the early portion of next week for monday, tuesday and into wedn
San Francisco Muni is free today to help get people to contained. Whether relief centers. Attractions including near woods, alcatraz and fort point are all closed today due to the poor air quality. The fire has now damaged or destroyed at least 2000 homes and buildings and is what are the effects of this threatening about 4000 more. Poor air quality on our health . Today governor newsome toward the massive fire area around orville as a break in the weather and the slight dr. Stephanie christiansen possibility of some rain joins us live this afternoon. Provided a small measure of she is an assistant professor hope for people in that region. Of medicine at ucsf. Tom vacar joining us with more on what the governor sought to day and what he had to say. The dr. Thank you for being here. We are going on nearly 4 weeks in a row of these conditions. It was a very somber gavin what are the dangers of the extended exposure to this newsom. Wildfire smoke . I think especially for people with preex
Emergency as they work to bolster the citys understaffed Police Department. And the dmv shutting down crews. Automatic car saying they pose a safety risk. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Good morning and thank you for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. It is wednesday, november 25th. Were midway through the week. Lets get a check of the weather here. Before we get to those headlines and for that will hand it over to john shrable. Good morning, john. And good morning to you, james. Today we are looking at conditions out there that are going to be a little bit cooler than what we had been seeing the past few days. Temps today only in the 60s at the warmest today feels like fall. And it settles in for the rest of the forecast, too. You look outside from the east bay hills looking pretty nice and clear. Look at this across the bay. Nothing to worry about, right . Well, lets zoom out just to our north and we do have some rain making its r
Problem. We are talking about lack of clarity in the process of saying where it is going. Reporter the board of regents had a blow out dinner party the night before the meeting about the audit. This time spending 15,000 for party at thapalace hotel, 660 per person. Where does the money from the parties come from . The office of the president and who approves the budget . The board of regents. The same group that is supposed to over see the president s budget bills it for parties. That amounts to 225,000 in dinner parties since 1220. Melissa caen, kpix 5. There are four vacancies on the board of regents. Several called for the governor to appoint four new regence. The water slide that a bay area boy fell off is exactly like many others around the world. Calosha is examining where the slides are safe following yesterdays mishap. Kpix 5s Wilson Walker reports from the park. When he came into the run out area he got on top of the water and ended up sliding across the edge and then he was s