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But first, get your mask back out to the combination of unhealthy air and rising covid cases. Is hitting the bay area hard. Thanks for joining us. Im christine zee. The bay area is dealing with a double whammy. Wildfire smoke is triggering a spare the air alert as covid cases continue to rise. Just in the last day, San Mateo County issued a face mask mandate for Health Care Workers. That will begin later this fall. And the Biden Administration is getting ready to mail out free covid tests once again. Joining us live now to talk about these issues and more, stanford Infectious Diseases researcher dr. Abraar karan. Doctor karan, thanks for your time today. Thanks so much. Well, lets start with the air quality at todays levels. Are you wearing a mask ....
For obeys the law and following hospital policy. We have the shocking video. But we begin with a look at todays eye opener your world in 90 seconds. This is an intense big fire. This Chemical Plant has a host of potentially dangerous chemicals. More trouble for texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. We are still rescuing people. The crisis in Southeast Texas is not over. The air effort is really ongoing. Day and night. Were all working together to get people back on their feet. In houston theyre beginning to see the extent of the damage. 90 of this block is in survival mode right now. No challenge is too great for us to overcome. No challenge. President trump is just hours away from a trip to meet with the victims of Hurricane Harvey. A big announcement is ....
Still, with evacuations zones expanding. We found some plan to stay. I have family up in boynton. I can go there. I cant, got to stay with the ship, right. Adding to urgency of eve evacuating the keys is that pway in or out. 1 is lthe only Governor Scott activated 100 National Guard troops to help with hurricane preparations. 7,000 more will report for duty on friday. Anthony. Manuel bojorquez, thank you. Manuel. In texas the death toll from hurricane harry rose to at least 63 today. More than 88,000 people are living in red cross shelters or hotel rooms provided by fema. Mayor of houston lifted a midnight to 5 00 a. M. Curfew. The latest sign the city is slowly recovering. The toll from harvey includes a 31yearold undocumented immigrant who could have faced deportation next year. Instead, he died a hero. Omar villafranca has the the story. Translator my son went to a place w ....
From the archdiocese. From ktvu fox 2 this is mornings on 2. And good morning to you it is thursday, april 16, im Claudine Wong in for pam cook this morning. And im brian flores. Notice a warm up. The interesting mark tamayo in for steve. The trend will continue, 70s and the warmest locations approaching the low to mid 80s right now, you can see our live look in oakland, basically showing you, calm kntdz out calm conditions out there the entire state is in the clear warmer today heres the eventual temperature trend warmest locations around 84 85 degrees and well take a look at the current numbers out there kind of a big spread with the napa 46 but San Francisco relatively mild at 58 degrees hayward 55 san jose checking in 50 i mentioned the clear skies as our forecast model showing you clear skies up and council doun the state down the state, lots of 70s that yellow con tour an ....