Because of the weather. This new video from sfo. A plane taking off in the smokey skies, in the air and on the ground, no escaping the smoke and ash. Ihave allergies really bad. What will it take to clear out the bad air . A lot of it depends on the fire still raging out of control. Bay area tonight, surrounded. Not surprisingly the spare the air alert has been extended through friday. Tonight a lot of uncertainty remains. What will we wake up to tomorrow . Fire containment, the forecast and our air quality concerns. Lets begin in walnut creek where the streets and restaurants are relatively empty cheryl. Should people stayed in and others tried to be as normal as possible even though there was nothing normal about today. Reporter the clock says 6 00 p. M. In oakland but looks nothing like sunset. Lake merritt is almost empty. The orange sky, obviously, and the overcast turned people away today. Reporter an ominous looking sky didnt take people like al from taking his walk. Die hards l
Trials. She said can you onfirming safe we have to be extremely careful about why and how the data are interpreted. But public anticipation to be building, driven in part from statements by President Trump that a vaccine could be ready before or around election day. The cdc plan describes two vaccines. A and b. Which seem to max drugs from pfizer and moderna in late stage trials. It isnt clear yet if either could clear stage three trials. But the initial recipients would be Health Care Workers and high risk groups. It highlightsics the distribution pipeline. That includes mixing, shipping and storing it. . Our goal is to build a better bay area and in a pandemic. That means putting health first. The latest information on a Coronavirus Infection in california is encouraging. While the number of newly reported deaths, 145 is above average, the number of new cases is down, he blow average. The number of patients in the hospital continue to decline. It has been on a steady decrease for wee
Lifetime snaps of San Franciscos skyline cloaked in a cloud of orange. Its really sad that its the condition the way it is, but it makes for some really dramatic pictures for sure. Reporter both automobile photographers trevor joelen and daniel turned their back to the road and pointed up. Even with the fog, its usually just gray and neutral colors, but today its a lot more orange and red. Reporter in walnut creek, cars were covered in arab and in oakland the zoo closed because of poor air quality. The solar panels on a abc 7 photographers home in pinole generated a fraction of electricity when the suns rays actually reach the earth. Out here in the bay exercising, fishing, doing whatever they can to find some slice of normalcy. I was pretty disoriented, honestly. I missed an appointment. I almost never do that. Reporter Jason Johnson says the weather reminds him of growing up in the midwest. A storm would blow in around the time of a tornado or Something Like that and it would be pitc
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our roof cam right now out to the bay bridge. Good morning everyone, its thursday, september 10th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. The question of this morning, will the skies be orange again . Too soon to tell of course, still dark out but lets check in with mary lee and well have to wait to see what the sun reveals this morning, mary. Thats right len and michelle. We are still dealing with the smoke although things are not quite the same as yesterday. And the winds aloft a little bit of a wind direction. So not exactly the same as yesterday. But still were looking at those smoky skies and unhealthy air quality and you can see current air quality conditions all of the red dots and that does indicate unhealthy air this morning. As we start off our day. Were now going a record 24 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the bay area. This is our Mount Hamilton camerausuase something but
Cal fire says the three major complex fires burning around the bay area have burned more than 400,000 acres. We have wisconsin, with an arena filled Live Team Coverage of the fires with supporters, instead biden burning around the bay area. Delivering his remarks to a nearly empty room. Mr. Vice president , how are Debora Villalon has the latest you feeling today . On the challenging firefight hours before taking the stage, biden looking relaxed and ready ahead of his biggest that is underway in Sonoma County. But first we go to Azenith Smith with the latest on the speech in his political career. Homes that were destroyed and in another unconventional tonight in the santa cruz move, the chase center looking more like a drivein theater with over 100 cars filled with mountains. Reporter and biden supporters parked several homes are destroyed in outside. In another show of unity, Boulder Creek tonight and all bidens onetime rivals telling america why he is the clear choice to guide the co