Unhealthy air this rnsoutbay, s unhealthy air for sensitive groups. Unhealthy air for the east bay and fremont and up through concord and walnut creek. Unhealthy air in oakland for you and you can see in San Francisco, those purple dots and that indicates unhealthy to very unhealthy air this morning. Up through lark spur and san rafael and unhealthy air for santa rosa and petaluma up through windsor. So our 24th day in a row with a spare the air alert in effect due to our smoky skies. And a new record for the bay area and im tracking the smoke. This is our smoke model that shows the purple and red colors indicating that intense smoke for our region. Well talk more about what you can expect through the rest of the week into next week and if there are any improving conditions details on that coming up. Michelle . All right, mary, thank you. And images of that unprecedented orange sky across the bay made National Headlines yesterday. Plenty of people say the smoke choked skies is giving t
How a new outlook on Racial Justice might show up on the field. And Climate Change warriors. In eye on innovation, how a tiny deep sea animal could be showing us the way to a cleaner planet. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I still like playing it down because i dont want to create a panic. Newly released recordings show what the president knew about the coronavirus and when. Its clear the president knows what the stakes are, but hes not sharing that with the public. This is the tragedy. The president of the United States has a duty to warn. Knowingly and willingly lied about the threat to the country. Im not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. Reporter a whistleblower at the department of Homeland Security says he was demoets forward refusing to change intelligence reports. I dont know who he is, and its hearsay. The whole community is decimated. We need more firefighting resources. An epic wildfire battle up and down the west coast. Or
880 and traffic is beginning to back up. Youre going to be driving on good freeway, then you will see slowing approaching Dixon Landing road in millepedis. Otherwise, the commute seems lighter than usual. There are a couple of minor slowdowns here and there, but at the bay bridge, it is light. 7 01. Lets go back to the desk. Happening today, californias attorney general will hold a News Conference about a joint operation with Union City Police focusing on a double homicide late last year. Authorities say they have made arrests in connection to the shooting deaths of two boys in union city. It happened just before thanksgiving. 14yearold shawn washington and 11yearold Kevin Hernandez were inside a van in the School Parking lot when someone opened fire. The sit and run suspect accused of injuring three pedestrians in San Francisco is due in court this afternoon. This happened wednesday at the intersection of mission and 23rd street. Police say 62yearold Steven Kernen of San Francisco was
Pg e blackouts. Electricity is slowly being restored to customers who had their electricity turned off as part of the planned outages. Were learning about the death of a man found unresponsive 12 minutes after one of those planned outages. The victim reportedly relied on several electronically powered machines that providd oxygen. Abc 7 news iteam reporter dan noyes questioned them about what it would take to end the blackouts. What is the answer to end these . Whats the value of human life would be my response. As i said when i concluded, thats why im here to try and make this better. Now we can work, and we need to work. We cannot live in a society where this happens frequently. Pg e has scheduled a 6 00 p. M. Media availability to answer more questions from reporters and we will be there. Meantime, heres the latest on how power restoration is going. 74 of customers impacted by the planned outages have had their service restored. That means fewer than 195,000 customers still need to
Florida. Even though it is still bad enough. Still bad see the reinsurers, worst performers last week, up 5 right now. Irma has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm now georgia and alabama are in its sights while the hurricane as bill mentioned buwasnt as bad as it could have been, the Economic Impact is real Jackie Deangelis having a look at impact on agriculture like sugar and oranges. We were talking about that last week. Well see what the impact may turn out to be. Plus 6 Million People wait for power to be restored, were going to talk to duke energys florida president about the efforts there. And the ceo of florida insurer, heritage, will talk about how his company is is assessing the damage as the cleanup begins lets start with the big rally in stocks, up more than 1 on the dow. The s p is in record territory joining our closing bell exchange, mark lehman from j p securities, steve grasso at post 9. Rick santelli at his perch at the cme in chicago steve, were calling it a relief r