Tonight, the air quality in the bay area night yet great but dramatically better than the past few days. You can see just how much clearer was in sausalito today we have been living in some of the most unhealthy air on earth over the past week but people are slowly getting back outside as we start to see and to smell a difference in the air. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with details yeah guys finally getting those winds to start to clear things out still got some haze in the atmosphere and you can boy needs shot from the Berkeley Hills here lot going on to get some haze out there from some of the smoke some high clouds all some patchy fog. Begin to move in along the coastline. But certainly the air quality much better around the bay area today looking out toward the Golden Gate Bridge you can see it again we have some thick fog moving a little early on but that will be back again pushing into the bay and certainly overnight tonight kind of filling in around the bay a
Unhealthy. First it was tacky talked to several Restaurant Operators in the city and taylor today some fresh air fried some hope. It can finally move we moved into better air quality tonight and you can definitely see the change in the streets of San Francisco a lot more people out today and while we were in that moderate level for a majority of the day Restaurant Owners say that it was a breath of fresh air as i mentioned it was nice to see people back out and sitting outside of the restaurants, they say its something that was a much needed after hitting 80 yet again another hurdle throughout this pandemic. Obviously with the fires. Back to kind of having to close for 2 days people not going outside again. So its kind of a bummer to have like a whole nother the thing this year that 6 people inside and not sitting at my table Jacob Roberts owns in the country and polk street. Thats one of the many restaurants in San Francisco, the close its outdoor seating because of smoky conditions o
The night. The whole side here was the produce display. Reporter penny picks their charred fruit and his own history. I was born in 1960 in my baby crib was back in the office. Mom and dad took me to work every day. Its like losing a family member. An a speeding car crashes are the building and it caught on fire. The driver had to be rescued by chp, who were nearby because they try to pull them over moments earlier. But the market is a total loss. It is surreal. Its her history too and all she says is, what are we going to do now . And we are going to rebuild and we are going to make it. Reporter they will do it with Community Fundraising well underway. A go fund me page on which generations of shoppers reminisce about fruit palace. It amazes me how much this place really meant to people. Reporter the manager has been here 23 years. I remember my grandma told me in the late 50s she would drive from larkspur to come here just to shop. An remarkably this old market picked up a lot of new
Now offer that same improvement in air quality to all of us across the bay. There are going to be some visibility issues this morning as we do see fog pushing it past the day most of it sitting right above us so bridges should be better that our upper elevations like our east bay hills will be although the golden gate is pretty socked in this morning from that dense fog as for air quality look at this improvement if youre not seeing a shade of yellow orange or red on the map its because youre good or very close to good which is something that you will want to step outside and enjoy of moderate conditions do remain in just a couple of pockets in yellow, but even that a huge step up from where we have been a good day to get outside and enjoy a nice brisk morning walk with steady winds from the coast you will want to put a light jacket on as you venture out there 50s and 60s for your current temperatures. Robin. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge as traffic is recovering fr
In new orleans. Hurricane sally churning backyard, the gorgeous oakland towards the gulf coast estuary. We have had a bright in rosemar threatening dead surge and deadly flooding. People on the gulf coast are making last minute preparations ahead of Hurricane Sally arrival filling sandbags as the look happening. Storm prepares to make landfall you are right. Near the alabamamississippi that orange sky came to us last border. The storm is expected to move wednesday and then the smoke slowly and dropping up to 30 came the day after and been inches of rain in isolated areas from the central gulf coast to the florida pan with us ever since. Handle. Once the water gets up high we are seeing some improvement as hoped and expected. Enough to start floating debris little improvement with each you want everything tied down passing day. Yesterday was better than the to be there when the water goes away. Day before and today moderate sally shifted east sparing new orleans from the worse of air qu